John Aravosis is reporting that Home Depot may be having second thoughts about being in bed with O’Reilly. (Sorry about that, eyeball bleach and steel wool available at the door.)
Anyway, they sent this email out this morning:
Good morning,
Thank you very much for your message. The Home Depot has a policy that prohibits the running of its advertising on programs that express strong opinions or political views. Please note that this includes Bill O’Reilly’s program.
Thank you,
Ron
Good to know. Unfortunately they may be having a bit of a gingko moment, because they were sending this out only days ago:
Thank you for contacting The Home Depot Customer Care.
We appreciate you taking the time to forward your concerns regarding The Home Depot’s sponsorship of Bill O’ Reilly’s show on FOX.
Did they or don’t they? Will they or won’t they?
And the bigger question — is Alberto Gonzales writing Home Depot’s customer relations emails now?
(graphic by MLCSmith)
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HAHAHA!
yippee
zed?
that is not an attractive picture of BO with all those loofas…
(((Jane)))!!!
OldCoastie @ 4
See, ow if you had stopped to compose this I would have got the zed! :)
What are we going to do now that they have destroyed our glorious leader Kos… oh, wait…
I can’t believe I’m first{?} Made another call to Jay Inslee’s office today to congradulate him on a really good and effective appearance on Hardball. If you agree send him some love. {202} 225-6311
I’m not sure this has been mentioned.
Yet another far right pervert.
Nice to know that HD is finally getting around to noticing that Bill O’Reilly is a total prat.
Hopefully it’s the bus from Speed so it’s quick and no going back.
Great photo!
Loo Hoo. @ 12
Hey roomie!
after all the crappy stuff *ucker has said about Hillary, he’s all upset now about the Vanity Fair article on Mrs. Guilliani.
wonder if her business with the dog demonstrations bothers him at all…
Balrog @ 9
Maybe it should be news when they discover one who isn’t.
Balrog @ 9
That Faux is reporting this at all should, naturally, be taken as proof that the reality is ten times worse.
OT, but rather urgent:
Will Bush Cancel The 2008 Election?
by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis
http://www.commondreams.org/ar…..7/31/2874/
Balrog @ 9
Or here for the non-Fox version.
Home Depot didn’t “discover” it. AmericaBlog has been pounding this issue for days. The posters over there have been calling and emailing Home Depot like crazy and demanding they drop their sponsorship.
Balrog @ 9
Speaking of which, (EPU’d from last thread) Not a good day for David Vitter:
OldCoastie @ 4
There is no such thing as an attractive picture of Bill O’Reilly.
kelven @ 7
I am suprised O’Falafel hasn’t referred to Kos as The Great Orange Satan yet. Now that would be funny.
OldCoastie @ 14
I admire your intestinal fortitude to watch *ucker. Have not read the “Vanity Fair” piece yet….will save it for a long train trip on Thursday.
However, Rudy has met his match with this wife. She has as many skeletons as he does, if not more. She also matches him in ambition.
Yeah, but it gives loofahs such a bad rap.
TexB @ 13
Hey, Hey! Now I’m trying to figure out what treat you’re bringing!
Balrog @ 9
I betcha a dollar to donuts he preached against the homo*sex*ual*sssss.
Loo Hoo. @ 25
Perhaps I will hint at it during late night. Or else it will drive you nuts, right?
kym @ 26
You’re not going to rake in much moolah offering bets like that.
OldCoastie @ 14
What Dog demonstrations?
emerald @ 19
See now I think that’s funny. I almost want to believe in a divine intervention, and a deity with a sense of humor at that.
“As you call down upon JetBlue, woes will be that happen unto you”
WZAP-AM
Funny name for a radio station.
1,594 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Hardin Smith and the Firepup Patriots:
When is that vaunted “rule of law” gunna come down a lay some poetic irony on us and have the Republican Party and the Bush and Cheney families declared entities of organized crime for the purpose of a RICO prosecution? Oh, I fergot, in this country the “rule of law” means the enforcement of the law on behalf of those who rule…my bad!!
