TRex!

Great picture!!

LS @ 2

Great picture!!

yup!

Ha Ha! /nelson

It’s about time a traditional media publication got on board. Malkin is a sick human being. Great picture by the way.

Gore got an “up” arrow…

I watched the Norwegian broadcast, and Gore just said, “I have no plans to become a candidate, I am running a different kind of campaign”.

Afternoon, kids!

How is everyone?

Sorry to be off topic, but wish to thank the contributors to the Blue America PAC – Jane, Howie, Christie, TRex and all of you who supported the efforts to phone the five Dems who voted against SCHIP. NC Dems Mike McIntyre and Bob Etheridge – two of the targeted Dems – have decided to vote to override Bush’s veto of SCHIP. Those of us in NC thank you. We appreciate the help.

Hi, TRex, whazzup? Did you hear that the Restore legislation to update FISA was to be amended by Rethugs, but now they’re postponing the vote?

Great to hear Malkin seems to have overplayed her hand!

The entire hoo hah of the last two weeks summed up in two sentences.

Too bad they didn’t mention the hatchet job on the TWO year old.
Disgusting piece of backwash from a douchebag anyway.

OT
Turkey Border problem
Mukasey hearing
Dalai Lama medal up on PBS NewsHour

Dude, WTF is up with this Armenian genocide resolution in Congress? Were they not getting enough mileage out of baseball steroids?

TRex @ 13

Dude, WTF is up with this Armenian genocide resolution in Congress? Were they not getting enough mileage out of baseball steroids?

Let’s just irk everyone we know.

Ann in AZ @ 9

Hi, TRex, whazzup? Did you hear that the Restore legislation to update FISA was to be amended by Rethugs, but now they’re postponing the vote?

Great to hear Malkin seems to have overplayed her hand!

I”d like to see something about Rush’s latest threat. New York magazine seems to think they know who it is.
I’d like Limbaugh to be take n to the woodshed on that one.

Trex, If anyone ever had to much fun crafting a blog post.. this must be one of those times..)
What a hoot!

Betsy Muse @ 8

Sorry to be off topic, but wish to thank the contributors to the Blue America PAC – Jane, Howie, Christie, TRex and all of you who supported the efforts to phone the five Dems who voted against SCHIP. NC Dems Mike McIntyre and Bob Etheridge – two of the targeted Dems – have decided to vote to override Bush’s veto of SCHIP. Those of us in NC thank you. We appreciate the help.

Yes, most worthy of praise for all the hard work!

LS @ 6

Gore got an “up” arrow…

I watched the Norwegian broadcast, and Gore just said, “I have no plans to become a candidate, I am running a different kind of campaign”.

Sounds like a solid “maybe” to me…

I just saw that in Newsweek this morning awaiting jury duty. LOL. Thought of you, TRex!

What is 4th Branch up to? Strangely absent.

Let’s see, Russia says don’t attack Iran.
Turkey says let’s attack Iraq.
China says don’t be nice to the Dalai Lama.
FISA is on hold.
I hear Ari Fleischer and his group are going to really ramp up the $200 million campaign to bomb Iran….yeah, 4th Branch must be burning the midnight oil to get that baby birthed.

Malkin will reap what she has sown.
Good luck to her.
Now how about the appeal to anti-semitism by Coulter. It is an historic way to provoke attacks on Jews.

Happy Birthday Loo Hoo!!!

Trex, I think they had a bunch of the Armenians from CA writing them (it’s a large minority group), and then they found out what Turkey would do if it went through. Not that they shouldn’t already have known about Turkey’s reaction (and Turkey certainly knows what it did back then, even though it was a different government at the time).

What?
Another birthday?

YOO HOO ,LOO HOO!

Happy Birthday!

LS @ 6

Gore got an “up” arrow…

I watched the Norwegian broadcast, and Gore just said, “I have no plans to become a candidate, I am running a different kind of campaign”.

I love that he got an up arrow! And yes, he is running a different kind of campaign! (I know he says it’s not an election campaign, but I think it could be a winning election campaign to bypass pundits and political consultants and go directly to the people.) I love it that he has his own platform into folks homes. I love the fact that a lot of folks claim they have already formed boots on the ground type of campaign workers in most states. And they’re already trying to collect money through the two cents committments. With all that work, I don’t think he’d be nearly as far behind as the pundits are trying to indicate.

TRex @ 13

Dude, WTF is up with this Armenian genocide resolution in Congress? Were they not getting enough mileage out of baseball steroids?

Two things can stop the Iraq war and the impending Iran war, in their tracks.

1. Turkey yanking military base cooperation.

2. Iraq throwing out all contractors.

What Limbaugh threat, Toby?

LS @ 20

What is 4th Branch up to? Strangely absent.

Let’s see, Russia says don’t attack Iran.
Turkey says let’s attack Iraq.
China says don’t be nice to the Dalai Lama.
FISA is on hold.
I hear Ari Fleischer and his group are going to really ramp up the $200 million campaign to bomb Iran….yeah, 4th Branch must be burning the midnight oil to get that baby birthed.

Good summary! we don’t need no stink’n MSM!

Happy Birthday LooHoo!!! Wow, a lot of people have October birthdays around here. Libras, figures.

P J Evans @ 23

Trex, I think they had a bunch of the Armenians from CA writing them (it’s a large minority group), and then they found out what Turkey would do if it went through. Not that they shouldn’t already have known about Turkey’s reaction (and Turkey certainly knows what it did back then, even though it was a different government at the time).

I heard one report that put it all down to Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) district that had a strong Armenian constituency and he had a tough re-election.

Elliott @ 22

Happy Birthday Loo Hoo!!!

Happy Birthday to Loo Hoo!!!

TRex @ 13

Dude, WTF is up with this Armenian genocide resolution in Congress? Were they not getting enough mileage out of baseball steroids?

My theory on the prior thread is that they are trying to let the Executive Branch know they are still relevant and perfectly capable of being a thorn in their side.

TRex!!!

EPU’d:

Has the House voted on SCHIP yet?

If not, does anyone know when the vote is scheduled?

will corporate media actually take up their charge?

they are the fourth estate, they are neccessary for our republic to stand

media will fall with our republic, perhaps they begin to understand?

Thanks, guys!

Boston1775 @ 21

Malkin will reap what she has sown.
Good luck to her.
Now how about the appeal to anti-semitism by Coulter. It is an historic way to provoke attacks on Jews.

I often wonder if Malkin or Coulter or even Rush will ever suffer consequences for their actions and not just get richer from them. Then again, the Bush Wing of Hell may get more reservations every day.

Boston1775 @ 21

Malkin will reap what she has sown.
Good luck to her.
Now how about the appeal to anti-semitism by Coulter. It is an historic way to provoke attacks on Jews.

Sorry, Boston – can’t reply now…I’m busy trying to get perfected (snark).

Great to hear Malkin seems to have overplayed her hand!

These people can never overplay their hands. No matter how mean they are, they manage to do themselves one worse every time. Then MSM repeats it. There’s no way any normal human being can overcome the poisonous combination of hate-filled Rs & MSM.

LS @ 20

What is 4th Branch up to? Strangely absent.

Let’s see, Russia says don’t attack Iran.
Turkey says let’s attack Iraq.
China says don’t be nice to the Dalai Lama.
FISA is on hold.
I hear Ari Fleischer and his group are going to really ramp up the $200 million campaign to bomb Iran….yeah, 4th Branch must be burning the midnight oil to get that baby birthed.

I shudder to think that is surely his intent, before he leaves office.

Betsy Muse,
You’re welcome. I called those four congressmen, among others, several times over the last 2 weeks. I sort of apologized for calling from outside of their districts and said, My congressman is for this, but it’s not going to work if you all aren’t going to vote for it.
And my kid needs this so vote for it!
Talk about lobbying…;)

LS @ 26

TRex @ 13

Dude, WTF is up with this Armenian genocide resolution in Congress? Were they not getting enough mileage out of baseball steroids?

Two things can stop the Iraq war and the impending Iran war, in their tracks.

1. Turkey yanking military base cooperation.

2. Iraq throwing out all contractors.

I heard this theory, and it seems far too clever to be intentional. But if it works, I’m for it.

LS @ 29

Happy Birthday LooHoo!!! Wow, a lot of people have October birthdays around here. Libras, figures.

Excusez moi…Scorpio here tyvm!

;-)

LS @ 26

TRex @ 13

Dude, WTF is up with this Armenian genocide resolution in Congress? Were they not getting enough mileage out of baseball steroids?

Two things can stop the Iraq war and the impending Iran war, in their tracks.

1. Turkey yanking military base cooperation.

2. Iraq throwing out all contractors.

the resolution seem’s a pretty reckless attempt to end the war/occupation

or making themselves relevant

Hi eCHAN! long time no see

Maybe they’ll all get raptured…before there is an Armageddon, and they’ll all be happy and the world will be at peace.

perris @ 34

will corporate media actually take up their charge?

they are the fourth estate, they are neccessary for our republic to stand

media will fall with our republic, perhaps they begin to understand?

The blogs are the 4th estate. Corporate media is what it is.

Lots of serious stuff coming to a head today. Reminds me of PAA day. Smells like wrestling factions backstage. I am watching the news closely.

Hmmm.

(Hi all, sorry to be absent lately. Pesky work!)

P J Evans @ 23

Trex, I think they had a bunch of the Armenians from CA writing them (it’s a large minority group), and then they found out what Turkey would do if it went through. Not that they shouldn’t already have known about Turkey’s reaction (and Turkey certainly knows what it did back then, even though it was a different government at the time).

Led by Lantos, that well known FOI (Friend of I*rael). Same phenomenon. We’re right, no matter what, and to hell with whether it’s good for the U.S. or not. True believers, just as much as the neocons. In fact, many of them probably are neocons.

peanutbutter @ 42

LS @ 29

Happy Birthday LooHoo!!! Wow, a lot of people have October birthdays around here. Libras, figures.

Excusez moi…Scorpio here tyvm!

;-)

Scorpio is my favorite constellation to look at during the night.

