Via today's Froomkin and U.S. News, I find this Jay Leno gem:
Jay Leno: President Bush "went on vacation to his ranch in Texas for what the White House said was a short weekend break. You know, aren't we at war? Anybody else's weekend start on Wednesday? Try that at your job: 'Boss, I'd like to take the weekend off. I'll be leaving Tuesday night.'"
It's not like he's got anything better to do, I suppose.
Back in August of 2005, he had already set the record of most vacation days while in office – 319 at that point, not counting before and after Katrina hit – surpassing even The Gipper's hefty vacation total. And he's still going strong on vacationing. What a role model for America's youth, eh?
(I tried to find a clip of the SNL sketch from the Presidential debates where you get the "It's haaaaard work." Came up empty. If anyone can find me a link, I'd love it.)
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FITZ !!!!
And TEAM FDL!!!!!
and {{{{{{{{{ Jane }}}}}}}}}
Monica 2 resigns. Poor wittle Monica. The nasty dems are picking on her. BooHoo
How many more can we get?
RevDeb @ 2
WOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
EPU’d – John Edwards will not participate in the CBC Fox debate.
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe…..cbc_debate
The question was asked at the end of the last thread.
Does this negate her having to testify now?
laziest.President.EVER.
worst.President.EVER.
RevDeb @
2
Damn I’m slow. I just saw the breaking news headline over at msnbc and rushed over to post it and ya beat me to it! I’d still like to know who’s paying her legal fees.
*xyz @ 4
Wooohooo again! That’s fantastic! I like this guy more every day.
Rob Zuber @ 8
Me too.
SEMPER FI!!
S.O.S. from MA @ 6
His legacy is secure.
Bustednuckles @ 5
In a word, no.
ahh –
but sen. patrick leahy’s
committee staff continues
to toil before the boiler,
feeding it more coal, even
now, late on a good friday afternoon. . .
that truly does make me proud
to be an american — i’m gonna’
stay focused on the positive!
go get ‘em, patrick!
[and, a happy holiday to any/all
celebrating this weekend. . .]
Bustednuckles @ 4
I wouldn’t think so. Kyle Sampson testified. Yes he volunteered, but presumably the committee would have subpoenaed him anyway.
Bush is going down in history as the worst President….ever and also the most vacationing President… ever.
The words lazy and incompetent flash in my mind.
Of course KKKarl is still weaseling around somewhere looking for ways to further his agenda.
*xyz @
4
TRex! his essay on why it is important to boycott FAUX won me over, even though I initially thought it was bad strategy.
I’d much rather have him on vacation than “working”, given the kind of “work” he does.
Iread that the subpeonas were coing out next thurs.? I’m probably wrong;(
Considering that Preznit Pissypants continues to make disastrous recess appointments, would it be possible to not recess congress? Just keep it going even if lots of folks aren’t around?
Just asking.
that’s reason to celebrate(?).
now the an arm of the r.n.c.,
or one of its myriad affiliates,
will be able to directly pay her
akin gump $500-an-hour bills. . .
golf claps. . .
Bustednuckles @ 5
She may have Republic paid tickets to a country which has no extradition treaty with the US.
raven—
I’m so glad for the good medical and emotional update about your father-in-law. Heart surgery can be a huge stress for the entire family. Taking him to see the puppies—excellent move. Hope you are doing well yourself.
BREAKING FROM THE AP:
Monica Goodling has resigned from her position at the DoJ.
Here’s the statement of the Edwards campaign – good for them.
“We just called the CBC to let them know that we’re looking forward to their January debate with CNN but we’re not going to participate in the proposed debate with Fox. The CBC champions critical issues that matter enormously to the future of our country, and we look forward to discussing them throughout this campaign and at their debate in January. But we believe there’s just no reason for Democrats to give Fox a platform to advance the right-wing agenda while pretending they’re objective. If there was any uncertainty as to Fox’s objectivity, it was put to rest when they attacked Democratic candidates, Democratic constituency groups, and the Nevada Democratic party when their last proposed debate was cancelled for lack of support.”
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe…..cbc_debate
Oh, I see I’m late to the party on Goodling’s resignation.
I am John D’Oh!
Hey, did Monica Goodling resign today?