Time ta get some direct democracy action goin’…we’re watchin’ ‘em steal our pensions and enslave our children on prime time while our legal system is engaged in runnin’ down poor Mexican peasants who are comin’ across the border to work for their supper. “Rule of law” indeed!!!
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THEY STILL HAVE ALL OUR MONEY!!!
EPU:
Is Specter holding back Gonzo’s resignation letter as a paycheck for the Dems, in exchange for rushing through the revised FISA legislation which is retroactive? Is that why Cheney is suddenly speaking out on Larry King.
Did Specter make a deal?
Completely new Home Depot story breaking on CBS right now. This one looks very bad.
kym @ 26
I missed the Larry King interview of Vice, but it seems that even LK didn’t believe him? How is that possible. LK is the softest of the soft interviewers.
Bush isn’t cancelling the 2008 election..
..After all, the MSM would lose billions of dollars of revenue if they couldn’t air candidates advertisements 24/7 for the last 6 months of 2008..
An election is big money for media.
eCAHNomics @ 36
It has run yet. I think it is tonight.
Joe Klein’s conscience says @ 29
Re: Mrs. Giuliani’s “dog demonstrations”
Despite all of this PR about Mrs. G’s being a nurse, she never actually worked as one. After graduating froma 2 yr. nursing program. she married and got a job with US Surgical demonstrating surgical staples. This was done on live animals….ususally dogs who often had to be “put down” afterwards.
From what I know, her entire working career (until Rudy put her on his payroll) had been working for hospital supply Big Pharma.
Where is PETA/Humane Society? Maybe we can’t get the sports fans to pay attention to Tillman because of the focus on Vick?
cancer_cures @ 37
again orally’s tirade against DKOS and no response from the other side is why progressives need an outlet on tv! day after day after day these attacks go unanswered leading us to think he’s right in what he says…the blogosphere knows better but most folks dont read the blogs – they do watch faux news and the other clones
A little semi-good news for us:
FCC compromises on rules for airwaves auction
Cellphone users will get more choices, but a proposal by Google to open up a large swath of the spectrum is rebuffed.
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
3:22 PM PDT, July 31, 2007
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators today set broad rules for an upcoming auction of prime airwaves that give cellphone users more say in how they access wireless networks. The Federal Communications Commission voted to require the winner of about a third of the valuable public airwaves to allow people to use any phone they want and download any mobile software application.
The requirements, which were a compromise between competing plans by Google Inc. and telecommunications giants, would be a major change for wireless companies, who control access to their spectrum and limit customers to certain phones and approved software.
“Currently, American consumers are too often asked to throw away their phones and buy new ones when they switch wireless carriers,” said FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.
[snip]
(emphasis mine)
LS @ 38
Here is a preview and another link to Larry being interviewed about it.
VoteVets have petition to sign re Tillman docs.
http://www.democracyinaction.c…..on_KEY=296
This is the reply I got from Home Depot last Thursday. They certainly had a quick change of mind.
emerald @ 34
what are they saying?
Tsk, tsk. I think you should all feel terrible about making fun of such a fine man. In fact, I think you should all falafel.
cancer_cures @ 37
everybody is tillmaned
Steve T. @ 47
You make me loofa.
cancer_cures @ 37
couldn’t that be a conflict of interest?
she asks ironically
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 48
okay I made a mess of that.
the election ads run.
the election is held.
oops. a ‘big pwoblem’ ensues.
the election is tillmanned.
Everyone back from the time warp?
New thread from Christy
emptywheel has a post up on Specter’s letter…
Balrog @ 49
“shawarma sunshine, my only sunshine”
Hey, what happened to the new thread with “bollywood” video? It disappeared.
Balrog @ 49
You two stop vi-berating each other.
johnSwifty @ 57
Billo had an obsession with chick pees.
Jane, your very busy today. i hope your Dr appt went well and you are drinking your water.
What happened to Zinger thread?
OldCoastie @ 54
ThinkProgress: Specter: McConnell Letter Doesn’t Cut It, Waiting To Hear Directly From Gonzales
RockPaperScizzors @ 60
Will prob reappear tomorrow morning.
