ES!

So?

Military report: secretly ‘recruit or hire bloggers.’

Noah Shachtman at Danger Room finds a 2006 report written for U.S. Special Operations Command that suggests ways the military should deal with the blogosphere. One suggestion is for the military to hire bloggers to “pass the U.S. message“:

THink Progress.

Hi ES…

eureka!

That would be Jeff Goldstein.
Evening Eureka!

I coulda sworn it would be Lampley!

OMG…. AZ is expanding the coverage of domestic partners of state employees…. that ought to get the wingnuts pantyhose in wad…

Good evening folks. I’ve got three strings on my guitar and I’m trying to keep up with ol’ Langhorne Slim.

Wrapping up the After You, Alphonso! discussion of stupid public official tricks down below, I got EPU’d with the following:

You would think these clowns would be smart enough, if they wanted to accept a bribe, to have cash deposited in their Caymen Islands bank account and then write a personal check for the damn home repairs.

One of several things that helped to bring down my 6-term R congressman in 2006 (Jim Ryun, R-KS) was that he bought a D.C. townhouse from a couple of lobbyists for less than market value. It was featured on TPM Muckraker. Is that dumb, or what?

is mccain against it until he is for it and then against it again, katy?

That was supposed to have a link. I guess it didn’t survive when I copied and pasted.

Jim Ryun, R-KS

Yep… you got his positions down perfect…..

His position is whatever boosh said.

You just wonder how many politicians do this sort of thing and don’t get caught. But yes it is stupid. For so little gain, they give up their careers and reputations…

Today is Cesar Chavez birthday….. there is a push to make it a national holiday…. OH I need to get that splatter screen out when Lou Dobb’s head explodes

That just might be enough to make Lou rip off his American flag lapel pin.

Where did everyone go?

naw, he would love to get his base riled up over this… twould be a bright shiny object to distract from everyone’s dollar being worth toilet paper.

Saw this a couple of days ago and thought you might want to read it too.

Neil Bush, the Rev. Moon, Paraguay and the U.S. Dept. of Education

Well, at least this is encouraging:

Government auditors issued a scathing review yesterday of dozens of the Pentagon’s biggest weapons systems, saying ships, aircraft and satellites are billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule.

The Government Accountability Office found that 95 major systems have exceeded their original budgets by a total of $295 billion, bringing their total cost to $1.6 trillion, and are delivered almost two years late on average. In addition, none of the systems that GAO looked at had met all of the standards for best management practices during their development stages.

WaPo

Yep. Thinking “Scanners” type explodo. CNN cameras covered in plastic tarps.

Digg won’t let me submit, but if someone else will submit this I will be happy to Digg it…

Your Bush Administration, At Work For You

Bring back Bunnatine Greenhouse.

;)

That reminds me of when Elmore was the TeeVee Engineer for both of Tyson’s fights in Vegas…… asking me if they should have a runner to go out for latex gloves because there was body fluids all over their equipment….. yup…

Here’s that puppy…
DIGG-it!

Hear hear! So nice to see you back in the lake, angie!

thanks newton

Imagine how bad it must really be if this is what they will admit.

I can remember watching the Anita Hill testimony in the Senate about Clarence Thomas and my retired federal employee father saying how much he admired Ms Hill and knew how hard it must of been to bring these charges into the daylight.

We need these heroes who are willing to risk everything to bring that big spotlight on these crimes…

So nice to see you, ESAR– congrats to you!

I was out and about… never totally absent, though.

That’s very interesting, ES. Thanks for thinking of me.

Nothing good can come out of a confluence of the Rev. Moon, the Bush Crime Family, and the nation of Paraguay…

Dugg.

Amen, Angie!

“Rambunctious” McCain says he had chip on shoulder

After having his education regularly disrupted by his father’s naval career, McCain ended up at Episcopal as a rebel. He credited his English teacher, William Ravenel, a World War Two veteran, for helping repair the flaws in his personality.