Nice that George has some time to cut brush and play cowboy. I wonder if he spends one moment of his blissful long weekend thinking about how he has sent our soliders are going back for second, third, fourth, fifth deployments without the proper rest time. I wonder if he spends any seconds thinking about how he sends these young men and women to fight his battles without proper body armor.
Oh, I’m sure he and Pickles wouldn’t want to worry their little heads about that. Just pass the ham and pretend everything is going swimmingly in the ever improving nation of Iraq.
mc @ 25
Effective tomorrow.
Epu’d
“I am hereby submit my resignation to the Office of the Attorney General”
-Monica Goodling
Go Regent U!
egregious @
22
Thanks, we’s ok!
from her letter to
gonzo — as reported by cnn:
“. . .I am hereby submit my
resignation to the Office of the
Attorney General, effective April 7,
2007. . . “May God bless you
richly as you continue your
service to America. . .”
maybe it’s a cnn typo. . . but
whaaa — is she borat’s cousin?
[does type as well as she lawyers?]
sorry /snark
Lessee now … I make it that he’s worked five out of the six years he’s been Preznit.
Can we get a refund on that other year? The salary for the work he isn’t doing, and the other stuff we’re paying for?
y’all must learn to embrace Chimpy’s vacation time.
I have, and it feels soooooo good!
[now where’s that Hawaaian shirt of mine…]
Better cash that check now dude.
Russ Feingold, on Countdown earlier this week, laughed at the President’s reference to Congress’ home-work-period as “spring break.” He made a great segue to his townhall meetings this week where his Wisconsin constituents are asking, “When will Congress get us out of Iraq?” Russ made the point quite clearly that while the President’s vacation is a vacation, Congress is busy during “spring break.”
Hope everyone is having a peaceful Good Friday — especially the Iranian people.
The Goodling resignation is a great PR benefit to our side. Her name will be all over the news, pushing out the ridiculous Pelosi story.
There’s a reason she resigned on a Friday night!
just donated to edwards-good to see spinal action!
Gaah … I had to call the company lack-of-help desk today. I got someone who thinks backslash is on the key with the question mark, and forward slash is above the enter key.
Does anyone want to place a bet that Monica Goodling might resign?
(sorry, I couldn’t help myself. This has been posted as breaking news in this and the previous thread).
OT to Christy: Thanks so much for the nifty hot sauce site. Mr. LOTF’s prof is a huge fan of unbelievably hot sauce. He will be getting some “Colon Cleaner”, “Possible Side Effects”, and “Screamin’ Sphincter Sauce” as a gift.
That’s a 707!
Now that Monica Goodling has resigned, watch for her mentor Barbara Comstock to put together her legal defense fund.
EPUed: Do I have this right? The British sailors are being criticised for not getting themselves killed? Here’s a better question: Who the hell sent a bunch of people out in rubber rafts into disputed waters without any sort of backup available?
I have a sneaking suspicion that Monica’s new job is with Ashcroft’s lobbying firm. I think Ashcroft is also a Law Professor at her Alma Mater.
TeddySanFran @ 41
Is she going to get the ‘group discount’?
hot sauce: Mrs renfrows green jalapeno sauce
been living on this for 2 years now
“I am hereby submit my resignation to spend more time combing my poodley hair.”
-Monica Goodling
(No offense to poodle owners)
*xyz @ 4
Lookin better to me by the day.
TSF @ 41: dang straight. Comstock will protect her mini-me.
So, is anyone taking bets when Gonzo will resign? After all, it’s starting to look like he’s gonna be facing some hefty lawyer fees, too.
Raven – there seems to have been a thought by some other participant in the last thread (Egregious ?) not sure who, that there was some disagreement. For my part, I certainly did not feel that, I was in agreement with what you were saying all the way as far as I am concerned.
Via HuffPo (E&P):
St John’s oopsies:
“NEW YORK Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in a ‘60 Minutes’ segment coming on Sunday says he misspoke in comments he made about security in Baghdad and acknowledged that heavily armed troops and helicopter gunships accompanied him when he visited a market there.”
http://www.editorandpublisher……1003568551
Monica might be resigning since her BFF USA friend is now looking to be a piece of work.
