FITZ!

FITZ!

Great post!

is this a Rove bashing thread?

Wayne Slater!!!

James Moore!!!

I think Christy maybe hit “publish” instead of “save” again?

a picture is worth 1000 words

That’s not nice. You spoiled my appetite with that picture.

If only Karl’s wasn’t so voracious …

Whoofah.

Lamont is getting creamed in this poll.

Nice of Joe Lieberman to take the filthy money from the worst man in America, Karl Rove.

-GSD

That’s not a forehead, its a five-head!

pithy and terse !

brevity is the soul of wit !

I’m hoping there’s a story behind this…

*ilson46201 @ 12

brevity is the soul of wit !

Yes.

less is more !

Caption: “Uh-oh. Did that fart have some follow-through?”

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

GSD @ 9

That’s not a poll, it’s a publicity stunt

See a tongue-in-cheek visual of Karl Rove singing his favorite “Church & State” hymns with his usual ensemble…here:

http://www.thoughttheater.com

Sorta on topic… The sentencing of former Gov. Ryan of Illinois to 6.5 years is credit to Fitz, right?

Caption contest?

LOL! You guys are too much —

See, and all this time I thought LEVITY was the soul of wit. Maybe it’s the wig.

two closed hearings to discuss classified info Liebby wants to use….
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14705954/

Share and Enjoy:

I can’t, Christy– please don’t make me!

Please don’t insult Tyra Banks by conflating her Five Head with Kkkarl. Sheesh if his brain throbbed a little, he’d look like that villain from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

From a diary at Dailykos:

Yesterday, I diaried about Scholastic Books catapulting the “Path to 9/11″ propaganda. More than 400 comments were made, the vast majority of them excellent suggestions for action and outrage that Scholastic would be supporting this crock-u-mentary with propaganda reinforcement.

We flooded them with calls and emails of protest and righteous indignation.

Tonight, the material is no longer on Scholastic’s website. Poof. Disappeared.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/6/213843/1529

Caption Contest…..

I wonder if that Moo-Shoo Pork was bad….oh wait…I remember….I just can’t get this Plame thimg out of the spotlight!

Since Rove is the soon-to-be topic. Here’s a great article I found last night. Keith Olbermann just listed Rove as his “worst person in the world” for this story.

Karl Rove funnels Millions to Joe Lieberman campaign

caption: “mmmmmm…. Polish sausage…”

There are many discussions here that I would love for my ‘not progressive’ aquaintances to read. My problem is in explaining where they should go to read them.

“Go to firedoglake.com” I explain.

Cue blank stares and crickets.

“OK, well go to dailykos.com”.

Uh, no. Not because they don’t want to go to these sites, though they may not want to after they get here.

I wish daily that the more mainstream (read: unreachable fundie rightie(wrongie) folks in my world could read the thoughtful, sensible, and often brilliant commentary that is a daily serving here and at our other favorite sites. But how would they even know where to go, even if they did tiptoe out in the middle of the night to sneak a peek?

My wish is this. As much as I love the name firedoglake, it would be nice to have an additional domain name that would redirect to here. I’m not sure what that name should be, nor do I suggest any sort of changes to the name or ‘look-and-feel’ to this site. But imagine having a name that our curious brethren on the right could easily type in to sneak a peek without the fear of firedoglake appearing in their browser history.

Thoughts would be appreciated.

PS I am no longer jcb. I am Judd Brown and proud to be an active member of NETROOTS and FDL.

And all this time I’ve thought brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Ah yes, he reeks of Alpha male pheremones. When I see his face I think hold me, protect me.

Not really.

Holy shit, when I see his face I really think: “Isn’t he one of the guys nabbed by Dateline in their internet stings?”

-GSD

….hmmmmmmm…any….sausage…….Jeff…Gannon…..are you there Jeff???

Caption: “Women have vaginas. That disgusts and saddens me.”

caption: shee-it, Marcy Wheeler’s gonna write a book and FDL is starting to publish books!

oddball @
34

….hmmmmmmm…any….sausage…….Jeff…Gannon…..are you there Jeff???

…I wish my stepdaddy was here…

angie @ 36

caption: shee-it, Marcy Wheeler’s gonna write a book and FDL is starting to publish books!

perfect caption!

That forehead served him well in elementary school, as his underwear clung to its huge expanse as he was given multiple atomic wedgies by normal people.

Atomic wedgies, for the uninitiated.

Sorry, I’m not quite sure what happened there, but I think it was my mistake.

Jane Hamsher @ 40

Sorry, I’m not quite sure what happened there, but I think it was my mistake.

tsk-tsk Jane. That’s ok though… I’m having fun reading all the “captions” for the photo.

This Zogby Poll, released yesterday makes me want to change the name of republicans to the bend over party.

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1169

Caption: I see a wedge issue, hmmm.

GSD @ 9

Whoofah.

Lamont is getting creamed in this poll.

Nice of Joe Lieberman to take the filthy money from the worst man in America, Karl Rove.

This “poll” was done by Public Opinion Strategies, whose dedication to reliable scientific sampling and unprejudiced presentation of results can perhaps be inferred from the following blurb from their website (emphases mine):

About half of our research is dedicated to winning elections. Our political client base includes 17 U.S. Senators, ten Governors, fifty-one Members of Congress, and numerous state legislative caucuses. The other half of our work is involved in complex public policy battles, working with industry coalitions, government entities and private companies. This work extends to corporate image, community relations, and crisis management research for local companies, Fortune 500 corporations and industry associations throughout the country.

OT – Possibly I missed it, but hope we can provide a snail mail address for folks who can’t donate thru paypal or credit cards.

Maybe have an interim solution, the real address of someone here that people trust and who doesn’t mind being public? Seems like a lot of people would be able to help out if they just had an address.

Just my 2 kopeks.

egregious – Good idea, perhaps a P.O. Box, bank account and (ducking while I type this) rubber stamp. *s*

lochness monster @ 18

GSD @ 9

That’s not a poll, it’s a publicity stunt

Cousin Nessie of Inverness? Och aye lassie. Been missin’ ye.

TouToob – Olbermann’s video tribute to Katherine Harris

Caption: It’s not an adventure. It’s a job.

Junyah! What the hell you been eating?

Brilliant.

Why is this man frowning? Well, it could be that after six years of his being called the most brilliant and successful political strategist in the country, it might finally have dawned on the country (and will soon dawn on the pundits) that this man is an idiot.

Why? Well, he took a President who was handed 9/11 and the chance to be the heroic leader of the entire free world, with 90 percent approval ratings from Americans and the sympathy/support of most of the world, and turned him into one of the most despised, laughed at, unpoplular, unsuccessful, pulling-his-party down politician to ever inhabit the White House.

