Attaturk, my man!!!

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Teapot dumb… or dumber?

morning attaturk

Good Morning Attaturk!

…am watching a DVD–Waiting to Exhale…Angela Bassett, Whitney Houston, and others…

then out to dinner in a few…

Hi Jane…I know you got little sleep…hehe…

Morning everyone.

Please note caption beneath the fabulous Warren G.

I would like to think that I would share Mr. Hardings expression were I, also, hugged by McCain.

Hi jane…I know you got little sleep…hehe…
that sounds a little ominous Biodun. are you stalking Jane?

if not, your spitefulness is wearing thin.

oh great. At least we don’t have to keep our Sunnis vs Shiites straight to follow this story. Now we just have to keep our Sadr vs Badr straight. Yay for normalcy.

no..au contraire…not a stalker…watch your manners…

Attaturk, I had already read Greenwald’s article, which was great, but your quote from WaPo is priceless for its sheer stupidity. (Fortunately, I didn’t waste any coffee on it.)

Per Fred Kaplan, the military affairs editor of Slate, what’s going on in Basra is a three-way between three Shiite Malitias: the Sadrists, the Badrists, and the Iraqi government; here’s Fred: http://www.slate.com/id/2187564/

BTW: Here’s Kevin Drum’s guide to the players:

WHO’S WHO….Can’t tell the players without a program in the 2-way (or is it 3-way or 4-way?) intra-Shiite gang war currently underway in Basra and southern Iraq? Here’s a quick cheat sheet:

* ISCI = SIIC = new name for SCIRI = Badr Corps = “aristocratic” Hakim family = exiles during Saddam Hussein’s reign = pro-Iran = generally in control of army and security forces = pro-U.S. = ally of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his Dawa Party.

* Mahdi Army = JAM = “firebrand cleric” Muqtada al-Sadr = Iraqi nationalists = originally part of Maliki’s governing coalition but no longer = anti-U.S. = populist/working class orientation = controls much of the oil sector in Basra.

* “Special groups” = rogue elements of the Mahdi Army = maybe Sadr is just as happy to have Maliki take these guys out for him, but who knows for sure?

* Fadhila = ex-allies of Sadr = won some elections in Basra in 2005 = smallest of the three Shiite factions in the south.

Corrections/amplifications welcome. You may now go about your reading.

Felix is right however, the spitefulness had worn very thin…

…hopefully we can keep the pre-yesterday Biodun a little longer?

Hey Biodun, good to see you around.

BTW, Hillary wasn’t lying after all: http://www.slate.com/id/2182150/

I can’t see the vid – gimme the condensed version…

LOL!!!

hopefully we can keep the pre-yesterday Biodun a little longer?

yep you can..one lesson for me in all this is that people do keep tabs on what you do (or don’t do) on a blog and online in general..much more so than you might think…

I’m glad.

Ha, the decisive push:

BBC

Iraq extends militiamen deadline
Iraq’s government has extended by 10 days a deadline for Shia militiamen fighting troops in the southern city of Basra to hand over their weapons.
If fighters met the 8 April deadline, originally set for 29 March, they would receive “financial rewards”, it said.

More than 130 people have been killed and 350 injured since a clampdown on militias began in Basra on Tuesday.

Parliament is due to hold an emergency session on the crisis, which has also brought a three-day curfew in Baghdad.

PM’s vow

A statement from Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s office read: “All those who have heavy and intermediate weapons are to deliver them to security sites and they will be rewarded financially. This will start from March 28 to April 8.”

In the whacky world of bush if you are not last you must be first! I am beginning to think that we need McBus in the WH just to keep up the whackiness.

I do hope that we have moved on past the pettiness from yesterday on FDL. I had to go to the dentist just to feel good after reading the childish comments.

If KayinMaine is up she is no doubt seeing snow just as I am here… now I am getting pissed with it. Enough already with the snow…although I do understand that winter has had its deadline extended by 10 days.

Ha, the decisive push:

Seems like we have heard that before somewhere no?

The Chieu Hoi Program (pronounced ‘Choo Hoy’, literally translated as “Open Arms”[1]) was an initiative by the South Vietnamese to encourage defection by the Viet Cong and their supporters to the side of the Government during the Vietnam War. Defection was urged by means of a propaganda campaign, usually leaflets delivered by artillery shell or dropped over enemy-controlled areas by aircraft, or messages broadcast over areas of South Vietnam,[1] and a number of incentives were offered to those who chose to cooperate, along with psychological warfare to break enemy morale.

It’s doctored footage of Hillary landing in Bosnia showing explosions going off all aroudn her, and guy’s getting their heads shot off, etc — sixth-grade humor.

