Surely this is some kind of Commie-symp-terrorist-lovin’-troop-hatin’ plot?
In the past 24 hours, MoveOn, perhaps the most powerful liberal advocacy group in the country, has raised $275,000 for the United Services Organizations (USO) for calling cards for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The USO may be most associated with Bob Hope-type visits to troops overseas, but the non-partisan organization is clearly comfortable partnering with MoveOn if the cause helps soldiers stationed overseas during the holidays.
MoveOn.org emailed its 3.3 million members this week asking them to donate $15 for the USO’s Operation Phone Home program, and the membership rapidly responded with the donations. MoveOn conducted a similar operation a few years ago around Christmas time when its members donated 16 million frequent flier miles to the troops.
Eli Pariser, the executive director of MoveOn.org’s Civic Action program, says the group sees no inconsistency between its anti-war political message and its Christmas generosity for the troops.
Love the framing of the writer though. Anti-War means anti-troops because only troop haters are not war lovers.
Or something like that.
I’m sure this is further confirmation that the USO is an anti-American organization for Bill O’Reilly. After all, troop supporting means offering American soldiers memberships in conservative bloviator fan clubs, supporting the "greatest cause of all" profitable ignorance.



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UFO, UFO, UFO!
morning!
morn’n selise
is everyone still asleep?
hey tw3k! my coffee finally arrived yesterday – so after several days of having to make due with tea in the morning, i’m a very happy camper now.
:D
Hot,dam! Imma coffee hound :)
i knew you’d understand.
yeah, i’m on my fourth cup right now.
whoa – i haven’t been able to drink coffee like that since i was in my twenties!
i managed to fix my laptop screen. bloody thing would work for like 15 min. and then turn into technicolor splatter. the latch magnet had slide down into the monitor housing and wrecked havoc on the display.
sounds like major surgery!
nah, just a few loose screws :)
i love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the java and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup (boy!)
I love java, sweet and hot
Whoops mr. moto, Im a coffee pot
Shoot the pot and Ill pour me a shot
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup
Oh slip me a slug from the wonderful mug
And Ill cut a rug just snug in a jug
A sliced up onion and a raw one
Draw one -
Waiter, waiter, percolator
I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the java and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup
Boston bean (soy beans)
Green bean (cabbage and greens)
Im not keen about a bean
Unless it is a chili chili bean (boy!)
I love java sweet and hot
Whoops mr. moto Im a coffee pot (yeah)
Shoot me the pot and Ill pour me a shot
A cup, a cup, a cup (yeah)
Slip me a slug of the wonderful mug
an Ill cut a rug just as snug in a jug
Drop a nickel in the pot joe
Takin it slow
Waiter, waiter, percolator
I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the java and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, boy!
lol, yeah, java!
Coffee? [holds out cup…]
Good morning pups!
morn’n!
excellent! i’m with the writer of that… so nice that my favorite mood altering drug (caffeine) is legal… and is sold in such a yummy delivery vehicle (coffee). means we can celebrate every morning with a little caffeine high.
eg, what it is!
Artist: Manhattan Transfer
Title: Java Jive
Album: Boy From New York City And Other Hits
Year: 1997
Music by Ben Oakland, Lyric by Milton Drake
Inkspots? I love the java jive and it loves me
Good morning, pups. The Times gave us an early Christmas present — no offering from TOMC. Mr. Herbert’s column is called “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” and he says that even as the Wall Streeters are high-fiving and ordering up record shipments of Champagne and caviar, the American dream is on life-support.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
I’ve got coffee, tea and hot chocolate if anyone wants some, and a batch of my grandmother’s gingerbread recipe is just out of the oven. (It’s getting harder and harder to find blackstrap molasses…) Have a grand day.
I had inkspots covering up that manhattan transfer.
Hey Raven!
Marion, thank you for the blackstrap molasses gingerbread. It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas!
Think it’s the other way around. And, BTW, great post!
Happy Holidays and all that! Men and the bodhisattva are headed to the bakery for our morning joe and to play some ball!
I meant “me” not men. . .
Bodhisattva Vow
Raven–
I admire your getting out and walking every morning. Am considering making this part of my routine when I get to California. Do you have to force yourself to go, or is it habit now, or do you actually enjoy it?
here’s the CSPAN lineup for this morning
ON WASHINGTON JOURNAL
Saturday, December 22
7:30am – Gene Karpinski, League of Conservation Voters, President | Voter Guide
8am – Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center, Policy Director
8:30am – Dennis Goldford, Drake University, Politics Professor
9am – Jennifer Donahue, Saint Anselm College-NH Institute of Politics Senior Adviser
JAVA JIVE/MANHATTAN TRANSFER?
i dunno, maybe need a death metal remix or sompin :)
is everyone still asleep?
Just speaking for myself, but – Yes!
