Good morning!

Morning Christy! Zed?

Damn!

Good morning Christy!

It’s a beautiful day here.

It seems to me that without trying, I sneak in the first more than people who try hard, lol.

mornin dogs, incredible day here in lawn guyland new york

gonna be heading north in a bit, won’t stay long, hoping everyone enjoys holiday weekend

Man, that was a LONG thread upstairs.

The “America set to attack Iran” — reference to a blog over @ KOS - REALLY caught my eye!!!

Scary, very very scary.

Michael Gordon is prattling on about the wonders of Anbar on NPR this morning.

Well, after looking at that line-up what I most need is a distraction, and here’s a good one. Yesterday, Appalachian State, a Division 1A school beat Michigan, the 5th rated college football in the country.

Not only is it always fun to see the little guy knock off the big guy, but few sports organizations are as arrogant when it comes to running their business as big-time college football. And Michigan is one of the biggest. Let’s hear it for Appalachian State!

I bought a bag of birdseed from Walmart (I know, I know) and the birds went crazy over it every morning. Then it ran out and I bought a new bag at Meijer and the birds hardly touch it. It’s weird.

I thought maybe the Walmart seed was from China and it either

1) had some kind of flavor enhancer like MSG

or,

2) had some kind of poisonous chemical and the birds are all dead.

I don’t know. Have any of you ever had this happen?

NBC’s Meet the Press: James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mike Murphy and Bob Shrum. (Or, should I say, good lord…change the channel.)

Or change the producer, or the talent booker, or whatever.

A momentous week last week, and hugely important issues about to unfold in Congress very shortly, and MTP trots out the Old Guard to reassure Teh Base that everything’s copacetic, no need to be alarmed, all the old hacks hands are still at the helm. No problems here - go back to sleep.

Fuck Tim Russert, and the fascists that own him.

There is Nothing to Win in Iraq
by Jay Elias

on Dailykos

pop @ 9 — and in Ann Arbor, no less. Ouch!

Something is up when they start dragging Ben Ginsberg out in front of a camera again.

Good Morning everyone.

jayt @ 11

NBC’s Meet the Press: James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mike Murphy and Bob Shrum. (Or, should I say, good lord…change the channel.)

Fuck Tim Russert, and the fascists that own him.

You mean defense contractor GE?

Yeah, Schrum and Carville are a disgrace. And it makes it much worse when people like that are presented as representing the left.

And Pumpkinhead is such a phony. A couple of months ago I saw him talking about how he grew up in a blue collar family. He has no shame.

retirin’ in five - yeah, that it happened in Ann Arbor just makes it all the better

That Kos diary about imminent attack on Iran that is topping 1K comments is:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/1/183018/1527

popomo @ 16

retirin’ in five - yeah, that it happened in Ann Arbor just makes it all the better

OTOH, perennial Big Ten football-powerhouse Indiana won their opener 55-7.

The end is near.

US to air strike Iran in three days

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....369001.ece

BlueStateRedHead

That Kos diary about imminent attack on Iran that is topping 1K comments is:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/1/183018/1527

Looks like I’m about to find out first-hand what the weather in D.C is like this time of the year. Seriously, if that happens, I’m going.

Mauimom @ 7

Man, that was a LONG thread upstairs.

The “America set to attack Iran” — reference to a blog over @ KOS - REALLY caught my eye!!!

Scary, very very scary.

I was reading that too, and wondering about the validity of this comment.

BlueStateRedHead @ 17

That Kos diary about imminent attack on Iran that is topping 1K comments is:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/1/183018/1527

I just read this and was going to post it. If it is true, is there no way to stop it? Marisa at Raw Story said there was no way when she was on on the radio. What a shiny object Larry Craig has been.

Ooh! Vacation pictures.

We spent a week vacationing near Parker River Widlife Refuge and had some really nice opportunities to photograph a lot of birds. Snowy Egrets were plentiful, but we also got great shots of some birds we’d never seen before. A Yellow-billed cuckoo, western sandpipers and many others. Now that I’m back, I really have no interest in going back to work :)

Lizzy @ 21

Mauimom @ 7

Man, that was a LONG thread upstairs.

The “America set to attack Iran” — reference to a blog over @ KOS - REALLY caught my eye!!!

Scary, very very scary.

I was reading that too, and wondering about the validity of this comment.

