ROOTZ!

YEAH!

thunder! woo!

Tommy, I challenge you to a duel at Sadly, No!, with, ummm, Gary Ruppert quotes as our weapons!

TREXXXXX!!!

when you’re right, you’re right. But when you’re wrong, you’re a Republican.

Oh, and

Get a fact-checker and a boiler suit, you bitches, so we don’t have to keep explaining you to our friends, okay?

T-fucking-REX!!!

Hmmmph! Such language. Y’all need to cut that shit out! :)

It must be National Wrongness day, the NY Times got its fact wrong on LIEberman (and their ass handed to them by many people from here).
Their attempt at a Mea Culpa. Very Joe-esque, not really taking the blame.

Ooooooh. Just saw an ad on Teevee about Shut Up and sing. Looks very, very good.

Mama’s getting hot, mama’s got the stuff…

ifthethunderdontgetya @ 3

Tommy, I challenge you to a duel at Sadly, No!, with, ummm, Gary Ruppert quotes as our weapons!

This is good for the Republican party!

Sharkbabe @
9

Mama’s getting hot, mama’s got the stuff…

That’s what I like to hear, baby. You drive tonight. I’ll just nap in the back seat.

Fitz

NY chick, good to hear, I’m lookin forward it

Dude, the “Speaker Pelosi” thing is so over the top. Made me giggle.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

sheez why bother when I can’t type

Trex,

I admire your ability to shift thought the dungheap that passes for commentary of the mistaken media and its regurgetators. You are very driven and the way you weave in and out of this crazy crap is a ceaseless wonder. If I had a hat on at this moment I would take it off to you!

EPU’ed…

TRex @ 65

I am barely squeaking by. And I live in one of the cheapest cities in the southeast. My apartment is $450/mo. and I’m just feeding me and two cats, but still, if there’s any kind of emergency like car trouble, health problems, or veterenary emergencies, I’m totally dissed. One paycheck away from having to cash it all in and move home to my parents’.

And I SOOOOOOOOOOOO do not want to ever have to do that.

You are one book away from everyone here buying it and suddenly *poof* you have a new income. One chapter a week. I’m sure you can fit that in, right?

So, I think I may have Friday free. Any NYers heading up to Conn? I plan on going every day I have free from now to ED.
It would be fun to have a FDL NYC chapter to go together.

Je-sus H. Christ on a bicycle! The Pantload said Iraq was a mistake? Wow. You know, six months from now, it will somehow all be Speaker Pelosi’s fault we’re in Iraq in the first place. And the Pantload will be chiding her for her failed leadership. “Under the Democrats, Iraq has spiralled out of control,” he will sadly cluck. Hopefully, though, as election returns come in on Nov 7, his head will explode and we’ll be spared anymore of his bleatings.

T-rex to the rescue once again! Speaking of “early concessions” vis John Kerry, can we somehow start a campaign pledge for all Democrats that goes something like this? “I will not concede the election until every vote has been counted and verified.” Even if it takes months to figure out the mess….

Latin Scholar @
14

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Oops. Thanks. Fixed it.

marksb @ 17

EPU’ed…

TRex @ 65

I am barely squeaking by. And I live in one of the cheapest cities in the southeast. My apartment is $450/mo. and I’m just feeding me and two cats, but still, if there’s any kind of emergency like car trouble, health problems, or veterenary emergencies, I’m totally dissed. One paycheck away from having to cash it all in and move home to my parents’.

And I SOOOOOOOOOOOO do not want to ever have to do that.

You are one book away from everyone here buying it and suddenly *poof* you have a new income. One chapter a week. I’m sure you can fit that in, right?

I’d freakin’ buy it. I’d buy it twice. And I am an impoverished grad student.

marksb @
17

EPU’ed…

TRex @ 65

I am barely squeaking by. And I live in one of the cheapest cities in the southeast. My apartment is $450/mo. and I’m just feeding me and two cats, but still, if there’s any kind of emergency like car trouble, health problems, or veterenary emergencies, I’m totally dissed. One paycheck away from having to cash it all in and move home to my parents’.

And I SOOOOOOOOOOOO do not want to ever have to do that.

You are one book away from everyone here buying it and suddenly *poof* you have a new income. One chapter a week. I’m sure you can fit that in, right?

My fingers are soooooo crossed. There is some comfort in knowing that if Gussy or Juan Carlos (my kitties) was hanging by a thread and needed emergency surgery or something, you guys would come through. I’m not crazy about blegging, but some situations could rise to the level of urgency necessary to do it.

Whenever one of them jumps up on the coffee table to position himself between me and the laptop, I tell them that my readers may someday save their life, so chill. They never listen, though.

If I could turn back time, I would have sure as heck taken Latin in high school. German too.

French was good however, and when I finally got to Paris 30 years later it all roared back quite amazingly…

Tommy Yum- you still reading? This is me from an earlier thread:

That’s great! (CT Tour) I wonder what else they will be playing. I know it’s not their style, but I still hoping for a performance of “Louie Louie” Kingsman style- “Joey Joey, you gotta go now..”

Ya gotta go read that, umm, “essay” by Pantload Goldberg. It’s just over the top. The guy spins so fast he kicks himself in the ass. It’s so amazingly illogical and full of wrongness (awards to TRex for “wrongness”) that you think your head might explode. Of course your’s won’t, due to the reality-based thinking you practice, but it’s pretty obvious the Pantload’s did before he was finished. What a f’ing mess.

if Gussy or Juan Carlos (my kitties) was hanging by a thread and needed emergency surgery or something, you guys would come through.

like, duh

AZ Matt @
16

Trex,

I admire your ability to shift thought the dungheap that passes for commentary of the mistaken media and its regurgetators. You are very driven and the way you weave in and out of this crazy crap is a ceaseless wonder. If I had a hat on at this moment I would take it off to you!

Thank you. You guys are marvellous. You all are the reason I do what I do. These last few months of my life have been the BEST EVER. So, thank you thank you thank you.

I think TRex should write a book.

I’m Valley Girl, and I approve this message.

Thanks for the link, T. I suspect this may have a negative impact on the favor I’m trying to get Dickerson to do for me, though. In fairness, he’s backed off the crazed Bush haters meme considerably since then. (You hear, John? I love you man.)

Meanwhile, I’m working on a little project over at BTC News. For reasons that remain a mystery to me our White House liason, who is an official spokesman these days, has agreed to take questions from our readers and answer them on the record. Anyone interested in the exercise can stop by my place, read the invitation and if you wish, come up with a question or two. I doubt we’ll be making any news with the answers, but it’s always possible we’ll make some with the questions.

Thanks for your indulgence, apologies for the selfless public service ad, otherwise known as blog-whoring.

. . .it’s getting cold in here, put another gooper on the fire

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c…..010552.php

any Arizonans in the house ? This guy was solidly beating Dem opponent (due to her spouse’s troubles)would be nice to know if this helps her get back on track

Your Sharkitutude, how lovely to hear from you – channeling Mama Rose no less – used one of your zingers to poleax a Repuke this week end – good times

Greg in LA @ 29

This is bullshit. Stop blaming the victim for the swiftboating and stop holidng Kerry to a higher standard than Hillary and the rest of the 08 wannabees. I don’t care what stupid thing his spokesperson said, I am tired of the John Kerry bashing.

I’m not. I think it’s well deserved.

UptownNYChick at 8:10 pm
Thanks for the link to the Medina correction.

Thunder go to Hulkspeak.

If thunder were a praying mantis, thunder avoid coulter.

Oh heck, here’s what our troops are doing in Iraq when they’re not getting kilt:

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

No eedfay the ollstray.

Mewling sycophants much?

Late-Nite is not for Balrogs.

Valley Girl @
32

Greg in LA @ 29

This is bullshit. Stop blaming the victim for the swiftboating and stop holidng Kerry to a higher standard than Hillary and the rest of the 08 wannabees. I don’t care what stupid thing his spokesperson said, I am tired of the John Kerry bashing.

I’m not. I think it’s well deserved.

I luuuvvvv the John Kerry bashing. Please, sir, can we have some more? TRex, this post tonight made me burst out laughing. Several times. I needed it. Thank you, thank you.

I’m sure John Kerry was a hero when he was a hero. That doesn’t mean I have to say he was a hero when he abandoned me in my hour of need.

TRex, I never thought an ancient, huge, gay sauropod would turn me on, but you, sir, just talked your way into my heart. MWAH! From a straight, married guy who loves it when you talk dirty… to Kerry’s little stooge, and all the other wankers out there. Thank you.

lord i’m tired and scarcely coherent – good night – nice to enjoy even a bit

Kerry is not a viable candidate for a presidential run in 2008, and if he hasn’t figured this out already, he’s dumber than a door knob. Too many times of late (2004 especially) he’s been a day late and a dollar short… or more than.

TRex: did it ever occur to you that the pajamahadeen you mention above knew full well that you were gay, but accidentally let slip something about “Ann Coulter” that isn’t supposed to be said (or typed) out loud?

Jim @ 41

TRex: did it ever occur to you that the pajamahadeen you mention above knew full well that you were gay, but accidentally let slip something about “Ann Coulter” that isn’t supposed to be said (or typed) out loud?

Ew.

Bite your tongue. I had crackhead for lunch.

oh, p.s. to above 8:37- I forgot the obvious question- why is Kerry holding on to all his money, if not for a door knob comeback?

correction from above -

Repuke now being investigated AZ-01 was already trailing Dem, this could easily be another seat picked up

http://www.ellensimonforcongress.com/

jeepers

Kerry lost me when he lied to my face saying “black is white” about his war vote.
His sending home of his claimed 5000 lawyers, who were supposedly at-the-ready in Ohio, sealed it.
I so hope he’s doesn’t waste everyone’s time and energy to “F-us” again with an expensive snoozer of a campaign.

Balrog @ 36

Mewling sycophants much?

Late-Nite is not for Balrogs.

G’night!

Don’t let the doorknob hitcha where the dog shoulda bitcha.

Jim @ 45

Kerry lost me when he lied to my face saying “black is white” about his war vote.
His sending home of his claimed 5000 lawyers, who were supposedly at-the-ready in Ohio, sealed it.
I so hope he’s doesn’t waste everyone’s time and energy to “F-us” again with an expensive snoozer of a campaign.

yep- it was the Ohio aftermath (or not) that did it for me.

cleter @
19

“Under the Democrats, Iraq has spiralled out of control,” he will sadly cluck.

You, my friend, are a prophet.

Trex,

It is good that you aren’t a Republican or you might have Tony Snow’s job. It seems like most of his replys to the White House reporters are pretty snarky. You could do it soooo much better than Tony.

Valley Girl @ 47

Jim @ 45

Kerry lost me when he lied to my face saying “black is white” about his war vote.
His sending home of his claimed 5000 lawyers, who were supposedly at-the-ready in Ohio, sealed it.
I so hope he’s doesn’t waste everyone’s time and energy to “F-us” again with an expensive snoozer of a campaign.

yep- it was the Ohio aftermath (or not) that did it for me.

When he gave up in Ohio, he lost me.

Hey TRex, Are you going to CT for election day? If so I wanted to ask if you will be doing a little fund raiser for your next trip to CT? I need to know what to do with my last small donation, act TRex Blue or Act Blue. *s*

Kerry is so clueless, he doesn’t realize he is doing it again, right this moment. He fkd us all over in Ohio when he didn’t STEP UP and do the right thing at the right time.

Now, he’s hoarding his campaign $$ for some future crackpipe dream (he will never get the nomination again). But that $$ is needed HERE and NOW. He is showing us what he is made of now.

And Google lives.

AZ Matt @ 49

Trex,

It is good that you aren’t a Republican or you might have Tony Snow’s job. It seems like most of his replys to the White House reporters are pretty snarky. You could do it soooo much better than Tony.

With absolutely no hesitation, I will say that I don’t think there’s anything Tony Snow can do better than me. Except maybe cry on command.

Goddamn. What kind of man turns up for his first day of work and bursts into tears. I don’t care how “awesome” it is that he recovered from cancer of the conscience. Thousands of children in Iraq can’t get food or medicine and we’re supposed to feel for some Pox News stooge because he got senatorial-quality health care and beat a disease.

Sanctimonious, self-serving asslickers, the lot.

Jane Hamsher @ 49

cleter @
19

“Under the Democrats, Iraq has spiralled out of control,” he will sadly cluck.

You, my friend, are a prophet.

