We’re more than half-way there in Korea.

This is a drag. I’m at a location where I can’t watch videos (a grade school).

Good Morning Jane. I hope it’s nice out there in Virginia. Man I miss that place.

Good morning Jane. Nice video, thanks for sharing it.

Oh wow. That video is hilarious!

Once we get a Dem nominee, this is gonna be one hell of General. Videos like that and Cliff Schecter’s work should be plenty of amusement.

http://therealmccain.com/

In a hundred years, will anyone from the Bush family serve there?

You should have issued a spew alert in BIG RED LETTERS.

One century of McCain…

But, but, Mccain will be 100 years old himself pretty soon…

Jane:

Top of the morning to you…I sent you email last night…

Very nicely done utube.

That was GREAT…. Jane any idea when Cliff Schecter will release his book on McCain?

“Dr. Strangelove, calling Dr. Strangelove, please come to the white courtesy telephone ……….”

Brilliant video. Who put that together?

Yes Jane. This is the best. But can somebody get a way to link to the YouTube site for private email dissemination.

How depressing that a man like McCain who has, no doubt, seen it up close and personal says, and maybe even really believes, crap like that.

Jane,
Have you read Arianna’s horrible comments about Maggie Williams from a column of Arianna’s back in 1997? As I recall, Arianna was still in the throes of her Rethuglican fervor. This comment is what I resent about Arianna today. I sent her this email.
I am so distressed by the tone of your blog any more. Your vitriol and uncivilized discourse aimed at Hillary are enough to make me cry. Excuse me. Is this the outcome you teach your girls in “Becoming Fearless” to attack a woman who has the courage and fortitude and intelligence to run for President of the US? I have watched Hillary over the years. I have never seen her come close to the nastiness both you and this blog display. You have shown more civility to GW Bush than you have to her and Bill Clinton. Remember how positive you were in your GOP worshipping days that the GOP was so right? Could you please step back a second and think about your hatred of Hillary and Bill. I find it over the top. It is as if you have returned to those days of yore and reverted to the Arianna of old. You are helping split the Democrats like they have never been split before. Obama, the man who claims to be a uniter has a hand in this split as well. His hands are far from clean. I am certain his campaigm had a strategy of laying in wait to destroy Bill, and in turn it would allow him to destroy her campaign. His cries of racism were out of line and he used false arguments and half truths and lies to distort many things to lay claim to being a victim of their racism. PLEASE! He has been let off scott free from any GOP or press scrutiny. His biggest liability is the fact that his accomplishments are so slim as to be nearly non existent. He has done so little that he doesn’t even have a failure to rely on to test his mettle. Excuse me if I don’t jump on a bandwagon of hope and change. I am very leary of charismatic leaders and what they do to crowds. People want to fall in love. They have about as many analytical skills as a turnip anymore. It is like listening to Bushbots. You are either for us or you are against us. It is sick and dangerous. Hillary, for all her faults has many, many qualities that I think will serve this country well. Barrack, I am not so sure. When the GOP put their sights on him he will be shell shocked. He thinks he is running such a great campaign! Well it is easy to run a good campaign when the media annoints you and the GOP lays off you. As it stands now, he is barely beating McCain. And he has had no scrutiny at all from the king of sleaze, Rove. Just wait. He will not win any southern states or border states. And even states like PA will be in play. At least with Hillary, all the negatives will be old news. Obama will be hit with shit and it will be new and differentand covered 24/7. The media love nothing better than to build one up and then tear them down. They do it for sport and they do it for their bosses. The media hates the Clinton’s because they could not defeat them. They threw everthing they had at them, but failed. And now the Democrats have done to them what the GOP couldn’t.
Don’t you think if the Clintons were so horribly corrupt they would have been able to accumulate a little more than 5 to 20 million dollars in net worth after 35 years in public life?
I bet they are not worth what you are, Arianna? I think Obama has a house worth more than the Clinton’s. How did that happen?
And to top it off I saw this ad on your site. SICK
Hillary Clinton Toilet
Bowl Brush Cleaners. Put the First Lady to Work in the Bathroom!
http://www.Teptronics.com/ClintonBowlBuddy

SHAME!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs

Direct link.

click the little “menu” button in the lower right hand corner of the vid. You can copy/paste the video address from there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..ablog.com/

Click on the Share icon under the video screen on the YouTube page playing the video and in the box below the screen a couple options appear including the link to e-mail.

I think you were encouraged last night to keep your disputes with other blogs on the other blogs.

That’s about as close to funny as anything involving McCain can be! Which is to say it’s wincingly painful satire…

Krugman warns Obama supporters about the perils of the cult of personality:

I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. We’ve already had that from the Bush administration — remember Operation Flight Suit? We really don’t want to go there again.