Actually it is in the UCMJ, if i remember correctly. Except it’s unspoken than you follow anyway. You defy orders and you get tossed in a cell. You can believe it’d happen in this admin, it’d take the generals themselves defying those orders to negate that. I have no idea if that would happen or not. But for the average NCO and the lower rank COs? Not so good despite their integrity.

could someone comment on the friedman post wich I was able to read thanx to marion’s blog;

Imagine for a moment if one outcome of the U.S. invasion of Iraq had been the creation of an American University of Iraq. Imagine if we had triggered a flood of new investment into Iraq that had gone into new hotels, a big new convention center, office buildings, Internet cafes, two new international airports and Iraqi malls. Imagine if we had paved the way for an explosion of newspapers, even a local Human Rights Watch chapter, and new schools. Imagine if we had created an island of decency in Iraq, with public parks, where women could walk unveiled and not a single American soldier was ever killed — where Americans in fact were popular — and where Islam was practiced in its most tolerant and open manner. Imagine …

Well, stop imagining. It’s all happening in Kurdistan, the northern Iraqi region, home to four million Kurds. I saw all of the above in Kurdistan’s two biggest towns, Erbil and Sulaimaniya. The Bush team just never told anybody

Good morning Everybody,

In my efforts to track and account for the billions of faith-based dollars paid by taxpayers to faith-based organizations that in President Bush’s opinion do a better job or at least as good a job as agencies staffed with people trained to do the job (no data, NOTHING to back up this supposition), I researched the(PDF) Grants Catalog, an 82 page booklet outlining Federal Funds for Organizations That Help Those in Need.

On page 21, I found the Compassion Capital Fund Demonstration Grants from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Interesting to me is that 20,000,000 dollars of taxpayer money was appropriated in 2006 to intermediary organizations (such as state and local government, colleges and universities, non-governmental agencies, Indian tribal governmental agencies, nonprofit agencies, including faith-based agencies and for-profit agencies) to train staff, expand programs in their communities, and replicate promising programs… To be eligible for a CCF grant, an intermediary organization should have established relationships with grassroots faith-based and community organizations, as well as a proven track record in providing technical assistance to such groups.

Technical assistance activities funded under CCF are conducted at no cost to interested faith-based and community orgaiztions and focus on capacity-building in the following areas: leadership development, organizational development, revenue development strategies, program development, and community engagement.

———————–

I see, so 20,000,000 is set aside to get non-existent faith-based programs off the ground. Staff is trained for free, other programs are replicated and technical assistance is given at our expense.

perris @ 25

could someone comment on the friedman post wich I was able to read thanx to marion’s blog;

Imagine for a moment if one outcome of the U.S. invasion of Iraq had been the creation of an American University of Iraq. Imagine if we had triggered a flood of new investment into Iraq that had gone into new hotels, a big new convention center, office buildings, Internet cafes, two new international airports and Iraqi malls. Imagine if we had paved the way for an explosion of newspapers, even a local Human Rights Watch chapter, and new schools. Imagine if we had created an island of decency in Iraq, with public parks, where women could walk unveiled and not a single American soldier was ever killed — where Americans in fact were popular — and where Islam was practiced in its most tolerant and open manner. Imagine …

Well, stop imagining. It’s all happening in Kurdistan, the northern Iraqi region, home to four million Kurds. I saw all of the above in Kurdistan’s two biggest towns, Erbil and Sulaimaniya. The Bush team just never told anybody

marion’s blog

I PREDICT!!!
Janes comments about medical insurance coverage/noncoverage will be very popular and very important to us readers.

CEO @ 28

I PREDICT!!!
Janes comments about medical insurance coverage/noncoverage will be very popular and very important to us readers.

I also predict friedman’s article is gonna make all the wingnuts blog all week long

Good morning everyone.

The real George Bush. What fuckery! Do you think he gives a shit about our soldiers… he’s only interested in his legacy… I’m ashamed to have him as Prez. How can Reid and
Leahy deal with that arshole?

“But in an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, he daydreamed about the next phase of his life, when his time will be his own.

First, Mr. Bush said, “I’ll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol’ coffers.” With assets that have been estimated as high as nearly $21 million, Mr. Bush added, “I don’t know what my dad gets — it’s more than 50-75” thousand dollars a speech, and “Clinton’s making a lot of money.”

-NY Times

In that same Grants Catalog in the you can’t make this sh*t up category I found the following on page 62:

Services for Survivors of Torture
Department of Health and Human Services
FY 2006 Appropriations: $9,800,000

The purpose of this program is to provide funding for a comprehensive program of support for individuals now residing in the United States who were tortured by foreign governments, including refugees, asylees, immigrants and other US Citizens. The funding announcement includes two categories. Priority Area 1 is for services that meet the medical, psychological, social and legal needs of torture survivors. Priority Area 2 is for the provision of National technical assistance.

