Everybody make sure you go by Kevin Drum’s place and cast your vote for the Single Wingnuttiest Right Wing Blog Post of All Time. I believe that Mr. Drum has a point when he says:
But why focus on the all-time worst in the wingnut blogosphere anyway? Isn’t that mean? What’s driving this besides sheer bloody-mindedness?
History, that’s what. A century from now, even the very best blog posts will be long forgotten. Let’s face it: they aren’t that good. But bad blog posts will still be every bit as bad as they were on the day they were spawned. They’ll endure. So really, we’re doing this for the children. And the grandchildren.
*sniiiiiiffle!*
*wipes eyes*
It is our patriotic duty. Vote early, vote often.
Good luck. And godspeed.
And make sure you vote for both La MalKKKin’s spastic cheerleader routine and Anodyne Outhouse’s paean to CDS-inspired erotomania, “Let’s Take a Closer Look at Those Breasts”. Both represent epic chasms in the landscapes of taste and talent, and to my thinking are each a sort of nadir in Internet History, if not world history.
I was very disappointed that Andrew Sullivan’s famous excrescence, “The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead — and may well mount a fifth column” was left off the list. (Disqualified because it was a newspaper column, not a blog post, alas!) But the presence of Instapinhead’s “Maybe we should rise above the temptation to point out that claims of a ‘quagmire’ were wrong….Nah.” kind of makes up for that.
Of course, the most seismically stupid post of all time would have to be Hind-rocket’s famous ode to Dubya, Misunderstood Visionary, ““It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius….”.
*hrrrrrrrk!*, *hrrrrrrrrrrk!!*
But I shouldn’t tell you who to vote for. I think you kids are perfectly capable of deciding for yourselves who should wear the laurels in that particular Immortal Pantheon of Teh Stoopid.
Enjoy!
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seconded
Third?
thoid?
let downstairs know steve ar
top 10?
Hey TRex!
Immortal Pantheon of Teh Stoopid. Thank you for that. Would be a great blog title!
FunnyDiva
the Beasty Blogs
trex, so much stupidity to choose from – glad i was not part of the selection committee
Suzanne @ 5
I did already…
OT, but I’ve been away from the lake much of yesterday and all of today.
re: general strike tomorrow, has anyone seen more info from the Seattle area Pups? Could you point me in the right general direction (just a thread description to get me started?)
Thanks!
FunnyDiva
Far too many from which to choose. Teh stoopid has gone viral.
I never got 12 before. Hurray!
Hail…zzzzzzZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz…..
Sorry! Getting sleepy over here.
I went and voted at the “best blog” awards..FDL.. then looked at the “best online community”, LFG. I won’t even freep a poll that has LGF as best community.
burnspbesq @ 11
It’s been viral for millennia. It’s just with so much more population density and so much access to the intertoobz, it’s obvious to far more of us–nearly instantaneously!
FunnyD
hmmm, what part of the country you in?
late again
TRex, I would have to disagree…
“Both represent epic failings of taste and talent, and to my thinking are each a sort of nadir in Internet History, if not world history.”
That would imply they had taste and talent to begin with… :P
That’d be Scenic Oakland, California!
(Gateway to, uh, Berkeley.)
sweet, hmmm, you think you may be able to make it down for the meet up?
punaise @ 2
punaise – I don’t know if Howie knows it but he designed a contest just for you.
Chuck D and Flavo Flav back in the day were PUBLIC ENEMY
Fight the Power!
I regret not being able to vote for Sullivan, ’cause he did it knowing better. You can’t be an idiot and a worthy villian at the same time. Sorry, George.
Eureka Springs @ 21
cds AND an indict cheney baseball cap
yellowdog jim @ 217
” … when you wish upon a star
you’re dreams come
true … “
I really need some cheering up right about now.
Think I’ll watch game six of the 1986 World Series on DVD.
Wonder how Bill Buckner feels about his new life as an anti-depressant…
Wow, thanks for asking, Suzanne. Really. As an irregular, I didn’t want to assume it would be OK. Actually as things transpire I think The Sweetie is hoping to be taken on a birding trip this weekend.. but were that not the case, I think I’d really enjoy visiting with all y’all.
So thanks again for asking!
ydj, i gotta admit, i thought similar when i first heard about the comet… about cheney
CTuttle @ 18
Good sir, you are in fact correct. I have modified the sentence to read:
TRex @ 29
i love the self correcting blogosphere.
