Fitzmas is coming?

So what do we think is going to happen when Saddam is executed right about the time the State of the Union happens?

Another “turning point?”

“Last throes?”

If the Democrats continue to feed his dangerous habit they will only help Bush visit greater mayhem upon Iraq while undermining the core values of our own country.

Joe-Bama!

And so in honor of a another fine TRex post, I bring you this:

A Hopin’, a Wishin’ and a Prayin’

or

How does Junya do his decideratin’?

There have been many who pondered just how Junya goes about doing his “decideratin’”. It has been the subject of endless speculation by the chattering class, the topic of innumerable inane PhD dissertations, and of course, fodder for every adoring wingnut whose own thinkin’ it coincidently resembles.

But I’m here to reveal the complete and unvarnished truth that that has baffled even the experts. No expense was spared in divining this…ahm…stunning…ahm…feat of mental acuity.

There is a method to Junya’s madness thinkin’ process when he reluctantly needs to do some decideratin’. You know, like what to do about Iraq.

Junya, during his formative years as a cowpoke at his Connecticut dude ranch, always found things “easier” if something was “simplified”. You know, like his prep-school teachers would “simplify” his math by sayin’ “It’s OK Junya, 2 plus 2 equals 3 is close enough. You can put your socks back on now.” Or his prep-school teachers would “simplify” his readin’ by sayin’ “It’s OK Junya, as long as you’re colorin’ within the lines on the pictures, those word thingies will help keep the pictures apart.”

And after 3 years as a Senior and Junya had finally graduated, he had distilled his thought processes down to the very essense of “simplicity”, the very core of the man today.

This “simplicity” is today now universally known as “a Hopin’, a Wishin’ and a Prayin’.”

And the results of this distillation process are handily evident as Junya goes about his preznitin’ where sometimes he is forced by circumstances to attempt some decideratin’.

The easiest way for one to “appreciate” this thinkin’ process is to put yourself in the shoes of someone like…well…like…well, I suppose Junya will have to do. Just keep in mind that you don’t have to do this in public and it probably…well, most likely won’t…ahhhmmm…now that I think of it, you probably ought to get a signed release from your Doctor before you do this, but don’t let that stop ya’.

Where were we? Oh, yeah, wearing Junya’s shoes. Ok, now you’re standing in line at the Wal-Mart after stocking up on a Super-Size-Me 10 gallon jug of lime-green Kool-Aid, 4 Mega-munch bags of Cheetos, a 64-pack of Slim Jims, a carton of unfiltered low-tar Twinkies, and a gross of Extra-Short and Pencil-Thin Trojans (discounted because they’re unlubricated but hope springs eternal and Bertha Lil’ Junebug Schwanzpuller and her Siamese twin sister Loueesha Pete always carry WD-40).

Ok? So now it’s time to squint those beady eyes real hard, poke yer tongue into the side of yer cheek and wait 30 seconds. Ya always need to wait 30 seconds ‘cuz that’s what Yogi and Booboo used to do on TV before the lightbulb came on over their heads. And who said Junya never pays attention to nothin’?

Anywho, here’s what’s staring ya in the face: Gotta deciderate somethin’ and the clock is ticking. “Geez Ma, do I have to?” Ohhhhh boy!

It’s like when approaching the checkout line, you think “I sure hope there’s some money in mah wallet.” This means that while the possibility exists that you have money in your wallet, the likelihood is that you probably don’t. This could be trouble.

Then there’s this approach to the checkout line where it’s like “I wish there’s some money in mah wallet.” This means that there is definitely no money in your wallet, but if you had wished hard enough, the tooth fairy might have slipped a dollar in when you were sleeping. You’re starting to sweat.

And finally, there’s the approach to the checkout line where it’s like “I pray there’s some money in mah wallet.” This means that there never was any money in your wallet ‘cuz you never owned a wallet and you’re going to hell unless a miracle occurs right quick. Closing your eyes probably ain’t gonna help much. But crossing your legs real tight sometimes works and if it don’t, the Depends are just an aisle away.

Simple, wasn’t it? I tol’ ya!

So now we reach the finale where the most momentous decideratin’ of his preznitcy awaits his undivided (huh?) attention, where the lives of loved ones are literally hanging in the balance, where mountains are separated from molehills, where mice are men…where…where was I?

Oh yeah, and since anybody can do it, why good ol’ Junya is right this very moment decideratin’ about Iraq and I betcha I know just what he’s thinking:

“Ah hope Poppy and his friends stop writing those reports and Deadeye or maybe even Ma can draw some pictures for me. I wish that jug of ol’ Grandpappy wasn’t empty, and Rummy or even Santa would return mah phonecalls. I pray the voice in mah head is the Lawd speakin’ and not Barney again.”

And the collective judgement of the American public? Uh ohhhhhh…!

TREX IS BACK!!!

neurophius @ 5

TREX IS BACK!!!

And better than ever. Although my family is starting to complain that I’m spending more of my vacation with you guys than with them.

Yet even formerly sober folks — first Colin Powell and now new Secretary of Defense Robert Gates — get a contact high from cozying up to the walking hallucinogen that is our president.

I’m not sure Robert Gates qualifies as formerly sober, unless you mean a practical war criminal, as opposed to batshit Kraphammer vintage.

P.S. I spent a couple days with the family. Apparently, all were satisfied that was more than suffic REDACTED

We’ve watched him disregard the advice of everyone short of God, including the military, his father’s clean-up squad, the Iraqis themselves, the American people, and, well, anyone who has attempted to tell him anything other than what he wants to hear, which is exactly the process that drove us into the war to begin with.

Unless there’s something both seriously different and demonstrably more authentic about whatever translation of the Gospels Bush favors, I must conclude he disregarded God as well. The Beatitudes as I know them don’t seem to include “Blessed art thou when thou mowest over the defenseless nations on trumped-up justifications, for thou shalt kick arse and take names.”

So Bush is trying to find his mind again?

I’ve lost count as to how many times he’s lost it.

; )

Here’s how Bush screws the nation.

LOL!!!
_

It’s time for an intervention.

I can stop any time I want. It’s not an addiction.

First two steps of any 12 step program:

#1 We admitted we were powerless over (fill in the blank) — that our lives had become unmanageable.

#2 Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

fill in your own joke w/regard to GWB

I think the “intervention” should start in the House Judiciary Committee. With an inquiry as to whether there are sufficient grounds to support a resolution of impeachment.

Then Democrats are going to have to do the unpopular thing and vote NO on sending more money to Iraq.
Does anyone think this will happen?

BobbyG @ 10

Here’s how Bush screws the nation.

LOL!!!
_

Yep, nobody knows how to screw over this country like Bush does.

neurophius @ 12

I think the “intervention” should start in the House Judiciary Committee. With an inquiry as to whether there are sufficient grounds to support a resolution of impeachment.

Feingold!!

Since congress voted for the idiot-child’s war resolution maybe they have the authority to rescind it. Or perhaps they can force him to stop borrowing all this dough from the commie-chinese.

Reminds me of the Mike Luckovich cartoon, of Barney out back of the White House, painting a sign, “Owt Iraq Now.” :)

Rehab at Gitmo.

War is little Georgie’s little blue pill.

SusanD @ 19

War is little Georgie’s little blue pill.

It’s just too bad that WE THE PEOPLE must suffer all the nasty side effects.

SusanD @ 19

War is little Georgie’s little blue pill.

Only one among a great many, I would guess….

SPAM ALERT @ 22!

I often wonder if Tolkien ever met Babs. She would have served so well as the model for Shelob. And just like Shelob she’s unleashed her unholy spawn on the world to feed on us.

Reza Aslan (Author “No God hut God) on Cnn right now saying we ignored the last president of Iran because it’s a meaningless position – BUT – we’re playin’ the hell out of the current president of Iran ’cause he’s saying stupid (but useful to US) things.

He has no power, unless the US decides to pretend that he has.

Arianna, Lewis Black also on panel – pretty good – except for nut-ball moderator.

The issue is no longer W.

Everyone, yes everyone, knows how out of control he is.

The issue is now, “Why can’t we get him out of the White House when he is destroying everything within his grasp?”.

What is wrong with us? Why does everyone who could stop him seem like they are codependents without a 12 step program?

The man is more dangerous than anyone else has ever been. There has to be the will to end this insanity.

SusanD @
23

I often wonder if Tolkien ever met Babs. She would have served so well as the model for Shelob. And just like Shelob she’s unleashed her unholy spawn on the world to feed on us.

Certainly is possible. Shelob spelled backwards would be pronounced “balless.” :)

NBC news – Gerald Ford died :(

Alison, when the new Congress gets going I think we need to persistently ask that very question. “Why aren’t you stopping him?”