Even someone as clueless as George Bush could have done better on his own, but no, he had help. With Rove’s help, together they have managed to make America less safe, less respected, less fair, less just, less honest, less tolerant, less healthy, and more indebted than anytime in our history. He managed to convince his politician that it was okay to commit war crimes, to violate the Constitution, to lie to the American people and to Congress, to stonewall, coverup, conspire, and then, when it all finally became obvious to even the pundits, he did it even more, on the theory that the way to get out of the 35 percent JAR hole he had dug is to keep digging with the same shovel.

It is time to stop calling this immoral idiot a “political genius.” And this has nothing to do with whether the Repbulicans “win” the Senate or the House.

Anyone who got here early needs to hit F5 or reload the page to see the updated article.

Caption:
“And it would have worked, too, if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids and their blog!”

Jane, could you please remove that photo of that abomination Karl Rove from the front page of this thread?

Or at least put a black bar across his eyes.

Ugh.

hey, there’s some text up there now!

EvilDrPuma @
44

GSD @ 9

Whoofah.

Lamont is getting creamed in this poll.

Nice of Joe Lieberman to take the filthy money from the worst man in America, Karl Rove.

This “poll” was done by Public Opinion Strategies, whose dedication to reliable scientific sampling and unprejudiced presentation of results can perhaps be inferred from the following blurb from their website (emphases mine):

About half of our research is dedicated to winning elections. Our political client base includes 17 U.S. Senators, ten Governors, fifty-one Members of Congress, and numerous state legislative caucuses. The other half of our work is involved in complex public policy battles, working with industry coalitions, government entities and private companies. This work extends to corporate image, community relations, and crisis management research for local companies, Fortune 500 corporations and industry associations throughout the country.

I see, kind of like an ABC documentary.

Welcome to this shamocracy we call America.

-GSD

I will donate $1000 if one of the chapters is entitled “Judith Miller – What a ‘ho.”

Valley Girl @ 52

Anyone who got here early needs to hit F5 or reload the page to see the updated article.

thx!

Eureka Springs, AR @ 46

egregious – Good idea, perhaps a P.O. Box, bank account and (ducking while I type this) rubber stamp. *s*

Strike while the iron is hot: give eager donors an address ASAP and then our kind collector can set up a bank account. First rule at the Harvard Business School: TAKE THE MONEY.

GSD @ 56

I see, kind of like an ABC documentary.

Welcome to this shamocracy we call America.

-GSD

Is it any coincidence that the acronym for “Public Opinion Strategies” is POS? I think not.

Your daily gas and oil prices

Average price for regular gasoline 9/6/06 in 50 states and DC

$3.00 plus 5 states
$2.90 plus 9 states
$2.80 plus 5 states
$2.70 plus 9 states
$2.60 plus 10 states
$2.50 plus 11 states
$2.40 plus 2 states

Average national price: $2.720, down $.012
Highest recorded national average price: $3.057 9/5/2005

Highest average price: Hawaii $3.283
Lowest average price: Ohio $2.433

Nymex Crude Future $67.58, down $1.03
Dated Brent Spot $66.14, down $1.29
WTI Cushing Spot $67.50, down $1.10

Gas prices continue their fall. As I said a while ago, barring new speculative pressures the $65/bbl is a more rational place for oil prices to be at the moment. Also I have often thought it was deeply ironic that Bush rattles his saber with Iran, and oil prices rise, making the Iranians richer at our expense and helping support their troubled and corrupt economy. If he had just STFU, oil prices would have declined helping us and hurting them. Go figure.

Scarecrow at # 51.

Well said.

Rove knows that he is very close to being run out of town on a rail and he’s praying for bad things to happen to Americans and the nation in order to reinforce the meme that it is a bad world.

I wonder how he’s feeling about all of the Republicans that are treating him like a leper?

-GSD

Jane:

I just went to Paypal and made a donation. I had intended, however, to put it on my VISA card. I clicked it on the VISA logo, but it took me to Paypal, which is set up to deduct funds from my bank account. It did not give me the option of using VISA. I went ahead and used Paypal, but is there some way to fix this, or did I just do it wrong?

Its time to go after the Board of Disney and Scholastic.

Here are Disney’s Board of Directors:

http://corporate.disney.go.com…..ctors.html

and please contact Scholastic — they have developed study guides that will be used in America’s classrooms that promote all the lies in the film.

Richard Robinson
CEO, Scholastic
557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-343-6100
__,_._,___

and their Board of Directors
http://www.scholastic.com/abou…../board.htm

Just sent you an email Jane.

After seeing the original (now corrected) post, I went to see what other Rove photos I had in my archive.

This one shows who’s in charge.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albu…..force1.jpg

This one shows Rove’s garage.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albu…..ct2005.jpg

Caption:

“Porky Pig is not my father”

Mocha Dem @ 57

I will donate $1000 if one of the chapters is entitled “Judith Miller – What a ‘ho.”

I would too, if I had it! LOL

This is great. I’ll be able to donate next month after our daughter’s fall tuition/transportation hump passes…

Caption contest:

“I should have known better than to trust that weasel Lieberman…oh well, it was still money well spent.”

lmao – I read the original post this afternoon as 6500 not 65k. Now about that mailing address? Maybe Blue America could give FDL a page as well.
For TRex travel
Misc. political fun times. Like the roots book delivery.
FDL Books
Perhaps most important (((Poodles and Peanuts)))

neurophius @ 63

Jane:

I just went to Paypal and made a donation. I had intended, however, to put it on my VISA card. I clicked it on the VISA logo, but it took me to Paypal, which is set up to deduct funds from my bank account. It did not give me the option of using VISA. I went ahead and used Paypal, but is there some way to fix this, or did I just do it wrong?

Excuse me — I wanted to offer a suggestion in case Jane isn’t around. You might go back to your paypal account and see if you can cancel the transaction or stop payment. Then, re-do it — there is a place within the paypal screen where you can change the preferred method of releasing funds from a checking account to a charge card. Good luck.

I don’t know if this ever got handled, from the prior Marcy thread.

chady says:
September 6th, 2006 at 6:27 pm *

I would like to contribute by mail, need address.

- ET had a great comment earlier. http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..ent-280428

Ed*ard Teller @
124

folks,

energy spent hassling apple and scholastic will pay 10 times the dividends of hassling ABC or Disney. when I spoke to apple and scholastic yesterday, they had no idea what was coming down.

it should be obvious to you pups by now that ABC and Disney have millions of $ invested here, and will only dig in, no matter what we do.

http://www.democrats.org/pathto911

We’ll keep you up to date as this story evolves.
Thank you,
Tom

Tom McMahon
Executive Director
Democratic National Committee

I just got this action email – more people on the case!

Eureka Springs, AR @ 43

Caption: I see a wedge issue, hmmm.

Caption: I see a wedgie issue, hmmm.

caption contest: If my Daddy could have seen that!

