I pinch.

Then someone noticed that the buttons didin’t have the union bug, and the campaign people quickly began denying they had anything to do with them. My that AFL-CIO endorement from Little Jimmy Olsen, Cub Labor Leader sure is starting to lose its luster.

J’oh!

Eli sez:

I pinch.

Wrong.

Try agaian.

.

Gotta love it!

and he has the most inept campaign team ever – missing the union bug, claiming they “just put out press releases whenever they’re ready,” not organizing to have people waiting to meet him … I know they’re out of practice actually running for an office but sheesh!

amateurs galore!

amateurs galore!

I think he should run for prez in 2008 on the Republican ticket. I think Katherine Harris would be the perfect running mate.

Fargin ‘A’!

For Joe, it’s just a ‘labor’ of love, ain’t it. Love of Joe, maybe?

I loves me some empty pizza parlor.
I suppose the thronging crowds ‘had other priorities’.

Somebody, quick, break out the Wax Lips plz…it’s too good an idea to not do.

I have faith yet that Katherine Harris will prevail.

Machines do as they are told.

YouTube rules. It’s the tubes’ gift to accountability in Washington.

I hope the “no union bug” thing hits the CT media — kinda fits CAFTA/NAFTA Joe doesnt it ?

At “Bar” Pizza …Ingrates.

pass the grated karma-san

I have faith yet that Katherine Harris will prevail.

Machines do as they are told.

I think there are limits to just how big a discrepancy they can explain away with “amazing moral values turnout!”…

Joe’s Bus to Nowhere. Bwaaahahahaaaa.

Joe’s Bus to Nowhere.

It’s a very short ride.

Dover Bitch sez:

YouTube rules. It’s the tubes’ gift to accountability in Washington.

Maybe it’s to my shame but I’ve never clicked on a “YouTube” link.

The Atrios//Sadly, No! war discouraged me.

There were no winners; only death.

.

Lieberman: THE MOVIE!

I bet that guy who started YouTube must just be freakin’ a little at how much influence he’s distributed. The old dot com days of real creativity and innovation are back!

Joe’s Bus to Nowhere.

It’s a very short ride.

All alone.

There were no winners; only death.

I’m holding onto rare film archives of Terry Jacks singing “Seasons in the Sun” as a nuclear deterrent.

I wouldn’t grip too hard about the buttons, most of those are done by mom & pop promo products distributors. Printed stuff is another story…

… and Joe’s Bus is the Short Bus too …

from Late Nite last night:

SF Chronicle article about YouTube founder Chad Hurley

linky dink

Joe’s Bus to Nowhere.
It’s a very short ride.
All alone.

One-way ticket.

Did the pizza people miss the train?

That was a stunning video. How f*cking sanctimonious can a person be? “He” would’ve decided…!!??!!

When the Terri Schiavo fiasco hit the 24 hour news cycle, I was with a relative in intensive care, consulting with family members and doctors. Thankfully she had a living will, the family was in agreement that her wishes be supported, the medical staff was supportive and informative. After she was removed from life support she died quietly and peacefully surrounded by 3 generations of her family.

Then there was the funeral, and so forth. So I missed much of the Terri Schiavo tragedy — and certainly did not know about this shameful episode in Joe’s career. Until now.

OT

Ana Marie Cox is Time.com Washington Editor.

This will not boost the credibility of Time.com

try this instead: dinky link
…

The float following Holy Joe Around is like Helen Thomas chasing Colbert aroud…life imitating art!

Joe’s Bus to Nowhere.
It’s a very short ride.
All alone.
One-way ticket.

Straight to Crawford.

My Lieberman update for today…

Saw my first signature table for him today. I was in a strip mall driving past a supermarket (for the locals, it’s Stop and Shop at the Wal-Mart plaza at the Wethersfield/Rock Hill line right at I-91 — Lieberman’s HQ is in Rocky Hill — must be a coincidence.)

A 30ish man had 3 L signs stapled to a pole — very clever — the top and bottom were blue on white, the middle was

Twizted — when you are running a major, national, well-funded Senatorial campaign, you do not go to Mom&Pop operations making non-union-bug buttons. The LieberNeophytes might have done so but it’s a major fuckup politically with the unions.

Lamont on Colbert next week according to colbertnation.com, should be a hoot!

Poor Joe. He needs some Merry Pranksters. Heee.

Twisty, niiiice.

http://www.actblue.com/page/blueamerica

Link for contributions to BlueAmerica candidates, incl. Lamont.

Jane, can you put this link on the main FDL page?

Was Schaivo’s presser scheduled today at 12:30 pm at the same time as the Pomp & Poodle presser?

meta -
youtube, etc.

If we’re lucky. So far, it looks the way you see it.

(Sorry; I’m a victim of Buckner/’86/6. Yogi Berra w/extra mustard: “It ain’t over till it’s a final.”)

NSA, telecom tiered services, WHO COULD IMAGINE? etc.

*ilson, those Mensas would fuck up a 2 car funeral parade, I have no doubt they used some staffer’s brother in law who has a button machine in his garage. You haven’t seen the coffee mugs yet!

Maybe the pizza people had “calls to make.”

It bothers me no end to observe the apparent symbiosis between the Clintons and Lieberman. I just can’t figure out how Senator Clinton thinks this will enhance her chances for the presidency, certainly not among progressives, or for that matter center, to left-of-center Democratic moderates. Up until the Senator’s pronouncements on the Bush Iraq War, I would have walked on burning coals for her. It’s not just that I feel betrayed, it’s the sense that humane ideals seem no longer relevant to her. It’s ALL about winning in 2008.

A 30ish man had 3 L signs stapled to a pole

Smash Mouth: All Star

Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an “L” on her forehead

Well the years start coming and they don’t stop coming
Back to the rule and I hit the ground running
Didn’t make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb

HoJo’s a pizza s**t

Um, if there’s nobody there when the bus stops, who are they giving those Bubba buttons to?

And doesn’t it seem a little pathetic that Joe’s hanging his whole campaign now on being associated with Clinton?

I mean, he’s been in the Senate for 18 years and his candidate is all about star-f*cking?

Blank Kludge, I so hear ya! Who would have guessed that we would be paying to both make a call and receive a call, in a movie theater?
Bundling?
VOIP?
Fiber to the curb?
Mmmmmm, mustard……..

Ana Marie Cox is Time.com Washington Editor.

I didn’t intend to blogwhore but yeesh.

.

Got cut off earlier….

My Lieberman update for today…

Saw my first signature table for him today. I was in a strip mall driving past a supermarket (for the locals, it’s Stop and Shop at the Wal-Mart plaza at the Wethersfield/Rock Hill line right at I-91 — Lieberman’s HQ is in Rocky Hill — must be a coincidence.)