Anyone catch (cough) Tucker today? Geez, he of course says Dems are pandering to “wackos” ie bloggers and citizens! Wow!
From your fellow wacko…
how hilarious is it that the day after Stevens house is raided by the FBI and the IRS that Muckraker would run the headline, “Stevens Vows to Block Ethics Bill”
seriously, you couldn’t make this shit up.
do-si-do @ 63
I wish he’d just put the stupid little bow tie back on and quit pretending to be a real boy.
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 61
I like Spector’s comment to the Wolf’s reply that “this whole mess is confusing gobbledegook for the average viewer” by simply stating that: (1) Abu lied about his involvement in the USAttorney firings because his testimony contradicts two other witnesses and a pile of documents, and (2) he lied about the content of the meeting with Ashcroft. Witness testimony to both instances to rebut Abu. Keep it nice and simple, Arlen and the Grownups. I like it.
Still need Bollywood?
Dahler Mendi!
OldCoastie @ 64
I was just wondering, I was: “Is Ted Stevens just corrupt, or is he stupid, too?”
Home Depot Scandel
Bill O is going to jump over to the Insider shortly. I can feel it.
AZ Matt @ 69
DOJ Antitrust/FTC better be all over that!!
AZ Matt @ 69
No wonder they like Bill-O and the wingnut crew.
AZ Matt @ 69
floor-ola.
johnSwifty @ 65
I would love to see a “dueling pinochios” video on you tube!
Get Tough @ 66
With apologies to Dusty Springfield, some advice for Arlen:
Show him that you care just for him,
do the things that he likes to do,
wear your hair just for him,
cause you won’t get him, thinking and a praying
wishing and a hoping
As Marcy alludes to: “Does it suggest that they’re to the point where the next admission is to the full illegality of the program?” I think we’re at the precipice of the ‘Unitary Executive’s’ grandiose schemata! What pin shall pop their megalomaniac bubble? Will it be Tillman, Abu, Doan, Griffin, Schlozman,… ad nauseum?!!! ;-)
CTuttle @ 76
certainly seems to be many pins poised!
Rupert owns myspace!
do-si-do @ 74
Carlson would never do it. He couldn’t get his that long on his best day, and he knows it.
EvilDrPuma @ 79
Tuck in a Box
Malkin’s Hot Air is linking to Matt Sanchez blogging from Afghanistan. Looking at Matt’s photo it dawned on me…that’s the same Matt Sanchez who won the Jeanne Kirpatrick Academic Freedom Award at a recent CPAC event. Matt Sanchez, porn star, who posed with Ann Coulter at the very same event. Malkin promoting Matt Sanchez, aka Rod Majors! Yep politics sure does make for strange bedfellows. I guess Matt must have accepted Jesus as his lord and savior. But here’s the kicker, Sanchez is over there investigating the “Beauchamps scandal.”
LOL! ‘Language Gymnastics’!!! :-)
EvilDrPuma @ 68
He’s a dessert topping and a floor wax, too!
Pot calls the kettle silver:
Lott defends Sen. Stevens after IRS/FBI raid
“We all know Ted Stevens as a good man, a tireless advocate for improving the quality of life in Alaska — a decorated veteran and a true patriot of our country,” said Mr. Lott, Mississippi Republican. “He’s asked us to await all information during this investigation, and I will, while I’m standing by our longest-serving colleague.”
raven @ 78
Did you see that there were around 700 comments on the NYT blog about Rupert’s purchase of the WSJ? They shut it down because their server went on the fritz. 700 made it on, probably countless more never made it. Two of mind didn’t, and I sent them about an hour apart.
punaise @ 73
No doubt the floor just fell out from under them PR-wise.
ccmask @ 84
From the Too Little Too Late department….
Monk @ 81
Dirty Sanchez strikes again! This guy has more lives than Cheney.