As President Bush told an Ohio audience that Iraq was returning to “normalcy,”

Hi Attaturk. That “audience” was at an air force base for chryssake. This idiot flits from military base to military base to groups of conservatives to groups of neo-cons all friendly groups of people so I wold guess that he has never heard a dissenting word and his sky’s are all sunny and bright.

It’s doctored footage of Hillary landing in Bosnia showing explosions going off all aroudn her, and guy’s getting their heads shot off, etc — sixth-grade humor.

Her war experience is about equal to the chimpinchief’s experience

without the codpiece

If ya can’t fight ‘em… …bribe ‘em (some more)

hey dude .. what IS your problem .. it’s raining rosepetals in iraq .. it’s all peace n’ light man .. kagan sez so ..and bush does too ..evwn mc cain .. it’s ALL good .. chill eh ??

you questionin’ the furher ?? dissin’ the “final victory” ??

what kinda damn “Merikan are you anyway …??

now .. do a nice sig heil and STFU .. eh ??

andlele pronto .. pacy pacy chop-chop ..

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The snow is DUMPING outside.

Cripes.

just the facts

The snow is DUMPING outside.

It is not a happy thing

I could spend some time on how we are essentially allowing Iran’s actual Iraq Allies (SCIRI) crush a nationalist movement with nominal Iranian support (Sadr) in the ultimate power play while some spokes-flack straight from the White House claims the latter is the one getting weapons from Iran. Of course, this statement is made while flowers & sweets rain down on the Green Zone — in the form of mortars.

this is actually the big story here attaturk, we all know bush is a liar, we all know he says exactly what he thinks his base wants to hear, that’s not a story

the paragraph is the story because cheney and bush are obviously setting the stage where we WILL attack Iran

they are arming our enemies in Iran so it looks like we have enemies in Iran so they can attack Iran so that they will control the oil in Iran so they steal the treasure of Iran so that whoever is the next president can’t get out of Iran so that the middle class foots the bill for the contractors in Iran

the paragraph I quoted is the elephant in the room

Good morning, pups. It’s Bobo and Krugman today. Bobo finally noticed St. McCain, who gave a speech. He typed a thingy called “Tested Over Time,” and says John McCain’s speech on Wednesday was as personal, nuanced and ambitious a speech as any by a presidential candidate this year. Right… I guess he’s trying to do the best he can. Mr. Krugman’s column is titled “Loans and Leadership,” and he says the candidates’ positions on the mortgage crisis tell a tale that is seriously at odds with the way they’re often portrayed. He has a rather different view of Mr. McCain.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got banana pancakes today. Sorry about that snow — you must all be thoroughly sick and tired of it by now. 298 days to go. Have a great Friday.

juat the fax .. yes m’am .. if fax had any bearing on the matter we’d not be where we are now …

unfortunately .. republicans generally ..and the bushies specifically are impervious to facts ..

per E/O #22891 the use of facts in decision making has been suspended until 12:01pm Jan 20th 2009

“my friends”

mccain doesn’t know how to begin a sentence if he is trying to emote a talking point

you will always know a talking point by the preface,

truly Raven .. if you built yourself an eighteen wheeler out of facts … you could cruise unseen up pennsylvania ave. and run over gwb in the rose garden with it and he’d nevah know what hit him ..

you will always know a talking point by the preface

Well, it’s helpful that he’s “assisting” the media by telegraphing the talking points to be focused on. The sound of his voice irritates me almost as much as W’s. I’ve reached the point where I either turn off the radio or mash the “mute” button on the TV controller when faced with W. I’m getting better at it too — I think my response time is down to 0.003 seconds…

OT: Bob Casey is endorsing Obama today, which means another superdelegate, and is gonna join the Obama bus tour that starts today. Not a big fan of Casey, but this should help Barack in the Penn mid-section.

http://www.philly.com/philly/n….._tour.html

Juan Cole has a pretty good rundown on what’s happening in Iraq this morning: http://www.juancole.com/2008/0…..iraqi.html

I totally rebuilt my 66 chevy fleetside longbed. New engine, tranny, suspension, wiring , John deere blitz black (flat black) and and Our Lady of Guadalupe gearshift knob!

That man should be considered a national treasure!

The truth has been mighty scarce here in Amurikah

Our Lady of Guadalupe gearshift knob

For real??? Don’t toy with me here — I’m seeing a Christmas gift for our priest in this…

you totally rebuilt it .. ummm ..then i’ll not call you m’am a’gin ..

but why put all that work in chevy .. give me hemi’s or give me 2nd place ..

Teh funny
The geek in me wants to know what software those Barely Political folks use

Raven would never lie to you Marion!

you totally rebuilt it .. ummm ..then i’ll not call you m’am a’gin ..

Oh boy… warning warning……. sexist remark *g*

Many have talked about how Clinton’s campaign strategy was blind to what’s happening right now in America, and that Obama tapped into it.