A 30ish man had 3 L signs stapled to a pole — very clever — the top and bottom were blue on white, the middle was white on blue. Amazing.

Set up with a card table and a plastic tablecloth. The worst part was that the guy was offering people a bite from a box of Dunkin Munchkins (what comes out of the donut hole for the uninitiated). The paws that reached into that box made me want to at the thought of eating one of those thigns.The heat stress was close to 100 — he had an elderly couple cornered in the bright sun.

Clinton TV up today — same message I got on the phone, same poor edits in which they string grammatically incorrect words together because I guess Big Dawg did not follow the script they gave him to say things just like they wanted for the commercials.

Joe’s tour is the “Thinkin About Tomorrow” bus tour == complete with the cheesy Fleetwood Mac music (that I am sure they never gave him permission to use — and furthermore, Joe must have wanted Fleetwood Mac albums at some point — just to make the hypocracy complete.

He pointed out that there is so much negative fighting over events of the past, that we should all be looking toward the future. Yeah, right, Joe.

Mark McGwire, who was first to break Maris’ single season HR record, when asked about whether he used performance enhancing drugs before a senate committee (under oath), said the very same thing.

McGwire is eligible for the baseball Hall of Fame this fall. He won’t get voted in first ballot, and neither will Joe.

OK Kiddo, if I may – rejoice in your knowledge! Like my ongoing Boxer rant, I’ve now realized I need to move on to whatever the next step is beyond denial, anger, etc. Not pretty.

OT – Tony Blair just landed in SF. His itinerary?
dinner with schultz
visit to delancey street
genentech
cisco
rupert murdock in carmel to golf

liebermania 15, that’s a damn funny link. Here’s HoJo’s thought’s on casting the role of Jane Hamsher (of the Left):

I was going to have Jane be played by the late Anne Ramsey (Mama Fratelli from The Goonies) but I couldn’t find any good pictures of Mama. But Kathy Bates fits well, too. You just know that if she had the chance, Ms. Hamsher would lock me up in some isolated cabin, tie me to the bed, and break my legs just like the Annie Wilkes character from ‘Misery’ did to that writer. And sticking with the Stephen King theme, Hamsher’s rabid dogs would be played by Cujo and his evil spawn.

Italians are the largest ethnic/national minority in Connecticut (20%) — by hitting pizza shops, Joe must tbe trying to nail down that vote …

Joe’s Bus to Nowhere.
It’s a very short ride.
All alone.
One-way ticket.
Straight to Crawford.

Dead on Arrival

Spork@Yay, a round of buttplugs for all my friends!

http://www.courant.com/hc-sa-n…..4474.story
Lieberman Backers Are Optimistic On Petition Signatures
July 28, 2006

meta –

Let’s relish it while we can.

The button is so cheesy I swear I thought it was a gag when I saw it. I thought it was Lamont’s people making a funny. :)

Ooops 42

Make that all his *campaign* is about.

The button is so cheesy I swear I thought it was a gag when I saw it. I thought it was Lamont’s people making a funny. :)

Why would they even *want* to remind anyone of “The Kiss”? Insane.

Blunder bus?

Is that the fratboy in you, Hillary? From Raw Story:

On a congressional delegation trip to Estonia in August of 2004, Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and John McCain (R-AZ) held a “vodka-drinking contest,” according to an article slated for Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Two summers ago, on a congressional trip to Estonia, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest,” reports Anne E. Kornblut for The Times.

“Delighted, the leader of the overseas delegation, Sen. John McCain, quickly agreed,” Kornblut continues.

“The after-dinner game went so well that McCain later told people how unexpectedly fun he found Clinton to be,” Kornblut reports. “‘One of the guys,’ was the way he described her.”

OT, but need your help.

A nurse I work with at my home care agency has a son in Afghanistan. There is always a box in the office to collect things to send over there. Now they are looking for paperback books.
I know before, we talked about sending progressive political books, but since this is a conservative non-profit, if you could just send general interest paperbacks. Nothing overtly sexual, because it would get pulled by the military because of local customs.

I’ve put in a bunch of John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell type stuff. Don’t forget the great escapist Harlequin Romance stuff, too — these men and women are young and want an escape by reading.

If you will drop me an e-mail to pat[at]nursesnotebook [dot] com — I’ll give you a local address here. Shipping costs are taken care of from here to Afghanistan. My fellow nurse’s son will make sure the things get distributed.
I know FDLers are voracious readers — and I thought I would reach out in case you’re looking for a more direct way to donate.

Thanks.

WAIT, did I just hear Lara Logan say that 1/3 of all killed in the ME crisis are children? Did anyone else hear this?

Eli:

Insane.

Heh, stoopid. Their next one should be a freeze-frame of HoJo doing his LOL at the Bush’s WMD search joke. Geez, these people have a real nose for effective PR. Not.

Liebermania — we love you but the blog whoring needs to stop.

Joe’s on a Road to Nowhere!

meta:

I heard a figure of something like 3/4 of the human beings killed in Lebanon at the moment are chldren. I do remember it’s a hideously high percentage.

Spork Incident,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..earch=1967
Buffalo Springfield, “For what it’s worth”

a heads-up for salon.commies –

A note to War Room readers

I’ll be on vacation for the next two weeks, leaving War Room in the capable hands of Salon’s staff as well as Glenn Greenwald, the proprietor of Unclaimed Territory and the author of “How Would a Patriot Act?” I’ll be back on Aug. 14.

– Tim Grieve

(War Room is generally a good clearinghouse for political analysis of developing events – Rarely a source of breaking news, but Tim Grieve and Co. often have good insights to add)

Any new Ned ads? He should have all of his ads on his site.

First there was “The Silver Fox”.

But now there’s Joe, “The Grey Hound”.

Joe’s on a Road to Nowhere!

True story.

The kiss, the hug.. I felt sure the next act would be rated X

meta, you had to have heard right. On the NBC Nightly News tonight I about fell over to hear Brian Williams quoting someone that “it is profoundly wrong that more children have died in this latest war than armed soldiers”.

The kiss, the hug.. I felt sure the next act would be rated X

Joe Blow?

Margot 64 — my current fave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..rch=Stills stephen

We will have more YouTube mania tonight.

Can HolyJoe screw up worse than this? Hard to believe but…

Yes! Go HolyJoe! Go! Man! Go!

Git Hillary up there and then pullout the stops and git Poppy Bush to campaign fer ya.

Yeah, that’ll work goooooooooooood.

You and he can shake yer heads in unison over the absolute lack of moral fiber Clinton exhibited in office by getting a blow-job.

Then yer can get all enthusiastic about Poppy’s son, Preznint ‘Dumbya’, who is now revealed as the true ‘dumbest man on the planet’…

Go HolyJoe!