AZ Matt @ 86
perhaps there is plausible de-vinyl bill-ity
Michael Moore is going after Guiliani re the health care disaster facing 9-11 workers.
ccmask @ 84
Additional Lott: “Why standing here, right now, looking at the video of Ted Stevens I can see into his soul and I see that there is goodness in him”
Get Tough @ 88
You think Cheney is alive? I’m pretty sure he’s undead.
melfeasance @ 17
I’ve said this here, Jonathan has said this here, others have said this here, but I guess we aren’t relevant enough to have anyone even acknowledge it without people saying it will never happen here.
Look at those executive orders…it has already happened here while the fucking Dems THINK about impeaching Gonzales and the Republicans laugh and chuckle among themselves at this display of complete ineffectiveness.
Let’s see what good an overnighter in the Senate does in the face of cancelled elections and mercenaries attached to the Defense Department from many different nations walking through our cities fully locked and loaded.
But hey, we sure did beat Home Depot, didn’t we?
OldCoastie @ 77
If not the pin, I’d settle for the damn straw that broke the back of the proverbial camel!!! Is that too much to ask??? *g*
ccmask @ 84
corrected in bold. Fighting Truth Decay one comment at a time.
johnSwifty @ 91
Hey, if Luke Skywalker can pull it off, why can’t Trent…?
Nah. Never mind.
EvilDrPuma @ 92
Nothing so supernatural. I think he’s just a Steppford Cheney.
johnSwifty @ 97
He has a bit more personality than your average Stepford. Okay, it’s a nasty personality, but still….
I know Mike Barnicle’s career well, many many years of reading him, both papers and the radio. His interview of Cannon just made his career.
james @ 93
Well, yes, I do seriously wonder about this…but I also gotta wonder about big money campaign contributors who will get mighty pissed off if they feel their money is wasted on campaigns that are for naught…OTOH maybe that’s the real reason fundraising is such a bear this year.
EvilDrPuma @ 98
He’s on too many blocker drugs to do anything other than channel Lynn.
Boston1775 @ 99
Meaning?
Woodhall Hollow @ 101
Lynn hasn’t gotten any since the Ford Administration, and even then….
johnSwifty @ 97
I was thinking more of a ‘Manchurian Candidate’ theme!!! ;-)
punaise @ 80
Or just Tucks.
Geez Get Tough, I thought you could read it that I thought he did a great job in the interview.
Bring back the Senator Whitehouse DOJ Chart
hmmm mike barnicle had a few plagiarism issues as i recall during his boston newspaper days….. now trying to regain a bit of virtue – me no likey mikey
johnSwifty @ 91
“I can see into his soul,” I’ve heard this before from Bush about Putin; “I was able to get a sense of his soul, a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country,”
GOP needs a new speechwriter and stop recirculating the same ole lying republicrap.
melfeasance @ 17
I found this part of the article especially interesting.
As a result of the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit (in which we are plaintiff and attorney) we have now been informed that 56 of the 88 counties in Ohio violated federal law by destroying election records, thus preventing a definitive historical recount.
This of course, is referring to the 2004 election.
Boston1775 @ 106
Great job meaning? I didn’t see it, give us some tidbits–break it down, baby!
Rudy is Rudy is…?
Ghouliani Does Health!
CTuttle @ 104
Bednobs and broomsticks, Batman! You’re right!
pet wrecker @ 107
I swear only the WH Janitor isn’t authorized to talk with ‘Just-Us’!!! ;-)
juslin @ 108
ya, he plagiarized George Carlin who said many times he didn’t give a sh*t – ya, that’s what happened.
CTuttle @ 113
Whitehouse rules. That chart was pure trial tactic genius.
RockPaperScizzors @ 109
And correct me if I’m wrong; but, wasn’t it Lott that diagnosed Terry Schiavo via video?
I’m beginning to really dislike Rudy Giuliana.
Rudy is targeting Michael Moore.
johnSwifty @ 116
Nah, that was his successor, Frist. Who had his own ethical lapses. It’s a flock thing.
johnSwifty @ 116
Nope. Bill Frist.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 117
You’re just getting to know him. Rudy is just being Rudy. He always runs his campaigns this way.
Just looking at Dildo Bill-O makes me falafel.