Maybe when it ccomes out to how a 34 year old got the job, it won’t reflect well on Monica.
P J Evans @ 32
I want him to have to rebate the AF1 bills for all the time he used it as a campaign plane.
Associated Press story on MSNBC:
Gonzales aide in firings controversy resigns
Glad for your family’s good news, Raven.
________________________________________
As for Monica -
She doesn’t deserve a penny from the Treasury, but her resignation may just be Rovian strategy.
With the DOJ gig over, Monica can stiff the committee, take the 5th, charge the Capitol in a bulldozer….
Effectively all* the things she was doing anyway.
Wingnut welfare will pay her for some non-job – and keep paying her lawyers.
(* ‘dozer is there for fun – but under ‘wingers’ rules – as soon as another comment quotes it, this becomes a fact)
landofthefree @ 48
He’ll resign when his test prep crew discovers he cannot say ‘I don’t recall’ without soiling his pants.
Don’t you think that she resigned at least in part so that she could freely take money, gifts, etc., to pay for her attorney fees? I wonder what her chances are to actually just not show up for testimony. Can she actually just sit back and say that she did nothing wrong, but the atmosphere for the hearings is so poisoned that she has reason to believe if she testifies, it will open her up to criminal charges? Any of you lawyer types want to take a bite on that?
P J Evans @ 38
They aren’t?
Top story on MSNBC.com:
About Face: Honor Guards to Replace Forklifts for Fallen Troops
Sure, the President supports and honors the troops. It is astonishing to me that they would treat our fallen soldiers like common cargo. And, so sad that the father of a killed soldier had to spend almost two years to get this policy changed.
Sigh.
Well, it’s time for me to go to work again. Have a great evening, everyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ38wu5Fp6w
Here’s a YouTube link to a short clip of Bush repeating his “hard work” mantra in the first debate with Kerry.
This wasn’t so much EPU’d as drowned out in the middle of the last thread, and I really think it bears wide attention:
John McCain actually said, “I disagree with what the majority of the American people want,” in regard to getting out of Iraq.
In a democracy, should that mean game, set, and match?
Breaking: Gonzales Counsel Monica Goodling Resigns
ThinkProgress has more to say about her resignation letter:
Any guesses out there as to which particular malfeasances Monica thinks will get her indicted?
At the very least it’s one more Bush crony down.
Now to see who fills the spot.
nolo @
31
I guess that’s how they teach English and writing at Messiah College and Regent U Law School. Especially given how well they all seem to know the law.
Anyone played the clip?
1. So the mullet is back, or did it not leave?
2. Which one is Goodling and which Paulose? I bet Paulose id the one on the gum!
Bustednuckles @ 63
Jeb still needs a job and Cheney’s not cooperating yet.
Christy – I haven’t yet found the SNL “hard work” skit you’re looking for, but there are a bevy of beauts on YouTube.
Holy guacamole – I just processed this info from Christy’s post:
He had almost a YEAR of vacation time in less than five years in office? Wow.
Does anyone know how much time he’s had off as vacation time as of now?
Ok, I really need to go to work… gotta stop being distracted by all this good newsy stuff! Ciao.
And the “pork” in the bill is a lot of Katrina money the goopers failed to pass in the last session. Not too mention every supplemental they passed was full of lard.
Keith Olberman did something on this and it was over 400 days
Goodling resigning over at Raw Story
Since Goodling resigned today, it is a good Friday in another sense.
I don’t know if this was brought up yet, but, Monica Goodling is resigning.
G- Greasy
O- Outlandish
P- Pricks
dakine01 @ 64
Oh, and you think Andover and Yale teach it any better?
It’s late on a Friday, I’m burned out and hence am toying with synonyms for “richly” to help add depth and body to Monica’s resignation:
May God bless you fatteningly…
May God bless you flushly…
May God bless you creamily…
May God bless you unslimmingly…
Youffraita @ 62
Assuming she does have an actual crime in mind (and not just “I refuse to testify because the Democrats are going to be mean to me”), the two top contenders among the commenters here and at TPM seem to be:
- Encouraging others to lie to Congress
- Administering Republican loyalty oaths to Assistant US Attorney candidates (and possibly other federal employees.)
P J Evans @
32
How ’bout just terminal leave? He can keep the $$ if he’ll just give us back a year.
