Love the pic!

L A M O N T ! ! !

Mary & Blank K,

are y’all thinking of Tokapi ??

www.imdb.com/title/tt0058672/

More bad news for Leaverman–

http://www.courant.com/news/op.....3559.story

Wow!!! Am I first??? Tiger hits this one outta the Park…

BTW, Is it bad form at FDL to yell “Zeroth”?

NTodd @ 0,

Thanks, mang. I’m pretty proud of it.

I’m sorry. I can’t read the post. You have defamed Akroyd/Martin, and I’m not sure I can forgive you.

A tiny thing Bush said at the NAACP Convention at the very end of his speech was to thank the “Enn Ai Ai Pee Cee” — anybody with any familiarity with the group calls it the “Enn Double-Ai Pee Cee” — Bush evidently hasnt heard the group spoken about by his cohorts much. Its kinda like calling him “George Vee Vee Bush.”

It’s really great. One suggestion: Condi’s hand could be darkened to complete the illusion. C’mon, you’re in a league above Attaturk! :-)

Now can we talk about big American breasts?

Oh, just in case it’s not clear, my last comment was responding to tigre7.

Its kinda like calling him “George Vee Vee Bush.”

I call him Doublevee, myself.

But Marcia @ 8, I gave Condi the hairier chest. Surely that must count for something!

This place is boring. I’m going back to the serious discussions over at Eschaton and never coming back!

Ntodd @ 13,

The sun’s out. What are you doing inside?! :-)

Cloudy here, actually. Can’t make up its mind today…

Watertiger — that photoshop is so hilarious. My keyboard will never recover from the tea…LOL.

Phoenix Air America has John Dean on right now, listen via streaming internet:
http://www.1480kphx.com/

katymine at 17 — is he on with Charles Goyette? (And good to see you — have been missing you lately!)

Cripes watertiger. I can see I’m not going to get anything done this afternoon.

The cats
Rejects from Dumb and Dumber
German video

This is all so funny.

cbl -

Not Tokopi. (thanks for looking)
But I’d like to audition for either ‘Shadow 1′ or ‘Shadow 2′ roles. Kinda like Suess’s ‘Thing1 - Thing2′
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Character is Bulldog Drummond. Release should be around first Bonds. The plot summary is certain. …and I’m almost certain no Ustinov.
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Now, to the Courant…

uggabugga has long been one of my faves, Watertiger. I encourage everyone who hasn’t already done so to check out their diagrams in the ‘Entries of interest’ section at the top of the page.

Not right now but a year ago there was a series of interviews where Scott Ritter discussed the plans being all in place.

Been trying to catch up on the posts. On a crunch at work with 70 hrs put in just last week to get a client up and going. Missed you guys and glad to jump right back in to the fray.

The archive files are gone from Charles Goyette’s website since he moved from AARPHX to the wingnut station to do direct battle with the right.

Here is the MP3 of the interview:
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/.....les-02.mp3

Gawd, what are we to do?

Remember, under all the humor and snark, he still gets to sign bills. And signing statements. IOW, it’s still his bat and ball, and if he says 4 strikes…

The German BushPilot video is one of the best … a German colleague sent it to me last night and I kept replaying it … perfect.

Christy @ 16,

I had a good time photoshopping it.

Nice pic, W.

More slaps at the shaky types who enable this 50-car pileup of an administration are always welcome.

;>)

Fun links, particularly the cats, and the incomparable Stewart on Stem Cells.

I’m guessing this has already been posted, from “Harpers”, but it’s a good read if it’s too hot for you outside;

http://harpers.org/StabbedInTheBack.html

What a week to have been away at a conference! Glad you’re around, watertiger, to help me catch up.

Great job WT.

I wonder if they make straightjackets with D-cups.

heh.

Bulldog is a wild goose. Screw it.
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This is nice. The last bits from the Courant:

…”Lamont said he was touched by by Kaptur’s and Waters’ visits, saying his campaign has come a long way from the days when Democratic officeholders would offer only their furtive support.

“It takes courage, and we’ve got more people stepping up every day, saying this race is important,” Lamont said. “This race can make a difference.”