TRex @ 29
Magnifico! ;-)
I will be heading up to Seattle on Friday…
Seattle Firepup meetup
Saturday, November 10, 2007
11:00am – 1:00pm
Uptown Espresso
2504 4th Ave. (4th & Wall)
City/Town:
Seattle, WA
If your in the area or know anyone who is please pass the word.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6872570027
Alright, then. I think I hear last night’s mole leftovers calling me. Everybody comfortable? Got your favorite Late Nite snacks and/or adult beverages handy?
Can I get anyone a pillow?
Aftaair dinnah meent?
Ees wah-fair theen.
katymine @ 32
Katymine!
This is sooooo awesome! I will write myself an email so I don’t forget. I’ve been jealous of all the other FirePup “chapters” that have had meet-ups. And now there’s one for me to attend!
FunnyDiva
TRex @ 33
si, chu deedn’t axe me to be referee?
Oh, can I just mention that my back has felt so much better today?
Actually, it was really kind of bugging me before I took a couple of Alleve, but since then, it’s been mostly smooth(ish) sailing. I am looking forward to seeing the chiropractor on Wednesday.
Eureka Springs @ 21
ooh, I like contests!
TRex @ 36
yeap, aleve and chiro – a good way to fight back the back
glad you are better big guy
TRex @ 33
For a second I thought El Gato Negro was gracing us with his presence!
So.
FunnyD
Better.
Better get ah bucket, im gunna throw-up.
TRex @ 36
You went with a chiro? Had you experience with them previe?
I love them, and my back loves them. Good to hear yer healing it seems!
punaise @ 37
There goes my hat..)
Perhaps some primo dance music will help to lighten the mood.
Funnydiva2002 @34
See ya there…. ;)
Eureka Springs @ 42
there goes my hurry.
katymine @ 44
With bells on and my hair in a braid (figuratively speaking)
FunnyD
Suzanne @ 28
http://www.spaceweather.com/co…..olmes.html
Comet 17P/Holmes
orbit from JPL
i dismiss richard bruce for the nonce:
this comet is incredible.
they are saying this(these?) explosion(s) on the comet bloomed to a size larger than jupiter.
punaise @ 44
It’s a fun contest, really, I hope you check it out.
ydj, i worry the left behinders, including boosh and cheeney, will think it is a sign of some sort
Eureka Springs @ 48
I did, but I didn’t really “get” it.
Suzanne @ 49
Oh dear, never thought of that…
A sign, in the heavens, as it were.
Now that you mention voting….
YDJ
I think you mean brightness, not size.
TeddySanFran @ 53
scurrying over quickly to cast my vote
snapdi, i think you are right.. i remembering hearing it would be as bright as jupiter
Suzanne @ 49
The horrid warmongers don’t need signs, but their authoritarian cultist followers might be impressed…
TeddySanFran @ 53
Dang, TPM keeps pulling away and FDL has dropped to Fifth…
TeddySanFran @ 57
would be a way to keep the base on message
smapdi @ 54
I think you mean brightness, not size.
Two meetups in one week….. does that mean I have a social life?
my Cheney “Dick-o-lantern” (homage to Hew Yorker cover art) is starting to mold and rot.
New Yorker. whatever.
Well, man-cub wants to get online, I shall bid ya’ll a fond adieu! Aloha Oe…
I stand corrected.
I am still having trouble getting my head around it.
punaise @ 62
it’s just letting its inner ugly show, like its namesake
g’nite ct
katymine @ 60
Yes, a great social life! How are ya, Katy?
Trex-
We went and saw my latest fem singer/songwriter crush Sat, night; Ingrid Michaelson
TeddySanFran @ 53
Thx for reminder
hey steve audio
Yes. Head would have to expand to greater than the size of Jupiter to do it. Not easy.
Suzanne @ 71
evening, Suz!
Hi gang. My internet connection kept crapping out at work tonight. I’d get close to caught up reading the comments, then pfft.
So nice to be home where things are more stable. Well, the internet is anyway. :)
TheOtherWA @ 68
Just great…. so are my parents who are 84 & 86… Dad will be working on their new Habitat house ….. it will be their 13th. Building forms for the foundation tomorrow…
katymine
That’s impressive! I hope I’m that energetic at their age.