I intend to send lots of faxes in the coming months. I want to know why they’re just standing around letting him destroy everything he touches.

twolf1 @ 27

NBC news – Gerald Ford died :(

that’s sad.

twolf1 @ 28

NBC news – Gerald Ford died :(

Oh, no!

Though he may have been a GOPer, and though he pardoned Tricky Dicky…

Compared to the current crop of Thugs, Ford was a liberal saint. This might not have been just Ford dying here, but the death of the sane wing of the Republican Party.

jayt @ 11

fill in your own joke w/regard to GWB

ok – I’ll start (with Step #2). “power greater than ourself”.
To GWB, there is obviously no such thing, despite his pretend-friend J.C.

“…could restore us to sanity.”

Wouldn’t know it if he saw it.

I like Betty…

Jimmy Carter will be sad. They became good friends after they were both out of office.

twolf1 @ 27

NBC news – Gerald Ford died :(

Junya is saved! Now he can put off that decideratin’ on what to do about Iraq. Whew!!! Was about out of crayons and the dang jug was empty again.

atdnext @ 30

Though he may have been a GOPer, and though he pardoned Tricky Dicky…

Compared to the current crop of Thugs, Ford was a liberal saint. This might not have been just Ford dying here, but the death of the sane wing of the Republican Party.

True enough, Ford was a damned sight more decent than the current crop of rat bastards.

Too many people understand now our country is walking on a razorblade now.We slip either way and loose our collective [overies/balls]The rest of the world is watching us self-destuct and lickin their chops on our soon-to-be carcass

Jeff Greenfield CNN calling Ford “the last moderate Republican.”

OldCoastie @ 33

I like Betty…

Hmmm, this makes me wonder…

If Gerald and Betty were a part of today’s political scene, would they be a part of today’s Republican Party?

proley not, atdnext…

atdnext @ 30

twolf1 @ 28

NBC news – Gerald Ford died :(

Oh, no!

Though he may have been a GOPer, and though he pardoned Tricky Dicky…

Compared to the current crop of Thugs, Ford was a liberal saint. This might not have been just Ford dying here, but the death of the sane wing of the Republican Party.

Umm, perhaps my memory of history is different. This is the man who made repeated attempts to have William O. Douglas impeached–precisely because he felt that Douglas was too liberal for the Supreme Court. Not just once, but over and over again.

This was the man who made Donald Rumsfeld first, his chief of staff, and second, his Secretary of Defense.

This was the man who made Dick Cheney his chief of staff, and then his campaign manager.

This was the man who voted against virtually every education bill presented to the House during his tenure.

This was the man who made George H.W. Bush the Director of the CIA….

Liberal? Sane? My, how times have changed….

montag @ 41

atdnext @ 30

twolf1 @ 28

NBC news – Gerald Ford died :(

Oh, no!

Though he may have been a GOPer, and though he pardoned Tricky Dicky…

Compared to the current crop of Thugs, Ford was a liberal saint. This might not have been just Ford dying here, but the death of the sane wing of the Republican Party.

Umm, perhaps my memory of history is different. This is the man who made repeated attempts to have William O. Douglas impeached–precisely because he felt that Douglas was too liberal for the Supreme Court. Not just once, but over and over again.

This was the man who made Donald Rumsfeld first, his chief of staff, and second, his Secretary of Defense.

This was the man who made Dick Cheney his chief of staff, and then his campaign manager.

This was the man who voted against virtually every education bill presented to the House during his tenure.

This was the man who made George H.W. Bush the Director of the CIA….

Liberal? Sane? My, how times have changed….

Ain’t that the truth!

Now I wasn’t actually calling Ford a liberal…
I was saying that compared to Bushit, he was much more tolerable…
And yes, he was sane.

I still like Betty and I am sorry for her loss.

snuffy @ 37

Too many people understand now our country is walking on a razorblade now.We slip either way and loose our collective [overies/balls]The rest of the world is watching us self-destuct and lickin their chops on our soon-to-be carcass

The rest of the world wants to love the US and is sorely vexed. The rest of the world knows what the US has lost in 6 years. The BBC, the CBC and the Guardian haven’t completely lost the ability to tell the truth.

The US needs to get the Middle East right, not wrong, for the rest of the world to survive.

The US needs to get global warming right, not wrong, for the rest of the world to survive.

The US needs to get nuclear proliferation right, not wrong, for the rest of the world to survive.

The US needs to get HIV/AIDS right, not wrong, for the rest of the world to survive.

The US needs to get their economy in order for the rest of the world to prosper.

No one is licking their lips at the fall of the American Empire besides some elderly Chinese bureaucrats who don’t understand how much their banks depend on the US.

Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit said Tuesday that a former Iraqi Cabinet minister who escaped from a Baghdad prison this month had arrived in Jordan on a U.S. plane.

Ayham al-Samaraie, a former minister of electricity with dual U.S. and Iraqi citizenship, was serving time for corruption when he escaped in mid-December.

Lou Fintor, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, said the U.S. government was not involved in al-Samaraie’s escape “in any way.”

OK, the AP story on Ford’s death is now up.

: (

And yes, he was sane.

And, along with Arlen Specter, a member of the Warren Commission.

Ford appointed John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court. I have heard Souter turned out to be more liberal than Ford expected. A mistake from his perspective, perhaps, but one that has worked to our benefit, helping to preserve some semblence of reason.

atdnext @
45

OK, the AP story on Ford’s death is now up.

: (

Michelle Malkin should be along any minute to attempt to debunk it.

I saw the clip of Bush walking off the plane. Laura and her mother are behind him, going slowly naturally. Did the president, the husband, the son-in-law, bother to walk slowly with them? Nooooo. He went on down the stairs with the dog, leaving the two women in his wake.

What. An. Ass.

neurophius @ 47

Ford appointed John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court. I have heard Souter turned out to be more liberal than Ford expected. A mistake from his perspective, perhaps, but one that has worked to our benefit, helping to preserve some semblence of reason.

Do you mean Souter or Stevens? Ford appointed Stevens.

I have heard STEVENS turned out to be more liberal than Ford expected…

PREVIEW.

1996 episode of SNL featuring Dana Carvey as Tom Brokaw, announcing the various ways Gerald Ford could die.

Sorry. Duh.

The date of the funeral will be planned to suck up all the political oxygen out of the day we pass 3,000 dead troops in Iraq.

He pardoned Nixon, and he served on the ridiculous Warren Commission, which gave its blessing to the pristine bullet-which-defied-the-laws-of-physics.

A man of principle? By today’s standards, I suppose so.

Ford said he thought it was important for the country to have reconciliation, and to put Watergate behind us. I understand that.

But how do you have reconciliation without accountability? The Nixon administration was never truly held to account, so 26 years later, here comes Cheney and Rumsfeld, back like a bad rash to irritate the country all over again. Their ideas of unlimited Executive power will destroy our democracy.

jayt @ 46

And yes, he was sane.

And, along with Arlen Specter, a member of the Warren Commission.

“Warren Commission.” Now, there’s a phrase that’s lost a good deal of its distinction over the years….

TRex @ 49

atdnext @
45

OK, the AP story on Ford’s death is now up.

: (

Michelle Malkin should be along any minute to attempt to debunk it.

“NO!!!! He’s alive, I tell you! He’s as alive as my burgeoning internet fame.”

Sorry, but when someone tells me Michelle Malkin, I can’t resist the snark. ; )

CNN is pretty much nominating Ford for sainthood.

egregious @ 54

The date of the funeral will be planned to suck up all the political oxygen out of the day we pass 3,000 dead troops in Iraq.

January 4th when the new Democratic Congress and Senate swear in. It will suck all media coverage for the first woman speaker of the house, the 3000 deaths and the first Muslim being sworn in.

neurophius @ 61

CNN is pretty much nominating Ford for sainthood.

Even more so than Reagan when he died?

I swear, in that week between his death and the funeral, Reagan was elevated to the status of political deity… On CNN!

I was too scared to look at whatever the hell the Fascist Nonsense Channel was doing at the time.

neurophius @ 60

CNN is pretty much nominating Ford for sainthood.

So is MSNBC…. needed my KO fix too!

I hope the glorification of the deceased President Ford will serve to focus America’s attention more sharply on what a rotten lout we have in that office today. Despite all of Ford’s flaws that have been mentioned here, he doesn’t look so bad compared to Bushboy.

I can’t wait for the Krauthammer-tastic op-ed reminding us that South Vietnam could have been saved if only Congress hadn’t stopped Ford from sending in the B-52s. He will then instruct us that the Democrat Congress is poised to make the same mistake and prevent King Junior from saving Iraq. It will be Congress’ fault. Q.E.D.

