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Attaturk…!

Now Suzanne can go to bed…

Who said the Zed is dead? ;~)

I am wide awake still. G’morning attaturk.

Ned

Hey there…

How’s Googling these days?

*G*

OMG. How horrible. Let this nightmare of an administration end.

Gotta sleep. Good night Attaturk and pups.

EDIT @ 5

Ned said the Zed is dead

nite loo hoo
bailing out, too

Funny thing you aren’t tired – what an exciting late late nite you gifted us all with, as always dear Suz!

This ole brat bids all you intrepid firepups sweet dreams and thanks for the memories and sharing this exceptional primary night with such wit and style and all that good stuff. (grin)

ok, npb, i get the hint. (laughing) i’ll head off to bed (whining and kicking at dust bunnies)

Fitz!

dugg ya on the way out the door, attaturk… g’nite all

Thanks so much.

Freddie’s dead
that’s what I said

c Mayfield
Superrfly

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Citizen Attaturk and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Yes, so Senator McCrazy wants us ta “blindly go where no one ought to ever go again”? Well here’s to Barak Obama takin’ that rotting hulk of a used up lifer down ta the mat this November…the debates are gunna be painful!

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE DEPENDS…MCCAIN IS INCONTINENT AGAIN!!!

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Citizen Loo Hoo and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

You remember some cold days in Bemidji??!!! I was born there…Grampa Ole told me that it once got so cold there that when he put the coffee on the back stoop ta cool it froze so fast that when he picked it up the ice was still hot!!! Now that’s cold!

KEEP THE FAITH, IF YA LIVED THRU THAT EVEN THE FASCISTS CAN’T TOUCH YA!!

Most if these people don’t really get the full ramification of “life”.

r

Reminds me of Korea

The Lake certainly is quiet this morning…….can’t imagine why. *g*

Slackers

Maybe I could say something that would piss someone off, ya think?

Good Morning, Firepups!

It’s clear and cold this morning in central Jersey. There was a nearly full moon with a rainbow halo when I woke up at 2:30 a.m., so precipitation is on the way [yes, I went back to bed, and got some more sleep. Thanks for asking]. Hope it clears out early enough tonight to see the lunar eclipse [which the astronomy column in the Times promised will be spectacular].

Coffee’s ready, and there a big pot of hot water for the tea drinkers. I’m going out for bagels today.

Work for peace, every day.

Don’t try too hard, ya hear? Better things than foot for breakfast.

Give both the doggies a big hug from me, please.

Good morning, pups. MoDo is alone today. Her column is titled “To Catch a Thief.” She says the Clinton camp has spent days trying to undermine Barack Obama’s chief asset, the elegant language that has sparked a generational boom.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got waffles with real maple syrup for breakfast. Have a great day, and try not to catch my [sniffle] cold.

Off on our walk!

mMmmm waffles!
mornin’

Terror police feared gun battle with Israeli general
snippets:

Scotland Yard allowed a suspected war criminal to escape Britain because officers feared an attempt to stop him would lead to a gun battle at Heathrow airport, police documents seen by the Guardian reveal. …

… A UK court had issued a secret arrest warrant for Major General Doron Almog over alleged war crimes under the Geneva conventions of ordering the demolition of 59 civilian Palestinian homes.

Israeli diplomats were tipped off after Almog’s plane left Israel on September 11 2005. Once it landed in London, a military attaché from the Israeli embassy boarded the jet and warned Almog to stay on board. He refused to leave the plane until it took off again for Israel, two hours later. …

… Under British law, war crimes should be treated so seriously that even if they are committed abroad, UK courts have jurisdiction to try suspects. …

… “It was confirmed that El Al were refusing voluntary access to the plane” …

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Brother Raven:

Let us jest bask in the warmth a yer congenial aura…LMAO!

Ya don’t hafta piss anyone off taday, friend, jest get taped up and cath a wind before the grand Shakspearian tragedy of one John McCain when he pops his last brain cell tryin’ ta understand one of Barak’s lessons on war and peace.

