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Morning, Scarecrow, happy Labor Day to you and yours.

50K for that moron to babble? Who’d be that stupid and spendthrift?

Don’t answer that.

Good morning Scarecrow!

Remember, it’s Labor Day weekend. A lot of news orgs are using canned stories because theyre not at full staff levels.

The Bush story youre referring to is exactly the type of “news” that runs when all the journos are off yachting in Montauk, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, or Nantucket.

Good morning folks. Yes, this is Labor day, and to make sure none of the traditional labor day speeches make the evening news, I see our President slipped over to Iraq last night.

Rayne @ 2

Morning, Scarecrow, happy Labor Day to you and yours.

50K for that moron to babble? Who’d be that stupid and spendthrift?

Don’t answer that.

It does make you wonder, doesn’t it? Why would you pay $50,000 to hear someone repeat “al Qaeda, al Qaeda,” 50 times?

Well he slipped up on a lot of stuff.

The banana peel president.

Good lord, even in this small article you can see a picture of supreme narcissist Bush performing for this monkey for the past year, writing out little vignettes in his head that he then executes. Really, it’s revolting.

The chimp teach? Puleeeeeeze- What- banana peeling?
Just propaganda to hype his legacy.
Teach my ass!

Jane Hamsher @ 8

Good lord, even in this small article you can see a picture of supreme narcissist Bush performing for this monkey for the past year, writing out little vignettes in his head that he then executes. Really, it’s revolting.

In the photo, Bush is showing Draper a copy of Petraeus’ report, which Bush has been personally working on for several weeks.

Jane Hamsher @ 8

Good lord, even in this small article you can see a picture of supreme narcissist Bush performing for this monkey for the past year, writing out little vignettes in his head that he then executes. Really, it’s revolting.

A good writer can make even a small article speak volumes. Or so I’ve been told. ;)

Scarecrow @ 6

Rayne @ 2

Morning, Scarecrow, happy Labor Day to you and yours.

50K for that moron to babble? Who’d be that stupid and spendthrift?

Don’t answer that.

It does make you wonder, doesn’t it? Why would you pay $50,000 to hear someone repeat “al Qaeda, al Qaeda,” 50 times?

You know, those words and “9/11″ are the only two things we could reliably expect him to say without completely bumbling them up with his mush mouth.

Thank you for the post, Scarecrow.

And thank you, Australia, for footing the $4,000,000 extra security costs created by Bush’s publicity stunt visit today to Iraq (which is going to result in an earlier than expected arrival in Australia.)

Who says that we don’t have friends?

Bush is in Iraq:

Bush makes surprise visit to Iraq

on edit: sorry did not see link above.

Typical publicity stunt. So now let’s just give Bush that $50 million he wants for the war.

Oh, someone’s having fun at the WaPo. Their page one story on the book leads with this:

Karl Rove told George W. Bush before the 2000 election that it was a bad idea to name Richard B. Cheney as his running mate, and Rove later raised objections to the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, according to a new book on the Bush presidency.

When Rove, President Bush’s top political adviser, expressed concerns about the Miers selection, he was “shouted down” and subsequently muted his objections, Draper writes, while other advisers did not realize the outcry the nomination would cause within the president’s conservative political base.

It was John G. Roberts Jr., now the chief justice of the United States, who suggested Miers to Bush as a possible Supreme Court justice, according to the book. Miers, the White House counsel and a Bush loyalist from Texas, did not want the job, but Bush and first lady Laura Bush prevailed on her to accept the nomination, Draper writes.

Poor Karl. If only folks had listened to him . . .

/snark

You forgot to mention that he could also make big bucks telling adoring audiences how is administration created the events on 9/11 and used it to provide a faux sense of legitimacy along with popular support after stealing the 2000 election.

After all – IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB!

Good morning Scarecrow,
Good morning Everybody,

Please don’t miss dogemperor’s diary at DKOS on Dominionist Social Services.

If you don’t understand the lack of education and training these people have, if you don’t understand what it is they believe about mental health, you won’t understand that President Bush is doing massive damage by funding these.

Billions of dollars are being given with no accountability needed. No tracking. No scientific studies.

Two years ago, I began working with a little girl who insisted she wanted to be a boy. We worked hard to give her room to be comfortable while exploring this.

She lost her supportive family member and she was sent to a “school” in Texas.

Read the diary and understand why I am so concerned for her.

this all comes under the heading of “whatever it takes…to get him out of office.”

back from a truly exceptional vacation on the outer banks. man, that does a body good.