If not Krauthammer, then Kristol, or the WSJ.

You may begin wagering.

BBC front page puts it thusly:

Gerald Ford, the longest living and only unelected US president, has died at the age of 93.

Here’s halcyon daze:
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/avproj/a4154-07.jpg

More Jerry et al:
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/avproj/work2.htm

Jerry admits ‘editing’ an important historical document:
http://www.whatreallyhappened……/ford.html

Here, Jerry’s on the ‘far left’:
http://www.history-matters.com…..ission.jpg

And another of history’s actors on that same august body. Although as lowly counsel.

Just like Beyonce: “To The Left, To The Left”
http://images.google.com/imgre…..l&sa=G

He’s lately the Chair of Senate Judiciary. Same committee Ted Kennedy sits on.

My contpt for this cabal knows no bounds, and will never subside or wane. (although it may be matched by other dark actors.)

Bush isn’t hooked on military might…or not as the primary drug. He’s hooked on pure Rightness. On this being God’s plan and he’s up against the devil himself. This is evangelical insanity taken out beyond imagination. He knows he’s right, he knows if he stays the course he’ll somehow be vindicated and saved, and even if he isn’t, he becomes a martyr. This thing is sailing off the cliff and I can’t find either my seat belt or my parachute. Jebus.

neurophius @ 64

Despite all of Ford’s flaws that have been mentioned here, he doesn’t look so bad compared to Bushboy.

It’s not too hard. Even a rabid dog with the mange doesn’t look so bad compared to Bushboy.

neurophius @ 65

I hope the glorification of the deceased President Ford will serve to focus America’s attention more sharply on what a rotten lout we have in that office today. Despite all of Ford’s flaws that have been mentioned here, he doesn’t look so bad compared to Bushboy.

Yes, Bushco had pushed the “center of gravity” so far to the right that Nixon and Ford starting looking moderate, even a tad bit “liberal” for Republicans…

Again, I ask, if Ford were a politician today, would he still be a GOPer?

I heard that Michelle Malkin hosted the O’Reilly Factor tonight. That must have been a hoot.

TRex @ 69

I heard that Michelle Malkin hosted the O’Reilly Factor tonight. That must have been a hoot.

EEEEUUUWWWW now I need to wash my brain …. what a nasty thought that is…

neurophius @ 64

I hope the glorification of the deceased President Ford will serve to focus America’s attention more sharply on what a rotten lout we have in that office today. Despite all of Ford’s flaws that have been mentioned here, he doesn’t look so bad compared to Bushboy.

I think what needs to be figured into this equation is how long we had to put up with Ford. About twenty-nine months. Even Bush would have seemed better by comparison to himself three and a half years ago…. :)

katymine @ 70

TRex @ 69

I heard that Michelle Malkin hosted the O’Reilly Factor tonight. That must have been a hoot.

EEEEUUUWWWW now I need to wash my brain …. what a nasty thought that is…

Was there, uh, a loofah involved? :)

montag @ 73

katymine @ 70

TRex @ 69

I heard that Michelle Malkin hosted the O’Reilly Factor tonight. That must have been a hoot.

EEEEUUUWWWW now I need to wash my brain …. what a nasty thought that is…

Was there, uh, a loofah involved? :)

Just as long as there was no FALAFEL involved. ; )

As the picture demonstrates, he’s taking that old Washington adage, “If you want a friend, get a dog,” to heart. And apparently holding on to old Barney for dear life.

If only he were only a joke. But he’s not. He’s a savage menace: New Pottery Barn Rules: You break it, break it some more. The neocons plan to double down their Iraq bet with a troop surge. Baghdad = Stalingrad? Iraq is the neocon wet dream turned nightmare, and it looks as if it just won’t end until Cheney and Bush leave office.

TRex @ 69

I heard that Michelle Malkin hosted the O’Reilly Factor tonight. That must have been a hoot.

That has to be the most poetically just decision since Hitler guest-starred on the Pol Pot Family Variety Hour.

montag @ 73

katymine @ 70

TRex @ 69

I heard that Michelle Malkin hosted the O’Reilly Factor tonight. That must have been a hoot.

EEEEUUUWWWW now I need to wash my brain …. what a nasty thought that is…

Was there, uh, a loofah involved? :)

brain bleach, brain bleach, brain bleach

marksb @ 67

Bush isn’t hooked on military might…or not as the primary drug. He’s hooked on pure Rightness. On this being God’s plan and he’s up against the devil himself. This is evangelical insanity taken out beyond imagination. He knows he’s right, he knows if he stays the course he’ll somehow be vindicated and saved, and even if he isn’t, he becomes a martyr. This thing is sailing off the cliff and I can’t find either my seat belt or my parachute. Jebus.

Yeah, I think you’ve got it. Scary shit.

Chimpy Bush may have to downgrade his future ambitions and declare that history may look at him as kindly as Gerald Ford.

His Truman schtick aint getting traction.

-GSD

By the way, if you folks haven’t seen Downfall, my what a timely rental.

-GSD

GSD @ 78

Chimpy Bush may have to downgrade his future ambitions and declare that history may look at him as kindly as Gerald Ford.

His Truman schtick aint getting traction.

That “23 percent” thing seems to be tripping him up, the poor dear. Maybe he should consider a James Polk analogy.

Something else we may want to resurrect from 1975-76: The Church Committee.

Bush is Nixon. Period. No, wait – he’s worse. But for this example he’s Nixon. Cheney is Agnew.

Ford is a player to be named later. Mr. X…perhaps Hastert?
—–
EDIT: Patrick 4/4 wrt Church…I’d forgotten…
THAT IS GOOD.

Blank Kludge @ 82

Bush is Nixon. Period. No, wait – he’s worse. But for this example he’s Nixon. Cheney is Agnew.

Ford is a player to be named later. Mr. X…perhaps Hastert?
—–

I can hear his first press conference now: “President FatAss?”

Patrick 4/4 @ 81

Something else we may want to resurrect from 1975-76: The Church Committee.

And, I believe it was Ford who got rid of Colby because he felt that Colby was “cooperating” with the Church and Pike committees, and was unhappy about that. And, it was hand-picked advisers, Rummy and Toad-In-The-Hole who lobbied for Bush to replace Colby….

Jeesh, Ford was like the Zelig of the Bush Crime Family.

-GSD

Blank Kludge @ 82

Bush is Nixon. Period. No, wait – he’s worse. But for this example he’s Nixon. Cheney is Agnew.

Ford is a player to be named later. Mr. X…perhaps Hastert?
—–
EDIT: Patrick 4/4 wrt Church…I’d forgotten…
THAT IS GOOD.

Ok you are on to something… the rumors that have floated around AZ since the Kerry might have picked McCain for VP slot…

That BushCo made Lord McCain a counter offer of the ReThug Veep slot if he stuck with Bush, kissed ass and did everything Bush wanted then sometime in 2007, Cheney will resign for health reasons, Lord McCain is nominated and easily confirmed ….. since he is such a nice guy… Then in 2008… Ole Jebbie would be McCain’s Veep pick. I have heard this story from multiple sources.

GSD @ 85

Jeesh, Ford was like the Zelig of the Bush Crime Family.

-GSD

My understanding was that Ford’s first choice was not Bush, however. His first choice declined the job, and that’s when Cheney and the White House staff went to work on him about GHWB.

Bush doesn’t care how he got elected.
Doesn’t care how many die in Iraq.
Doesn’t care about anything expect maintaining
his huge, nefarious ego. He is a sadist of the
first order.
And he is much worse than Nixon. Nixon had a few
progressive ideas like universal healthcare. And
Nixon knew when to quit.

“Remember: I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln.”

Well, in that case…

What is Bush?

A wrecked Yugo?

Hi pups – happy Boxing day!

Trex, thaks for another dead-on post.

Is there a twelve-step program for delusional chief executives?

hee hee – mulled cider spew alert.

Oh – and a seriously OT cooking question. Here next to sunny Pasadena, we’re expecting our first real storm – so I went out and picked the last of the ripe tomatoes (two baskets) and – as we’re expecting 40 MPH winds – two baskets of green tomatoes.

Frying green tomatoes is not an option for the family diets, and we’re too ignorant to can.

Soo….late night pups – anyone care to share their vegetarian green tomatoes recipes?

[If there is snow outside your house tonight, please don’t hate us. You have winter, we have earthqualkes and smog and $500,000 2 bedroom “fixer-uppers” last used as crack houses.]

atdnext @ 89

“Remember: I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln.”