KEEP THE FAITH, WE DESERVE THIS ONE!!

In Monday’s NYT Bill Kristol dreams vicariously of the Republican’s as imperial rulers and Democrats as their sniggering pensioned opposition:

Still, [Orwell] says, Kipling “survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem to wear so badly.” One reason for this is that Kipling “identified himself with the ruling power and not with the opposition.”

“In a gifted writer,” Orwell remarks, “this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality.” Kipling “at least tried to imagine what action and responsibility are like.” For, Orwell explains, “The ruling power is always faced with the question, “In such and such circumstances, what would you do?”, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.” Furthermore, “where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly.”

If I may vulgarize the implications of Orwell’s argument a bit: substitute Republicans for Kipling and Democrats for the opposition, and you have a good synopsis of the current state of American politics.

Having controlled the executive branch for 28 of the last 40 years, Republicans tend to think of themselves as the governing party — with some of the arrogance and narrowness that implies, but also with a sense of real-world responsibility. Many Democrats, on the other hand, no longer even try to imagine what action and responsibility are like. They do, however, enjoy the support of many refined people who snigger at the sometimes inept and ungraceful ways of the Republicans. (And, if I may say so, the quality of thought of the Democrats’ academic and media supporters — a permanent and, as it were, pensioned opposition — seems to me to have deteriorated as Orwell would have predicted.)

Yes, “In a gifted writer this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality.” But, in the ruination wrought by his neocon’s strategic aspirations, such identification with with the rulers of empire is merely the disgusting vainglorious fantasizing of the intellectually impotent William “always wrong” Kristol.

Good Morning all.

And yet, yesterday, John “Snuggles” McCain told us that to vote for Barack Obama would be America taking a “holiday from history”.

I really wish both obama and hillary would go on the immediate offensive when this clown says something that defies inteligence

obama should have immediately demanded response time sighting slander from mccain

then he needed to ask “does this guy have some kind of alternative reality where water is dry and fire is wet?

this surge is a miserable failure, no goals are met, violence is up, insurgents are up, killing is up

and the practicality of unding the nightmare have gone down, becuase of this surge that mccains tries to force feed down your throats like you are some kind of fool that doesn’t see the reality

if you are an american and you want the commander in chief to do something about natioanl security that doesn’t help our enemies, then the last thin you are doing is voting for john mccain and ANY politician that will try to spew to you that this president’s strategies have been ANYTHING but miserable failures’

they have got to attack this military moron, and laugh in his face when he tries to come back with whatever attack talking point they write for him from there

NO MORE STANDING AROUND AFTER AN ATTACK AND WAITING TO LET THE PRESS PUBLISH IT AS THOUGH IT’S NEWS INSTEAD OF THE PROPAGNANDA IT IS

The doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction is a powerful concept. One wonders how those who commit other crimes against humanity, e.g., launching a war of aggression, will fare in retirement.

Informed Comment- Juan Cole this AM!

I really wish both obama and hillary would go on the immediate offensive when this clown says something that defies inteligence

No If they were to go after dipshitz for every pronouncement they would have no time for going to the bathroom, eat, dress, breath and campaign.

Musharraf Insists He Will Stay on Job After Defeat

President Pervez Musharraf, confronted with a crushing political defeat, said he intends to stay in office to guide Pakistan’s democratic transition — even if it means working with a man he believes once tried to kill him.

In an interview a day after a landmark national election delivered resounding losses to his allies in Parliament, Mr. Musharraf said he has no plans to step down. Instead, he said he wanted to help end the internecine battles between presidents and prime ministers that have marred Pakistan’s political history and precipitated military interference in the government. …more…

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Citizen Attaturk and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

I, for one, am lookin forward ta the moment when Barak exposes the weaknesses of the politics of fear and puts that molderin’ cadaver McCain back in his formaldehyde coffin…the debates can’t come soon enough!!

