Redd!

Christy!

I hope the laptop fund is coming along for you.

DUNG BEETLEman

seems like deja vu all over again!

Dudette, they always get what they want….

But they didn’t know they had EW and Christy on em’….

Sic ‘em!!!

Laptop for Christy

OT: I love the singing Dingo on KO

I loved Mission Impossible. It is dated when the computer technology are punch cards. I hated those things.

this is what i sent Scootie

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi…..beetle.jpg

But I thought recycling was *good*? Otherwise those tapes would just end up clogging a landfill or something, right?

Hope y’all are watching NOW on PBS…now.

he is a busy busy beetleman

Beetlemania?

But I thought recycling was *good*?

Ain’t that the truth…! *g*

hi Eli,you like my dung beetle?…busy efficent little guy

The administration must have a Cover-Darth’s-Ass Office. Must have a huge budget too.

18 1/2 minutes. A gap which changed the world.

i felt that Scootie was a dung beetle in a previous life,because they handle shit so very well

Man-sized bunker!

Either we are a country ruled by the rule of law. Or we’re not. It’s not a gray area.

pulpified his legs,pulmonary embolism,i cant listen,or watch…NO WORDS

Perhaps it’s time to retire the elephant as a symbol of the GOP…

Well, then, we’re not. Apparently.

Fourth Branch Quantico circuit access…F’ers.

Wake up Congress.

Yes. People are admitting to torturing people. Under orders.

I foresee Pasdar, formerly of Verizon, trodding the same lonely path as the AT&T Rep in San Fran did… 8-(

We know where the buck stops.

a loooooooooooooooong time ago i felt that…..Pachaderms are far smarter,the only characteristic shared ,is long memory

They both deserve the Medal of Honor for speaking truth to perceived power.

Heck, Darth forced the Secret Service to comply with his cover-ups…!

From a comment of mine a week ago today over at Emptywheel’s:”

I think Chief Idiot Officer Payton gets caught here with a lie in her Federal Court deposition:

Ms. NORTON. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Ms. Payton, I would like to reconcile your sworn statements with what the Committee has since learned, and perhaps you can help us. On January 15th, 2008, you filed a sworn declaration in U.S. District Court here regarding the loss of White House e-maiI. In that declaration you critícized the chart produced in 2005, showing hundreds of days with no White House e-mail. And here I am goíng to quote what you said in the sworn declaration. “I am aware of a chart created by a former employee within the OCIO,” Office of Chief Information Office.

Now, that of course, anyone reading that declaration, would believe that a single member created, staff person created this chart perhaps indeed almost on his own. But the Committee in fact obtained documents showing that your office created a 15 person what you call message storage team to work on this problem. This team documented its actions in very painstaking detail and reported frequently to the director of administration and White House counsel.

Ms. Payton, I ask you, why didn’t you mention this team of White House officials in your sworn declaration?

Ms. PAYTON. Ms. Norton, one of the things that I have mentioned before is that because this is prior to my arrival, I put the information together based on what my team has told me as well as–

Ms. NORTON. You are unaware, are you testifying here that you were unaware of this team?

Ms. PAYTON. No, I am explaining to you is based on what the team has told me, as well as information I had, there was a group of people who put data together. But as far as–

Ms. NORTON. I am asking you, were you unavtare of the message storage team who worked on this problem?

Ms. PAYTON. Ma’am, all I know is that they put data together. They did not work on the chart. And that is how it was presented to me.

Christy, that’s our good ol’ MSM for ya’. It takes them at least a week to catch on. *g*

Well, they *do* go on bloodthirsty rampages occasionally. But only occasionally, as opposed to a continuous state of being.

Repukes torture and spy…they are deranged human specimens. Spit.

ooooooooooooopsie..Salon,McSame far too unhinged to get the nuclear football

And again a comment of mine week ago today over at Emptywheels:

And I think Congresswoman Ms. Norton finally calls Chief Idiot Officer Payton, an idiot:

Now, in your declaration again, it is a sworn declaration, you stated that there was a “lack of supporting documentation.” For somebody who said she didn’t know anything, you certainly had something to say in your sworn declaration. Lack of supporting documentation. But Mr. McDevitt told us that the chart itself was just a summary. He said the complete analysis was 250 pages in length, it included the complete background data and trend analysis. Why didn’t you mention, Ms. Payton, the 250 page supporting document in your sworn declaration?

Ms. PAYTON. That document had not been made aware to me. I know that we produced a lot of documents in response to this. So that document must not have been on the radar of my team to inform me.

Ms. NORTON. My goodness, I don’t know how you did your job. You seem to have known nothing about it.

Fairness, justice, the rule of law, equality, liberty and privacy. The foundations of what we are supposed to hold dear. Democracy. And yet so elusive. We’re being robbed. ‘Legally robbed’.

can you imagine? PULPIFIED his legs………

Ding, Ding, Ding..more of the “same” derangement syndrome….

beaten to death

Oh, but we don’t torture. Tortureboy said so.

Inscom, Ft. Belvoir, is the central nerve center of DoD’s satcom operations and ya need a top secret clearance to even change a light bulb for them…

after all the carnage in Iraq,we no longer have any high ground

I believe their spying is what is holding Congress hostage…no one knows when the next shoe will drop.