They Rethugs want Pelosi in so bad they are wetting their shorts/panties. They figure the Iraq is such a mess, and that George and Dick will keep it that way, that they can blame her for everything that goes wrong including if Barney gets runover in front of the White House. Everything will her fault! It is too bad for them she is smarter than they are.

i am so pleased to read that others have figured out john kerry.

i was banned from dailykos because i pointed out in early 2004 that kerry as the dem candidate was tantamount to boner versus boner.

i.e., it was as rigged an election as you could invent.

kerry didn’t fight because his script, given him by his frat brothers, called for him going down for the count.

the nastiest aspect of all this is how the dem party joined in this “tanking”.

it is all theater, amigos. demtillians versus reptillians is a no contest contest.

the most damaging insights into kerry were revealed by prof mark crispin miller. insights that many so-called progressives work assiduously to ignore. think amy goodman,for instance.

i think that you can find miller’s speech at tucradio.org. if not there, try uprisingradio.org. pay close attention to how the demtillian party and john kerry scramble to avoid the evidence of vote fraud.

and note that the dnc is making no effort in these mid-term elections to counter republican vote fraud.

so, is it true? demtillians = reptillians.

In keeping with your of Jonas “The Wail” Goldberg defenestration, I thought that this from Rising Hegemon was wonderfully appropriate:

When do you know you are in the presence of lameness?

When an editorial begins this way:

“Was it a mistake to go to war in Iraq? The latest voice to say so is that of conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online’s shrewd editor-at-large…”

Yeah, “shrewd” that’s the word that immediately comes to mind with a guy who picks a fight on the Middle East with a Professor of Middle East history.

And related to that, so we do not forget, is what “Shrewd” Jonah Goldberg said, February 5, 2005 regarding Cole and Iraq:

“Anyway, I do think my judgment is superior to his when it comes to the big picture. So, I have an idea: Since he doesn’t want to debate anything except his own brilliance, let’s make a bet. I predict that Iraq won’t have a civil war, that it will have a viable constitution, and that a majority of Iraqis and Americans will, in two years time, agree that the war was worth it.“

Well, here we are 20 months later, how’s that one on the “big picture” lookin’ Mr. Shrewd?

Eureka Springs, AR @ 51

Hey TRex, Are you going to CT for election day? If so I wanted to ask if you will be doing a little fund raiser for your next trip to CT? I need to know what to do with my last small donation, act TRex Blue or Act Blue. *s*

That’s a good question. Plans are coming together behind the scenes as we speak. We will have a full statement on that matter tomorrow, but right now we can’t comment on this ongoing matter.

Cos, you know, it’s still going on. Which is why I can’t comment on it. It’s ongoing.

[/McClellatron 3000]

Sharkbabe @ 9

Mama’s getting hot, mama’s got the stuff…

LOL –

Mama’s movin’ on.
Mama’s all alone.
Mama doesn’t care.
Mama’s lettin’ loose.
Mama’s got the stuff.
Mama’s lettin’ go.
Mama?
Mama’s got the stuff.
Mama’s gotta move.
Mama’s gotta go.
Mama? Mama?
Mama’s gotta let go.

Excellent, I love it when a FDL plan comes together.

With the GOP taking everything into the gutter, it’s nice to see that the party of Ann Coulter has decided to be itself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/opinio n/25wed1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Here’s some late night good news for y’all. The NY Times just endorsed Democratic challenger Diane Farrell in her CT House race against long time incumbent Republican Christopher Shays.

John Kerry had Bush by the balls.

But he didn’t squeeze.

That was a mistake…A mistake with a hefty price tag attached.

Give some money to those who need it, Mr. Kerry.

Or risk sharing Joe Lieberman’s fate some sunny day, say…two years hence.

Right, then.

Time for me to head for the grocery store and then home. More from there.

You kids enjoy! I’ll be back.

TRex @
57

Eureka Springs, AR @ 51

Hey TRex, Are you going to CT for election day? If so I wanted to ask if you will be doing a little fund raiser for your next trip to CT? I need to know what to do with my last small donation, act TRex Blue or Act Blue. *s*

That’s a good question. Plans are coming together behind the scenes as we speak. We will have a full statement on that matter tomorrow, but right now we can’t comment on this ongoing matter.

Cos, you know, it’s still going on. Which is why I can’t comment on it. It’s ongoing.

[/McClellatron 3000]

Yes we are in discussions to have a member of the FDL crew go to CT to cover the “Have You Had Enough” world tour. But we are not naming any names yet.

But yes, there will be a fundraiser. And I have offered my tazer to Tommy Yum.

You are one book away from everyone here buying it and suddenly *poof* you have a new income. One chapter a week. I’m sure you can fit that in, right?

Bravo – You absolutely have to do this. You’re funnier than David “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim” Sedaris.

TRex- this is totally OT for this Late Nite, but earlier you were wondering about a Late Nite topic, and then there was a discussion of bookstores on the labor thread…so, this is fwiw. It’s a Late Nite “social thread” right? So, I’m okay?

Valley Girl @
86

Anne- p.s. the Public Library system is one of the greatest institutions that we have in the US, and I hope it endures. When I was growing up, the local public library was a great escape from life at home- I spent hours and hours and hours there.

Ahh… TRex, now maybe a celebration of public libraries would be a good topic for a Late Nite, if you are ever stumped as to what to write. When I lived in Britain (years ago) it was said that political researchers in Britain would phone US public libraries to get into that they couldn’t get in the UK- our “freedom of information act” and all that. Tho that was way pre-internet.

TRex,

‘McClellatron 3000′ just broke me right down. Lauging and the rage shakes at the same time.

I hate Snow, but given the opportunity to take a poke at one of them, I’d still rather punch McClellan. Used to watch him speak and after a few minutes realize that I’d balled my fists up, tight-like, because they were just dying to plunge into his fat grill.

hugs,

jeffc

TRex @ 58

Eureka Springs, AR @ 51

Hey TRex, Are you going to CT for election day? If so I wanted to ask if you will be doing a little fund raiser for your next trip to CT? I need to know what to do with my last small donation, act TRex Blue or Act Blue. *s*

That’s a good question. Plans are coming together behind the scenes as we speak. We will have a full statement on that matter tomorrow, but right now we can’t comment on this ongoing matter.

Cos, you know, it’s still going on. Which is why I can’t comment on it. It’s ongoing.

[/McClellatron 3000]

psst, Trex dear, please remember that you do have a Press Secretary to issue your No Comments!

Ladies and Gentleman – Mr. Trex will have no comment at this time. Thank you very much.

About that world tour- I have posted this before, with no response- and since it’s all about me, I am still hoping for a CT band to do a version of Louie Louie Kingsman style- Joey Joey, you gotta go now. Not the M/M style, but pleeeze, could they do this for ME?

Darkblack @62, I am sooooo thankful that you did not illustrate the phrases you highlighted in bold. My mouse was afraid to hover near them for fear of what we might see.

weldon berger @ 30

Anyone interested in the exercise can stop by my place, read the invitation and if you wish, come up with a question or two. I doubt we’ll be making any news with the answers, but it’s always possible we’ll make some with the questions.

Ta for the opportunity Weldon!

I did stop over and here’s the question I left:

Please ask this question of the White House denizens:

Junya (substitute the title of “President Bush”, but only if you really, really have to) says that the US does not and has not “tortured” detainees/enemy combatants.

Why then does he need (and the WH insisted upon) “retroactive immunity” in the Torture Bill he just signed?

Only folks who commit crimes need “retroactive immunity”. You know, criminals.

Is Junya now saying that he and the other denizens of his administration are criminals?

Frog-march anyone?

Both Scotty and Tony are suppose to be the daily punching bags to distract and stonewall the reporters. Telling the truth ain’t part of the plan.

global yokel @ 61

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/opinio n/25wed1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Here’s some late night good news for y’all. The NY Times just endorsed Democratic challenger Diane Farrell in her CT House race against long time incumbent Republican Christopher Shays.

So, all that’s left is who they will endorse for CT Senator. If they endorse slimeball Lieberman I’ll puke.

Gnome de Plume @ 70

Darkblack @62, I am sooooo thankful that you did not illustrate the phrases you highlighted in bold. My mouse was afraid to hover near them for fear of what we might see.

That’s the difference between a serious pitch and a bit of snarky frivolity, GdP.

;>)

Let Kerry hang onto his money. It’s probably all he’ll ever have. He sure ain’t gettin’ any more from anybody *I* know.

Valley Girl @
32

Greg in LA @ 29

I am tired of the John Kerry bashing.

I’m not. I think it’s well deserved.

Right on. He fucking quit on us, and now he finally grows a pair two years down the road and wants to act like that’s good enough? He should have twisted the knife and buried chimpy when he had the chance, and he blew it. Thanks, John, for screwing up when it counted. The least he could do is drop some cash so that someone who has the guts to fight when it matters is able to do so effectively.

I gave 3x to Kerry when I thought that he actually had a spine. I was soooo wrong. Now when he could help insure that these Rethug f—wads could spend the next few years squirming under oath he turns his back. Too chicken—- to go after a little payback. Maybe flip-flop was exactly the right characterization for this invetebrate.

AZ Matt @ 54

Jane Hamsher @ 49

cleter @
19

“Under the Democrats, Iraq has spiralled out of control,” he will sadly cluck.

You, my friend, are a prophet.

They Rethugs want Pelosi in so bad they are wetting their shorts/panties. They figure the Iraq is such a mess, and that George and Dick will keep it that way, that they can blame her for everything that goes wrong including if Barney gets runover in front of the White House. Everything will her fault! It is too bad for them she is smarter than they are.

I’m glad you added that last sentence! Remember, the GOP is bizarrove world so flip everything they say. Iow, they’re scared to death of Grandma Pelosi.

Just as DeadEye yesterday said “Hillary would be a formidable opponent” means they really really really want her to be the candidate.

TRex, tonight I watched the National Geographic show about Hogzilla, the monster wild pig of the Georgia swamps (allegedly 12 feet long). Y’all have some mighty big hogs roaming the woods down there!

Maybe you could do a post about it, and, I don’t know, somehow work Denny Hastert’s name into it?

Kerry will be campaigning with Ned in CT tomorrow

rat bastahd @ 78

Just as DeadEye yesterday said “Hillary would be a formidable opponent” means they really really really want her to be the candidate.

Which in turn means they think they already have either (a) the scandal that will destroy her 3 weeks after she wins the nomination, or (b) the taped calls to blackmail her with once she’s elected.

darkblack – You are to much!

Jane – A taser in the hands of Mr Yum. Nicely played.
BTW, If you are in touch with Ms. Nix, tell her folks asked about her. I like her work.

neurophius @ 79

TRex, tonight I watched the National Geographic show about Hogzilla, the monster wild pig of the Georgia swamps (allegedly 12 feet long). Y’all have some mighty big hogs roaming the woods down there!

Maybe you could do a post about it, and, I don’t know, somehow work Denny Hastert’s name into it?

That’s silly. Denny’s from Illinois- everyone knows a hog can’t run that far.

dab from CT @ 80

Kerry will be campaigning with Ned in CT tomorrow

Sure would be nice for him to fire his spokesman and write a check for $10M or so.

TRex @ 45

Balrog @ 36

Mewling sycophants much?

Late-Nite is not for Balrogs.

G’night!

Don’t let the doorknob hitcha where the dog shoulda bitcha.

If we’re having a circular firing squad, I’m going to insist rwcole is a part of it.

dab from CT @ 80

Kerry will be campaigning with Ned in CT tomorrow

If that helps Lamont, fine by me. ;) xxoo for you, dab

cbl @
31

. . .it’s getting cold in here, put another gooper on the fire

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c…..010552.php

any Arizonans in the house ? This guy was solidly beating Dem opponent (due to her spouse’s troubles)would be nice to know if this helps her get back on track

I’m technically from AZ — several thousand miles from it in fact — but I’ll be taking home leave the first two weeks of November so I can vote (among other things).

Renzi’s from up north (though he raises a lot of money down in Phoenix), so I don’t know much about him directly. If I hear anything, I’ll post it here. (I do know that he was trailing by 4% in a poll a few weeks back and I don’t think he’s gained ground since).

– MarkusQ

The JOE IS FOR JOE PARTY in CT seems to have
few qualms over who forks up the cash. It is
surely an enduring mystery how DC DEM Poohbahs
continue to display little party spirit for
Ned Lamont. It must come down to Joe Lieberman
just being one swell of a guy and really being
the guy the DC DEMS want back after all this
silly “lets have an election” playacting is over.

Give Lamont money? Why? So he maybe can
beat JOE IS FOR JOE? C’mon get real! The whole
DC game is about being in the “sweet spot” of
connecting “issues” and money. Joe is really
good at it. So damn it–you rad blog types had
best clue up–election schmelection! Money just
doesnt fall off the trees in DC! You have to
pander and barter and play hokey-balokey to
hit the sweet spots! So Lamont won the CT DEM
primary–big deal!–Joe is the DEMOCRAT we want
back in DC. Joe has DC experience. Plus he is
really good at playing kiss and tell games with
the GOP–a real skill all longtime DC DEMS can
really suck up to when the pork is being cut
up. Lamont has money–let him go broke trying
to unseat Joe. Serves him right. The gist of
the Kerry “spokepersons” message give or take
a couple of points.

hey, OT question for you folks- is anyone else having youtube troubles tonight? I guess it’s entirely possible that Qwest is broken, and it’s my DSL that is sucking… but it would be nice to know if it’s a problem everyone is seeing, or if it’s just me.