CNN was interviewing their favorite General, “Spider” Marks, about the British redeploying out of the Palace in Basra — he couldn’t find enough neocon platitudes to criticize their cut-and-run withdrawal.

But when you think about it, the Brits in Basra have done what Petraeus has done in al Anbar province — left control to the locals. It’s just that the US got a ceasefire from the Sunnis by bribing them, while the British couldn’t get a deal with Sadr’s Mahdi Army.

I give the New York Times Uber credit for bringing us what most newspapers in this country do not, an in your face view of the war and its many outcomes, and they do this daily.

I can also credit them for playing this piece in a tiny corner of the paper that shows how news worthy this president is. His war is, but not him. A tiny blurb in the corner. I think mostly they printed it because of the irony involved. Not to mention the humor.

We have to all love irony by now.

-=t=-

Freedom Institute?? I thought he was calling it the “Last Chance Saloon?”

Scarecrow @ 5

Good morning folks. Yes, this is Labor day, and to make sure none of the traditional labor day speeches make the evening news, I see our President slipped over to Iraq last night.

Morning, all.

“President George W. Bush arrived in Iraq on Monday for a surprise visit along with his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the White House said in a call from Air Force One.”

I sure hope they manage to avoid those missiles like the one that missed Inhofe
last week.

In other news, the cowardly Brits cut & run.

I wonder if protesters will be allowed into his 50,000 dollar speeches. I would guess he wouldn’t do too many of them after he got a taste of what a real public speech was.

It’s really like he and Laura have lived in a bubble for their whole life.

I was looking at the NYT but was happily sidetracked by the Appalachian State win over Mich. My son-in-law called the game. Very exciting.

More from the WaPo:

Draper offers little additional insight on or details of Cheney’s large influence in administration policy. But he writes that the vice president did find himself ruminating over mistakes made, chief among them installing L. Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority to run Iraq for a year after the invasion. Instead, Draper suggests, Cheney believes that the White House should have set up a provisional government right away, as Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress recommended from the beginning.

Yep, if we’d only installed Chalabi right away . . . yeah, that’s the ticket.

Did Bush bring a tray of plastic burgers to serve the troops for his run in and out of Iraq on Labor Day?

Seriously, I hope he accomplishes that longed for success in the three hours he spends in Iraq today.

And for the Plameologists, there’s a little tidbit for you in the WaPo’s story:

In the CIA leak scandal, Rove assured Bush, Draper reports, that he had known nothing about Valerie Plame, a CIA operative whose covert status was revealed by administration officials to reporters after Plame’s husband criticized the administration’s case for war in Iraq. “When Bush learned otherwise,” he said, “he hit the roof.”

That’s gotta hurt.

Serious question: Does a certain diligent prosecutor know this already, or would this be an interesting little nugget that would require a further “interview” with the President. “Mr. President, exactly when did this “hitting the roof” incident occur? How did you find out about Mr. Rove’s knowledge? . . .”

GeorgeSimian @ 26

Did Bush bring a tray of plastic burgers to serve the troops for his run in and out of Iraq on Labor Day?

lol. How funny and trueis that? I wonder if they had their backs to him like the turkey pic?

The New York Times gave this ProBush story the front page as payback to the Bushies for letting Judy Miller scoop the competion with the Weapons of Mass Destruction stories that “cough” earned her a Pulitzer Prize.
I’m sure the Bush Institute will have a cluess press wing with a wax statue of Judy,Tweety, and Broder singing Devo’s “freedom of choice”. The lyrics will of course be be changed to freedom from choice.
After all in Bushworld only the truly incompetent or gulity get recognition or Medals of Freedom. The Bush Institute I’m sure will hail Judy as a great patriot whoose stories helped start the war. I’m sure her Medal of Freedom is being cast as we speech.

If this were Swopa’s post, we’d have a caption context.

“Bush shows incredulous biographer a copy of his Plan for Victory in Iraq.”

Now that it is Sept, I expect a unending media blitz of newsfotainment distraction manouevres to further bury facts & voices of reality.

Peterr @ 28

And for the Plameologists, there’s a little tidbit for you in the WaPo’s story:

In the CIA leak scandal, Rove assured Bush, Draper reports, that he had known nothing about Valerie Plame, a CIA operative whose covert status was revealed by administration officials to reporters after Plame’s husband criticized the administration’s case for war in Iraq. “When Bush learned otherwise,” he said, “he hit the roof.”

That’s gotta hurt.

