Loo Hoo @ 204

Eureka Springs, what do you mean that Bush says no more training of Iraqi soldiers?

I read it on the tubes… let me see if I can find a link.

Here are a couple.

Murtha and Obey both asked that the current appropriation include not onlt benchmarks for assessing progress in the surge, and a timelijne for withdrawal, but also that troop readiness be a criteria for deployment TO IRAQ!

http://www.americanprogressact….._veto.html

http://www.cfr.org/publication…..iness.html

dakine01 @ 145

Thank you for the correction. The FairTax WOULD be the regressive one.

Well, we’ll call that one a Freudian slip. :)

Two comments:

1) How can we say ‘all men are created equal’ and that this is a land of ‘equal opportunity’ and then tax people at several different tax rates?

2) The regressive nature should be ameliorated by not taxing essentials of life (like healthcare, housing, food, clothing, transportation, utilities) and by ensuring taxation of ALL transactions the Rich use (such as purchasing stocks or bonds).

I’d like to see a study of THAT kind of flat tax system.

If Dems hope to bring in some Libertarian types to win more western states, then we should consider some policies of interest to them. Balancing the budget of a smaller less-intrusive federal government is obviously one of their other primary interests.

I have to take exception to the phrase, “with troops commmitting crimes like this…”

Let me be clear: “Troops” don’t commit crimes. A group of mudering criminals committted these crimes. Once they committed those acts, of even foormed the intent to do so, they ceased to be “troops”.

Call them what they are: Fucking criminals.

Montag – thank you! brain slip there …

It’s a stunning book – I read it last summer during the war on Lebanon and it was shocking to see the Israelis repeating precisely the horrific actions they had used before.

in the first Lebanon war, Jacobo Timmerman, an Argentinian jew who had been forced to immigrate to Israel by the Argentinian government after he had won the Nobel Prize accused the Israeli Government of acting just like the Nazis (thanks to the actions of Ariel Sharon and his colleagues). The world is full of ironies …..

Eureka Springs @ 208

Loo Hoo @ 204

Eureka Springs, what do you mean that Bush says no more training of Iraqi soldiers?

I read it on the tubes… let me see if I can find a link.

Not a surprise there. Even BushCo can’t still try to sell the “We’ll stand down as they stand up” line with a straight face.

and he never said “Stay the course.” ……

LoudounLib @
184

I give – I confess, not a big movie buff. That quote just always seems to come up though. And I bet it’s not “Blazing Saddles”, is it?

The folks who think “Blazing Saddles” never seem to realize that Brooks pretty much never originates anything but steals and parodies everything.

“I do not borrow, I steal” – Picasso

a lot of great artists have done just that ……

signed,

A blade in your fan club…)

And, behold, by the sixth paragraph, WaPo drops the inconvenient and perhaps-ironically-interpreted quotation marks:

Soldiers and military officials said that it was too early to evaluate the success of Baghdad’s gated communities and that adjustments would be made according to results and residents’ feedback, some of which has been negative. But they insisted the measure is worth a try in the city’s bloodiest neighborhoods.

“We’ve really taken a hard look and said, ‘This is an area where we need to monitor people coming in and people coming out . . . and it is the only way we could do it,’ ” Campbell said.

Democracy Iraq Style …….

Loo Hoo @ 264

Josh Marshall tells us to remember the name Bradley J. Schlozman, and to stay tuned!!

Oh, Josh finally caught up with Senator Kennedy about this bad puppy Schlozman.

About time.

Incredibly, Bradley Schlozman, the inexperienced political appointee who oversaw approval of the Georgia ID law and the retaliation against the career staff, was rewarded with an appointment as interim U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. He has served in that capacity for a year without Senate confirmation.

from your Slozman link

EvilDrPuma @ 255

Loo Hoo @ 249

SnarkKassandra,

Are you talking about the Pelosi article? It does give you credit right under the title.

It gives an “also published at,” but that alone is a misrepresentation, implying that Cassie was part of some arrangement to co-publish her work. IMO, she has every reason to be upset. This site is taking others’ work without their permission and representing it as if it were written to be posted there.

thank you. we only found it because we are making a wikipedia for the YouThinkLeft site and looked to see who links to us.

Cassie, it might bring you traffic. You could send them an email and tell them to ask next time or to remove it. Maybe you should ask them to write something about your blog in exchange for their transgression. It would be a way for more teens to find out about you site. Kudos to Cassie, somebody is cribbing your work!