You see it as a real scenario, or a “Don’t cross us or we’ll unleash Armageddon on everybody,” mutually-assured-destruction sort of stance on BushCheneyCo’s’ part? Both interpretations seem plausible to me.

Hmmm.

LS @ 90

McCaskill: Privitization of the military is the future, we just have to learn how to do it better!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Seriously?

I wouldn’t put it that way, she was seriously concerned about the hyper-trend towards privatizing many prior self-sufficiency measures the military had traditionally performed! She pointed out the blatant cost discrepancies for services provided now, as opposed to the prior norm…!!!

Richmond @ 82:

It’s not. You are missing the critical “I” factor too.

Go on…?

Hmmm.

Demasculating (destoying) Iran is also about protecting Isr*el, yet by the very act of bombing Iran, both that country and Syria will counter attack Isr*el and the whole will turn into a full scale multi-nation conflagration that has the potential to embroil Europe (including Russia), the Middle East and the U.S. in a truly massive scale world war, replete with Nuclear bomb attacks.

I love the coffe-spew-inducing humor, irreverrence, snark, cussing, blasphemy, spirited argument, inspired logic, brilliant writing, family friendliness and other things at fdl. A lot. But Siun’s humanity and the way she brings it to our attention are among the very best things here, or anywhere in interactive journalism.

{{{{{Siun}}}}}

As far as gooper control of congress, it’s becoming more difficult every year as more and more MODERATE voters run away from goopers as fast as their touchscreens can carry em.

“‘Voters’? What of these so-called ‘voters’ of whom you speak? We need no ‘voters’! Who needs such ‘voters’ now that our new, mandated-by-law, totally hackable, digital tabulation systems are in place?”

Hmmm.

Yeah- but we couldn’t get THAT lucky—could we?