Nicely done. Ridicule is a powerful weapon, and the repubs are a huge, easy target.

Sorry, I don’t visit AmericaBlog any more, not after John A. got upset about people making over $75K not getting a tax rebate. I told him anyone making more than $75K should be damned grateful and just shut up!

He like so many urban East Coasters (Duncan, I’m looking at you) really needs to get out more and see how most people live. The Beltway mentality encompasses pretty much all of the megalopolis, in my experience.

It’s Valentine’s Day Comin’ Up–Red Zunes and Cards for your sweetie–tag lines for your V-Day Cards.

And just in time for Valentine’s Day–the Bushie Chickenhawk Old White Men Have Decided Ain’t Nobody Comin’ Home from Iraq. The Aristocrats continue to burn the poor people’s children, husbands, and wives.

NYT: Gates Endorses Pause in Troop Withdrawals–Shrub to Poor People–Your Family Members Ain’t Never Comin’ Home

Iraq is Forever–If you’re poor you stay there.

Chickenhawk Aristocrats Get Poor People To Die in Fruitless Wars

Getting Blown Up in the Desert? Jena and Tonic are Gettin’ Ready for a Weddin’

Lil Baby Cheney Ain’t Ridin’ No Tank Evah But Iraq Will Be Killin’ When He’s 18

100 Years in Iraq–Yes We Will if We Have Hill!

Iraq–The Place Where Chelsea Clinton Doesn’t Manage Hedge Funds!

Cue Living Color….

-G

If you liked the last seven years>>>>>>vote McBUSH

Well, this, of course, is like shooting fish in a barrel, but what the fuck? :o)

Lesseeee….100 years, at $3 billion dollars a week…

I make that to be 16 parsecs to the nth clevis-hooks-worth of enough “defense appropriations” to (IF it were spread around) let everyone on The Lake buy a new Hatteras 53 every 24 hours.

John! Fuck you.

I think I’d rather hand out the money to the Crips and the Bloods, or some other charity organizations, like…the Russian Mafia, and the Medillin Society for botanical research into preserving the rare and endangered Coca plant.

Or, Maybe, just give it to Paris Hilton, to tide her over ’til her next allowance check.

Clusterfuck says that McBush is the best candidate to continue his policies…Enough said?

Still on my first cup of coffee, so I’m not sure if this morning’s news is really as bizarre as it seems:

1. I never thought I’d agree with Mike Huckabee on anything, but the Washington state caucus stinks to high heaven. There are a lot of things I don’t like about caucuses in general, but the one thing I really like about them is that you can’t steal them without being really obvious about it.

2. We want to whack 6 people for their roles in 9/11. No habeas corpus. No due process. And now we just want to whack people without a fair trial? You can’t even sell the “Desperate times call for desperate measures” theme here, because we’ve got a reasonably good recent example to look back at: Oklahoma City. Tim McVeigh was captured, tried, convicted, and executed, all with very little difficulty. What’s wrong with the system that worked in that case?

3. Surprise! The surge isn’t ending as soon as we thought! No one could have foreseen…oh, never mind.

Tony Snow said Bush went ahead with the McCain Escalation even though 80% of his advisers were against.

Tony may regret having blabbed that one.

-G

Best job goin come november will be writing the teevee ads for the dem candidate—gonna make McBush wish he was back in the Hanoi Hilton.

I wouldn’t have guessed Krugman for a concern troll.

Good morning, Jane! Good morning, All!

This morning Rep. Tom Lantos died. I was always so conflicted with his positions. He was my representative for many years. I and a group of protesters stood outside his office weekly, and protested his NeoCon invasion position. It would have been much easier if that would have been the end of it but he was much more complicated and he represented his constituents well. In so many areas he spoke for his voters.

Dick Cheney is so much easier to condemn but Tom Lantos sincerely felt the suffering of victims of human rights abuses. So, his constitutents re-elected him over and over. We couldn’t even get the Democratic Party to consider putting up another candidate to run against him.

Ultimately, even Lantos went against the war in Iraq but not until after the deed was done and Iraq was a tragic zone greater than our ability to turn it around. I often wondered how a man who worked with Wollenberg to hide and protect Jews, could have a blind spot when it came to the NeoCons.

It will be difficult to fill his position with someone of equal stature, hopefully, not a NeoCon sympathizer.

To all of you 17-20 thanks, and I am sure this will be a wildfire youtube hit.

Awesome! Loved the guy breathing into the paper bag to keep from fainting, and even those who can’t read sign language will understand THAT gesture!!