Well, in that case…

What is Bush?

A wrecked Yugo?

A busted bicycle….

A wrecked Yugo?

A pimped out Chevette.

katymine @
60

egregious @ 54

The date of the funeral will be planned to suck up all the political oxygen out of the day we pass 3,000 dead troops in Iraq.

January 4th when the new Democratic Congress and Senate swear in. It will suck all media coverage for the first woman speaker of the house, the 3000 deaths and the first Muslim being sworn in.

It is up to the MSM frame the airtime. With Fitz in Court, when, the 15th and the trial opening the next day, surely the Ford funeral will occur first and then its Fitz’ turn. Ya think Bush might pardon Libby under cover of Ford’s death and funeral. Watching him deplane in Crawford reminded me of the Sean Penn/Susan Sarandon film Dead Man Walking. I think he is toast and my major concern is the damage he can do on the way out.

Madison Guy @ 73

If only he were only a joke. But he’s not. He’s a savage menace: New Pottery Barn Rules: You break it, break it some more. The neocons plan to double down their Iraq bet with a troop surge.

What I want to know is what did Gates say to those generals in Iraq, that now they’re saying they do want a troop build up?

kirk murphy @ 91

Hi pups – happy Boxing day!

Trex, thaks for another dead-on post.

Is there a twelve-step program for delusional chief executives?

hee hee – mulled cider spew alert.

Oh – and a seriously OT cooking question. Here next to sunny Pasadena, we’re expecting our first real storm – so I went out and picked the last of the ripe tomatoes (two baskets) and – as we’re expecting 40 MPH winds – two baskets of green tomatoes.

Frying green tomatoes is not an option for the family diets, and we’re too ignorant to can.

Soo….late night pups – anyone care to share their vegetarian green tomatoes recipes?

[If there is snow outside your house tonight, please don’t hate us. You have winter, we have earthqualkes and smog and $500,000 2 bedroom “fixer-uppers” last used as crack houses.]

$500,000?! Is a 2 bed “fixer upper” really that cheap up there?

; )

A razor scooter with a line of coke.

-GSD

A hijacked FUCKING airliner…no, FOUR hijacked fucking airliners. Destruction in four dimensions.

got to go to bed before I either hurl or blood pressure kills me.

Ford died with secrets.

montag @ 84

Patrick 4/4 @ 81

Something else we may want to resurrect from 1975-76: The Church Committee.

And, I believe it was Ford who got rid of Colby because he felt that Colby was “cooperating” with the Church and Pike committees, and was unhappy about that. And, it was hand-picked advisers, Rummy and Toad-In-The-Hole who lobbied for Bush to replace Colby….

Yeppers.

The constraints on CIA led inexorably to Itan-Contra and “off the shelf” deniable covert ops. The masterstroke of the Bush administration has been to combine the two. Illegal, deniable covert operations that the preznit actually doesn’t bother to deny and simply ignores the law.

Add an arrogant, incoherent and unaccountable preznit – magic time.

What I want to know is what did Gates say to those generals in Iraq, that now they’re saying they do want a troop build up?

“Ya want retirement with benefits? THEN you toe the line and say what I want ya to say, period.”

TRex @ 93

A wrecked Yugo?

A pimped out Chevette.

How kind of you, TRex.

Montag spoke of a busted bicycle…

And now, I’m starting to think of a unicycle that’s falling apart.

; )

TRex @ 92

A wrecked Yugo?

A pimped out Chevette.

“I’ve never seen a supernova explode, but if it’s anything like my old Chevy Nova, it should really light up the night sky!”
–Fry, “Futurama”

Here’s a handy link to some green tomato recipes.

The salsa verde recipe sounds particularly tasty:

Ingredients:
1 pound ripe red tomatoes
1/2 pound tomatillos or green tomatoes
3 large sweet banana peppers, seeded
2 medium Hungarian wax peppers, seeded
1/4 bunch cilantro
1/2 medium white or yellow onion
jalapeno or serrano pepper, seeded
adjust number for desired heat level
1 lime, juice of
1 teaspoon salt, (to taste)

Instructions:
By hand or in a food processor or salsa maker, chop everything into 1/4 to 1/8-inch pieces. Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and mix in lime juice and salt to taste.

Blank Kludge @ 97

Ford died with secrets.

I guess that would depend upon whether or not Bob Woody was there to hear his deathbed statement…. :)

Bless you, Trex!

Thanks :)

atdnext @ 100

TRex @ 93

A wrecked Yugo?

A pimped out Chevette.

How kind of you, TRex.

Montag spoke of a busted bicycle…

And now, I’m starting to think of a unicycle that’s falling apart.

; )

I was gonna change it to unicycle, and then decided that with that, Toad-In-The-Hole couldn’t ride on the handlebars. :)

Bush is a 1964 corvair with no brakes.

ooooh salsa verde!

now I’m hungry!

Mary McCurnin @ 106

Bush is a 1964 corvair with no brakes.

Unsafe at any speed, but watch the hell out when Laura’s driving.

Tony Blair’s plane slides off the runway in Florida.

Whoops.

-GSD

GSD @ 109

Tony Blair’s plane slides off the runway in Florida.

Whoops.

-GSD

That’s what kind of vehicle Bush is. A jetliner skidding off the runway with the world on board.

kirk murphy @ 104

Bless you, Trex!

Thanks :)

Personally, I would use two limes with that salsa recipe, but I love sour things.

Do people outside of the south know what Chow-Chow is?

Lying in bed…contemplating McCain stepping into WH ala Ford. That won’t work. I don’t know why. But it won’t.

But, the worst fucking inside straight ever drawn would be Joey2Face. Neocons are in; worse, in a ‘bipartisan’ guise. Then, Jozo and Johnzo can run as a ‘unity’ ticket.

Rell appoints an R replacement in Sen and we can all go home.

TRex @ 113

Do people outside of the south know what Chow-Chow is?

Is this it?

GSD @ 109

Tony Blair’s plane slides off the runway in Florida.

Whoops.

-GSD

I am so hoping that he’s developing a belief in omens right now. :)

TRex @ 112

Do people outside of the south know what Chow-Chow is?

I don’t, but I don’t know whether that’s regional or personal ignorance.

Is chow-chow a kind of pickle relish?

TRex @ 112

kirk murphy @ 104

Bless you, Trex!

Thanks :)

Personally, I would use two limes with that salsa recipe, but I love sour things.

Two limes it is! Sour is gooood.

atdnext @ 114

TRex @ 113

Do people outside of the south know what Chow-Chow is?

Is this it?

Indeed. It’s wonderful stuff. Sour and spicy. You serve it with barbecue and other meats. This recipe page I found has a green tomato chow-chow recipe:

Ingredients:
1 peck (12 pounds) green tomatoes
8 large onions
10 green bell peppers
3 tablespoons salt
6 hot peppers (chopped)
1 quart vinegar
1 tablespoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon cloves
3 tablespoons dry mustard
few bay leaves
1 3/4 cups sugar
cup horseradish (optional)

Instructions:
CHOP tomatoes, onions and peppers together and cover with the salt; let stand overnight. Drain, add the hot peppers, vinegar, spices (tied in cheesecloth bag) and sugar; allow to boil slowly until tender (about 15 minutes). Add horseradish. Pack into sterilized Kerr jars to within inch of top. Put on cap, screw band FIRMLY TIGHT. Process in Boiling Water Bath 10 minutes.

SusanD @ 117

Is chow-chow a kind of pickle relish?

I believe TRex is trying to answer what to do with all those green tomatoes mentioned above. (!)

montag @ 115

GSD @ 109

Tony Blair’s plane slides off the runway in Florida.

Whoops.

-GSD

I am so hoping that he’s developing a belief in omens right now. :)

Apparently there was an undercount of the runway.

BBC radio interviewing John Dean on Ford just ended. Last few seconds Dean got in Cheney, as Ford’s CoS, being ‘traumatized by having the Imperial Presidency revoked post-Watergate’, ie during Ford. And ‘never having gotten over it’. Dean: “And now of course, he’s Vice President.”

Good Night And Good Luck.

TRex @ 120

atdnext @ 114

TRex @ 113

Do people outside of the south know what Chow-Chow is?

Is this it?