Heading off to bed…. Tomorrow will be heading back to Portland…. have a good evening
It seems to me that in the past week, perhaps it was the Mukasey hearings, the national dialog on the left has shifted. Nobody talks of impeachment any more. Now they talk of “prosecution,” “holding accountable,” “bringing to justice,” even “perpetrators.” I love these concepts and want to seet = themt occur, but I don’t see how it’s going to happen:
Screw impeachment. We need prosecution. The war criminals among us must be brought to justice, either in the U.S. or by an international tribunal. But there are some obstacles:
– Presidential pardons, including possible self-pardons, even John Dean
says tha a president can probably pardon himself.
– The American Service-members’ Protection Act (aka, The Hague
Invasion Act) http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/othr/misc/23425.htm Sigh Read it and weep.
– immunity deals. Per Scott Horton: “The CIA personnel and private contractors involved in this process likewise faced no prosecution risk under the WCA because of a memorandum of agreement between the Department of Justice, Department of Defense and CIA done by Michael Chertoff when he headed the Criminal Division. Chertoff undertook that as long as a set of scheduled techniques were used, which are described on an appended memorandum he prepared with Alice Fisher, no prosecutions would be undertaken for death, dismemberment or assaults.”
– Statutes of limitations.
– Presidential triangulation: Let by-gones be by-gones. We have to move forward. etc.
We have on our side:
– The tradition of truth-and-reconciliation commissions.
– The principle of universal jurisdiction.
– Many experts, including:
o Scott Horton
o John Dean
o Marty Lederman
o Glenn Greenwald.
o Bruce Fein
o Evan Wallach
– The Military Commissions Act of 2006
– The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005
– The anti-torture Act of 1994
– The War Crimes Act of 1996.
– Article VI of the Constitution
– The UN Convention Against Torture.
– The Geneva Conventions.
– The Belvins ruling.
– The Nuremberg record.
– ICC
– The Hague
References:
http://www.pegc.us/detainee_act_2005.html
http://balkin.blogspot.com/#6805640633721729080
http://www.harpers.org/archive…..c-90001567
http://www.harpers.org/archive…..c-90001567
http://www.democracynow.org/pr…../16/148250
http://www.thedubyareport.com/torture1.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..70_pf.html
Nite, Katy.
g’nite katy
(…crickets…)
Yup, crickets. My timing is perfect, yet again. :P
Oh, well.
hmmm, pups are still adjusting to the time change i think.. they are dropping off about an hour earlier than usual
Oh, me too. Sitting here with toothpicks in the eyelids.
Suzanne @ 81
That makes sense. It does feel later than usual. We’re such creatures of habit.
I’ve been working on my “Progressive Alaska” blog. Tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. AST, I’ll be on Talk of Alaska, a statewide public radio call-in program, discussing blogging the Vic Kohring GOP corruption trial.
our circadian clocks did not get the time change memo – it is still relying on sunlight for its cues.
Truly, we are living in the land of the crazy: http://tpmelectioncentral.com/…..rience.php My disgust/grief is heightened by the fact that one of my very best friends (of almost two decades) is working for Guilaini. Sigh!!! Surely, enough beer and and conversation would cure the problem, but he now lives on another continent. … An intervention is in order.
Ed*ard Teller @ 85
woohoo! (buffing nails on chest) i knew et back when he was just commenter
Ed*ard Teller @ 86
Cool! ET immortalized in PodCast!
Ed*ard Teller @ 86
Wow! That’s great. Break a leg. (Or is that wish only for actors, as opposed to radio guests?)
Oooo, a friend working for Ghouliani? That does require an intervention.
Suzanne @ 89
et, i sure do like that first sign – any word on ted indictments yet?
ET, that’s wonderful. That’s at 11am pst, right? I should be able to listen.
Suzanne @ 94
There were supposed to be 10 to 15 more indictments in October. DOJ is so messed up – I have no Idea where this goes next, but Ted’s son, Ben and sitting state Senator John Cowdery will certainly be indicted very soon.
TheOtherWA @ 95
That’s correct. I’m not sure if they simulcast, but they archive the shows.
et, do ya think it is the bruhaha between state and feds that is the slowdown? wasn’t there some back and forth about the feds telling the state to back off so the federal investigation was not compromised?
TheOtherWA @ 92
If it’s the money, I’ll understand but not approve. If it’s anything else, we’ve been so close that we’ll have to hash it out at length! It’s not something I look forward to.
et, or do you think that is just the excuse for not indicting a republican with the current federal doj?