Serious question: Does a certain diligent prosecutor know this already, or would this be an interesting little nugget that would require a further “interview” with the President. “Mr. President, exactly when did this “hitting the roof” incident occur? How did you find out about Mr. Rove’s knowledge? . . .”

More Rove spin, to clear up his mess. Making sure no one thinks Bush already knew his guys had done the dirty work.

this is the type of story that emerges at the end of a con, the shurg of a swindler who knows he’s getting away with it the way he has every other time in his life.
one of the best indictments ever of poor parenting in the privileged set. the utter hell of it is, of course, the wreckage left in all of our lives.

Caption contest:

Bush tries to prove to biographer he can SO read.

things come undone @ 30

The New York Times gave this ProBush story the front page as payback to the Bushies for letting Judy Miller scoop the competion with the Weapons of Mass Destruction stories that “cough” earned her a Pulitzer Prize.
I’m sure the Bush Institute will have a cluess press wing with a wax statue of Judy,Tweety, and Broder singing Devo’s “freedom of choice”. The lyrics will of course be be changed to freedom from choice.
After all in Bushworld only the truly incompetent or gulity get recognition or Medals of Freedom. The Bush Institute I’m sure will hail Judy as a great patriot whoose stories helped start the war. I’m sure her Medal of Freedom is being cast as we speech.

Judy’s medal has already been leaked to her; she’s just not allowed to write about it.

Caption Contest:

Bush Shows Biographer War Plans
Biographer Cuts & Runs

Peterr @ 28

And for the Plameologists, there’s a little tidbit for you in the WaPo’s story:

In the CIA leak scandal, Rove assured Bush, Draper reports, that he had known nothing about Valerie Plame, a CIA operative whose covert status was revealed by administration officials to reporters after Plame’s husband criticized the administration’s case for war in Iraq. “When Bush learned otherwise,” he said, “he hit the roof.”

That’s gotta hurt.

Serious question: Does a certain diligent prosecutor know this already, or would this be an interesting little nugget that would require a further “interview” with the President. “Mr. President, exactly when did this “hitting the roof” incident occur? How did you find out about Mr. Rove’s knowledge? . . .”

Oh come on. Did Edgar Bergen feel it necessary to tell Charlie McCarthy every little thing?

Canning day here. Would rather face a pile of tomato peelings and hot jars than deal with the turkee giver in Iraq, anyhow.

Anybody pickled Hungarian peppers before? That’s on the list, too.

holy cow. anyone listening to democracy now! ? amy goodman is interviewing lawrence ferlinghetti. he just read his new poem, “pity the nation”

catch it if you can.

it’s not even OT.

Scarecrow @ 5

Good morning folks. Yes, this is Labor day, and to make sure none of the traditional labor day speeches make the evening news, I see our President slipped over to Iraq last night.

Will they have pictures of Bush in a Bagdad market with a bullet proof vest and helmet, hundreds of troops clearing his way and a squadron of attack helicopters patroling the sky?
Will Katie interview Bush in the Greenzone as exploding mortars shake the building?
Will Bush pose for a picture with the wounded about to die and try and offer them some comfort?
Will Bush have the courage to step past his handpicked audience and face all our solders, and not just his 30%ers and ask them what they think about the war?

Peterr @ 28

And for the Plameologists, there’s a little tidbit for you in the WaPo’s story:

In the CIA leak scandal, Rove assured Bush, Draper reports, that he had known nothing about Valerie Plame, a CIA operative whose covert status was revealed by administration officials to reporters after Plame’s husband criticized the administration’s case for war in Iraq. “When Bush learned otherwise,” he said, “he hit the roof.”

That’s gotta hurt.

Serious question: Does a certain diligent prosecutor know this already, or would this be an interesting little nugget that would require a further “interview” with the President. “Mr. President, exactly when did this “hitting the roof” incident occur? How did you find out about Mr. Rove’s knowledge? . . .”

“What did the President know, and when did he know it?”

Speaking of labor on Labor Day: from the LATimes:

Senior managers for defense contractor KBR overruled calls to halt supply operations in Iraq in the spring of 2004, ordering unarmored trucks into an active combat zone where six civilian drivers died in an ambush, according to newly available documents.

Maybe their widows can be allowed to testify after Petreus and Crocker.

Added: lower down in the story:

Attorneys for KBR reacted angrily to inquiries about the documents. In a letter urging The Times to “refrain from publishing” material under court seal, attorney Michael L. Rice also warned that the paper might be subject to unspecified legal sanctions.

Rayne @ 39

Canning day here. Would rather face a pile of tomato peelings and hot jars than deal with the turkee giver in Iraq, anyhow.