Lamont was joined Saturday by former Hartford Mayor Thirman L. Milner and Chris Donovan of Meriden, the state House majority leader.

“Ned Lamont is answering what the people are asking: `Where are the Democrats? Why aren’t you fighting? Why don’t we hear from you?’” Waters said.”

I still can’t get over Josh “Chimp Hands” Bolten and his reponse that Karl Rove “knows alot” when asked about stem cell research by Tomatoe Face Tim.

The Republican Party has been reduced to offering up absolute dolts like Ted Stevens and to oral diarrhea from the likes of James Inhofe to lecture scholars about such important issues as the internets and global warming.

A party that has delivered supposed logical discourse into the hands of senile idealogues and slick political operatives is indeed a party in it’s last throes.

-GSD

Wolcott nails it:

“The war crimes of the United States compound by the minute, the hour, the day. I predict that George Bush, upon leaving office, will be the most despised president in American history. He will have his core support, the clotted, stunted brains that collect at sites like Lucianne.com and Powerline, but he will enjoy no Reaganesque orange sunset afterglow (or Nixonian self-rehabilitation), so deep, lasting, and tragic is the damage he’s done, a damage abetted by a craven, corrupt political class and a press that even now, as the full dimensions of the disaster unfold before us, is unable to sound alarm, so accustomed as they’ve become to their role as sponges and clever snots. History will not forgive Bush or the United States, nor should it, for raising and destroying the hopes of the Iraqi people, and presiding over the dissolution of their nation into a failed state.”

folk :: please give your friendly neighborhood moderators a chance to spring your profound words of wisdom. By the time you hit F5 and refresh the entire page, you’ll likely discover all the world can now absorb your insights …

Wolcott may be right but at least Dr. Rice will be able to think kindly of him as she looks lovingly at her Italian pumps.

And sips a Starbucks.

David E –

Wolcott really nailed it in that post — I’m still in shock from the revealed truth. It made me start thinking about the end of the world, and not in an enraptured sort of way . . .

That said, bold is only useful to highlight a word or phrase — an entire passage in bold is unreadable.

if I were going to Rome like Dr. Rice, I probably wouldn’t go to Starbucks for an espresso …

Wolcott’s fury has been so intense this week that I couldn’t even consider labelling it as “snark.”

Ah yes, Dr Rice — our erstwhile Secretary of State. It is easy to imagine her sipping a cosmo, thinking about her husband, while the blood soaks her stiletto heeled kid leather boots.

Maybe this war can be made all better if Condi gives Assad a nice Bush style neck-rub?

-GSD

Bolten’s Bush ‘Wall of Hands’ … now we know what those hands do.

Condi. Rome. Designer shoe-shopping. “Can I interest you in a shoephone?” (couldn’t resist myself, sorry…)
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From Bush’s hands to Condi’s feet this is a Frankenstein monster of war.

Driftglass is hilarious. I’m a Matheau fan, but never saw Failsafe. Thinking I need to watch more movies.

I’m going to mention again that Negroponte got his “haven’t met a Constitutional provision I really like” pal in place at CIA in time to handle the NIE pressure. What a coincidence. Also any NIE prepared for any future requests (Iran, Syria, Lebanon, what have you).

Although now with Zinmeister out of AEI and at the WH, they have the opportunity to put it all in an action packed cartoon format. The evil “pallid fingered*” forces of reality based truth (boo, hiss, boo) and the “plucky fingered*” ? forces of “if the President says it, it’s true” (yeah, wave flag, yeahs).

*Fingers on loan from the collection of Joshua Bolten.

You almost have to look at the WH crew and think someone with a very weird sense of humor sent out a casting call.

She should go to the Colosseum and imagine feeding innocents to the lions while sipping a fine glass of prosecco garnished with a spray of hemlock while whipping her ss detail with her olive branches– the only use she has for them.

Shoot, I posted the Bush Pilot on the 12th. Too bad WT never reads my blog…

You know wha’s also funny?
Cliff May can’t even get his Bolten’s straight.

http://corner.nationalreview.c.....dlYzg0YmU=

Fail-Safe is like a serious and unfunny Dr Strangelove.