In this TPM post, I noticed something:

ABC 5 in Minneapolis to Viewers: Don’t Blame Us. The Network Made Us Do It!

Many television viewers have called or written to us to share their opinion of the ABC Special “Path to 9/11″. We may not all agree on the subject matter of certain programming, but Channel 5 does believe it is important to share information (often controversial) in order to bring different points of view into the public discourse. Also, as the ABC affiliate, Channel 5 broadcasts ABC network programming but does not determine the content of it. We are the only locally-owned television station serving the Twin Cities, and hope that you will judge ABC network offerings separately from Channel 5’s own local news and public affairs programming. As a matter of public record, your feedback is included in our public file. We also suggest that you make your opinion known to the originator of the program: ABCNEWS. To help, here is the contact information: ABC Audience Information Department at 818/460-7477. You may also contact the network via email to abc.audience.relations@abc.com, or by visiting the network’s websites http://www.abc.com or http://www.abcnews.com.

Again, we appreciate your feedback and do hope that you will continue to watch Channel 5.

Sincerely,

Mike Smith
Director of Programming and Operations
KSTP-TV & KSTC.TV

Setting aside the other interesting info here, note that the originator of this “programming” is ABC News. Not ABC Entertainment. Therefore, though there may not be any “commercials” in this broadcast, what do you want to bet there will be bumpers throughout saying the thing is a production of ABC News!

Disclaimers be damned, what the viewers will take in is this is the news, this is the news, this is the news.

Who in Apple or schoolastic should we contact?

scarecrow @ 51

Brilliant.

Why is this man frowning? Well, it could be that after six years of his being called the most brilliant and successful political strategist in the country, it might finally have dawned on the country (and will soon dawn on the pundits) that this man is an idiot.

Why? Well, he took a President who was handed 9/11 and the chance to be the heroic leader of the entire free world, with 90 percent approval ratings from Americans and the sympathy/support of most of the world, and turned him into one of the most despised, laughed at, unpoplular, unsuccessful, pulling-his-party down politician to ever inhabit the White House.

Even someone as clueless as George Bush could have done better on his own, but no, he had help. With Rove’s help, together they have managed to make America less safe, less respected, less fair, less just, less honest, less tolerant, less healthy, and more indebted than anytime in our history. He managed to convince his politician that it was okay to commit war crimes, to violate the Constitution, to lie to the American people and to Congress, to stonewall, coverup, conspire, and then, when it all finally became obvious to even the pundits, he did it even more, on the theory that the way to get out of the 35 percent JAR hole he had dug is to keep digging with the same shovel.

It is time to stop calling this immoral idiot a “political genius.” And this has nothing to do with whether the Repbulicans “win” the Senate or the House.

they will win the Senate and the House and we can say goodbye to our porcine nemesis.

Hugh — I thought your post – 140 prior thread — on Bush’ speech today was excellent — and would fit here wrt Rove. I just don’t know how to link it here.

If we are able to accomplish anything at all I hope we keep this out of the classrooms.

I went to refresh my browser and a captioning contest broke out!

Curious in Central Texas @ 71

neurophius @ 63

Jane:

I just went to Paypal and made a donation. I had intended, however, to put it on my VISA card. I clicked it on the VISA logo, but it took me to Paypal, which is set up to deduct funds from my bank account. It did not give me the option of using VISA. I went ahead and used Paypal, but is there some way to fix this, or did I just do it wrong?

Excuse me — I wanted to offer a suggestion in case Jane isn’t around. You might go back to your paypal account and see if you can cancel the transaction or stop payment. Then, re-do it — there is a place within the paypal screen where you can change the preferred method of releasing funds from a checking account to a charge card. Good luck.

Thanks, Curious. It’s no big deal this time. I’ll pay more attention next time.

Rice and Bush. What a strange relationship.

Sidney Blumenthal:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…..64,00.html

LindaR @ 77

In this TPM post, I noticed something:

…Channel 5 does believe it is important to share information (often controversial) in order to bring different points of view into the public discourse….

This sentence is, first, irrelevant if the point of the statement is that the affiliate just shows what is given to it. It is also disingenuous, of course–the program is not in dispute because it presents controversial points of view, but because it presents outright historical falsehoods. The public discourse can survive without deceitful content, thank you very much; and it can sure as hell do without mendacious disclaimers of responsibility.

Jane, Neurophius, Egregious:
It gives me an error message: “Your account registration cannot be completed. To complete this transaction please register at http://www.paypal.com” when I try to use plastic. Used plastic three weeks ago to make a donation here, without this problem. I think something got ‘fixed’ the wrong way at some point. (I don’t have (and don’t really want) a PayPal account. Snail mail would be a good substitute.) Really annoying; I’ve been trying to donate all afternoon and getting this. #$%^&*!

Caption: Just think; I could’ve been President if only I’d worn that codpiece in front.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 84

Rice and Bush. What a strange relationship.

I have my suspicions that it may be stranger than I could ever want to know.

You’ve got Santorum on my Turdblossom!

-GSD

Oklahoma kiddo @ 84

Rice and Bush. What a strange relationship.

Sidney Blumenthal:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…..64,00.html

“There is no plan.”

Yikes!

I’ve been an Apple customer for years now, but my faith in the company is shaken.

Here’s a handy-dandy list of people to contact over at Apple if you’re pissed, like I am:

http://www.apple.com/pr/contacts/

A boycott of iPods and iTunes is entirely doable. It would hit very, very hard.

My latest iPod will last a while longer. Heck, I have one of the first 20GB models, from 2002, and it still works!

Hi FDL!
I just made my payment!
I know I’ve only been here for a short time, but I can feel the honesty and connection, and real spirit that is generated by FDL’s posters.

This is a great site, and I’m happy to give what I can.

FDL Rocks!

OT – Just got here, don’t know if this has already been covered, but tell TRex “all hope is not lost”!

from CTBob:

Gerstein discusses Lieberman wife beating on blog
BREAKING NEWS!

On the Joe2006 blog tonight, millionaire-lawyer non-combatant successful-draft-deferrer Joe Lieberman’s campaign director, Dan Gerstein, brought up the topic of wife beating in relation to his discussion of the Senator’s possible campaign contributions.

While addressing the questionable validity of a story about GOP fundraising efforts for Lieberman that was posted by their OWN CAMPAIGN STAFF on their OWN BLOG, Gerstein asked if it was possible to prove the Senator doesn’t beat his wife.

After several messages questioning Gerstein about the wife-beating topic, the Lieberman spokesman said “Joe Lieberman does not beat his wife.”

Dangerstein, Stoopid Shite… and it gets much, much better – the comments from Joe’s blog are to die for!