LS @ 29

Happy Birthday LooHoo!!! Wow, a lot of people have October birthdays around here. Libras, figures.

I love Libras.

They’re so diplomatic.

Excusez moi…Scorpio here tyvm!

;-)

Just stay over there, you…you…scoundrel!

Bleah!! Scorpios…why does everything have to be such a goddamn night at the opera?

tw3k @ 31

Elliott @ 22

Happy Birthday Loo Hoo!!!

Happy Birthday to Loo Hoo!!!

Another happy birthday to Loo Hoo!;-)

Hi back to you, Elliot. After I got my wireless internet fixed, my whole computer died–motherboard (whatever that is) bit the dust. Luckily you can physically remove the hard drive & buy a device to plug it into the new computer, so I didn’t lose any data, but it’s taken awhile to get all Humpty’s pieces put back together again. And since the weather’s been so nice in the NE, computer repair took a backseat to spending time outdoors.

Something curious Bush said today as he feigned knowledge of Putin’s warning about military action toward Iran…he said, something like, “Putin said US military action?”…and then he said that during their recent meeting Putin agreed that Iran should not be a nuclear power. So, that makes me wonder about the potential “practice” run in the bombing of Syria by Israel.

Loo Hoo. @ 27

What Limbaugh threat, Toby?

Limbaugh made a lot of noise this week about how he threatened a journalist who had done a piece on him, using the words,’… But there was a cover story on me coming out of one of the big news magazines, and it was going to totally mischaracterize me and what I do and how I do it. And we found out who was writing it and made a couple phone calls to the person writing it. And we said, “You know what? We’re going to find out where your kids go to school…”
Just really disgusting threats, innuendos, filth. And crowing about how the guy changed the story and made it a lot…mmm…less hard hitting, shall we say. What Limbaugh was exulting about was the fact that he’d threatened and intimidated this guy enough to make him get scared enough to change a story.
New York magazine has a story out; they think they know who it was and why he got threatened –

http://nymag.com/daily/movies/….._migh.html

TRex @ 50

Excusez moi…Scorpio here tyvm!

;-)

Just stay over there, you…you…scoundrel!

Bleah!! Scorpios…why does everything have to be such a goddamn night at the opera?

Scorpio here. Be careful what you say about us. We’re very emotional.

Court may move against White House

WASHINGTON – A U.S. magistrate indicated Wednesday that a federal court may order the Bush administration to preserve copies of all White House e-mails, a move that a government lawyer argued strongly against.

There’s a story for ya…

Elliott @ 22

Happy Birthday Loo Hoo!!!

Birthday? Congratulations! I remember 40 like it was yesterday.

Was I too busy to notice
or did the Coulter thing seem to just go away?

I agree with Badwater and I like Toby’s snark. But Coulter had the nerve to talk to a Jew about Jews in a way that has roots in racial scapegoating and worse.

eCAHNomics @ 47

P J Evans @ 23

Trex, I think they had a bunch of the Armenians from CA writing them (it’s a large minority group), and then they found out what Turkey would do if it went through. Not that they shouldn’t already have known about Turkey’s reaction (and Turkey certainly knows what it did back then, even though it was a different government at the time).

Led by Lantos, that well known FOI (Friend of I*rael). Same phenomenon. We’re right, no matter what, and to hell with whether it’s good for the U.S. or not. True believers, just as much as the neocons. In fact, many of them probably are neocons.

That is one curious twist in this story. IIRC, Israel has a history of intentionally evading calling out Turkey on its act of Armenian genocide..

Now that’s a funny image…Not like that ‘darkblack’ and his/her/whatever’s arty pretensions.

;>)

I thought Newsweek reported news. Malkin augering into the Canyon of Permanent Irrelevance at Mach 5, well…Not exactly ‘film at 11′ material.

TRex,
Well, honey, I’m an Aries. (Could ya tell?0
We’re Way More Fun to argue with.
You can fight with Libras all day long and never get Anywhere.
In my opinion, anyway.
(takes a bitch to know a bitch.)

ES@59
Never heard of that–it would be very curious. Link? Maybe google?

eCAHNomics @ 52

Hi back to you, Elliot. After I got my wireless internet fixed, my whole computer died–motherboard (whatever that is) bit the dust. Luckily you can physically remove the hard drive & buy a device to plug it into the new computer, so I didn’t lose any data, but it’s taken awhile to get all Humpty’s pieces put back together again. And since the weather’s been so nice in the NE, computer repair took a backseat to spending time outdoors.

glad you didn’t lose any bits or bytes !

Great time to be outside! hate to be losing the power of the sun to the Tropic of Capricorn.

Well, as Marcy (I believe) pointed out, they didn’t quite nail it — it should have read “Heartless highest-traffic right-wing blogger, Fox News commentator, and sometime major-newspaper op-ed writer attacks 12-year-old brain-injury victim over insurance.”

There are plenty of right-wing bloggers who don’t have her connections and acceptance by supposedly mainstream figures; it’s unfortunate that they chose to gloss over that.

Happy, happy BDay, LooHoo!

And TRex – congrats on the hunt. Looks like two downed by your side – and counting.

Great work.

Redshift @ 64

Well, as Marcy (I believe) pointed out, they didn’t quite nail it — it should have read “Heartless highest-traffic right-wing blogger, Fox News commentator, and sometime major-newspaper op-ed writer attacks 12-year-old brain-injury victim over insurance.”

There are plenty of right-wing bloggers who don’t have her connections and acceptance by supposedly mainstream figures; it’s unfortunate that they chose to gloss over that.

I was pleased when our local #2 newspaper dropped the Coultergeist column.

I was not pleased when they replaced it with MalKKKin’s.

demi @ 62

TRex,
Well, honey, I’m an Aries. (Could ya tell?0
We’re Way More Fun to argue with.
You can fight with Libras all day long and never get Anywhere.
In my opinion, anyway.
(takes a bitch to know a bitch.)

Heh. That’s probably because you think you’re fighting with the Libra, and they think they’re doing something else entirely. (Speaking as a Libra. *g*)

Scorpio here. Be careful what you say about us. We’re very emotional.

I know, I know.

What I’ve never understood is why Scorpios insist that everyone within a ten-mile radius feel their emotions, too.

neurophius @ 66

I was pleased when our local #2 newspaper dropped the Coultergeist column.

I was not pleased when they replaced it with MalKKKin’s.

Big dif!

demi @ 62

TRex,
Well, honey, I’m an Aries. (Could ya tell?0
We’re Way More Fun to argue with.
You can fight with Libras all day long and never get Anywhere.
In my opinion, anyway.
(takes a bitch to know a bitch.)

Hey! Try being a Gemini! We can take both sides of the argument!

Margot @ 40

Betsy Muse,
You’re welcome. I called those four congressmen, among others, several times over the last 2 weeks. I sort of apologized for calling from outside of their districts and said, My congressman is for this, but it’s not going to work if you all aren’t going to vote for it.
And my kid needs this so vote for it!
Talk about lobbying…;)

Thank you Margot. We still have a growing online community in NC and we did our best with calls and emails. We just needed a bit of help.

Redshift @ 64

Well, as Marcy (I believe) pointed out, they didn’t quite nail it — it should have read “Heartless highest-traffic right-wing blogger, Fox News commentator, and sometime major-newspaper op-ed writer attacks 12-year-old brain-injury victim over insurance.”

There are plenty of right-wing bloggers who don’t have her connections and acceptance by supposedly mainstream figures; it’s unfortunate that they chose to gloss over that.

I would argue the opposite. By reducing her to simply “heartless right wing blogger”, Newsweek is drawing a protective cordon around her. She’s got pretensions at mainstream respectability, but ultimately, she can’t survive outside the sewer-y confines of Fox and her own blog.

eCAHNomics @ 55

TRex @ 50

Just stay over there, you…you…scoundrel!

Bleah!! Scorpios…why does everything have to be such a goddamn night at the opera?

Scorpio here. Be careful what you say about us. We’re very emotional.

And you got a stinger!

neokneme @ 56

I hope! Why is it that the courts seem to be the only part of government that actually works these days?

(Another Scorpio here, btw)

eCAHNomics @ 61

ES@59
Never heard of that–it would be very curious. Link? Maybe google?

Sorry, I didn’t save the link and my limited google ability finds a lot of results from sites I am not familiar with. I’ll do some more digging soon.

neurophius @ 66

I was pleased when our local #2 newspaper dropped the Coultergeist column.

I was not pleased when they replaced it with MalKKKin’s.

Has she put any of the Frost-stalking into her print column? In any case, it sounds like this could be an opportunity to write to them about correcting the error of their ways.

OT–
I must be taking FDL for granted and assuming that they’ll live bog everything, so imagine my disappointment this morning that there are no top posts about the Mukasey hearing at all! So what’s a poor late-arriving Firepup at work to do? I can’t scan the comments in half a dozen top posts on other topics to find the pearls, because I don’t have time. Can someone please help point me to some good commentary on the hearings so far? I also hear that these hearings might go on for as many as 3 days!

Whazzup???
Bob in HI

dakine01 @ 70

demi @ 62

TRex,
Well, honey, I’m an Aries. (Could ya tell?0
We’re Way More Fun to argue with.
You can fight with Libras all day long and never get Anywhere.
In my opinion, anyway.
(takes a bitch to know a bitch.)

Hey! Try being a Gemini! We can take both sides of the argument!

Cancerian, here. I just want to take care of everyone ;-)

“You don’t know the half of what’s gone sour in that woman’s mental refrigerator.”

Hee, hee… You are truly the prince of snark…

TRex,
:)
Still holding it, dear therapod?
Just asking.
History speaks for itself.

kelven @ 79

“You don’t know the half of what’s gone sour in that woman’s mental refrigerator.”

Hee, hee… You are truly the prince of snark…

Thank you, thank you.

I’ll be here all week!

Gemini, here. Clever, verbal, friendly.

Here’s a typo-ridden article that discusses Israel leaves Armenian genocide up to historians & some Jews who violently disagree.

http://www.genocidewatch.org/r…..pril05.htm

It may be that Israel wants to avoid pissing off every Muslim country in its neighborhood.