Anybody pickled Hungarian peppers before? That’s on the list, too.

Hmmm canning jars.I did tomato sauce,salsa and froze some roasted red peppers yesterday. Try roasting your peppers, yum.
Makes the fear and concern for our country recede just a bit.

My guess is that our Jane is sitting on a plane, still on the tarmac, still Treo-ing. Everyone wave.

“What did the President know, and when did he know it?”
That has been my question about every administration policy since 2000.

[waving to Jane]

Don’t strain your thumbs, girl. Take a break once in awhile, it’s Labor Day after all. ;-)

(((((waving to Jane!)))))

So I was thinking about all the hoopla surrounding the new product roll-out this week, and I don’t get it. Let’s assume that there is a short air campaign that completely destroys Iran’s military. Then what? The US does not have sufficient troops to invade & pacify Iran. There will be no bases built on Iranian soil. We won’t be able to get at the oil. All attacking Iran will do is piss people off, and double the price of oil, to the detriment of the US.

My question is; at what point does the senior military brass turn to Bush and say “We’re not doing that, it would be stupid.” I’m aware the Air Force is riddled with Dominionist nutcases, but is the Navy? Are they really this dumb?

Incidentally, the heavily-linked post on Kos about the serving marine has been taken down. Interesting.

selise @ 40

holy cow. anyone listening to democracy now! ? amy goodman is interviewing lawrence ferlinghetti. he just read his new poem, “pity the nation”

catch it if you can.

it’s not even OT.

Transcript?

Hi, Im Gorg Bush, welkum to mah noo Freedum Isnitut.

You will lean good stuf here, and we will hav sme fun too!

Any truth to the rumor his library is a drive-thru?

El Cid @ 51

Hi, Im Gorg Bush, welkum to mah noo Freedum Isnitut.

You will lean good stuf here, and we will hav sme fun too!

I think this gives us a good idea what to expect from George W. Bush, Public Speaker;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

We are so lucky he is coming to visit. The poor people of Sydney, surrounded by fences and walls. What a total waste of money (and space).

ccmask @ 52

Any truth to the rumor his library is a drive-thru?

Sell beer and just make it a regular Brew-Thru.

What Bushie does not yet realize is that his legal troubles will NEVER END. For the torture he faciitated he will spend the rest of his life under indictment or in jail, either in the U.S. or abroad.

What do you think of this? From the WaPo

Draper writes that Bush was “gassed” after an 80-minute bike ride at his Crawford, Tex., ranch on the day before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and was largely silent during a subsequent video briefing from then-FEMA Director Michael D. Brown and other top officials making preparations for the storm.

Rayne @ 12

Scarecrow @ 6

It does make you wonder, doesn’t it? Why would you pay $50,000 to hear someone repeat “al Qaeda, al Qaeda,” 50 times?

You know, those words and “9/11″ are the only two things we could reliably expect him to say without completely bumbling them up with his mush mouth.

There’s also “terror.” In fact, an artist did a piece after 9/11 of Bushing saying it 50 times, and he managed to say it the same way each time.
Consistency is admirable in a man with so few virtues to speak of, including that of speaking well.

Debbie(aussie) @ 54

We are so lucky he is coming to visit. The poor people of Sydney, surrounded by fences and walls. What a total waste of money (and space).

Stop Whining! You should be grateful The Great Deciderer is coming to visit your tiny, insignificant country!

PeteCO @ 59

Debbie(aussie) @ 54

We are so lucky he is coming to visit. The poor people of Sydney, surrounded by fences and walls. What a total waste of money (and space).

Stop Whining! You should be grateful The Great Deciderer is coming to visit your tiny, insignificant country!

Nice piece with pictures of what the Aussies face. Not much room to protest.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/3/874/29300

President Bush is holding a copy of “Plan for Victory in Iraq” ? But… I thought that was an internet myth.
Is this available online I love Science Fiction and Dark Humor maybe if I close my eyes I can pretend that this report isn’t real.

snowbird42 @ 57

What do you think of this? From the WaPo

Draper writes that Bush was “gassed” after an 80-minute bike ride at his Crawford, Tex., ranch on the day before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and was largely silent during a subsequent video briefing from then-FEMA Director Michael D. Brown and other top officials making preparations for the storm.

As in “It was a gas, man?” Did they stop for a couple of hits on the pipe?

snowbird42 @ 60

PeteCO @ 59

Stop Whining! You should be grateful The Great Deciderer is coming to visit your tiny, insignificant country!