Suzanne @ 98
No, it isn’t a state-Fed hassle. It is the DOJ in DC, dragging this out any way they can, with directions from the White House. I’m more sure of that the more I know. I met a lot of people covering the trial, and Alaska is the biggest small town in the world. The word is that this would have played out a lot further by now if the task force that runs this out of DC wasn’t being heavily attenuated there.
I’m thinking there’s both info on Stevens and on big oil execs that’s possibly even getting Cheney into the slowdown process.
I keep hoping with all the higher ups gone at DOJ, the lower level professionals can finally do their jobs and start sending those indictments around the country like snowflakes. Like a freakin blizzard.
OtherWA
Are you still here? Know anything about Seattle area “general strike” activities tomorrow?
FunnyD
ET, how did the performance go the other night?
the performance on your birthday, et?
CTuttle @ 58
I don’t believe in the results of on-line polling like this. Too easy to astroturf…and believe me…they will.
TheOtherWA @ 102
I have nothing but respect for the Federal DOJ, court system and other employees/agents I spoke with or observed during the trial. Some had bad days examining or testifying, but that’s work. Like Jane and Marcy and Christy observed during the Libby trial, interacting with these folks all day long over weeks, puts the process into a very human light.
I’m still here, but I don’t know anything about what’s going on in Seattle. I’m closer to Portland, but I’ve heard nothing about events here either. Kinda depressing.
I think I’ll drive by the local parks and see if anyone’s gathering. With a copy of the constitution in hand.
persiflage @ 104
Apparently it was fantastic. The performance got an enthusiastic standing ovation for me – and the orchestra. I was playing tuba in it, sitting in the back row of musicians, so I couldn’t hear what the audience heard, concentrating on playing my part and helping the old trumpet player on my left count his rests. There’s supposed to be an Anchorage Daily News review tomorrow.
a good review will be the icing on your birthday cake this year, et
Cool!
Ed*ard Teller @ 107
That’s great news, people don’t give standing ovations easily, I’d love to see the review. Was it recorded? I’d love to hear it, I suppose you would too!
Ed*ard Teller @ 109
Congrats to you all and hope you won’t be too shy to share it with us or at least a linky to the review.
Ok, that’s it for me tonight. Sleep well, firepups.
g’nite tow
i’ve hit the wall myself – g’nite all
g’nite Suzanne, sweet dreams.
persiflage @ 112
It was recorded. When I get it, i’ll put it up on my garageband site. I’ll probably get my recording around turkey day.
{{{{{suzanne}}}}}
Congrats, ET, sounds like it was a great night in the concert hall.
G’night Pups.
FunnyDiva
persi – drive by with the wedding dress winnah
Suzanne @ 121
That’s a beauty, Suz.
Ed*ard Teller @ 116
Well don’t forget to give us a reminder when it’s available. Is all the work on the garageband site yours?
Suzanne @ 119
Woohoo, I can see why it won. Didja get the kid to fess up with the details or have you outsmarted her yet again?
persiflage @ 123
Yes. It is some of my stuff. I’ve also written a lot of music that I can’t post there without permission of the performers.
Ed*ard Teller @ 123
OK, then I can happily poodle around there until the new work (name?) is available. I’ve played that rag several times, it brings back (good) memories from childhood and always makes me smile.
Oooh — winked out there a bit. To bed and The Sweetie goes I, arrr…..
Hmmm.
Nite Hmmm.
‘Nite Persi, sweet dreams all.
snowing :/
Good mroning tw3k, hmmm, Ed*ard, et al. 52 and misting rain in Fabulous Blue Ridge Ga. And it’su Election Day, with the only thing on the ballot a liquor sale by the drink (with food service only), not likely to pass…
MR. Bill @ 131
Misting rain! Lemmee look outside. . . naaaah.
misting rain works. snow must go tho!
well raven it’s the mountains, what can I say?
MR. Bill @ 134
I just got really excited! The forecast is nothing for another week.
raven @ 135
Saw that. We will have a hell of a forest fire season at the current rate…
MR. Bill @ 131
Given your location, why am I not surprised? ;-) The mountain county to which I moved in 1970 wouldn’t even vote in beer until many years later. ‘Course, you could apparently buy all the white likker you wanted if you knew the right person. Gotta keep the local producers in business, don’ya know.