Regardless of the truth of the underlying event, there’s no reason for Congress to be bringing it up at this time. True stupidity, even if it’s a convoluted scheme to stop the war.

One of the main problems with the VN anti-war movement was that they did stupid things that ended up prolonging the agony because they periodically lost credibility for the movement. I hope we aren’t repeating that mistake. There are plenty of good reasons & ways to be anti-Iraq war. No need to descend into the ridiculous.

Bob, Glenn covered the hearing at Salon today.

TRex @ 68

Scorpio here. Be careful what you say about us. We’re very emotional.

I know, I know.

What I’ve never understood is why Scorpios insist that everyone within a ten-mile radius feel their emotions, too.

It seems perfectly obvious to me. What I’ve never understood is why no one else gets it.

Loo Hoo. @ 19

I just saw that in Newsweek this morning awaiting jury duty. LOL. Thought of you, TRex!

Happy Birthday, Loo Hoo!

TRex @ 49

LS @ 29

Happy Birthday LooHoo!!! Wow, a lot of people have October birthdays around here. Libras, figures.

I love Libras.

Thank you very much.

A still Sixty Something Libran.

They’re so diplomatic.

bobschacht @ 77

OT–
I must be taking FDL for granted and assuming that they’ll live bog everything, so imagine my disappointment this morning that there are no top posts about the Mukasey hearing at all! So what’s a poor late-arriving Firepup at work to do? I can’t scan the comments in half a dozen top posts on other topics to find the pearls, because I don’t have time. Can someone please help point me to some good commentary on the hearings so far? I also hear that these hearings might go on for as many as 3 days!

Whazzup???
Bob in HI

you didn’t check the comments for radiofreewill? most excellent commenter blogging today, with several people pitching in with color commentary. only it’s spread over several threads, so you’ll have to go looking.

P J Evans @ 74

neokneme @ 56

I hope! Why is it that the courts seem to be the only part of government that actually works these days?

(Another Scorpio here, btw)

Here’s an interesting quote from our so called government lawyers…

“I don’t know how the White House defendants could have been made it more clear,” Hong said. She said the administration’s position is that there is no need for a court order. She offered to have the administration provide a sworn declaration of what it is preserving.

Facciola adjourned court for 20 minutes, asking the two sides to try to work out wording on an agreement of what has been preserved. After the attorneys said they were at an impasse, Facciola suggested the requirements for a court order had been met.

Future Scotus blade I’m sure…

Hi all,
Missed Peterr’s thread about the Religious push back on the SCHIP veto because I was with a group of people visiting the local office of Rep. Joe Pitts. (and he is the . . ) to talk about the very same issue. His aide pulled out all of the unsourced rieich wing talking points and insisted that the Congressman is NOT against health care for kids.

Bull SH*T.

It was fun. Waiting to write the LTE when the heartless bastards sustain the veto.

Met the woman who ran against him last time who told me about the guy who will run against him next time. I need to get this guy talking with Howie so that we can vet him properly and if he passes support him against this slimebag.

TRex @ 72

I would argue the opposite. By reducing her to simply “heartless right wing blogger”, Newsweek is drawing a protective cordon around her. She’s got pretensions at mainstream respectability, but ultimately, she can’t survive outside the sewer-y confines of Fox and her own blog.

I would agree it makes it more effective against Malkin, but at the expense of being less effective against the movement that largely agrees with her (right up to the GOP leadership.) However, considering the degenerate state of our public discourse, establishing that there is any limit beyond which right-wingers’ actions become unacceptable is quite a victory.

TRex @ 13

Dude, WTF is up with this Armenian genocide resolution in Congress? Were they not getting enough mileage out of baseball steroids?

Like 9 y/o boys…. wanted to see how many bees were in that nest, so they poked it.

Something funky happened to my quote at @86. Guess you all got the jist of it anyway.

Re the Armenian genocide vote, it seems like Democrats are going out of their way to find issues that they can cave on. The genocide took place something like 92 years ago. It is not like there was a rush to recognize it.

We know it happened. We deride h*locaust deniers but when it comes to this genocide Democrats show all the moral conviction of cooked spaghetti. They raise the issue then walk away from it because of Turkey’s ridiculous and morally empty denials.

It should also be pointed out that Turkey gets lots of military support and aid from us so actions they took against us would likely have an even bigger effect on them than on us.

Balrog! LTNS!! How’s the little guy?

pls excuse the OT. any techies around who can give me youtube advice/help?

Hugh @ 93

Re the Armenian genocide vote, it seems like Democrats are going out of their way to find issues that they can cave on. The genocide took place something like 92 years ago. It is not like there was a rush to recognize it.

We know it happened. We deride h*locaust deniers but when it comes to this genocide Democrats show all the moral conviction of cooked spaghetti. They raise the issue then walk away from it because of Turkey’s ridiculous and morally empty denials.

It should also be pointed out that Turkey gets lots of military support and aid from us so actions they took against us would likely have an even bigger effect on them than on us.

Exactly.

bobschacht @ 77

OT–
I must be taking FDL for granted and assuming that they’ll live bog everything, so imagine my disappointment this morning that there are no top posts about the Mukasey hearing at all! So what’s a poor late-arriving Firepup at work to do? I can’t scan the comments in half a dozen top posts on other topics to find the pearls, because I don’t have time. Can someone please help point me to some good commentary on the hearings so far? I also hear that these hearings might go on for as many as 3 days!

Whazzup???
Bob in HI

Welcome across the timezones.

The Muck is doing highlights with video. Back in a minute with the link to the site who live blogged it. Sorry to be slow at the draw, but I have been concentrating on schip today.

selise @ 95

pls excuse the OT. any techies around who can give me youtube advice/help?

Don’t ask to ask, just ask! That’s Open Source :)

Happy Birthday to Loo,
Happy Birthday to Loo,
Happy Birthday Dear Loo Hoo,
Happy Birthday to Loo.
(and mannny more….
on channel 4,
and scooby doo, on channel 2,
and frankenstein, on channel 9…)

Another OT
Going to visit Williamsburg & environs for 4 days. Have guide book, book on Jamestown, book on Pocohontas, book on VA plantations, so I think I’m well prepared. Looking for a local who might put me in the way of something interesting that is not featured in guidebooks, or maybe personal restausant favorites.

End of the day Cushing spot crude oil dropped back to $87.40. This pricing is bogus. The rationale for the most recent spiking is the Turkey-Kurdistan conflict. If this were true, Turkey’s OK today to send in troops should have kept the price going up. It didn’t. As I have said before a lot of people with a lot of money who have no idea what they are doing have entered this market and the result is a lot of loopiness.

Sixty Something @ 92

Something funky happened to my quote at @86. Guess you all got the jist of it anyway.

When you quote someones comment, make sure your curser is after the last /blockquote then your comments will be after and theirs included inside the quote block.

Wow…. took a nap and TRex is here… did I sleep THAT much?

I cannot find any IAEA report that they have evidence Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear site. Does anyone have a reliable source other than Israel and the US governments? Did any organization record radio activity in the atmosphere?

tw3k – thank goodness you’re here!!

i think i’ve ripped the best video i can get of holt’s floor statement this morning. (i found the c-span real player video archive, ran it at full screen on my ibook, video out to my eyetv which did the conversion to mpeg-4 which went to my 5.5 year old imac running the eyetv software to save the mpeg-4 to disk.

i’m now compressing it to 320×240, which spazeboy says is the best size to use.

questions so far -
1) i’m using the h.264 codec, is that ok?
2) my audio is in aac, and i don’t see how to convert it to mp3. will that be a problem when i try to upload it to youtube?

BlueStateRedHead @ 97

bobschacht @ 77

OT–
I must be taking FDL for granted and assuming that they’ll live bog everything, so imagine my disappointment this morning that there are no top posts about the Mukasey hearing at all! So what’s a poor late-arriving Firepup at work to do? I can’t scan the comments in half a dozen top posts on other topics to find the pearls, because I don’t have time. Can someone please help point me to some good commentary on the hearings so far? I also hear that these hearings might go on for as many as 3 days!

Whazzup???
Bob in HI

Welcome across the timezones.

The Muck is doing highlights with video. Back in a minute with the link to the site who live blogged it. Sorry to be slow at the draw, but I have been concentrating on schip today.

for liveblogging you have your choices:
mukasey:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/g…..7/mukasey/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/17/83233/334
There are probably more, not counting the national journal’s.

(((((DEMI)))))

Hippo Birdies, LooHoo!!!!

40 was good.

50 was way better.

QuakerGirl @ 103

I cannot find any IAEA report that they have evidence Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear site. Does anyone have a reliable source other than Israel and the US governments? Did any organization record radio activity in the atmosphere?

I heard someone on CSPAN over the weekend who said that Israel shut down the entire Syrian cybercontrol of its radar system, or words to that effect, and Syria didn’t know what hit it until it was all over. Sorry that I was flipping channels so didn’t catch the context & didn’t have a computer at the time to look up who the character was. In any event, he not only said it with a diabolical grin, but added that’s just what the U.S. will do to Iran when it bombs.

eCAHNomics @ 108

QuakerGirl @ 103

I cannot find any IAEA report that they have evidence Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear site. Does anyone have a reliable source other than Israel and the US governments? Did any organization record radio activity in the atmosphere?

I heard someone on CSPAN over the weekend who said that Israel shut down the entire Syrian cybercontrol of its radar system, or words to that effect, and Syria didn’t know what hit it until it was all over. Sorry that I was flipping channels so didn’t catch the context & didn’t have a computer at the time to look up who the character was. In any event, he not only said it with a diabolical grin, but added that’s just what the U.S. will do to Iran when it bombs.

I hadn’t heard that but I did hear via CSPAN that Syria claims there was no radiation detected anywhere

QuakerGirl @ 103

I cannot find any IAEA report that they have evidence Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear site. Does anyone have a reliable source other than Israel and the US governments? Did any organization record radio activity in the atmosphere?

Looks like it is still a question.