McCandyCain is 10 times more out of touch than Team Clinton. I really think an Obama against McCan’t General will be laughable, even with BigMedia propping up St. John.

We have succeeded in at least starting to shift the pendulum back toward truth and justice. Yes, very early stages, but we first had to stop the direction it was going and then start the new movement.

Now we really need make it pick up speed and make sure these last 20-30 years never happen again. We’re just getting started…YeeeHAW!

Good lord wigwam! The ugliness in Iraq is just un-frickin-believable!

Awesome!
Now I know what to ask for for Father’s day.
‘Course it might be a little out of place in our Civic

i used to know some “ravens” who took long walks in the jungles of cambodia and laos .. any kin to you ??

this iraq thing .. looks like TET ‘68 .. all over again .. 5:00 Follies ..whole deal ..

And just like Vietnam, we are were winning this thing until the liberals take took over and screw screwed it up…

Here’s what’s on Washington Journal this morning:
7:05am – Robert Reid, Associated Press, Baghdad Correspondent, from the green zone

7:30am – Bill Gertz, Washington Times, National Security Reporter
Series on Passport Security: 3/26 – 3/27

8:30am – Nouriel Roubini, New York University, Economics Professor
Foreign Policy Article

Good Morning everybody!

nice surprise from the wapo.

was looking for something else this morning with the google, and found something else. here’s sniippet from matt stoller (circa 2004) that i like:

what blogs represent is a cultural rejection of spin, PR, and bullshit.

Good morning Attaturk. George Bush & John McCain woke up this morning, patted themselves on the back as they looked at their mirror reflection and said, “My, my, my, what a fine leader you are!”. Spit.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

These motherfuckers must be trying to murder irony. They can’t be doing this just to piss me off.

Asshole fucktards.

I’m here to help.

thanks elliot! i will delay listening to democracy now! in order to catch Nouriel Roubini on c-span.

I prefer to avoid the Vietnam analogy.
It is good because the majority of Americans can understand that everything is totally fucked up.
But
We don’t have a draft
There isn’t a good physical exit route (never mind strategy).
There are more factions in-country
Iraq was formerly a fairly progressive industrialized nation (albeit not noted for universal civil liberties)

I think Iraq is evolving into it’s own special Hell.

Glad we are not distracted with a disintegrating situation in a war of choice when a freaking maniac is testing nuclear missiles.

It should be a good discussion.
Here’s a link to Nouriel Roubini’s recent article: The Coming Financial Panic

Good Morning Attaturk and Firedogs,

have some questions about Iraq but need to have a few sips first -

Marion -

McCain’s speech on Wednesday was as personal, nuanced and ambitious a speech as any by a presidential candidate this year.

really David ? ya may want to rethink the whole teabagging thingy ’cause from here it sounded like an aphasic reading a rider on his Homeowners Insurance -what a mook

and yes, thanks Elliot – the kids at calculated risk are always talking about Roubini

Here’s a link to Nouriel Roubini’s recent article: The Coming Financial Panic

oops! that should be The Coming Financial Pandemic

You need to be a member, FreeRepublic has a, well, FREE version of the story!

oh i totally agree .. but the political set is almost an exact match .. ‘tremendous progress’ .. situation under control.. then massive upheaveal ..

but similarities end .. TET result was actually big military victory for USA… lotsa lotsa dead commies ..vc infrastructure loss .. but a political gain for RNV.. demonstrated the feckless nature of a guerilla conflct ..

there is no parallel between the two in terms of the situational ..and the domino theory ..in reverse as a selling point by bushco .. it’s not analogous .. just specific parallels ij political windings ..

thanks!
I hacked that other link out a bad link at cspan, losing access to the whole article.

They are really hard to find, I have a buddy in Tucson that has great connections for that kind of stuff.

Good morning cbl and all you pups.

Teapot Dumb – did notice someone named Albert Fall had been posting here the last few days

Whoa, cool, that’s it!

I’ve referred to your post here .
Hope that the election would eventually lead for a change it won’t be easy but it has to be done.

oooh mornin’, call when you can thx, why so early on the road ?

nice surprise from the wapo.

was looking for something else this morning with the google, and found something else. here’s sniippet from matt stoller (circa 2004) that i like:

what blogs represent is a cultural rejection of spin, PR, and bullshit.

brilliant but did they really use “bullshit”?

ah, I get it, that was stoller

Bowties for ever! I’ve had a Chevy or GMC truck for 38 years. Chevy Talk is my 2nd fav blog. Here’s a Chevy movie I made

since I picked up the solstice gxp I have become a big fan of pontiac

gm sure has made a come back in consumer opinion…that’s good news, now if only they’d start producing some alternative drive chains they could reclaim their market share and enjoy the same overseas

I’ve always like goats

was my favorite super car, but I also loved that malibu, man that was sweet

you should take a ride in this gxp raven, this car is really incredible and has to carry 200 lbs when it competes in class, otherwise even amatuers sweep

my dad has always been a chevy man though…but he loves this tiny ragtop too

that was fun! and was that Raven there at the end?