Go!

Away.

The kiss, the hug…don’t forget the blowjob. It’s there by implication.

Jenny, so it’s the reverse horror. On that score, I’m with you and your feelings about the new poster. Just sayin.

in Indianapolis, 1/4 of all humans are under 18yo — if you are killing civilians randomly, you will kill way too many kids — I recall hearing that half of all Iraqis are under 25yo so young’uns are definitely under fire …

TEddy, are you here? Are you hearing massive helicopters? I assume it’s for Blair security, but it’s a little intense at the moment.

Talking heads – Road to Nowhere

Well we know where were goin
But we dont know where weve been
And we know what were knowin
But we cant say what weve seen
…

Were on a road to nowhere
Come on inside
Takin that ride to nowhere
Well take that ride

…

Theres a city in my mind
Come along and take that ride
And its all right, baby, its all right

…

They can tell you what to do
But theyll make a fool of you
And its all right, baby, its all right

Were on a road to nowhere

Jane – especially

“you are living
a reality
I left years ago
it quite nearly killed me”

hmmmm……..
Thanks for reminding how cute those boys were.

meta…5:25pm

You are a person not lacking in principle. And I think I know, that you know, I don’t have to tell you that.

Schultz? Would this be George Schultz of Hoover/Reagan/Nixon/Bechtel and who knows what else, infamy?

Forgive my ignorance, blogwhoring is pimping your own blog incessantly?

Bus to Nowhere?

…and the Other Joe caught the Train to Nowhere to stump for CT Joe?

“Standing on the platform
Staring down the track
I felt a shiver
When I heard that clickety-clack

Heard the cry of “All aboard”
The ancient whistle blow
I’ve been waiting here so long
I can’t tell friend from foe

Oh – - -
I’ll meet you down the line
I’m on the train to nowhere
And it’s right on time

The conductor was a blind man
And it caused me some concern
When he handed me my ticket
For the point of no return

He said, “You look a little worse for wear
I hate to call your bluff
But if you’re going to ride this line
You must be made of sterner stuff”

I begged the brakeman, “Stop this train”
He said, “But what’s the use?
You should know by now it’s commonplace
For all hell to be breaking loose”

Then I heard my grandmother singing
“Hush – don’t you cry
You’re my little piece of Heaven
Fallen down from the sky”
B. Keith
—-
Lots of other roots rock (Changing of the Guard, When Parliament Convenes, Rectified, covers of ‘Paranoid’, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ and ‘Season of the Witch’ and:

http://www.stonecoyotes.com/music.html

also, iTMS, CD Baby.
(no blogwhoring for me. no blog. But I love this band.) Give ‘em a listen.

Forgive my ignorance, blogwhoring is pimping your own blog incessantly?

Yes. Actually, I think it’s blogwhoring every time you do it, but doing it a lot can be obnoxious, especially if it’s OT, or if you don’t otherwise contribute to the conversation.

meta -

The only thing I can come up with (and I’ve been trying to understand) is that certain people believe some lives are simply more valuable than others. The stunning disconnect comes when I consider what being a liberal means — to me it means that we stand for human rights, first and foremost.

So I get confused, very confused.

I guess this is the last time I’ll say I’m Jewish. I wasn’t going to do it but… :)

Huh. A friend said that she went to a Lieberman event at a restaurant today? yesterday? that was so crowded she didn’t get a chance to meet the candidate.

I’ll have to ask her where that was!

The DNC just called — they are having a matching fund $ for $ fund drive. Wasn’t going to give, but then I just had to get my two cents in about the sorry state of the DLC, and I mentioned Lieberman’s sorry assed threat to run and an independent, yada, yada. So he says. Maam, you may have heard this, but there is an unverified rumor out there that Clinton only agreed to show up and campaign for Joe if Joe promised not to run as an indie if Lamont won. I said, yeah, I had heard that. So then he said, I think Lamont is going to win this one!

I was so charmed (an actual thinking person fundraising!) that I coughed up a little cash.

blogwhoring is when you tout your own blog — blogpimping is when you hype somebody else’s blog …

And nobody came

Too funny…..

blogwhoring is when you tout your own blog — blogpimping is when you hype somebody else’s blog …

I gave up blogwhoring, and am now looking for blogrelationships.

The children and the elderly are always the most vulnerable. Even if they don’t get killed by a bomb, denied food and clean water, denied electricity, having to suffer the hardship of being an instant refugee and all that entails…

evening, firepups. a little drive by live reporting from DC blogwhoring, fresh from a think tank speech on the new book “fiasco.” read about why you’re smarter than many highly placed policy makers at corrente.

gotta run, have a good one everybody.

no more oneblogstands?

no more oneblogstands?

Well, I’ll take what I can get…

Joe certainly seems to enjoy the role of the Little Woman to the more powerful guys.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 5:44 pm – finding this kind of information about those women I have looked up to in the past is both profoundly disappointing and disturbing. We both know that political life has become a complex hurly burly mess, but to sacrifice such fundamental principles for the craven lust for the presidency – to spend countless millions to attain the office – it really leaves me very disillusioned. Beyond words.

Yes, it’s George Bechtel Schultz. Now why does Tony Blair have dinner with Schultz???? I don’t know. Do they go way back?

Looking for Mr GoodBlog?

no more oneblogstands?

Well, if you buy me breakfast in the morning…

damn tags. SORRY!

“A foolish consistency is the ho-bloggin’ of little minds”

The smell of blogging is like nectar

Well, if you buy me breakfast in the morning…

11:59 still counts as “morning”, right?

meta -

per our previous DOT rebirth: I see Cisco on Blair’s stops. What do they do?

it’s morning somewhere

per our previous DOT rebirth: I see Cisco on Blair’s stops. What do they do?

Networking switches and backbone kind of stuff.

So much for the Kos headline from a couple days ago that the Lieberman meltdown is over. I guess even Bill Clinton’s help isn’t being handled very effectively. First the poorly-spliced robocall and now the non-union “hug” buttons. I love Jane’s portrait of Lieberman as the little woman in the arms of others.

Maybe HoJo should try trolling the restrooms along the Interstate for supporters…erm I mean campaigning along the Interstate! The Float might not be able to keep up.

punaise

Does Salon do that ’sit for ad’ and then you get in thing?

If so, they’ve got this set of eyes for a few days.

“Cisco kid was a friend of mine”

(Cisco is a major high-tech company making routers as other network stuff)

Cisco makes the plumbing and valves for the InterTubes.

Don’t blogart that joint, my friend.

Blank Kludge

Does Salon do that ’sit for ad’ and then you get in thing?

yes, if you’re willing to sit through a commercial you can get into salon without forking over any moolah

Crisco makes the shortening that lubricates the InterTubes

Eli at 55

“Why would they even *want* to remind anyone of “The Kiss”? Insane.”