Eligible applicants are public and private organizations and institutions, including faith-based and community organizations.

————————

Of course we are missing Priority Area 3 - provision of services for those tortured by this Administration.

Good Morning!

Imagine for a moment if one outcome of the U.S. invasion of Iraq had been that Tom Friedman’s son had enlisted and gone to fight in Iraq. Imagine if young Tommy Friedman drove over an IED and had his guts blown all over the road…

aliasofwestgate @ 24

Lizzy @ 21

I was reading that too, and wondering about the validity of this comment.

Actually it is in the UCMJ, if i remember correctly. Except it’s unspoken than you follow anyway. You defy orders and you get tossed in a cell. You can believe it’d happen in this admin, it’d take the generals themselves defying those orders to negate that. I have no idea if that would happen or not. But for the average NCO and the lower rank COs? Not so good despite their integrity.

***a nod of the head***

Elliott @ 33

Good Morning!

Right back attcha.

The Bush team just never told anybody

But 60 Minutes did.

Why don’t the Bushies talk about it?

Because it would piss off Turkey - and Turkey puts a lot of money in the “right” hands, via illegal arms trade and drug trafficking.

That’s the best “Meet the Press” has to offer? Why not hear from Jane Hamsher, Marcy Wheeler, Thom Hartman or Glenn Greenwald for example. Some new voices with new and refreshing perspectives. People willing to speak truth to power. Oh, that’s right, that’s the last thing the traditional media wants going over the airwaves. I think we all know how people in the Soviet Union felt having a state controlled media.

This Iran link was sent to me yesterday. I am sick to think that the United Empire of America is prepared to bomb this country. Who will stop the madness? Again, I ask, where are our LEADERS who will stop the Bush/Cheney NeoCon thugs?

In the midst of all this why in heaven’s name is Meet the Press going to subject the viewers to a dysfunctional married couple and Bob Shrum? Oh, silly me, they all must have very important things to tell us.

There’s a couple of posts out there, one at Daily Kos, and a new one by Sara Robinson at Orcinus. Both are worth reading. Going on seven years now of demonstrated criminally incompetent - and just plain criminal - behavior from the Bush Administration, why are there Americans who still find it hard to question anything the Bushies say?

feduphoosier at Kos talks about My neighbor, John

…. Because I see this all around me too. That Hoosiers tend to expect that people will naturally do what they say they will do - the ‘right thing’ - and to be honest in their dealings isn’t the problem. The problem is the way in which they have been betrayed… and the way that their faith in decency and governmental authority - and especially their patriotism - has been used against them.

Sara Robinson explores the problem in depth:

News Flash: Hypocrisy Is Morally Wrong
Those of us in the reality-based world have a very clear and logical response to hypocrisy. The comments thread in Dave’s post below on Larry Craig showed this reaction in full bloom. We expect people to walk their talk. People whose actions don’t square with their stated moral code cannot, and should not, be trusted. We understand that people of good will can have moments of weakness where they miss the intended mark (I’m talkin’ to you, Bill Clinton); but when people have built their entire careers demonizing people in public for the exact same stuff they’re doing themselves in private, we reserve the right to call them out as hypocrites.

The problem is A) people who don’t live in the reality - based world and B) those who exploit them. If you don’t know what an SDO type is, you definitely need to read these two articles.

Haggis!

I would think that some other firepups would at least appreciate the irony of listening to Mary “the Monsterella” Matalin using what appears to be this morning’s catch phrase for her - “normal people.” Seeing and hearing that phrase come from her un-natural and far from normal mouth is the acme of absurdity.

yeah, I know, right??? I’m fresh from re-reading Glenn Greenwald’s post from a couple of days ago about the imminent bombing of Iran, and reading the link in it to the interview with Scott Ritter from earlier this year in which he predicts the same (and explains concisely the disaster that looms for us–$300/barrel oil is only a drop in the teacup–if it happens), on top of the post on Juan Cole’s blog predicting the bombing, oh–and then there’s that 1K-comment post on Kos.

Yeah, who wouldn’t prefer the gay, witty badinage of Shrummie and Carville to war drums.

Seriously, folks, the admin. is doing everything exactly the same way they did it in the run-up to Iraq. What are we gonna do?