QuakerGirl @ 103

I cannot find any IAEA report that they have evidence Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear site. Does anyone have a reliable source other than Israel and the US governments? Did any organization record radio activity in the atmosphere?

I think it is psyops. They hit something, but who knows what…they’re trying to use it to ramp up trouble for North Korea. So far, this week, Bush is on the edge with Russia, China, Iran, Iraq (over the edge), Afghanistan (over the edge), and Syria…and he’s talking WWIII. They all know he’s nuts in a handbag.

Eureka Springs @ 83

Bob, Glenn covered the hearing at Salon today.

Thanks! I’m off to read Glenn.
Bob in HI

When you turn 40, you learn to say no. When you turn 50, you learn to say hell, no. When you turn 55…

eCAHNomics @ 108

QuakerGirl @ 103

I cannot find any IAEA report that they have evidence Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear site. Does anyone have a reliable source other than Israel and the US governments? Did any organization record radio activity in the atmosphere?

I heard someone on CSPAN over the weekend who said that Israel shut down the entire Syrian cybercontrol of its radar system, or words to that effect, and Syria didn’t know what hit it until it was all over. Sorry that I was flipping channels so didn’t catch the context & didn’t have a computer at the time to look up who the character was. In any event, he not only said it with a diabolical grin, but added that’s just what the U.S. will do to Iran when it bombs.

didn’t we hear similar claims of confidence as the Titanic launched?

eCAHNomics @ 82

Here’s a typo-ridden article that discusses Israel leaves Armenian genocide up to historians & some Jews who violently disagree.

http://www.genocidewatch.org/r…..pril05.htm

It may be that Israel wants to avoid pissing off every Muslim country in its neighborhood.

Regardless of the truth of the underlying event, there’s no reason for Congress to be bringing it up at this time. True stupidity, even if it’s a convoluted scheme to stop the war.

One of the main problems with the VN anti-war movement was that they did stupid things that ended up prolonging the agony because they periodically lost credibility for the movement. I hope we aren’t repeating that mistake. There are plenty of good reasons & ways to be anti-Iraq war. No need to descend into the ridiculous.

Like what person or group? There wasn’t one movement nor one agenda. To tar and feather everyone because of the actions or lack of actions of a few needs some clarification. It wasn’t a few peaceniks marching in the street that prolonged the war but rather incompetent military leaders who knew nothing about the people nor geography they invaded, again.

Loo Hoo. @ 112

When you turn 40, you learn to say no. When you turn 50, you learn to say hell, no. When you turn 55…

You say, I might as well go for it.

QuakerGirl @ 103

I cannot find any IAEA report that they have evidence Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear site. Does anyone have a reliable source other than Israel and the US governments? Did any organization record radio activity in the atmosphere?

I don’t know of any reports. The site was likely hit before completion so there may have been no nuclear materials except a few lab samples. Syria still has a small research reactor I believe but it’s nuclear program even with the reactor that got bombed was tiny.

eCAHNomics @ 84

TRex @ 68

I know, I know.

What I’ve never understood is why Scorpios insist that everyone within a ten-mile radius feel their emotions, too.

It seems perfectly obvious to me. What I’ve never understood is why no one else gets it.

No kddin, ease up on the Scorpios, when ya’ll need something done you know where to go.

Loo Hoo. @ 113

When you turn 40, you learn to say no. When you turn 50, you learn to say hell, no. When you turn 55…

Too young for medicare, too old for women to care.

kinky friedman

selise @ 104

questions so far -
1) i’m using the h.264 codec, is that ok?
2) my audio is in aac, and i don’t see how to convert it to mp3. will that be a problem when i try to upload it to youtube?

I’ve not crossed that bridge myself. It look like Q1 is OK

Before uploading, I convert the file with QuickTime Pro to h.264, 480×360 pixels at 24fps, better quality, and with a keyframe every 24 frames. The audio is set to AAC, VBR 96-110, 32k stereo.

TRex @ 72

Redshift @ 64

Well, as Marcy (I believe) pointed out, they didn’t quite nail it — it should have read “Heartless highest-traffic right-wing blogger, Fox News commentator, and sometime major-newspaper op-ed writer attacks 12-year-old brain-injury victim over insurance.”

There are plenty of right-wing bloggers who don’t have her connections and acceptance by supposedly mainstream figures; it’s unfortunate that they chose to gloss over that.

I would argue the opposite. By reducing her to simply “heartless right wing blogger”, Newsweek is drawing a protective cordon around her. She’s got pretensions at mainstream respectability, but ultimately, she can’t survive outside the sewer-y confines of Fox and her own blog.

Trex is Tright again. She is op-ed and Fox-worthy as a blogger. Discredit her main identity and m.o. and she looses her access to the others.

I need help here. Was it Keith O who said the only way to answer O’Reilly on t.v. to avoid an ambush was to say Felafel, loofah and the name of the woman who sued him that I have forgotten? Whoever said it, the point was that there is no reasonable way to answer someone who is not reasonable; one can only render them speechless.
So….a new parlor game….
what are Malkin’s three words?
my suggestions:
her present physical address
Wall Street journal editorial dated this week
O’Reilly

*g*

Like what person or group? There wasn’t one movement nor one agenda. To tar and feather everyone because of the actions or lack of actions of a few needs some clarification. It wasn’t a few peaceniks marching in the street that prolonged the war but rather incompetent military leaders who knew nothing about the people nor geography they invaded, again.

Didn’t mean to denigrate whole anti-war movement. should have added modifiers like ‘occassionally.’ You are, of course, right that what prolonged the war was primarily politicians & military, but smarter anti-war movements actions would have been better. I was thinking of all the counterculture & drugs going on among a portion of the group, which allowed MS Americans to dismiss them out of hand. I think a more Ghandi-like resistence might have worked out better.

Loo Hoo. @ 113

When you turn 40, you learn to say no. When you turn 50, you learn to say hell, no. When you turn 55…

You say that your the same age as the speed limit and the younger folks look at you like your nuts and say…. with funny scrunched up face … “your going to be 65?”
[actual event]

Bush: “Ahm gonna sprent ta teh finish lahn, n than yewl fahn me in Paraguay Crahferd.”

BlueStateRedHead @ 121

TRex @ 72

I would argue the opposite. By reducing her to simply “heartless right wing blogger”, Newsweek is drawing a protective cordon around her. She’s got pretensions at mainstream respectability, but ultimately, she can’t survive outside the sewer-y confines of Fox and her own blog.

Trex is Tright again. She is op-ed and Fox-worthy as a blogger. Discredit her main identity and m.o. and she looses her access to the others.

I need help here. Was it Keith O who said the only way to answer O’Reilly on t.v. to avoid an ambush was to say Felafel, loofah and the name of the woman who sued him that I have forgotten? Whoever said it, the point was that there is no reasonable way to answer someone who is not reasonable; one can only render them speechless.
So….a new parlor game….
what are Malkin’s three words?
my suggestions:
her present physical address
Wall Street journal editorial dated this week
O’Reilly

*g*

That was KO on BungleO BillO.

But let’s not do the current physical address of Ms Malkin. There are some of the tactics used by the RWNM that should never be adapted by our side and that is one of them IMNSHO.

katymine @ 122

Loo Hoo. @ 113

When you turn 40, you learn to say no. When you turn 50, you learn to say hell, no. When you turn 55…

You say that your the same age as the speed limit and the younger folks look at you like your nuts and say…. with funny scrunched up face … “your going to be 65?”
[actual event]

lol

I didn’t see this mentioned, but, FISA has been pulled until next week…!!!

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/…..t_week.php

Loo Hoo. @ 113

When you turn 40, you learn to say no. When you turn 50, you learn to say hell, no. When you turn 55…

,you say to hell with it.

eCAHNomics @ 122

Like what person or group? There wasn’t one movement nor one agenda. To tar and feather everyone because of the actions or lack of actions of a few needs some clarification. It wasn’t a few peaceniks marching in the street that prolonged the war but rather incompetent military leaders who knew nothing about the people nor geography they invaded, again.

Didn’t mean to denigrate whole anti-war movement. should have added modifiers like ‘occassionally.’ You are, of course, right that what prolonged the war was primarily politicians & military, but smarter anti-war movements actions would have been better. I was thinking of all the counterculture & drugs going on among a portion of the group, which allowed MS Americans to dismiss them out of hand. I think a more Ghandi-like resistence might have worked out better.

The hell with main stream Americans, the great silent majority, I dismiss them out of hand. Non-violent civil disobedience got us nowhere.

It was just a matter of time before Malkin fell. She’s not savvy enough to play in the big leagues, but she’s ignorant enough to get played by mighty wulitzer.

And a very Happy Birthday to Loo Hoo.

CSPAN 1 schedule for later this evening:

· Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony Honoring the Dalai Lama (10:50pm)

· Reair of House Floor Debate on FISA (12:15am)

W scared the hell out of the WH Press Corps today…the blond lady said, as he was cutting her off, but you’ve talked of mushroom clouds before in this Administration.

Boxer: “The President doesn’t have command of his words”. She said, “what he says seems as though he has no focus”. She actually said, she didn’t think he was stable…then Tweety said, you don’t think he’s stable?..then she backed off…and softened it…she said..”He’s always talking about war and scaring people”….

Wow.

New vid from Sunlighters.

LS @ 132

W scared the hell out of the WH Press Corps today…the blond lady said, as he was cutting her off, but you’ve talked of mushroom clouds before in this Administration.

Boxer: “The President doesn’t have command of his words”. She said, “what he says seems as though he has no focus”. She actually said, she didn’t think he was stable…then Tweety said, you don’t think he’s stable?..then she backed off…and softened it…she said..”He’s always talking about war and scaring people”….

Wow.

I hope someone caught that on tape…not stable…yikes…oh, yeah…we knew that.

IWAM (in the world according to Malkin): Is Newsweek now on “The Sh*tlist?”