Defection was urged by means of a propaganda campaign, usually leaflets delivered by artillery shell or dropped over enemy-controlled areas by aircraft

Colloquially referred to as “Bullshit Bombers”…

Good morning. It was probably mentioned on a thread last night, but I thought it was great news that former Alabama Gov. Don Siegleman had been released by the appeals court, pending the appeal.

Mornin’ all!

dropped a 402 olds in a panel truck like the one you show (’56) once .. it’d go uphill just as fast as downhill … vroom .. but got hooked on big block mopars after that ..

ya, marcy has a complete post up discussing the matter

and surprisingly, (not), it came when the house asked to have him testify before congress.

at first it was an escorted release while still encarcerated and then it became an actual release

I am wondering if the release is predacated on him not revealing some “state secrets” that relate to his encarceration

yes, it was stoller. i think the thing that appealed to me was that it was a statement about culture and not technology.

just seemed appropriate, considering how surprising we find it to see, even a little bit, the wapo cutting through the bs.

I wonder if it was the same ride? I bought it in Urbana in about 74? Had an old with an automatic. Furthest I ever drove it was Danville.

That was the little guy, been almost a year now since we lost him.

I just went over to wheel’s house to see if there are nay developments with seigleman and I see this, this is good but will the rest of media cover?

sadly, no;

A fairly significant article just posted at Slate by Eric Lichtblau on the jaded history of the publication, and withholding of publication for well over a year, of his and Jim Risen’s seminal story on the criminal warrantless wiretapping by the Bush Administration. Some of it we knew, some of it we guessed and some of it is first impression. As a whole however, it is stunning to digest.

For 13 long months, we’d held off on publicizing one of the Bush administration’s biggest secrets. Finally, one afternoon in December 2005, as my editors and I waited anxiously in an elegantly appointed sitting room at the White House, we were again about to let President Bush’s top aides plead their case: why our newspaper shouldn’t let the public know that the president had authorized the National Security Agency, in apparent contravention of federal wiretapping law, to eavesdrop on Americans without court warrants.
…
As the door to the conference room opened, however, a slew of other White House VIPs strolled out to greet us, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice near the head of the receiving line and White House Counsel Harriet Miers at the back.
…
The risk to national security was incalculable, the White House VIPs said, their voices stern, their faces drawn. “The enemy,” one official warned, “is inside the gates.” The clichés did their work; the message was unmistakable: If the New York Times went ahead and published this story, we would share the blame for the next terrorist attack.
…
That shared skepticism would prove essential in the Times’ decision to run the story about Bush’s NSA wiretapping program. On that December afternoon in the White House, the gathered officials attacked on several fronts. There was never any serious legal debate within the administration about the legality of the program, Bush’s advisers insisted. The Justice Department had always signed off on its legality, as required by the president. The few lawmakers who were briefed on the program never voiced any concerns. From the beginning, there were tight controls in place to guard against abuse. The program would be rendered so ineffective if disclosed that it would have to be shut down immediately.

All these assertions, as my partner Jim Risen and I would learn in our reporting, turned out to be largely untrue.

Raven -

love to hear the steel belts hummin’ on the asphalt . . . a Cassady quote to boot – and I love flat black – thx

lost mine to overheating problem on I-40 @ ludlow ca. .. ’bout ‘72 .. probably not .. it was an auto .. my all time fav. GM car was a ‘66 toronado .. when i could keep front lugs on it .. lol

It’s actually a pretty silly video but thanks!

HEY! Proof, Zed ain’t dead!

Check it out!

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Sweet! This means we can expect another crying fit from the Cryptkeeper (Carville) about what a traitor Judas monster liar bastard Casey is. More Carville! Love that freakishly ugly DLC troll/Cryptkeeper!

From what I’ve read about Harding, he was kindly man but an incompetent president.

Nothing about W suggests kindliness to me.

Wow, Raven. The gearshift knob alone is worth it!

Congrats. Must be a purty sight. In a former life I spent a lot of time in an online text-based roleplaying game. Supposed to be ancient greece, with a modern twist, like Xena:WP. ANywAY, I got a ‘tat’ on my shoulder, a mix of Artemis and Our Lady of Guadalupe… she had the bow and arrows, but had that red, yellow, green splash border going all the way around.

Since this thread is so old, I hope you dont mind my OT share.

Hard refresh, biodun. It is right here.