Nice piece with pictures of what the Aussies face. Not much room to protest.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/3/874/29300

They’re perfectly free to protest in Alice Springs.

“Second, he wants to spend time at his proposed “Freedom Institute,” where he’ll help teach young conservatives how he spread freedom and democracy around the world, while strengthening America’s own democratic principles and institutions.”

kind of a “no conservative left behind????”
and given Shrub’s incompetence at least we know it won’t be successful.

I believe that the following falls under the chapter heading in Bush’s new book “Being President is Hard Work and Stuff”

Mr. Bush acknowledged one major failing of the early occupation of Iraq when he said of disbanding the Saddam Hussein-era military, “The policy was to keep the army intact; didn’t happen.”

But when Mr. Draper pointed out that Mr. Bush’s former Iraq administrator, L. Paul Bremer III, had gone ahead and forced the army’s dissolution and then asked Mr. Bush how he reacted to that, Mr. Bush said, “Yeah, I can’t remember, I’m sure I said, ‘This is the policy, what happened?’ ” But, he added, “Again, Hadley’s got notes on all of this stuff,” referring to Stephen J. Hadley, his national security adviser.

One day some future historian will recapitulate the truly great moments in presidential decision making. Then there will be a follow-up on the most brain-dead decisions, with the above quote leading the list.

Marcy’s most recent TNH post: How Long Has Gillespie Been Acting as White House Counselor?

First, a correction. I suggested the other day that Dick was one of the three people who voted not to keep Rummy when Bush took a show of hands on Rummy’s fate. But Cheney may not have been among those polled. The WaPo has a review of the book and the incident today, and Cheney is not among those named (though Abramowitz does not identify all of the votes).

(snip)

But here’s what I’m really struck by. Ed Gillespie, right there among the paid Presidential advisors, casting a “can Rummy” vote.

Junior seems quite interested in how much he can make speechifying. Daddy gets $50 to $75 thou & “Clinton makes a lot of money”. Everything is a competition with this jealous spoiled brat. I’ll never forget the photo of junior cutting in front of Clinton as they were going through the entrance of Clinton’s Presidential Library opening. A picture is worth a thousand words.

billyjoe @ 4

Remember, it’s Labor Day weekend. A lot of news orgs are using canned stories because theyre not at full staff levels.

The Bush story youre referring to is exactly the type of “news” that runs when all the journos are off yachting in Montauk, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, or Nantucket.

You should see the crap that the WaPo is running. In addition to a story on “Bush’s Legacy” [complete with a lot of items from the book, all of which confirm what a dolt Bush is], there’s a puff piece on Condi, complete with pics of her in the “boots.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..id=topnewsTransformed by Her Tie With Bush

In the “Bush in Retirement” story, Bush remarks that “you won’t catch him hanging out at the United Nations” — in commenting on the fact that he saw Clinton there. Again, just solidifies his portrait as the ultimate drunken frat boy.

PeteCO @ 49

So I was thinking about all the hoopla surrounding the new product roll-out this week, and I don’t get it. Let’s assume that there is a short air campaign that completely destroys Iran’s military. Then what? The US does not have sufficient troops to invade & pacify Iran. There will be no bases built on Iranian soil. We won’t be able to get at the oil. All attacking Iran will do is piss people off, and double the price of oil, to the detriment of the US.

My question is; at what point does the senior military brass turn to Bush and say “We’re not doing that, it would be stupid.” I’m aware the Air Force is riddled with Dominionist nutcases, but is the Navy? Are they really this dumb?

Incidentally, the heavily-linked post on Kos about the serving marine has been taken down. Interesting.

On the pulling of Maccabee’s post. It was scrubbed after it was shown by a number of Vet-Kossaks to be full of totally impossible purported facts about the “Marine,” her past and current ships and career moves, planes purported flown off of marine ships (they dont have ships, only small landing vessels), naval operations, and the chain of command, including her use of the terminology for her ship–even a landlubber like myself knows she (ships have a gender) could not have “passageways.”

Ordinary folks also were suspicious of the fact that his Marine friend’s purported phone call was quoted at great length verbatim, and came purportedly from her ship, to wit, and I paraphrase:
“friends don’t tape friend’s calls”
“no naval office would release this self-admitted treasonous information on a cell phone from a ship in a theater of operations.”
“with this information, naval intelligence could no who she was in 10 minutes.”
So a bunch of us said at least to ourselves, “naaa” or what the h** is going on here from the start.
That said, it caused the posting of over 2500 messages, to wit:
original post 1300 (now gone)
Kos diary on subject, 800 today 6:00 AM EDT
Skeptical Vet, whose handle I’ve forgotten (search maccabee and you’ll find it) 300 today 6:00 AM EDT.
So, if all of them and all of us wrote/faxed/called Sen. Webb to support his legislation in the same number, think of the good that would be done by one way (to be charitable) over-the-top posting.
Shall we, pups?