Boxer looked like she really believed what she was saying about Bush, too.

raven @ 129

eCAHNomics @ 122

Didn’t mean to denigrate whole anti-war movement. should have added modifiers like ‘occassionally.’ You are, of course, right that what prolonged the war was primarily politicians & military, but smarter anti-war movements actions would have been better. I was thinking of all the counterculture & drugs going on among a portion of the group, which allowed MS Americans to dismiss them out of hand. I think a more Ghandi-like resistence might have worked out better.

The hell with main stream Americans, the great silent majority, I dismiss them out of hand. Non-violent civil disobedience got us nowhere.

Let me comment further. At Operation Dewey Canyon III a thousand Vietnam Vets went to Washington to ask for an end to the war. There was not one act of violence the entire week. You know what we got? Nixon dismissed us saying, “these bums obviously are not veterans”.

…what are Malkin’s three words?

Internment.

Jamil Hussein.

Denton.

yellowsnapdragon @ 136

Boxer looked like she really believed what she was saying about Bush, too.

Yup. There was some real fear there about his mental capacity. People have kids and grandkids, and he just scared the jeebebus out of everyone. It is so incredibly irresponsible. He needs to be removed from office, the day after they remove Cheney…

This is not good.

Boxer’s body language was a mix of earnest fear and a concern for his mental health. It didn’t seem scripted. Very authentic, I thought.

Roy Blunt bloviating on the House floor re FISA
(rough transcript):

“If Osama bin Laden orders a pizza from America for delivery to cave #57 in Tora Bora,
we need to know about that.”

Roy, was that Colombian Primo you snorted before coming
down to the microphone, or just Desenex ?

Why can’t Pelosi put impeachment on the table now, based on Bush’s veiled threats of WWIII and his irresponsible provocation of total destruction. Isn’t that fucking enough already. Yes, I’m pissed off at that freak of a presdinext.

Elliott @ 113

eCAHNomics @ 108

I heard someone on CSPAN over the weekend who said that Israel shut down the entire Syrian cybercontrol of its radar system, or words to that effect, and Syria didn’t know what hit it until it was all over. Sorry that I was flipping channels so didn’t catch the context & didn’t have a computer at the time to look up who the character was. In any event, he not only said it with a diabolical grin, but added that’s just what the U.S. will do to Iran when it bombs.

didn’t we hear similar claims of confidence as the Titanic launched?

Didn’t mean to imply I believed what he said. Just passing along what I heard a supporter of the raid say (BTW he was an American, not an Israeli, and a military type iirc). It’s important to know what the opposition is saying whether it’s true or not.

I think I agree with whoever said it was psyops. Israel just bombed some random location & shut up about it leaving everyone to speculate–much better than a real op, since imagination is much more colorful than reality.

However, before 3/03, when I was trying to figure out whther Iraq had WMDs or ties to OBL, I mentally noted everything the other side had to say & looked for further evidence. Two things became apparent quickly: (1) that their arguements were mighty thin indeed, and (2) that any evidence backing up their arguments was mighty thin. Just using the same methodology on the Israel raid on Syria. So far, there’s either no evidence to back up what they say, or the evidence is contrary, e.g., I think IAEA came out with a statement that Syria has no know nuclear weapons program.

Grrrrr….I’m gonna join my puppy, and eat the remote…grrrrrr

Hiya TRex!

This is the coolest insult ever. Can I borrow it???? PLEEEAAASSSEEEE!!!!

You don’t know the half of what’s gone sour in that woman’s mental refrigerator.

Bush is looking freaky lately. He really does look like the cheese is sliding off of his cracker.

It don’t matter though. He’s still got the base and the media on his side.

Plus enough firepower to bring about the Jeebus Campers greatest fantasy.

-GSD

raven @ 118

eCAHNomics @ 84

It seems perfectly obvious to me. What I’ve never understood is why no one else gets it.

No kddin, ease up on the Scorpios, when ya’ll need something done you know where to go.

Ease up on the Scorpios. We don’t like being associated with loser Malkin. She isn’t one of us.

Commander Strangelove and VP No….

eCAHNomics @ 122

Like what person or group? There wasn’t one movement nor one agenda. To tar and feather everyone because of the actions or lack of actions of a few needs some clarification. It wasn’t a few peaceniks marching in the street that prolonged the war but rather incompetent military leaders who knew nothing about the people nor geography they invaded, again.

Didn’t mean to denigrate whole anti-war movement. should have added modifiers like ‘occassionally.’ You are, of course, right that what prolonged the war was primarily politicians & military, but smarter anti-war movements actions would have been better. I was thinking of all the counterculture & drugs going on among a portion of the group, which allowed MS Americans to dismiss them out of hand. I think a more Ghandi-like resistence might have worked out better.

Thank you for clarifying that eCAHN. I had issues also with Barbarella going to North Vietnam and making cute with the Vietcon. There was an internal struggle going on in Vietnam that this lady just didn’t get, nor did our military leaders and politicians for that matter.

I don’t know who has less credibility, those shouting war, war, war or those shouting peace, peace, peace. That is why I shun an Answer demonstration. Too bad because they are the biggest organization out there that can properly organize a large demonstration. They do a terrific job on the logistics. I’ve gone to make a numbers statement but I leave when the speakers start shaking their fist while wearing black masks. Stand and speak and show your face is my style. I feel the same way about Code Pink – it’s self-serving.

tw3k @ 120

selise @ 104

questions so far -
1) i’m using the h.264 codec, is that ok?
2) my audio is in aac, and i don’t see how to convert it to mp3. will that be a problem when i try to upload it to youtube?

I’ve not crossed that bridge myself. It look like Q1 is OK

Before uploading, I convert the file with QuickTime Pro to h.264, 480×360 pixels at 24fps, better quality, and with a keyframe every 24 frames. The audio is set to AAC, VBR 96-110, 32k stereo.

thank you! i have quicktime pro – should have thought of that. got another export going now on my ibook (looks much faster). but couldn’t use 480×360, so am using the 320×240… i’ll just have to see how it looks. but after all, i’m already using a lame rip of the realplayer stream. ripped from cable tv this is not.

hahahahahahaha TRex cracks me up!

“You don’t know the half of what’s gone sour in that woman’s mental refrigerator.”

Too good!

GSD @ 147

Plus enough firepower to bring about the Jeebus Campers greatest fantasy.

-GSD

Positively rapturous.

Let me comment further. At Operation Dewey Canyon III a thousand Vietnam Vets went to Washington to ask for an end to the war. There was not one act of violence the entire week. You know what we got? Nixon dismissed us saying, “these bums obviously are not veterans”.

Sounds familiar.

But remember, it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Without the anti-VN war movement, that war might still be going on. So it worked. I was just counterfactualizing whether some other tactics might have made it work faster. Like the one you participated in probably had much more influence than many other events.

darkblack @ 153

GSD @ 147

Plus enough firepower to bring about the Jeebus Campers greatest fantasy.

-GSD

Positively rapturous.

Why, he wouldn’t hurt a fly.

-GSD

Elliott @ 132

CSPAN 1 schedule for later this evening:

· Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony Honoring the Dalai Lama (10:50pm)

· Reair of House Floor Debate on FISA (12:15am)

fingers crossed that someone is grabbing a good recording of holt tonight.

So, Rudy Tooliani is spending $5,000.00 a night at swanky hotels.

When will the media maul him for his extravagant tastes?

Oh, that’s right, it is John Edwards who’s the big spender.

Frigging pathetic.

-GSD

eCAHNomics @ 154

Let me comment further. At Operation Dewey Canyon III a thousand Vietnam Vets went to Washington to ask for an end to the war. There was not one act of violence the entire week. You know what we got? Nixon dismissed us saying, “these bums obviously are not veterans”.

Sounds familiar.

But remember, it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Without the anti-VN war movement, that war might still be going on. So it worked. I was just counterfactualizing whether some other tactics might have made it work faster. Like the one you participated in probably had much more influence than many other events.

Maybe so but I understand the level of frustration many felt with “civilized” protest. I think you know that there were folks protesting gently as early as 1964. People who ended up in the Weather Underground, SDS, Zippes and the rest generally tried the other path first.

darkblack @ 139

…what are Malkin’s three words?

Internment.

Jamil Hussein.

Denton.

For those of us who luckily only discovered her of late, can you explain the second two–’cause you sure don’t want us clicking on her archive.

selise @ 151

tw3k @ 120

I’ve not crossed that bridge myself. It look like Q1 is OK

thank you! i have quicktime pro – should have thought of that. got another export going now on my ibook (looks much faster). but couldn’t use 480×360, so am using the 320×240… i’ll just have to see how it looks. but after all, i’m already using a lame rip of the realplayer stream. ripped from cable tv this is not.

Cool, I’ll interested to hear how it turns out. You have video out only?

raven @ 138

raven @ 129

The hell with main stream Americans, the great silent majority, I dismiss them out of hand. Non-violent civil disobedience got us nowhere.

Let me comment further. At Operation Dewey Canyon III a thousand Vietnam Vets went to Washington to ask for an end to the war. There was not one act of violence the entire week. You know what we got? Nixon dismissed us saying, “these bums obviously are not veterans”.

Nixon also said of the demonstrators, “I will not be moved.” So, he was moved out of the White House with bent head waving goodbye from his last WH helicopter ride.

GSD @ 157

So, Rudy Tooliani is spending $5,000.00 a night at swanky hotels.

When will the media maul him for his extravagant tastes?

Oh, that’s right, it is John Edwards who’s the big spender.

Frigging pathetic.

-GSD

9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11

QuakerGirl @ 162

raven @ 138

Let me comment further. At Operation Dewey Canyon III a thousand Vietnam Vets went to Washington to ask for an end to the war. There was not one act of violence the entire week. You know what we got? Nixon dismissed us saying, “these bums obviously are not veterans”.

Nixon also said of the demonstrators, “I will not be moved.” So, he was moved out of the White House with bent head waving goodbye from his last WH helicopter ride.

I have a nice picture of myself with that chopper on the pad at the Whitehouse!

ps, I was OUTSIDE the fence.

tw3k @ 160

Cool, I’ll interested to hear how it turns out. You have video out only?

audio too (is that what you were asking?). i’m actually surprised at how good the oringinal mpeg4 file looks, considering how i made it.

mui @ 136

IWAM (in the world according to Malkin): Is Newsweek now on “The Sh*tlist?”