At the moment I’m looking for MoveOn or someone to sponsor massive marches on Washington, and am looking at becoming a one-man anti-Iran-war PR juggernaut. This time, we KNOW the propaganda tricks they’re going to use. We all have to get on board on this!

Scott Ritter is on CSpan 2 talking about his book “Waging Peace”

#10 Riesz Fischer

All the birds are dead… poisoned, just like my dog. Don’t buy your pet foods from wal*mart or anything else that has to do with china…

Ed Gillespie’s lips are moving but he isn’t saying anything

perris @ 27

perris @ 25

could someone comment on the friedman post wich I was able to read thanx to marion’s blog;

marion’s blog

Yeah, I saw this earlier today, along with Michael Gordon’s complaint that he was misunderstood - the latter in a letter to the editor of all things (since when does a journalist for the paper feel he has to publish a letter?). For Friedman it is same old same old. In this case he is shouting out for a neatly “divided” Iraq, one which will be no threat supposedly to anyone else. Alas this is the “liberal” Neocon agenda (Al Franken was pushing for this as well). In truth it will never work because a) Turkey does not want a separate Kurdestan, b) in this schema the Sunni’s get none of the oil, and c) without considerably more ethnic cleansing, the country doesn’t fall so neatly into religious/ethnic zones.

jayt @ 37

The Bush team just never told anybody

But 60 Minutes did.

Why don’t the Bushies talk about it?

Because it would piss off Turkey - and Turkey puts a lot of money in the “right” hands, via illegal arms trade and drug trafficking.

Could the “right” hands even include a few attached to Bush family members and cronies?

Here’s an interesting discussion at DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND about a poll at MSNBC. PLEASE VOTE!

Bob @ 45

#10 Riesz Fischer

All the birds are dead… poisoned, just like my dog. Don’t buy your pet foods from wal*mart or anything else that has to do with china…

Thanks, Bob. I’ll take that under advisement.

snowbird42 @ 22

BlueStateRedHead @ 17

That Kos diary about imminent attack on Iran that is topping 1K comments is:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/1/183018/1527

I just read this and was going to post it. If it is true, is there no way to stop it? Marisa at Raw Story said there was no way when she was on on the radio. What a shiny object Larry Craig has been.

And I imagine the Kos diarist is going to be visited shortly (if not already) by some men in black suits, wanting a peak at his phone records. Oh, I forgot, the Dems already gave that right to the Bushies with FISA.

kevin @ 19

US to air strike Iran in three days

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....369001.ece

Just to be clear, the timesonline piece says the strike on Iran is planned to last three days, not begin three days from now.

Also, the “bigtime” kos diary (which BSRH, snowbird, and richmond have referenced) is extremely harrowing, but is actually consistent with an attack that is planned and massive, but not necessarily happening next week.

That said, what’s catching my eye now? Iran Iran Iran. I do think the PR blitz will be beginning this coming week…

Professor Foland @ 52

kevin @ 19

US to air strike Iran in three days

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....369001.ece

Just to be clear, the timesonline piece says the strike on Iran is planned to last three days, not begin three days from now.

Also, the “bigtime” kos diary (which BSRH, snowbird, and richmond have referenced) is extremely harrowing, but is actually consistent with an attack that is planned and massive, but not necessarily happening next week.

That said, what’s catching my eye now? Iran Iran Iran. I do think the PR blitz will be beginning this coming week…

Who is on the armed services committee? We need to swamp them with calls, emails, and post cards NOW. Oh yeah, and thanks Rahm, good going there removing Iran from the equation of war that Congress can impact now. Better yet, spam everyone in Congress with No Iran bombing messages. We need to make it clear to them how the majority feels. And, by the way, isn’t it kind of funny we have had no polls about the subject of Iran, as in “would you be in favor of escalating the war in Iraq to include the bombing of 1000 plus government and other targets in Iran?”

Badwater @ 48

jayt @ 37

The Bush team just never told anybody

But 60 Minutes did.

Why don’t the Bushies talk about it?

Because it would piss off Turkey - and Turkey puts a lot of money in the “right” hands, via illegal arms trade and drug trafficking.

Could the “right” hands even include a few attached to Bush family members and cronies?

Oh yeah. Ya think that former FBI Turkish translator Sibel Edmonds’s case being subjected to State Secret shut-down is just a coincidence? Feith, Cheney, Perle, Hastert. I see no way that Poppy Bush isn’t getting his cut too, but that’s just my own opinion.