Ann in AZ @
56
Follow the money! That trail will lead you straight back to the vipers nest…
Redshift@76
Speaking of encouraging people to lie to Congress, I’ve been wondering about Gonzo’s test prep organization. Who is coaching him, i.e., his personal lawyers or people who can be subpoenaed to testify about what went on in the sessions? And yes, although IANAL, I am aware that, as officers of the court layers cannot knowingly encourage perjury, but I don’t think this crew gives a ff about that.
Make that lawyers instead of layers
eCAHNomics @ 81
there’s layers of lawyers
Elliott @ 82
some of them liars
dakine01 @ 7
You aren’t necessarily slow. Things are just moving rea-a-lly fast lately. And some of our FDL’ers – posters as well as the front-pagers and owners — are extraordinarily fast.
I know the feeling. I pause to check a fact or look up a name for a post I’m composing – and by the time I get back, there’s a new thread.! Blame the Bushies. Can’t be leisurely when there’s so many crimes to discover.
punaise @ 83
Too many pundits on this thread.
Gee, Goodling joins the rank ranks of former Bushies of the DOJ.
Will it be the Scooter Libby fans paying her bills? Inquiring minds want to know! Com’on Barbara, you got the dough,bake her some bread as she will need it to avoid spilling the beans on the the rest of the Bushies! Get Tucker’s daddy to kick-in a million.
P J Evans @ 32
Personally, I’d feel much better and safer if he took the next two years off! I’d even be willing to pay him to just stay in Crawford and leave our government alone.
bmaz @ 49
?? I never disagree with Raven.
Raven is Teh Cool.
eCAHNomics @ 81
IANAL either, but this will be interesting to see. I believe she can “try” not to testify, but no one, has the right the right to say no. She will have to go one way or another. One word- supoena.
allan_in_upstate @ 75 asks: “Oh, and you think Andover and Yale teach it any better?”
Given the examples of Chimpy in Charge who has proved he can’t even read what is written for him, probably not. Not sure if we’ve actually had the opportunity to see his actually writing skills.
P J Evans @ 32
He’s resting up of the pardon signing frenzy that’s coming during his last days in office. The poor little fella’s going to have terrible writer’s cramp.
How dare anyone infer my President is lazy.
Dontchs think we’d all be feeling better if W had vacationed 5/6 years instead of 1/6 years?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 92
I do.
eCAHNomics @ 78
Ed Gillespie is one of the coaches. The other is Tim Flanigan. Ed is not a lawyer and Marcy has the goods on the story here. Which means that anything that Abu says to Ed is not protected.
On Goodling:
American Idol judge: “Do you have a singing teacher.”
Contestant: “Yeah.”
Judge: “You should ask for your money back.”
Maybe Monica Goodling should ask her law school for her money back for teaching her such nonsense as has landed her in this spot.
What might she have done?
It’s hard to say in this administration there were so many crimes she could’ve been involved in. But, of course, the big money is on her involvement with the politicized firing of US Attorneys.
On Bush:
Bush going on vacation? Does this mean we’re about to be attacked again? We already know we’re not safe even when he’s away from DC.
On a completely different topic, 9/11:
I wonder if anybody has asked the owner of the WTC towers when he had them rigged with explosives? Since he could always be questioned about calling for building 7 to ‘be pulled’ it should make for an interesting response.
Punaise @ 83:
Layers of lying lawyers laying in the loo.
dakine01- George w Bush, taking the illustriousness of Yale, straight down the toilet!!!
dakine01 @ 90
There are the crude X’s over large parts of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. But that might be John Yoo’s handwriting.
Got an email from Edwards campaign. They’re holding small events in NYC-contribution $100, sponsor goal $5000. That’s pretty amazing for Manhattan. The times they are a changing?
oh, dear -
why am I thinking about dopamine antagonism?
(again)
Tap Duncan @ 98
Affirmative action in operation.
Tap Duncan @ 98
Don’t forget. Bush holds an MBA from Harvard.
dakine01 @ 97
I would love for SNL to do a fake commercial about Yale using clips of gwb as their spokesman!!!