My favorite story of the evening:

GOP gubernatorial candidate hid his immigrant housekeeper in the basement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7bbU49LhG0

He’s also the Don Sherwood of the west:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS86H-U6qbY

Christmas in November.

smiley @ 89

hey, OT question for you folks- is anyone else having youtube troubles tonight? I guess it’s entirely possible that Qwest is broken, and it’s my DSL that is sucking… but it would be nice to know if it’s a problem everyone is seeing, or if it’s just me.

Might be Qwest, I seem to be fine.

smiley @ 89

hey, OT question for you folks- is anyone else having youtube troubles tonight? I guess it’s entirely possible that Qwest is broken, and it’s my DSL that is sucking… but it would be nice to know if it’s a problem everyone is seeing, or if it’s just me.

I don’t have broadband, so don’t see the tubes, but earlier saw a comment that they were loading way slow

FWIW:

TV61 post baseball had Shays/Farrell TIED at 43 each. Is that accurate?

BBC calling Bush’s latest Iraq 2-3 Friedman’s longer a “PR campaign” in the last two weeks before ballloting.

Sounds right to me. Blair must have filed for divorce to let BBC frame it like that. Of course, it happens to be true, but still…

Wow Jane! How do you find this stuff?

Valley Girl @
69

About that world tour- I have posted this before, with no response- and since it’s all about me, I am still hoping for a CT band to do a version of Louie Louie Kingsman style- Joey Joey, you gotta go now. Not the M/M style, but pleeeze, could they do this for ME?

That’s a great idea!

Also I want to see a TRex book. Whoever mentioned that, bravo. Start your chapter…NOW!

Jane Hamsher @ 91Might be Qwest, I seem to be fine.

I’ll go with that for now i guess. *sigh* Although, you may be on the double-secret-background tube! I bet all the traffic going straight to the NSA is high-bandwidth.

A little OT, but looking at the impact FDL and its committed core of grassroots activists have had, and the impact that one guy (ONE GUY!!!), Matt Bower, at MyDD has had by posting a simple-yet-brilliant idea, and I think that the only dinosaur to survive in this new age will be TRex.

It’s astonishing and absolutely the most inspiring thing I’ve ever ever seen. Jonah Goldberg? Ann Coulter? Once one or both of the houses changes hands in a few days, these people will be swept away as well. The media steadfastedy refuse to give up their old ways (where a small group of insiders make the decisions for all of us), but the bubbling, percolating reality of online communities changing things is amazing, and one of the next things to change is that liberally-biased reality needs to be balanced by bad conservative commentary (I’m looking at you, Bobo). At some point they’ll have to realize that having fantasy-based conservative rhetoric and some pseudo-intellectual books published by propaganda houses don’t automatically qualify one for a priviliged position in the public discourse …

So what’s next? Folks, start thinking about sustainable economic models for the people who enlighten and entertain us. Why should TRex have to worry about precarious finances when Wingnut Welfare keeps their bleating BS generators in nice digs? Steve Gilliard harps on this as well; the resurgent Left needs to make sure people can live while working on the issues (or entertaining us blog readers …)

The tidal wave isn’t just going to sweep out politicians … it’s about unleashing and coordinating ordinary people’s extraordinary talents.

Nov 7 is just the beginning, folks. Whole lot of reforming to do after that.

(And for the politicians holding onto their golden nest eggs, realize that the Internet will never, ever forget. So do the right thing. How hard is that to comprehend?)

smiley @
96

Jane Hamsher @ 91Might be Qwest, I seem to be fine.

I’ll go with that for now i guess. *sigh* Although, you may be on the double-secret-background tube! I bet all the traffic going straight to the NSA is high-bandwidth.

I’m also on Qwest and YouTube does seem a little wonky this evening, although it was fine earlier today.

Valley Girl @ 94

Wow Jane! How do you find this stuff?

Not to steal Jane’s thunder, but the Basement Nanny story is up at Eschaton.

Respectful Dissent – precisely! we’re not going home on 11/8 … we’re gonna keep going.

posted before- this is from the second debate, but just posted today- clips from the L/L/S debate. First part only. If you need to remember why Joe is such a shit…

http://hotlineblog.nationaljou…..abs_1.html
http://video.nationaljournal.com/barbs.ram

I respect John Kerry for endorsing Russ Feingold’s censure-Bush resolution, which not many of his collegues were willing to do. And he’s probably cast some good votes during the past two years. But I hope I don’t get any more e-mails from him telling me how much hes “fighting” for me, if he’s not willing to open the checkbook to help a few Democratic candidates over the top and maybe take back the Congress.

Valley Girl @ 86

dab from CT @ 80

Kerry will be campaigning with Ned in CT tomorrow

If that helps Lamont, fine by me. ;) xxoo for you, dab

LOL thanks VG

UptownNYChick @
7

It must be National Wrongness day, the NY Times got its fact wrong on LIEberman (and their ass handed to them by many people from here).
Their attempt at a Mea Culpa. Very Joe-esque, not really taking the blame.

Oh, I don’t know. That looks like a hefty serving of crow to me.

Another great OT link: other things that are Clinton’s fault.

njr @ 92

smiley @ 89

hey, OT question for you folks- is anyone else having youtube troubles tonight? I guess it’s entirely possible that Qwest is broken, and it’s my DSL that is sucking… but it would be nice to know if it’s a problem everyone is seeing, or if it’s just me.

I don’t have broadband, so don’t see the tubes, but earlier saw a comment that they were loading way slow

She was helped by the Green candidate dropping out.

I was also impressed that they are doing 11 debates. That’s an awful lot of public exposure (which is why Shays cracked up)

If you like great political cartoons here is a really good shot at Bush from The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cart…..62,00.html

LindyH @ 104

UptownNYChick @
7

It must be National Wrongness day, the NY Times got its fact wrong on LIEberman (and their ass handed to them by many people from here).
Their attempt at a Mea Culpa. Very Joe-esque, not really taking the blame.

Oh, I don’t know. That looks like a hefty serving of crow to me.

yep- it does. Keep the pressure on, folks! you done good. And, I see at least one FDLer adding comments to the new article.
http://empirezone.blogs.nytime…..he-course/

We know now that invading Iraq was the wrong decision, but that doesn’t vindicate the antiwar crowd.

Is he insane? How does a person come to defy reason in this way in public? We don’t get credit for being right? Of COURSE we get credit for being right. Idiot. I suppose he means we’re guilty of hating America or something. How many wretched lunatics can there possibly be out there???

This was so totally, obviously immoral and wrong from the beginning. Yet tens of millions disagreed. Maybe hundreds of millions, what do I know.

They Walk Among Us.

Given that all are one, they ARE us.

Hmm.

Mad Dogs @ 71

weldon berger @ 30

Anyone interested in the exercise can stop by my place, read the invitation and if you wish, come up with a question or two. I doubt we’ll be making any news with the answers, but it’s always possible we’ll make some with the questions.

Ta for the opportunity Weldon!

I did stop over and here’s the question I left:

Please ask this question of the White House denizens:

Junya (substitute the title of “President Bush”, but only if you really, really have to) says that the US does not and has not “tortured” detainees/enemy combatants.

Why then does he need (and the WH insisted upon) “retroactive immunity” in the Torture Bill he just signed?

Only folks who commit crimes need “retroactive immunity”. You know, criminals.

Is Junya now saying that he and the other denizens of his administration are criminals?

Frog-march anyone?

Mad Dogs, you’re more than welcome. Thanks much for taking the time. It’ll be interesting to see how it works out, and I’m trying to get some institutional pess play for it as well. Among the reasons I’m happy about it is that it’s one more step down the road toward anarchy: first they let a blogger in to ask questions, now it’s blog readers … what’s next?

Ifthethunder…@85

Very funny re our friend RW

And love Life of Brian

Goper supression schemes are already in place. Priveat firms like Choicepoint have expunged nearly 6 million registered voters. Roughly 70 million people will vote on machines that have been proven to be unreliable in the extreme. The majority of these machines leave no paper trail and can be hacked at every stage of the voting process.

Photo ID laws in many states will prevent unknown numbers of low income people as well as senior citizens from casting ballots. If we can get past all of this there is a likelyhood that most of the seats we win will be challenged in court by the gopers.

Everything above has appeared in the mainstream press and in blogdom consistantly throughout the year. Frankly our side has appears to be asleep at the switch on most of it.

smiley @ 105

Another great OT link: other things that are Clinton’s fault.

Smiley – that’s one of the funniest things I’ve seen – I have tears streaming down – I love blaming Clinton for the Happy Days jumping the shark episode – lol

“and I drunk myself b-lind to the
sound of old T-Rex
To the sound of old T-Rex – who’s next?

[Chorus:]

When I say I love you you say you better
You better you better you bet
When I say I need you you say you better
You better you better you bet
You better bet your life
Or love will cut you like a knife”

Siun @
68

TRex @ 58

Eureka Springs, AR @ 51

Hey TRex, Are you going to CT for election day? If so I wanted to ask if you will be doing a little fund raiser for your next trip to CT? I need to know what to do with my last small donation, act TRex Blue or Act Blue. *s*

That’s a good question. Plans are coming together behind the scenes as we speak. We will have a full statement on that matter tomorrow, but right now we can’t comment on this ongoing matter.

Cos, you know, it’s still going on. Which is why I can’t comment on it. It’s ongoing.

[/McClellatron 3000]

psst, Trex dear, please remember that you do have a Press Secretary to issue your No Comments!

Ladies and Gentleman – Mr. Trex will have no comment at this time. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Excellent work.

Applause, applause!

Valley Girl @
69

About that world tour- I have posted this before, with no response- and since it’s all about me, I am still hoping for a CT band to do a version of Louie Louie Kingsman style- Joey Joey, you gotta go now. Not the M/M style, but pleeeze, could they do this for ME?

I will talk to Tommy Yum and see what we can hammer out.

TRex @ 116

Valley Girl @
69

About that world tour- I have posted this before, with no response- and since it’s all about me, I am still hoping for a CT band to do a version of Louie Louie Kingsman style- Joey Joey, you gotta go now. Not the M/M style, but pleeeze, could they do this for ME?

I will talk to Tommy Yum and see what we can hammer out.

Oh thank you TRex- that is my fondest wish!

Oh, I emailed Tommy about this a while ago, and he said that it best be done by a CT band, that’s what I was thinking about, but it looks like for a least a time *a really good time* Tommy Yum and co. will be a live CT band. Thanks much, TRex, and Tommy Yum. Love you both!

weldon berger at 110 says:

Mad Dogs, you’re more than welcome. Thanks much for taking the time. It’ll be interesting to see how it works out, and I’m trying to get some institutional press play for it as well.

I’ve been practicing holding my breath, but I’m probably not going to make it waiting for Junya and crew to answer. *g*

Among the reasons I’m happy about it is that it’s one more step down the road toward anarchy: first they let a blogger in to ask questions, now it’s blog readers … what’s next

Blogger’s rule?

If so, I get first dibs on a ride in the Presidential helicopter. Unless TRex gets there before me. *g*

When you’re wrong, you’re a Republican.

Hee hee!!!

Terrific post, my friend.

heading off … wishing I could be in CT to see the Tommy Yumm tour (and get more of those cookies!)

a good day gang overall … a good day

Siun @ 120

heading off … wishing I could be in CT to see the Tommy Yumm tour (and get more of those cookies!)

a good day gang overall … a good day

Siun- as press sec., get it right, pleeze. It’s either Tommy Yum, or Tommy Yummy. ;) ;)

TRex, tonight I watched the National Geographic show about Hogzilla, the monster wild pig of the Georgia swamps (allegedly 12 feet long). Y’all have some mighty big hogs roaming the woods down there!

