AZ Matt @ 74

Too Whacky!

What…??? What does public distrubances in a public space have to do with private property ownership…????

Shhh, don’t interrupt while the Republicans are feeding on one another.

Elliott @ 38

oh my, what were they thinking?

stupid question, obviously there’s no thinking going on there.

From the link: “Chances are she may not have been aware of the warrant…”

Chances are? Really? You mean that in Idaho, a Senator’s daughter can be found in contempt of court, and nobody bothers to tell her? I think they’d at least send a postcard. Don’t they have phones in Idaho?

Do ya think this gives us another vote to impeach Dick & Dubya?

Hang in there Senator, you can still get revenge on those creeps!

“Iraq is George Bush’s War. The next one belongs to all of us.” Sign stayed up over I-80 for 4 hours.

http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..-from.html

First time shame on Dubya.
Second time shame on all of us.

Great sign!

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Fake motorcade causes summit stir
• STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• One “motorcade” participant was dressed to resemble Osama bin Laden
• Comedy group’s stunt an embarrassment to Sydney security officials
• Police arrest 11 cast and crew members from TV program
• Fake motorcade included motorcycles, cars with Canadian flags
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Members of an Australian TV comedy show, one of them dressed as Osama bin Laden, drove through two security checkpoints Thursday before being stopped near the Sydney hotel where U.S. President George W. Bush is staying.

Police officers were not amused by the comedy group’s stunt. Eleven people were arrested.

The stunt embarrassed Sydney police who have imposed the tightest security measures in city history for a summit of leaders from Pacific Rim countries, including Bush.
Police arrested 11 cast and crew members from the TV program, “The Chaser’s War on Everything,” and impounded three vehicles, the Australian Broadcasting Corp., which airs the show, said on its Web site.
Cast members put together a sham motorcade, hiring two motorcycles and three large cars on which they put Canadian flags. Police waved the motorcade through two checkpoints before pulling it over near the Intercontinental Hotel where Bush is staying.
Cast member Chas Licciardello got out of the car dressed in a white tunic and cap and wearing a long, fake, Osama bin Laden-style beard. Watch the arrests after the “motorcade” stopped »
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“No particular reason we chose Canada,” cast member Chris Taylor was quoted as saying on The Sydney Morning Herald’s Web site. “We just thought they’d be a country who the cops wouldn’t scrutinize too closely, and who feasibly would only have three cars in their motorcade — as opposed to the 20 or so gas guzzlers that Bush has brought with him.”

Bush is a frequent target of “The Chaser,” as are Australian politicians. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the stunt proved security was working.
“Whatever you think of the humor of ‘The Chaser,’ the honest truth is they were clearly not going to harm anybody in a physical way,” Downer said. “They presumably were, as is the nature of their show, aiming to humiliate a lot of well-known people.”

Video link
APEC security breach 1:41
Arrests were made after a fake motorcade breached security at the APEC summit. Seven Network’s Chris Reason reports
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITI…..nnSTCVideo

Article text source
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITI…..cnnSTCText

Do you feel safer? I don’t.

As usual, it takes me so long to put together something cogent to say that I end up being in the caboose of a prior thread…but I’m going to repeat this because I think it explains everything about today’s GOP and how they think, act and strategize. This is from John Dean’s column today at Findlaw and talks about his examination of research linking political conservatives with authoritarian personalities:
“At the outset of Conservatives Without Conscience, I provided a quick and highly incomplete summary of Altemeyer’s findings, explaining that his empirical testing revealed “that authoritarians are frequently enemies of freedom, antidemocratic, anti-equality, highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power hungry, Machiavellian, and amoral.” To be clear, these are not assessments that Altemeyer makes himself about these people; rather, this is how those he has tested reveal themselves to be, when being anonymously examined.”
There you go. Now you know. This is why everyone from Tom Delay to George Bush to Dick Cheney behave the way they do. This is the basis of their world view and personal belief system. This is why they feel extremely comfortable throwing people who were friends and colleagues “under the bus”. This is why they feel no remorse or show no question or have any long term thinking about the implications of what they do. They’d sell their grandmothers for their teeth. They’d send other people’s children into harm’s way. It doesn’t matter to them.

Thanks for this comment. It’s truly baffling to me that so many people wind up being authoritarian and mean-spirited. I can only conclude that their primary caregivers when they were children must have been at least very unloving, if not downright abusive. To quote W. H. Auden: “what all schoolchildren learn/Those to whom evil is done/Do evil in return.” True when you raise children, True when you wage war.

OT– Interesting interview with profs Mearsheimer and Walt on their new book “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” here:

http://www.onpointradio.org/sh…..a_main.asp

more here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/r…..e=4-Sep-07

…sorry if already posted…

It’s enough to recommend Finkelstein that Leon Wieseltier said he’s “something that crawled out from under a rock”.

For anyone who’s ever read his eminently uncontroversial “The Holocaust Industry” it comes as a shock to hear the lie — and, more importantly, libel — that he is a holocaust denier.