Indeed. It’s wonderful stuff. Sour and spicy. You serve it with barbecue and other meats. This recipe page I found has a green tomato chow-chow recipe:

Ingredients:
1 peck (12 pounds) green tomatoes
8 large onions
10 green bell peppers
3 tablespoons salt
6 hot peppers (chopped)
1 quart vinegar
1 tablespoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon cloves
3 tablespoons dry mustard
few bay leaves
1 3/4 cups sugar
cup horseradish (optional)

Instructions:
CHOP tomatoes, onions and peppers together and cover with the salt; let stand overnight. Drain, add the hot peppers, vinegar, spices (tied in cheesecloth bag) and sugar; allow to boil slowly until tender (about 15 minutes). Add horseradish. Pack into sterilized Kerr jars to within inch of top. Put on cap, screw band FIRMLY TIGHT. Process in Boiling Water Bath 10 minutes.

Thanks, TRex! Now you’ve given me a great idea as to how I should spend my Trader Joe’s gift card.

: )

Green tomato cake

and

baked green tomatoes

Patrick 4/4 @ 121

Apparently there was an undercount of the runway.

Causing Blair to run away in his undershorts….

I tell ya, southerners may be a little slow, resistant to change, deranged by religion, and not the most tolerant folk on the planet, but we sure now how to make some good food.

TRex @ 127

I tell ya, southerners may be a little slow, resistant to change, deranged by religion, and not the most tolerant folk on the planet, but we sure now how to make some good food.

Oh, yes you do!

I may be used to some wild stuff here in the Land of Californication, but I must say that some of the best meals I ever had were the traditional Southern dishes I enjoyed while I was in Dallas a year ago.

Blank Kludge @ 113
I cannot find the post over at TalkingPointMemo but it was about McCain getting a leg up on fund raising over Giuliani because Lord McCain has the Bush Ranger and Pioneer donor lists and has been hitting the phones for 2008 Prez bucks.

John Dean is a gift that keeps on giving. Clearly a ruthless SOB like Cheney will never get over it but I have a feeling Scooter may prove ole Dead Eye Dick’s Waterloo unless of course I am completely overestimating Fitz and his team.

Blank Kludge @ 122

BBC radio interviewing John Dean on Ford just ended. Last few seconds Dean got in Cheney, as Ford’s CoS, being ‘traumatized by having the Imperial Presidency revoked post-Watergate’, ie during Ford. And ‘never having gotten over it’. Dean: “And now of course, he’s Vice President.”

Good Night And Good Luck.

katymine @ 128

Blank Kludge @ 113
I cannot find the post over at TalkingPointMemo but it was about McCain getting a leg up on fund raising over Giuliani because Lord McCain has the Bush Ranger and Pioneer donor lists and has been hitting the phones for 2008 Prez bucks.

Just goes to show you–`pugs have neither morals nor taste. They’ll give money to anyone…. Oops. My mistake. That’s redundant. They already gave money to Lieberman….

montag @ 131

katymine @ 128

Blank Kludge @ 113
I cannot find the post over at TalkingPointMemo but it was about McCain getting a leg up on fund raising over Giuliani because Lord McCain has the Bush Ranger and Pioneer donor lists and has been hitting the phones for 2008 Prez bucks.

Just goes to show you–`pugs have neither morals nor taste. They’ll give money to anyone….

Hell, if they can give to Felix Macaca Allen and Mitt “Golden Shower” Romney…

atdnext @ 131

montag @ 131

katymine @ 128

Blank Kludge @ 113
I cannot find the post over at TalkingPointMemo but it was about McCain getting a leg up on fund raising over Giuliani because Lord McCain has the Bush Ranger and Pioneer donor lists and has been hitting the phones for 2008 Prez bucks.

Just goes to show you–`pugs have neither morals nor taste. They’ll give money to anyone….

Hell, if they can give to Felix Macaca Allen and Mitt “Golden Shower” Romney…

Umm, see edit. :)

montag @ 130

katymine @ 128

Blank Kludge @ 113
I cannot find the post over at TalkingPointMemo but it was about McCain getting a leg up on fund raising over Giuliani because Lord McCain has the Bush Ranger and Pioneer donor lists and has been hitting the phones for 2008 Prez bucks.

Just goes to show you–`pugs have neither morals nor taste. They’ll give money to anyone…. Oops. My mistake. That’s redundant. They already gave money to Lieberman….

atdnext @ 131

montag @ 131

katymine @ 128

Blank Kludge @ 113
I cannot find the post over at TalkingPointMemo but it was about McCain getting a leg up on fund raising over Giuliani because Lord McCain has the Bush Ranger and Pioneer donor lists and has been hitting the phones for 2008 Prez bucks.

Just goes to show you–`pugs have neither morals nor taste. They’ll give money to anyone….

Hell, if they can give to Felix Macaca Allen and Mitt “Golden Shower” Romney…

Clusterfuck loves presidential deaths- he gets to give big speeches and look all presidential while spilling tears over the coffin..

This is gonna be a puker!

If you ever get a chance to hear John Dean speak, please do. He spoke at a ACLU panel debate on the NSA spying the day the Military commission bill was being voted on. Amazing guy, really liked him and he scared ya too.

He really does not like Cheney and has nothing good to say about him. I know, I know… TRex, I promised to write up my notes but life sometimes does not give ya a break when running the rat race.

Dean said that the genius of Cheney is that he allows Bush to wake up every morning thinking he is President.

rwcole @ 133

Clusterfuck loves presidential deaths- he gets to give big speeches and look all presidential while spilling tears over the coffin..

This is gonna be a puker!

I thought it was Papabush who was the puker!

katymine @ 135

Dean said that the genius of Cheney is that he allows Bush to wake up every morning thinking he is President.

I’m reasonably sure that Dean talks to older CIA guys. He knows that they call Cheney “Edgar.” :)

Persiflage @ 136

I thought it was Papabush who was the puker!

Only on the Japanese. In this country, he floods us with tears….

I may be used to some wild stuff here in the Land of Californication, but I must say that some of the best meals I ever had were the traditional Southern dishes I enjoyed while I was in Dallas a year ago.

When we start dating, I will cook for you all the time.

wow – thanks Trex and Suzanne -

tomorrow we’ll be making salsa verde, chowchow, and green tomato cake!

wish I could start a firepup cafe and pass a plate round to all…

Persiflage @ 136

I thought it was Papabush who was the puker!

He was also the last member of the clan to have a public crying jag. (His wife, it is well known, has no tear ducts.)

EvilDrPuma @ 141

He was also the last member of the clan to have a public crying jag. (His wife, it is well known, has no tear ducts.)

Still think Kitty Kelley said it best, in an interview, “You start off thinking the Bushes are ‘The Donna Reed Show’ and end up thinking they’re ‘The Sopranos.’”

mod note: third time’s a charm … please stop using our comments solely to promote your blog. If you contribute interesting thoughts, folks will click the link under your login name.

Any father who didn’t cry after seeing what his own flesh and blood has done to this country would be a traitor.

TRex @ 140

I may be used to some wild stuff here in the Land of Californication, but I must say that some of the best meals I ever had were the traditional Southern dishes I enjoyed while I was in Dallas a year ago.

When we start dating, I will cook for you all the time.

Thanks. I’ve never had a boyfriend who cooked Southern cuisine for me.

hehe ; )

Thanks. I’ve never had a boyfriend who cooked Southern cuisine for me.

Then you have never truly loved.

You can read John Deans columns here at FindLaw
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/

rwcole @ 144

Any father who didn’t cry after seeing what his own flesh and blood has done to this country would be a traitor.

Umm, I don’t think that was why he was crying…. (!)

montag @ 142

Still think Kitty Kelley said it best, in an interview, “You start off thinking the Bushes are ‘The Donna Reed Show’ and end up thinking they’re ‘The Sopranos.’”

I can’t imagine ever thinking Clan MacShrubbenfuhrer could bear the slightest resemblance to “The Donna Reed Show.” “Dallas” would be as high as I could go.

TRex @ 147

Thanks. I’ve never had a boyfriend who cooked Southern cuisine for me.

Then you have never truly loved.

Well, I’ve also never had a sane boyfriend…
But that’s a whole ‘nother story.

; )

kirk murphy @ 141

wow – thanks Trex and Suzanne -

tomorrow we’ll be making salsa verde, chowchow, and green tomato cake!

wish I could start a firepup cafe and pass a plate round to all…

Ooh, ooh! May I be the first customer?

: )

TRex…. have you seen op99 around lately?

montag @ 138

Persiflage @ 136

I thought it was Papabush who was the puker!

Only on the Japanese. In this country, he floods us with tears….

Hmmm, decisions, decisions. Puked on wept on. I know which I’d prefer. :-)

EvilDrPuma @ 149

montag @ 142

Still think Kitty Kelley said it best, in an interview, “You start off thinking the Bushes are ‘The Donna Reed Show’ and end up thinking they’re ‘The Sopranos.’”