“Don’t come and bother us or we will kill you”
Teddy San Fran -
“Russ Feingold, on Countdown earlier this week, laughed at the President’s reference to Congress’ home-work-period as “spring break.” He made a great segue to his townhall meetings this week where his Wisconsin constituents are asking, “When will Congress get us out of Iraq?” Russ made the point quite clearly that while the President’s vacation is a vacation, Congress is busy during “spring break.””
Thanks for that. More like it, please, other Democrats!
Bustednuckles @ 5
Nope, she still has to testify.
Just like Sampson
I vote for shrub taking lots an’ lots of vacations. And tell Rove and Cheney to join ya’. In fact, take the full remaining 21 months! Delegate everything to Madame Speaker. The world will be a better place.
erhm. . . sorry to be so
unhip/illiterate/dense, but
is “707″ the same as lol, only
more? or, am i borat’s cousin?
What part of this administrationdoesn’t ahve its butt in the wringer of Congress? Education just got an inquiry from Ted Kennedy.LINK to more scoundrels
From NYT:
Dear Alberto,
May God bless you richly and make you richer than pig snot. All us neocon Christo-fascist hypocrites is meant to be rich as ordained by Jesus Christ hisself. That means that others must be poor, but that’s ok cuz they probably heathens or too stoopid to know where their bread is buttered.
Love Monica (Your little devil without the Blue Dress)
And, shrub, what’s even better… have you noticed that your JAR tends to go up when you just stay out of the press and do and say nothing? So taking a permanent, prolonged vacation will actually increase your popularity and improve your legacy. Just do it!
looseheadprop @ 104
Sampson volunteered. She won’t but she is subject to subpoena from what I understand. If she is no longer working for the govt. she no longer has to worry about who is paying her lawyer bills.
She resigned in order to spend more time (and someone else’s money) with her lawyers.
Badwater- Same for them- voiceover-
“At Harvard you will learn all the essential tools for communicating”
Clip of GWB
“We need to let gynecologists practice their love for women all over this nation”
God that would be funny!!!!
nolo @ 108
Upside down LOL.
wrt recess appointments -
IIRC, the Senate/Congress can adjourn (take a break) without declaring a recess, and hence prevent recess appointments.
Can those with knowledge of Congressional procedural rules enlighten us on the details?
landofthefree @ 58
I can’t believe it. (and I keep thinking I can’t be shocked any more) I thought we were just being denied the right to see the returning bodies – but that there were at least the honor guards. There have ALWAYS been honor guards, havent’t there?
Well, I suppose in a war like WWII where tens of thousands of bodies must have been returned – oh wait, they mostly were buried near the battlefields weren’t they? There are all those Allied cemeteries all over Europe.
Come to think of it, I haven’t a clue how many of those killed in WWII were sent home. Anybody know?
dakine @ 114:
THANKS — he he!
[but. . .
where’s the
“upside-down” key?]
RevDeb @ 95
Thanks. No need to be a fly on the wall. Have coaches ever been subpoenaed before?
nolo @ 117
Not sure, but I think it’s kinda like the “key to the flag pole” that we used to send young cadets out to find when I was in HS.
nolo @ 117
VERY good! It’s underneathe the Escape Hatch/Key
707 is LOL upside down due to falling over backwards in your chair
April 6-8, 2007 — The CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division (CPD) and British intelligence have evidence that then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney lost three nuclear weapons in 1991. This was later used as a pretext to create the phony Niger yellowcake uranium story in the event the nukes showed up in Iraqi hands.
Wayne Madsen story
kathleeen @ 122
Got a link?
kathleeen @ 122
That’s just crap. Our arsenal is plutonium-, not uranium-based. There is no way anything from our arsenal could possibly be mistaken for something the Iraqis might have constructed themselves, even if they had the capacity to enrich uranium to weapons grade.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
eCAHNomics @
80
Tap Duncan @ 123
It’s the first story today on waynemadsenreport.com. Thought of passing it on earlier & in the process couldn’t find a permalink.
He’s a real tinfoilhat guy. I keep up with him because 1) these days there are real conspiracies, 2) he always has the juciest gossip about where & when Laura spends a night away from the WH, though he only hints at with whom, 3) he has an amazing command of details-who did what when & to whom-guess that’s a must for tinfoilhatness.