I wonder whether Limbaugh will announce the home addresses of the editors of Newsweek, where their kids go to school, etc….

stalkin’ malkin’ hits the big time. bet its proud of that.
.

selise @ 164

tw3k @ 160

Cool, I’ll interested to hear how it turns out. You have video out only?

audio too (is that what you were asking?). i’m actually surprised at how good the oringinal mpeg4 file looks, considering how i made it.

I meant hearing if the technique works :)

Kong riding the bomb scene from Dr. Strangelove. This is what these crazy maniacs are actually talking about…I’ve had it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=

GSD @ 157

So, Rudy Tooliani is spending $5,000.00 a night at swanky hotels.

When will the media maul him for his extravagant tastes?

Oh, that’s right, it is John Edwards who’s the big spender.

Frigging pathetic.

-GSD

You could stay in our apartment six months for that much money.

raven @ 159

eCAHNomics @ 154

Sounds familiar.

But remember, it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Without the anti-VN war movement, that war might still be going on. So it worked. I was just counterfactualizing whether some other tactics might have made it work faster. Like the one you participated in probably had much more influence than many other events.

Maybe so but I understand the level of frustration many felt with “civilized” protest. I think you know that there were folks protesting gently as early as 1964. People who ended up in the Weather Underground, SDS, Zippes and the rest generally tried the other path first.

As early as 1960. That was the year of the first CD protest at the Federal Building in SF. The police were ugly. So were many onlookers who called them communists. In 1957 I heard a young minister on radio talking about the US escalation in Vietnam and that we needed to leave immediately. His name was Martin Luther King. Also in the fifties, Graham Greene was writing novels about the US involvement in Vietnam and writing protest novels, The Quiet American. Bet I’m older than you guys.

LS @ 167

Kong riding the bomb scene from Dr. Strangelove. This is what these crazy maniacs are actually talking about…I’ve had it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=

None of them have the stones to ride it down like Slim did!

Maybe so but I understand the level of frustration many felt with “civilized” protest. I think you know that there were folks protesting gently as early as 1964. People who ended up in the Weather Underground, SDS, Zippes and the rest generally tried the other path first.

My guess: That phase on anti-Iraq war is still ahead of us. If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to get Clinton out of the WH, on grounds of war going badly, before her second term expires.

Hello Jane if you’re out there:

Who do we need to target on SCHIP tonight? Are there any updated whip counts in the House. Etheridge caved today as well as Baron Hill. We’re getting very close-I feel a final push tonight could make the difference. I was on Open Left a while ago and didn’t see anything. Let’s keep our eye on the ball. The FISA vote is scheduled tomorrow too.

We need an UPDATE!!!

Hugh @ 101

End of the day Cushing spot crude oil dropped back to $87.40. This pricing is bogus. The rationale for the most recent spiking is the Turkey-Kurdistan conflict. If this were true, Turkey’s OK today to send in troops should have kept the price going up. It didn’t. As I have said before a lot of people with a lot of money who have no idea what they are doing have entered this market and the result is a lot of loopiness.

The level of insider trading has been bad in the past. One can imagine how rampant it is now with wiretaps, special computer software and a SEC that is asleep at the wheel. Anyone outside the loop can only now depend on luck. You don’t know when the big players are going to pump or dump a particular stock or the timing of it.

QuakerGirl @ 169

raven @ 159

Maybe so but I understand the level of frustration many felt with “civilized” protest. I think you know that there were folks protesting gently as early as 1964. People who ended up in the Weather Underground, SDS, Zippes and the rest generally tried the other path first.

As early as 1960. That was the year of the first CD protest at the Federal Building in SF. The police were ugly. So were many onlookers who called them communists. In 1957 I heard a young minister on radio talking about the US escalation in Vietnam and that we needed to leave immediately. His name was Martin Luther King. Also in the fifties, Graham Greene was writing novels about the US involvement in Vietnam and writing protest novels, The Quiet American. Bet I’m older than you guys.

Maybe chronologically but in terms of mileage, it’s a bet!

raven @ 174

QuakerGirl @ 169

As early as 1960. That was the year of the first CD protest at the Federal Building in SF. The police were ugly. So were many onlookers who called them communists. In 1957 I heard a young minister on radio talking about the US escalation in Vietnam and that we needed to leave immediately. His name was Martin Luther King. Also in the fifties, Graham Greene was writing novels about the US involvement in Vietnam and writing protest novels, The Quiet American. Bet I’m older than you guys.

Maybe chronologically but in terms of mileage, it’s a bet!

LOL

raven @ 170

LS @ 167

Kong riding the bomb scene from Dr. Strangelove. This is what these crazy maniacs are actually talking about…I’ve had it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=

None of them have the stones to ride it down like Slim did!

That is true, but they have bunkers.

SnarKassandra @ 146

Hiya TRex!

This is the coolest insult ever. Can I borrow it???? PLEEEAAASSSEEEE!!!!

You don’t know the half of what’s gone sour in that woman’s mental refrigerator.

With TRex permission of course but this kind of insult is saved and used only for very special occasions, it is very powerful and like all powers that women possess, must be used at just the right time…. sizzzzzzzzle…

eCAHNomics @ 171

Maybe so but I understand the level of frustration many felt with “civilized” protest. I think you know that there were folks protesting gently as early as 1964. People who ended up in the Weather Underground, SDS, Zippes and the rest generally tried the other path first.

My guess: That phase on anti-Iraq war is still ahead of us. If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to get Clinton out of the WH, on grounds of war going badly, before her second term expires.

Viva! SDS.

SnarKassandra @ 168

GSD @ 157

So, Rudy Tooliani is spending $5,000.00 a night at swanky hotels.

When will the media maul him for his extravagant tastes?

Oh, that’s right, it is John Edwards who’s the big spender.

Frigging pathetic.

-GSD

You could stay in our apartment six months for that much money.

Cassie, don’t you DARE come withing 1000 feet of Rudy Giuliani.

I don’t trust him one iota.

-GSD

Bet I’m older than you guys.

I know FDL is not a typical blog, but nonetheless I’m impressed by how amny of us are completely contrary to the blogger stereotype of young males in PJs. I think the average age on this blog is well above 40. I think kos once did a survey & found his to be 45, iirc. Us old foggies have more time on our hands and are very involved because we can compare the current disaster to the bad old days. Never thought I’d live to see it worse than then.

LS @ 167

Kong riding the bomb scene from Dr. Strangelove. This is what these crazy maniacs are actually talking about…I’ve had it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=

yeah, someone needs to take the keys away from dubya.

OT From the AP via NY Times Blackwater likely to be out of Iraq.

Doesn’t really say they’ll be booted and it will take a while but they most likely will be allowed to leave while not letting the door hit ‘em in the a** on the way out.

eCAHNomics @ 180

Bet I’m older than you guys.

I know FDL is not a typical blog, but nonetheless I’m impressed by how amny of us are completely contrary to the blogger stereotype of young males in PJs. I think the average age on this blog is well above 40. I think kos once did a survey & found his to be 45, iirc. Us old foggies have more time on our hands and are very involved because we can compare the current disaster to the bad old days. Never thought I’d live to see it worse than then.

People have no idea. But, then again, we watched the 3 episode of the War last night and if you were in the middle of that I’m not sure how bad this all would seem.

GSD @ 179

SnarKassandra @ 168

You could stay in our apartment six months for that much money.

Cassie, don’t you DARE come withing 1000 feet of Rudy Giuliani.

I don’t trust him one iota.

-GSD

Not HIM stay here. All of us in my family stay here.

tw3k @ 166

selise @ 164

audio too (is that what you were asking?). i’m actually surprised at how good the oringinal mpeg4 file looks, considering how i made it.

I meant hearing if the technique works :)

so far so good (my video out cable to eyetv has s-video and audio on one end and mini dvi and audio on the other).

one of my compressions is done, and it seems ok. i’m going to try to figure out how to upload it to youtube now….

QuakerGirl @ 169

raven @ 159

Maybe so but I understand the level of frustration many felt with “civilized” protest. I think you know that there were folks protesting gently as early as 1964. People who ended up in the Weather Underground, SDS, Zippes and the rest generally tried the other path first.

As early as 1960. That was the year of the first CD protest at the Federal Building in SF. The police were ugly. So were many onlookers who called them communists. In 1957 I heard a young minister on radio talking about the US escalation in Vietnam and that we needed to leave immediately. His name was Martin Luther King. Also in the fifties, Graham Greene was writing novels about the US involvement in Vietnam and writing protest novels, The Quiet American. Bet I’m older than you guys.

Older than me. My Step Father used to read a lot of Graham Greene.

dakine01 @ 182

OT From the AP via NY Times Blackwater likely to be out of Iraq.

Doesn’t really say they’ll be booted and it will take a while but they most likely will be allowed to leave while not letting the door hit ‘em in the a** on the way out.

Some of them are hiding out in the Green Zone.

TRex @ 72

Redshift @ 64

Well, as Marcy (I believe) pointed out, they didn’t quite nail it — it should have read “Heartless highest-traffic right-wing blogger, Fox News commentator, and sometime major-newspaper op-ed writer attacks 12-year-old brain-injury victim over insurance.”

There are plenty of right-wing bloggers who don’t have her connections and acceptance by supposedly mainstream figures; it’s unfortunate that they chose to gloss over that.

I would argue the opposite. By reducing her to simply “heartless right wing blogger”, Newsweek is drawing a protective cordon around her. She’s got pretensions at mainstream respectability, but ultimately, she can’t survive outside the sewer-y confines of Fox and her own blog.

I wonder if Assistant Principal Orally had a heads-up this Newsweek down-arrow was on its way, thus MM’s “resignation” from the Factor.

Loo Hoo. @ 94

Balrog! LTNS!! How’s the little guy?

Strapping young lad. Well behaved as can be.

tw3k @ 182

LS @ 167

Kong riding the bomb scene from Dr. Strangelove. This is what these crazy maniacs are actually talking about…I’ve had it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=

yeah, someone needs to take the keys away from dubya.