Professor Foland @ 52

kevin @ 19

US to air strike Iran in three days

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....369001.ece

Just to be clear, the timesonline piece says the strike on Iran is planned to last three days, not begin three days from now.

Also, the “bigtime” kos diary (which BSRH, snowbird, and richmond have referenced) is extremely harrowing, but is actually consistent with an attack that is planned and massive, but not necessarily happening next week.

That said, what’s catching my eye now? Iran Iran Iran. I do think the PR blitz will be beginning this coming week…

It must be time for Homeland Security to start changing terror alert colors rapidly. Be afraid! Be afraid! Republics will save you!

It worked before and what else have they got?

Riesz Fischer @ 10

I bought a bag of birdseed from Walmart (I know, I know) and the birds went crazy over it every morning. Then it ran out and I bought a new bag at Meijer and the birds hardly touch it. It’s weird.

I thought maybe the Walmart seed was from China and it either

1) had some kind of flavor enhancer like MSG

or,

2) had some kind of poisonous chemical and the birds are all dead.

I don’t know. Have any of you ever had this happen?

It is funny you are saying this but I bought a big bag of birdseed at Walmart for the first time. I have the same birds that I have been feeding for a couple of years know. They are all gone. The bluejays are totally gone and I had about a dozen, at least. I had about 50 of those brown birds and I actually saw 2 of them the other day and I said to myself, wow, they look like they have been through the ringer. I’m throwing it away right now. I feed the ducks bread and they are all accounted for. Thanks for your post.

Badwater

It worked before and what else have they got?

Scary brown people trying to take all your stuff.

Where is the Friedman article??

On the MTP Matalin-Carvelle show: I bet the real reason they are on now is because Russert’s son and Carvelle do an XM radio sports show together, and this will the perfect time to hype that in terms of the college football season underway. Carvelle’s son goes to B.C. With Timmeh, its all about deals and greasing the hands that feed ya. A nickle that this relationship is mentioned at least once, in part in the context of B.C.’s victory yesterday.

ccmask @ 58

Where is the Friedman article??

NYT Op Ed. (The rest of the op ed’s are dumb ass gay bathroom stuff (seriously). Rich is away as is red.

Thanks Richmond.

Richmond @ 59

On the MTP Matalin-Carvelle show: I bet the real reason they are on now is because Russert’s son and Carvelle do an XM radio sports show together, and this will the perfect time to hype that in terms of the college football season underway. Carvelle’s son goes to B.C. With Timmeh, its all about deals and greasing the hands that feed ya. A nickle that this relationship is mentioned at least once, in part in the context of B.C.’s victory yesterday.

I wouldn’t bet against you!

Bill Kristol’s daughter’s working on Fred Thompson’s campaign.
paid? I don’t know.

Morning, all.

On the “Times” article; first, take into account that the London Times is a Murdoch paper, and therefore has no credibility. Second;”Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.

Who is this bloke? What is the “Nixon Center”? Is this some sort of trial balloon? I honestly don’t know what to make of all this, but surely even these headcases realise the impact attacking Iran would have on the oil markets.

It’s early. I just got up.

jayt @ 11

NBC’s Meet the Press: James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mike Murphy and Bob Shrum. (Or, should I say, good lord…change the channel.)

Or change the producer, or the talent booker, or whatever.

A momentous week last week, and hugely important issues about to unfold in Congress very shortly, and MTP trots out the Old Guard to reassure Teh Base that everything’s copacetic, no need to be alarmed, all the old hacks hands are still at the helm. No problems here - go back to sleep.

Fuck Tim Russert, and the fascists that own him.

Didn’t you notice - according to Timmeh, they are a BRAIN TRUST!!!

Good Morning Christy and pups.

Beautiful sunny morn in N.E. OH today, but dry dry dry. Our lil bluebird momma is hard at work feeding her third brood of the year, while poppa burbles about their good fortune from the hedgerow. No doubt he’ll be a tad more useful in her eyes, later in the day when he remembers his manners and brings her some tidbits to feed the growing kids.

Good idea with the feeder Christy. I promise, you’ll still get yer work done - maybe even more. The kitty’ll love her new viewing perch. Ours have similar wide-screen window-tv. Put a cushion and a snuggly bankie on the top & she’ll be in heaven. *g*

CBS had a great commentary piece on Craig. They hit the MN police hard, but the big attack was on the GOP for no loyalty and pitching the guy. Giving the guy a break.

theExile @ 65

jayt @ 11

NBC’s Meet the Press: James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mike Murphy and Bob Shrum. (Or, should I say, good lord…change the channel.)