Waccamaw @ 137
Well the old time moonshiners are extinct, from what I can tell. The bootleggers are out of business, and this is just a little culture war:
Fannin Co. is surrounded by counties that booze, and the City of Blue Ridge has sale (but not service or pouring) of beer and wine. The county is dry, but the Commissioners just voted to allow a golf course/county club to have liquor by the drink. And in adjoining Copperhill TN Sunday beer and wine sales and pouring in restaurants. All the “no” voters are doing is keeping decent restaurants out of town, and sending drinkers out to the county, mostly to the bars in Copperhill (7miles from Blue Ridge) or Ellijay (16 miles from Blue Ridge). It’s just a campaign to show that the Church crowd still has the votes….And keeping that nasty ole 21st century and Outsiders at bay…
MR. Bill @ 138
It’s the same in Oconee County. They were able to vote a progressive state rep out by putting booze on the ballot and the thumpers came out of the woodwork.
And, further, the letters to the editor in the local rag from the anti booze crowd are the same sort of overwrought stuff freepers say about libruls, will destroy our county, bring destruction, turn back to Jesus, it wasn’t wine but grape juice in the Bible…
The desire to control others is strong in these bastards..
Good morning everybody!
The race is on to see how many Virginia republicans we can un-elect today :)
MR. Bill -
Same song, second verse in my western home as well. The college kids would “go over the mountain” for booze and frequently wind up in auto accidents on the way back. The shiners *are* probably all gone (my first landlord was jailed in GA for same) but, from what I understand, the pot growers are alive and well. Have thought the feds in their big choppers would take the chimney off the house many times in their fly-overs looking for the right shade of green during growing season.
Waccamaw @ 142
It’s state here, the Georgia Maryjane Eradication Task Force baseball hat is great. It’s got a big leaf with a huey embossed over it!
raven @ 139
It’s the hypocrisy that makes me crazy. One of the leaders of the NO’s is the Mayor of Blue Ridge, who was a bootlegger, and busted two years ago (just before his re=election) for chicken fighting. They can’t enjoy a drink in public, but have to sneak and sin in private..
They banned wine at the gallery receptions and pretty much killed the monthly gallery walk..
Old joke: What’s the difference between a methodist and a baptist?
The methodist will speak to you in the liquor store..
eg -
Best of luck with election day! Don’t know anything about most of the candidates but will do a Snoopy dance for you if Ms. davis goes down in flames. *g*
Eric Robinson/Staff writer
An 88-year-old Screven County man was arrested Tuesday after officials found 71 marijuana plants on his property, according to the Screven County Sheriff’s Department.
The Sheriff’s Department, in conjunction with the Georgia Governor’s Marijuana Eradication Task Force, arrested Robbie Lee Jones, of the Hilltop community, while returning to his home off of Savannah Highway. He faces a charge of manufacturing (growing) marijuana.
The Governor’s Task Force, which is composed of Georgia State Patrol pilots, Rangers from the Department of Natural Resources, and Georgia Bureau of Investigation Regional Drug Officers, normally utilize two helicopters and are trained to spot marijuana from the air, said Sheriff’s Department Corporal Brett Dickerson. The Task Force makes regular visits to the county.
Task Force and Sheriff’s Deparment officials spotted the plants in the air via helicopter, and radioed units on the ground with off-road vehicles. The plants were found on the edge of a grassy field on the property, near a wooded area.
“[The Task Force] always
Waccamaw @ 142
yeah the copters were out a few weeks back. Not much grass is grown in quantity any more, the penalties are too high. Of course, a former mayor of Copperhill had some pot growing in her back yard, and got off telling the state cops ‘it was to see what it looked like’. (the most recent previous mayor went to jail for kiddy porn; I had worked for and been fired by the guy when I was a newspaper reporter..maybe there is cozmic justice..)
Waccamaw @ 145
Thanks Waccamaw, then tomorrow time to think about the next elections: Larry Kissell NC-08 in ‘08!
raven @ 146
The War on Good Sense continues. The local paper had an annual pic a few years back: every year there would be a big pot growing bust, and the sheriff would be pictured standing next to a large marijuana plant, like it was a giant marlin in a fishing photo. Once, it was clear that the ‘12 foot’ plant was two six foot plants that he was holding together…
raven -
Well, now that you mention it…….not sure whether it’s state or feds where I am but them is sure some big mother birds those guys fly!
That 88-year-old you ref’d is probably one of the latter day shiners. *g*
MR. Bill -
Old joke: What’s the difference between a methodist and a baptist?