Scarecrow @ 10

Jane Hamsher @ 8

Good lord, even in this small article you can see a picture of supreme narcissist Bush performing for this monkey for the past year, writing out little vignettes in his head that he then executes. Really, it’s revolting.

In the photo, Bush is showing Draper a copy of Petraeus’ report, which Bush has been personally working on for several weeks.

To match up all the corners, no doubt.

The only reason we pay any attention whatsoever to this waste of carbon is that he’s got his finger on the button.

*headdesk*

Good morning, all — lemme grab my cup of coffee & catch up…

Good news today for us Edwards supporters.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is getting the endorsement of two unions, the United Steelworkers and the United Mine Workers of America, on Labor Day.

Edwards is scheduled to be in Pittsburgh, home of the Steelworkers’ international headquarters, for a Monday rally and will accept the endorsements there.

”The members of the Steelworkers Union and the Mine Workers union are some of the country’s hardest-working, bravest, most courageous workers,” Edwards said. ”It is their tireless hard work which has helped build a stronger America that benefits all of us. I honor what they do every day.”

The former senator from North Carolina, who has worked hard to get labor endorsements, has also secured the backing of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

The rest of the story

I wanna permote demawkcrashy. You know like we did with this Al Maliki feller.

I’m sher looking ferward to retirement when I can bask in the glory.

-G.W. Asspounder

BlueStateRedHead @ 70

PeteCO @ 49

Incidentally, the heavily-linked post on Kos about the serving marine has been taken down. Interesting.

On the pulling of Maccabee’s post. It was scrubbed after it was shown by a number of Vet-Kossaks to be full of totally impossible purported facts about the “Marine,” her past and current ships and career moves, planes purported flown off of marine ships (they dont have ships, only small landing vessels), naval operations, and the chain of command, including her use of the terminology for her ship–even a landlubber like myself knows she (ships have a gender) could not have “passageways.”

Ordinary folks also were suspicious of the fact that his Marine friend’s purported phone call was quoted at great length verbatim, and came purportedly from her ship, to wit, and I paraphrase:
“friends don’t tape friend’s calls”
“no naval office would release this self-admitted treasonous information on a cell phone from a ship in a theater of operations.”
“with this information, naval intelligence could no who she was in 10 minutes.”
So a bunch of us said at least to ourselves, “naaa” or what the h** is going on here from the start.
That said, it caused the posting of over 2500 messages, to wit:
original post 1300 (now gone)
Kos diary on subject, 800 today 6:00 AM EDT
Skeptical Vet, whose handle I’ve forgotten (search maccabee and you’ll find it) 300 today 6:00 AM EDT.
So, if all of them and all of us wrote/faxed/called Sen. Webb to support his legislation in the same number, think of the good that would be done by one way (to be charitable) over-the-top posting.
Shall we, pups?

Yeah, I caught that. Here’s the rebuttal; I had to stop to get a cat out of a tree. Really.

Bush has plans for reading speeches and hanging around his vanity institute, but he says not a word about his ranch. I guess the modern brush ranch takes care of itself, but who will bring in the harvests?

New product out today: Both the NYT and Boston Globe front page virtually the same article by way of advertisement of the new September venture -an attack on Iran. The article points to Iran as double threat (ground troops and nuclear). Its only a matter of time (probably weeks) I think. Bush’s Iraq trip was probably related to the new venture.

We have to get Congress at least to have something in place insisting on the need for Congressional approval before bombing. If they do not then-as with Iraq-they are complicit with the whole thing. We need counter-action now!

Richmond @ 75

New product out today: Both the NYT and Boston Globe front page virtually the same article by way of advertisement of the new September venture -an attack on Iran. The article points to Iran as double threat (ground troops and nuclear). Its only a matter of time (probably weeks) I think. Bush’s Iraq trip was probably related to the new venture.

We have to get Congress at least to have something in place insisting on the need for Congressional approval before bombing. If they do not then-as with Iraq-they are complicit with the whole thing. We need counter-action now!

Bush has no problem risking lives when those lives are so remote from his own.