Yeah, we’ve got one in the governor’s mansion that I think needs to begin his career as sausage.

http://downwithtyranny.blogspo…..h-but.html

~~~In the title I said “freshly outed” and that’s not exactly true. Conservative Republican– and Florida Attorney General– Charlie Crist was outed by his even more extreme right primary opponent, Tom Gallagher, and DWT duly reported it on May 2 (with a cute little homoerotic Republican Party animation you must see. But now we have a handsome Republican lad (photo above) who admited– even boasted– to having done… well, you know what, with Crist.[]

Anyway… Wetherington is a full gown 21 year old man and Charlie Crist is free to sodomize him to his heart’s content. It’s just kind of icky that he’s been sending out viciously anti-gay campaign pieces– saying that gay couples shouldn’t be allowed to adopt children– while he and Wetherington, an ex-Katherine Harris staffer (but who isn’t?) were… well… you know.~~~

LindaR @
52

Kerry is so clueless, he doesn’t realize he is doing it again, right this moment. He fkd us all over in Ohio when he didn’t STEP UP and do the right thing at the right time.

Now, he’s hoarding his campaign $$ for some future crackpipe dream (he will never get the nomination again). But that $$ is needed HERE and NOW. He is showing us what he is made of now.

And Google lives.

And don’t forget that Kerry has money in his war chest obtained by lying. He asked for donations to pay for lawyers to fight the results. Many donated because they were mad as hell. Then he folded his tent. People don’t forget or forgive that sort of deception.

As for Kerry’s not caring about Democrats… what Taylor Marsh said.

Wonder if we’ll ever know whether the anonymous… ahem… person behind heyjohn.org was a Republican or Democrat.

WaPo chatz tomorrow:

Congressional Reporter Charles Babington at 11 am eastern
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01063.html

Froomkin at 1pm eastern time
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01242.html

Just a note — chatters are being swapped out at the last minute based on breaking political stories they are covering, so I find that the “Hi Charles….” format doesn’t work so well when submitting chat questions the night before….

dab from CT @
113

smiley @ 105

Another great OT link: other things that are Clinton’s fault.

Smiley – that’s one of the funniest things I’ve seen – I have tears streaming down – I love blaming Clinton for the Happy Days jumping the shark episode – lol

*nod* thanks, the fark pchop contests aren’t always good, but somehow I found this one to be apropos. I like the Lincoln assassination one, even though it’s not very technically accomplished, because it’s just SO preposterous.

The world is conspiring to keep me from catching up on all these comments.

Did anyone but me enjoy the techno Barbra?

Sharkbabe @
9

Mama’s getting hot, mama’s got the stuff…

I suppose the sharkbabe is gone, but is that a line from “Gypsy”?

JHFarr @ 109

We know now that invading Iraq was the wrong decision, but that doesn’t vindicate the antiwar crowd.

Is he insane? How does a person come to defy reason in this way in public? We don’t get credit for being right? Of COURSE we get credit for being right. Idiot. I suppose he means we’re guilty of hating America or something. How many wretched lunatics can there possibly be out there???

This was so totally, obviously immoral and wrong from the beginning. Yet tens of millions disagreed. Maybe hundreds of millions, what do I know.

They Walk Among Us.

Given that all are one, they ARE us.

Hmm.

Well, his kind of insanity is not confined to him. I know some Very True Believers who now are trying to tell me that Bush never said “stay the course.” They are parsing words. I’d laugh if it wasn’t so sad, this willingness to lie and deny that Dear Leader has changed course and before he did, he called a lot of Americans cowards, in effect.
These people ask me why I hate Bush. Sigh….

TRex @ 128

The world is conspiring to keep me from catching up on all these comments.

Did anyone but me enjoy the techno Barbra?

It was nice of you to go the extra mile, research-wise, but it didn’t hit my bells re: the election.

And don’t forget that Kerry has money in his war chest obtained by lying. He asked for donations to pay for lawyers to fight the results. Many donated because they were mad as hell. Then he folded his tent. People don’t forget or forgive that sort of deception.

I didn’t know that. He’s sitting on that money right now.

Get Barney Frank on the phone. We need to send him to have a little talk with Mr. Kerry about “Use It or Lose It”.

Valley Girl @ 131

TRex @ 128

The world is conspiring to keep me from catching up on all these comments.

Did anyone but me enjoy the techno Barbra?

It was nice of you to go the extra mile, research-wise, but it didn’t hit my bells re: the election.

It’s missing Neil Diamond.

re: Stay the course- YouTube Sestak ad says it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZf__HlwAg

It’s missing Neil Diamond.

Gosh, isn’t everything?

Patrick 4/4, I don’t recall exactly when you turned up, but things have been a lot funnier around here since you showed up. Allow me to perform the secret FDL Dance of Welcome for you.

Just let me slip into the grass skirt…

I am sooooo looking forward to 11/8 when there won’t be any more Jonah or Annthrax or Fred Barnes.

TRex @ 136

Patrick 4/4, I don’t recall exactly when you turned up, but things have been a lot funnier around here since you showed up. Allow me to perform the secret FDL Dance of Welcome for you.

Just let me slip into the grass skirt…

You are way too kind. Let me know when the skirt’s on, I’ll make room on my dashboard.

Mad Dogs @ 118

weldon berger at 110 says:

Among the reasons I’m happy about it is that it’s one more step down the road toward anarchy: first they let a blogger in to ask questions, now it’s blog readers … what’s next

Blogger’s rule?

It’ll be blogarchy, I tell ya!

TRex @ 136

Patrick 4/4, I don’t recall exactly when you turned up, but things have been a lot funnier around here since you showed up. Allow me to perform the secret FDL Dance of Welcome for you.

Just let me slip into the grass skirt…

so THAT’s what the T stands for!

TRex @ 136

Patrick 4/4, I don’t recall exactly when you turned up, but things have been a lot funnier around here since you showed up. Allow me to perform the secret FDL Dance of Welcome for you.

Just let me slip into the grass skirt…

TRex- and let me also say that Patrick 4/4 is a film noir fan. [hugs]. Is film noir something you know about, TRex?

did you all know that the direction of earth’s magnetic field is about to flip from north to south? saw it on the TV.

punaise @ 142

did you all know that the direction of earth’s magnetic field is about to flip from north to south? saw it on the TV.

So that’s where I left it.

Patrick 4/4 @ 143

punaise @ 142

did you all know that the direction of earth’s magnetic field is about to flip from north to south? saw it on the TV.

So that’s where I left it.

that’s not even remotely plausible

Here’s my mini-rant, which is likely to become a full-fledged rant some time soon. Posting it here because it relates, at least tangentially, to the whole Kerry thing. Especially the way that schmuck collected money from Democrats right up to the time of the 2004 election, so that he’d be ready to *cough* lead the fight in making sure all the votes are counted.

And then the jackass conceded, less than 24 hours after the polls were closed.

Anyway, I have written a number of posts about Blackwell which have yielded responses that are worse than useless. People have said “enjoy your new governor”–he got Bush in, he picked the voting machines, he’s a Sec of State overseeing his own election, the game is rigged.

All this stuff about Ken Blackwell…um, how can I put this delicately? Screw it–I can’t.

No shit, Sherlock! I’ve *lived* in this state for the past several years. I’ve *kind of* been following that story, ya know? I’ve even done what I can, with my limited soapbox, to help make others aware of the situation.

So there’s a serious rant coming on, aimed at all the people who so cleverly inform me that “the fix is in”. The next time someone gets all “worldly wise” on me with stuff I already know about Ken Blackwell, they are getting smacked down *hard*.

So what are you going to do about it, wise guy/gal? I *can’t* afford to move out of the state. But we’re still probably better off than a lot of people in this state. And I think it’s a pretty poor excuse for progressive values to just say smugly, “the game is rigged” to people who have to *live* in this state.

Next person who explains the obvious to me is getting asked, “What, exactly, are *you* doing to prevent that outcome?”

If you’ll excuse me for getting all aw-shucks-y for a sec, this is a very good place to be welcomed to.

hmmm… chanelling Punaise…

TRex, are you a lei’d back kinda guy?

Valley Girl @ 147

hmmm… chanelling Punaise…

TRex, are you a lei’d back kinda guy?

hula’d the dawgs out?

Valley Girl @ 147

hmmm… chanelling Punaise…

TRex, are you a lei’d back kinda guy?

Islanded on the floor laughing when I read that, Valley Girl…

Redshift @ 139

Mad Dogs @ 118

weldon berger at 110 says:

Among the reasons I’m happy about it is that it’s one more step down the road toward anarchy: first they let a blogger in to ask questions, now it’s blog readers … what’s next

Blogger’s rule?

It’ll be blogarchy, I tell ya!

Hmmm. This sounds like a story ready made for Lee Siegel. Has TNR unsuspended him yet? Anyone have the top secret Spezzatura email address?Patrick 4/4 @ 143

punaise @ 142

did you all know that the direction of earth’s magnetic field is about to flip from north to south? saw it on the TV.

So that’s where I left it.

That’s funny.

Valley Girl @
134

re: Stay the course- YouTube Sestak ad says it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZf__HlwAg

I hope Adm. Sestak wins, but I’m not a fan. That’s a GREAT ad!

Kerry is a bit “staid the course” for my taste

Let’s send the Keaton girls over to kick Rush’s ass. Hell, Mallory could do it herself.

punaise @ 152

Kerry is a bit “staid the course” for my taste

This time I think we can safely say it’s a self-inflicted wound.

Hi all…. pretty excited here in AZ…. we have THREE…. YEP Three house races that in play plus Kyl’s Senate seat….. recent polling state that Hayworth (blowheart) is even with Mitchell and so is Kyl-Pederson…. Renzi is now under TWO investigations and down 5% points and the NRCC pulled out of AZ-08 completely because our candidate is walking away with it!

We can turn this state bluer (is that a word?) and then in 08….. get rid of that Moggot McCain…

punaise @
142

did you all know that the direction of earth’s magnetic field is about to flip from north to south? saw it on the TV.

CURSE YOU, KARL ROVE!!

I knew they’d find a way to stop the elections.

Ed*ard Teller @ 151

Valley Girl @
134

re: Stay the course- YouTube Sestak ad says it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZf__HlwAg

I hope Adm. Sestak wins, but I’m not a fan. That’s a GREAT ad!

ET- I posted it because of the Bush “stay the course” parts. Tell me why you aren’t a fan of Sestak.

Also, did you see Howie’s post? http://downwithtyranny.blogspo…..tupid.html

~~FBI insiders, or at least those with inside info from FBI employees familiar with the Abramoff case, are betting that almost instant indictments are looming for Alaska’s Don Young , Florida’s Tom Feeney, John Doolittle, Jerry Lewis, Duncan Hunter, Ken Calvert and Dirty Dick Pombo of the Golden State and Phil English and Don Sherwood of Pennsylvania, as well as for former GOP Crime Boss Tom DeLay. But it doesn’t end there.~~~

TRex- and let me also say that Patrick 4/4 is a film noir fan. [hugs]. Is film noir something you know about, TRex?

Not a sausage. Bugger-all.

Renzi: One Congressman, Two Probes

Now if they can get to JD Hayworth who is a member of the Abramoff dirty dozen…..

katymine @
155

Hi all…. pretty excited here in AZ…. we have THREE…. YEP Three house races that in play plus Kyl’s Senate seat….. recent polling state that Hayworth (blowheart) is even with Mitchell and so is Kyl-Pederson…. Renzi is now under TWO investigations and down 5% points and the NRCC pulled out of AZ-08 completely because our candidate is walking away with it!

We can turn this state bluer (is that a word?) and then in 08….. get rid of that Moggot McCain…

Hey, Katymine! AZ is the biggest surprise of the week. I hope it is our turn up here next week. what’s a moggot? is that like a bloated maggot?

Anyway, regarding my comment at 145, one thing that needs to happen, is that we need to extract some sort of promise from Ted Strickland that he’s not going to pull a John Kerry and concede if Blackwell “somehow” pulls off an amazing last minute upset victory.

TRex @ 158

TRex- and let me also say that Patrick 4/4 is a film noir fan. [hugs]. Is film noir something you know about, TRex?

Not a sausage. Bugger-all.

Ahh.. then Patrick 4/4 and I need to educate you about this part of Americana! I think it would appeal to you. Granted it’s visual, and not audio oriented (and I assume you are an audio type)..but still….

Renee in Ohio @
145

Here’s my mini-rant, which is likely to become a full-fledged rant some time soon. Posting it here because it relates, at least tangentially, to the whole Kerry thing. Especially the way that schmuck collected money from Democrats right up to the time of the 2004 election, so that he’d be ready to *cough* lead the fight in making sure all the votes are counted.

And then the jackass conceded, less than 24 hours after the polls were closed.

Anyway, I have written a number of posts about Blackwell which have yielded responses that are worse than useless. People have said “enjoy your new governor”–he got Bush in, he picked the voting machines, he’s a Sec of State overseeing his own election, the game is rigged.

All this stuff about Ken Blackwell…um, how can I put this delicately? Screw it–I can’t.

No shit, Sherlock! I’ve *lived* in this state for the past several years. I’ve *kind of* been following that story, ya know? I’ve even done what I can, with my limited soapbox, to help make others aware of the situation.

So there’s a serious rant coming on, aimed at all the people who so cleverly inform me that “the fix is in”. The next time someone gets all “worldly wise” on me with stuff I already know about Ken Blackwell, they are getting smacked down *hard*.