-GSD
I’m really pissed that the Dems are considering changing the FISA law which will protect the Administration.
juslin @ 108
He lifted a big chunk of one of his columns from George Carlin.
Bad Mike.
-GSD
Get Tough @ 115
He is in my Top Ten list of Dem’s I truly love and admire!!! 8-)
Oklahoma kiddo @ 118
It’s a tradition. Every wingnut candidate takes a turn.
Giuliani laid out few specifics on an actual health care plan today in New Hampshire, and instead took shots at Democrats and Michael Moore on the topic.
“The American way is not single-payer, government-controlled anything,” Giuliani said. “That’s a European way of doing something. That’s a, frankly, a Socia*ist way of doing something.”
CTuttle @ 124
He is a great choice for AG if a Dem takes the WH, or maybe Vice and tee him up for a run in eight years.
Dame Giluiani is coming out so hard against “Democrats” that he’s gonna have a hard time winning the middle over.
Keep it up Rudy, put on the lipstick and run hard right as fast as your legs will take you.
-GSD
LS @ 123
Is this rumor? I don’t mean to doubt you I just want to be sure before I blow another patriotic fuse. (I have so few left)
Oklahoma kiddo @ 117
You’ve made a Typo, OKK! It’s ‘Ghouliani’!!! ;-)
CTuttle @ 130
yeah, what’s eating
RaoulRudy?CTuttle @ 130
Known in da family as “Rudy da Jewel.”
punaise @ 130
Judi.
punaise @ 130
Tweety’s mancrush is breathing down his neck.
Get Tough @ 126
He’d certainly clean house! And he’d do it the right way!!!
Get Tough @ 134
Maybe he likes that.
Boston1775 @ 99
What do you mean?
-GSD
Why is Mr. Spock getting his face mashed by loufas?
HumboldtBlue @ 138
No, that’s Bill O’Reilly…the AntiSpock.
HumboldtBlue @ 138
that’s not Mr. Magoo?
What’s the big deal with the photoshopped Pic of Hojo tending to his Commander’s Cod Piece??? 8~)
Bob Jones Univ. gets state aid
The Post and Courier
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
State lawmakers shot down a request for extra financial help for low-income students who will attend South Carolina’s public colleges and universities next year.
Meanwhile, they approved $2.5 million to help low-income students attend Bob Jones University, a private school in Greenville….Bob Jones University is not accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It wasn’t accredited at all before 2006″
http://www.charleston.net/news….._aid11798/
Have we had enough of the Neo-Fundamentalism,
and Biblical Preservationists gobbling at the taxpayers trough?
johnSwifty @ 117
Frist.
RockPaperScizzors @ 142
Now this really makes me wanna puke.
EvilDrPuma @ 138
Logic is not Billo’s forte!!! ;-)
ctuttle@129
thats my name for ghouliani too LMAO
Eureka Springs @ 130
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/31/161134/757
for a man who claims to detest hate – he dispenses plenty of it on his lil F&B “show” ;o}
Woodhall Hollow @ 118
That’s right, my bad. But his wife was the one that was swallowed by the whale in the bible, right?
juslin @ 147
I was obliged to point out my good buddy’s typo! I’m sure OKK, took no offense!!! *g*
well, now that Murdoch will be merging Dow Jones with Fox, perhaps O’Really can get a daily frontpage column in the Wall Street Journal, from which he can call for the Gitmoization of all bloggers to the left of Pammy
EvilDrPuma @ 145
The SC State Attorney General should bring a suit, or a student group at a public SC on equal protection basis.
johnSwifty @ 116
And correct me if I’m wrong; but, wasn’t it Lott that diagnosed Terry Schiavo via video?
I thought it was Bill Frist. Whatever happened to Frist’s non-blind blind trust debacle? “Frist placed his investments in a blind trust when he joined the Senate to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest. However, contrary to Frist’s initial statements, the blind trust provided him with regular updates on the status of his assets, according to the Associated Press.”
