Sorry that the first post is OT, but:

Watching Countdown. The audio “conveniently” cut out during the worst person in the world segment right after St. McCain said “As we all know, Al Qaeda are going into Iran to be trained and coming back to Iraq.” No audio for the rest of the segment and didn’t come back until midway through the first or second commercial.

I’m in Nashville, TN. Anyone else have this “problem?”

Note to self: Next time, no bullet points until past the YouTube…

I’m in TX…no problem.

Eli!

Thank you, thank you for a great post. Thanks most of all for posting the McLame video!!

LOL. trust me Eli, we get to it all. in time, but we GET to it.

Cool thing is that I’ve seen it 2 times before you posted. On Olbermann, but that’s better than not on MSM atoll!

Dubya later praises Treasury Secretary Paulson for “working over the weekend,” as if this were grand above-and-beyond sacrifice.

He praises him for working over the weekend? Jeebus

I’m glad FDL & Darcy burner kissed & made up.

The MSM is doing everything possible to have a horse race, whether it is between Obi and Hill or the D and the R.

How about the story that zillions of Ds are showing up in the primaries to vote… and the Rs are not showing up?

heckuva job paulson

LS! Aren’t you happy that George will soon be back living in Texas?!

Dick Cheney continues to insist that Saddam and al Qaeda were like this, and claims that the Pentagon report which conclusively debunked their connection actually proved it. Also claims that “the more that Iraqis have gotten to know Americans… the better they’ve felt about the United States of America.” (Hooray for Stockholm Syndrome!)

And meanwhile a bomb went off killing 40 people. The man lives in a fantasy world of his own evil.

I had no problem with MSNBC, but I do now. The self styled “Chihuahua of Justice” is on. I can’t stomach Dan Abrams and when you throw in the Tuck, it’s like Sharon Stones famous quote about Dwight Yokum.

hi Eli…

hi siri…

I think it displays the kind of statesmanlike knowledge of foreign affairs that would make Joe a *perfect* Secretary of State for President McCain.

Seriously, getting that tool out of the Senate two years early would be the *only* upside to a McCain victory.

Try the ul tag maybe?

Hi, Biodun! And LS!

hi dakinkat…

hi johnSwifty…

Gawd…I’m hoping he goes to Paraguay…actually I heard he was going to be living up in Dallas or something, but I don’t like having the most detested person in the world living within a 100 miles of me…

Hey man, how you feelin’? Still got the crud?

hi Bio. u r a blessing. u’r the only one who talks to me here.
hehe
:)

Evening Eli.
Can St. McCain go anywhere without Huckleberry tagging along?

Hi Siri!!

there was a fight?

i thought msnbc had dumped tucker, and here he is again … the freddie krueger of the right wingnuts … i shudder to think what he does do well, since its definitely not contributing anything to intelligent conversations!

hi!

Evening, newton.

The first Q at W’s Economic Club of NY was from Gail Fosler, prez of Conference Board. I knew her slightly. She’s an economist of rightward pursuasion, but no ideologue. W jacked off on the other male questioner, and Gail said to W: I’m glad you don’t know me. Quite a snappy response. Wouldn’t have thought she was capable of it.

And the MSM has been treating McLobby like he’s the Prezdinent…until today. Heh, heh….even they probably think he’s way scary…

Or dancing.

Glad to hear that not everyone’s station dropped the audio at the most important part. I don’t think it was on my end b/c audio worked for every other channel. Maybe someone else in my viewing area can confirm.

hi LS. i always enjoy reading your comments. Well thought out and on track! thanks for sayin’ hi.
:)

If the Republicans win this November, my husband and I will leave the Democratic Party.

Lahoma

Why is fucker carlson on my teevee? The stupid it burns.

it’s mostly gone…sniffles, that’s all. That was one nasty bug…

hey, we ALL aren’t that dismal, you know

SF Bay Area got the complete audio, although he ducked away from the mic and it dipped some.

If Dick Cheney is still justifying invading Iraq using the same debunked arguments he first used, does anyone seriously think he has changed his mind or given up any of his arguments for attacking Iran?

Oh, thank you!

I predict he (the Tuck) will switch back to a bowtie and they’ll run his little apple cheeks back out there for some generalize pablum to appease the conservative minded viewers. His daddy must have somebody’s shorties in a vice or something.

wolfie is sitting in for LK tonight … they’re chatting about the OB speech

MSNBC keeps having Tucker back on as something or other. I wish he would just disappear….

well that was the kiss of death a la heck-of-a-job-brownie

:)
t’is true. are you an attorney too?

are you on spring break now? or is it over? U of MN is on spring break now–next week too…

Hell no. Question is whether he can talk Dubya into it, and whether Dubya can make it happen.

must be something pretty sinister … he adds nothing and he sure has lost those boyish good looks, he looks like some kind’ve pudgy uncle that every one avoids at parties

Of course not. He just does what he’s always said he’s gonna do…get rid of the axis of evil…but its okay, because after he attacks Iran Conyers will impeach him…

It’s got your internal clock all screwed up, fur sure. What are you doing on the Lake after 4pm cdt? It’s an unexpected pleasure!

yeah! lol
I have a list of those. the “need to go away! NOW!” ’s.
is a loooooong list.
grows daily.