Caption: So, Emptywheel, wants to write a book.

hey… any chance we can get a PO box or something? I’m trying to PAY OFF the credit card, not continue to load it up… I’d just LOVE to send a check…

trueblue: Are you active re the Strickland and Brown campaigns?

Ftubino @ 20

Sorta on topic… The sentencing of former Gov. Ryan of Illinois to 6.5 years is credit to Fitz, right?

Fitz supervises, but props go to Patrick Collins and the other assistant attorneys.

Gerstein discusses Lieberman wife beating on blog

“Yes, Joe Lieberman has stopped beating his wife…I mean, Joe Lieberman hasn’t stopped beating his wife, he…I have never seen Joe Lieberman beating his wife, I…oh, fuck.”

OldCoastie @ 94

hey… any chance we can get a PO box or something? I’m trying to PAY OFF the credit card, not continue to load it up… I’d just LOVE to send a check…

Do what I just did… added the FDL money to my monthly payment!!

LJ/Aquaria, Thanks for the addy’s.

*ilbo @
50

Junyah! What the hell you been eating?

Thought I told you to stay away from those ‘blasted’ froglegs!

PJEvans- I clicked on the credit card thingy, and my donation went through without a problem. HOwever, I have registered at paypal, so perhaps that is why my transaction worked. However, Paypal does give you the option of making a donation w/0 having a Paypal account, and that has worked fine for me in the past. Have you tried to donate directly via the Paypal link?

Also, please check your email. I have sent you something on another topic.

trueblue? See number 96

karen allen @ 95

trueblue: Are you active re the Strickland and Brown campaigns?

No. Do I have a generic name that I should change?

I live on Cape Cod,MA… probably the reddest part of this State. (Yack!)

I guess I could ask what Raiders of the Lost Ark’s you’ve been in!!

(Please take that as the light hearted humor it was meant to be. It’s just that I think Karen Allen was in RotLA I… am I wrong?)

Caption: I should have taken that job with Coors.

Wow. About 6-7 hours, roughly 2k/hour.

Gotta’ love that.

Would like to see a published address for checks – can the intended publisher handle this?

Off to bed, with hopes of seeing a nice bump up on the thermometer by morning. Thanks, FirePups! And thanks so much Jane and Marcy!!

Sorry, thought you were from OH. And yes, you’re wrong about the RotLA. I also have never been George Felix Allen’s wife.

Rodney Dangerfield @ 82

I went to refresh my browser and a captioning contest broke out!

which begs: Karl “why can’t I get any respect?”

karen allen @ 106

Sorry, thought you were from OH. And yes, you’re wrong about the RotLA. I also have never been George Felix Allen’s wife.

Sorry!!!!

I’m such a putz!!!!!

Nice to know you, though!

Mod issue: Hotflash at 221 on No Copies thread wanted to have his actual name masked, which was done, and also his dad’s name…but am not sure the latter happened.

Thanks.

The Cleanup Staff

Hi True Blue!!!! You are so quick on the uptake!!!

Caption: I’m going to hell, I’m going to hell.

Valley Girl,
Hello, fellow minority!
How are you?

Caption: Jeebus, I wish he’d stop eating those beans for breakfast!

Late to the party — damn, this having to work for a living is a nuisance — but I donated, and (from the earlier post) went over to dkos and recommended Teddy’s diary. It was already on the recommended list, but another rec. doesn’t hurt. And I really look forward to the book salon where Marcy moderates a discussion of her FDL book with the FDL community!

I’m know OT, OT! but I am rolling on the floor! a little more from CTBob on Dangersteins comments

The pertinent comments from the exchange are quoted here:

Let me get this straight. You are asking us to disprove an anonymous, single-sourced story from a magazine of questionable credibility that not one respectable news outlet has even come close to picking up on? What’s next, you want us to provide evidence that Joe Lieberman doesn’t beat his wife?

Seriously, folks, I am more than happy to answer legitimate questions raised on the blog, and I apologize for not doing more of it yet (been a little busy doing a few other things), but can we please have a little perspective? Thanks.
Dan Gerstein | 09.06.06 – 8:23 pm | #

Joe Lieberman beats his wife?
Mike | 09.06.06 – 8:28 pm | #

Why does Joe beat his wife? Is it because she’s a pharmaceutical lobbyist?
BluetooththeGreat | 09.06.06 – 8:31 pm | #

I don’t know, blue… I just heard about it from Dan Gerstein himself.
Mike | 09.06.06 – 8:33 pm | #

OldCoastie @ 92

OT – Just got here, don’t know if this has already been covered, but tell TRex “all hope is not lost”!

from CTBob:

Gerstein discusses Lieberman wife beating on blog
BREAKING NEWS!

On the Joe2006 blog tonight, millionaire-lawyer non-combatant successful-draft-deferrer Joe Lieberman’s campaign director, Dan Gerstein, brought up the topic of wife beating in relation to his discussion of the Senator’s possible campaign contributions.

While addressing the questionable validity of a story about GOP fundraising efforts for Lieberman that was posted by their OWN CAMPAIGN STAFF on their OWN BLOG, Gerstein asked if it was possible to prove the Senator doesn’t beat his wife.

After several messages questioning Gerstein about the wife-beating topic, the Lieberman spokesman said “Joe Lieberman does not beat his wife.”

Dangerstein, Stoopid Shite… and it gets much, much better – the comments from Joe’s blog are to die for!

I don’t know about you, but I would totally want to vote for the candidate who doesn’t beat his wife. The Lieberman campaign has done a brilliant job of reaching out to that very sizable anti-wife-beating bloc of voters.

Not quite OT, exactly…Tom Tomorrow strikes again.

jane i have tried several times to get paypal or mc to process the transaction but it keeps hanging up. could you email me an address or PO box that i could send a contribution? my addy is LANGLA at yahoo dot com. thanks

karen allen @ 106

Sorry, thought you were from OH. And yes, you’re wrong about the RotLA. I also have never been George Felix Allen’s wife.

But have you stopped beating her yet?

LindaR @ 77

In this TPM post, I noticed something:

ABC 5 in Minneapolis to Viewers: Don’t Blame Us. The Network Made Us Do It!
…

Setting aside the other interesting info here, note that the originator of this “programming” is ABC News. Not ABC Entertainment. Therefore, though there may not be any “commercials” in this broadcast, what do you want to bet there will be bumpers throughout saying the thing is a production of ABC News!

Disclaimers be damned, what the viewers will take in is this is the news, this is the news, this is the news.

Very good points. I did a little research, and sent this to TPM:

I would like to call bullshit on KSTP’s “don’t blame us” buck-passing. They are not network-owned, so they are not required to run the propaganda “docudrama” (propa-mentary, perhaps?) Furthermore, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSTP-TV), they are owned by the staunchly Republican Hubbard family, and they employ as an anchor a former Republican flack who retains an ownership stake in her PR firm while working as an anchor, as well as a meteorologist who is a global-warming skeptic (scroll down.)