Mornin’, gang -
I do love it when MoveOn waves its collective middle finger at the wingnuts; calling cards and frequent flier miles are wonderful gifts to the military….. without any political strings attached.
and all those little pops you hear are all those little wingnut heads exploding across the land.
jayt are you sleepkeyboarding?
jayt are you sleepkeyboarding?
huh? uh, yeah. Got one eye pretty much open….
(adjusting coffee IV for typing comfort)
SnarKassandra put this link up on Facebook, but I wanted to make sure that non-Facebook people knew about it too.
Free Rice
You can play a fun little word game and donate rice to the United Nations World Food Program. I think I’m going to become an addict… I’m up to 2000 grains today.
think I’ll crank up some music – the neighbors do so love it when I do that – it’s my little “wake up – it’s the weekend!” message.
They love me – they really do. I guess I really oughta meet those folks some time…
crank up a little Robert Randolph, he’s right downstairs
When I received an e-mail from MoveOn requesting a donation for the project, I tried to reply suggesting they publicize this. I hope they’re doing so!!
with the Family Band? that’d be good, thanks.
default first of the day music – “Let the Day Begin” (The Call)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXywSZ-Zdmg
I’m on a whole nauher page today. jump around!
between hops, here’s a forum at military.com on the MoveOn and the USO calling card campaign. Don’t forget your flack jacket
maybe I should jump in as a unity-08 fire jumper!!!111
1,703 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Attaturk and the early mornin’ Firepup Freedom Fighters:
Please, all you courageous firehounds, stay close to each other durin’ this holiday and remember the kids in the desert, many of whom haven’t ever been away from home before at Christmas. The winter solstice and Christian mythology make this time of year about hope and love…let’s grab ahold of some a that a hold it close , nuture it and share it with the children.
Mrs. Norske has organized a field excercise to Negril, Jamaica with our two youngest daughters…this may be the last time for a good while that the four of us will be able to drink at the same fountain and eat at the same table, so I’m gunna enjoy ‘em.
KEEPHARE IT WITH THE CHILDREN!!
You’ll need more than a flak jacket — I’d suggest a barf bag as well.
keep the spirit Norske :)
and I’ll be in your suitcase ;)
have a great Holiday Norske and all your Noerskers
Good mornin’, pups. Brewed fresh ground beans for morning coffee, will need that to launch the day. Hey, egregious, left a little calling card over at your place. Making my rounds today, deliveries and errands and such, so pausing first in this good company replenishes the well that runs low in the hectic holiday season.
Thanks for the reminder of the craven coward that is Limbaugh, Attaturk. Being ever vigilant is the only way to root out these vermin in the culture. When I first heard he was doing this I couldn’t believe it. What a vampire…living off the blood and fears of soldiers’ friends and families.
There is a subclass of humans, the morlocks of our age, who don’t need to worry about going to hell, they are already in it. Somebody commented yesterday that he’s on hiatus now, to which I can only add, “Mothers of the Caribbean, hide your sons.”
Prairie
Ah, Negril.
Enjoy the wonder and the people– wander around.
Good morning all.
I’m a tea drinker myself, but i tend to end up having a Pepsi IV for myself at work some days. The tea is used for winding down in my case. ^^ I’ve a preference for jasmine tea, and i just got a nice little hot pot to warm up my water so nicely for it.
Amazing how the little things just make the day, isn’t it?
between hops, here’s a forum at military.com on the MoveOn and the USO calling card campaign. Don’t forget your flack jacket
wow – those are some angry guys. Imagine what’d happen if they ever find out that Iraq didn’t attack us on 9-11…
Christy’s upstairs…
This is such a stupid thing to write. The USO has had liberal comedians and conservative musicians entertain the troops for years, so receiving help from political partisans is not exactly new. But it’s nice of CBS to put the Politico’s Martin Kady II’s ignorance on display.
Plus, they missed out on a scoop of those black site enhanced interrogation techniques:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf19L6DjnTQ
- Tom
When I saw the picture of the saucer I immediately thought that this was gonna be all about the Japanese governments great debate over whether the Japanese can handle an alien invasion under the current “Non-Agression” Self-Defense force they have the fear is that if Godzilla actually attacked Tokyo they would be unprepared.
Apparently the debate began during “question time” in the Japanese Diet
http://two–plus–tw…..-ufos.html
http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnT201060.html
Never before has a President and Vice President deserved to be impeached more than these.
Yet our Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, is working behind the scenes with House Democrats, not to build a consensus for impeachment, but to do just the opposite: to keep others from succeeding in their effort to hold this president accountable by means of impeachment.
With the FISA bill still looming in the Senate, and a new war funding bill passed with no structure in place to Bring our Troops Home, we have to show the leaders of the House and Senate that this is still our country.
Please read the petition to replace Pelosi with a Democratic Representative who will bring impeachment proceedings to the floor. A Question of Privilege under House Rules IX can declare the Speaker seat vacant.
It can be done, it must be done. We have waited long enough.
http://www.petitiononline.com/…..ition.html
Support the Troops — bring them home now! Declare Victory so McCain will be happy then get the fuck out!