Keith is so funny,i cant say this often enuf….he is teh fast

We’re being robbed. ‘Legally robbed’.

It not that it’s legal, we just have little to no oversight and when things come to light, no one has the intestinal fortitude in congress to put a stop to it.

That picture of Ollie North that KO was showing makes him look like either the living dead or an alien.

Works for me.

I do not ask for justice. I demand it. There’s a distinction.

We do…the majority of Americans don’t believe in hurting people or animals, but when your “leader” is “appointed” and your election results are influenced by disenfranchisement of voters…well heck…

Not to mention, allowing citizens of a major city to dehydrate and die before the very eyes of the nation…d

America has had it.

I used to have a lot more energy for following these kinds of stories, but the Democratic leaders have really worn me down. I don’t think they will do anything of substance about this. Reid and Pelosi must go, IMHO.

The shoe will drop when we have a congress willing to drop it. Or throw it. Not until then.

You seem to be seeing a lot of aliens about, Rev! Did God provide you a special set of glasses…? *g*

OT, but as long as the topic is secret stuff, littel known and going on under the rader, I want to point out that McCain is not only weasling on Hagee, he is looking for more support from the Hagee crowd. These groups are fanatic advocates of very specific foreign policy agendas that they believe are dictated by their relgion. An example is implacable opposition to the two-state solution (in my opinion, any solution) to the Israel/Palestine dilemma.

Does accepting support from these groups indicate the McCain will listen to their very dangerous and warmongering views on US foreign policy? It is historical public record that these radical fringe religious groups may have affected Cheney/Bush foreign policy.

in short: McCain is accepting support from groups that advocate a US foreign policy that will srtar the a final catasrophic world war. It is very important to keep thes issues in public view. Russert needs to grill McCain on this. But don’t bet on it, so need to keep the pressure on.

From a Thingprogress post today:

McCain Courts Secret Radical Religious Conservative Group For Support In Presidential Bid

Last month, hard-line conservative Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, announced his support for Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) candidacy for president. Despite Hagee’s numerous bigoted remarks … McCain said that he was “very honored” by the endorsement.

McCain is continuing his tradition of courting the bigoted right-wing fringe. This afternoon, McCain addressed the Council for National Policy (CNP) in New Orleans in a “make-or-break pitch” for support from the secretive, ultra-conservative group that describes itself as a “self-selected, conservative counterweight” against “liberal domination of the American agenda.” McCain advisor Charlie Black said McCain “was anxious to appear” in front of the group.

CNP was founded in 1981 by Rev. Tim LaHaye … the group and its members have at times expressed and encouraged radical and intolerant views:

– LeHaye once said that Catholicism is a “false religion” and called popes “antichrists.”

– Weyrich has claimed that CNP is a group of “radicals working to overturn the present power structure in this country.”

– A speaker received a standing ovation at one CNP meeting when he suggested that AIDS was a sign from God that homosexuality was an “abomination.”

Because the group is shrouded in secrecy, its official roster is unknown. However, in 1998, the Institute for First Amendment Studies obtained a CNP member list, which contained many right-wing Christian leaders who have a history of extremist remarks, including Pat Roberton, James Dobson and the late Jerry Falwell.

…

UPDATE: McCain has now “repudiate[d]” Hagee’s past remarks about Catholics but still seemingly accepts his endorsement.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/07/mccain-cnp/

The Bush mob has taken the law into their own hands. It’s like a lynching.

AP – The White House says President Bush will veto legislation on Saturday that would have barred the CIA from using waterboarding — a technique that simulates drowning — and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects.

i really cant listen to it anymore,or watch it…i physically do not have the intestinal fortitude,or whatever it takes,no can do

I would want a fair trial for George W. Bush. Unlike the trial given to Saddam.

that was the plan…the Kabuki dance,and crumbs thrown after are designed to do just that

Now is on later here.

In about 5 minutes.

I better go pee now.

So I can watch it pretty soon.

See y’all later.

Scarier still, I think that’s actually their *strategy*. Obfuscate and/or drag stuff out, and then cave or bail when we’ve given up on paying attention.

Not sure that will actually work, at least on us, but it sure looks like that’s what they’re doing. Especially on FISA/telecom immunity.

The Hague would ensure that, okk! *g*

definition of insanity….watching the Kabuki dance,time after time,and expecting DIFFERENT results

Well, I meant that Fourth-branch spies have a dark cloud hanging over Congress that keeps them afraid to go against them for fear of something. They have unfettered access to everything said and written. The whole FISA thing is a red herring. Nowhere does the affidavit that EW is looking at mention AQ or any overseas communications. JMHO and imagination.

Off to the Hague with the lot of them.

I prefer the simpler explanation that they just disagree with us about what needs to be done.

Scarier still, I think that’s actually their *strategy*. Obfuscate and/or drag stuff out, and then cave or bail when we’ve given up on paying attention.

As insane as it sounds they’ve done it every time. Problem is some of us never “stop” paying attention.

Good gawd.