Exactly. His argument is in our frame. The man is clueless.

Thanks.

Does anyone else think that stop is a curiousity? Tony gettin’ his bits n’ bytes in order? OR WHAT?
(Mr. Bechtel ain’t no saloon barmaid, neither.)

The Blair Switch Project

Forgive my ignorance, blogwhoring is pimping your own blog incessantly?

I wouldn’t know as I never, *ever* blogwhore.

Ned will be on Colbert Monday night — July 31st !

Blank – Cisco = routers. Hmmmmmm….

punaise: word!

punaise -

I’m dying here…sheesh…just get to stop lauging, hit refresh and BOOM!

Blair Switch…good lord, you are good.

A scary survey for the GOP
A bipartisan NPR survey shows a nation that rejects “moral values” pandering — and is very angry at Bush.
By Joe Conason

Jul. 28, 2006 | For Democrats, who have suffered repeated Election Day disappointments since the dawn of the new millennium, predictions of victory are only another reason to be wary. But while caution is always advised and excessive optimism should be avoided, portents of a voter uprising against the Republican regime can be glimpsed on the November horizon. What seemed most unlikely a year ago — the turnover of the House of Representatives only 12 years after the “Gingrich revolution” — is looking very … possible.

The latest evidence is provided in an unusual survey released today by National Public Radio, whose bipartisan team interviewed a thousand likely voters last week. Many polls showing a generic preference for Democrats have appeared over the past several months, and many such polls have been dismissed by Republicans who say that national polling in a contest of 435 districts has little salience. But the NPR poll is different because, unlike most measures of midterm attitudes, this survey was conducted only in the 50 most hotly contested congressional districts. Pollsters Stan Greenberg and Glenn Bolger found that in those crucial districts, the attitudes about President Bush, the direction of the country, and the Republican congressional majority are strikingly negative

http://www.salon.com/opinion/c…..print.html

(If you’re not a subscriber you have to watch an ad – but the article is worth it.)

…pimping your own blog incessantly

if one links to Shakespeare’s Sister, is that blog-pimping incestuously?

Cisco makes the plumbing and valves for the InterTubes.

Then again, you have Bricso County, Jr.

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Check out TPM and Thinkprogress on some posts that document the horror that the oh-so reasonable, centrist, very *responsible* elder statesmen like Lieberman are facilitating.

Bush sez today: violence, war and mayhem, doing damage to US strength and leadership in ME is better than better than ‘managing calm’

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c…..009218.php

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/28/manage-calm/

And this is truly mind boggling -even Likud/Kadima cannot comprehend how much the script has changed. Apprently Israel figured the US would have stepped in by now to calm things down, and. gosh darn it, get people talking, get some calm going and get down the hard work of managing it. But no, not this WH. Apparently BushCo is upset that Israel is not being more aggressive and ruthless.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c…..009227.php

This is the humble foeign policy promised by Bush. In the Middle East now and who knows where else later. And it’s just OK with Lieberman. We are supposed to stand by it to be patrioic during A Time of War. It is high crime and a catastrophic blunder. Yeesh. I hope no one goes to meet the guy at all. He’s been running around the last three years facilitating war criminals with blood on their hands. Now the war criminals are coming out of the closet. War killing and mayhem are better than mangaged calm any day, they say.

If anyone’s interested, there’s some discussion about that anti-Lieberman ad on the ImpeachPAC blog. (IMHO there’s something really twisted about the argument Fertig makes in it’s defense.)

to my FDL addiction therapist: Friday end-of-work-day is probably the hardest. Just when I’m supposed to be getting stuff out the door to get a semblance of being caught up, that’s when it hits. “Oh, I’ll just drop by to see what’s going on”. uh-huh. thus starts another potential blog-bender.

Jane – You are the Wonder Woman of snark!

xoxoxo – for you and the pooches

Kelven

Kirby: Send anything. One will read anything. Watership Down was a wonderful thing to find at the chapel (Because I knew it was a good book, some of the tripe I read… You have no idea).

Mysteries are good, westerns are good. If you are looking for subversive you could do worse than Robert B. Parker and Louis L’Amour.

TK

Patrick @25

We know what body part she used to get there.

punaise @ 125 sez:

uh-huh. thus starts another potential blog-bender.

But you can quit whenever you want.

Yep.

.

Jenny from the Blog at 5:47 pm – I just want to say, I honor you. And I do have to wonder why it can sometimes be so hard for us to say what we are. It took me a while to feel like I could say that I am Latina without wondering what kind of exposure that might bring. It’s maybe an ongoing search for safety among strangers, or quasi-strangers.

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

NYTimes, July 29, 2006
Leak of Classified Information Prompts Inquiry
By SCOTT SHANE

WASHINGTON, July 28 — A federal grand jury has begun investigating the leak of classified information about intelligence programs to the press and has subpoenaed a former National Security Agency employee who claims to have witnessed illegal activity while working at the agency.

The former employee, Russell D. Tice, 44, of Linthicum, Md., said two F.B.I. agents approached on Wednesday and handed him the subpoena, which requires him to testify next Wednesday before a grand jury in Alexandria, Va.

The subpoena, which Mr. Tice made public on Friday, says the investigation covers “possible violation of federal criminal laws involving the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.” It specifically mentions the Espionage Act.

For months, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been looking into disclosures of secret intelligence operations, including The New York Times’s reports in December about the N.S.A.’s domestic surveillance program and The Washington Post’s articles on the Central Intelligence Agency’s overseas jails for terror suspects. But the subpoena is the first public confirmation that a grand jury has begun to hear evidence.

spork_incident

uh-huh. thus starts another potential blog-bender.

But you can quit whenever you want.

Yep.

.

blog-tender? pour me another of those “Refresh Comments”

I’m in awe punaise

Kirby, thanks for the scoop on the signature-gathering for the Lieberman for Lieberman party at the local supermarket.

Hmmm…think it’s a coincidence that this happened right near his state HQ? Hmmmm.

dab

Would you please add the Anthony Bourdain post that ran in Salon today?

It’s called, Watching Beirut Die.

Make mine a double blog-tini.

meta & Jenny — fwiw, I’m 100% Scots-Irish white male. For years, I thought I must therefore be in the oppressing majority. True, I was gay so in 1970, I discovered I too was a minority! Woohoo! I had proper standing at last!

Kinda silly, huh?

The one significant group missing in here is young folk in teens and twenties. This place tends not to be all that African-American either …

Make mine a double blog-tini.

I’ll have a Harvey Wallblogger.

BTW, Jane, this is a brilliant post! I’m in awe of your writing.

I hope Mr. Tice finds our Mary in his Rolode…er, I mean Blackberry.