These people are no innocent bystanders. I urge TPM readers in their viewing area to let their advertisers know they’re being associated with this shameful partisan appropriation of our national tragedy.

Valley Girl @ 110

Hi True Blue!!!! You are so quick on the uptake!!!

(I only quoted this so I could see that line again!!!)

Really, I’m not!!

I’m the straight-man most times!
(well, straight woman, but being the foible in a comedy skit type straight-man!)

Eli @ 119

But have you stopped beating her yet?

Who died and made you Dan Gerstein?

Oh yeah. The new and happy and democratic Iraqi government is taking a page out of Saddams book and has begun to execute people by the dozens.

27 Hanged in Iraq.

I wonder if they were hung by their purple fingers?

-GSD

EvilDrPuma @ 122

Eli @ 119

But have you stopped beating her yet?

Who died and made you Dan Gerstein?

Lee Atwater.

Eureka Springs, AR @
112

Caption: I’m going to hell, I’m going to hell.

Hey,
I live about 4 miles from Hell (Mi).

We don’t want him.

On second thought…..send him my way, I could use a lawnboy!

GSD @ 123

Oh yeah. The new and happy and democratic Iraqi government is taking a page out of Saddams book and has begun to execute people by the dozens.

27 Hanged in Iraq.

I wonder if they were hung by their purple fingers?

-GSD

No, but they were allowed to vote on whether the knot would go on the left or right side.

scarecrow @ 80

Hugh — I thought your post – 140 prior thread — on Bush’ speech today was excellent — and would fit here wrt Rove. I just don’t know how to link it here.

Go to yesterday’s thread, find Hugh.

Press “Quote this Comment”

Go to the bottom of the page to preview pane.

Right click, “Select All”

Right click, “Copy”

Come back to the current thread.

Come down here to the preview page.

Right click, “Paste”.

Preview…

Add comments, ad hominen stuff, snark at will.

I live about 4 miles from Hell (Mi).

I don’t think my state has any Hell. But we do have Indiana, California, the Moon, and Mars. And 84. And, um, Intercourse, which is kinda the opposite of Hell.

Eli @ 124

EvilDrPuma @ 122

Eli @ 119

But have you stopped beating her yet?

Who died and made you Dan Gerstein?

Lee Atwater.

Touche!

Scarecrow: note # 128 is for you (Boston beltway)

Probably OT but who can tell nowadays:

They’re baaaaack, and the follies have already begun. Diane Feinstein submitted an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill that I actually agreed with. It was easily defeated, of course, 30-70.

S.AMDT.4882
No funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act my be obligated or expended to acquire, utilize, sell, or transfer any cluster munition unless the rules of engagement applicable to the cluster munition ensure that the cluster munition will not be used in or near any concentrated population of civilians, whether permanent or temporary, including inhabited parts of cities or villages, camps or columns of refugees or evacuees, or camps or groups of nomads.

The brave/smarmy Democrats voting against to establish their tough on defense cred were:

Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Inouye (D-HI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)

Sort of DINO central if you take my meaning.

Eureka Springs, AR @ 112

Caption: I’m going to hell, I’m going to hell.

Which, for some reason, immediately started going through my head to the tune of “he’s going to tell” from Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Spamalot.

“He’s going to hell (he’s going to hell), He’s going to hell (he’s going to hell)…

I like it!

OldCoastie @ 93

OT – Just got here, don’t know if this has already been covered, but tell TRex “all hope is not lost”!

from CTBob:

Gerstein discusses Lieberman wife beating on blog
BREAKING NEWS!

On the Joe2006 blog tonight, millionaire-lawyer non-combatant successful-draft-deferrer Joe Lieberman’s campaign director, Dan Gerstein, brought up the topic of wife beating in relation to his discussion of the Senator’s possible campaign contributions.

While addressing the questionable validity of a story about GOP fundraising efforts for Lieberman that was posted by their OWN CAMPAIGN STAFF on their OWN BLOG, Gerstein asked if it was possible to prove the Senator doesn’t beat his wife.

After several messages questioning Gerstein about the wife-beating topic, the Lieberman spokesman said “Joe Lieberman does not beat his wife.”

Dangerstein, Stoopid Shite… and it gets much, much better – the comments from Joe’s blog are to die for!

ROTFLMAO!!!! OMG, I read the whole exchange. It was the highlight of my day. I’m still laughing. Thanks!

Let me get this straight. You are asking us to disprove an anonymous, single-sourced story from a magazine of questionable credibility that not one respectable news outlet has even come close to picking up on? What’s next, you want us to provide evidence that Joe Lieberman doesn’t beat his wife?

Seriously, folks, I am more than happy to answer legitimate questions raised on the blog, and I apologize for not doing more of it yet (been a little busy doing a few other things), but can we please have a little perspective? Thanks.
Dan Gerstein | 09.06.06 – 8:23 pm | #

Joe Lieberman beats his wife?
Mike | 09.06.06 – 8:28 pm | #

Why does Joe beat his wife? Is it because she’s a pharmaceutical lobbyist?
BluetooththeGreat | 09.06.06 – 8:31 pm | #

I don’t know, blue… I just heard about it from Dan Gerstein himself.
Mike | 09.06.06 – 8:33 pm | #

It continues like that. Perfection!

oddball @ 125

Eureka Springs, AR @
112

Caption: I’m going to hell, I’m going to hell.

Hey,
I live about 4 miles from Hell (Mi).

We don’t want him.

On second thought…..send him my way, I could use a lawnboy!

He won’t mow, but will cover it up for a fee.

egregious @
110

Mod issue: Hotflash at 221 on No Copies thread wanted to have his actual name masked, which was done, and also his dad’s name…but am not sure the latter happened.

Thanks.

The Cleanup Staff

egregious- thanks for the headsup on this one. I just fixed it. I much appreciate your pointing out spam and such. I got rid of a bunch of spam a few days ago, thanks to you!!!!

Scarecrow specifically wanted this Hugh piece reprinted here.

Hugh @ 140

I am often at a loss as to how to frame a Bush speech. The best I could come up with for one he gave today is that it is like a Russian matryushka doll of fraud within fraud.

Ostensibly, it was about Guantanamo but it really wasn’t. After calling all the detainees murderers and asserting that “rigorous” procedures had been used to assure that “those held at Guantanamo Bay belong at Guantanamo,” he lamented the fact that countries wouldn’t take back those prisoners whom the US had no intention of prosecuting or that the US had qualms about sending them back to their home countries where they might be mistreated. Somehow our mistreatment of them or the fact that countries like Great Britain, France, and even Saudi Arabia had great interest but also experienced great difficulties in repatriating their nationals seems to have gotten loss among the crocodile tears.

