Comments on: Big Doings This Week http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:23:32 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: egregious http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-299092 egregious Mon, 18 Sep 2006 01:35:25 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-299092 <p>((((((asteroid 134340))))))</p> <p>formerly the planet Pluto</p> ((((((asteroid 134340))))))

formerly the planet Pluto

]]> By: Hypatia http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297445 Hypatia Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:10:35 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297445 <p>I read the headline in Rawstory I think, and also St. Pete Times (can’t find the story), but here’s the ABC link: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2414248&page=1">http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/stor.....amp;page=1</a></p> I read the headline in Rawstory I think, and also St. Pete Times (can’t find the story), but here’s the ABC link: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/stor…..amp;page=1

]]> By: lotus http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297400 lotus Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:16:31 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297400 <p>Hypatia! </p> <p>Wow, that’s interesting. Where’d you find it? And yes, though no physiologist <em>here</em>, my impression certainly agrees with yours . . .</p> Hypatia!

Wow, that’s interesting. Where’d you find it? And yes, though no physiologist here, my impression certainly agrees with yours . . .

]]> By: lotus http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297398 lotus Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:14:33 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297398 <p>jhmay, Gephart was at least looking very likely at this point four years ago. Many a slip twixt … etc., etc.</p> jhmay, Gephart was at least looking very likely at this point four years ago. Many a slip twixt … etc., etc.

]]> By: Hypatia http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297397 Hypatia Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:14:17 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297397 <p>EPU’d again. O/T sorta, did anyone pick up on the report from one of the kids who was in the class Joonya was visiting on 9/11? Child said Bush <b>turned red</b> when the aide whispered in his ear. Turned red? Not pale? Wouldn’t a normal reaction be for the blood to leave his face? Red for anger? Red for embarrassment? Just askin’.</p> EPU’d again. O/T sorta, did anyone pick up on the report from one of the kids who was in the class Joonya was visiting on 9/11? Child said Bush turned red when the aide whispered in his ear. Turned red? Not pale? Wouldn’t a normal reaction be for the blood to leave his face? Red for anger? Red for embarrassment? Just askin’.

]]> By: jhmay http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297370 jhmay Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:58:23 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297370 <p>I could be wrong, but wasn’t Gephart the man to beat about this time in the last cycle?</p> I could be wrong, but wasn’t Gephart the man to beat about this time in the last cycle?

]]> By: Miss Penny http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297334 Miss Penny Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:33:15 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297334 <p>I think saying TORTURE IS TERRORISM IS A </p> <p>SIMPLE WAY TO DISMISS BUSHCO’s reasoning.</p> I think saying TORTURE IS TERRORISM IS A

SIMPLE WAY TO DISMISS BUSHCO’s reasoning.

]]> By: lotus http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297328 lotus Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:28:59 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297328 <p>o-TAY, <b>NefLes at 111</b> — great report and well worth waiting for. Thank you, and I’m proud y’all had such a good time!</p> o-TAY, NefLes at 111 — great report and well worth waiting for. Thank you, and I’m proud y’all had such a good time!

]]> By: Miss Penny http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297327 Miss Penny Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:28:23 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297327 <p><a href="#comment-297184"><em>op99 @<br /> Me either! 117 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-297147"><em>NorskeFlamethrower @ 104</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Do not devote too much energy to her, however, because she doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in a hot place to become the Democratic nominee in ‘08 unless she can politically assasinate Al Gore.</p></blockquote> <p>I fear her road to nomination will proceed like GWB’s did for the 2000 Repub nomination: very early backing by the money in the party and early endorsements produced an insurmountable barrier to the rest of the field. Hil has the money, and has been dispensing it generously lo these many years, thus obligating hoards who must endorse her. She correctly sees a Lamont-style progressive insurgency to be the only possible fly in the ointment. That’s why she hired Daou, and one may speculate that may be at least a component of the rationale for Big Dog’s blogger meet-up. Thank god we can trust our ladies and the other smart progressives on the guest list not to be co-opted. If she changed her Iraq stance and showed leadership on it, that would make a difference to me, but so far I’m not seeing that.</p></blockquote> op99 @
Me either! 117

NorskeFlamethrower @ 104

Do not devote too much energy to her, however, because she doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in a hot place to become the Democratic nominee in ‘08 unless she can politically assasinate Al Gore.

I fear her road to nomination will proceed like GWB’s did for the 2000 Repub nomination: very early backing by the money in the party and early endorsements produced an insurmountable barrier to the rest of the field. Hil has the money, and has been dispensing it generously lo these many years, thus obligating hoards who must endorse her. She correctly sees a Lamont-style progressive insurgency to be the only possible fly in the ointment. That’s why she hired Daou, and one may speculate that may be at least a component of the rationale for Big Dog’s blogger meet-up. Thank god we can trust our ladies and the other smart progressives on the guest list not to be co-opted. If she changed her Iraq stance and showed leadership on it, that would make a difference to me, but so far I’m not seeing that.

]]> By: Enoch Root http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297326 Enoch Root Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:27:26 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/16/big-doings-this-week/#comment-297326 <p>In that Greenwald interview, about two-thirds of the way through, the caption reads: ‘Using movies to sway votes.’</p> <p>Is the story about corruption among military contractors, or is it about the political motives of Robert Greenwald?</p> In that Greenwald interview, about two-thirds of the way through, the caption reads: ‘Using movies to sway votes.’

Is the story about corruption among military contractors, or is it about the political motives of Robert Greenwald?

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