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Hannity for President?
At Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concert in New Jersey tonight, which Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) will be attending, the headliners are country duo Montgomery Gentry. Eddie Montgomery, one half of the band, is a big Hannity fan. So big, that he thinks the Fox News talker should seek higher office:
“Sean makes sense to me.” […]
But Montgomery, for one, wouldn’t mind seeing Hannity try a different career path.
“I could see him running for president,” says Montgomery. “I think he’s that smart.”
Oh, God in Heaven, pandemic flu would be better than that.
Other folks who’ll be joining Joe’s BFF Sean Hannity at his, like, awesome kegger tonight include Rudy Giuliani and Ann Coulter.
Late Update: Over at Think Progress, Matt Corley notes that Joe Lieberman is attending the Hannity/Coulter event, too — only hours after decrying “terrible, partisan, political sniping.”
Apparently, Senator Joe Littlebitch’s house doesn’t have any mirrors.
But while we’re on the topic, I do feel it is relevant to point out that while Hannity’s Loserpalooza event purports to raise money for the children of soldiers killed in action, if you look at the wording, a different story is revealed (Thanks to Julia for the tip!):
The ads say that the concerts “will raise funds for Freedom Alliance, which provides scholarships to the children of military killed or injured in the line of duty.”
Notice that they don’t say that the funds will go to those scholarships, just that the Freedom Alliance provides them. The Google ad (attached) suggests that the concert benefits the scholarships as well, although they don’t actually say so. And, in fact, no part of the ticket price is deductible, whereas 100% of donations to the scholarship fund are.
So it appears that the “help the students” language refers to the separate donation they ask you to make to the scholarship fund, while the ticket proceeds go to the wingnut think tank.
I. Am. So. Shocked.
*faints dead away*
UPDATE: Two of the seven soldiers from the 82nd Airborne who penned the (widely ignored) OpEd in the NYT have been killed in Iraq.
Meanwhile, Michael O’Hanlon makes himself comfortable at a corner table at his local Starbucks and ponders ordering a second iced blended with a shot of sugar-free hazelnut…
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Lieberman asshole!!
Not shocked, not in the least. Good post, boss!
Top ten?
Can you imagine the nasty karma build up at that concert? Rudy Giuliani and Ann Coulter in the same place at the same time.
Shudder.
How is it possible that a mainstream politician can not fear being seen in public with Ann Coulter?
BigMitch @ 7
Black dresses won’t show stains?
The shame deficit is astounding. No part of the ticket price is deductible?? That means…. oh, you know what that means: Sean Hannity keeps your money.
In the apparent absence of punaise, whose contempt for Joe Lieberman will never subside, I will just state again for the record that my contempt for Joe Lieberman knows no bounds.
Do you think any of those people have rhythm?
marymccurnin @ 11
Thank you for including the details about your health and your husband’s (downstairs.)
BigMitch @ 7
Ann Coulter is a ‘REPUBLICAN’ despite what she says. ‘Core values’, there you have it.
Any fuckwad REPUBLICAN presidential candidate that wants to run on a platform of ‘Bush in Iraq’, 2.0, is toast. Period, end of story
I still can’t believe Al Gore chose Lieberman to be his running mate-I mean WTF?!!?
marymccurnin @ 11
no
but there is method in their madness
marymccurnin @ 11
rhythm
Or Oilier North and Sean share the money, I guess, now that I’ve read the links.
Can you imagine the attendees at this event? People who flocked to be near, and sought out the political stylings of, Oilier North, Rudi Giuliani, Sean Hannity, Joe Lieberman, and She Whose Name Must Not Be Typed on My KeyBoard?
And I’m sorry, but when I hear any member of whatever a “country duo” is say “He’s just that smart” I know it cannot be so.
neurophius @ 10
Liebarman has gone mad. He is insane now, and should be treated as such.
Cozumel @ 13
What has the Republicans between Iraq and a hard place is that to run for president you have to win some primaries, and Bush and his war enjoy 80% popularity among likely voters in early Republican primaries. Hee-hee.
BigMitch @ 12
It is my mission to tell our health care story. And I have heard so many stories with grievous outcomes due to greed and downright meanness.
And an insane person should be controlling US Senate committees. More in sorrow than in anger, Joe L should be given an opportunity for a long recuperative rest on the very backest of benches.
marymccurnin @ 11
Ah, no, but Eddie Montgomery sure does have one big, stupid hat.
wesgpc @ 18
At least Zell Miller didn’t hide it. RGJoe is stealth fucking crazy.
good night all. hoping for a full night’s sleep tonight.