Eli @ 43,

My sincere bad! Will a care package sent your way help ease the pain?

So, is it mentioning Failsafe that put me in moderation? Apparently, I REALLY need to watch that movie.

Will a care package sent your way help ease the pain?

Well… yeah.

WT, that’s the funniest picture I’ve seen all day. Great round up, as usual!!!

EPU’d
“Reading Wolcott and Digby yesterday, I came to the horrified conclusion that Bush/Rove want to provoke a Hezbollah terrorist attack on the USA.”
I completely agree -ck-.
It’s the textbook definition of treason.
Here’s the pic of Bolton, our rep at the U.N. giving a highly inflammatory speech at AIPAC that the WH saw to it was absolutely everywhere, like waving a red flag at a bull.
Has Bolton been giving speeches from St. Peter’s in Vatican City? Has Bolton been giving speeches from Mecca?
A lot of us criticize Hillary, and rightly so I think, but this is what she and the other Dems are against. The GOP Senate and House are going along with the WH on this. The Dem’s political calculus is always predicated on another 9/11, which is what makes Ned’s (and others) anti-occupation position so so important.

excellent work. great writing.

A lot of us criticize Hillary, and rightly so I think, but this is what she and the other Dems are against.

I don’t like Hillary, but at least she’s a grownup.

“I’m a Matheau fan”
My favorite Matheau film: “Charlie Varrick.”
I think it really shows his range, it’s not a comedy.

David Ehrenstein @ 1:03 pm (#33) - Unfortunately, Wolcott appears to live in a deterministic universe ruled by a just and merciful supreme being. Unfortunately, in the universe I live in, random errors occur constantly. Genes are replicated inexactly, producing the stunted hearts and minds of the kind of people who praise Reagan now and will praise Bush in the future. They’re hard to ignore, because when someone doesn’t have much of a mind he can be much more certain of things, and he’ll probably have a loud voice, as well.

Mine is a more depressing view of the world, but one thing you can conclude from it is if Bush is to be viewed as the disaster that he has been, we’ll need to make sure we drown out the loud voices.

I’m still reading the Harpers Stabbed In The Back article, and it boggles the mind how much the BushCo bullshit is recycled bullshit from the Nixon Era.

Fight them over there or over here — Domino Theory? Check.

Lib’urls lovin’ Saddam/terrorists — Ho Chi Minh/commies keep our side from winning? Check.

Culture Wars? Check. Nattering Nabobs? Check. Big Spendin’ Guv’mint? Check.

Either these concepts are deeply embedded in the Red State Psyche, or we have the dumbest lapdog media on the planet.

Or both . . .

http://harpers.org/StabbedInTheBack.html

Things are so depressing today that I have resorted to kitten videos and old episodes of Red vs. Blue (for when you forget war can be funny)

Red vs. Blue 01:

Glenn Greenwald astonishes again with his review of the new John Dean book, Conservatives Without Conscience. These two should collaborate.
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.....html#links

Excellent post. Great round-up.

…my sides are killing me after those cat vids though. ROFL!!!

OT - Lamont/Lieberman again.

I just used the “Family, Friends and Neighbors” tool on Lamont’s website to send postcards to two of my old buddies who I haven’t talked to in a year or so.

Even though I wasn’t sure of their addresses, the website was easily able to locate their contact information from Connecticut state voter rolls in a matter of one or two seconds. Then I personalized a postcard and sent it out.

All in all, it took about 5 minutes.

I highly recommend that everyone here send a postcard to all of their friends in Connecticut. It is easy and fun!

Here’s the link:

http://www.familyfriendsandneighbors.net/

Darn! I suck at links -

kitten

red vs blue

there.

Following several link steps from one of Watertiger’s excellent suggestions, I came across this great post from Roger Ailes, in which he coins a great term for Lieberman’s support:

A regular graftroots movement.

Vito the kitten looks suspiciously like an orange tabby kitten owned by a noted FDL punster — hmmmm . . .

John C - I haven’t seen that one either. Thank you!