I can’t imagine ever thinking Clan MacShrubbenfuhrer could bear the slightest resemblance to “The Donna Reed Show.” “Dallas” would be as high as I could go.

Well, in truth, I think she was alluding to the public face they try to present. The All-American family–you know, lots of kids, baseball, Yale, home-cooked meals, chauffeurs, mistresses, secret binging at the country club, international intrigue, shady high finance, trading with the enemy, etc. :)

Persiflage @ 153

montag @ 138

Persiflage @ 136

I thought it was Papabush who was the puker!

Only on the Japanese. In this country, he floods us with tears….

Hmmm, decisions, decisions. Puked on wept on. I know which I’d prefer. :-)

You forgot “pissed on.” Can’t leave that out. :)

EvilDrPuma @ 141

Persiflage @ 136

I thought it was Papabush who was the puker!

He was also the last member of the clan to have a public crying jag. (His wife, it is well known, has no tear ducts.)

And at least one of his sons is too stupid to know there are reasons to cry. Other than if Barney or Pickles stopped supporting him, of course. Then he’d be Mr Blubby.

Persiflage @ 156

And at least one of his sons is too stupid to know there are reasons to cry. Other than if Barney or Pickles stopped supporting him, of course. Then he’d be Mr Blubby.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Der Shrubbenfuhrer was having regular meltdowns–crying and/or ranting. He just isn’t having them in front of the cameras, although that would be helpful.

montag @ 155

Persiflage @ 153

montag @ 138

Persiflage @ 136

I thought it was Papabush who was the puker!

Only on the Japanese. In this country, he floods us with tears….

Hmmm, decisions, decisions. Puked on wept on. I know which I’d prefer. :-)

You forgot “pissed on.” Can’t leave that out. :)

Could I just say I’d prefer not to be a receptable for any kind of Bush bodily fluids. Eww, now I feel a little queasy.

Well, in truth, I think she was alluding to the public face they try to present. The All-American family–you know, lots of kids, baseball, Yale, home-cooked meals, chauffeurs, mistresses, secret binging at the country club, international intrigue, shady high finance, trading with the enemy, etc. :)

you know – the usual

G’nite pups…. Miss Dog and I are heading off to bed. See ya on the flip

Persiflage @ 158

Could I just say I’d prefer not to be a receptable for any kind of Bush bodily fluids. Eww, now I feel a little queasy.

Well, I think I know. They’ve been tellin’ us it’s raining for some time now….

EvilDrPuma @ 157

Persiflage @ 156

And at least one of his sons is too stupid to know there are reasons to cry. Other than if Barney or Pickles stopped supporting him, of course. Then he’d be Mr Blubby.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Der Shrubbenfuhrer was having regular meltdowns–crying and/or ranting. He just isn’t having them in front of the cameras, although that would be helpful.

You know, I find this thought strangely comforting. For a while now I’ve suspected that he’s a very badly programmed robot, the Bushatron 2000 created by Dummiburton. Dummiburton, for all your fascist-state-creating needs.

Persiflage @ 162

You know, I find this thought strangely comforting. For a while now I’ve suspected that he’s a very badly programmed robot, the Bushatron 2000 created by Dummiburton. Dummiburton, for all your fascist-state-creating needs.

“Alien,” anyone? :)

montag @ 161

Persiflage @ 158

Could I just say I’d prefer not to be a receptable for any kind of Bush bodily fluids. Eww, now I feel a little queasy.

Well, I think I know. They’ve been tellin’ us it’s raining for some time now….

Even though my country is in the grip of the worst drought ever, those aren’t the kind of showers we’re hoping for.

Hi all.

Speaking of puking, I just read Ignatius’ column at the wapoo — here’s a sample and they are taking comments…

Bush is not a man for introspection. That’s part of his flinty personality — the tight, clipped answers and the forced jocularity of the nicknames he gives to reporters and White House aides. That’s why this version of reality TV is so poignant: This very private man has begun to talk out loud about the emotional turmoil inside. He is letting it bleed.

(bold mine)

more barfoliciousness here — gak!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00776.html

Persiflage @ 162

EvilDrPuma @ 157

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Der Shrubbenfuhrer was having regular meltdowns–crying and/or ranting. He just isn’t having them in front of the cameras, although that would be helpful.

You know, I find this thought strangely comforting. For a while now I’ve suspected that he’s a very badly programmed robot, the Bushatron 2000 created by Dummiburton. Dummiburton, for all your fascist-state-creating needs.

I don’t find it comforting–it’s simply what I expect when delusion can no longer protect a spoiled, narcissistic brat from the reality of what his own actions have brought about.

atdnext @ 152

kirk murphy @ 141

wow – thanks Trex and Suzanne -

tomorrow we’ll be making salsa verde, chowchow, and green tomato cake!

wish I could start a firepup cafe and pass a plate round to all…

Please! Just come on in and – what else? – pull up a chair.

Oooh – just found the cafe name…..

Ooh, ooh! May I be the first customer?

: )

angie @ 165

Hi all.

Speaking of puking, I just read Ignatius’ column at the wapoo — here’s a sample and they are taking comments…

I would say, offhand, that Bush has been doing no bleeding whatsoever; however, that cannot be said of most other people at the receiving end of his decisions.

Does Ignatius actually believe these chicken-scratchings of his? I don’t find anything the slightest bit confessional in any of Bush’s statements, recent or not.

kirk murphy @ 168

Please! Just come on in and – what else? – pull up a chair.

Oooh – just found the cafe name…..

Yes, in honor of Christy…

Pull Up a Chair Cafe, serving great food and even greater dialogue 24/7…

Now I like the sound of that!

: )

More on Ford:

Newly released documents show, however, that Warren Commission member Congressman Gerald Ford pressed the panel to change its description of the wound and place it higher in Kennedy’s body. Ford wanted the wording changed to: “A bullet had entered the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine.” The panel’s final version was: “A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine.”

This crucial change only came to light in 1997, when the Assassination Record Review Board released handwritten notes made by Ford that had been kept by J. Lee Rankin, the Warren Commission’s chief counsel. Ford’s change is even at odds with his own declaration in the Oct. 2, 1964 issue of Life: “I personally believe that one of these three shots missed entirely – but which of the three may never be known. I believe that another bullet struck the president in the back and emerged from his throat (and went on to strike Connally.)”

More on Ford, same link as above 170:

Gerald Ford was so close to Hoover that he served as the FBI director’s informant while he was on the Warren Commission. This is confirmed by an internal FBI memo of Dec. 12, 1963. Written to Hoover by his deputy Cartha DeLoach, it says: “Ford indicated he would keep me thoroughly advised as to the activities of the commission. He stated that would have to be done on a confidential basis; however, he thought it had to be done.” The Washington Post disclosed the memo in 1991. Newsweek had earlier described Ford as “the CIA’s best friend in Congress.”

Hoover biographer Curt Gentry concurs that Ford was Hoover’s informant on the commission. In fact, in his 1991 book J. Edgar Hoover, Gentry notes that the Hoover-Ford connection went back a number of years. Discussing the FBI’s “favored politicians,” the author said such people “were warned who their opponents would be, what background they had, and what skeletons might be hidden in their closets. In some cases, they were even elected with the FBI’s help. Impressed with a young congressional hopeful in Michigan, the bureau in 1946 arranged support for Gerald Ford, who then expressed his thanks in his maiden speech in the House by asking for a pay raise for J. Edgar Hoover.”

OK, if I don’t let myself fall asleep now, I’ll never be able to sleep…

So on that note…

Good night, everyone!

You Firepups are the best! : )

EvilDrPuma @ 166

Persiflage @ 162

EvilDrPuma @ 157

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Der Shrubbenfuhrer was having regular meltdowns–crying and/or ranting. He just isn’t having them in front of the cameras, although that would be helpful.

You know, I find this thought strangely comforting. For a while now I’ve suspected that he’s a very badly programmed robot, the Bushatron 2000 created by Dummiburton. Dummiburton, for all your fascist-state-creating needs.

I don’t find it comforting–it’s simply what I expect when delusion can no longer protect a spoiled, narcissistic brat from the reality of what his own actions have brought about.

What? You think that reality is actually intruding on his legacy-creating time? I’d like to think that he’s being forced to face the truth, not the truthiness, but I have my doubts. I think he sees himself as some sort of hero, determined to achieve his quest, no matter how many obstacles (facts) are thrown in his way.

kirk murphy @
90

Hi pups – happy Boxing day!

Trex, thaks for another dead-on post.

Is there a twelve-step program for delusional chief executives?

hee hee – mulled cider spew alert.