So what are you going to do about it, wise guy/gal? I *can’t* afford to move out of the state. But we’re still probably better off than a lot of people in this state. And I think it’s a pretty poor excuse for progressive values to just say smugly, “the game is rigged” to people who have to *live* in this state.

Next person who explains the obvious to me is getting asked, “What, exactly, are *you* doing to prevent that outcome?”

Shhhhhhhhh. Come here, Renee. *hug* Breathe, darling. It’s going to be alright. Blackwell is NOT going to win that election. And if he does, we’ll riot in the streets.

You get a pitchfork and I’ll get a torch,
Honeeeeeeeey.
You get a pitchfork and I’ll get a torch,
Baaaaaaaabe.
You get a pitchfork and I’ll get a torch,
and we’ll wreak havoc for all we’re worth,
Honey, baby miiiiiiine.

*bows*

Thank you.

Patrick 4/4 @ 154

punaise @ 152

Kerry is a bit “staid the course” for my taste

This time I think we can safely say it’s a self-inflicted wound.

BWAAAAAH-HAAAAA-HAAAAA.

Good one.

Valley Girl @ 162

TRex @ 158

TRex- and let me also say that Patrick 4/4 is a film noir fan. [hugs]. Is film noir something you know about, TRex?

Not a sausage. Bugger-all.

Ahh.. then Patrick 4/4 and I need to educate you about this part of Americana! I think it would appeal to you. Granted it’s visual, and not audio oriented (and I assume you are an audio type)..but still….

Watch “Double Indemnity” and you’ll never think of “Big Valley” or “My Three Sons” the same way again.

Renee in Ohio @ 161

Anyway, regarding my comment at 145, one thing that needs to happen, is that we need to extract some sort of promise from Ted Strickland that he’s not going to pull a John Kerry and concede if Blackwell “somehow” pulls off an amazing last minute upset victory.

Hope you provide some links re: Blackwell’s latest doings. I have read some stuff recently about some of his more recent attempts to deep-six the vote, but too late in the eve to go looking. And, a promise from Strickland would be good to have on the record.

ET…. you know that I am spelling impared… reminder to self…spell check is your friend….

When I was driving up to Yearlykos… one of the wingnuts who calls into our Air America station said……. “I will never vote for that Maggot McCain again…” after he spoke at that religous right college….

BTW…. I spoke with Amb. Joe Wilson this morning… he and Obama were here this week campaigning for our candidates!

Amb. Wilson had great things to say about FDL on Phoenix AAR this am!

Oh, and welcome, Weldon B! You can come hang out at the ‘Lake any old time!

I’m sorry Trex, but “wrongness” is sooo last week. Incomprehensible is the new wrong.

TRY TO KEEP UP WOULD YOU? You of all people should recognize the incomprehensible, no?

Casey today: “We are about 75 percent of the way through a three-step process.”

That’s incomprehensible nailed to the f***ing wall. His President must be so proud.

Tortoise @ 169

I’m sorry Trex, but “wrongness” is sooo last week. Incomprehensible is the new wrong.

TRY TO KEEP UP WOULD YOU? You of all people should recognize the incomprehensible, no?

Casey today: “We are about 75 percent of the way through a three-step process.”

That’s incomprehensible nailed to the f***ing wall. His President must be so proud.

Suspended in mid-air, right between steps two and three.

Step One: Invade
Step Two: ???
Step Three: Profit!

Kevin Drum poses a Joe-nundrum:

.Conservatives have been lecturing liberals for the past few years about the fact that George Bush will be our president for the next few years whether we like it or not, so for the good of the country we ought to be supporting him instead of gleefully hoping for a failure that just hurts all of us. The stakes are high, war of civilizations, madmen with nuclear bombs, etc. etc.

So if Democrats win control of Congress this year, I expect we’ll see plenty of sober, thoughtful support for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from conservatives, right? Gotta do what’s right for the country, after all.

Right?

Patrick 4/4 @ 165

Valley Girl @ 162

TRex @ 158

TRex- and let me also say that Patrick 4/4 is a film noir fan. [hugs]. Is film noir something you know about, TRex?

Not a sausage. Bugger-all.

Ahh.. then Patrick 4/4 and I need to educate you about this part of Americana! I think it would appeal to you. Granted it’s visual, and not audio oriented (and I assume you are an audio type)..but still….

Watch “Double Indemnity” and you’ll never think of “Big Valley” or “My Three Sons” the same way again.

Ah, yes, another classic. And the ending…

http://www.filmsite.org/doub.html

Valley Girl @ 166

Nothing new, really. It looks like the challenge to Strickland’s residency has been dropped.

Not sure if you’ve seen the stories about the whisper campaign about Strickland’s sexual orientation. A conservative voter outreach coordinator was fired a few months ago for promoting that story, but now the Republican party seems, in its desperation, to be embracing those same tactics.

A bit about that here.

If people are unfamiliar with that story, I can find more links in the morning.

Salon.com front pager:

U.S. generals call for Democratic takeover

Disgusted with the leadership of the Iraq war, two retired generals say the GOP must go. Plus: More than 100 current military personnel join a campaign to get the U.S. out of Iraq — now.

By Mark Benjamin

Oct. 25, 2006 | WASHINGTON — Two retired senior Army generals, who served in Iraq and previously voted Republican, are now openly endorsing a Democratic takeover of Congress. The generals, and an active-duty senior military official, told Salon in separate interviews that they believe a Democratic victory will help reverse course from what they consider to be a disastrous Bush administration policy in Iraq.

[…]

Valley Girl @
157

Ed*ard Teller @ 151

Valley Girl @
134

re: Stay the course- YouTube Sestak ad says it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZf__HlwAg

I hope Adm. Sestak wins, but I’m not a fan. That’s a GREAT ad!

ET- I posted it because of the Bush “stay the course” parts. Tell me why you aren’t a fan of Sestak.

Also, did you see Howie’s post? http://downwithtyranny.blogspo…..tupid.html

~~FBI insiders, or at least those with inside info from FBI employees familiar with the Abramoff case, are betting that almost instant indictments are looming for Alaska’s Don Young , Florida’s Tom Feeney, John Doolittle, Jerry Lewis, Duncan Hunter, Ken Calvert and Dirty Dick Pombo of the Golden State and Phil English and Don Sherwood of Pennsylvania, as well as for former GOP Crime Boss Tom DeLay. But it doesn’t end there.~~~

Whoa – Howie’s post doesn’t say much we don’t already know, but the way he says it makes it clear enough for me to forward it to about 10 journalists I’m been feeding the Young-Abramoff stuff to. You’re my hero!

Best new Young article today up here came out of Juneau. It pointed toward three contributions Young’s personal PAC made to Ney, DeLay and Cunningham AFTER they were indicted!

http://juneauempire.com/storie…..4009.shtml

When Howie Klein hosted Adm. Sestak here a few days ago, I asked the admiral a question about Palestininian and Lebanese collective punishment at the hands of the IDF, and he responded like an AIPACbot, then soon decided he had another appointment. I’m not saying I chased him off, but his answer to my query could have come from the mouth of W.

This explains everything:

POLLIES COORDINATOR

EMPLOYER: The American Association of Political Consultants

DESCRIPTION:
The American Association of Political Consultants is hiring for a full-time temporary position to assist with the coordination of its annual Pollie Awards & Conference, established to recognize and honor excellence in political consulting. This is a full-time temporary position starting on or about November 6, 2006 and lasting until March 16, 2007 .The conference will take place February 20-23, 2007 at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach , Florida . AAPC is the bipartisan membership organization of political and public affairs professionals based in Washington, D.C. Overall, this position will provide support to the operations and promotion of the Pollie Awards & Conference.

There is much to discuss, but The Pollies? Jeebus.

Renee in Ohio @ 173

Valley Girl @ 166

Nothing new, really. It looks like the challenge to Strickland’s residency has been dropped.

Not sure if you’ve seen the stories about the whisper campaign about Strickland’s sexual orientation. A conservative voter outreach coordinator was fired a few months ago for promoting that story, but now the Republican party seems, in its desperation, to be embracing those same tactics.

A bit about that here.

If people are unfamiliar with that story, I can find more links in the morning.

Thanks for the link- it was the residency thing that I half-remembered, now that you’ve tweaked my memory. Blackwell is a slimeball among slimeballs.

Renee in Ohio,
Hi from SE Ohio.
People here are either demoralized or are helping to demoralize others by saying “The fix is in.”
I used to try to educate people about why they need to vote. Now, if they give me the “It’s all fixed, nothing you can do about it, vote doesn’t count” BS I just move on to someone else.

TRex @ 168

Oh, and welcome, Weldon B! You can come hang out at the ‘Lake any old time!

Thanks very much. I like it here. Some of my best friends are giant reptile forebears.

VG – Sestak response is you know where, for now……..

thanks for the dwt link.

punaise @
174

Salon.com front pager:

U.S. generals call for Democratic takeover

Disgusted with the leadership of the Iraq war, two retired generals say the GOP must go. Plus: More than 100 current military personnel join a campaign to get the U.S. out of Iraq — now.

By Mark Benjamin

Oct. 25, 2006 | WASHINGTON — Two retired senior Army generals, who served in Iraq and previously voted Republican, are now openly endorsing a Democratic takeover of Congress. The generals, and an active-duty senior military official, told Salon in separate interviews that they believe a Democratic victory will help reverse course from what they consider to be a disastrous Bush administration policy in Iraq.

[…]

Another Pentagon screw-up: the coup was planned for Iraq…

I agree Margot….. we need to overwhelm the vote. I am encouraging everyone to take 5 to vote… I am responsible in making sure that 5 of my friends vote, then I make each of them be responsible for 5 voters. I have my 5 already lined up, two have already voted via mail in ballots, me too.

It is hard to “fix” a race when everyone knows that 80% of the voters voted!

Margot @
176

Now, if they give me the “It’s all fixed, nothing you can do about it, vote doesn’t count” BS I just move on to someone else.

I actually haven’t heard that from anyone around here (I live in Columbus). I’m talking liberal/progressive bloggers from other states. If something like the Lamont campaign can get the kind of support it does on national blogs, then it seems like the fight for something resembling democracy in Ohio is worthy of that kind of support as well.

‘Cause is Blackwell does get in, he’s piratize everything. (No, that’s not a typo.)

JHFarr @
109

We know now that invading Iraq was the wrong decision, but that doesn’t vindicate the antiwar crowd.

Is he insane? How does a person come to defy reason in this way in public? We don’t get credit for being right? Of COURSE we get credit for being right. Idiot. I suppose he means we’re guilty of hating America or something. How many wretched lunatics can there possibly be out there???

This was so totally, obviously immoral and wrong from the beginning. Yet tens of millions disagreed. Maybe hundreds of millions, what do I know.

They Walk Among Us.

Given that all are one, they ARE us.

Hmm.

There’s a tautology to this: if you consistently defend stupid people and the stupid decisions they make, then you’re probably not very bright yourself. :)

The one almost indisputable thing about the Right is that they aren’t. All one has to do to confirm that is to look around at the wreckage radical one-party rule has created.

katymine @
182

I agree Margot….. we need to overwhelm the vote. I am encouraging everyone to take 5 to vote… I am responsible in making sure that 5 of my friends vote, then I make each of them be responsible for 5 voters. I have my 5 already lined up, two have already voted via mail in ballots, me too.

It is hard to “fix” a race when everyone knows that 80% of the voters voted!

We’ll see, won’t we, what our GOTV efforts deliver. I’m helping organize a guerilla action for tomorrow. Inspired by the “kiss” float in CT…

Valley Girl @ 157

ET- I posted it because of the Bush "stay the course" parts. Tell me why you aren’t a fan of Sestak. Also, did you see Howie’s post? http://downwithtyranny.blogspo…..tupid.html ~~FBI insiders, or at least those with inside info from FBI employees familiar with the Abramoff case, are betting that almost instant indictments are looming for Alaska’s Don Young , Florida’s Tom Feeney, John Doolittle, Jerry Lewis, Duncan Hunter, Ken Calvert and Dirty Dick Pombo of the Golden State and Phil English and Don Sherwood of Pennsylvania, as well as for former GOP Crime Boss Tom DeLay. But it doesn’t end there.~~~

So VG, should any of the above thugs be re-elected, then indicted, what happens. Are the R’s allowed to replace them or must there be fresh elections to replace them?

ET we did the same here…. it is either big Red Hands saying Hayworth & Renzi was caught red handed or the ClothesLine with all of their “dirty laundry” for everyone to see….(that was my idea)

So VG, should any of the above thugs be re-elected, then indicted, what happens. Are the R’s allowed to replace them or must there be fresh elections to replace them?

Good question- and I don’t know the answer. But, I will email that to Howie!!! Howie is a master of research.

Jinny @ #186. Interesting. I haven’t seen that covered much – probably missing it. Has the DOJ been dragging its feet on the Cunningham and Abramoff fallout more in states controlled by GOP governors or GOP-controlled vacated seat replacement rules than in states controlled by Dems?

Oh, and TRex, about the torches and pitchforks–oh yeah. Metaphorically, I mean. Gotta be careful what you say these days. Would hate to be declared an enemy combatant over a few careless words.

But governor’s mansion? You can’t have it, Ken. I don’t care what your voting machines say.