OT - ?? Driftglass refers to this bit from Kristol “They are now testing us more boldly than one would have thought possible a few years ago. Weakness is provocative. We have been too weak, and have allowed ourselves to be perceived as weak.”

Ok - we’ve anhilated Iraq to absolutely no purpose in answer to his, and other neocons, calls to be strong. And that has done what? Generated another call to anhiliation? Suskind briefly discusses this mind set in the WH that they are dealing with dictators througout the world, to whom loss of face is everything, so the response has been to vehemently fight and resist any loss of face in the President. Face off time.

It’s not a big stretch from that to see how so much goes so wrong, so fast. Anyone you beat to death just “has” to be guility (loss of face); any homes you bomb “have” to have terrorists; any countries you invade “have” to have wmds and if not then they were just aching for democratization and if not then they need us to stabilize them by further destroying homes and infrastucture; if you violate the Geneva Conventions and UCMJ you “have” to be right; if you break reams of wiretap and privacy laws over a half decade you “have to be right; etc.

We let the dictators win if it is allowed that the President has made idiotic, illegal, unconstituional, irreparably damaging and self absorbed choices.

Gee, we can’t let the dictators win - it’s only going to cost us $$ and lives and truthfulness and warmongering and loss of domestic programs and civilization and competence.

And some nice shoes and an cup of coffee for Doctor Rice.

-ck- :: in the dark, all cats are gray …

*ilson46201 at 9: I was struck by Bush’s consistent mispronunciation of NAACP, but I just assumed it was another bully tactic, like the nicknames he gives people or the wingers’ use of “the Democrat Party.” That is “I’m going to call you what I choose to, and you can either call me on it (distracting from your objectives) or let it go (accepting that I have power over you.)”

But as always with Bush, figuring out whether he was being stupid or malicious (or both) is a tough call.

The right wing strategy for getting us into a war in Iran is now clear enough for us to begin an effective counter to it. Their strategy rests on the following proposition: The current situation in Lebanon represents a broad offensive by Tehran against the US and it’s allies, therefore we must strike back ( see TomPaine.com) ( koppel – how they got Ted Koppel to buy into this malarkey is anyone’s guess. Ted my man, step away from the Kool-Aid)

The defense against this madness is straightforward. It is clearly twisted and perverse to call Hezbollah’s taking of two Israeli soldiers an ‘offensive’, while simultaneously encouraging an invasion by “land, sea, and air”, the destruction of civilian infrastructure such as airports, fuel supplies, electricity systems, the displacement of upto half a million individuals, and of course the killings of hundreds of civilians. The latest atrocity of air launched missiles striking fleeing civilians in a bus only underscores the extravagantly exaggerated, self-righteous, Israeli response.

While creditable observers have claimed that Israel has been planning this response for years, and that a May meeting in Washington DC gave them the go ahead (sorry both links forgotten, but it’s out there), the key, basic, obvious fact that we need to keep clear on is that kidnapping two soldiers is not ‘an offensive’. Invading by land, sea and air is. It really is that simple. We must not allow the spin meisters of the entrenched interests of this country to confuse us on this point.

And, we need to be very clear on something: We must not start another war in the Middle East.

So, how do we do that? I don’t know. But I suggest two things: One – non-stop raising of this issue on every blog, web site, print and video medium that is willing to participate until the crisis passes, and Two – a sit down strike.

Everyone in this country who wants their lives back, and wants a world to pass on to their children, needs to focus now on what is happening. The moment has come. If the powers that be (and the recent Senate vote (see link above) in support of what is happening ought to make you realize just how widespread the problem is) are allowed to succeed in this con-game, this manipulation where in Iran is blamed for Israeli aggression, and the US goes to war again, the chaos and insanity of the last 5 years will look like a walk in the park.

Do not let the madness continue.

http://wildernessblog-voicefro.....gspot.com/

The Joenertia Graft-Roots vs the Lamont Ned-Roots?