Al Gore picked a chameleon. That was his mistake.
Good night Betsy. Sleep well.
wesgpc @ 18
oh, yes
Thanks Mary. Enjoy your night.
The life of a repo man is always intense.
Love that flick! One of my favorites.
Joe is the worstest person in the world. ’nuff said.
marymccurnin @ 25
Suppose that Al and Joe had gotten elected (and not have had it stolen by SCOTUS) and then something awful had happened to Al. Just imagine.
(apologies in advance to earnest country music fans):
local morning yuck-it-up DJs on “Radio Alice” (mainstream alterna-pop) were interviewing some comedian this morning. he broke into a somewhat mocking ditty about the politics and culture of country music, summed up in the chorus:
“Jesus, Walmart, guns and Bush”
guess you had too be there.
marymccurnin @ 25
Granting that it’s a lot more apparent now what sort of person Joe is, I think that those who were paying attention knew back in 2000. Picking Joe was all about Al becoming his own man.
ploeg @ 32
Typical Dem response. Be your own man and play it safe at the same time.
Get off Gore’s case for choosing Lieberman. It helped him win Florida and thus the election. Before Cheeney, the office of VP was inconsequential. Lieberman is bad mostly because he supports a war in Iraq, which never would have been an issue under President Gore. His enthusiasm for toppling the Iranian regime is shared by many within and without Iran. Tonight’s conduct is unforgiveable, but that is not on Gore’s nickel.
neurophius @ 10
as my contempt for him will never subside
BigMitch @ 19
According to ‘Rove’s math’(minus my revised ‘NEW Math’) that won’t cut it! ;)
Punaise! You are here!
BigMitch @ 34
I remember what Lieberman did for the Gore campaign in Florida during the vote count. Gore likely would have done much better without him.
I agree with Mitch. Lieberman as VP to Gore would have been an annoying moralizing prig, nothing more. but he found his true calling as W’s bagman.
punaise @ 39
Holy shit! I am in good company!
marymccurnin @ 37
hey there! spotty internet service at home (poaching wireless from a neighbor while we wait for Covad to release our phone line to new ISP)
BigMitch @ 40
oh, to have a team in the pennant race…sniffle, sniffle…
punaise @ 39
Lieberman under Gore would have been your then typical Vice President, in other words, nothing
A shot away though, which is scary enough
Good night to all, and to all a Happy New Year.
BigMitch @ 44
countown to midnight – Guile Anbar, D’oh!
(huh?)
Upsetting update above.
TRex @ 46
Shit! Shit! Shit!
Oh no!
that’s f*cked up
TRex @ 46
Their blood is on the hands of Bush, Cheney, Petraeus, and Lieberman, among many others…
TROOPS HOME NOW
FUCKING GODDAMN FUCKING STUPID-ASS FUCKING WAR!!!!
FUCK!!
FUCK!!
FUCK!!
FUCK!!
FUCK!!
FUUUUUUUUUCK!!
I have to go away from the computer now.
Not one more minute.
Not another nickel.
NOT One More Drop of BLOOD!
Out of Iraq NOW!
that is what my congressfolk will demand if they represent me.
Punaise:
There’s always the California league. Visalia and Modesto looking to do something in the playoffs.
http://web.minorleaguebaseball…..p?sid=l110
“You know, this war is so fucking illegal.” — Pat Tillman
“Freedom Isn’t Free.” — The bumper sticker on the car of some fucktard who has no idea how right that statement is.
I hope nothing happens to the rest of those soldiers. I worry.
marymccurnin @ 56
You don’t suppose our government would actually…
steve goodman
penny evans
Don’t you just want to cry sometimes? Sometimes it feels like there is no end in sight.
neurophius @ 57
Bush is responsible for killing a million Iraqis and thousands of our own soldiers. Of course these horrid worms would kill someone who dared to disagree.
TRex @ 46
Oh, *%*&^%$#*()!*(&^!!!!!!!!!! “accident”, my foot!
Message to the troops: Dead men tell no tales.
marymccurnin @ 56
That tin-foil hat is looking mighty relevant about now. But, no. It just couldn’t be.