That said, the lost nukes story is a real corker. Have no idea if it’s true, but it’s certainly a great read.
hey…abu tortue’s cheif aid has “resigned” with no reason
this is gonna be rich…I bet she somehow claims executive prividledge against the subpeona
ralphbon @
124
Are we sure Dick’s hobby isn’t making uranium-fired bombs in his spare time, sitting in that bunker of his?
DISGUSTING!
Bush bypasses Congress on envoy pick
President Bush bypassed Congress to name Jewish philanthropist Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium.
Bush nominated Fox, 77, of St. Louis, earlier this year, but Democrats protested because Fox had donated $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that claimed during the 2004 presidential elections that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) had exaggerated his Vietnam War heroics. Fox also led a fund-raising campaign to pay for the recent legal defense of Lewis 밪cooter?Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.
Bush last week withdrew his nomination of Fox, former head of the Republican Jewish Coalition, when it became clear that he could not muster enough votes in the Senate for approval. But he appointed Fox as ambassador Wednesday while Congress was on spring recess, The New York Times reported. Under terms of the recess appointment, Fox can remain ambassador until the end of Congress?next session.
밫his is really now taking the recess appointment vehicle and abusing this beyond anyone’s imagination,” Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, told the Times. ”This is a travesty.”
Are they on vacation or formally in Recess?
From Andrew Cohen’s Bench Conference in WaPo:
Gonzo Works For Himself
ralphbon @ 124
The story is much more complicated than that, as is the case with all Wayne Madsen stories. The lost nukes (in all that follows consider to have an alledgedly before every word) were being transported from S. Africa, during their nuclear decommissioning, when the U.S. plane went into the drink near Somalia, jettisoning them & 3 crew, while the other 3 crew went down in the plane. They were in fact plutonium warheads. Recovery by someone who hangs out with Mugabe, get into black market, end up in DPRK, or words to that effect. You now know why I adore Wayne Madsen. Every paragraph is better than 3 spy thrillers rolled into one.
Don’t know how Cheney was (allegedly) going to finesse the plutonium/uranium yellowcake glitch in his (allegedly) complicated coverup. Throw sand in our eyes I suppose. Or whatever.
Funny thing is, I do have some vague memory of a U.S. military jet going down near Somalia. I didn’t try to google it, but perhaps now’s the time. The essentail ingredient of a conspiracy is to have an element or two of the story be traceable.
jayt @ 126
Oklahoma kiddo @ 91
Kiddo, you crack me up! :~)
eCAHNomics @ 92
Yup!
maunga @
132
My understanding is that several members of congress have written the watchdog government accountability office to clarify the legality of Sam Fox’s appointment and to explore whether Congress has the authority to retroactively revoke it. http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006969821
Foxnews also ran something last night to the effect that Sam Fox will serve without pay to avoid giving Congress any fiscal levers over his appointment… apparently, Senator Dodd says this too is illegal.
What took Feinstein so long to step down? She should be investigated along with anyone else who profits from this illegal and immoral war.
Senator Feinstein’s War Profiteering
Democratic Blood Money
By JOSHUA FRANK
04/05/07 “ICH” – - — – Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California silently resigned from her post on the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) late last week as her ethical limbo with war contracts began to surface in the media, including an excellent investigative report written by Peter Byrne for Metro in January. MILCON has supervised the appropriations of billions of dollars in reconstruction contracts since the Bush wars began.
Feinstein, who served as chairperson and ranking member for the committee from 2001-2005, came under fire early last year in these pages for profiting by way of her husband Richard Blum who held large stakes in two defense contracting companies. Both businesses, URS and Perini, have scored lucrative contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last four years, and Blum has personally pocketed tens of millions of dollars off the deals his wife, along with her colleagues, so graciously approved.
Information Clearing house
ralphbon @ 124
Umm, not true. We’ve used HEU in weapons off and on for many years after the `50s. The Mk. 53, for example, was all-uranium and was in the permanent stockpile until about 1997. The W-87 and W-88 use both plutonium in the primary and HEU in the secondary.
There are other examples retired after 1991.
Does that mean Madsen is right? Certainly not. He’s often been wrong on a host of different issues.
Blub @ 138
Sam Fox wants to watch the hen house without pay. Must be other really good benefits.