Or change the producer, or the talent booker, or whatever.

A momentous week last week, and hugely important issues about to unfold in Congress very shortly, and MTP trots out the Old Guard to reassure Teh Base that everything’s copacetic, no need to be alarmed, all the old hacks hands are still at the helm. No problems here - go back to sleep.

Fuck Tim Russert, and the fascists that own him.

Didn’t you notice - according to Timmeh, they are a BRAIN TRUST!!!

Timmeh actually did say that, he’s got himself a BRAIN TRUST there today.

not one I’d trust, but that’s just me…

“Brains” or “Trust” are two words I wouldn’t associate with that crowd.

Saw Carville on some talkie yestidie. OMG did he look sour! Couldn’t listen. His heart ain’t in it no more, nah ah.

Dobbs’ sub host was absolutely burbling over nuttin much yestidie, but one of her guests was that numbskull Diana West. Who IS that idiot?!
She’s gotta consider herself a flaming neocon.
She was all sweetness & light in tone of voice, but insisting war with Iran was absolutely the only way to go!
So, I say, send her over there all by herself to wage neo-nonsense, solo.

Elliott @ 68

theExile @ 65

Didn’t you notice - according to Timmeh, they are a BRAIN TRUST!!!

Timmeh actually did say that, he’s got himself a BRAIN TRUST there today.

not one I’d trust, but that’s just me…

Just can’t watch anything involving a Matalin appearance. My teevee becomes a target for heavy flying objects - and I’m always afraid that a Matalin-viewing could induce permanent damage of sex drive…

jayt @ 20

That Kos diary about imminent attack on Iran that is topping 1K comments is:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/1/183018/1527

Looks like I’m about to find out first-hand what the weather in D.C is like this time of the year. Seriously, if that happens, I’m going.

bless you. something for us all to consider.

jayt @ 71

Just can’t watch anything involving a Matalin appearance. My teevee becomes a target for heavy flying objects - and I’m always afraid that a Matalin-viewing could induce permanent damage of sex drive…

Carville thinks she’s sexy– can’t ya just picture that?

jayt @ 71

Elliott @ 68

Timmeh actually did say that, he’s got himself a BRAIN TRUST there today.

not one I’d trust, but that’s just me…

Just can’t watch anything involving a Matalin appearance. My teevee becomes a target for heavy flying objects - and I’m always afraid that a Matalin-viewing could induce permanent damage of sex drive…

mebbe the Carville/Matalin kids threw their parents out for the weekend, so they could have some peace at home for a change. werry.odd.couple indeed
marriage of convenience? earning a living by fighting in public? i’d rather watch pro-flopdown, rather than those 2 dried-up shrews…

Professor Foland @ 52

kevin @ 19

US to air strike Iran in three days

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....369001.ece

Just to be clear, the timesonline piece says the strike on Iran is planned to last three days, not begin three days from now.

Also, the “bigtime” kos diary (which BSRH, snowbird, and richmond have referenced) is extremely harrowing, but is actually consistent with an attack that is planned and massive, but not necessarily happening next week.

That said, what’s catching my eye now? Iran Iran Iran. I do think the PR blitz will be beginning this coming week…

question: is the PR blitz to build support for an iran attack, or to scare congress into another iraq capitulation?

jayt @ 71

Elliott @ 68

Timmeh actually did say that, he’s got himself a BRAIN TRUST there today.

not one I’d trust, but that’s just me…

Just can’t watch anything involving a Matalin appearance. My teevee becomes a target for heavy flying objects - and I’m always afraid that a Matalin-viewing could induce permanent damage of sex drive…

laughing!

If you really want to piss yourself off, CarpetBagger has just the thing, as he often does;

http://www.thecarpetbaggerrepo.....more-12746

Riesz Fischer @ 73

jayt @ 71

Just can’t watch anything involving a Matalin appearance. My teevee becomes a target for heavy flying objects - and I’m always afraid that a Matalin-viewing could induce permanent damage of sex drive…

Carville thinks she’s sexy– can’t ya just picture that?

s’cuse. Gotta go get a splash of brain-bleach! *shudder*

Carville thinks she’s sexy– can’t ya just picture that?

I’d rather not.

edit: I mean - I can, but I *really* don’t want to - I was just starting to think about eating…

Our best hope for avoiding an attack on Iran lies with Russia and China. They pretty much have the only leverage Cheney will understand.