That is a very upsetting update. The editorial they wrote was one of the best I have read on the war, and what is wrong, and in giving the big picture. Anyone could read that and gain a real insight, and get a very good BS detector for the fog and phoney show going on in DC now. Every one those soldiers should have been a star witness giving testimony today. No, for the whole week. A major news organization should have had a real hardhitting in-dppth journalistic interview with them, to contrast what was done on Fox. They could have handled hard questions.
When they wrote in the ed that one of them had been wounded, that raised the hair on my head a little. Very sad news that two of them were killed. I feel sick.
neurophius @ 57
my dear,you have to face it
they are the lords of lucre
and not your government
i wish i did not feel impelled to say this
As for Joe, let him be known by the company he keeps.
Liberty Lover @ 65
And by the blood on his hands.
may @ 64
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our governmentBushI don’t believe in conspiracy stuff on this. No reason to speculate about it unless some real evidence surfaces.
Three of the seven are now casualties. One before the column appeared.
I read that the rotations for the troops are very intense. I’ve read several times that wars are an endless string of boredom with a few hours of terror. Well, I read someplace that the troops in Iraq have more prolonged frontline exposure than in WWII, or Korea or Vietnam. Maybe WWI with European troops was worse, when they were on the frontlines until whole units were killed.
I’ve spoken with several people who did a rotation and they talked about the constant stress. Something could happen 25/7, and did, for months on end. That is what living in chaotic disorganized violent civil strife is like.
I didn’t think about conspiracies when I read TRex’s sad update. I thought about how bogus and slimey it is for the guardsman and regular troops to be misused like they are. And how repulsive it is for neocons and wingnuts to talk like this is some beerdrunk game of Risk in a college dorm. Real troops, real Iraqis, getting killed. Real deadly messes being cooked up for the future to kill more people and waste more billions.
And the depraved jerks who minimize the waste and pain, ruined lives and premature, and horrible, deaths.
I was wrong about Iran being being an ICC signatory.
wesgpc @ 68
Made me think how big the little people are.
Sorry if my last comment was garbled. I’m very upset about this for some reason. Wish I had kept tabs on that article comparing time exposed to enemy fire in Iraq to previous wars. Anyway, bottom line was Iraq is very dangerous and very intense place, with no place to hide. No sitting around between campaigns in winter camp, or waiting for the big decisive battle. It is more like the seige of Stalingrad, constant fighting. Stuff going boom real close, things and people getting blown up every day. People I’ve talked to who have been there all say it is like that.
Anyone know that article I am referring to?
wesgpc @ 71
Not garbled at all, wesgpc. Very moving.
marymccurnin @ 25
ReElect President Gore & VP Edwards 2008!
If anyone saw the article I mentioned about comarative intensity of Iraq war, please do post. I want to wave it some peoples faces, or send it off to some supposedly dynamic Dem pols who I supported last election.
the madness of King George is tearing us asunder.
newspaperbrat @ 73
would that it could be
” in all likelihood, when the Democratic president pulls US troops out in summer of 2009, all hell is going to break loose…
In other words, the Democratic president risks being Fordized when s/he withdraws from Iraq, by the aftermath. A one-term president associated with humiliation abroad and high inflation at home? Maybe I should say, Carterized. The Republican Party could come back strong in 2012 and then dominate politics for decades”
http://www.juancole.com/
Oh, those lovely Saudis.
http://www.dawn.com/2007/09/12/top18.htm
“ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: Saudi ambassador Ali Awadh Asseri threw the usual reception on his country’s national day here on Tuesday but the event was unusual too in some ways.”
The Saudi national day is actually Sept. 23rd. It seems to be a calculated insult given that most of the 9/11 highjackers were Saudis.
marymccurnin @ 25
chameleons are decent lizards.
please.
neurophius @ 57
I’d like to hear the details of their passing in this ‘accident’ that occurred . . .
newtonusr @ 62
Pat Tillman. End of story.
they were killed in of the vehicle accidents in the news, but it makes no difference. They were doing very dangerous jobs in a theatre of war. The same as getting shot or blown up, or going down in a helicopter crash.
Hey, pups!
Home from work – rehearse, teach – teach, rehearse. love it.
I pointed out in a much earlier thread that Joe appeared on stage with TRex’s favorite adams apple, Ann Coulter, who so loves the wives of 9/11 victims.
