So, it's Friday, thank all the squabbling gods, every vagrant gluon and each little chittering creature (yes, this means you) and due to spending every waking minute (and one or two I'm not sure about) at work, I appear to have missed some stuff.
F'rinstance: apparently Senators Obama and Clinton know this guy who used to be a terrorist
Forty years ago Bill Ayers was a leader of a Leninist group called the Weather Underground that carried out bombings of the Pentagon, the Capitol and the New York City police headquarters.
On Wednesday night in Philadelphia, Ayers became the latest celebrity in the spectacle of the 2008 presidential campaign. During the debate between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his association with Ayers.
What didn’t come up in the debate is that Bill Clinton, too, had a connection to Ayers, albeit an indirect one. David Lytel, who worked in the White House for President Clinton from 1993 to 1996 as the White House “Web master” and helped create the Whitehouse.gov web site, left in April 1996 and formed Democrats Online, one of the earliest political advocacy sites.
During the 1996 Democratic convention in Chicago, Ayers and his wife, Weather Underground alumna Bernardine Dohrn, hosted a fundraiser at their Chicago home for Democrats Online. Lytel said Friday that no one from the Clinton White House showed up for the 1996 event.
He added, “I’m a Clinton supporter, but I think it’s the absolute height of stupidity” and “preposterous” for her to try to use the Ayers connection as a weapon against Obama. “This is an insane way for her to try to define her opponent. I have no reason to think that Ayers is anything other than smart, skeptical American,” Lytel said. “He’s like anyone else who has activities in his past that might be embarrassing to them as a middle-aged person.”
OK. With all due respect to Mr. Lytel, I think I need to stop and call bullshit here.
This is the Paddington House
It's called that because the people who own it have a Paddington Bear doll up in the window that they dress every day for the weather.
It was built on the site of the brownstone that was blown up when the Weathermen got sloppy in the bomb factory they were running in it (yes, this was terrorism in someone's mom's basement).
I take this sort of personally, because I don't think symbolic violence is a valid form of protest, and because I was going to elementary school across the street at the time.
Ayers' explanation, which I also feel I have to weigh against the whole blowing shit up thing, is here.
Now. That said, Mr. Ayers (and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn) have moved on to academic careers (they would have gone to prison after they turned themselves in, but the government had broken so many laws going after them that the prosecutors were kinda stymied) and have, apparently, in the thirtysomething years since, done yeoman work on school reform. Offhand, I'd say that's a fair balance for someone the candidates barely know.
Let's see who the president knows.
His name may sound like that of a character from a Mel Brooks musical but Otto Reich is real enough. He has just been appointed by President Bush as assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs - and both the manner of his appointment and the role he will now play have profound implications for a part of the world often disregarded since September 11.
Over the last year President Bush has attempted to bring back into office people who were discredited during the US interventions in Central America in the 1980s and 1990s. One such appointment was that of Elliott Abrams, who had two convictions in 1991 for misleading Congress about the so-called Iran-contra affair. He was pardoned by President Bush's father in 1992 and now enjoys the title of head of the "office of democracy and human rights". Another was John Negroponte, the former US ambassador to Honduras, who was accused by his predecessor of turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed there against leftists because it was felt necessary to remain on good terms with the Honduran government. Negroponte was quietly confirmed as US ambassador to the UN shortly after September 11. But the third appointment is by far the most controversial and potentially divisive.
Otto Reich is a rightwing Cuban American whose key policy objective is the overthrow of Fidel Castro's regime and whose support base is the Cuban-American community in Florida. President Bush's brother, Jeb, is depending on this community's votes and backing as he runs for re-election as governor of the state later this year.
Otto Reich came to prominence during the Reagan administration when he was appointed head of the office of public diplomacy within the state department. According to the national security archives, Reich used this role to pursue his own agenda to such an extent that in 1987 the Comptroller-General of the US, a Republican appointee, found that some of the efforts of his office were "prohibited, covert propaganda activities ... beyond the range of acceptable agency public information activities". A letter of September 30 1987 concluded that Reich's office had violated "a restriction on the state department's annual appropriations prohibiting the use of federal funds for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorised by Congress".
but wait, there's more!