And give ‘em to Cheney?

Two new posts. Both about being a teenager. Not very political.

(I am only allowed one blogwhore a day, so maybe someone else can mention one of these at late night. If ya want.)

bobschacht @ 77

OT–
I must be taking FDL for granted and assuming that they’ll live bog everything, so imagine my disappointment this morning that there are no top posts about the Mukasey hearing at all! So what’s a poor late-arriving Firepup at work to do? I can’t scan the comments in half a dozen top posts on other topics to find the pearls, because I don’t have time. Can someone please help point me to some good commentary on the hearings so far? I also hear that these hearings might go on for as many as 3 days!

Whazzup???
Bob in HI

Glennzilla live-blogged it as long as he could stand it

raven @ 163

QuakerGirl @ 162

Nixon also said of the demonstrators, “I will not be moved.” So, he was moved out of the White House with bent head waving goodbye from his last WH helicopter ride.

I have a nice picture of myself with that chopper on the pad at the Whitehouse!

ps, I was OUTSIDE the fence.

Can we see?

bmaz, if you’re lurking?

I tried (probably not very well) to explain my thinking in Siun’s post yesterday about that phony, propaganda filled NY Post story ‘Wire’ Law Failed Lost GI”

Here

On Mukasey? Done deal. My party, the so called Democratic Party will vote to confirm.

QuakerGirl @ 170

raven @ 159

Maybe so but I understand the level of frustration many felt with “civilized” protest. I think you know that there were folks protesting gently as early as 1964. People who ended up in the Weather Underground, SDS, Zippes and the rest generally tried the other path first.

As early as 1960. That was the year of the first CD protest at the Federal Building in SF. The police were ugly. So were many onlookers who called them communists. In 1957 I heard a young minister on radio talking about the US escalation in Vietnam and that we needed to leave immediately. His name was Martin Luther King. Also in the fifties, Graham Greene was writing novels about the US involvement in Vietnam and writing protest novels, The Quiet American. Bet I’m older than you guys.

bet you’re not.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 179

eCAHNomics @ 171

My guess: That phase on anti-Iraq war is still ahead of us. If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to get Clinton out of the WH, on grounds of war going badly, before her second term expires.

Viva! SDS.

VIVA FDL!

Nancy, Harry and Hillary. Oh boy. The three “Y”ize guys.

LS @ 188

dakine01 @ 182

OT From the AP via NY Times Blackwater likely to be out of Iraq.

Doesn’t really say they’ll be booted and it will take a while but they most likely will be allowed to leave while not letting the door hit ‘em in the a** on the way out.

Some of them are hiding out in the Green Zone.

They’ll just change to mirrored wrap-around glasses and khaki colored pants.

TeddySanFran @ 189

TRex @ 72

I would argue the opposite. By reducing her to simply “heartless right wing blogger”, Newsweek is drawing a protective cordon around her. She’s got pretensions at mainstream respectability, but ultimately, she can’t survive outside the sewer-y confines of Fox and her own blog.

I wonder if Assistant Principal Orally had a heads-up this Newsweek down-arrow was on its way, thus MM’s “resignation” from the Factor.

They set her up. It was an experiment. It backfired. It went beyond the bounds of an acceptable right wing attack. Then it filtered back to Mitch Mcconnell. Who will be sacrificied on the altar of Public Opinion? That prick McConnell or Michelle Maglalang? Newsweek says its Maglalang. They hope it will be a sufficient sacrifice. Its not.

Viva! John Edwards.

eCAHNomics @ 180

Bet I’m older than you guys.

I know FDL is not a typical blog, but nonetheless I’m impressed by how amny of us are completely contrary to the blogger stereotype of young males in PJs. I think the average age on this blog is well above 40. I think kos once did a survey & found his to be 45, iirc. Us old foggies have more time on our hands and are very involved because we can compare the current disaster to the bad old days. Never thought I’d live to see it worse than then.

Here is something scary. My Mom at 92 said Bush and the times we are in are the worst she experienced. She was horrified with his disregard of the Constitution. She went through some serious bad times in southern Louisiana in her life. Shortly after Bush came to office she said it felt like the nineteen thirties and the rise of Hitler. Her memory was long and deep.

Mercenary Hackiavelli Eric Prince says the Iraqi’s can’t charge his people because the Iraqi justice system doesn’t work well according to him.

Perhaps it is time to put together some state laws that prevent Blackwater types from operating in our states during disasters.

Sounds like the perfect states rights issue.

-GSD

AP – The Pentagon is preparing to alert eight National Guard units that they should be ready to go to Iraq or Afghanistan beginning late next summer, The Associated Press learned Wednesday.

So RESTORE dies, evidently. So we revert to pre-PAA FISA status quo. How bad is that?

Hmmm.

Loo Hoo. @ 112

When you turn 40, you learn to say no. When you turn 50, you learn to say hell, no. When you turn 55…

…you say, what was that again?

:-)
Bob in HI

Oklahoma kiddo @ 202

Viva! John Edwards.

He’s getting lots of the Union vote!

hackworth @ 200

TeddySanFran @ 189

I wonder if Assistant Principal Orally had a heads-up this Newsweek down-arrow was on its way, thus MM’s “resignation” from the Factor.

They set her up. It was an experiment. It backfired. It went beyond the bounds of an acceptable right wing attack. Then it filtered back to Mitch Mcconnell. Who will be sacrificied on the altar of Public Opinion? That prick McConnell or Michelle Maglalang? Newsweek says its Maglalang. They hope it will be a sufficient sacrifice. Its not.

I dunno but it seems that Mitch’s lies are catching up to him.

Quaker Girl, that story has been repeated by many an old timer since then.

I am struck at how many people report that their parents or grandparents see and feel the same way they did back in the 1930’s.

-GSD

Personally I was pretty happy today about the Dalai Lama’s appearance and the dwarfing of Chimpy and Pelosi beside him. Sunshine day.

GSD @ 209

Quaker Girl, that story has been repeated by many an old timer since then.

I am struck at how many people report that their parents or grandparents see and feel the same way they did back in the 1930’s.

-GSD

My grandparents are 61 and 67. I don;t think they remember all that.

Hmmm. @ 206

So RESTORE dies, evidently. So we revert to pre-PAA FISA status quo. How bad is that?

Hmmm.

My understanding is that reverting to pre-patriot act would be the best solution. I could be wrong.

Loo Hoo. @ 208

Oklahoma kiddo @ 202

Viva! John Edwards.

He’s getting lots of the Union vote!

and Corporate America is unionized against him!

mui @ 211

Personally I was pretty happy today about the Dalai Lama’s appearance and the dwarfing of Chimpy and Pelosi beside him. Sunshine day.

I saw a photo of his touching foreheads with Pelosi. I’ll bet the Chimpaholic did not even let him get close enough to touch.

After W’s WWIII quote, the word’s getting out there…Bush’s mental status is questionable.

What did you say, Bob? eh?

W at 24%!

Olbermann notes that the prez mentions WW III. This is a strange Olbermann show tonight. Olbermann, but no Olbermann.

RevDeb @ 212

Hmmm. @ 206

So RESTORE dies, evidently. So we revert to pre-PAA FISA status quo. How bad is that?

Hmmm.

My understanding is that reverting to pre-patriot act would be the best solution. I could be wrong.

Good idea to me!

eCAHNomics @ 217

W at 24%!

That is a dramatic drop from the Kool-aid crowd.

Sounded like Keith was pissed at his tech crew. Unforgivable technical problems.

Bush is over the top. He’s insane.

Happy Birthday Loo Hoo!

eCAHNomics @ 171

If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to get Clinton out of the WH, on grounds of war going badly, before her second term expires.

It’s baked in the cake already… 2009-2012

From here, I’d say that the last throes of the BusCliBusCli Bubble hit around June of 2010 (Apr 2000 on chart). Party over. Oops out of time.

Loo Hoo. @ 222

Sounded like Keith was pissed at his tech crew. Unforgivable technical problems.

I caught that statement too, but didn’t hear what the problem was.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 223

Bush is over the top. He’s insane.

Sounded like Boxer knows it too. Democrats are trying to hold us together knowing the guy will do something really stupid and dangerous if the word impeachment is uttered, maybe. Remember Pelosi saying we don’t know the half of it?

GSD @ 209

Quaker Girl, that story has been repeated by many an old timer since then.

I am struck at how many people report that their parents or grandparents see and feel the same way they did back in the 1930’s.

-GSD

Pretty amazing how so many of them see the same patterns emerging. Me think they know whereof they speak. I’ll go with their observation – not their driving but their political and historical observation. Ever drive with grandparents or parents who turn ninety? Take they keys away, pleeeeeze.

LL, he just apologized for the UNFORGIVABLE tech problems. It was his tone.

LoudounLib @ 225

Loo Hoo. @ 222

Sounded like Keith was pissed at his tech crew. Unforgivable technical problems.

I caught that statement too, but didn’t hear what the problem was.

A skinny lady started the show for him because of a tech problem.

I think Bush is responding to Putin when he talked about WW III.

selise @ 156

Elliott @ 132

CSPAN 1 schedule for later this evening:

· Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony Honoring the Dalai Lama (10:50pm)

· Reair of House Floor Debate on FISA (12:15am)

fingers crossed that someone is grabbing a good recording of holt tonight.

Josh was reporting that the Repugs have scuttled FISA until next week, at the earliest…!!! 8-)

Did Bush just admit he is a bully?

SnarKassandra @ 211

GSD @ 209

Quaker Girl, that story has been repeated by many an old timer since then.

I am struck at how many people report that their parents or grandparents see and feel the same way they did back in the 1930’s.

-GSD

My grandparents are 61 and 67. I don;t think they remember all that.

Bet the remember Elvis and Little Richard.

Can someone please fill me in on Bush saying WW III?
I missed all that.

SnarKassandra @ 232

Did Bush just admit he is a bully?

He was to busy interrupting people to notice.

SnarKassandra @ 233

Did Bush just admit he is a bully?