I’ll take that bet!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07.....nted=print

NYtime, July 23, 2006
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Says Invasion and Aftermath Are the ‘Work of Butchers’
By KIRK SEMPLE

BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 22 — The speaker of the Iraqi Parliament criticized the American government’s involvement in Iraq on Saturday, likening the invasion and its consequences to “the work of butchers” and demanding that the American authorities disentangle themselves from Iraq’s political affairs.

The speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, a Sunni Islamist who quickly developed a reputation for provocative public comments after his election in late April, also said the American government wanted Iraq “to stay under the American boot.”

“We know there was a corrupt regime in Saddam, but a regime should be removed by surgery, not by butchering,” he said during a speech at a United Nations-sponsored conference on transitional justice. “The U.S. occupation is butcher’s work under the slogan of democracy and human rights and justice.”

Zergle @ 59,

“Why I eyes ya…”

Not MY Cat!

John Casper –

A number of people have come to the same conclusion — I hope to hell we are wrong, or that Hezbollah is smart enough to NOT take the BushBait.

OT-

Another country heard from (the Sauds today)…
http://my.netscape.com/corewid.....0001521922

Vito also looks like my sweet kitty Wilson Peanuthead Crybabyface, who is living with his grand-people in Atlanta. He has adopted my father, and now I don’t expect to ever have that cat back again. I am also enjoying

ellen the kitten

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fenno the kitten

As long as a cat adopts decent and attentive humans, they will have a good life.

new thread ( Soros ) starting at 5pm — stay here for general chitchat inanities

Yes, Wilson is digging his home with my folks, chewing on shirt-buttons and sleeping on the deck, more than he would my one-room apartment out here in LA. I am happy for Dad to have a good buddy to squish down behind him in the chair while he works on the computer.

VoiceFromTheWilderness –

We need to be very clear on something: We must not start another war in the Middle East.

Unfortunately, the NeoCon agenda from the beginning has been to destroy all of the states in the Middle East that are not Israel.

Civil War and Chaos in Iraq? Another NeoCon Success Story!!!

Destruction of the infrastructure and civil society in Lebanon? Music to the NeoCon’s ears!!!

Bringing ruin to Syria, bombing Iran, destabilizing Saudi Arabia? NeoCon Ecstasy!!!

gray or orangeor black or white, cats are our masters.

Redshift @ 66

Just once, I’d like to see a White House reporter get sick of his or her nom de Shrub , and return the favor. . .
Bush: . . . so that’s all I have to say on that. Next question . . . Stretch?

Richard Keil, Bloomberg News: Yes, Dubya, about those Dow Jones numbers . . .

I wonder if they make straightjackets with D-cups.

Oh, they’re not organic. They don’t need support.

I also welcome our new feline overlords.

I came to the horrified conclusion that Bush/Rove want to provoke a Hezbollah terrorist attack on the USA.

And this raises the long debated question of whether another attack on U.S. soil would redound to Bush’s favor, or against.

It would be against him. 9/11 happened while they were dissing all things Clinton and on vacation.

Katrina happened on his watch and he was on vacation.

the ME is on fire and he is on vacation.

And this raises the long debated question of whether another attack on U.S. soil would redound to Bush’s favor, or against.

My belief is that any attack works in Bush’s favor (even though it *shouldn’t*), because it drives home their fake point that We Are At War, People! The only way it works against them is if the Dems are loudly pointing out all the ways the Republicans are leaving us vulnerable to attack. And this must be done *beforehand*, or else they’ll just be accused of Cynically Politicizing Our Nation’s Terrible Tragedy.

(I wonder if Mr. Soros likes kitten videos)

dont even try it, Eli !

A humor site called Idleworm created this interactive Flash “game” back in 2003 to illustrate some of the potential risks of invading Iraq. While there were no WMD, it’s still pretty prescient:

http://www.idleworm.com/nws/2002/11/iraq2.shtml

Jane has her full phalanx of moderators standing at the ready

dont even try it, Eli !