Reich also served as US ambassador to Venezuela and was alleged to have used his influence to try and get a US visa for a convicted terrorist, Orlando Bosch, jailed in Venezuela in 1976 for the bombing of a Cubana airliner with 73 people on board. Bosch had already been convicted of a terrorist attack in Miami on a Polish merchant vessel bound for Cuba and jailed in the US.
According to US justice department records: "the files of the FBI and other government agencies contain a large quantity of documentary information which reflects that, beginning in the early 1960s, Bosch held leadership positions in various anti-Castro terrorist organisations ... Bosch has personally advocated, encouraged, organised and participated in acts of terrorist violence in this country as well as various other countries."
Amazingly, Bosch was granted a pardon by George Bush senior in 1990 and is now in Florida, apparently untroubled by the current president's commitment to rooting out terrorism in all its forms. Although many countries seek Bosch's extradition he remains free, protected by the same government that warns other countries that they are either for or against terrorism.
The Democrats on the Senate foreign relations committee had already made it clear that they would oppose Reich's appointment, not least because of the Bosch factor. So President Bush made a "recess appointment" at the beginning of January, which meant that he could side-step the Senate confirmation and avoid the damaging questions which Reich would be asked.
Tsk. Smuggling a terrorist alien into the country. Not nice.
He later distinguished himself by trying to orchestrate a coup in Venezuela on behalf of the Bush administration.
Well, at least he never pushed any nuns out of helicopters
Thirty-two women had fled the death squads of El Salvador after the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 to take refuge in Honduras. One of them had been Romero's secretary. Some months after their arrival, these women were forcibly taken from their living quarters in Tegucigalpa, pushed into a van and disappeared. Our delegation was in Honduras to find out what had happened to these women.
John Negroponte listened to us as we exposed the facts. There had been eyewitnesses to the capture, and we were well read on the documentation that previous delegations had gathered.
Negroponte denied any knowledge of the whereabouts of these women. He insisted that the US Embassy did not interfere in the affairs of the Honduran government and it would be to our advantage to discuss the matter with the latter.
Facts, however, revealed quite the contrary.
During Negroponte's tenure, US military aid to Honduras grew from $4 million to $77.4 million; the US launched a covert war against Nicaragua and mined its harbors, and the US trained Honduran military to support the Contras.
John Negroponte worked closely with General Alvarez, Chief of the Armed Forces in Honduras, to enable the training of Honduran soldiers in psychological warfare, sabotage, and many types of human rights violations, including torture and kidnapping. Honduran and Salvadoran military were sent to the School of the Americas to receive training in counter-insurgency directed against people of their own country.
The CIA created the infamous Honduran Intelligence Battalion 3-16 that was responsible for the murder of many Sandinistas. General Luis Alonso Discua Elvir, a graduate of the School of the Americas, was a founder and commander of Battalion 3-16.
In 1982, the US negotiated access to airfield in Honduras and established a regional military training center for Central American forces, principally directed at improving fighting forces of the Salvadoran military.
In 1994, the Honduran Rights Commission outlined the torture and disappearance of at least 184 political opponents. It also specifically accused John Negroponte of a number of human rights violations. Yet, back in his office that day in 1982, John Negroponte assured us that he had no idea what had happened to the women we were looking for.
I had to wait 13 years to find out. In an interview with the Baltimore Sun in 1996 Jack Binns, Negroponte's predecessor as US ambassador in Honduras, told how a group of Salvadorans, among whom were the women we had been looking for, were captured on April 22, 1981 and savagely tortured by the DNI, the Honduran Secret Police, before being placed in helicopters of the Salvadoran military. After take off from the airport in Tegucigalpa, the victims were thrown out of the helicopters.
Binns told the Baltimore Sun that the North American authorities were well aware of what had happened and that it was a grave violation of human rights. But it was seen as part of Ronald Reagan's counterinsurgency policy.
FYI, we didn't just sit still for what happened in Honduras. We didn't just pay for it. We trained the people who carried it out.
Anyway, that would be Mr. Negroponte, who Mr. Bush (with the compliance of the Republican congress and a singular lack of opprobrium from, say, noted terror opponent ABC - did you hear they had a debate?) named UN Ambassador and Director of National Intelligence.