AND
The accusations are Medicare fraud, conflict of interest and insider trading. Bill Frist’s connection to his family’s Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) has landed him in hot water and earned him a subpoena from the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
http://www.truthdig.com/uncove…..cvd_frist/
What happened to that RepubiCon scandal?
Busy season has started at work so I don’t have time to do anything but peek at the headlines a couple of times. And today was not a happy day. But it’s good to be home, this place always pulls me out of my funk. Thanks Jane, thanks Christy, thanks Trex and Teddy and Suzanne and Thers and on and on!!
GSD – He spoke to Gannon, telling him, okay, I’m a regular guy, why should I care about…
He’s been doing that take one thing for years. He just did it with a Republican p**ck who’s defending the administration.
He’s been doing that take on life for so long, and today it sounded fresh, brash, a breath of fresh air.
Blub @ 152
Well over 1/2 of the over 700 bloggers at the NYT’s blog about the story dumped their subscriptions. The NYT webpage crashed because of the traffic. Bill-O will just be preaching to the choir.
Get Tough @ 116
more useful info on Spies Like Us myths and facts brought to you by the ACLU:
NSA spying myths
I so despise Melanie Morgan!!! 8-(
do-si-do @ 158
What’s up with TPM’s supposed Deep Throat comment? Any meat on that bone?
CTuttle @ 160
Oh gosh…it was discussed indepth during morning threads. Forensic accounting standards, etc. I think looseheadprop did most of the dissecting. I refer you to her.
wangdangdoodle @ 155
Aloha, Ma’am!!!
johnSwifty @ 149
I thought she turned into a pillar of salt; “But Lot’s wife behind him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.” –Genesis 19:24-26
look out chelsea clinton – i’m sure swiftboats will come after her – as they hate all things clinton
CTuttle @ 159
you and me both! what a waste of lip gloss!
juslin @ 164
Does anyone else find it ironic that the Bush twins are in Africa/Peace Corp stuff, and Chelsea first worked for Mckenzie, and now a hedge fund?
do-si-do @ 164
there goes the neighborhood to Collagentrification.
RockPaperScizzors @ 163
So the whale takes Frist with a grain of salt? :P
Which day will it be when the implosion finally happens?
These are supposed to be the politically lazy days of summer, or something along those lines. I should be outside, enjoying the most beautiful summer day yet in my Washington state vacation. But the future of democracy in the USA is at stake, the fools who thought they could finesse us forever are at a precipice of their own making, and even a company which has NEVER EVER given a penny, let alone a million bucks to left-wing political causes is flushing Bill Orally down the toilet.
Why is this happening? Us!
Thank you, Jane, Christy, Marcy, Markos, Matt, Pach – and everyone! What this proves to me is that we have to spread the word even more, and triple our calls, e-mails, fundraising, GOTV actions, and, especially, war protests. I’m more optimistic about the future of progressive democracy today than I’ve been since the morning after the 2006 elections.
And – we need to constantly remind ourselves, like Howie Klein does so relentlessly and truthfully – we need to take this Democratic Party from the machine which has been running it and give it back to the people.
Yay!!! It looks like FISA debate to wait until after recess.
http://thehill.com/leading-the…..07-31.html
do-si-do @ 161
I caught LHP’s Apples and Oranges analogy! I was wondering if any further thoughts have been added!
punaise @ 167
I hear the weathr is always balmy…
Looks like partisanship is coming home to roost in corporate America. Show them you are winning viewers’ popular opinion and they will show you the money.
CTuttle @ 151
Not at all. ;0)
other than2ndlife online – will those of us unable to attend DKOS be able to follow the sched or stream convention?
IF you believe this I have a bridge to nowhere to sell you: SF Chroncle link
Ed*ard Teller @ 169
I wait for the implosion the way some wait for Rapture…hoping it comes soon!
Tucks says we’re all wackos and Dems are pandering to wackos. I just feel really really warm and fuzzy when I hear that. Because that means I’m being heard!
And I’m not wacko hater, I’m a wacko truth seeker, thank you!
do-si-do @ 165
Isn’t she a recovering gambling addict?
Jane is upstairs.
