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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
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:
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/
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
…I wish my stepdaddy was here…
angie @ 36
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
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
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):
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
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
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
thx!
Eureka Springs, AR @ 46
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
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 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
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.
I just got this action email - more people on the case!
Eureka Springs, AR @ 43
Caption: I see a wedgie issue, hmmm.
caption contest: If my Daddy could have seen that!
In this TPM post, I noticed something:
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
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
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
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
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
“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:
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
Fitz supervises, but props go to Patrick Collins and the other assistant attorneys.
“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
Do what I just did… added the FDL money to my monthly payment!!
LJ/Aquaria, Thanks for the addy’s.
*ilbo @
50
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
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
which begs: Karl “why can’t I get any respect?”
karen allen @ 106
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
OldCoastie @ 92
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.