But his past was less important than sending a message
Sandra Coliver, executive director of the Center for Justice and Accountability, a human rights law center in San Francisco that has aided Honduran torture victims, said the nomination would hurt the United States' image in Central America.
"In Central America," Ms. Coliver said, "Negroponte is indelibly remembered for his role in increasing the amount of U.S. aid to the Honduran military at the very time that the military's role in supporting brutal death squads was becoming abundantly clear. What kind of a message will this appointment send to the people of Central America? That the U.S. is willing to overlook massive human rights atrocities in the name of collecting intelligence in pursuit of U.S. national interests."
Mr. Negroponte, 65, now ambassador to Iraq, is a career diplomat who has worked all over the world in his 40-year career. He has faced repeated scrutiny for his work as envoy to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, when Honduran military units, some trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, carried out kidnappings, torture and killings.
As the first director of national intelligence, Mr. Negroponte would oversee the C.I.A. and the other 14 agencies that are part of the nation's estimated $40 billion spying enterprise. The post is the centerpiece of intelligence reorganization undertaken chiefly because of the failure to warn of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Do you recall this stuff getting the kind of coverage that, say, John Kerry's windsurfing or John Edwards' hair or freaking greasy cheesesteaks got last cycle? In debates? Where this kind of judgment question is, I'm told, real important?
Me neither. Sorry, no sale.
Otherwise briefly noted:
I wanted an excuse to link to Roy's Village Voice wingnut taxonomy, and I thought I had it when Megan McArdle (who has been having the vapors for days over being called heteronormative) called Obama's manliness into question. Sadly for me, Roy beat me to it.
Danny Federici (of the E Street Band) RIP
We've spent 10 billion in Pakistan. We don't have a plan yet
US charities are running out of resources
Also? The cherry tree in the back yard tells me it's spring
and about time too, may I add.
Happy Friday.
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Aloha, Julia!
hey, you.
Happy Friday, Julia.
So?
Happy Friday you too.
Assholes.
Go cherry tree!
Negroponte is scum. Does the Repub dirty work. I hope this is his last administration.
hey dr bong, i was thinking of you when i put together the 420 playlist today
Julia - thank you for reminding us of our actions in Central and Latin America. It is so important that we remember and then assure we never again allow these criminals near power.
Aah, no mention of the ‘School of the Americas’… They trained many of the SA Dictators and hit squads…!
Well, yeah.
Although not everybody has a sociopath.
That’s a great post. But gluons aren’t vagrants. :) They carry the strong force!
Heh, I can chalk up another zed with your site amongst them…! ;-)
Evening, Julia, and happy Friday.
another notch in your zed belt, ct.
So honored that I would be in someone’s thoughts.
;~P
the first post I ever wrote that anyone linked to was about the Bush administration and Latin America. One of the few glimmers of upside to what’s been happening is that he hasn’t left himself the resources to carry out what were clearly his plans for that part of the world when he got in to office…
The chance for you to notch one at my site is there…! ;-)
Evening you too.
but I figured the vagrant ones would end up here - it’s awful late where I am ;)
ct, you are doing a fine job balancing on that one blogwhore per day rule line - so far
Yeah, but that would have taken me back to Bush 1, and it would have been War and Peace. It takes me much longer to write a post at a reasonable length.
McCain’s Pastor calls the Catholic Church a Great Whore and now Negroponte the trainer of Nun Killers has a job again.
Funny how the Anti Catholic press keeps covering this up!
I wonder how many Jews made the mistake of voting for Hitler despite his antiSemmetic comments because all the Germans said stuff like that.
Minorities keep settling for the least of evils often forgetting that evil is well EVIL.
Just what will it take to wake up Catholic Voters?
hey cujo
Good evening dear friends. Passover chocolates anyone? Holiday doesn’t start until tomorrow night, but I’ve already used up, thrown out, or given away anything non-Passover.
Capiche, but, it was so instrumental to much of the foul play that occurs south of the border these days…!
Oh, and Hi Julia! Nice post. Utterly irrelevant since repiglicans can do no wrong, but a great effort!
thanks, tex, the munchies have me reaching for them but i gotta ask, how are they different than regular chocolate?
Aaw, I love pushing the envelope… 8-P
no corn syrup. just sugar and chocolate. and these particular ones are also dairy-free.