The methodist will speak to you in the liquor store…
LOL! Having been reared a B for 18 years, I can appreciate that one. The hypocrisy drove me out and I ain’t been back since.
eg -
Yah!!!! Larry !!!!!!
egregious @ 141
Good Morning, I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
And if anyone is interested, the usually silly Richard Cohen says Rudi Guilani is wrong on torture..
There is a lot wrong with his column, but he gets it..for once.
tp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110501595.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
apropos to nothing -
Went to a local truck farm Sunday to pick Roma tomatoes…now scratching the scab on my chin resulting from scraping it on the ground when the woman at the counter told me there were 80 lbs. worth. If lucky, I may get my head out of the pressure canner sometime Thursday.
C-Span1 showing the state opening of British parliament……those Brits certainly know how to do pageantry.
Greetings Everyone,
On a twenty minute visit to Boston Wingnutopia yesterday I heard the latest radio Bushvangelical posing this hypothetical to support Mukasey and torture:
Imagine, if you will, 20,000 kids, your kids and mine, at Fenway Park. An islamofascist has threatened to detonate a bomb (don’t remember which kind). Would you or would you not authorize any kind of action, torture or whatever means necessary, to save your own children?
That was a total paraphrase but the 20,000 kids, the term, islamofascist, Fenway Park (he mentions its total destruction) his own kids (finally admits he has children – used to pretend that he was a playboy) and the use of TORTURE were all in there.
When a man said he would not approve of torture, the radio “personality” led the segment I heard by saying that he was going to that man’s house to take his children away.
BTW: This radio genius admitted that Democrats do not listen to talk radio. He can’t get a Democratic audience in Massachusetts – think about it.
Boston1775 @ 154
Hello Boston…
Malkin is oppressive. Even her cheerleading routine oppresses those who actually know how to cheer!
She got my vote. ;-)
Hi Bill, I think my radio guy is trying to sell a script (he’s a scab as well) to 24.
Boston1775 @ 157
Well, a buddy and I have been working on a script for a musical based on a story in the late lamented Weekly World News, a la ‘Batboy’ : “Hillbilly Zombies cause Mountain Mayhem”…
Of course, the dateline was Blue Ridge.
MR. Bill @ 155
Was the guy Howie fucking Carr?
A newspaper guy from the Boston ragtime, Herald?
Good Morning
Waccamaw, that’s a lot of tomato sauce.
mmMMmmm
MR. Bill @ 158
Kinda catchy… gotta love those Hillbilly Zombies.
Well, with another hour in the morning I may be able to check in more often.
See you later.
Good morning, pups. It’s Bobo and Bob Herbert in the NYT today. Bobo wonders why Condi is spending her remaining term in office banging her head against the Israeli-Palestinian problem. Mr. Herbert wonders if women voters will be able to be heard above the macho din.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
The coffee and tea are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. I’m heading back to work today, stitches and all. Have a good day.
Master Foo blowing bubbles
The queen is LIVE on CSPAN1 opening up Parliament
BBC coverage
Ah good morning Marion. If I have biscuits, it’s from the Trailer (’cause that’s what it is) Drive In…They are good, but just not homemade.
Y’all take it easy, and keep on keeping on…
Bay State Librul @ 159
Bay State, Not Howie. This winner is on FM talk (if I can avoid giving the station or the person ANY publicity whatsoever, I do) and I think Howie is negotiating to come over to this very station.
We have a veritable plethora of wingnuts of the radio.
Still time to vote over at Kevin Drum’s place for worse winger blog.
To date:
Hinderaker 4,270
Glenn R quagmire 2,209
Malkin cheer 2,200
Althouse breasts 2,116
Kim du Toit pussification 2,029
Jonah Goldberg gills 1,960
Derbyshire self defense 1,940
Hewitt empire state 1,624
You can vote for 5, in no particular order.
Have fun!
Anybody got the link to the progressive blog contest?
MR. Bill @ 155
The problem is that not a single case of “enhanced interrogation” has actually been presented that has prospectively stopped any sort of attack. Given that torture would almost certain have even innocent people making statements about potential plots and bombs involving other, innocent, acquaintances such a method is useless.
You might as well say that torture is good because it removes demons, witches and devils from the community. That was why it was practiced in Boston 350 years ago. It saved their children, too.