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION…WE GOTTA GET ‘EM QUICK BY NOVEMBER FINDIN A REPUBLICAN WILL BE AS HARD AS FINDIN’ A NAZI IN 1946!!

NO MORE STANDING AROUND AFTER AN ATTACK AND WAITING TO LET THE PRESS PUBLISH IT AS THOUGH IT’S NEWS INSTEAD OF THE PROPAGNANDA IT IS

Exactly.

I remember listening to one of Kerry’s advisors shortly after the beginning of the swiftboat attack. His attitude was pretty much: “These thing blow over and are quickly forgotten.” Unfortunately, it was too late when Kerry’s campaign realized that they couldn’t ignore it.

The doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction is a powerful concept. One wonders how those who commit other crimes against humanity, e.g., launching a war of aggression, will fare in retirement.

isn’t very useful tho if intelligence agents (or whoever it was that tipped off Israel) protect the criminals as they did here. Kissinger still walks free tho, but maybe one day they will nab Rummy & Co.

I know it’s remote, but I am wishin’ and hopin’ that we try George Bush, et al, here.

Washington Journal is covering the satellite shoot down, btw

Informed Comment- Juan Cole this AM!

Thanks, billjpa. I particularly liked this by Juan regarding McCain’s victory speech last night:

These remarks were aimed at Barack Obama, and they are lies. Obama never advocated invading Pakistan with US ground troops. He said that the US should strike at al-Qaeda if it had actionable intelligence about its whereabouts in Pakistan, even if the Pakistani authorities refused to give permission.

The reason I particularly liked it was that I had just read an article at Huffington Post that noted:

On the front page of Tuesday’s Washington Post was an article detailing how in late January U.S. forces, acting with autonomy inside Pakistan, were able to target and kill Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda commander.

The strike, which came without the Pakistani government’s knowledge and helped eliminate an individual who had long eluded the spy-agency’s capture, was an obvious boon in the War on Terror. But the political implications of the operation were just as fascinating.

In August, Sen. Barack Obama had made the argument that, as president, he would target Al Qaeda officials in Pakistan even without the country’s acquiescence — the type of attack that, six months later, proved to be successful.

At the time, Obama was roundly criticized for his remarks, both by his Democratic competitors for the White House and by the Bush administration.

His attitude was pretty much: “These thing blow over and are quickly forgotten.”

I suppose that attitude was safe back before there were toobz. If you saw something like that on the evening news it generally was gone within a day or so. Now, shit like that goes viral and gets expanded on and metastasizes.

Let me note that the Isrealis didn’t wait for Eichmann to come to them.

Morning marion. Happened upon the dead trees version of the times while on vacation. Well, truth be told, delivered to my room so I could read it bed. At the same time, limited dial up relationship to toobz. So I read without the fairwarning from forward station Savannah . Even the op ed page. Furious jumping up and down.

Although I had had some marionic antidotes of lovely breakfast things, serious keep you awake digestive problems followed the next night. Presume cause: delayed reaction to an actual reading of MoDo.

Signif Other who think I spend too much time at the blogs now thinks that time spent at the Lake in the AM is better than time spent with the Times.

Thanks marion.

It’s never safe when your opponent’s backers own the media. The Internet is beautiful because it allows those who don’t own “The Mighty Wurlitzer” to make some noise of their own.

The media is really complicit and much of the problem in informing the public. This, regardless, of the candidates, they always skim the surface, screw up the back story if they even bother, and focus on the wrong issues.

The media is really contributing to the tanking of this country.

For those with the time and interest, the internet can offer the real story about what is going on. But you have to dig for it.

If the media is not spanked and made to do its role properly there is no hope for us.

Why has the media lost its way? The easy answer is that it makes them money. But why would the real news not make them money? Is the truth boring and no one would pay attention?

Or is it that the media has simply become a tool by some other “interest” to control the public? I this this is more likely the answer.

If you think about “advertising” as a metaphor. Advertising is supposed to influence people. An ad company cares not about the product, but producing ads is their biz. The product makers use the ad agencies to get people to consume their product or buy into their idea.