I have seen a few comments, nothing lately, so I am wonderingn. Did the Spector letter get lost in the mail? I heard a few comments in the car, but I think it was mostly speculation. Thanks.
BHatten @ 180
It appears that McConnell wrote in Abu’s stead, and Spector is waiting until he hears directly from Abu before he weighs in on anything.
RockPaperScizzors @ 162
Damn, Oh fur two. Ok, Wink, for all the remaining points: Bill O’Reilly did mistakenly refer to a loofa while sexual harassing a female subordinate as a “bong and a blintz?”
CTuttle @ 159
TRex has a crush on her.
Loo Hoo. @ 183
You mean that he stepped on her?!
To 181, Thank you. Has the McConnell letter been released? Or is that part of the wait? Thanks
AZ Matt @ 176
IF you believe this I have a bridge to nowhere to sell you: —
The Interior Department’s inspector general didn’t find political interference by Vice President Dick Cheney on a key environmental policy in part because investigators weren’t looking for it, an Interior official said Tuesday.
A 2004 report by the inspector general found no basis for a claim by then-Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry that White House political advisers interfered in developing water policy in the Klamath River Basin in California and Oregon.
___________
Check this pic of cowboy Cheney:C-H-E! N-E-Y! Dick Cheney, The Science Guy!
The Vice President is now “dabbling” in science, specifically in the Klamath Basin of California-Oregon, the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, and air quality, to name a few.
http://aquadoc.typepad.com/wat…..y-eco.html
Good stuff, Jane.
Over the next 16 months, throwing people under the bus is going to become an Olympic sport for warpimps in and out of government.
O’reilly is an excellent choice for an early heave. :o)
I go now to buy some wood screws from Home Depot. :o)
BTW, it’s time for a “sophistication” thread.
As in: Are the american people sophisticated enough to understand that when the democrats are blocking a foo-foo-wuss vote by the republicans to, wowsie-boom, put a quarter-inch of distance between themselves and goatboy about Iraq, it doesn’t mean that the dems don’t want to end our part in bush’s shitmire; it just means that they don’t want to let the GOP wash the blood off their hands before they join them for REAL troop drawdown legislation.
I bet they ARE sophisticated enough. :o)
Get Tough @ 88
But I think there’s more to this…Malkin was on O’Reilly the other night and the two of them were piling on the daily kos for hate and vile speech. Speech posted by people he has no control over. On the other hand Malkin posts the writings of a man she knows is a porn star and when the fact is pointed out to her it is dismissed with “Was. Not is. Was. Bryan Preston hotair.com ” I don’t know I think Ms. Malkin has a lot of explaining to do!
Just something to throw into the mix:
While driving through the Mojave Desert last night, there wasn’t much to listen to on the car radio between thunderstorms, but I’d settled on O’Reilly on the approach to Barstow. In between his many denunciations and insults (many directed at his female co-host for some reason. He was particularly miffed that she didn’t know anything about British Invasion music of the ’60’s… wha???) there was a prominent Home Depot ad, which was striking, I thought, because I was passing by a Home Depot on I-40.
This was last night. About 9:30p.
It’s total, funny-animal cartoon blowback for Bill-O.
The dynamite he sets for a rival causes the plunger to go “Ka-boom!” in his face.
The celebratory cigar he lights for himself, explodes and blows his features around to the back of his head.
Coats his enemy in honey and instead, the entire beehive attacks him.
And we laugh every Goddamned time—because it’s classic.
I say we keep kicking him in the ribs—f*ck if he’s down. Play with the bull, and you get the horns.
He gets the horns, but good, here.
(And be sure to click on the “enlarge” pic at the bottom of the link for a special treat.)
Get Tough @ 71
Armen Katayan? He used to be a sideline reporter for college and pro football. Damn!! How the mighty have fallen!!
Blub @ 178
I didn’t know she was married to William Bennett. They love cas*nos too much.
juslin @ 175
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Juslin: I noticed on Talking Points Memo that they’ll be doing multiple video reports daily from YKos. I don’t know if anybody’s streaming the actual sessions or not.