“I arrived here a pretty rambunctious boy, with a little bit of a chip on my shoulder. I was always the new kid, and was accustomed to proving myself quickly at each new school as someone not to be challenged lightly,” McCain will say, according to speech excerpts.

Yeah, Sure…

http://www.reuters.com/article.....0520080401

how is ar tonight, es. i saw a bunch of orange warning boxes on my local news tonight during the weather segment

Breaking News - AP) - Bush resigns! In a quiet unexpected departure, President Bush has left the Ukraine heading for Paraguay and Vice President Cheney is expected to take the oath in a few minutes (just as soon as they can figure out which D.C. gay bar Justice Alito is cruising).

*April Fools*

Well, it’s your post!
And yes, I had a momentary palpitation.

Harman: women in military ‘more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.’

In today’s LA Times, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) sheds light on the staggering number of sexual assaults within the military, stating, “Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq,” and calls on Congress and the military to do more to protect servicewomen:

The rapists are NOT being prosecuted…. they need those warm and breathing bodies to fill out there numbers…. not in Leavenworth

Stormy weather, nothing to severe.. Makes for a fine afternoon of pickin’ my guitar on the back porch, listening to the river rise, and watching the flowers bloom.

I love thunderstorms.

not april fools day yet on the left coast

Rambunctious is the word I most often associate with John McCain. Teh ‘lil scamp!

me too. one of the best i ever saw was when i was visiting my first mother-in-law in three forks, mt. watching it approach across the valley… awesome spectacle.

second best was while driving across new mexico and the rain was yellow from all the dust and blew sideways.

sigh

More likely, President Obama will have to send the Special Forces in to extricate boosh from the White House, kicking and screaming all the way, on Inauguration Day so the new president can move in…

This is torture condoned as well. Words simply fail me here.

Yeah, I get a Syd Finch moment every year at this time.
Bought it completely!

Just so glad to share all the joy I have endured for the last 10 years of having McBush as my Senator….. welcome to what we have had to endure…

White House Eviction!

Sounds like a good B movie title

I’m sorry for you Arizonians. I saw your comments in the book salon yesterday. Hope the Arizona press gets a little more national attention here soon!

I did say Dodd doesn’t mince his words…

Senate’s Dodd: Paulson plan “not even close”

“I would call this a wild pitch. … It’s not even close to the strike zone,” he said, drawing upon American baseball imagery to criticize Paulson’s proposal.

http://www.reuters.com/article.....7620080331

I just love the Baseball analogies…! *g*

Tribunal to Follow ASAP.

g’nite all.

g’nite angie

nite angie

good to have you back here

Good for Dodd. A grand slam!

Well when we find that critical McBush press person will let you know…. it sure was news to us who live here….. I called a few friends today and they nearly fell over laughing so hard….

The only other person who has as good press here is Sheriff Joe but Old Joe hires 6 figure PR people to make sure he gets the media….

Aloha, angie!

nite angie. Sleep well.

An All-Star in my book…! *g*

I see. You guys didn’t exactly agree with the author…

Harman: women in military ‘more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.’

Crimes that cry out to heaven for vengence!!!

He’s batting 500!

Wow. What a hilarious idea. I guess all the true idiots are about to get a raise.

better than shrub - isn’t this administration batting 0.0000?

He’d better step up to the plate for FISA again…!

Shocked….. are you taking sports?

innocent look? moi?

Loo Hoo - Hate to bust your bubble but McBush gets tons of really suckup media here… He can do NO wrong….. makes me want to keep barf bags next to my chair during the news…

The Phoenix New Times is the DFH paper….

alright… heading off to bed….. Nite All…… it will be another ruff day here in AZ…. another boring day at 88 degrees and abundant sunshine…

this reinforces my desire to remain living alone

Wow. Homeless in Heathrow.

When TIME joined the outreach worker and police officers this week, the homeless people contacted included a man sleeping under his coat, another conspicuously hiding behind an open newspaper, and a woman clutching a duty free bag who insisted she was waiting for a flight, only to whisper when police were out of earshot: “I can’t afford electricity; it’s warm here; please, let me stay.”

g’nite katymine

Depends which team you’re scoring, the Have-Mores seem to be batting 1.000, while the Have-Nots can’t even get to first…!