Valley Girl @ 188

Good question- and I don’t know the answer. But, I will email that to Howie!!! Howie is a master of research.

I’m just dreading the thought of another round of elections commencing in December, because if all those people are indicted, surely the GOP will not allow them to stay in place – even supposing that they legally can do so. Maybe they’ll all start ratting on W and Shooter too.

Guys, easy with this nested comments, please.

It blows out the margins and makes the page take longer to load.

Valley Girl @ 177

Thanks for the link- it was the residency thing that I half-remembered, now that you’ve tweaked my memory. Blackwell is a slimeball among slimeballs.

What I hope is that the voters humiliate Blackwell to the same extent he humiliated them in 2004.

katymine @
187

ET we did the same here…. it is either big Red Hands saying Hayworth & Renzi was caught red handed or the ClothesLine with all of their “dirty laundry” for everyone to see….(that was my idea)

So much friggin’ dirty laundry! Their hands are, well – red hands. And they’re prouder of those dripping hands the farther from reality they roam.

mea culpa. I will stop now.

Jane? Tazer?

The neat freak in me kicks in over certain things.

I wish it’d kick in over something like the dishes, but alas…

Valley Girl @ 157

Ed*ard Teller @ 151

Valley Girl @
134

re: Stay the course- YouTube Sestak ad says it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZf__HlwAg

I hope Adm. Sestak wins, but I’m not a fan. That’s a GREAT ad!

ET- I posted it because of the Bush “stay the course” parts. Tell me why you aren’t a fan of Sestak.

Also, did you see Howie’s post? http://downwithtyranny.blogspo…..tupid.html

~~FBI insiders, or at least those with inside info from FBI employees familiar with the Abramoff case, are betting that almost instant indictments are looming for Alaska’s Don Young , Florida’s Tom Feeney, John Doolittle, Jerry Lewis, Duncan Hunter, Ken Calvert and Dirty Dick Pombo of the Golden State and Phil English and Don Sherwood of Pennsylvania, as well as for former GOP Crime Boss Tom DeLay. But it doesn’t end there.~~~

Oh, oh, please don’t tease like that …

What are the chances this could happen before Nov 7?

Josh has several new posts up – Renzi is in big, big trouble. Also, if you scroll down there the youtube of Harold Ford’s response to Corker.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

TRex- no problem- after I saw your comment I went back and tried to fix my exuberance, but saw that you had already done so. Thanks! I think it’s my only ziggurat violation so far at FDL.

Sure is exciting that Renzi stuff is out in the open….. or will be…. he is a carpetbagger from back east and really played the Native Americans where they thought he was doing things in DC for them….. the Abramoff stuff sure shut that down…. and then there is the pattycake with Katherine Harris on the floor of the house caught on video….. how can you respect him after that?

Valley Girl @ 200

I think it’s my only ziggurat violation so far at FDL.

sure, that’s what they all say

Valley Girl @ 200

TRex- no problem- after I saw your comment I went back and tried to fix my exuberance, but saw that you had already done so. Thanks! I think it’s my only ziggurat violation so far at FDL.

You were just quoting it for a friend, right?

punaise, TRex… 707

TRex @ 202

Valley Girl @ 200

TRex- no problem- after I saw your comment I went back and tried to fix my exuberance, but saw that you had already done so. Thanks! I think it’s my only ziggurat violation so far at FDL.

You were just quoting it for a friend, right?

She was initially told it was merely an “overly friendly step pyramid”. If she had known there was a ziggurat violation she would have taken action immediately.

Okay, so I emailed Howie with the “what happens when they are indicted” question.

nite all….. catch up with ya tomorrow….. Keep fighting the good fight ET….. we will find the blue under all the red bullsh*t

VG: it’s not the song you requested, but here’s Louis Louis

Patrick 4/4 LOL. Now we just gotta get TRex on board with the ziggurat film noir thing.

VG, it depends on the specific state laws. In Calif when Cunningham resigned/convicted etc… they had a special runoff election. In TX in Delay’s seat, it is sitting there unfilled and the people unrepresented. In some states the Gov appoints a replacement.

There’ll be special elections, unless of course they all lose in two weeks, which is what we are really hoping for, right?

nest easy, ‘pups. g’nite.

Texas Candidate Wrote Racy Romance Novel

From AP:

“Everybody thinks it’s fun,” said Susan Combs, who happens to be Texas agriculture commissioner and is now running for state comptroller, the top financial post. “It’s lighthearted and entertaining.”

Combs, a 61-year-old Republican who champions abstinence education and is a darling of Texas conservatives, is being portrayed by her Democratic opponent as a smutmonger and a hypocrite for writing a 1990 bodice-ripper titled “A Perfect Match.”

The dispute has spiced up an otherwise little-noticed contest, and led other romance writers of various political stripes to rush to Combs’ defense. (And to think, this is NOT the race that includes a guy named “Kinky,” as in Kinky Friedman, independent candidate for governor.)

The now-out-of-print novel pairs government code-breaker Emily Brown with Ross Harding, a spy assigned to protect her after she intercepts a message that endangers her life. Our heroine is “a freckle-faced brunette” who is drawn to “the gray-eyed bodyguard” and his “powerful, strong arms,” and desires him to “fill the aching void at her center,” where a “deep heaviness throbbed in her belly.” Much moaning, panting and stroking ensues. “(snip)

I now have something else throbbing in my belly.

Patrick 4/4 @ 205

TRex @ 202

Valley Girl @ 200

TRex- no problem- after I saw your comment I went back and tried to fix my exuberance, but saw that you had already done so. Thanks! I think it’s my only ziggurat violation so far at FDL.

You were just quoting it for a friend, right?

She was initially told it was merely an “overly friendly step pyramid”. If she had known there was a ziggurat violation she would have taken action immediately.

those stone tablet messages were hardly “instant”

punaise @
208

VG: it’s not the song you requested, but here’s Louis Louis

Is it me, or has he, like, doubled in size in the last month? His feet are HUGE!

Patrick 4/4 @ 212

Texas Candidate Wrote Racy Romance Novel

[…]
I now have something else throbbing in my belly.

throbbing gristle for the pulp mills

poem for *ilson

mosh was old school before this thing happened
the machines and machinery
clattering louder and louder

hurting your ears
feeding fears nearly to the
darker sides of some searing scene
better left alone

hurting your eyes
treating the images, treating them,
distilling them through many filters
bitter, left to atone

hurting your soul to the length of despair.

unlike mosh, we’re new school

punaise @ 214

Patrick 4/4 @ 212

Texas Candidate Wrote Racy Romance Novel

[…]
I now have something else throbbing in my belly.

throbbing gristle for the pulp mills

It’s remaindered at the Texas School Book Depository.

Goodness, ET, that’s really good. Did you just write that??

punaise @
208

VG: it’s not the song you requested, but here’s Louis Louis

oohh Punaise, thanks for the kitty fix. I see he is wearing his new black collar. Your kitty pix are so great. Maybe you and TRex should team up to do a “cat book”. I have tried to entice TRex with the idea of “cat revenge tales” (ask him about the vomiting cat), but he just won’t bite. (oh, I have my own cat shit on the bed story to add…)

TRex @ 214

Is it me, or has he, like, doubled in size in the last month? His feet are HUGE!

same chair, 5 months ago

VG… have a great story about the revenge cat… nephew tormented the cat by day….. by night… KC kitty got her revenge….. jumping off the headboard of the bed like a flying squirrel landing claws out while kid slept under just a sheet during summer visits….. would be woken up with the kid screaming … this turned out to be quite a game between them…..

TRex @
218

Goodness, ET, that’s really good. Did you just write that??

yeah. I was thinking about *ilson being so busy he can’t be here and my wanting to watch eminem’s 2004 agitprop. but I started thinking places like fdl are so far above and beyond the images projected in the mosh video.

katymine @ 221

VG… have a great story about the revenge cat… nephew tormented the cat by day….. by night… KC kitty got her revenge….. jumping off the headboard of the bed like a flying squirrel landing claws out while kid slept under just a sheet during summer visits….. would be woken up with the kid screaming … this turned out to be quite a game between them…..

Ah.. I will note that (bookmark it) for the “Cat Revenge” book that I am writing with TRex. ;)

TRex:

Did you say I give it a 10″ Dick?

posted before, but here’s an FDL and spotlight victory. MOst of the comments on the original offensively wrong article were from FDLers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10…..enate.html

SteveAudio @
224

TRex:

Did you say I give it a 10″ Dick?

Only God can do that, Steve.

god is as god does.

Valley Girl @
225

posted before, but here’s an FDL and spotlight victory. MOst of the comments on the original offensively wrong article were from FDLers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10…..enate.html

Sweet. I missed that the first time.

Cor, must we do EVERYTHING for them?

“god is in the details” – Mies van der Rohe

You know, that comment should have read:

Only God can do that, Steve.

*places hand over heart*

punaise @ 229

“god is in the details” – Mies van der Rohe

trust an architect to know that.

TRex @ 230

You know, that comment should have read:

Only God can do that, Steve.

*places hand over heart*

You’re just divine!

So, SteveAudio and TRex, will you be meeting soon?

god is in the details, but dog is in retail

punaise @ 234

god is in the details, but dog is in retail

???????????

Good on y’all for storming the NYT ramparts successfully. I’m guessing Teddy San Fran was involved.

Valley Girl @ 233

So, SteveAudio and TRex, will you be meeting soon?

Not likely, unless he comes to SoCal.

Then he can meet me and Mrs. Audio. We’ll have another blogger’s party.

Speaking of which, TRex, we actually are planning one for early December, if there’s any chance you might be out this way.

Mickey Kaus came to the last one, and no one hit him.

sorry Punaise, I see now that that was a Spoonerism.

Valley Girl @ 235

punaise @ 234

god is in the details, but dog is in retail

???????????

okay, then, details are my co-pilot

Lord love a duck, punaise, but that kitty has grown.

SteveAudio- ahh… I’ve been trying to figure this out for a long while. Thanks.

punaise @ 239

Valley Girl @ 235

punaise @ 234

god is in the details, but dog is in retail

???????????

okay, then, details are my co-pilot

God as a dog. I think I just made a palindrome.

Valley Girl @ 238

sorry Punaise, I see now that that was a Spoonerism.

better spooner than plater.

Blog is in the free tales.

TRex @ 244

Blog is in the free tales.

that could be on a T-shirt

Maybe that should be:

Blog is in the wheeeeeee! tales.

I hate when Steve talks about Mrs. Audio. It’s going to make it that much harder to saw through her brake cables.

TRex and others: an interesting life story, SF Chronicle

TRex @ 247

I hate when Steve talks about Mrs. Audio. It’s going to make it that much harder to saw through her brake cables.

707 is my co-pilot

Valley Girl @ 249

TRex @ 247

I hate when Steve talks about Mrs. Audio. It’s going to make it that much harder to saw through her brake cables.

707 is my co-pilot

Boeing LOL

Punaise- re: that link- “Today he’s a contractor and remodeler, and does astrological counseling on the side.” hmmmm….

TRex @ 247

I hate when Steve talks about Mrs. Audio. It’s going to make it that much harder to saw through her brake cables.

Aw, you’ll like her, she’s great.

And I’m not really your type. I’m, well, not exactly, well, how can I put this…well, here’s a picture of us at one of Arianna’s parties last year:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..10829.html

6th picture down.

SteveAudio @ 252

TRex @ 247

I hate when Steve talks about Mrs. Audio. It’s going to make it that much harder to saw through her brake cables.

Aw, you’ll like her, she’s great.

And I’m not really your type. I’m, well, not exactly, well, how can I put this…well, here’s a picture of us at one of Arianna’s parties last year:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..10829.html

6th picture down.

I checked it out. And, Mamet does not look like I expected him to look!

Suzanne @
240

Lord love a duck, punaise, but that kitty has grown.

so what’s six months in cat years?

SteveAudio @
252

TRex @ 247

I hate when Steve talks about Mrs. Audio. It’s going to make it that much harder to saw through her brake cables.

Aw, you’ll like her, she’s great.

And I’m not really your type. I’m, well, not exactly, well, how can I put this…well, here’s a picture of us at one of Arianna’s parties last year:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..10829.html

6th picture down.

You’re both adorable. I could kiss you.

TRex @ 255

SteveAudio @
252

TRex @ 247

I hate when Steve talks about Mrs. Audio. It’s going to make it that much harder to saw through her brake cables.

Aw, you’ll like her, she’s great.

And I’m not really your type. I’m, well, not exactly, well, how can I put this…well, here’s a picture of us at one of Arianna’s parties last year:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..10829.html

6th picture down.

You’re both adorable. I could kiss you.

That’s really sweet. We are pretty cute, in a dopey middle-aged ex-60’s hippy, radical leftist blogger way.

Whoa, lordy. It’s 4AM!!!

Time for bed.

I hate to leave when all my favorites are here at once, but c’est la guerre, n’est-ce pas?

Bonne nuit, mais jamais adieu!

TRex @ 257

Whoa, lordy. It’s 4AM!!!

Time for bed.

I hate to leave when all my favorites are here at once, but c’est la guerre, n’est-ce pas?

Bonne nuit, mais jamais adieu!

alors, a demain…

TRex @ 257

Whoa, lordy. It’s 4AM!!!

Time for bed.

I hate to leave when all my favorites are here at once, but c’est la guerre, n’est-ce pas?

Bonne nuit, mais jamais adieu!