I shot irrelevant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas, I’ll never know.
It’s my bread on the waters. I figure if I’m going to eat my liver wondering why somebody doesn’t point out the obvious, it’ll save me a few days of annoyance to just do it myself.
I figure I’m preaching to the choir, but maybe some of y’all are eating your livers too…
digg it so we can make the forking topic relevent.
got any chianti to go with that liver?
Given your checkered past, I’m somewhat reluctant to reach for this…
Does drinking it away count…? ;-)
Joyous Pesach
Capice
Capiche would sound like “Ka Pee Kay”
;~P
Oh, I’d recommend it, but then I’m sleep deprived and coming off of two weeks of far too much coffee.
fork, my past is leaking again?
That’s not good, either…!
czech your drawers?
erm.
capisce. Form of capire, to have.
Thank you.
Same to you? — she asked tentatively,
I stand, erm, sit, humbly corrected.
Hi Suzanne, I was just involved in the previous thread.
No, I’m not, but the neighborhood I grew up in was.
i just started a half hour ago :( forking housework is interfering with my frolicking in the comments during the day.
and I’m wrong, because it’s to understand.
sigh.
Did I mention the sleep deprivation thing?
Capice, Urban dictionary style…
forking housework is interfering with my frolicking in the comments…
want jayt’s easy solution to letting housework get in the way?
Hiya, Suz.
Sounds good. Found out over the weekend that I’m not supposed to eat Hershey’s chocolate any more. Apparently, they’re moving their plant to a foreign country, which would certainly devastate the town of Hershey, PA.
perhaps some time in one of the lake’s many hottubs will relax ya enough that ya get some great forking sleep tonight, julia.
sleep deprevation sucks. that is why it is considered torture - and if pushed too far, sleep deprivation can be fatal.
i can’t turn on a firehose and clean that way, jayt. i’ve gotta keep it forking sparkily all the time for potential showings. also, big open house this sunday afternoon.
That damn work!!! But don’t worry, that is one thing Bush has helped the Average American out with, that pesky employment problem! No more work! I don’t know about you, but I absolutely hated getting up in the morning and going to work! Unfortunately, I also hat not getting paid…
Happy Friday, Julia.
Hi Suz, Betsy, everyone.
I got this lesson back in the haloscan days… punaise, I think it was. May be wrong.
;~P
I have not been able to resolve this dilemma, either.
i can’t turn on a firehose and clean that way, jayt. i’ve gotta keep it forking sparkily all the time for potential showings. also, big open house this sunday afternoon.
good luck Sunday.
Actually, I don’t pull the fire alarm to have the place hosed down unless I’m ready to move out. Until then, I pretty much just ignore it. Much easier.
What is your method?
yeah, I’m with you. I plan to hibernate this weekend.
Happy Friday Margot, Julia, Suz, Betsy, CT, everyone! I did not wear a coat to work today! I had a meal sitting outside! Remember, this is Cleveland…
ct, i keep getting this error over at m&c when trying to post a comment:
I know, I’m very lucky that way.
Heh, that only works when you’re a bachelor(ette) otherwise it’s ineffectual when you’re married… I learned that the hard way…! ;-)
Great post, Julia - thanks for your clear focus on the GOP’s “base”: terrorists.
Terrorists in South Florida. Terrorists in Suharto’s occupation of Timor. Terrorists in Chile, Argentina, and the rest of Latin America. Terrorists from Gehlen’s Nazi organization.
Terrorists: the GOP’s fifth column in our Republic.
Hey, Margot and Christine.
happy dance, christine. is this the fist day you been able to do so?
I have only just discovered that POLITICO.COM is actually run by Bushie neo-cons. Of course Glen Greewald had already reported this.
The billionaire Allbritton family owns POLITICO, and they also controlled the Riggs Bank in DC. Another member of the Riggs Board was Jonathon Bush, the uncle of Kommander-Terrorist Guy. Riggs helped Prince Bandar launder Saudi Arabia money. These funds went to the 9-11 hijackers. Congress decided to conceal Saudi Arabia’s support of the 9-11 attacks. The Bush Crime Family helped the terrorists attack the World Trade Center.