Hannity’s proceeds to the Freedom Alliance – $9.95
Cost of Hannity’s jet, hotel and friends – $160,000
Picture of HoJo and that ugly woman together on stage – priceless
The picture is out there. Somebody needs to find it.
wesgpc @ 82
Thanks, but that’s not the details I was referring to. And I understand the deadly odds in this theatre of war for all troops.
Still, I long for details about THESE two.
Y’know?
Pat Tillman.
evening et
newtonusr @ 85
hey, newtonusr. Summer is over up here. By next week, if it stays clear all night – frost.
Soldier, Ismay native, dies in vehicle crash in Iraq
[ … ]
Ed*ard Teller @ 86
brrrrr…
Makes the fishing… better or worse?
btw, we’ve been chewing on this shit sandwich for the last hour.
I can’t believe after the web scrutiny of Tillman’s
executiondeath, that they would’ve been hit. But, OTOH, after the congressionalwhitewashinvestigation of Tillman, who knows…Staff Sergeant Yance Gray:
He is also survived by his wife and infant daughter, who live in North Carolina.
Texas City sergeant dies in Iraq accident
What is the point of straining after few gotcha’s after we know they lied this country into a war? Many politicians, include a few we will have to vote for to keep us from more of Cheney-Bush have the blood of thousands on their hands. So, if maybe someone negligently allowed or actively planned the departure of a few trouble makers, we know for sure they planned the invastion. That’s been the death of thousands and thousands.
Shit, I got blood on my hands. Like the blogger Billmon, I ask myself what more could I have done to stop it. Marched, phoned, e-mailed, argued with anyone who would argue, sent in bucks. Speaking of bucks, I’m still paying taxes for this. Thoreau wouldn’t. What would Gandhi do?
From my perspective, we all have blood on our hands. If we do not act very aggressively to counter the depraved decadence of poltical conventional wisdom in this country right now, we are making way for more crimes like this in the future. More disasters, more damage to the country our children and grandchildren will live in, more sin committed in our name. Nore death, more destruction of lives and livelihoods. Everyone heard Lieberman pandering for more war today. Even a dubiously motivated general wouldn’t let that pass.
These were two great recent posts. We have to make a big fuss, not only about withdrawal but about the bankrupt, bloodthirsty, impotent and stupid, truly wicked mindset or political leadership has adopted, or is tolerating.
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..c-opinion/
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..ervention/
Well, OK. I’ve had my vent. I gotta get up early for one of Chrsty’s what are your positive ideas and projects’ posts she tends to have early mornings. Can’t think of much positive now, but… maybe I will just read to cheer myself up.
punaise @ 39
But the fact that Lieberman was the Dems VP pick in 2000 shows how the neocons have infiltrated the leadership of the Dems as well as the Repubs. Lieberman is not the last of them.
For example, Rahm Emanuel, as head of the DCCC, actively tried to defeat progressive Dems in the primaries and failed to support them if they survived the primaries in spite of his attempts to stop them.
Also, check where Hillary’s money is coming from.
Also, note that only two presidential candidates have promised to withdraw the troops if elected: Ron Paul and Bill Richardson. Why haven’t the rest?
wigwam @ 93
Did I just imagine John Edwards favors withdrawal?
Yep. Scarecrow, one of the hidden FDL gems. Changed my mornings.
Over at Huffington Post I see the following headline:
Iraq has never posed an “immanent threat” to the United States of America. This war is therefore a “war of agression,” and by senate-ratified treaty and international law is therefore a “crime against humanity.” Anyone who votes funding to continue it is, IMHO, a criminal, and I will not under any circumstance vote for them.
Here’s a question for the late-late nighters, sorta on topic. I perfomed Shards II, a newer version of Shards in Juneau, Sitka and Haines at the beginning of the month. The original version was meant to commemorate the 1,000th combat death of Americans in Iraq, back in late 2004. When we recently performed Shards II, I read the name, rank, home and unit of the most recent American service death there.
Sometime in November, the number will reach and go beyond 4,000. I’ve been thinking of writing Shards III to perform at that time. I’d like to do it at the National Cemetery on post at Ft. Richardson. It would be a live perfomance by about 12 or more musicians. It would be seen by some as a protest against the war. Should I try to do it there and maybe cause a fuss getting this done on base, or perform it in some church around Anchorage or something?
newspaperbrat @ 94
According to this earlier thread by Siun:
Emphasis added.
One of the reasons ya gotta love livin in New York City is the most honored Jimmy Breslin.
Have a look.