The speech quickly jumped on to the 14 CIA detainees, conflating their importance and evil with the more hapless saps of Guantanamo. Bush boasted at length of the information that had been obtained from them but while giving a laundry list he was remarkably short on specifics and never addressed the issue of the inherent unreliability of intelligence gathered from torture or the instances where false coerced intel had produced had supported bad decisions, like our invasion of Iraq.

But this too was a fraud because the speech was less about these al Qaeda figures and more about some major CYA. According to Bush, he wanted to protect those brave souls in the military and the intelligence agencies who were at risk for charges of war crimes, torture, and kidnapping –because they had obeyed his illegal orders. This, of course, was not his fault. No, that belonged to those who opposed the war on terror, you know, the Supreme Court.

Second, the Supreme Court’s recent decision has impaired our ability to prosecute terrorists through military commissions and has put in question the future of the CIA program. In its ruling on military commissions, the court determined that a provision of the Geneva Conventions known as Common Article 3 applies to our war with al Qaeda. This article includes provisions that prohibit outrageous [sic] upon personal dignity and humiliating and degrading treatment. The problem is that these and other provisions of Common Article 3 are vague and undefined, and each could be interpreted in different ways by an American or foreign judges.

And some believe our military and intelligence personnel involved in capturing and questioning terrorists could now be at risk of prosecution under the War Crimes Act simply for doing their jobs in a thorough and professional way.

But once again this was a fraud because Bush’s purpose was not to protect those at the bottom who had carried out his orders but rather those at the top who had formulated them. I had the feeling that Stephen Hadley must have been pissing in his pants over this.

But even this was a fraud because this situation has festered for 5 years and yet it is only now and with Congress focused on an election a mere 60 days away and with a full plate of major bills, like Defense Appropriations, that Bush decides he wants a law immunizing him, his agents, and cronies, and all within a month. How long did they expect the hearings to be on it? 15 minutes?

Maybe it’s meltdown or desperation or just accumulated fatigue from all the other screwups but even for Bush this seems lame. In the end I am left wondering whom he thinks he has persuaded or convinced or what he has accomplished with all these lies within lies.

Hope that’s what you wanted.

egregious,

Do you live in Boston?

(I’m currently on Cape Cod – ICK!
But grew up in Cambridge, MA)

Hugh @ 131

The brave/smarmy Democrats voting against to establish their tough on defense cred were:

Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Inouye (D-HI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)

Sort of DINO central if you take my meaning.

As Louis Renault was fond of saying, “Round up the usual suspects.” Oh, but just for the sake of nitpicking–Lieberman is no longer even a DINO.

Hugh @ 132

Probably OT but who can tell nowadays:

They’re baaaaack, and the follies have already begun. Diane Feinstein submitted an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill that I actually agreed with. It was easily defeated, of course, 30-70.

S.AMDT.4882
No funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act my be obligated or expended to acquire, utilize, sell, or transfer any cluster munition unless the rules of engagement applicable to the cluster munition ensure that the cluster munition will not be used in or near any concentrated population of civilians, whether permanent or temporary, including inhabited parts of cities or villages, camps or columns of refugees or evacuees, or camps or groups of nomads.

The brave/smarmy Democrats voting against to establish their tough on defense cred were:

Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Inouye (D-HI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)

Sort of DINO central if you take my meaning.

yep, Hugh and it still makes me blazing angry (and that’s putting it mildly)…

Did Scholastic Yank the “Path to 9/11″ Propaganda?

I posted this below and think it is important. Though I don’t post much this rewrite of the War Crimes Act is too important not to repost up here. I should already be in the sack as I have too get up in about 5 hours for work. If this is off topic please forgive me.

Since I don’t know how to Quote from a previous thread I copied and pasted instead.

George A. says:
September 6th, 2006 at 4:39 pm

Sorry for being off topic, but I sent an email to Senator Reid about two items. The first was Joe Leiberman and the second was about the White House wanting to re-write the War Crimes Act to immunize them from prosecution.

I then attempted to email Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi a copy of that email and a short note with it. However, her email is set up not too accept email from outside California.

Since she is the Democratic leader in the House she not only represents the people of California, but also the rest of the people in the United States and I believe her email should be set up too accept all email that concerns Democrats throughout the country.

If there is anyone here from Californis who could forward my email too her it would be appreciated very much. I will however, remove the rest of my name from the email below except for my user addy here. If anyone has any thoughts on my email please respond and let me know what you think about it.

Here is the email:

Dear Congresswoman Pelosi,

Here is a copy of my email too Senator Reid with regards to the Republican plan to immunize this administration from charges of War Crimes being brought against them. Please consider keeping Democrats from caving in and passing a revised version of the War Crimes Act.

Thank you,

George A.

PS: Copy of email too Senator Reid:

Dear Senator Reid,

I was deeply troubled over the fact that you and the Democratic Party refuse to remove Joe Leiberman from his chairmanships and caucus. He has shown that he is not a Democrat, but a self serving, mean spirited individual who places his own importance over both the Constitution, Country and Democratic Party. If you believe that he will side with Democrats if he wins while running under the Connecticut for Leiberman Party than you are not as smart as I thought you were. He is not an Independent or Democratic, but a Republican in sheeps clothing and should be kicked out of the Democratic Party before he destroys our chances to win back the House and possibly the Senate.

I also wish too express my concern about another matter that has come to my attention. That is the Republicans trying to rewrite the War Crimes Act to immunize the President and the rest of the civilian leadership against charges of War Crimes being brought against them. This includes the Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condi Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield and all the rest of them in this Administration who were involved, had knowledge of, participated in, carried out or condoned the War Crimes that were commited during the course of this illegal War in Iraq at various places around the world. Including Abu Garaib, Gitmo and Foreign Countries acting on behalf of this Administration. They have violated the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 and this has been affirmed by the Supreme Court. There was no indication of vagueness during the Nuremberg Trials and to attempt to claim there is now is a lie. Do not let them off the hook. This may be the only chance our country has to regain the integrity and moral standing we once had in the world, do not let this opportunity slip by.

I understand that an attempt will be made too slip it into a bill in the Dead of Night like the Republicans do with their Pork Barrel bills. The Democratic Party needs too take a strong stand and unite together in stopping this outrageous act from happening. Even if this gets pushed through it will not absolve them of their deeds and War Crimes. They will still be War Criminals. Anyone who votes to pass such a rewrite will in fact be conspirators of attempting to cover up and condone the War Crimes commited in our Countries Name and will become an accomplice of those Acts. They will also be liable I believe, to having charges brought against them for their complicity in those very Acts that they try to absolve our leaders from.

I hope you will show true Leadership and not let any Democrats side with and pass this Republican Re-write of the War Crimes Act no matter what bill they slip it into. Even if its brings a shutdown of the Government this Revision can not be allowed to pass. I would also like too ask you to pass this along to Congressperson Nancy Pelosi who will need to hold all Democrats in the House answerable if they vote to pass this in the Re-write in the House.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely yours,

George A.