Hey pups, I’m off to vote out Congressman Tom Davis’ wife from the VA State Senate. Wish us luck!
***Voter Power***
egregious @ 169
w00t GOTV!
Mornin’ all!
Elliott @ 164
Having just visited Jamestown & read a couple of books on the subject, including a biography of Pocahontas, I would note that the Queen is wearing the same kind of hat that Pocahontas was wearing in her contenporaneous portrait. Seems it was popular under James I.
Good morning everyone.
eCAHNomics @ 172
thanks for that observation! I am always amazed by their royal show
breaking news banner at msnbc.com: AP: 2007 has become the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Iraq; 852 killed.
edit: more here
This article just mentioned on CSPAN: Cable Channel Nods to Ratings and Leans Left
twolf1 @ 175
Rosie O’Donnell? Can’t MSNBC do better than that? Oy. Somehow think current situation is better than having her as symbol of leftie politics.
Drum is wrong. Century-old blogs won’t be commonly read (any more than century-old newpaper articles are today), but they will be read, studied, and written about, if they are appropriately stored and cared for. Blogs–and perhaps more importantly their comment sections–will be studied for what they are: primary historical documents.
This is something that bloggers may not appreciate fully. These discussions at FDL and elsewhere are historically important, and unique. I hope that bloggers will understand and appreciate this, and take steps to permanently preserve their archives.
Bay State Librul @ 159
Boston Pups, and others. It’s a ‘good’ morning in the BlueState when the Boston Globe says something newly bad about Bush**t that makes it even more imperative that we Blue the country.
http://www.boston.com/news/nat…..hts_panel/
or
“Maneuver gave Bush a conservative rights panel”
By Charlie Savage, of course.
As we sing at Fenway, he’s “so good, so good, so good.” Savage, of course. not the other guy.
BlueStateRedHead @ 178
Top judge attacks Musharraf rule
In a telephone address to lawyers in Islamabad, Iftikhar Chaudhry criticised President Pervez Musharraf, who imposed a state of emergency on Saturday.
He said the constitution had been “ripped to shreds” by Gen Musharraf and added it was now “time for sacrifices”.
US President George W Bush has called on Gen Musharraf to end the emergency and restore democratic civilian rule.
The government crackdown against pro-democracy activists continued on Tuesday with reports of dozens more arrests.
Bomb blast in north Afghanistan
It is not clear if the blast in the province of Baghlan was a suicide attack or a roadside bombing.
Unconfirmed reports say at least one member of the Afghan parliament is among the dead.
Schumer on the vote.
Scott Horton writes brilliant piece on Bush/Musarraf under the title: Bush’s Musharraf Envy.
http://www.harpers.org/archive…..c-90001608
discussion on Pakistan up on CSPAN 1
raven @ 182
title of said op-ed by Schumer
A Vote for Justice
raven @ 182
crap, crap, crap and more bloody crap. Tell the fu**ing truth you AI*AC puppet. You and that truly obnoxious FIDI person.
It is going to be a crappy day.
I was very disappointed that Andrew Sullivan’s famous excrescence, “The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead — and may well mount a fifth column” was left off the list.
they are marching with their lattes.
and beware! they may soon team up with pakistani lawyers and start to wear dark suits and white shirts in the streets!
casual observer @ 177
i have no doubt these blog posts are all being permanently preserved.
and may even come up at our future trials.
)sorry = grim thought(
Just back from voting. Several people handing out literature outside, include a most helpful Democratic sample ballot. Poll workers said there had been a steady stream of people all morning, which is a very good sign for an off year election with no national contests.
Let’s see…should I vote for Tom Davis’ wife? Or the reasonable, responsible Democrat? Hm…..
One woman was trying to get me to help sign the petition for Giuliani, of course one *can* sign a petition for the other party but why would I?? Sorry my dear.
Mood among the workers and volunteers seemed upbeat despite gray weather. The actual voters were a little more grumpy, probably because most of them looked like they were on their way to work, via the usual disastrous morning DC traffic.
And that’s the report this morning from Vienna Virginia.
Not OT as we read our morning papers together.
Moving on from the Globe to the NYT.
Have the Pups given any thought to Ron Paul’s Guy Fawkes day fundraiser?