As someone who grew up in the 60s and 70s, who would have thought that the Soviets and Red Chinese would be our best hope for saving our democracy and our nation’s soul?

jayt @ 11

NBC’s Meet the Press: James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mike Murphy and Bob Shrum. (Or, should I say, good lord…change the channel.)

Or change the producer, or the talent booker, or whatever.

A momentous week last week, and hugely important issues about to unfold in Congress very shortly, and MTP trots out the Old Guard to reassure Teh Base that everything’s copacetic, no need to be alarmed, all the old hacks hands are still at the helm. No problems here - go back to sleep.

Fuck Tim Russert, and the fascists that own him.

Is it my imagination or does Tim Russert have a crush on Thomas Friedman?

selise @ 75

Professor Foland @ 52

Just to be clear, the timesonline piece says the strike on Iran is planned to last three days, not begin three days from now.

Also, the “bigtime” kos diary (which BSRH, snowbird, and richmond have referenced) is extremely harrowing, but is actually consistent with an attack that is planned and massive, but not necessarily happening next week.

That said, what’s catching my eye now? Iran Iran Iran. I do think the PR blitz will be beginning this coming week…

question: is the PR blitz to build support for an iran attack, or to scare congress into another iraq capitulation?

I don’t know. We’ll see when they roll out the new product.

Okay, so… if it’s true that we are about to bomb Iran… well, that pretty much ends my ability to think rationally about anything because it’s fairly clear that nothing rational works any longer.

I don’t know how long I can keep holding out for hope that things will change. Seriously. This is way beyond “how do I move to Canada” territory.

jayt @ 54

Oh yeah. Ya think that former FBI Turkish translator Sibel Edmonds’s case being subjected to State Secret shut-down is just a coincidence? Feith, Cheney, Perle, Hastert. I see no way that Poppy Bush isn’t getting his cut too, but that’s just my own opinion.

i’ll believe waxman is serious about oversight when his committee starts having effective hearings on this. edmonds has been begging for a hearing (and she has a bunch of people who’ve agreed to be witnesses).

G’mornng, everyone.

I haven’t turned on the tube. The choices for the Sunday morning gabfests look rather unappealing.

I was just reading through yesterday’s threads about health care. Damn, this situation is so messed up. So many of us are just one health crisis away from financial disaster. I’m struggling with the health insurance issue, too. I most certainly hope that the upcoming election will have heavy emphasis on the insurance industry and how health*care* is not the goal of for-profit insurers. I believe that we really need to put a lot of pressure on our candidates and elected officials to put healthcare as a top priority. I think of it like Ross Perot did with the deficit - he was a nutty candidate, but he sold the country on how the deficit was crippling the US. The public got all riled up about it, and suddenly all of the politicians were adamant about eliminating the deficit. And it was eliminated due to the demands of the people.

(Let’s just forget about what GWB has done to the deficit since… I don’t want to digress from the point).

WE need to put pressure on all of our politicians, all candidates and elected officials, our newspapers, our TV news shows, our magazines - we need to keep bringing healthcare to the forefront as an issue we want discussed and examined. We need to keep talking about it on the internet. We need to write and call our media outlets, as well as politicians. We need to show up at political events and nag the hell out of people. We need to talk with our neighbors about the need for sanity in our healthcare system.

If we take an active role in advancing the dialogue and voicing the demands for a single-payer healthcare system, we CAN achieve change. Its the only way it will happen.

I hate to see more people face medical and financial nightmares due to the for-profit system. We really have to demand change - loudly and often.

Is it my imagination or does Tim Russert have a crush on Thomas Friedman?

Tim Russert has a crush on - gettin’ paid!!

Russert meant a brain truss.

-GSD

selise @ 72

jayt @ 20

Looks like I’m about to find out first-hand what the weather in D.C is like this time of the year. Seriously, if that happens, I’m going.

bless you. something for us all to consider.

That’s an interesting piece. Scary.

I was just sitting here on a Sunday morning reading all the links about Iran.

I just started putting some of them together…

Add a stanza, add links, if you wish.

E Ryno @ 81

jayt @ 11

NBC’s Meet the Press: James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mike Murphy and Bob Shrum. (Or, should I say, good lord…change the channel.)

Or change the producer, or the talent booker, or whatever.

A momentous week last week, and hugely important issues about to unfold in Congress very shortly, and MTP trots out the Old Guard to reassure Teh Base that everything’s copacetic, no need to be alarmed, all the old hacks hands are still at the helm. No problems here - go back to sleep.

Fuck Tim Russert, and the fascists that own him.