Family mourns local soldier’s death
[ … ]
I don’t know if anyone has noticed this so early in the game, but the $$$ burn rate of the three front runners would make Joe Trippi swoon.
As far as I’m concerned they can beat each other senseless and broke and leave the field open.
Superman wears Al Gore pajamas.
I just read a comment at mondoweiss where somebody claimed there are 75,000 American service personnel from this war who are amputees. That can’t be true, can it?
listening now. yep.
et – isn’t “fuss” your middle name? go forth.
wigwam @ 98
On the other hand, I just came across this, which is an Edwards campaign site, stating:
Emphasis added.
Sigh!
Heartbreaking and disturbing article via
The Times Goes Man-on-the-Street in Iraq on the Petraeus Report
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/052908.php
One man, Ahmad Umar al Esawi, says the US troops have to leave because of what they have done. Then he thinks a bit and admits he is afraid of the consequences of them leaving.
The real tragedy is that this man’s fears might be realized if we left tomorrow. But it is also a tragedy that if we ’stay the course’ a la Cheney-bush, US troops could be there ten years, dying and killing, and nothing at all would change.
The real evil in it, in my opinion is that Cheney and Bush could start to completely change this in a moment simply acting like grownups, being willing to negotiate, quit their crony capitalist dreams and stupid geopolitical genius tricks, start a real multilateral diplomatic and political process.
But they won’t. They have to do a little more than lift a finger. They have to pick up the phone, meet with Reid and Pelosi, etc. Give up the warmongering crap.
And the real evil is also that our supposedly more enlightened Democrats will not stand up and very vocally and loudly fight the Cheney-Bush world view. Which seems to somehow have become the sick and also unworkable conventional wisdom among the mainstream pundits you see in the corporate media, 90% of whom have become both stupid and profoundly evil. Mini Bush-lites like OHanlon and Pollack and Friedman are still listened to by our supposedly right thinking Dems.
I feel sometimes that we are living in a truly depraved time in this country. also a self-defeating and self-deluded time heading for more depravity, more wicked deeds, and more failure.
newtonusr @ 103
SMHAL – shaking my head and laughing…? In music, it’s a fourth.
Ed*ard Teller @ 102
IIRC, we’re seeing about seven severe injuries per fatality. I think I heard that on NPR.
Al The Spook here with a late breaking drive by:
A new source has posted a very important detail about how the nuclear bait and switch from Minot to Barksdale was clearly supposed to work. It only makes the story worse, because it utterly demolishes even the faintest chance this was any sort of “accident”.
I updated the Ratiocinations post with the information.
Back to the land of spooky nod…
althespook @ 108
Hi Al,
The night before last, when I asked what happened, you mentioned Wurmser. He is someone I hold in very low esteem, but what the hell did he do? (Answer only if you wouldn’t have to kill me.)
Believe it or not, fingers and toes are not counted, according to Time.
Wiki
___________________
be over in a minute alfred
Very interesting, Al. Thanks for the update.
Ed*ard Teller @ 97
ET,
Causing a fuss isn’t a bad thing. If you present it as a way of honoring the lives and sacrifices of the brave men and women who paid the ultimate price in defense of their country, who could deny you? You might be buying a fight but I have the feeling you’re more than well-equipped to win it.
I’m watching a replay of Hardball, and Tweety is definitely taking a harder edge. He’s not taking any crap from his panelists like he used to. He used to play Hardball like it was a game, with points for the most clever remarks. Tonight he’s sounding like, hey, this is serious business! And he almost but not quite accused the Democrats of being spineless ‘fraidy cats.
Bob in HI
bobschacht @ 113
He was very gracious to Kos on Monday night.
wigwam @ 114
I missed that, but I found the transcript.
Bob in HI
bobschacht @ 115
Go here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/
Then scroll down to “General Petraeus or Betray-us“
wigwam @ 116
Thanks!
Bob in HI
Maybe MSNBC reads Scarecrow:
I speculate that somebody on KO’s staff does, but Matthews? That would be good.
[shoutout to all you late nite pups]
wesgpc @ 74
I’ve been trying to find it with no luck. My search terms aren’t helping me.
I remember it very well. I cited it to Republicans, and they seemed not to care and /or didn’t believe the data.
1,594 dayz and the killin’ goez on and on and..
Firepup Patriots:
Those of you on the eastern seaboard, top a the mornin’…for the rest of ya: what the hell are ya doin’ up so early?!