So the media is now owned by those who have an agenda. I suspect it is a free market corporate right leaning agenda. It is about consumerism, buy now, pay latter, america is better and we are entitled to the high (sloppy) standards of living, that ware is a means to effect this because we have special interests offshore. The owners of the media are promoting their classist and racist agenda, with or without nuance.

This has happened because media are corporations and the do the bidding of their owners. Corporate consolidation of the media is the enemy of the people of the USA.

Breaking up these behemoths is crucial to the survival of democracy.

A populist candidate can be destroyed by the media as easily as an assassins bullet can. If they see a threat, they will attack viscously.

All,

It’s 2weeks countdown to trip to see BSRH Jr., 10k mile trip, almost 24 hours of travel. Many a deadline till then. I have made a solemn promise to meet them all and arrive anxiety free for the vacation of a lifetime. Which means no more commenting.

So I’ll be here, but lurkingly. Will miss our morning chats. Better than tea or coffee, a drink of the lake.

That is nothing more than a stars test and military posturing for the Chinese I suppose.

It’s hard to believe that adults believe that shooting missiles and knocking out satellites is any way to conduct international affairs. Or is it all to just keep the spigot open to the MIC?

Welcome back to toobz-land. I hope you didn’t try to brave Bill Kristol. I wear 2 Hazmat suits before I go anywhere near him…

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Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Jest a thought before I go home and take the pup out fer his walk in -10 degree weather: We can overcome the weakness of fear with the strength that comes from hope.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THERE’S A FUTURE HERE IF WE TAKE IT!!!

So the media is now owned by those who have an agenda. I suspect it is a free market corporate right leaning agenda. It is about consumerism, buy now, pay latter, america is better and we are entitled to the high (sloppy) standards of living, that ware is a means to effect this because we have special interests offshore. The owners of the media are promoting their classist and racist agenda, with or without nuance.

Exactly, except get rid of the word “now”. Per the Wikipedia entry on W. R. Hearst:

Moving on to New York City, he acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World that led to the creation of “yellow journalism”–sensationalized stories of dubious veracity. Acquiring more newspapers, Hearst ultimately created a chain that at its peak numbered nearly 30 papers in major American cities. Eventually, he expanded into magazines as well, building an enormous publishing empire.

Although he was elected three times to the U.S. House of Representatives, he was defeated in 1906 in a race for governor of New York. Nonetheless, through his newspapers and magazines, he exercised enormous political influence, most notably in whipping up the public frenzy that pushed the U.S. into war with Spain in 1898.

The net rawks for sure and it is eroding the main media.

But teevee is still the thing citizens turn on to get most of their world view.

Even THIS blog reports what is on the sunday bobblehead shows as if we need to tune in to cokie and noron and whomever they pass off as an expert.

I gave up on the MSM and dip into the guys like Rich or Krugman or Rick Hertzberg via online. I avoid teevee at all cost and watch only nature and arts shows. Keith? Sometimes, but 10 minutes of something good on Keith is a drop in the ocean. Moyers is another drop.

If you want to understand the world, don’t waste your time in MSM. It’s that simple.

Why has the media lost its way? The easy answer is that it makes them money. But why would the real news not make them money? Is the truth boring and no one would pay attention?

this is becaues of reagans repeal of the fairness doctrine, clinton’s refusal to reinstate it, and then republican rule relaxing rules that limit the amount of media a single entity can own

we used to have 40 or 50 owners of mainstream media, now it’s down to about 5

they will promote their egenda, they will sensationalize any story that helps them get law they want, they will refuse to report a story that will add regulation that might cut into profit

it’s consolidation of the fourth estate

Did McCain propose invading Venezuela in his vic’try spleen?

Here’s some REAL reality for ya:

Winter Soldier neeed you!

From March 13-16th, U.S. veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan will testify to what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground in these occupations.

You’re right!

Perris,

I know how it happened, but WHY is the issue? To promote a right wing corporate agenda and those who support that agenda.