“If it’s illegal, it is by definition not classified.”
iirc. (Possible paraphrase, but the gist should be OK.)

meta 130,

The reason I didn’t want to keep saying I’m Jewish (I felt I had to say it before, for some reason, to prove I’m not anti-semetic or something) is that it shouldn’t enter into the equation of what’s right and what’s wrong. I’m kind of in shock over the whole thing, to tell you the truth. I said earlier today that there is a great chasm building in the progressive community about Israel’s actions of late, and it’s something we don’t need, but there you are.

I honor you too, you beautiful Latina!

37-year-old Welsh-Jewish mix. I call myself semi-semitic.

I hope people realize that Bob Fertig is a Roots Project member and has attended conference calls. I’m wondering if anyone has spoken to Lamont himself about the neo nazi ad in question? Wouldn’t that be a prudent thing to do before we hastily rush to try to publish personal info again like in the last thread?

Evenin all – gods bless Michael Schiavo and his late wife, upon whose behalf he has become a serious angry righteous political muthafucka. I cannot salute/godspeed his likes enough.

(y’all are way too indulgent…)

I discovered I too was a minority!

whoo hoo. Congrats, *ilson. :)

Horrifically OT – I met Anthony Bourdain, and he is totally and mercilessly hot.

So where can a fella get a good blogjob?

Eli – I call myself semi-semitic.

but more than semi-antic prone

an independently financed-and-run advertisement must be independent legally. There can be no coordination whatsoever with the Lamont Campaign. None!

“I’M the DECIDER…”
….”and I hear the voices.”
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Latinas, Jews, Japanese, Irish, Chinese, German, French, Portugese, Arab, Farsi and some guy named Hugh.

Shez – people are talking … I’ll leave it at that for now.

Hopefully Fertig didn’t raise enough money to hit the airwaves hard.

It’s maddening since the SCLC report is very important and I’d livid that Fertig is using it in such a self-aggrandizing way when both Lamont and the SCLC matter so much.

AI don’t drink cosmoblogitans, but am willing to buy one for whoever does.

AI don’t drink cosmoblogitans, but am willing to buy one for whoever does.

How about a nice Jane-and-tonic?

when I say “people are talking” I do not mean anyone in the campaign but clearly many “progressive bloggers” are not happy with the ad claiming to in some way represent a “progressive blog” effort.

ummm…just curious. WHAT personal info? zipcodes, org, what exactly?

37-year-old Welsh-Jewish mix. I call myself semi-semitic.

OK, a Welsh Jew.

This is a first.

.

Democrats.com call themselves “Aggressive Progressives”

Watching Beirut die
We went to Beirut to film a TV show about the city’s newly vibrant culinary and cultural scene. Then the bombs started falling, and we could only stand on the barricades of our hotel balcony and watch it all disappear — again.
By Anthony Bourdain

Jul. 28, 2006 | From where I’m sitting, poolside, I can see the airport burning — the last of the jet fuel cooking off like a dying can of sterno. There’s a large, black plume of smoke coming from the south of the city — just over the rise, where the most recent airstrikes have been targeting the Shiite neighborhoods and what are, presumably, Hezbollah-associated structures. My camera crew and I missed it the first time they hit the airport. Slept right through it. Woke up in our snug hotel sheets to the news that we wouldn’t be making television in Beirut (not the show we came to do anyway), and that we wouldn’t be getting out of here anytime soon.

Any hopes of runway repair followed by a flight out disappeared two nights ago, when we watched from the balcony of my hotel room as missiles, fired from offshore, twinkled brightly for a few long seconds in the air, then dropped in lazy parabolic arcs onto the fuel tanks.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/featu…..index.html

OK, a Welsh Jew.

Gesundheit.

Cablognet sauvignon or Blogundy?
tough call…

ummm … I bet there’s a synagogue in Cardiff

The neo nazi ad only raise a couple of questions for me, assuming it’s not a swift / Rove move. Did Lamont have the opportunity to approve the endorsement? Why why why was the production value so awful?

y’all are so funny and beautiful. g’night!

Just Soma, shaken AND stirred, here, blogtender. Neat and straightup.

blogger-maker

OK, a Welsh Jew.

Verklempt in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

HopeSpringsAT — what part of “independent expenditure” dont you understand? Lamont can have no coordination whatsoever. He now may express a distaste and if Democrats.com choose to agree, they may pull the ad.

Blogmikaze

Verklempt in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

It’s spelled “vwrklwmpt”.

I was wondering if this the same Anthony Bourdain who wrote Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. That is one of my favorite reads of all times (back when life was fun). Looks like it is he indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain

In July of 2006 Bourdain was in Beirut filming an episode of No Reservations when the Israeli-Lebanon conflict broke out. Expressing regret at the situation the Lebanese country and people were in [1][2], he was evacuated with other American citizens on the morning of July 20th by the U.S. military.

al-Scooter #56 “Blunder Bus”- that’s a good ‘un!

I’m sure this photo has been linked somewhere on here, but BagNewsNotes has a little discussion following the photo posting.

http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.co…..l#comments

blog on the rocks.

lets hope the Cornishbollah dont have Katyushas…

dab, so Bourdain is there? Oh, man. Thanks for the link.

That picture on the button–is Joe trying to perform a Briss on the Clenis?

“jane you’re brilliant snark writer” – couldn’t agree more but duh, sky is blue. so many here are the same in their own way. me hearting jane at present for catalyzing energies around this utter crucial CT situation – JH has made CTBob, spazedude, Maura, etc our personal daily inspirational friends as well as national figures. amazing what’s going on.

yes siun, I totally agree, I didn’t care for the ad myself and my jaw kinda dropped when I watched it wondering why he (Lamont) would even want to take that issue on so close to this most important primary. My gut feeling was he had no knowledge but what in the world would make this impeachpac think he would want to endorse it? Hopefully it will be yanked pronto and they will stick to the issues Lamont has stressed plenty.

meta @ 46:

OT – Tony Blair just landed in SF. His itinerary?
dinner with schultz
visit to delancey street
genentech

Do you know if there is a specific itinerary anywhere? I’d love to know when he is going to be at Delancey Street.

That picture on the button–is Joe trying to perform a Briss on the Clenis?

what color is the button? could be a metter of nuanced Hue Briss.

punaise – it’s in the post

John Kerry is the bravest, gentlest, warmest, most wonderful human being I ever hope to meet !

Would you blog for some grog?

ROFL punaise, hue briss!