Oh – and a seriously OT cooking question. Here next to sunny Pasadena, we’re expecting our first real storm – so I went out and picked the last of the ripe tomatoes (two baskets) and – as we’re expecting 40 MPH winds – two baskets of green tomatoes.

Frying green tomatoes is not an option for the family diets, and we’re too ignorant to can.

Soo….late night pups – anyone care to share their vegetarian green tomatoes recipes?

[If there is snow outside your house tonight, please don’t hate us. You have winter, we have earthqualkes and smog and $500,000 2 bedroom “fixer-uppers” last used as crack houses.]

I have found that ripe tomatoes freeze pretty well, maybe green tomatoes can be frozen until you come off whatever silly diet keeps you from eating them fried…

OR you can put them each in a small paper bag and store them somewhere cool and dry. Most of them will ripen up and turn red.

I pickle green tomatoes with carrot sticks, garlic cloves and slices of red bell pepper. Use a standard pickling recipe and cut the maters into wedges like orange wedges.

btw- canning isn’t that hard! Try to find a copy of The Encyclopedia of Country living by Carla Emery. That’s a GOOD book to have by the bed…

Meanwhile, the Israeli government has approved the first NEW West Bank settlement since 1992 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6210721.stm), a very incendiary move with what to me is suspicious timing. It could increase MidEast violence (perhaps a boost to Bush’s need for “justifying” a larger war?) while at the same time sending a clear message to the new US Congress: “What do you think you can do to stop us?”

I don’t find anything the slightest bit confessional in any of Bush’s statements, recent or not.

Never has been, never will be.

He’s only “sorry’ that he did not really achieve victory (all dat oil and stuff) when he declared mission accomplished and that it didn’t come quickly enough. However, Laura and Barney are so, so happy about the fantasy schools, liberries, (”good things that the media does not report”) and the very real and nice “kennels” being built in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba and who knows where else!

He is a sociopath and a belligerent.

hey, Steve Audio! If you’ve been emailing me, I just discovered that my email has been down. Don’t know why, but you can use my alternate:
patrick (at) wasuvi (dot) com.

Persiflage @ 173What? You think that reality is actually intruding on his legacy-creating time? I’d like to think that he’s being forced to face the truth, not the truthiness, but I have my doubts. I think he sees himself as some sort of hero, determined to achieve his quest, no matter how many obstacles (facts) are thrown in his way.

Nothing can force Bush to face the truth–I doubt he has the ability or the will to be that honest. I simply think his delusions are, for the first time in his life, no longer an adequate defense against the truth. The likely result is a complete meltdown–but unless that happens on national TV, the media and Bush’s handlers won’t let us see that or the junta that will form behind the scenes to cover his miserable arse in whatever part of the decision-making process he was ever really involved with.

Chow chow?

I wonder if we will have another month long grief-fest like we did when “the Gipper” crumped? That was insufferable.

Nothing Without Hope @ 175

Meanwhile, the Israeli government has approved the first NEW West Bank settlement since 1992 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6210721.stm), a very incendiary move with what to me is suspicious timing. It could increase MidEast violence (perhaps a boost to Bush’s need for “justifying” a larger war?) while at the same time sending a clear message to the new US Congress: “What do you think you can do to stop us?”

oh, how nice.

International law is quaint & sooo pre- bushco and shock & awe!

I can pretty much guarantee you that the Congress will do absolutely nothing and neither will the Security Council…

Is w. still ponderingating about who is warmongering, malleable, and undiplomatic enough to send to the UN or has he deciderated yet?

Rushton @ 180

I wonder if we will have another month long grief-fest like we did when “the Gipper” crumped? That was insufferable.

I don’t anticipate it–Reagan was the poster child for the content-free, feel-good, easy-answer pap covering the completely corrupt and venal rot that the Republican Party has become. Ford was just a pothole in the road to decay.

EvilDrPuma @ 178

Persiflage @ 173What? You think that reality is actually intruding on his legacy-creating time? I’d like to think that he’s being forced to face the truth, not the truthiness, but I have my doubts. I think he sees himself as some sort of hero, determined to achieve his quest, no matter how many obstacles (facts) are thrown in his way.

Nothing can force Bush to face the truth–I doubt he has the ability or the will to be that honest. I simply think his delusions are, for the first time in his life, no longer an adequate defense against the truth. The likely result is a complete meltdown–but unless that happens on national TV, the media and Bush’s handlers won’t let us see that or the junta that will form behind the scenes to cover his miserable arse in whatever part of the decision-making process he was ever really involved with.

Nice argument EDP (if I may make so bold as to address you thusly) and I think you’re right. He’s certainly seemed more testy in his televised appearances lately. My concern is that Bush is the type of person who, on learning that his delusion is no longer protecting him from reality, builds a bigger and stronger delusion.

Persiflage @ 183

EvilDrPuma @ 178

Persiflage @ 173What? You think that reality is actually intruding on his legacy-creating time? I’d like to think that he’s being forced to face the truth, not the truthiness, but I have my doubts. I think he sees himself as some sort of hero, determined to achieve his quest, no matter how many obstacles (facts) are thrown in his way.

Nothing can force Bush to face the truth–I doubt he has the ability or the will to be that honest. I simply think his delusions are, for the first time in his life, no longer an adequate defense against the truth. The likely result is a complete meltdown–but unless that happens on national TV, the media and Bush’s handlers won’t let us see that or the junta that will form behind the scenes to cover his miserable arse in whatever part of the decision-making process he was ever really involved with.

Nice argument EDP (if I may make so bold as to address you thusly) and I think you’re right. He’s certainly seemed more testy in his televised appearances lately. My concern is that Bush is the type of person who, on learning that his delusion is no longer protecting him from reality, builds a bigger and stronger delusion.

Apres moi, le delusion?

WRT Ford, I think John Huston’s line in “Chinatown” probably sums it up. “Whores, politicians and ugly buildings all become respectable if they last long enough.”

That likely explains the nostalgia for that time.

It will be thirty years next month that he left office, and a lot of pictures of Betty Ford after the Betty Ford Clinic was established and Ford consulting with other former presidents and shots of him playing golf in Florida.

A lot of time to forget the idiotic “Whip Inflation Now” buttons (and you thought only Bush treats the public like idiots) and the weaselry that went on with the Nixon pardon and him dancing around questions about pardons during his confirmation hearing, and many of the things mentioned here.

To paraphrase what someone said previously, Ford went to his grave with more than his share of secrets.

Persiflage @ 183

Nice argument EDP (if I may make so bold as to address you thusly) and I think you’re right. He’s certainly seemed more testy in his televised appearances lately. My concern is that Bush is the type of person who, on learning that his delusion is no longer protecting him from reality, builds a bigger and stronger delusion.

He can try, but…what has kept his bubble from bursting any time earlier in his adult life? Enablers. Political and corporate hacks who needed his family wealth and connections and Bush’s aw-shucks persona to cover for their own criminal greed and power-lust. The time when Bush can offer anything to those people is coming to an end. They aren’t going to prop his ego any more, they’re going to throw him out of the car and leave him bleeding by the side of the road.

EvilDrPuma @ 186

They aren’t going to prop his ego any more, they’re going to throw him out of the car and leave him bleeding by the side of the road.

I think that’s gonna depend on whether or not Cheney’s driving the car, or is gonna get thrown out with him….

I call him President Baby a lot, but I think President American Psycho is the best epithet I’ve heard.

The question is: How do we disassociate ourselves from this psycho? How can we ever be clean if we don’t impeach the crap out of this . . . this . . . this psycho!??

Gah!!

patrick rex @ 177

hey, Steve Audio! If you’ve been emailing me, I just discovered that my email has been down. Don’t know why, but you can use my alternate:
patrick (at) wasuvi (dot) com.

Dude!

Actually I was gonna email you with a Mac question.

Tour pics are great!

And I was the Tuesday Daily Brief headline at HuffPo for my James Brown piece. My mom will be so proud!

…just driving by but a very good astrologer (with aspects to support her theory and shared by a number of others) predicts Bush will go to the funny farm with a little help from his “friends” in late 2007 and there’ll be no stopping it…

LindaR @
188

I call him President Baby a lot, but I think President American Psycho is the best epithet I’ve heard.

The question is: How do we disassociate ourselves from this psycho? How can we ever be clean if we don’t impeach the crap out of this . . . this . . . this psycho!

Gah!!

Are you still up LindaR?

Rushton @ 180

I wonder if we will have another month long grief-fest like we did when “the Gipper” crumped? That was insufferable.