Madsen’s got a reprt on this. He says Belgium doesn’t want the Fox. Sam Fox is linked to the Lik*d Party.
montag @ 140
See mine @134.
Blub @ 137
Short version:
You can’t do a job for no pay, if it’s a fixed pay job.
Ambassador is a fixed pay job.
Therefore, Fox can’t legally do it for nothing, either.
Christy – The clip from SNL that I have been looking for for years is not of the debates. It is prior to the 2000 election and it was a compilation of showing what life would be like depending on which candidate won.
I don’t know who wrote the script, but it had Will Ferrel as W and it started out with him under his desk and the off camera people coaxing him out – and he was saying, “it’s too hard”….
When he finally comes out he pulls down a map of the US (a la 5th grade) and says things like “Texas seceded to Mexico” and “the Great Lakes are burning and even I know that’s not right”
Whoever wrote it was a genius. Anyone got any pull with Lorne Michaels or Tina Fey to get it released?
The funniest part of this whole Sam Fox fiasco is, why? Why would the preznit want to court even more congressional outrage than he absolutely has to, over something that he could very well lose in the end? I guess he really owe Fox that big of a debt for his shiteboating skills.. so does this mean that a presidency can be bought for a mere ambassadorship?
Blub @ 145
W’s doing his pouted toddler routine.
Blub @ 145
This is payback for clinton’s recess appt of Hormel.
eCAHNomics,
I never did get to see the e-mail you sent to Cafferty which he read.
Terry Olson @
147
Did you get the requisite call from Foxnews security?
Oh sorry.. Cafferty, not OReally
Conyers still wants Monica to testify:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/….._0406.html
eCAHNomics @ 144
To poke the congress in the eye with a red hot poker!
Terry Olson @ 149
Thanks for asking. Was on a prior thread, who knows where, & I’ve deleted it from my email file. It had to do with govt making employers enforce illegal alien laws & I said that was another govt mandate passed along without the tools for doing it, like secure ID cards, & BTW, last I looked it was the govt’s job to enforce laws, not business’ job, or words to that effect.
As for the substance, I have a friend with a mfg business almost on the Canadian border in VT & he educated me as to what a nightmare this would be without proper ID cards. Also, the govt knows where the bulk of the illegals work, and it is probably at companies that give big political contributions. So those companies don’t get raided. (Can you say Wal-mart.) Any time a company gets raided for illegals, you can be sure there’s a hidden agenda.
eCAHNomics @
93
Or 6/5 years.
Have you seen the Wal-mart spy story? I don’t remember seeing anything on it. In case you didn’t, here it is:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/56717.html
So here’s what I’ve been wondering about Rove’s grand scheme for a permanent R majority. USAs like Biskupic spend their time hounding Ds up for election, yet Ds win anyway. Dontcha think that with the personnel resources at Rove’s command, there might be a better way to work for R dominancy? In economists’ words, there’s an opportunity cost to these kinds of schenanigans, as well as the real actual cost they are now paying in public exposure.
Yes Noam! Tell the truth about the I/P conflict. This is a must watch video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKq38COoTG8
Does this mean W is our most vacant President?
montag @ 139
You’re correct; I should have qualified.
However, the MK-53 was a 9-megaton thermonuclear city buster that we would have had no possible reason to take out for a spin. Your other examples still rely on plutonium primaries. Besides, the jump from nuclear to thermonuclear is a massive technological leap, requiring orders of magnitude greater technological sophistication and resources than needed for Iraq just to make a garden-variety A-bomb.
eCAHNomics @ 142
Maybe good fiction, but he claims to be a reporter….
Here’s what happened to the SA bombs.
Cheers.
dakine01 @ 90
There’s teaching– and then there’s learning. Two different things.
http://video.google.com/videop…..&q=snl bush
Here’s a SNL “Style” Bush vs Kerry debate.
Isn’t it actually better that he’s taking time off? Maybe he should stretch this weekend into 22 months or so.
Check out this interview with Galloway about the invasion of Lebanon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-brkmfrxrQY
Redshift @
77
How about conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice.
Stuart Eugene Thiel @
162
Yea well,good point. He doesn’t actually do anything but complain and threaten anyways.