Jane,
I am so glad you are focusing on the war issue. Should it not be obvious that Joe Lieberman played a lead role in getting us involved in a war based on a “pack of lies” and that has caused tremendous harm to the image of America throughout the world? This is the core issue.
I agree with Lowell Weiker that this election is a referendum on the Iraq War.
I’m a Massachusetts resident so I can’t vote on August 8 but I hope our Democratic brothers and sisters in Connecticut will do the right thing…and send Senator Leiberman into retirement.

after all these years of discussion about The Clenis, I cant recall ever hearing whether it is circumcised or not. Did Jennifer, Paula or Monica ever reveal that info to the general public?

Shez

ROFL punaise, hue briss!

(full disclosure: it’s recycled – its former incarnation was Hugh Briss)

veruca, I thought it was tomorrow, but all I could dig up so far is this:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/…..K79F31.DTL

Let me know if you find anything else.

Verklempt in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

This is seriously funny.

.

btw, Eli, you’re definitely not anti-semantic

In view of this quote from up top:
…”"It was Photo op after photo op, but nobody’s turning out for him — no supporters whatsoever.”…

I’ll be interested to see how the Courant/etal ‘frame’ this via photos.

excuse me *ilson, but why is that an issue?

Sorry if this has been posted, but here is Ch. 8 coverage of Lieberman’s bus tour. He looks discouraged, not many people shower up, and the Kiss float got coverage and an interview.

Looking good.

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/sto…..p;nav=3YeX

Photo flop

Sting like a float.

So, it finally occurred to me… if Howard Dean isn’t too terminally unhip to have a MySpace page, then I’m not either. Of course, someone with his busy schedule and responsibilities most likely has people to put that page together for him. I don’t, and I’m new at this, so you’ll understand if my page is still kinda empty at this point.

Right now I’m still in the process of figuring out all the different features…I did a profile and joined a couple of groups. But I don’t have many friends yet, because I don’t have any inkling who I might know that has a MySpace account, and what name they use there. That’s why I wrote up this post–maybe it will help some of the people I might be looking for find me. ;)

not many people shower up

LOL

btw, Eli, you’re definitely not anti-semantic

No, I’m more of a commentist.

comontariat

the mentioning of the Briss in here is what raised that question of the Clenis and its snippage …

db- thanks for the link! good read.

Lieberman: “We’re reaching out to some of the Democrats who don’t always come out in Democratic Primaries, middle class, working class Democrats, my kind of people.” WALOS!

comontariat

I’m a punitburo member in good standing.

Is Joe running one of the worst campaign’s of all time, or does it just look that way from the outside? From down here in Texas, he’s making Mike Dukakis look like Bill Clinton.

There is a video you can click on upper left.

Frank Probst: to me it seems like he is simply running.

The war comes to America. Somebody upset with the war in Lebanon went to the Jewish Federation of Seattle, shooting six people – one fatally.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/…..g28ww.html

Condolences to the victim’s family and friends.

I don’t know whether to scream or cry or what.

the alleged shooter is of Pakistani descent…

see y’all on the flip and Redd’s front porch

al-scooter,

I sleep so much better at night knowing our shores and borders are being protected by such fine men as our Preznit and his good buddy Dumya.

Hair of the blog that bit me…

Eli – I’m a punitburo member in good standing.

yo, punitbro

http://www.courant.com/news/na…..ationworld

“Doubts Mount Among Israelis Critics Fueled By Growing Casualties, Inabilities Of Army” []

“But after two weeks of indecisive warfare, critics are starting to say the government launched the offensive hastily, with no exit strategy. Many fear the country is again being dragged into a quagmire across its northern border.”

Jewish Voice for Peace has a petition asking Israel to stop “collective punishment” in Gaza and Lebanon.

From Ch. 8 -

…”"Did you ever think you’d have to stand up in front of TV cameras here in Connecticut and say ‘I’m not George Bush?” asks the reporter.
“Uh uh, no, but that is a surprise and of course it’s based on a lie.”"
——-
That he has to defend himself that he is NOT in fact GWB, is BASED ON A LIE THAT HE IS IN FACT GWB?!

Get him on Maury Pauvich’s show. He needs a DNA test.
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laughing almost as hard as when the punaise striketh.
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Frank P. -
Same view from here in MA, close to CT border. Quite possibly worse than Mickey D’s.
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Fox 61 now-

“J/L said on nat’l TV he and GWB knew better.” M.Shciavo. And Ned. Blasting. (sorry, fingers and auditory mem not fast enough for quote.)

OMG! J/L says “I wish politicians would just let T.Schiavo rest in peace.” Then, to M.Schiavo – ‘he shoulda thought of that then.’

FOX – who could have imagined?

Mr. Lieberman, when, exactly, did you stop beating your wife?

Time for the Antithesis of the Bush Doctrine.

Pre-emptive Peace.

OFG #211:

There was once a time not so very long ago when I would envy you your job. My parents moved from Pennsylvania to Cali just before I was born, so I made a lot of summer trips through the southwest and midwest to visit relatives. I developed quite an affection for the road and for the people who live in the places between here and there.

Now I feel like a stranger in a strange land.

The same feeling I had 3-4 years ago – when I was trying to tell anybody I could buttonhole that we shouldn’t be going into Iraq, or that our “victory” wouldn’t stand, only I couldn’t get anybody to listen – it’s back again.

Frank Probst-203,

To some extent it really just looks that way from the outside. What you see is the “meta” stuff, but what you can’t see is what’s going on on the ground. At least in the cities, Liebermans’s got a HUGE ground operation. I would not be surprised if he literally has ten times more people on staff than Lamont. They’re out there canvassing and doing a lot of voter outreach, and that does matter (even if Lieberman himself holes up in an undisclosed bunker with Cheney and refuses Spazeboy entrance).

We underestimate the strength of Lieberman’s campaign at our own peril. At our nation’s peril. Seriously.

meta -
Fox also teasing upcoming story how ‘entrepreneurs are turning ‘viral videos’ into multimillon dollar businesses.’

so they’re trying to get a sow’s ear elected using a silk purse?

The Seattle gunman, using a shotgun, was 31 and a Pakistani from Pasco, in eastern Washington. One killed, 5 injured all women. He was upset with Israel, not upset about Lebanon, were the first reports. All synogogues in the area were sent a “warning” yesterday, says local news reports. Feds, joint terrorism people and local cops on their way to interview the gunman’s relatives. So far – only one man; there is no coordinated effort. But it sure sounds suspicious if a warning was handed out yesterday though.

Okay – I’m back on bus. And what a Lieber bust it is!

…uhh. That’s …’then, CUT to M.Schiavo…”

veruca 181 -

sf bay indymedia’s comments (fwiw) have Blair at Delancey on Sunday

http://www.indybay.org/newsite…..292390.php

the poodle will break kibble with George Schultz either tonight or Saturday night in SF….

bon appetit!

…uhh. That’s …’then, CUT to M.Schiavo…”

Are we back on the briss jokes, then?