Gute nacht, mein Freund.

Upcoming event at UC Berkeley
by kos
Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 11:33:24 PM PDT

In case you’re in the Bay Area and want to see me, Lakoff, Joan Blades, and Robert Riech this Thursday:

The Rockridge Institute cordially invites you and a guest to a panel discussion 7:30 p.m., Thursday, October 26 at UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Auditorium on “What Are We Voting For?” with George Lakoff, Senior Fellow of the Institute and UC Berkeley Professor of Linguistics; Robert Reich, UC Berkeley Professor of Public Policy; Joan Blades, cofounder of Moveon and Momsrising; and Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos. The discussion will be moderated by Bruce Cain of UC Berkeley’s Center on Politics, which is a cosponsor of the event.

It’s a free event and should be lots of fun. I might even betray a hint of optimism about November’s elections. Probably not, but you never know…

A TRex Book! I’ll buy! I’ll also help with it…used to be a book designer b4 I moved into the technical end of prepress. I can format text w the best of ‘em!

And think of all the talented folk to help with a book cover!

Just got home from work, dang, always miss the party.

punaise- one last request before I go to zzz. Do *you* have any “cat’s revenge” stories?

punaise @ 260

Upcoming event at UC Berkeley
by kos
Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 11:33:24 PM PDT

In case you’re in the Bay Area and want to see me, Lakoff, Joan Blades, and Robert Riech this Thursday:

The Rockridge Institute cordially invites you and a guest to a panel discussion 7:30 p.m., Thursday, October 26 at UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Auditorium on “What Are We Voting For?” with George Lakoff, Senior Fellow of the Institute and UC Berkeley Professor of Linguistics; Robert Reich, UC Berkeley Professor of Public Policy; Joan Blades, cofounder of Moveon and Momsrising; and Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos. The discussion will be moderated by Bruce Cain of UC Berkeley’s Center on Politics, which is a cosponsor of the event.

It’s a free event and should be lots of fun. I might even betray a hint of optimism about November’s elections. Probably not, but you never know…

Sadly, Reich was a douchebag last week on Larry King, debating Lou Dobbs. Dobbs was completely pro-middle class, raising minimum wage, stopping outsourcing, while Reich was “well, the problem isn’t really that bad.”

Talk about role reversal.

NAFTA- I blame Clinton.

Valley Girl @ 262

punaise- one last request before I go to zzz. Do *you* have any “cat’s revenge” stories?

not yet – we’re pretty new to cats

dang! commenters responding to Medina’s corrected NYT article are cutting no slack whatsoever.

punaise @ 266

dang! commenters responding to Medina’s corrected NYT article are cutting no slack whatsoever.

Thanks for the link, Punaise. Did you mean dang? or hot damn? I see a few FDLers there!

Valley Girl @ 267

punaise @ 266

dang! commenters responding to Medina’s corrected NYT article are cutting no slack whatsoever.

Thanks for the link, Punaise. Did you mean dang? or hot damn? I see a few FDLers there!

dayang! in a hot damn sense.

Urban Pirate bags #1; John Casper and Subway Serenade weigh in, too

time to de-blog

*plouf*

punaise @ 265

Valley Girl @ 262

punaise- one last request before I go to zzz. Do *you* have any “cat’s revenge” stories?

not yet – we’re pretty new to cats

Cats are so wily. When I was on sabbatical with a rental house, I also had a “rental” cat- I took care of the household cat while the owners were in Boston. She was so sweet, and stopped clawing the furniture and carpet after I got her one of those corrugated claw thingies. But, then I tried to give her an anti-hair ball pill. She resisted strongly, fighting back, but didn’t claw me while I was struggling with her. But, when she escaped, she ran over to the other side of the room and started clawing the carpet furiously, looking straight at me with a “so there” look in her eyes. Cats really do have their ways!

T Rex said –

I’m gay, you dipshit. I’d have sex with Ann Coulter about as eagerly as with a bookmark.

Yes, but Coulter is a Man? I mean, surely it could not possibly be a woman? I mean…C’mon…Coulter could not possibly be a Woman??? BU…BUT…. ;-)

mosh…back in the day there was an actual dance move called the Huntington Beach Strut (see Shawn Kerry’s Circle Jerks logo) we’d do that up in Reno until one fine day I read an article from the Los Angeles Times that stated as fact that what the kids were doing was called “slam dancing” and although I knew of no one who’d heard of that expression prior to the publication of that article (circa spring 1980), “slam” is what “the pit” was from there on called, and it mutated into lots of baldies and mohicans swinging fists in a big circle, rather than this crazycool pinball step the HB Strut. By 1985 punk and metal crossed a lot and the “slam pit” became known as “mosh.”

Mosh was once way new school esp in metal scenes…

punaise @
215

Patrick 4/4 @ 212

Texas Candidate Wrote Racy Romance Novel

[…]
I now have something else throbbing in my belly.

throbbing gristle for the pulp mills

sounds like “Eraserhead” to me ………

Valley Girl @
227

god is as god does.

she sure does ……

Valley Girl @
235

punaise @ 234

god is in the details, but dog is in retail

???????????

you had to be there …..

SteveAudio @
242

punaise @ 239

Valley Girl @ 235

punaise @ 234

god is in the details, but dog is in retail

???????????

okay, then, details are my co-pilot

God as a dog. I think I just made a palindrome.

just so long as we don’t have to wait for ‘im ………

Good Morning, Firepups,

It’s about 40 degrees and clear, with the first light on the horizon here in central Jersey.

There was some great news here yesterday at the ‘Lake about Tommy Yum going to CT before Election Day, with Rickie Lee Jones et al, on the Had Enough tour.

Coffee’s on. Get your mugs ready!

Chilly bones in zBeantown as well.

Hello all.

Mornin’ all!

Santorum is the only thing standing between us and fascism

Mornin’.

Bunny and I are hoping for some coffee.
[holds out mug, blinks eyes a few times]

Oh and donation is for…Marcy’s book, in
honor of my mother’s birthday this week.

Imman,

Put your scarf on,
even in the house.

Love,
A former Bostonian

twolf1 @ 279

Mornin’ all!

Santorum is the only thing standing between us and fascism

The desperation is showing, isn’t it? This conflation of “Islamofascism” and WWII is already getting a bit old and stale (for some obvious reasons). `Course, that’s never stopped little Ricky.

Santorum has never failed to live up to his reputation as the dimmest bulb of the ten dimmest bulbs in Congress.

Oh my goodness, I’ll put on a second pot of coffee.

I piled on at the NYT Medina article.

Giggle! Or should I say, Google.

LOT o fdl types there.

It’s probably been covered here already, but…

So I’m stuck in a car yesterday, forced to listen to Driver’s Choice. Happened to be Rush Limbaugh. My blood pressure started going up. Then though I was trying not to listen, I couldn’t help but catch him say that Michael J. Fox’s radio ad was awful because it was another example of the Dem’s playing “the politics of fear”!

I was wearing a hat, and as I took it off and started to beat the radio dial with it, the driver was kind enough to turn it off.

i don’t know if anyone else has caught this yet or not, but it fucked up my day. I hate that guy.

Last night at a fundraiser I met the former head of the [***] who resigned in disgust last year. He told me he was disillusioned with the Republicans. Yet when I asked him who he was voting for, it was all still Republicans. Hey, I tried.

CNN – N. Korea says S. Korea’s participation in sanctions could lead to war.

OT – london yank has an excellent diary up at dkos itemizing the ways the gasoline market has been manipulated this summer and fall.

Oh haha the NYT Medina article just popped my comment out of moderation:

October 25th,
2006
7:41 am
Here you go, one-stop shopping for next time:

http://www.google.com/

Now please investigate the $387,000 “petty cash” fund. Question #1: Has anyone, ever, used this much petty cash for a primary? I mean, legally?

— Posted by egregious

more OT – has everyone already read tony judt’s excellent piece at the london review of books? it’s called: Bush’s Useful Idiots, Tony Judt on the Strange Death of Liberal America.

here is the first paragraph to tempt you:

Why have American liberals acquiesced in President Bush’s catastrophic foreign policy? Why have they so little to say about Iraq, about Lebanon, or about reports of a planned attack on Iran? Why has the administration’s sustained attack on civil liberties and international law aroused so little opposition or anger from those who used to care most about these things? Why, in short, has the liberal intelligentsia of the United States in recent years kept its head safely below the parapet?

Morning Firedogs

jayt,

I h-a-t-e Imus, but he and his entire crew just layed the smackdown on ol Pills Limpballs – it seems there’s video of him actually mocking MJ Fox’s movements – rocking back and forth, flailing his arms – dear jeebus let there be some serious repurcussions from this

TRex, did we or did we not get you up to Connecticut?

Like we would let you down?

Now about that book…[I’ve been raggin’ on Matt O. also. It’s fun and profitable.]

Sharkbabe @ 27

if Gussy or Juan Carlos (my kitties) was hanging by a thread and needed emergency surgery or something, you guys would come through.

like, duh

egregious @ 289

Oh haha the NYT Medina article just popped my comment out of moderation:

October 25th,
2006
7:41 am
Here you go, one-stop shopping for next time:

http://www.google.com/

Now please investigate the $387,000 “petty cash” fund. Question #1: Has anyone, ever, used this much petty cash for a primary? I mean, legally?

— Posted by egregious

have to say i was VERY impressed by medina’s correction. hope that kind of willingness to read and take comments/emails seriously continues.

selise — thanks for the heads up on that diary by London Yank, great piece to file away for reference. I got bashed up yesterday at DKos on the issue of GDP; the manipulation of oil and gas prices contributed enormously to weirdness in the GDP.

78% correlation between gas prices and GOP approval rating.

Gee, wouldn’t have anything to do with oddly low gas prices in states where GOP candidates are most contested, would it?

eye-muss show played Andrea Mitchell’s report on the Rush attack on Michael J. Fox and the vclip of Limpnoodle’s comments.

I-man called Rush a cowardly weasel. Among other things…something to do with a baseball bat?

Also showed Russert’s grilling of Mehlman about the racist ad against Harold Ford.

Morning Pups.

For anyone in the NYC/ Long Island area:

Tomorrow evening (Thursday) at 7 pm, Ray McGovern (former CIA presidential daily briefer who confronted Donald Rumsfeld about the Administation’s lying about pre-war intelligence)

will be speaking at C.W. Post College , Route 25A, in Old Brookville, Nassau County.

And at 2PM Big Dawg will be at a rally for Blue America candidate Dave Mejias (running against House Homeland Security Chair, Peter King in NY’s 3rd CD) on the Steps of Babaylon Town Hall in Suffolk.

Come join the fun! And let’s take back one more seat in Congress!!!

295 Prairie Sunshine says:

October 25th, 2006 at 5:29 am *

eye-muss show played Andrea Mitchell’s report on the Rush attack on Michael J. Fox and the clip of Limpnoodle’s comments.

So it *didn’t* go un-noticed. Good.

Rayne @ 294

selise — thanks for the heads up on that diary by London Yank, great piece to file away for reference. I got bashed up yesterday at DKos on the issue of GDP; the manipulation of oil and gas prices contributed enormously to weirdness in the GDP.

78% correlation between gas prices and GOP approval rating.

Gee, wouldn’t have anything to do with oddly low gas prices in states where GOP candidates are most contested, would it?

wrt to GDP weirdness and enery market manipulation – would like to know more (i know nothing now)… any good links to get me started? thanks!

OOOPps

Just got an email changing the venue for the Big Dawg event on Long Island:

Here is new info:

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

LI Jets Center, 1100 New Hwy, Farmingdale
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26TH @ 2:00 P.M.
AT AN ELECTION RALLY SUPPORTING
THE NOVEMBER 7TH RE-ELECTION OF

HILLARY CLINTON
UNITED STATES SENATOR
AND THE ELECTION OF
ELIOT SPITZER FOR NYS GOVERNOR,
ANDREW CUOMO FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
DAVE MEJIAS FOR CONGRESS
&
LT COL JACKIE GORDON FOR TOWN COUNCIL

to be followed at 7pm at CW Post by 27yr CIA veteran Ray McGovern, speaking truth to power on the poor choices facing us in Iraq and the misrepresentations that got us there.

Good mornin’, everyone. It’s been a late starting one after a concert last night!

Yep, the Fox story with Rush is now front-and-center on the WaPost’s website: Rush Limbaugh On the Offensive Against Ad With Michael J. Fox. No-one should get away with beating up on Marty McFly or Alex P. Keaton, but especially not someone that’s dedicated his life to finding a cure for Parkinson’s. Shameless…

OT: Well,the library won’t let me have a screening of Iraq for Sale til next year. I won’t even get into all the hoops I had to jump through to get that. I was also advised to think of more”liberal friendly”venues by the board member who approved my application to use the media room. I use this library alot,it’s fairly new,and in all the time it’s been opened,I’ve never seen the media room used for anything besides story time for the little kiddos.

That’s ok though,I’ve got quite a list of other places to start calling today.

FYI: The Information Clearing House website has Iraq for Sale available to watch online for free if you can’t afford to buy it right now. Be prepared to cry and smack your monitor though.

the Limpballs/Michael J. Fox issue made the top 5 minutes of the local news last night and this is California…

I despise Rush and his RNC Bushbot fundies for this most foul sliming of the valiant (and suffering) Michael J. Fox and so many others.

Forever.

selise – no links, sorry; the quibble was about the rather broad equation that “increased GDP” = “economic recovery”.