Scarecrow @ 50

Transcript?

the transcript is all ready posted – it’s usually not up until a couple of hours after the show – must be because it was pre-recorded. here you go:

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: Well, you haven’t have time to be acclimated or acclimated in the worst ways by modern industrial corporate monoculture, for instance, or American consumer society, which the way American consumer society is worked out, it seems to me the suburbs of America are the great American death.

You know, I’d like to read one poem that I just wrote. I really want to get this out.

AMY GOODMAN: Read.

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: Especially since Khalil Gibran has been in the news lately, including yesterday or the day before on your program. “Pity the Nation,” after Khalil Gibran.

Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.

AMY GOODMAN: Lawrence Ferlinghetti. So what about the state of the world today and our role in it?

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: It’s rushing over the cliff. I think practically all of Congress is totally ignoring the ecological crisis fast ascending on us…

still, nice to listen to him read it… (audio, as well as transcript is at the link)…

Badwater: the same with Cheney, Lieberlier, and a whole bunch of our “elected” officials on both sides of the aisle.

ccmask @ 52

Any truth to the rumor his library is a drive-thru?

More like a drive-by. Just wave.

Good morning everyone!

Beautiful day where I’m at.

Today is Labor Day, and virtually nothing in the press on what a cluster fuck this administration has done to the workers of this country. Alas, the press is now part of the military industrial complex that views these changes as a positive.

James Carroll has a good one on Labor Day in the Glob. He is always a good read.

Richmond @ 75

New product out today: Both the NYT and Boston Globe front page virtually the same article by way of advertisement of the new September venture -an attack on Iran. The article points to Iran as double threat (ground troops and nuclear). Its only a matter of time (probably weeks) I think. Bush’s Iraq trip was probably related to the new venture.

We have to get Congress at least to have something in place insisting on the need for Congressional approval before bombing. If they do not then-as with Iraq-they are complicit with the whole thing. We need counter-action now!

Good piece here on the new product.

selise at 77

“…suburbs of America are the great American death.”

Jonathan @ 83

selise at 77

“…suburbs of America are the great American death.”

Who are you quoting, the same guy?

Bush and retirement in the same sentence. Makes me feel all funny inside, like climbing a rope in gym class back in junior high.

Still, he has tolled the bell for the decline of the Republican Party. All polls indicate outright revulsion to Republican ideals by todays youth. Watch for the mighty right wing wurlitzer to become even more screechy since W dropped a house on their sister. More cheating and clever electoral tricks like the dividing of California’s electoral votes.

They will get worse and more desperate to maintain their Corporate welfare lifestyles.

RevDeb @ 81

James Carroll has a good one on Labor Day in the Glob. He is always a good read.

Thanks deb — hope you’re well and well settled in your new home. Regards to R.

New Thread Upstairs

Okay, folks, nothing to see here. Move along to the next thread.

Great to see you, OFG! Hope you stay and chat. You home?

Good morning, pups. A little late getting started – great sleeping weather here in Upstate New York.
I’d like to add my thoughts on what I’d like for Mr. Bush (and Mr. Cheney as well) in his retirement. Nothing. I wish for their retirements to be one long – nothing. No one calls. No one writes. No one asks them to speak. No public role whatsoever. I wish that the only person to talk to Bush on an ongoing basis to be his Secret Service detail(will Cheney get one too?). I want them to be completely isolated. I realize this is sort of a fantasy on my part, but it would be great and give a sense of justice to so many if he and Mr. Cheney were brought up on charges at the World Court, convicted of war crimes and incarcerated, but I think we can absolutely count on that NOT happening. So, in the meantime, I wish for them both a completely empty retirement. Except for the fact that these guys do not have the intellectual capacity to actually examine their lives and what they have done, it would give them a good deal of time to ask themselves some meaningful questions…except with those guys (especially Cheney), the questions would center around “Why couldn’t we get away with it THIS time?”

Oilfieldguy!!

PeteCO @ 82

Richmond @ 75

New product out today: Both the NYT and Boston Globe front page virtually the same article by way of advertisement of the new September venture -an attack on Iran. The article points to Iran as double threat (ground troops and nuclear). Its only a matter of time (probably weeks) I think. Bush’s Iraq trip was probably related to the new venture.

We have to get Congress at least to have something in place insisting on the need for Congressional approval before bombing. If they do not then-as with Iraq-they are complicit with the whole thing. We need counter-action now!

Good piece here on the new product.

Thanks PeteCo- hadn’t seen that.

PeteCo@49 and @73:

Now that the cat is out of the tree (I hope) and Maccabee’s cat is out of the bag, there are more than one way to skin a cat….