Remember, there is no more “politics as usual” …if you don’t participate in at least one demonstration and one direct action event before the nominating conventions…well then ya deserve whatcha get. And yes dear, they will beatchu up and take you ta jail…but then they’ve been doin’ that since the Whiskey Rebellion, it ain’t no big thing.
KEEP THE FAITH AND DO THE WORK!
Good morning, Norske. What the hell are you doing up so early?
1,594 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Lindy:
I work nites,what’s yer excuse, kid?
KEEP THER FAITH AND DO IT TO THEM BEFORE THEY DO IT TO US AGAIN!!
I don’t sleep so well these days. All of it together (Katrina, the state of our nation, scrambling to juggle everything here…). You probably know the drill.
I swear…I am going to stop referring to katrina and start calling it the man-made flood.
NO surprise on Hannity’s bullshit, some of the worst charities are Veterans outfits that wrap themselves in the flag:
From the FL Suncoast, this drive-by “have a great day” to all those Firedogs on the dawn patrol.
I’m up because this is when I get up.
Good Morning from GA. Alsthespook has another post that he links to at comment 108 about the nukes. His information is pretty unsettling.
Good morning, pups. Today in the NYT we have MoDo and Thomas Friedman. MoDo watched Gen. Petreus and knows his old childhood nickname. She called her little offering “Peaches Tightens the Girdle.” Mr. Friedman is in Dalian, China where nobody talks about Iraq. His column is titled “Iraq Through China’s Lens.”
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got waffles with real maple syrup ready. It’s “hump day,” have a grand half-way-through-the-workweek day.
There needs to be a Congressional investigation into this.
(No, DOD and DOJ, I don’t trust you.)
Given the probability of any one US soldier dying in any one month,
the chance that 2 out of a given 7 would die (even correcting for them serving together)
is astronomically low.
Something stinks to high heaven.
Tom Friedman is the Brittany Spears of op-ed writers.
I mean what else can you say about a man who’s golden pen can produce such pearls as:
“By now it should be clear that Iraq is going to be what it is going to be.”
Profound, searching, intelligent.
Another shitheel for a nation packed full of shitheels.
Present company excluded.
-GSD
GSD @ 131
In honor of Tom here is Doris Day singing Que Sera Sera http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6WDdZ6xaPg
I’m not getting the satisfaction I expected with Congressional investigations.
And, let’s face it…it’s not a good morning.
War is coming.
It is in the air.
-GSD
One more point: I think America is convinced that we’re on a horrendous path to destruction. I think FoxNews and the repubs are being seen as the villians that they are. I think we’ve won over the American citizen. We are ‘one’ again.
And I think that none of it matters. Bush will continue to drive this country over a cliff and no one seems able to stop him.
Sorry for the rant, but the news of those soldiers’ deaths has put me over the edge.
Solai,
It is strange. The nation seems to be like kids in the back seat of a car being driven by a drunken father who does nothing but yell and lecture and reach back and smack us around.
There really is a feeling of helplessness.
All the signs point to impending disaster. It is in the air.
This guy sees it very clearly.
-GSD
GSD, Did you read alsthespook’s post on the missing nukes?
Solai,
It’s a good morning here, I’ll send it along your way :)
JPL @ 138
Yeah. The nation is mad. It is being run by power hungry lunatics and feeble minded religious fanatics.
All of the pieces are falling into place. Iran, Syria, the US, Israel…..
I am feeling the same way I felt as the pump up for Iraq began. I knew it was coming and I tried telling people and they didn’t believe me. Then suddenly they jumped on board and it was off to war.
-GSD
Here, the sky is black and ominous. Matches my mood.
Watching Biden last night on Hardball was tough. He was on the verge of weeping when talking about the coffins carrying “fallen angels” through Dover. My respect for him grows.
Somebody posted yesterday that the Dems are trapped by believing there’s nothing they can do to be heard over the BushCo wurlitzer [badly paraphrased]. Bullshit.
The pentup frustration Americans feel that this policy of BushCo is so wrong–morally first among a legion of reasons–yet cannot be stopped is reaching critical mass. Something bold must be done–will it be Obama’s speech? It sure won’t be Bush’s.
When Dubya is burning in hell with his minions, may they know it is a hell of their own making.
Would that he and his cult followers gave 1/1000th the concern for the lives of our “fallen angels” and those whose wings are ripped from their bodies with IEDs and the like that they give for “Bush’s legacy.”
solai @ 141
In my heart I know that we can’t let the administration destroy all that is good about the US, but intellectually I can’t figure out how to stop it.