He sure did. He said he’s using the “bully pulpit”.

So we are being held hostage to nuclear war by the prez?

Eureka Springs @ 221

eCAHNomics @ 217

W at 24%!

That is a dramatic drop from the Kool-aid crowd.

We’re at the point that if Cheney actually handed out the Kool-Aid to the remaining members of the Cult of W, he’d be down to below 10%.

I like the graphic right now on KO: Going Nucular…

Madam Speaker…my finger is always on the button…back off.

SnarKassandra @ 233

Did Bush just admit he is a bully?

Sounded like it to me too.

Olbermann is talking about Bush perhaps not being “balanced”. In reference to the remarks about WW III.

Elliott @ 235

Can someone please fill me in on Bush saying WW III?
I missed all that.

Shrub participated in today’s WH Presser, and rattled his saber at Iran…!!!

QuakerGirl @ 233

SnarKassandra @ 211

My grandparents are 61 and 67. I don;t think they remember all that.

Bet the remember Elvis and� Little Richard.

Probably, I am not good friends with them. Better than it used to be, but they don’t like my dad anymore and they’re mad he married my mom and me and my brother remind them of my parents so they’re only even nice to us when they have to. (Since we came to live here. Before that they did not even talk to us at all.)

CTuttle @ 244

Elliott @ 235

Can someone please fill me in on Bush saying WW III?
I missed all that.

Shrub participated in today’s WH Presser, and rattled his saber at Iran…!!!

well, that is WW III
thanks

Elliott @ 235

Can someone please fill me in on Bush saying WW III?
I missed all that.

Bush said that if Iran did research on Nukes then we would be in World War III. We could probably all be guilty of that. He also said that he is relevant because of his veto. I only watched clips and to me he always looks deranged but his new threat was scary.

The WW III quote:

For the first time in public, Bush warned of the risk of “World War III” if Iran gets nuclear weapons.

“I believe that the Iranian — if Iran had a nuclear weapon, it would be a dangerous threat to world peace. It would — this is — we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. And I take this very — I take the threat of Iran with a nuclear weapon very seriously.”

I wonder what the Vegas odds are on WW III?

SnarKassandra @ 248

on 244 they’re made=they’re MAD

Yes, Miz Cassie, they’re certifiably insane…!!! *g*

Bush presser…..”if you wanted to stop WWIII then someone should prevent Iran from having the knowledge to create a nuclear weapon”

Since the knowledge is right here on the internet where any high school student can download it… the toobz better watch out…

Hugh @ 249

The WW III quote:

For the first time in public, Bush warned of the risk of “World War III” if Iran gets nuclear weapons.

“I believe that the Iranian — if Iran had a nuclear weapon, it would be a dangerous threat to world peace. It would — this is — we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. And I take this very — I take the threat of Iran with a nuclear weapon very seriously.”

Thanks for the quote.
and thanks JPL and katymine!

some days feel more ominous than others.

Hugh Thanks for posting the actual quote. Do you have the feeling that when Bush used the term Knowledge maybe he was just being ignorant or is that the new thresh hold?

Hugh @ 249

The WW III quote:

For the first time in public, Bush warned of the risk of “World War III” if Iran gets nuclear weapons.

“I believe that the Iranian — if Iran had a nuclear weapon, it would be a dangerous threat to world peace. It would — this is — we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. And I take this very — I take the threat of Iran with a nuclear weapon very seriously.”

So…what “people” did he tell that to?????

So I told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

Sounds like he’s trying to give the go ahead…who are the people? Military? Israel?

WTF?

I’ve always thought that W and Cheney would just as soon have Israel do the dirty work…they do not give a rat’s ass about Israel..and would sacrifice them in a minute. JMHO

And this WW III business is not done in a vacuum. It comes on the heels of the Putin warning to Bush yesterday about attacking Iran. And the oil part (Caspian) figures too. It’s interesting that Bush has said many times his idol is Ronald Reagan. And here he is trying to at minimum, restart the cold war. And perhaps ignite the hot war.

I agree with OKK. It was directed at Putin, now that I think about it.

katymine @ 252

Bush presser…..”if you wanted to stop WWIII then someone should prevent Iran from having the knowledge to create a nuclear weapon”

Since the knowledge is right here on the internet where any high school student can download it… the toobz better watch out…

True, and, I fear the threshold is being lowered again! ElBaradei has repeatedly renounced Shrub’s assertions…!!! :-(

LS @ 236

SnarKassandra @ 233

Did Bush just admit he is a bully?

He sure did. He said he’s using the “bully pulpit”.

I believe it was Teddy Roosevelt who coined the phrase “bully pulpit” to describe the power of the President to influence events through talking to the people.

With Little Boots however, it’s the emphasis on “bully.”

JPL @ 254

Hugh Thanks for posting the actual quote. Do you have the feeling that when Bush used the term Knowledge maybe he was just being ignorant or is that the new thresh hold?

I think it was typical Bush babble. Israel, the bomb, World War III, I’m surprised he didn’t throw in SCHIP.

RevDeb @ 212:

Hmmm. @ 206:

So RESTORE dies, evidently. So we revert to pre-PAA FISA status quo. How bad is that?

Hmmm.

My understanding is that reverting to pre-patriot act would be the best solution. I could be wrong.

Ah, I didn’t realize the Protect America Act rolled back anything affecting FISA in the PATRIOT Act, if that’s what you’re saying. My understanding was that RESTORE broke new stuff, but was orthogonal to the PARTIOT Act. And that PAA automatically sunsets, and so absent passage of RESTORE (or some follow-on), that leaves us in a pre-Protect America Act state, FISA-wise.

Hmmm.

One thing I do believe that our prez and the leader of the Third Reich have in common is… they were and are… both nuts.

SnarKassandra @ 244

QuakerGirl @ 233

Bet the remember Elvis and� Little Richard.

Probably, I am not good friends with them. Better than it used to be, but they don’t like my dad anymore and they’re mad he married my mom and me and my brother remind them of my parents so they’re only even nice to us when they have to. (Since we came to live here. Before that they did not even talk to us at all.)

Boy, are they missing out on a lot. That’s what I call cutting off your nose to spite your face. Grandchildren are truly a beautiful blessing. Can I be your surrogate grandmama? I’d consider it a privilege.

Jane’s Upstairs

Oklahoma kiddo @ 238

So we are being held hostage to nuclear war by the prez?

It seems as though Ralph Nader thinks so, take look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIO-tCPSfHA

Hugh @ 248

The WW III quote:

For the first time in public, Bush warned of the risk of “World War III” if Iran gets nuclear weapons.

“it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. And I take this very — I take the threat of Iran with a nuclear weapon very seriously.”

Santorum discloses Atomic secrets for all…

QuakerGirl @ 262

SnarKassandra @ 244

Probably, I am not good friends with them. Better than it used to be, but they don’t like my dad anymore and they’re mad he married my mom and me and my brother remind them of my parents so they’re only even nice to us when they have to. (Since we came to live here. Before that they did not even talk to us at all.)

Boy, are they missing out on a lot. That’s what I call cutting off your nose to spite your face. Grandchildren are truly a beautiful blessing. Can I be your surrogate grandmama? I’d consider it a privilege.

Cool! Another grandma! Perfect! Here’s the rules —- gotta email or call and ask how I am BEFORE you ask to talk to my cousin. And my birthday is in 15 days. :)

tw3k – sorry to go silent… just got an email from dan at politics.tv – they may have the holt clip!!!

woo hoo! and fingers crossed…

evene if they do, i’m still going to try to post the one i made – just to try to learn the process so next time i have a clue what to do.

thanks! will let you know how it goes!

Also, when he uses the term ‘bully pulpit,’ does he think it means he is supposed to be a bully there, unaware of the way Teddy used ‘bully’ for ’swell?’

BlueStateRedHead @ 159

For those of us who luckily only discovered her of late, can you explain the second two–’cause you sure don’t want us clicking on her archive.

Certainly.

Jamil Hussein.

Denise Denton.

dakine got there before i did :-)

Kathryn he IS a bully.

SnarKassandra @ 266

QuakerGirl @ 262

Boy, are they missing out on a lot. That’s what I call cutting off your nose to spite your face. Grandchildren are truly a beautiful blessing. Can I be your surrogate grandmama? I’d consider it a privilege.

Cool! Another grandma! Perfect! Here’s the rules —- gotta email or call and ask how I am BEFORE you ask to talk to my cousin. And my birthday is in 15 days. :)

Cool, my birthday is in 28 days and I have very expensive taste and always expect gifts of my choosing. Since I’m the elder, I set the rules. That’s how that works. I don’t like phones so I only use them in an emergency. So, phone calls won’t happen. But my two oldest granddaughters would love to have you join us. We’re vegetarian and like political movies. Where I go they often come along. Would that fit within your rules?

QuakerGirl @ 272

SnarKassandra @ 266

Cool! Another grandma! Perfect! Here’s the rules —- gotta email or call and ask how I am BEFORE you ask to talk to my cousin. And my birthday is in 15 days. :)

Cool, my birthday is in 28 days and I have very expensive taste and always expect gifts of my choosing. Since I’m the elder, I set the rules. That’s how that works. I don’t like phones so I only use them in an emergency. So, phone calls won’t happen. But my two oldest granddaughters would love to have you join us. We’re vegetarian and like political movies. Where I go they often come along. Would that fit within your rules?

sounds good! my email is freckles at you think left dot c o m

TeddySanFran @ 192

bobschacht @ 77

OT–
I must be taking FDL for granted and assuming that they’ll live bog everything, so imagine my disappointment this morning that there are no top posts about the Mukasey hearing at all! So what’s a poor late-arriving Firepup at work to do? I can’t scan the comments in half a dozen top posts on other topics to find the pearls, because I don’t have time. Can someone please help point me to some good commentary on the hearings so far? I also hear that these hearings might go on for as many as 3 days!

Whazzup???
Bob in HI

Glennzilla live-blogged it as long as he could stand it

Just read it. Good commentaries.

Bob in HI

channelling an old WKRP episode:

“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!”