Redshift @ 121

Very good points. I did a little research, and sent this to TPM:

I would like to call bullshit on KSTP’s “don’t blame us” buck-passing. They are not network-owned, so they are not required to run the propaganda “docudrama” (propa-mentary, perhaps?) Furthermore, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSTP-TV), they are owned by the staunchly Republican Hubbard family, and they employ as an anchor a former Republican flack who retains an ownership stake in her PR firm while working as an anchor, as well as a meteorologist who is a global-warming skeptic (scroll down.)

These people are no innocent bystanders. I urge TPM readers in their viewing area to let their advertisers know they’re being associated with this shameful partisan appropriation of our national tragedy.

Good point about locally-owned stations not having to carry every show ABC runs. I know this isn’t so, because the ABC station in one of the towns I used to live in refused to show “Soap”. The local brass thought it was indecent. They ran horrible stuff from other networks instead. I seem to recall one of the replacement shows being CPO Sharkey or whatever that Don Rickles show was called, and that played on NBC at the time.

So no affiliate station has an obligation to carry this show.

So we can call, “Bullshit!” to any claims that a station is obligated to run this travesty. And we can call it loudly.

OT,

call apple. call your kids’ HS and ask if ANY teachers have been printing downloaded Bush campaign material for use in their classes. then get into explaining what scholastic is doing. here’s some help:

uh-oh. I clicked

http://content.scholastic.com/…..sp.?id=415

– which until late this morning, linked you to scholastic’s Path to 9/11 help page for teachers.

The page has been pulled down, and if you punch the above html address, you’re redirected here:

http://content.scholastic.com/…..chHelp.jsp

I’m going through their site to see if they’re disappearing this. This is really intriguing. Any pups want to help look for scholastic’s Path to 9/11 lesson plan on their site? I might be missing it, but….?

P J Evans @ 86

Jane, Neurophius, Egregious:
It gives me an error message: “Your account registration cannot be completed. To complete this transaction please register at http://www.paypal.com” when I try to use plastic. Used plastic three weeks ago to make a donation here, without this problem. I think something got ‘fixed’ the wrong way at some point. (I don’t have (and don’t really want) a PayPal account. Snail mail would be a good substitute.) Really annoying; I’ve been trying to donate all afternoon and getting this. #$%^&*!

I think you don’t have to register at Paypal. Wish we had a clear choice on the first page to use paypal or go ahead with credit card.

Apparently you have to check “don’t have a paypal account” plus put in an amount that you want to donate, both on the front page. Then the next page asks you for credit card info.

That’s a quick read, will try to go back and look into it more before I go overseas.

Two words: contraband mascara.

Shhhh!!!

I really miss Dan Gerstain. I wish he would make stupid comments more often. My faithful dog Whiskers is morose because of Dan’s unavailability.

trueblue- which minority are we in?? ;) FWIW, FireDogLake has an incredibly high percentage of distaff readers/ viewers/ commenters relative to other political blogs. I’m not sure we’re in the majority on that, yet, but, last time I saw it was something like 42%, compared with ??? maybe 19% (can’t remember, but it was a low %) of distaff on other major political blogs.

new thread

Hugh @ 132

Probably OT but who can tell nowadays:

They’re baaaaack, and the follies have already begun. Diane Feinstein submitted an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill that I actually agreed with. It was easily defeated, of course, 30-70.

S.AMDT.4882
No funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act my be obligated or expended to acquire, utilize, sell, or transfer any cluster munition unless the rules of engagement applicable to the cluster munition ensure that the cluster munition will not be used in or near any concentrated population of civilians, whether permanent or temporary, including inhabited parts of cities or villages, camps or columns of refugees or evacuees, or camps or groups of nomads.

The brave/smarmy Democrats voting against to establish their tough on defense cred were:

Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Inouye (D-HI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)

Sort of DINO central if you take my meaning.

BREAKING NEWS: JOE LIEBERMAN SUPPORTS CLUSTER BOMBING OF CIVILIANS

neurophius @ 148

BREAKING NEWS: JOE LIEBERMAN SUPPORTS CLUSTER BOMBING OF CIVILIANS

But he doesn’t beat his wife.

trueblue- the MA group via the Roots Project is a place to make contact. Several of their “actions” have been noted here before, and several are regulars here.

Valley Girl,

I thought we were the girls, remember?
When I first logged on?… oh well

Redshift @ 120

Very interesting. It’s depressing to think of how far the kudzu of rightwing influence has crept into our democratic institutions — like the “free” press.

LindyH @ 141

Did Scholastic Yank the “Path to 9/11″ Propaganda?

see my #144!

EvilDrPuma @ 138

Hugh @ 131

The brave/smarmy Democrats voting against to establish their tough on defense cred were:

Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Inouye (D-HI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)

Sort of DINO central if you take my meaning.

As Louis Renault was fond of saying, “Round up the usual suspects.” Oh, but just for the sake of nitpicking–Lieberman is no longer even a DINO.

The gang of fourteen and Hillary are going to kill us all. Both Arkansas Senators promote carpet bomb free for all. inserting expletives here!

PJ Evans, and others,

I just tried using the credit card method and got all the way up to the Pay button at the end.

The key seems to be: on the very first page say you DON’T have paypal [even if you do…].

Then put in the amount of your donation. The following pages should look just like a regular credit card thingie.

Hope this helps.

Ed*ard Teller – Is this it?

http://content.scholastic.com/browse/search.jsp

Eureka Springs, AR @ 154

The gang of fourteen and Hillary are going to kill us all. Both Arkansas Senators promote carpet bomb free for all. inserting expletives here!

Looks like the New York contingent will be inserting expletives right along with you.

Has Joe stopped cluster-bombing his wife?

trueblue @
152

Valley Girl,

I thought we were the girls, remember?
When I first logged on?… oh well

Okay, we’ll be the girls!! Sorry I can’t remember if were were the only ones there late night when you first appeared ??? but in toto there are a lot of “us” about at FDL!

Eli @ 158

Has Joe stopped cluster-bombing his wife?

I think Dan Gerstein just popped an artery.

Ed*ard Teller @ 144

OT,

call apple. call your kids’ HS and ask if ANY teachers have been printing downloaded Bush campaign material for use in their classes. then get into explaining what scholastic is doing. here’s some help:

uh-oh. I clicked

http://content.scholastic.com/…..sp.?id=415

– which until late this morning, linked you to scholastic’s Path to 9/11 help page for teachers.

The page has been pulled down, and if you punch the above html address, you’re redirected here:

http://content.scholastic.com/…..chHelp.jsp

I’m going through their site to see if they’re disappearing this. This is really intriguing. Any pups want to help look for scholastic’s Path to 9/11 lesson plan on their site? I might be missing it, but….?