I am very much hoping that the grace and good midwestern sense of The Widow Ford will prevail against the wishes of the Imperial Republican Guard. Tom DeFrank of the NYDNews, a Ford confidante, has been telling Anderson Cooper on CNN that there’s a service planned at Grand Rapids, where Ford’s Presidential Museum is located. Also CNN reports a “lying in repose” planned for Palm Springs.

While I think Ford was a good man and a transitional figure thrust above his abilities, I will not forgive his sense of timing — his death and attendant pomp can only overwhelm the new Speaker’s historic ascension. As well, of course, of giving the Decider more time to decide and dither, while allowing Rumsfeld and Cheney (Ford appointees both!!) airtime and solemnity when they should both be in the dock at the Hague.

Interesting tidbit from the WaPo Ford obit.

Bush was notified of Ford’s death shortly before 11 p.m., the White House said.

What about that 9:30 bedtime? Can W stay up late at teh pigfarm?

SteveAudio @ 189

…Front page HuffPo, baby

;>)

Found the link to this article @ gorillasguides

We didn’t help him escape from prison we just had the secret service meet him with a plane and fly him to Jordan. uh huh

kirk murphy – A 2br crack house for 500k!!
I’ve got some fine hillbilly land fer ya, real cheap..) free tomatoes for 10 yrs.

I think if nothing else, b43 understands politics… which means he will continue to do what he wants (or what the red-phone-to-Jesus-in-his-head tells him to do) until it becomes politically unfeasible to continue doing it. This means that the ball is, not, as some Dem leaders are saying, in his court. Congress (or somebody else in a position to impose an political price b43 is not willing to pay) has to up the ante… and in the endgame, I suspect this means shutting down government — no confirmation hearings, no legislation, threats to the purse strings.. and, ultimately, it means the credible threat of impeachment.

darkblack @ 194

SteveAudio @ 189

…Front page HuffPo, baby

;>)

And that means you!

I hope you got some traffic, you deserve it!

SteveAudio @
197

There was some tire-kicking, yes

;>)

The fact is, someone who contributed positively to society died, and we paid honest tribute.

This latest passing…Perhaps not so much of a contribution within the frame of a life, in the long view.
But to speak ill of the recently departed would be unseemly.

Linda R and blub – looseheadprop has mentioned ‘mandamus‘ a couple of times in passing as a possible option. I hope she will be able to elaborate some time soon.

spiderpaws – Thanks as always for the update. If you get any view on Cheney in late 2007 don’t forget us.

Anybody still in here?

Oilfieldguy -
I’m either “still” here or “just getting here”. Good morning to ya’, darlin’ & where are you traveling abouts these days?

Guess not. So, Bush sent more people to their deaths than bin Laden.

Twenty guys invade our country with box knives after Bush gets a memo, Kinda Sleazy gets warned and the only thing that happens is the fanatics win.

The box cutter dudes get 87 virgins each, Kinda Sleazy gets promoted, Bush gets re-elected and devastates an entire Continent.

Happy New Year.

Sumbody hand me a party favor. Preferably a paper coil I can stick in my ass to unfurl post my black-eyed pea feast.

Waccamaw,

Just got back from Las Vegas Lost Wages visiting my bright shiny new grandbaby. I’ll be damned if I’m gonna leave this mess for him to clean up and pay for.

Gerald Ford Died today.

As did the occupying soldier that exceeds the deaths of 9/11 in a country that was not responsible for the attack.

OFG -
Can’t remember from earlier posts……..what’da ya’ get………girl or boy? And what a wonderful Christmas present *g*!

OFG -
Got company visiting from the other end of the state & think I hear her stirring. Gotta go finish preping a breakfast casserole, grind some beans & crank up the coffee pot. Will check back for your answer later.

Boy. 8lbs. 8oz.

G’nite–must sleep now.

Good morning, everyone. Back to the old grind today. {sigh} Nobody at all lurking behind the NYT firewall. Guess they’re all on vacation. Have a great day, folks.

darkblack @ 195

SteveAudio @ 189

…Front page HuffPo, baby

;>)

Great to see you darkblack!

and congratulations, oilfieldguy!

Oilfieldguy @ 209

Boy. 8lbs. 8oz.

G’nite–must sleep now.

Mornin’.

THEY HAD TO KILL HIM.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01033.html

A soldier resisting return to Iraq – depressed and despondent?

KILL HIM!

The message has now been sent from the McCain/Lieberman Warmongers For Israel Tribe – “Kill or be killed!” His only other alternative was to be sent to one of the new CONCENTRATION CAMPS for those who resist the EMPIRE:

US CONCENTRATION CAMPS – IN WYOMING!

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE MEXICANS, BUT I WAS NOT MEXICAN, SO I DID NOT SPEAK OUT.

NEXT THEY CAME FOR THE DRAFT DODGERS, BUT I WAS TOO OLD TO BE DRAFTED, SO I DID NOT SPEAK OUT.

THEN THEY CAME FOR ME.

If the linked photos and maps are accurate, odds are these dude ranch owners are within 20 miles of it…and they’ll know the deal if so.

People who herd cattle for a living know everything about all the land around them. Trust the old timers.

Silke Simon Bucking S Ranch Hanna, WY 82327

google it.

The location shown below (north facility) resides in a north/south
running stretch of river valley with irrigated hay pastures on either side.

View the area adjacent to the Pathfinder Reservior and the Seminoe
Reservoir IN CENTRAL WYOMING SOUTH OF CASPER on Google Earth / Google Maps relative to the larger Wyoming map found here:

http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-…..7403/posts

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I think the comment options below the writing/edit box should be Preview, Spellcheck, Submit Comment, and Special Comment.

Just in case Keith comes by.

egregious @ 213 -
And speaking of Keith, WHEN is that boy gonna get himself back from vacation? I’m having serious withdrawal symptoms.

Waccamaw @ 214

egregious @ 213 -
And speaking of Keith, WHEN is that boy gonna get himself back from vacation? I’m having serious withdrawal symptoms.

You got that right.

There are alternative pictures and headlines to the one posted.

Good morning Attaturk! An honor.

World’s Largest Eraser:

What Bush needed to ask Santa for Christmas.

I make a lot of mistakes. On puzzles I can erase and start over. So that got me thinking about how big a mistake the Iraq War is.

If I was clever I would find a photo of this for you. If I was ambitious I would post this photo on mcegregious and write a long clever post and oh well just too early in the morning.

Besides, I have no idea how to post graphics on my blog.

New Year’s Resolution?

Help from other sleep-deprived firepups?

egregious @ 217

Good morning Attaturk! An honor.

Oh pshaw, I’m just another anonymous crank. ;-)

I think it’s an honor to have egregious here.

from CSpan caller on Ford:

“I’ve been a Republican my whole life. Only voted once.”
(Caller was just a youngster – 12-14 yrs old – when Ford was in Oval.)
That’s a few non-votes, there.

WTF!? goood. on. ya.

Riesz Fischer @ 220

I think it’s an honor to have egregious here.

:)

hmmm…WaPo has other items worth reading, but umm..is their non-ombuds in bed with this shit:

The Right Type of ‘Surge’
Any Troop Increase Must Be Large and Lasting

By Jack Keane and Frederick W. Kagan
Wednesday, December 27, 2006; Page A19

Reports on the Bush administration’s efforts to craft a new strategy in Iraq often use the term “surge” but rarely define it. Estimates of the number of troops to be added in Baghdad range from fewer than 10,000 to more than 30,000. Some “surges” would last a few months, others a few years.

We need to cut through the confusion. Bringing security to Baghdad — the essential precondition for political compromise, national reconciliation and economic development — is possible only with a surge of at least 30,000 combat troops lasting 18 months or so. Any other option is likely to fail.

The key to the success is to change the military mission — instead of preparing for transition to Iraqi control, that mission should be to bring security to the Iraqi population. Surges aimed at accelerating the training of Iraqi forces will fail, because rising sectarian violence will destroy Iraq before the new forces can bring it under control.

–snip–

This is the AEI Batman and Robin. lord, help us…

Unless we ESCALATE the RIGHT WAY (all the way forever beyond the horizon) we will fail.

Well, let’s not do all that to end up with failure, ok?

The right way is the way home.
NOW.

Mary McCurnin @ 88

Bush doesn’t care how he got elected.
Doesn’t care how many die in Iraq.
Doesn’t care about anything expect maintaining
his huge, nefarious ego. He is a sadist of the
first order.
And he is much worse than Nixon. Nixon had a few
progressive ideas like universal healthcare. And
Nixon knew when to quit.

Dubya never had an independent or progressive thought in his life. He must have been dropped on his head as a baby.

Scarecrow’s up top this morning with fresh thread, FirePups. Bring more coffee with you.