He knows where to find ‘em.

cjohnson - I hope you see this -
My boyfriend was following the MIT $100 laptop project, and eventually became a little frustrated with its limited focus. After a while, and working to learn linux as he went, he came up with an ubuntu based computer that he is working to put together for lower-income folks in our neighborhood. Right now, it is an under- $300 desktop fully loaded with free software. He designates the exact components needed and ghosts his drive onto the new hard-drives so that the buyers can be up and running with no command-line knowledge. I know that he would love to get some virtual face-time with someone more skilled with linux — his ultimate goal is to get an OS that fits on a thumb drive, so multiple people can each have their own “computer” while sharing the same hardware. Can I give you his email address?

note to sherocket re: linux project… I think you were going to leave me a note here, if I miss it, go ahead and cc me at curt[dot]johnson[at]gmail

Thanks, interested in hearing about the project.

cjohnson at 91 — see sherocket’s note at comment #90…

Since I got EPU’d == and we’re on cute animals as antidote to reality for a while, here are mine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76033229@N00/

kirby @ 94,

Oh lordy, are those cute!

alright, you incredibly adorable shetlands! - I shall bring out the big guns of cuteness -

Bettie!

WaterTiger — if you would like the files, happy to email. Let me know at edmed[at]cox.net

And, in the group shot, the real KIRBY is on the left.

sherocket—I love the Bettie Show! I had to bookmark it so I could listen to the music again…sounds great, who’s singing?

I believe his name is “Yodeling Sam”, and I got the song on a mix cd a friend of mine had given me for the drive from GA to CA - and then it seemed just perfect for Bettie playing in the snow!

This 3-week festivus planned and choreographed by our two nations over a year ago — to let Israel hit the Lebanese is the hornets nest, to be sure.

A question comes to mind regarding Israel’s statements that they are not attacking the Lebanese government by blowing up their country, they are ONLY after the Hezbolla THEY SAY.

But WHY, if they were NOT attacking the Lebanese as a people/government, did they NOT use the option of working WITH the “new American democracy plopped into Lebanon a year ago” in a coordinated effort to do so.

Time and again over this past week all the “experts” and politicos keep saying Lebanon’s military and government were not capable of dismantling Hezbolla because after twenty plus years of being under siege and bombs, etc. they were physically not able let alone the potential for MORE death via civil war — so instead of this choreographed sneak attack on the entire nation —

WHY DID THE UNITED STATES, AND ISRAEL NOT approach Lebanon and co-ordinate WITH THIS “American made Democracy” Lebanese government and all three work in tandem to dismantle the Hezbolla? The Lebanese population and politicians do NOT support Hezbolla, we are told by our OWN and the ISRAELI’s politios. SO WHY do this, in this heinous manner?

It would not have put their entire DEMOCRACY’s population “in the middle” as they keep saying.

How is that our nation created a NEW ally and then completely ignores their safety in an issue that is rooted from third parties antagonisms?

How can OTHER any nation fall for the ploy that is “go on the march to democracy” after seeing how said “democratic nation” was being set up to be erased?

This choreographed crisis with Israel and the US without working WITH the Lebanese to PROTECT THEM, does not make the smell test.

Eli –

I don’t believe another terrorist attack would work in Bush’s favor, except that any distraction works in Bush’s favor.

When you’re swirling down the toilet bowl, anything that keeps people from reaching for the plunger is a good thing.

Undersecretary for Squashing Terrified Arab Children to My Heaving Bosom

Oh, too funny!

NTodd @ 10

Large Amerikan breasts

Anyone here think that George Sr. is using George Jr. to try out the policies that he nixed during his presidency? Haven’t ever hear much screaming from Senior’s side about Junior’s gameplan.

Watertiger: Thanks for this great snarkfest!

Watertiger: It just hit me. That pic above is from SNL Two Wild & Crazy Guys, right?

Plaid suits them. So would a fine paisley barf pattern theatre carpet.

Hey, girl. You’re getting downright dangerous with that photoshop stuff…

ccmask,

yup. with genuine apologies to Steve Martin and Dan Ackroyd!

Strangely, the terror alert status hasn’t changed since the last election. Watch the colors start bouncing up and down, but mostly up, as the next election nears.

wayyyy late to this fest.

Question: how can one send a photo to the comments section of a thread. Always assumed attachments would be refused, & only links would work.
Please? Anyone still out there??
busy here, but will check back…