‘nuf already. Getting serious..

Anybody for organizing a write/phone-in to/for Webb?

PeteCO @ 62

snowbird42 @ 57

What do you think of this? From the WaPo

As in “It was a gas, man?” Did they stop for a couple of hits on the pipe?

I think it more likely he was “gassed” in the sense of telling draper to pull his finger. “C’mon man, just pull it, heh, heh.”

Freedom Institute, my ass. Bush should lose his freedom and be institutionalized on the grounds that he has run the White House like a crazy house, and his enablers let it happen.

Draper got Bush to agree to this by explaining that by getting this book out now it would provide the frame for all other following recordings of his failure.

I’m not boxing myself in.

Heck. If only I had $50000, I’d put it down an he wooodn’ haf-ta say a woid. Just sit there over the dunkin’ tank at the county fair.

I fear I’d have ta stand in line, tho.

When I think of the good work that Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and even Herbert Hoover did after leaving the White House, and then I read about Bush’s priorities for his retirement, “makin money” and “workin’ for freedom” at a wingnut welfare thinktank, I think that his major ambition is to become the nation’s “worst former President” after becoming the unanimous choice for “worst President ever”.

The Draper book Dead Certain offers a dismaying portrait of President Bush obsessed with his legacy – and potential financial windfall – after leaving office. But even more disturbing was the discussion of the Iraq war and the administration’s calamitous 2003 move to disband the Iraqi army. When it came to perhaps the pivotal decision of the war, America’s first MBA President simply acted like an absentee landlord.

For the details, see:
“NYT: Bush Slept as Iraqi Army was Disbanded.”

Second, he wants to spend time at his proposed “Freedom Institute,” where he’ll help teach young conservatives how he spread freedom and democracy around the world,

Does he think that showing how his enmity enabled Ahmadinejad to get the Iranian people to overlook his misrule will prove that? Or how about how his scrapping the ABM treaty let Putin play the Victim Card, and thereby get away with murder?

while strengthening America’s own democratic principles and institutions.

Like how lying about how the “Sanctity of Marriage” required him to call for a Constitutional amendment to prevent the politically incorrect from getting married got many people in key states to vote against their own interests? Or how about how getting the Justice Department to focus on the few, unorganized attempts at voter fraud and ignore the massive attempts at vote suppression made it easier for the voters to express their preferences? If the media was a millionth as “Liberally biased” as the Conservatives whine it it, he would never have been allowed to win on the truckload of technicalities.

His speaking dates will wither once he does that “no questions” line a couple times.

selise @ 77

Scarecrow @ 50

Transcript?

the transcript is all ready posted – it’s usually not up until a couple of hours after the show – must be because it was pre-recorded. here you go:

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: Well, you haven’t have time to be acclimated or acclimated in the worst ways by modern industrial corporate monoculture, for instance, or American consumer society, which the way American consumer society is worked out, it seems to me the suburbs of America are the great American death.

You know, I’d like to read one poem that I just wrote. I really want to get this out.

AMY GOODMAN: Read.

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: Especially since Khalil Gibran has been in the news lately, including yesterday or the day before on your program. “Pity the Nation,” after Khalil Gibran.

Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.

AMY GOODMAN: Lawrence Ferlinghetti. So what about the state of the world today and our role in it?

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: It’s rushing over the cliff. I think practically all of Congress is totally ignoring the ecological crisis fast ascending on us…

still, nice to listen to him read it… (audio, as well as transcript is at the link)…

Here is the original Khalil Gibran from the Garden of the Prophet http://www.kahlil.org/gardenlp

Peterr @ 11

A good writer can make even a small article speak volumes. Or so I’ve been told. ;)

Eyuh.

ironranger @ 67

… A picture is worth a thousand words.

USW Presidential Survey of Members Results

The results are as follows:

Top Choice

John Edwards 37.1%
Hillary Clinton 25.3%
Barack Obama 12.6%
Dennis Kucinich 5.8%
Joe Biden 5.3%
Fred Thompson 4.0%
Rudy Giuliani 2.8%
John McCain 2.2%
Mitt Romney 1.3%
Bill Richardson 1.2%
Ron Paul 1.0%
Mike Huckabee 0.5%
Chris Dodd 0.3%
Mike Gravel 0.2%
Tom Tancredo 0.2%
Sam Brownback 0.2%
Duncan Hunter 0.0%

Bush…retirement…?

I don’t get it. When did Bush work? Ya can’t retire without workin’ first, can ya?

Brush clearing doesn’t count!