Is it my imagination or does Tim Russert have a crush on Thomas Friedman?

Timmeh & Tweety both have a tendency to pant & slobber uncontrollably on a regular basis. Always a bit hard to decipher cause, tho trigger is usually close-by & obvious. Seems to be some genetic abnormality that spontaneously com-busts… creep-y!
sort of a childlike need to create a hero they can gush over.
wish they’d grow up.
chances of that happenin?
prolly nil. imho

I am watching this absolutely jaw-droppingly gruesome Mtp with Carville and Matalin. Brghhh! I love the way Carville takes a back seat while Mary talks and gesticulates and says Hilllary and Obama believe we can still win the war, and argues over Leno appearances for Thompson etc.

Democrats, Puhhhleeeeze fire Carville.

Gosh, I feel so much better now I know the poor boy is thinking ahead about providing for his family.

But in an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, he daydreamed about the next phase of his life, when his time will be his own.

First, Mr. Bush said, “I’ll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol’ coffers.” With assets that have been estimated as high as nearly $21 million, Mr. Bush added, “I don’t know what my dad gets — it’s more than 50-75” thousand dollars a speech, and “Clinton’s making a lot of money.”

Then he said, “We’ll have a nice place in Dallas,” where he will be running what he called “a fantastic Freedom Institute” promoting democracy around the world.

I love the way it seems timmmy can’t even get in a word edgwise. Holds the thought. Then brings up Reagan. *sigh*

Good mornin folks..!

mui @ 91

I am watching this absolutely jaw-droppingly gruesome Mtp with Carville and Matalin. Brghhh! I love the way Carville takes a back seat while Mary talks and gesticulates and says Hilllary and Obama believe we can still win the war, and argues over Leno appearances for Thompson etc.

Democrats, Puhhhleeeeze fire Carville.

more than we needed to know, but thanks anyway.
appreciate you watching so we don’t have to.
the divine is surely domino trixie, no?!

Democrats, Puhhhleeeeze fire Carville.

I believe that that has already happened. Nobody has hired him for this election. His own site says he’s not doing “races” any more.

And the question is left to be begged as to the extent that he *ever* worked for Democrats…

mui @ 91

I am watching this absolutely jaw-droppingly gruesome Mtp with Carville and Matalin. Brghhh! I love the way Carville takes a back seat while Mary talks and gesticulates and says Hilllary and Obama believe we can still win the war, and argues over Leno appearances for Thompson etc.

Democrats, Puhhhleeeeze fire Carville.

Fire the DLC and the big dogette.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 92

Gosh, I feel so much better now I know the poor boy is thinking ahead about providing for his family.

But in an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, he daydreamed about the next phase of his life, when his time will be his own.

First, Mr. Bush said, “I’ll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol’ coffers.” With assets that have been estimated as high as nearly $21 million, Mr. Bush added, “I don’t know what my dad gets — it’s more than 50-75” thousand dollars a speech, and “Clinton’s making a lot of money.”

Then he said, “We’ll have a nice place in Dallas,” where he will be running what he called “a fantastic Freedom Institute” promoting democracy around the world.

Hmmm…I’d rather imagine a dank prison cell for him to spend his days out in. Of course, both scenarios are probably equally fantasy.

I wish I had not seen Trent Lott singing “Elvira”, it was bad enough to worry about Republicans like Larry Craig in their pink ties peeking through the stall door.

jayt @ 96

Democrats, Puhhhleeeeze fire Carville.

I believe that that has already happened. Nobody has hired him for this election. His own site says he’s not doing “races” any more.

And the question is left to be begged as to the extent that he *ever* worked for Democrats…

ah. no wonder he’s such a sourpuss these days.

Oh wait, I remember. Mary Matalin is a paid expert on the Iraq War. She has been consistently wrong about her War but she has profited from it. Of course, her sock puppet husband is a K-Street Influence Peddler and is part of Hillary’s campaign. Carville also tried to purge Howard Dean last November. There is also the letter of support of Libby by the Carville’s.
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MEMBER OF THE WHITE HOUSE IRAQ GROUP: Matlin was a regular participant in the weekly meetings of the Bush Administration’s White House Iraq Group. The main purpose of the group was the systematic coordination of the “marketing” of going to war with Iraq as well as selling the war here at home. One clear example of this fact is that “the escalation of nuclear rhetoric” during the pre-war stage, “including the introduction of the term ‘mushroom cloud’ into the debate, coincided with the formation” of WHIG.