OT – From Reuters:

Democratic lawmakers on Friday requested an investigation into why the State Department delayed word of sanctions on two Indian companies for Iran-related dealings until after the U.S. House of Representatives approved a nuclear agreement with New Delhi.

Just a little kerfuffle about missile-related transactions with Iran.

Briss-toll My errs Squibb

kibble with Schultz and bytes with Cisco?

The Briss jokes make me bristle.

Wasn’t it the George Shultz crew that gave dubya his big prez break? Bechtel was good then, and its good now. San Francisco area is, strangely enough, a hotbed of big conservative money. Guess they don’t go down to the Castro much.

Briss-toll My errs Squibb

Must… not… make… KBR joke…

kibble with Schultz
kibbutz with a Schlub

Blank 114

I don’t know what Schultz has been doing the past two decades, but he wasn’t a maniac when he was SoS.

Maybe he can let Blair know he and his buddy are about to destroy the world.

Eli – roflmao at vwrklwmpt!

Joe seems stuck in the 50s. At least his attitudes towards women seem to belong to that period: ‘nice girls’ don’t get raped or have abortions. Out of touch, Loserman.

The Briss jokes make me bristle.

Not me. The mohel, the merrier, I always say.

Eli – don’t hold back, you might hurt yourself

al-Scooter,

I was in favor of th Afghanistan War on Al-Qaeda, but told an office lady we would not be able to whup ‘em. (See, she didn’t know it, but I know a little bit of history about warfare in them parts). She looked at me completely stunned and said I could not seriously believe that. (Our superior firepower and all) To date I have not told her “I told you so.” Some things you just hate to be right about. Now Iraq was an even worse deal…

Eli – don’t hold back, you might hurt yourself

If I don’t hold back, someone will do it for me…

Maura -
Thanks for your on the ground insight. But, unless he’s able to get ‘drones’ who are going to be more or less hounded to get out, even avg. ‘low-info’ voters who watch what I just saw on Fox 61 will not be pleased, methinks.

But you last lines definitely do ring true. Peril indeed.

Imperial Hubriss.

If I don’t hold back, someone will do it for me…

but it would be ex-post-facto

Brissicision guidance systems.

mini-plouf. back Late Nite.

As Joseph Campbell said, everyone should follow their briss.

My Dad was political, a union leader, and a guy who taught me to look for the union bug. If he were still alive, he would demand the unions rescind their support of LIEberman ASAP. Any chance of this happening in CT before August 8th?

Brisscilla, Queen of the Mitzvah.

so where can a fella get a good blogjob?

from a blogwhore, of course.

and, speaking of blogwhoring, and anthony bourdain, cookie jill over at skippy has been following bourdain’s adventures in lebanon.

(i swear i wasn’t going to blogwhore with this joke, but cookie jill has been on top of the bourdain story from the beginning, and, if it’s not something i myself wrote, it’s more like blog pimping, right?)

anthony bourdain – beirut confidential

anthony bourdain – confidentially from beirut
(i swear this is a totally different post, so sue her for not coming up with a more different title)

and

bourdain bids bye to beirut

(or, alternatively, “Ignorance is briss”…)

Brisscilla, Queen of the Mitzvah.

Starring Guy Pierce.

Oilfieldguy says:
July 28th, 2006 at 7:11 pm

Time for the Antithesis of the Bush Doctrine.

Pre-emptive Peace.
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Who could have imagined?

This letter from Pete McCloskey at HuffPo is awesome.

Like many progressive Democrats I was passionatley opposed to the Iraq War from the beginning. It made me sick to see political leaders like Leiberman on cable television every night telling us all the reasons why we had to go to war. I knew they were just peddling a war based on a pack of lies.
Many of us are now angry at the terrible damage that the NeoCons demagogues like Leiberman have done to our country. Why should he be angry if voters want to hold him responsible for his role in getting us into a war that would end in disaster. Lieberman should have put the interests of the American people before his personal agendas.

OFG, I had hopes that we would’ve followed up the early military success in Afghanistan with the kind of nation-building effort that might’ve made a longer-term difference. Or at least enough of one to have rooted out OBL & Co. No such luck, Fratboy George reverted to form.

He has what, 906 days remaining in office? Plenty o’time for him to trip over his own, er, “podium” and accidently bring about the End Times.

Anti-war vote doesn’t faze Hillary

BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton is pulling for Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) against an anti-war challenger, but she says she’s not worried about backlash over her own support for the Iraq war if her fellow hawk loses his primary.

“Every case is different. Every candidate is different,” Clinton said yesterday.

“I’m supporting Joe Lieberman,” the New York senator added. “My husband was there yesterday [campaigning for Lieberman]. We go back with him a long way. On many of the issues that I think are important for the future, he is absolutely on target.”

One of those is Lieberman’s stance on the Iraq war. Both Lieberman and Clinton, who is facing only token opposition in her reelection bid, echo the Bush administration in insisting the U.S. should not set a timetable for pulling out of Iraq.

Protesters have tracked Clinton around the country over that stance and booed her in major speeches. Lieberman recently fell behind Ned Lamont in public opinion polls, largely on the strength of the challenger’s war opposition.

The potential loss by a three-term senator and former vice presidential candidate in the Aug. 8 primary rattled the Democratic Party, but Clinton says if Lieberman falls, she’ll back Lamont, not Lieberman, who could mount an independent campaign.

“The voters of Connecticut will make up their minds, and as I’ve said, I will support the Democratic nominee,” she said.

Clinton also said the strong anti-war challenge didn’t reveal anything about a growing split between Democratic hawks and doves that could affect the push to win a majority in Congress.

“I don’t think it says anything,” she said. “As long as I’ve been involved in Democratic politics there have been a lot of vigorous primaries.”

Originally published on July 26, 2006

http://www.nydailynews.com/fro…..9119c.html

DB
wow. thanks. wow, a repub saying we NEED a dem congress.

I just woke up and as funny as this post is, I am ROFLMAO@Punaise’s pass the grated karma-san!bwwwwwwahhhhhhhh

wow. thanks. wow, a repub saying we NEED a dem congress.

Apparently there are still some Republicans with honesty and integrity. Just… not in Congress.

db #253:

Hillary runs the triangle offense better than Phil Jackson.

Hillary runs the triangle offense better than Phil Jackson.

But she doesn’t have Kobe.

Suzanne, and it’s a rapidfire litany of abuses of power. It’s about time Republicans said enough.

shit, folks, ya gotta read that HuffPo piece DB linked to. it talks about how in 2005 there was a “revolt of the elders” iin the repug party and how they tried to put a stop to the thuggery and were shot down and how now they feel there is no other choice but to go dem.