2. We want to whack 6 people for their roles in 9/11. No habeas corpus. No due process. And now we just want to whack people without a fair trial? You can’t even sell the “Desperate times call for desperate measures” theme here, because we’ve got a reasonably good recent example to look back at: Oklahoma City. Tim McVeigh was captured, tried, convicted, and executed, all with very little difficulty. What’s wrong with the system that worked in that case?

You apparently didn’t watch the announcement on CSPAN. Full military legal process, including automatic appeal to civilian court (I forget which one) and from there to SCOTUS. Defendents being lawyered up today or tomorrow. All Q about evidence will be fought by the two sides when they get to court.

Great video- how to get it on the air? Send it to the Tweety Bird!

Title- McBush!

And this bit about the “Clinton Rules”:

What’s particularly saddening is the way many Obama supporters seem happy with the application of “Clinton rules” — the term a number of observers use for the way pundits and some news organizations treat any action or statement by the Clintons, no matter how innocuous, as proof of evil intent.

The prime example of Clinton rules in the 1990s was the way the press covered Whitewater. A small, failed land deal became the basis of a multiyear, multimillion-dollar investigation, which never found any evidence of wrongdoing on the Clintons’ part, yet the “scandal” became a symbol of the Clinton administration’s alleged corruption.

During the current campaign, Mrs. Clinton’s entirely reasonable remark that it took L.B.J.’s political courage and skills to bring Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to fruition was cast as some kind of outrageous denigration of Dr. King.

(Same link as 24.)

McCain: The 10,000 Maniac

You apparently didn’t watch the announcement on CSPAN. Full military legal process, including automatic appeal to civilian court (I forget which one) and from there to SCOTUS. Defendents being lawyered up today or tomorrow. All Q about evidence will be fought by the two sides when they get to court.

“Full military legal process” has had people stuck in Guantanamo for years. Forgive me if I’m being too skeptical here. Civilian court and SCOTUS appeals have jurisdictional issues if they’re tried and convicted outside the US. This is going to be a disaster.

So go replay it on CSPAN & decide for yourself.

Then the climax.

Execution on a red, white and blue scaffolding at the GOP Republican Convention during primetime. With Bush and McBush pushing the button with intertwined fingers.

All to the sounds of Lee Greenwood.

-G

“…ten thousand years, ten thousand years…”

The man’s got vision, you gotta hand him that. It’s just that I am repulsed at the vision of ten thousand years of war, but that’s his vision.

We have got to get the Republicans out of power. Out for the next ten thousand years, at least.

Reply to QuakerGirl at #36:

I really commend you for your comment on Lantos. He’s not my Congressperson, so I don’t know nearly as much about him as you do, but he got my attention last year when he gave a stirring speech. I was so impressed that I came to consider him a really good orator, although I also realized that he wasn’t always on the side the left occupies. Still, his personal history is compelling and his passing is certainly worth more than two or three mentions on this blog.

A hundred years? I don’t think so.

I am so old, so tired, so depressed — but, otoh, I’m half a world away. I just know “you can’t go home again” cuz it is NOT there any more!”

But I do remember the Good Old Days (/snark) and the patriotic virtues. Liberty Bonds, ha effing ha. Victory Gardens. Such things are real people believed in then. Spotted cards — there probably wasn’t an aircraft went over central Florida I would not have been able to identify in a few seconds.

But I don’t think now, anyone has the capacity to deal with a Hundred Years war. If anyone, anywhere, could even afford one!

McCain: Even Worse Than Bush

{h/t kiddo}

I share your feeling about Arianna. I have a long deep memory of HuffCo Oil and the atrocities they supported against the Timorese people. I often wondered if Arianna rejected the tens of millions from the Huffington blood money. Or, did she take her share. Every cent should have been returned to the Timorese people to rebuild their country.

For years I could not stand to look at her without seeing blood and dollars dripping down her forehead and covering her body. She was fine with the extermination of the Timorese people until she found out her husband was leading a double life. She was the woman scorned and that brought her to a different position from her husband.

What I want to know, is why are they doing this, now? I mean, really? What’s the real reason?

[Jane, you really should have issued a shriek alert, especially for those of us at work…]

Well, I doubt that the whole process will be over by R convention time. But I do wonder about the timing. Must have something to do with election cycle, and perhaps someone else will figure it out. When asked about the timing, the Pentagon spokesman said: because now is when we’re ready. Hahaha.

Rep. Lantos and his wife were very generous with their time in helping my medical charity work in Russia when I lived near Washington.

We disagreed on the war and neocon issues, I am with others here in being baffled by his blind spot there given his life experience.

He is the representative for the district I just moved into.

I was sorry to see he was sick and extend my deepest sympathy to his family and friends.

Gee, makes me glad I never go on the site. When I checked it out, it didn’t provide much I couldn’t get elsewhere.