Some student reporter wrote up an interview of Burner, including inflamnmatory phrases like Burner isn’t just a tool of netroots. (That’s vastly overstaing the case, but it’s how it was experienced.) Jane wrote it up as a post (some Sunday, iirc; I’ll try to find it), we all went ballistic, sent emails to Burner, she apologized by emails & subsequently settled it all with Jane. The whole misunderstanding was made worse because Burner’s apologist, who was on the thread, kept blaming Jane, saying that Jane should have checked with Burner before writing such a post. It was all a great flap, but hopefully is now behind us.

Noooo…

yeah, i’m on break right now … other schools must be on it too because the entire hood is filled with all these cheery co-eds with paint on the faces and dirt under their nails…

Yep. Which it’s been compared to, just as The All-Seeing Eye Of Froomkin (and probably others) have compared the financial meltdown to Katrina. The same inattention to the warning signs, and the same disengaged response and out-of-touch happy talk.

Still working on downloading “She’s a witch”. Like the part about the newt.

I agree but dan abrams gets on my nerves too

k. well, you are GOOD! Great comments and observations. one of the best here. respectfully, there are many!
:)

they’re all short-timers now … thank the greater ethos for that!

Who’s the “we” in your comment?

He’s under contract, and they don’t know what to do with him?

I’m so glad you highlighted that Gail Collins line. I thought it was so funny when I read that today.

Great post.

Well, at least Rita Cosby seems to have vanished. Not really a wingnut, just a missing-white-woman obsessive with an excruciating voice. (Take the lozenge! Just… take it!)

Bush and reality…like oil and water

I’m lovin’ this John Adams mini series. I hope the “uninformed” tune in. It’s about the creation, after all. I think (I hope) it’s why it was made and running NOW.

Thanks. I thought it was such an apt evocation of the gravitas gap.

me and some of the other dismal scientists … although I have to say, every jan for the meetings, I doubt that some times

after he attacks Iran Conyers will impeach him…

IMO there is nothing lil boots can do to get impeached. Look at what he’s already gotten away with. No one has the intestinal fortitude to do it. The republics were ready to impeach Eliot over a hooker but bush can invade a country which ends up killing a hundred thousand, bankrupts our country, and basically makes the US a laughing stock and hated around the world but our so called leadership does nothing.

I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m watching HBO again. It’s great.

i’ve been coming into the Lake at night now for sometime now…for about 8 weeks, kinda coincided with my first FDL post went up….*g* weekends too…

Yeah, and it’s such a funny image.

yeah, but they leave a shit load of destruction in their wake

selise
Here it is. Was a Friday, not a Sunday. My bad.
http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/01/loyalty-2/

Wow. Thanks for reminding me! Part I is on now and Part II to follow tonight..HBO

oh yeah, now i remember. thanks.

I did see her. She seemed wacked out a tad, at least. I see that those types don’t linger here long. That’s a GREAT sign for the group. They don’t have to be weeded out, they JUST LEAVE. It’s in the energy, and it is awesome.

yep, Rita..and she wasn’t even as bad as Tucker…

let him make coffee for the greenroom

tell me about it, i live it every down here in the 9

yeah, hehe
me toooooo.
and will likely buy it when it comes available so I can see it again.

shoot, i’m missing it again!

and basically makes the US a laughing stock and hated around the world but our so called leadership does nothing.

We don’t hate the US, we only hate the administration and the hacks.

make that every day

i got better!

He’s giving dance lessons in the greenroom for tips…

It’s on Hobo now. Again.

I missed the beginning…looks really good!

Eli! Thanks for that clip. Read about it, but hadn’t seen it before. This needs to be out there for everyone to see. Dolt.

I just got back from the kick off for Bob Hamilton’s campaign here in CA-49. (Issa) It was so cool! There were over one hundred people there, and many were quite well-heeled! I know that doesn’t sound like a lot of people, but for this district it’s a great start. Almost everyone donated AND volunteered to help…I’m thinking this is possible. Not probable, but at least possible. Please feel free to leave him a congratulatory note on the blog on his website, pups!

She was pretty awful, just not especially ideological, and IIRC not snarky at all. She was always breathlessly earnest.

All those innocent people we killed in Iraq have families. Not to mention the children we locked up at Abu Garab (sp) those people are the next generation of terrorists. They have quite a few reasons to hate us.

Hey, Quebecois,

How does it feel from outside the borders? Does it seem like the inside-the-borderers have all the fun?

BTW, love both Montreal & Quebec City, Can’t remember which one you’re at.

did it just start?