Aloha, Katy!

Major violation of failure to issue a spew alert, ma’am!

hell, i’ve not seen them even get a chance to bat

where’s bugs bunny when we need him? he could lead us to victory against these gashouse gorillas running this rigged game.

now we are even (wicked evil laugh)

Yeah, and Al Sadr just threw them a curve ball in Iraq…

Do you have a picnic table? *JK*

Jim Ward from the Stephanie Miller Radio show had a skit on that… was doing one of my walks….. nearly died laughing…

Was the table cute, at least?

I guess he had a serious woody! Did he find just the knot hole to fulfill his needs…?

And he can do it again whenever he sees fit.

No, but remove it’s umbrella and its personality takes over.

After working 21 years in acute care hospitals and ER…. that is pretty mild… Only Suzanne might have heard of some of the wacky stuff people do… Try working the ER in Elko NV which is the only ER within 200 miles in any direction…

Ok… I’m going…. another day with 3 hr conference calls…

One man splinter group.

I hope he bought it a nice dinner…

another ahhh errrrr take on the story

*Ouch* ;-)

understatement of the year

I think the table is a trollop.

This case has police in this small town shaking their heads. “Once you think you’ve seen it all, something else comes around,”

Ain’t that the truth…!

let’s just say my department had in its history a case involving a man, a horse named moonbeam and a drivein.

Hey, I was just about to quote that!

The whole thing is just twisted and wrong..but i don’t know if it ought to be a four count fellow-knee kind of crime.

all wudda been well and good if only he had not been into outdoor activities, es - guess his patio is in view of a school

Just erect a sign.. Picnic tables for food only zone. (or some such)

Oh, god.

But seriously, how does someone look at a table, and say ,,,sexy??

This is not a topic for this blog.

Would you possibly want to rephrase the first part of that comment?

hahahaha

Just making sure you’re payin’ attention. *g*

I think everyone’s paying attention, ES. ;)

I truly thought this headline was about the US Military and Gitmo at first glance.

Defence Proposes Trial Kangaroo Management

In August 2007 a Defence-commissioned expert panel reported on the environmental impact of the kangaroo population at the Belconnen Naval Transmitting Station (BNTS). The panel recommended actions that would achieve a sustainable balance.

skippy’s not gonna like that one es

Uh oh.. Is this all going on my permanent record?

Howdy y’all, how ya doin tonight?

in ink

Did Kos, Bowers and Marshall get that memo one wonders.

And, why do Obama supporters always want to go on about how The Magic Man leads in the national as shown by Gallup, a notorious right wing slanted pollster, is another question I have.

You see when I look at this, from Pollster.com, and then this. I start scratchin’ may head and wondering?

What’s goin’ on?

April Fool’s Day indeed:

Next, the Museum of Hoaxes has a fantastic list of the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes.

Topping the list is the BBC’s Swiss Spaghetti Harvest prank:
In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied that they should “place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.”

via HuffPo.

Permanent record? Please.
Even if I wanted to make note of it, I’d have to search the house to find a pen. Then I forget what I was looking for, and so on. In fact…what was the question?

Sorry if the sarcastic laugh didn’t come through the tubez with my question..)

I blame Langhorne Slim.

Is nothing sacred?:

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Roman Catholic nun accused of stealing from the Omaha Archdiocese and gambling much of the money away has pleaded guilty to theft.

An attorney says Sister Barbara Markey pleaded Monday to theft of more than $1,500. Defense attorney J. William Gallup says she also agreed to pay $125,000 in restitution.

Markey faces up to 20 years in prison when she is sentenced in July.

Markey is an internationally known speaker. She was fired in 2006 as director of the archdiocese’s family life office after an audit found irregularities.

The audit found that Markey spent $307,545 for her own use or without documentation. Prosecutors say Markey used the money to cover gambling forays, gifts and trips.

I dunno about that, but there’s been a white unmarked van parked in front of my house today, so I’m watching what I say…