Hi Quaker Girl,

Thanks for your comment on Tom Lantos. Sums up my feelings as well. I’m sad that he passed before his actual retirement. I don’t know why I was shocked this morning but I was. He was such an institution here in San Mateo.

Jackie Speier was/is poised to run in November. She will be an excellent representative. I don’t believe the Rs will have any viable candidate to put up against her, but I am not in the know that way. She has a very strong reputation locally and within the state.

The circle continues. I think Jackie Speier will be a find candidate for his position and somehow, appropriate. Lantos was elected after Congressman Ryan was killed in Jonestown and Jackie Speier was badly wounded. Those were tragic times. Ryan answered the call of his constituents and tried to save those poor souls and lost his life in the process.

The only US Congressman ever killed in the line of duty.

-G

Ideas aside, McCain just does not have the energy, particularly the mental energy, to be President. How do you introduce the question of age in some acceptable way, because it really is important.

more of the same
vote mccain or mcclinton
she is part of the war machine
a wolf in sheeps clothing

OT but appropriate

http://www.citizen.org/pressro…..fm?ID=2604

The conclusion of the Plaintiff’s attorney is interesting.

You do the math on how old he’ll be in 2012 (76?) and in 2016 (80?), then you wonder if this is a one-term presidency? Has McCain stated he’s just going to serve for one term? If so, won’t he be a lame duck from the start? What’s the point

And you do this out loud. These are legitimate topics of discussion. We all have seen that most humans become more set in their ways, less adaptable, and less creative as they age.

Well, there ya go. It’s not the news, it’s the nuances.

I hit NuffPo for the business headlines, it saves time. But, some of the other places I go, angels fear to tread! And deep in TFH territory recently, I found a legitimate link to a Dennis Kucinich Story that had cropped up nowhere else!

So, yes, there is much that needs corroboration! No different from MSM, really!

The biggest problem I find with partisans online, they all have ‘comfort zones’. And they all have ‘not our kind’ evaluations.

It is really an education getting away from what you are used to, and coming to terms with a whole different subcultural scene! You might be surprised to encounter liberals who (gasp!) actually enjoy guns! Maybe not, but few ‘libruls’ espouse the ‘only R’s who have genital issues really care blah blah,” OK?

Anyway, I reckon if you’re still alive and no one’s killed you yet! this is a good time to see how the other half lives …

If you take a sampling of all past presidents, I don’t think McCain’s present age and his physical condition is that different from a composite. It’s McCain or McBush’s ideology that I want to stress. The question of age is going to probably be in the campaign if for no other reason than the superficial cultural norm for wont of a better term that we have in the media in the U.S.

It won’t be a question for anyone voting conservative though–not on their landscape.

Brilliant video. Thanks for posting it.

To those of you who have expressed disbelief that someone like McCain, “who has seen war up close and personal,” can continue to be such a warmonger, there is one thing you need to understand. McCain never saw “war,” as such, “up close and personal.” He was a pilot. War for pilots is a lot less up close than for others.

I have noticed, since I live in a town that harbors a lot of retired miltiary, particularly retired Airforce, that they are quite a few degrees more right wing than other branches. My dad was retired Army. When he fought, it truly was upclose and personal and as he grew older, he became less and less tied to the notion that war was something righteous and glorious all on its own. He voted for Bill Clinton despite all the noise about Clinton “dodging the draft” and “protesting the war.”

Retired fighter and bomber pilots, particularly, have few such experiences. They don’t often really see “up close and personal” the effects of their actions. Most of what McCain knows of war is at a distance. He didn’t see anything close enough that would make him pity the destruction to people wrought by bombs. And then his experiences as a POW only made him hate those very people. Thus you have a man who can sing “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” with relish and demonic glee.

You are incorrect. McCain would be the oldest president ever elected. By far.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…..nts_by_age

yadda yadda yadda…He needs to come up with an original ‘concern’ instead of the same ‘concern’ of people showing too much emotion, people being passionate about politics once again etc. I can only surmise that this same ‘concern’ was in play in 1968?

Arriana is slippery and smart.

She has some serious accounting to do. Wife and I remember her as the right wing shill a few years back.

Switching sides does not remove your sins.

McCain is a coward who dropped bombs and got caught and send to jail. He should not have been tortured. But he’s dumb as a fence post and not he’s pissed at non whites.

What a jerk.

dumb as a fence post, love it

I could look it up, but time lacks. I thought a congressman died after being beaten with a cane by another congressman, perhaps Calhoun, just before the Civil War.

Hey Sander O what were your brave acts during 1965-74. What did you do to stop the bombing of Vietnam?

Might this be the event you’re thinking of?

Capitol Hill murder leading up the civil war