I admit, I’ve been busy. Had I known I might have had to rearrange my schedule; but, that would have been dangerous. The waters of the Lake are deep and demanding.

But with events of late, I needed to stick a toe in. And, I get the added benefit of your late night comments.

It’s been on for about 15 here. We are 2 hours behind Eastern.

I read somewhere else today that not only did McInsane say that in Iraq, he also said it “unchallenged” in an interview the other day. Anybody know where that was? Maybe it was on Sunday or last week. Same thing…AQ in Iran. How funny that it took JoeL to correct him…reminds me of a son telling Gramps that he said something sort of silly…President…ummm…President really scary….

Is Lieberman McCain’s seeing eye dog?

If we hadn’t re-elected Dubya, I think they might forgive. After all, I don’t think most of us knew just how crazy Bush & Cheney were. But after they showed themselves for what they truly are, we re-elected them by a bigger margin than they were elected in 2000. And remember, this was *after* the Abu Ghraib photos came out.

If I were an Iraqi, I would look at the 2004 results and say that the Americans endorsed Dubya’s monstrousness rather than repudiating it.

OMG…707…stop..707

I cannot believe he even sticks in there. Does he REALLY imagine he’ll inhabit the White House? That alone should disqualify him for being out of touch.

Seriously, how out of it do you have to be for Joe Fucking *Lieberman* to be your voice of reason?

i got better!

LOL They were geniuses.

Well…maybe with a big dash of Diebold..maybe..

I can’t tell you how they feel. I sure as hell don’t think they’ll come to the US, when your troops finally leave. Statistically, only a few will come after you. They’ll be from Saudi Arabia again… I think the Iraqi’s want their country and life back, they want to rebuild, lead a normal life.

OMG, I almost forgot about Rita Cosby. Take a lozenge is right! And Greta van Susteran used to be pretty good on CNN, something about the facelift maybe…

LOL! eGGGGGSactly! lolol!

I used to yell at her: GO HOME AND GET WELL!
lol

i just checked, i’ll have to wait another two hours, it just ended

As would I. Which is why I said we are making a whole new generation of terrorists, not winning hearts and minds and damn sure not making the lives of Iraqi’s better in any way shape form or fashion. Even after that bastard was re-selected he should have been impeached. This is the exact reason impeachment should have been the first item on the new congress list of things to do. My children will be forced to deal with the fallout from this disasterous criminal. It truly makes me ill.

Oops - I was going to tack a “Your estimation of election validity may vary” disclaimer at the end of the comment, but I forgot. I have, like, a 30-second attention span.

That’s fantastic! Oh man, if Issa was iced, not sure what I’d do. Remember, Ned Lamont made up something like 40% in a few months to kick Traitor Joe’s hadassah outta the DemocratIC Party. And that was a state-wide race!

Full steam ahead y’all!

no, his attendant. I am surprised that Joe isn’t wearing a white coat.

wow, just read that “responsible end to the war in Iraq” and it is INCREDIBLE

good gawd, we need more of that and public discussion

Yep. The only thing that would mollify the Iraqis is a clear and unambiguous statement that we utterly repudiate and reject Dubya and Cheney and all their evil henchmen, and it just hasn’t happened. The 2006 election is the closest we’ve gotten so far, and it didn’t really change much.

It didn’t take an army to bring down the towers either did it?

I really, honestly belive that Senator Obama has the potential to be a very great president. He might well be the one who will think out of the box and save us.

Lahoma

Thanks. That’s what the Italians assured me when I was there too. Nice to know we’re not hated as a people.

He’s gonna have to have JoeL as his VP, because he obviously can’t be trusted to go out on his own….

Did y’all catch that video by his daughter and his wife..what’s her name?…the other blond…not the missing one…the one he’s married to..Are they both named Cindy? Anyway, they are at the umm…at the 7,000 square foot “cabin”…she’s is not a happy camper, and she says in it that she doesn’t like DC as much…and the daughter says that her mom is much happier or easy going or something like that…at the “cabin”.

Ribs did look really good though!!

well, do catch it. it helps ME to remember why i’m going through all of this now. how and why they fought, and what for! and it makes it so much more worth it to see these portrayals and remember our FOUNDERS!

have you ever seen such a rerun of the three stooges do the middle east? Lindsay,Leiberman& McCain…

Thanks Eli, spot on, as usual.

IMHO, the Bear Stearns collapse crushed a lot of wealthy Republicans. BSC was trading above $85/share in February. JPM paid $2/share.

What are the rest of the Wall Street Banks worth?

I think a lot of Republicans are figuring out that the value of their 401(k)’s and pensions are probably inflated too. Can they afford to send their kids to college? Can they afford to retire? I think Bear Stearns moved a lot of Republicans a lot closer to the center. Suddenly “government regulation and oversight,” isn’t the mother of all evils.

How does it feel from outside the borders? Does it seem like the inside-the-borderers have all the fu