AP – President Bush chastised most other countries Friday for “a sad and curious pattern” of doing little to speak out against human rights and political abuses in Cuba. “Unfortunately, the list of countries supporting the Cuban people is far too short and the democracies absent from that list are far too notable,” Bush said at the White House.

BTW, folks! We should call Dodd’s office and support him for a possible filibuster on Immunity being added to the House’s bill, arising from the kabuki that the House has planned…!

Could you flesh that out a little?

I think it’s Keith’s production team looking for the best possible pics they can find for the criminals who keep lying and/or screwing us.

As for the glasses, I do admit I need a new pair. I have the script, just haven’t gone looking for them yet.

I strongly believe that you are right in what you are saying to me.

The Piper’s a Madman…

Right. Question being, how worried about us are they? We’re a very tiny minority of the voting public – how many other voters do we influence and inform? How often do our storylines jump to the traditional media?

George and Condi loves themselves tortureVanity Fair

The Gaza Bombshell

After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.

by David Rose April 2008
…

On January 26, 2007, abu Dan, a student at the Islamic University of Gaza, had gone to a local cemetery with his father and five others to erect a headstone for his grandmother. When they arrived, however, they found themselves surrounded by 30 armed men from Hamas’s rival, Fatah, the party of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. “They took us to a house in north Gaza,” abu Dan says. “They covered our eyes and took us to a room on the sixth floor.”

The video reveals a bare room with white walls and a black-and-white tiled floor, where abu Dan’s father is forced to sit and listen to his son’s shrieks of pain. Afterward, abu Dan says, he and two of the others were driven to a market square. “They told us they were going to kill us. They made us sit on the ground.” He rolls up the legs of his trousers to display the circular scars that are evidence of what happened next: “They shot our knees and feet—five bullets each. I spent four months in a wheelchair.”

Abu Dan had no way of knowing it, but his tormentors had a secret ally: the administration of President George W. Bush.

…

Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war. The plan was for forces led by Dahlan, and armed with new weapons supplied at America’s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. (The State Department declined to comment.)

…

Strange, we seem to have the highest incarceration rate in the world… And, Shrub has certainly politically abused us all…! ;-)

AP – A day before Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama were to compete for a small scattering of delegates in Wyoming, Clinton cast herself as the underdog and said the odds are not in her favor. Clinton’s campaign has sought to set low expectations for the Saturday caucuses in Wyoming as well as next week’s primary in Mississippi, states where her campaign believes Obama has a better shot at winning.

I believe Reid and Pelosi are doing exactly what they believe to be the best course of action. They don’t believe that there is any kind of “crisis”. They believe impeachment is not warranted. And they believe it is best to wait until 2009, whereupon they will urge all of us to move on in the spirit of “national unity”.

I don’t think they are being forced into this position through some nefarious means.

Hello LS.

L.

I agree. I think the blackmail explanation is farfetched and unnecessary. Simple cowardice, stupidity and greed are explanation enough, alas.

follow the money. All of a sudden the telecom $$ is coming to the dems more than the repigs. Don’t want to upset the gravy train now, do we?

Yep. If it were a matter of blackmail, the telecoms wouldn’t *need* to give them money.

Unless it’s to keep up appearances…

Pow Wow left this little P.S. on Glenn’s post on FISA;

P.S. Chris Dodd has promised to continue his opposition to a flawed ‘conference committee’ product. Note that his ability to block such a product dramatically improves shortly before a Congressional recess, which will be the case next week (it’s the last week of work before Congress takes at least a couple of weeks off). He may not have to filibuster next week (but instead simply object to Unanimous Consent requests) to successfully push any final action and seriously-taxing filibuster off until after the upcoming recess.

Delay, delay, delay…! There is a god…! *g*

No bill at all is a perfectly acceptable outcome.

Or better yet, no bill until we have a president who promises to veto anything with telecom immunity in it.

Curious that Bush would use Cuba and human rights in the same sentence. Whoo boy. This man is scared.

I understand where you are coming from, and I believe you are right. It is the Republican members mostly that I believe are most vulnerable to the pressure resulting in the “rubberstamping”, as well as some stray Dems. and some naive, vulnerable Dems trying to ride the center to keep their jobs. Thanks for your opinion. :)

Lahoma and I want the killings promulgated by the Bush Administration to stop. Good night sweet folks.

okk and Lahoma.

Hi, L!

L

That could be part of it, but personally, I think they don’t care about the immunity thing. They don’t care about possible Bush crimes because they wouldn’t pursue investigations anyway. I think they want to get to 2009 and forget it all. And I think they’re afraid that the Rethugs will use it as an excuse to frighten Americans.

and whom might that president be? Do we have a candidate that will do so?

I was wondering that myself. It sure ain’t McCain, though.

tragically I think there is truth in what you say 8-(

I discovered “Big Band Serenade” on iTunes Podcasts a few months ago. I’ve found that Friday nights, after making calls or doing doors, kicking back and listening to Stan Kenton (tonight’s selection), Glenn Miller, etc. is an outstanding way to release the tension that builds up from work, campaigning and the stupidity on the news. If you like big band/swing, this is the thing for you, and it’s free!

The link will open iTunes and direct you to the podcast.