Per the link I posted above at 141 (updated), the files are still on the server, but there are no links anywhere on the site to them.

And just one more thing, if I ever see one of those 70 “clusterbomb loving Senators” crowing about all the good we’ve done for the women and children and “innocents” or posing for photo-ops with the mangled and destroyed as evidence of their “good work or compassion” by shipping them here or wherever to get their benevolent surgery or prostheses– I am not forgetting this!

monsters.

trueblue @ 138

egregious,

Do you live in Boston?

(I’m currently on Cape Cod – ICK!
But grew up in Cambridge, MA)

Lived there 17 wonderful years. Worked for several years at Mass General before these lovely children came along.

I sent Feinstein a thank you note.

egregious @ 156

PJ Evans, and others,

I just tried using the credit card method and got all the way up to the Pay button at the end.

The key seems to be: on the very first page say you DON’T have paypal [even if you do…].

Then put in the amount of your donation. The following pages should look just like a regular credit card thingie.

Hope this helps.

This seems like something that ought to get fixed. I would hate to see FDL missing out on any donations because some credit card user could not figure out how to make a payment. The above instructions make no sense for someone who DOES have a paypal account. Not trying to cause anybody any trouble, just trying to help out.

I went looking for the scholastic 9/11 lesson plan – got nothin’! put in the above direct link and got a 404 error… if that is indeed the correct file, they pulled it!

YEA!!! That right there is a huge victory!

Sent Our states largest blogger all pertinent info on our Senators vote today. Thanks Hugh.

No joy – you get the same page from either button, with a link to PayPal if you push the button after ‘Do you have an account’. It was for sure working okay Aug 13, because I have the PayPal receipt for the donation-via-plastic I did then. The WP upgrade was when? (I can hand a check to a friend who has a PP account, but that won’t be until Sunday!)

Is this the lesson plan ?

pdf

http://teacher.scholastic.com/…..repro2.pdf

Eureka Springs, AR @ 169

Is this the lesson plan ?

pdf

http://teacher.scholastic.com/…..repro2.pdf

No, that’s the 1-year anniversary thingy. I downloaded the 5 .pdf files that were there yesterday if anyone wants them.

Eureka Springs, AR says:
September 6th, 2006 at 8:41 pm

Looks like an ‘activity’ quiz. ‘repro1.pdf’ is a paper quilt square.

dKos Diary — HUGE: Did Scholastic Yank ‘Path to 9/11′ Propaganda??

Aha! It is the e-mail addy!

Eli @ 159

Has Joe stopped cluster-bombing his wife?

He’s probably stopped cluster-fucking her.

Eureka Springs, AR says:
September 6th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Oh, yeah: That 9/11 page that you linked is from 2002. It’s innocent.

op99 @ 173

Eli @ 159

Has Joe stopped cluster-bombing his wife?

He’s probably stopped cluster-fucking her.

Aren’t they Orthodox? Don’t they have to use the funky sheet? :)

“America Remembers Again”

http://www.markfiore.com/animation/phony.html

EvilDrPuma @
44

GSD @ 9

Whoofah.

Lamont is getting creamed in this poll.

Nice of Joe Lieberman to take the filthy money from the worst man in America, Karl Rove.

This “poll” was done by Public Opinion Strategies, whose dedication to reliable scientific sampling and unprejudiced presentation of results can perhaps be inferred from the following blurb from their website (emphases mine):

About half of our research is dedicated to winning elections. Our political client base includes 17 U.S. Senators, ten Governors, fifty-one Members of Congress, and numerous state legislative caucuses. The other half of our work is involved in complex public policy battles, working with industry coalitions, government entities and private companies. This work extends to corporate image, community relations, and crisis management research for local companies, Fortune 500 corporations and industry associations throughout the country.

Nice Link, check out just some of their “Clients” (House Members Omitted):

Governors

* Governor Jeb Bush FL
* Governor Mitch Daniels IN
* Governor Jim Douglas VT
* Governor Bob Ehrlich MD
* Governor Kenny Guinn NV
* Governor Dave Heineman – (NE)
* Governor John Hoeven ND
* Governor Sonny Perdue GA
* Governor Jodi Rell – (CT)
* Governor Mitt Romney MA
* Governor Mike Rounds SD
* Governor Bob Taft OH

United States Senators

* Senator Jim Bunning KY
* Senator Richard Burr NC
* Senator Lincoln Chaffee
* Senator Saxby Chambliss GA
* Senator Norm Coleman MN
* Senator Mike Crapo ID
* Senator Jim DeMint SC
* Senator Pete Domenici NM
* Senator John Ensign NV
* Senator Bill Frist TN
* Senator Chuck Hagel NE
* Senator John McCain AZ
* Senator Pat Roberts KS
* Senator Rick Santorum PA
* Senator Olympia Snowe ME
* Senator Arlen Specter PA
* Senator John Thune SD
* Senator David Vitter LA

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Ed*ard Teller @
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OT,

call apple. call your kids’ HS and ask if ANY teachers have been printing downloaded Bush campaign material for use in their classes. then get into explaining what scholastic is doing. here’s some help:

uh-oh. I clicked

http://content.scholastic.com/…..sp.?id=415

– which until late this morning, linked you to scholastic’s Path to 9/11 help page for teachers.

The page has been pulled down, and if you punch the above html address, you’re redirected here:

http://content.scholastic.com/…..chHelp.jsp

I’m going through their site to see if they’re disappearing this. This is really intriguing. Any pups want to help look for scholastic’s Path to 9/11 lesson plan on their site? I might be missing it, but….?

I went to the google cache and lo and behold, the page was cached and the links to the pdf files still work.

If they disappear, I’ll be happy to upload the pdf’s for download by FDL readers.

http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_2.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_1.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_3.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_5.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_4.pdf

Ed*ard Teller @
144

OT,

call apple. call your kids’ HS and ask if ANY teachers have been printing downloaded Bush campaign material for use in their classes. then get into explaining what scholastic is doing. here’s some help:

uh-oh. I clicked

http://content.scholastic.com/…..sp.?id=415

– which until late this morning, linked you to scholastic’s Path to 9/11 help page for teachers.

The page has been pulled down, and if you punch the above html address, you’re redirected here:

http://content.scholastic.com/…..chHelp.jsp

I’m going through their site to see if they’re disappearing this. This is really intriguing. Any pups want to help look for scholastic’s Path to 9/11 lesson plan on their site? I might be missing it, but….?

The google cache still had the links which are still active.

http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_2.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_1.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_3.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_5.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_4.pdf

http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_2.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_1.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_3.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_5.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_4.pdf

Didn’t copy corectly the first time

http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_2.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_1.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_3.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_5.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/….._pdf_4.pdf