Hillary, P.Jackson, whoever. Frankly, triangulation IS offensive, at least to this voter. (interrupted: Bubba Fox 61 ad). I don’t know and don’t care where it came from; it just happened to work for one smart and charismatic politician. (I voted for him b/c he had a photo shaking JFK’s hand, OK?)
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Don’t run the last election. It is one way to surely lose this one.

EBAY AUCTION:

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http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Kiss-B…..dZViewItem

Schultz is one of the first people to counsel W to run for the Presidency. I’m sure he sleeps like a baby.

Schultz is one of the first people to counsel W to run for the Presidency. I’m sure he sleeps like a baby.

A very wealthy baby.

Kobe hated the triangle offense.

I love the smell of fdl in the morning. It smells like … victory.

(So is hyping the blog you are currently on blogsterbation?)

Schultz also gave us Condi, iirc.

[Hillary] Clinton also said the strong anti-war challenge didn’t reveal anything about a growing split between Democratic hawks and doves that could affect the push to win a majority in Congress.

“I don’t think it says anything,” she said. “As long as I’ve been involved in Democratic politics there have been a lot of vigorous primaries.”

I fucking rest my case.

Let’s see…kiss button, hug button, what comes after this, snoreplay?

Pombo looks like he came right out of the James Watt School of Interior Redesign.

Let’s see…kiss button, hug button, what comes after this, snoreplay?

Maybe the full Lamonty.

Muffins si, triangle no!

Muffins si, triangle no!

Bakers, not Lakers.

So, THAT’s what that George has been up to for the last couple decade, eh? What a splendid resume, indeed.

Wonder who he’s got on his Rolodex? Any board members of Cisco, perhaps?

Just so everyone knows,

If you are lucky enough to come into possesion of a “Kiss Button” or Bumper sticker produced for http://dumpjoe.com/ It will have a union Bug on it.

Why?

Because our values Demand all our gear is Union Made.

Obviously The AFL-CIO endorsed candidate for Senate has different Values.

Obviously The AFL-CIO endorsed candidate for Senate has different Values.

He’s amazingly good at getting single-issue groups he doesn’t give a shit about to endorse him, tho…

and then Nedetration?

How sad and pathetic it is that Leiberman waits until the last week before the primary to launch a bus tour of the state. It’s another example of not caring about his constituents but trying to pull a campaign stunt in order to preserve his position as a royal courtier.

Pictures of the Kiss Float and Joe’s “Bus To Nowhere” are up on Connecticut Bob. Not intentionally blogwhoring, just sharing the wealth of images DeanFax84 shot today.

I hope Jane wasn’t going to use any of them for her next post!

Right. Mentioned above about a Dad and AFL-CIO and a retraction of endorsement.

Who could imagine?
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I’m sorry – I know I’m beating it to death…but it’s doing the same to me. And maybe you, too.
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Speaking of which, just saw teaser for 60 Min/Sunday. Rerunning the U2 segment.

and then Nedetration?

Followed by basking in the afterjoe.

This seems too easy. Just what is the Lieberman campaign up to? Are the inside-the-beltway dem consultants working for the neocons? If they are, what’s their goal? (besides the utter destruction of the democratic party, I mean). OK, what’s their objective then.

ctkeith #276:

Has anyone seen the back of the hug button? Any chance there’s a “Made in China” sticker on it?

ctkeith – Do we know for a fact that Joe’s buttons weren’t made in a union shop? Because it’d be very interesting if they were, and still came out without the bug.

Anyone still here? new thread.

new thread: “Correction..”

Excerpt from Powell’s book, found at the Beirut Memorial site John C provided earlier.

http://www.beirut-memorial.org/history/powell.html
Weinberger’s antagonist, George Shultz, was dismissive of Cap’s approach. I had watched the irony of their squabbling for months. The Secretary of State was often ready to commit America’s military might, even in a no-man’s-land like Lebanon. What was the point of maintaining a military force if you did not whack somebody occasionally to demonstrate your power? On the other side was the man responsible for the forces that would have to do the bleeding and dying, arguing against anything but crucial commitments.

Dover B – McCloskey’s letter is packed with the worst, isn’t it? A good guy to do the right thing. Very good guy – Pombo and Dolittle are so very bad.

Let’s see…kiss button, hug button, what comes after this, snoreplay?

Snooze button.

Sanctimoni-mon

He know
Better than you
What you, her husband
(are) Supposed to do
What he say
Must be true
Sanctimoni-mon

He say
State is not right
That judge in charge
Not see the light
He say
Bill Frist is right
Sanctimon-mon

(chorus)
It no matter
What the doc’s say
He know what God
Wants him to say
No one else should
Have any say but
Sanctimoni-mon

ROTFLMAO! Oh god, the image in my mind that you conjured up with this pitiful bus tour scouting out empty diners and a nagging Kiss float…well, all I can say KUDOS to the float and your blogging of the campaign!

And a hardy “Together We’re Invincible”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TeSGON6VvA

i hadn’t seen that video before. thanks for reminding me what a decent guy Lieberman is and what a piece of slime Schiavo is. I wish I lived in Connecticut.

You know, when we all look back on this twenty years from now, it won’t be Holy Joe’s war stance or his short ride comment that we’ll remember, it will be that darn Kiss Float. Whoever thought that up is a fucking genius. When I run for office, I want him / her running my campaign.

Oh look. Someone fell of Joe’s short bus and can’t get up.

Short Bus, Long term

Ned Lamont is the bravest, gentlest, warmest, most wonderful human being I ever hope to meet in my life !

Lamont on Colbert– just in case he doesn’t watch it himself, I hope his people prep him properly. I mean, show him clips of guests who are able to play with Sir Steven & clips of guests who sink, or bumble. How one engages his game is everything & even though, I loved watching Bill Kristol smirk and giggle and sink, I definitely wouldn’t want to see that happen to our guy Ned.

Secondly, (sorry if this is too long, you’re all so good at the short-and-sweet) the NPR poll. I don’t think the R’s are going to be able to get any traction at all, this time around, because public anger is not about any one issue– it’s been a slow, steady accumulation of all the crimes, lies, blunders, thefts. One image of Katrina- Iraq- Abramoff-Schiavo-coffins-shuttered factories etc etc & it doesn’t matter waht they say. They could catch bin Laden, imo, & still lose Congress. I also think the slime-a-rama is going to blow black in Rove’s face. People are finally finally sick of the whole charade.

PS to above:

As far as I’m concerned, we have only two things to fear between now and November: the DLC and WW III.

Not that I’m going to stop working. Just that I think those shitheads’ chickens have come home to poop on Cheney’s shotgun

As a mater of law, Michael was given guardianship in a consensus including her parents. That this should have been seen as some Solomonic moment rather than a mere convenience is actually amusing. Couldn’t agree more with Joe, and where do you go to find somebody who has had such a perfect charismaectomy?