Mornin’ all!
For solai and any other pups feelin down this mornin. Vintage 1974 Sunshine.
Respect also for ABC Nightly News’ Brian Ross reporting on the Saudis’ support for terrorists.
Bumper sticker thought of the day:
Your gas guzzler supports the terrorists.
America’s great ingenuity must be unshackled so that we can stop depending on these thugs…selling arms to these thugs…which they buy with our gas dollars…so they can kill us.
I think the cake is baked.
Everything I read about Bush indicates that he is determined to do what he wants to do.
The US will be at war with Iran in 6 to 8 months.
Israel will be at war with Syria.
-GSD
In other news Tennessee executes man with electric chair.
The man murdered four children. His lawyers stated he may have suffered PTSD from his military service.
Also breaking news. Two massive earthquakes reported in Indonesia. Tsunami alerts have been issued.
Oh goodie my senator is on CSPAN. Isakson is such a disappointment.
Thanks, Marion! Yummmmy!
via the agonist:
solai – sad to say i woke up in same mind as you…. and i had been feeling a bit better recently. for me, the big downer has been how so many seem to be running away from moveon’s betrayus ad, and how few are defending them. moveon finally does something a little bit provocative (yeah!) and people freak. oh, and while i’m on it… it’s depressing to see the protesters critisized for not showing proper respect to congress & petraeus, or worse because they are too loud or wear too much pink. we’re a country of fucking wimps.
well, maybe things will look better after a couple cups of coffee.
apologies for the early morning rant.
JPL @ 148
To be frank, he seems barely literate.
-GSD
Off to ready for work. At least there I accomplish something.
Scarecrow’s morning wisdom upstairs in the new thread.
Morning Cuppa Naked Emperors
BigMitch @ 34
No, no, no, no, no. That is patently false. Lieberman did not help at ALL in Florida. Gore would have won the NY ex-pats in metro Miami without Lieberman. Lieberman actually COST Gore votes in the panhandle. Had he picked Bob Graham–popular FL senator and former governor, who, incidentally, later voted against the war, Gore would have won by an unstealable margin.
And it was Gore’s choice of Lieberman that convinced many progressives–in Florida and elsewhere– to vote for Nader. The Lieberman choice confirmed the suspicion in many potentially Democratic voters minds that Nader was right, the two parties were basically the same. Picking Lieberman was a serious failure of judgement in 2000, and it was recognized by many as such at the time.
New thread upstairs…
Prairie Sunshine @ 146
I’m with you there. Except for sheer greed and support of the oil and utility industries (and frankly, short sightedness on those industries’ parts), we might have been all driving hybrids/electrics/fuel cells, etc. 20 years ago and producing all of our electric power with wind and solar. Just infuriates the hell out of me.
Theme this morning on Washington Journal are Reps telling the American people we are stuck in Iraq, Move on and stop focusing on how we got there(since the Democrats are almost as responsible as the Republicans), and Iran poses a major threat.
Folks it is time to crank up the heat…If they can’t get those young soldiers out of the tragedy that many of them created, then the very least our Reps can do is hold those accountable for lying this nation into this war of choice.
GIVE IMPEACHMENT A CHANCE…Read John Deans articles on the impeachment of lower level offiicials…we want Cheney and Bush gone based on their crimes.
Toby Wollin @ 156
Bumper sticker
“Give Impeachment a Chance”
Please move Kathleen’s bumper sticker out of the middle of my quote in Kathleen’s comment @ 158 so readers don’t overlook it.
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Troy Gentry….the one who shoots tamed, caged bears?!
This Troy Gentry, hero of Sean Hannity and shit crew?
hey, it’s 9 oclock, where’s my morning read?
Lieberman. Righteously voted worst person in the world by Olbermann last night.
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BigMitch @ 7
Why isn’t she in jail yet (for vote fraud)?
Isn’t there EVEN ONE prosecutor in Florida who values justice?
TexasEllen @ 78
Amazing!
Does this indicate there is still a faction within SA who supported the attacks?
Are they blackmailing Bush & Co into letting 9/11 happen and into taking out Iraq to let SA have more of the oil they’ve been trying to steal for years?
I wonder if they have a 9/11 day in Kuwait, where they too have been stealing Iraq oil for years.