GDP in the U.S. is measured by U.S. Bureau of Economic Advisors (BEA); I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust jacksh*t that comes out of any agency under the Bush administration, too many cronies and too many threatened non-cronies that manipulate data.

If GDP = [consumption plus investment plus government spending plus (exports minus imports)], measured in U.S. dollars, you can see where gas prices and spending on Iraq would throw off what GDP is really intended to measure, namely, real economic expansion and standard of living. All monies spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan war are inflated compared to the actual benefits received in the U.S.; the 9 billion in cash that went walking in Iraq under the CPA, for example, would have counted as government spending but no yield of benefit to the economy or standard of living in the U.S. (only an increase in national debt).

That said, I don’t even know what BEA actually uses as an equation to calculate GDP; even if I did, I wouldn’t trust the inputs to be free of political manipulation. The White House and RNC point to increasing GDP as proof positive that the economy is expanding, yet the average American below the 95th percentile doesn’t feel it; this disconnect between anecdotal experience and government-published figures should be capitalized upon by the Dems.

We are living in a Potemkin Village, probably in a recession or pre-recession state if the truth really emerged

angry broad-

FYI: The Information Clearing House website has Iraq for Sale available to watch online for free if you can’t afford to buy it right now. Be prepared to cry and smack your monitor though.

link please?

hey Angry Old Broad,

clicked on your link – loved that Doxie! happened to see the Manx/vintage bike link – made Mr. cbl’s morning – gearhead boy recognized all but one – are you a fan as well ? (ssshh! don’t tell my children but I rode a Norton for a few rebellious years of my misspent youth) thanks

Information Clearinghouse
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

great digest site – where to find Robert Fisk!
checkout Daily Newspapers links on left side

Iraq For Sale
http://www.informationclearing…..e15096.htm

Pills Limblough apologized to M J Fox. But he still says Fox is using his disease to shill for a Dem candidate.

An Angry Old Broad @ 301

OT: Well,the library won’t let me have a screening of Iraq for Sale til next year. I won’t even get into all the hoops I had to jump through to get that. I was also advised to think of more”liberal friendly”venues by the board member who approved my application to use the media room. I use this library alot,it’s fairly new,and in all the time it’s been opened,I’ve never seen the media room used for anything besides story time for the little kiddos.

That’s ok though,I’ve got quite a list of other places to start calling today.

FYI: The Information Clearing House website has Iraq for Sale available to watch online for free if you can’t afford to buy it right now. Be prepared to cry and smack your monitor though.

Saw it and you are right! Thank you for trying; I am hoping to get a screening this weekend in my town. btw, there’s some terrific stuff up at ICH including an interview with George Galloway and Ilan Pappe.

http://www.informationclearing…..index.html

new thread

cbl,the guys run the site more than me,lol. Both vets,both serious gearheads. We’re a Harley family(2004 Electra Glide),but my FIL has an old BMW and an Indian we stand to inherit one of these days.

Sorry for the lack of linkies,I was posting on the fly before dropping off the kiddo at school.

And now I must get back to the phones and get this film screened.

My impression about all politicians is that they are HUGE egos. Some are nothing more, but someone like Kerry is not ONLY about himself, I do think he has some decent core values and does care about the nation and the people.

Politics in america is too much about money and power and not enough have addressing the REAL needs of the people of THIS nation. All the rubbish about Iraq, Iran, Korea and so forth really have very very very little impact on the lives of people INSIDE our borders.

And don’t forget that there are many weird ass americans here… like all the whacky fundies and evangelicals and xtian freaks who want a theocracy.. there are millions upon millions of THOSE americans too.

The purpose of government is nothing more than protecting the well being of the governed and making life better for the governed… things like housing, clean air and water, access to qualiuty heath care, afforable safe public transport, quality education, security, a fair and equaible justice system.

All the rest is rubbish. We are now a military industrial corporatocracy. The government is essentially a puppet on the string of corporatons, their charehlders and managers.

We have become a nation who values WEALTH more than health..where freedom is cherished as a means to make more money and not express ideas.

We are fucked. But we have been fucked over too and we will continued to be fucked over by capiatal.

In america .. money is free speech now. No cash.. no voice… no play.

Rayne @ 304

selise – no links, sorry; the quibble was about the rather broad equation that “increased GDP” = “economic recovery”.

GDP in the U.S. is measured by U.S. Bureau of Economic Advisors (BEA); I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust jacksh*t that comes out of any agency under the Bush administration, too many cronies and too many threatened non-cronies that manipulate data.

If GDP = [consumption plus investment plus government spending plus (exports minus imports)], measured in U.S. dollars, you can see where gas prices and spending on Iraq would throw off what GDP is really intended to measure, namely, real economic expansion and standard of living. All monies spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan war are inflated compared to the actual benefits received in the U.S.; the 9 billion in cash that went walking in Iraq under the CPA, for example, would have counted as government spending but no yield of benefit to the economy or standard of living in the U.S. (only an increase in national debt).

That said, I don’t even know what BEA actually uses as an equation to calculate GDP; even if I did, I wouldn’t trust the inputs to be free of political manipulation. The White House and RNC point to increasing GDP as proof positive that the economy is expanding, yet the average American below the 95th percentile doesn’t feel it; this disconnect between anecdotal experience and government-published figures should be capitalized upon by the Dems.

We are living in a Potemkin Village, probably in a recession or pre-recession state if the truth really emerged

amen.

Rayne @ 304

selise – no links, sorry; the quibble was about the rather broad equation that “increased GDP” = “economic recovery”.

GDP in the U.S. is measured by U.S. Bureau of Economic Advisors (BEA); I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust jacksh*t that comes out of any agency under the Bush administration, too many cronies and too many threatened non-cronies that manipulate data.

The BEA is the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That’s pretty much all they do, and they are reasonably independent (unlike the Dept. of Labor and its heavily massaged unemployment figures).

The unfortunate part of the BEA’s work is that so little of it is reported and broken down for lay people. One of the most interesting things that the BEA does is budget analysis. Each year, they break down the annual government discretionary budget into categories of spending. It mostly escaped notice, but their analysis of the 2004 fiscal year budget showed that 68% of discretionary spending was defense-related. That should have been huge news, but was only reported on the net by a couple of economists in an article abridged from a paper for economists that they published.

So, I think the BEA does reasonably independent work, but it’s not noticed.

Keep in mind that the GDP also includes wealth creation through financial services, and a lot of that money is probably centered on the really wealthy–their share of the pie has been growing dramatically because of tax cuts and the availability of so many derivatives (U.S. entities have about $75 trillion in derivatives at any given time, and slicing off even a small fraction of that as profit produces big bucks).

So, while it seems shady to have GDP growth of the magnitude we’ve seen and at the same time not see the results in one’s everyday life, it may well be the case. The really big boys just aren’t putting the money into traditional capital investments that translate into gains by the ordinary worker (there’s a very high likelihood that they’re socking it away in tax-free offshore zones, given some recent estimates).

Cheers.

So just what part of Skull and Bones vs. Skull and Bones don’t you understand?

OK, let me get this straight. TRex is gay. Yet, some how, having sex with Ann Coulter is not having sex with a man?

T Rex maybe Pantload has some inside, back door info about Mr. Coulter, Uh Uh I mean Ms Coulter he hasnt told us about!

montag — thanks for that correction on BEA. Lucky this morning I didn’t type DEA in addition to advisors instead of analysis.

Definitely, the 68% of spending allocated to defense is absurd; we are absolutely no safer for this irrational percentage of spending.

And manipulation of energy pricing distorts the remainder not spent on defense, including gaming by financial industry.

I doubt the degree of independence, not that I don’t trust your word, but the pressure on virtually every other governmental agency and department to produce numbers to order has been enormous. I can think of only one person I really trust so far in this administration and it’s the OMB’s David Walker. Surprised he hasn’t yet been escorted forcibly off the OMB’s premises for his earth-shattering commentary (thanks RenaRF!).

Rayne @ 318

And manipulation of energy pricing distorts the remainder not spent on defense, including gaming by financial industry.

You’re absolutely correct that deficit spending on defense and manipulated oil pricing have contributed to the GDP totals reported. No disputing that. And, sure, when the government is reporting war/security/reconstruction spending in Iraq as an export, it distorts the current account balance in the administration’s favor. If they didn’t, those record deficits would be truly astronomical.

The conventional wisdom says you can’t manipulate an economy as large as that of the U.S. But, I think that the Bushies have been able to do so in some not so obvious ways. Once they’re gone, I have the feeling that some really ugly economic news is going to begin to surface–maybe even before they leave….

To whom it may concern: all the linkies to the next thread are broken: all I get is the dreaded 404 error! (7:50am PDT)

Try this one, PJ

http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..ntability/

TRex, if you track back through here – by jumping into the middle of Late Nite threads I am occasionally remiss in not acknowledging the quality of your posts. so: thanks for the great posts!

Just a note, if anyone’s still here:

Even if you fall back on John Dickerson’s brain-hemorrhaged logic of “We were right to be wrong”, which is a considerable stretch, in the final analysis, YOU WERE ALL DEAD FUCKING WRONG.

I’ve had and will no doubt continue to have my problems with Dickerson’s work, but when I went back and read the post of mine that TRex linked, it was Jacob Weisberg to whom I was referring and who has on several occasions advanced the notion that people who were right about the war were only right because we’re irrationally and reflexively opposed to anything Bush does. Dickerson hasn’t done so as far as I know, and I think it’s important to slam the right person for the right sin.

That’s all … thanks again for the link, and to everyone who stopped by my place to check out the “ask the White House” deal.

Cheers,
Weldon

Since this thread is probably dead I’m not going to take time to read all the comments. I just feel compelled to say that I find the remarks about Kerry and the Markos/Bowers thuggish threats offensive. We’ve seen enough infantilization of politics. We don’t need some of our best progressive blog voices to take the lead.
.

Hmn… so our dear ex-candidate is refusing to give his help to others… money wise that is…
Well, perhaps it’s time to start whispering in a few pundits ears how… tired the dear man looks.
Just a whisper. In the right place. At the right time.
Dear me, Senator Kerry is looking a bit tired, don’t you think?

TRex,

Hmmm….

I’m wondering if Jane’s recent blog “Stand Up Stuff From a Stand Up Guy” about John Kerry had anything to do with your post here: “Late Nite FDL: On Getting it Wrong”.

As I commented on Jane’s blog:

So Jane,

Are you saying Kerry is a “stand up guy” just because he’s a major Democratic player willing to go to bat for your guy Ned Lamont?

Isn’t John Kerry the same John Kerry who was swiftboated in 2004 and lost that battle?

Isn’t this the same John Kerry who lost the 2004 Presidential election by fraud and conceeded quicker than you can say howdy?

Ned ought to feel real proud with a man like that backing him. Not!

You stated: I’m not going into battle with you again. When it got ugly, you took your rich white ass back to Boston even as reports were pouring in on election day 2004 that something was really wrong in Ohio. You conceded before the damn polls were even closed!

TRex, I totally agree with you John Kerry is only for John Kerry. Screw him!

Troubled

I agree with you, Trex. You and Markos/Bowers are saying what I thought for a long time. It is so selfish of Kerry to hold on to his 14 million that he may or may not need 2 years from now, while the chairman of the party he belong to is talking about getting a loan to come up with extra cash for this election.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c…..010421.php

I am glad somebody is outspoken enough to say what needs to be said.

-a girl from D-

P.S. I am a lurker, and I just want to tell you how much I appreciate your (and Jane, Christy, and everyone) writings. I am a grad school student and struggling financially, also. I wish you a good luck with your book (I hope you are working on one.) and have a wonderful time in Connecticut. I am looking forward to reading about it.

P.P.S. I agree with you, Troubled Texan. What an interesting site you have there.