Amazing how many people are finding him a reasonable alternative to the rest of the RePack of ReThugs. Including a handful of Dems who like the idea of a principled anti-war position–
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes…..ex.html?hp
Good to know how the things are going in a crucial state for us. Thanks and stay out of that traffic. I was horrified when I first learned long ago that lanes go HOV at what, 5:30 am? Do I remember right?
egregious @ 189
Militants seize Pakistani town
About two dozen police officers and several troops offered no resistance to militants who seized three police stations and a military post in and around Matta, a town in the Swat valley.
“We didn’t harm the police and soldiers and allowed them to go to their homes as they didn’t fight our mujahideen,” said Sirajuddin, a spokesman for Maulana Fazlullah, a firebrand cleric whose armed followers are battling security forces.
He said the militants had hoisted their black and white flags over the captured posts.
falafels upstairs!
wigwam @ 78
Wigwam~ You’re making me despondant. I’d agree that if the President can pardon himself (and all his cronies) all of this would be fruitless. We may as well jump off the cliff. I have an acquaintance who is a big fan of the Unitary Executive and he says that Bush can’t be touched.
Frankly I think John Dean is full of crap on this point. There is no basis in Western law that an Executive can pardon themselves. Even in the most vociferous of the defenses of the Presidential right to pardon, Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Paper #69 it’s clear that Hamilton did not think that a President could escape prosecution after impeachment.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..LsF_ayFz4D
Don’t know how that Paul link crept in
Federalist Papers #69
The Ron Paul link was about his fundraising $3.5 million in 20 hours based on 22,000 on-line supporters.
Which means that Ron Paul is not receiving a majority of small $5, $10, $20 donations from people unless there are some really big money backers.
Do the math!
It’s about $160/person. Which most likely means that there are many big cash supporters of Paul’s Campaign since for every $10-20 donation you’d need another at almost $400.
cinnamonape @ 195
My theory on Ron Paul is that he is running for pres at the request of Rove. Paul gives the disenfranchised republicans that are anti-war and anti-chimp a reason to stay in the party. Rove would rather have goopers waste a vote on a non-viable candidate than switch party affiliation to Independent or Dem. It’s all about the numbers and how the public perceives them. Rove knows that the bandwagon technique is an effective marketing tool. Maybe my tinfoil hat is too tight. Comments welcome.
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 188
I think that some blogs may actually be looked at as the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers of our day. They are the modern versions of the pamphleteers, carrying incisive political essays with real thought, at the time when the mainstream media is more concerned with Info-tainment and mindless sloganeering.
Mind you, any assessment of Revolutionary era (or subsequent historical periods) newspapers and broadsheets will find a goodly number that were the days equivalent of the NY Sun and National Enquirer. There were also British Whig “royalist” papers as well.
After all, it’s estimated that at the start of the American Revolution about 10% were Committed to Independance, with another 20% being mainly for autonomy of some sort within the Empire (a return to the old ways of Colonial legislatures rather than Royal Governors). About 20% were actually devoted loyalists, though some were in favor of more representation within Parliament. Half the people were muddle-headed apolitical “no opinion” folks.
That shifted as the events transformed things so that all those for autonomy realized that they had no option other than Independance. And slowly more of the middle-ground shifted as a consequence of the actions of the British Army, Parliament, and the King.
twolf1 @ 196
Interesting. Paul ran as an Independent (or was it Libertarian) for President back in 1992, I believe. So maybe there is something to your theory. It would keep registration up in the party, rather than reveal a massive abandonment of the Party. This is already happening according to most surveys, but if Paul is in the primaries then people may be holding off on jumping ship.
I also suspect a lot of people who support Paul are anti-immigration (”nativist”) Tancredo types who don’t see any way that Tancredo can win. So it isn’t the war so much as the anti-Immigration stance he professes. I think he strongly supports the “Minutemen” and other “defensive militias” for example. Talk about “V for Vendetta”…wasn’t that precisely how Norsefire and Adam Sutler came to power…anti-immigrant fear after a terrorist attack?
Paul is not anti-military. He supports the use of the military to defend the borders and country from “invasion”. The “Brown Tide”.
Pau opposes most other government institutions and funding for everything from health to schools. Anything with “Public” in it…he’s agin’ it! Imagine a society of a handful of private universities, trade schools, and toll roads. He is also anti-abortion so you have almost everything an old-style isolationist of the Father Charles “The First Right Wing Radio Host” Coughlin would love.
I really wonder what people think will occur once the war in Iraq ends? What will Paul do to the USA then? Will he veto every spending bill except that to the military?
PE is super phat!
twolf1 @ 196