Hit the main button if you see (o) comments, you should then see Gosh it, that opens the Haloscan comments…
hey margot. how’s things?
What is your method?
I like to think of it as procrastination with good intentions…
Wifey-poo would have my hide… ;-)
When they started out with PoolBoy and Mike Allen I wrote them off immediately. What floors me is that they are given any credence whatsoever in the lefty blogs. I just don’t get it.
i did - i got that error when i tried to post my commment.
no. I’m starting to skip trains until one goes by with seats free.
We had snow last week, and my boots are under my desk at work. I opened the windows for the first time this week.
Wifey-poo would have my hide… ;-)
sucks to be you *g*. Happily de-betrothed here…
Hmmm… BRB…!
the only value in the politico, in my humble opinion, is for seeing what the republican propoganda machine has spun out for the talking points of the day.
This “story” was hyped even on NPR tonight. In a neighborhood in one of America’s ten largest cities, I wager you could go to church with or your children could share a school with classmates whose parents have,
committed adultery;
lied to their employers, the police or the tax man;
been arrested for being drunk and disorderly;
had an abortion;
advocated doing harm to abortion providers;
supported the neocons; or
supported what someone today calls a radical student organization, which today probably includes the school Shakespeare Society.
The entire theme is false and fraudulent, like the Bush DOJ claiming that half a dozen nitwits credibly intended - and took credible acts to further a conspiracy - to engulf a major transport hub in an inferno, when all they had was a couple of safety matches. Or like those chumps in Florida that two juries have acquitted of crimes, if not of being stupid.
The story is an elegant example of why everyone should read Glenzilla’s new book. And why the candidates should jump down hard on it and then smoothly shifting to a topic they consider vital to their hoped for presidency.
Where’s Haloscan?
Evening everyone! Thanks for this information, Julia, I wasn’t aware of some of it. I’ll not be holding my breath waiting for any substantial coverage of this in the traditional media.
CT-I was able to post a comment on your site without problems.
Suz, Mad Mommy just posted a comment, and, I had the comments open…!
Heh, I noticed! *g*
*sigh* another zed gone…
Anyone else gettin totally bored with this stupid primary?
Aw, crap, I didn’t even think to do it! Oh well…
Yes, yes, yes.
At www.haloscan.com, I believe …
evening.
It’s kind of stunning, isn’t it? I don’t know why Our Fearless Leader hasn’t given these people medals yet.
35,000 people turn out for Obama in Philadelphia!
Like a few States (or should that be a few manufactured controversies) ago…
The story is an elegant example of why everyone should read Glenzilla’s new book.
Next on my list - still wading through John Dean’s last one (a bit dry and scholarly for me at the moment).
I want bitter!!
I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean
kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.”attack, Attack, Attack, Attaaacckkk!!!I’ve certainly seen my fill of it.
DAMN!
Right rotator cuff pain?
That’s what I’m talking about!
Have a V*lium. High blood pressure is not good.
over on the group w bench for you kid
I heart that you’re more cynical than I am. That almost never happens ;)
over on the group w bench for you kid
Got some pencils I can play with?
just this upside down copy of my pet goat
but… crime! mother stabbing! father raping! all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench!
Pardon the OT for very good news:
The freighter carrying made-in-China weapons purchased by Zimbabwe’s dictator has left the South African port of Durban.
Unions wouldn’t unload it.
Unions wouldn’t transport cargo if unloaded.
Goddess, for the day we once again have such unions in US ports.
Si se puede.
ooh. Link?
until they asked what are ya in for kid
Patience grasshopper, he’s still got several months to go yet.
Well Betsy, things are fine except you and Tex Teen keep beating the socks off me in Word Twist. It’s embarrassing!
Hi Chris, wasn’t it lovely today? I have a fan going in the house.
{The cord is taped down so I won’t trip over it and break my other ankle.}
I must tell you all Of his books tend toward tedious reading. Unless you happen to be like me, I have them all, I’m a Phillips Phreak. The guy is a scholar, but still-still the Southern Strategy. I live in the South and I’m old enough that I remember when people’s Grandparents would say those “Damn Yankees” and they really meant it…
if it wasn’t, you would be enduring the wrath of suz who taught that kahn not quite everything she knows
until they asked what are ya in for kid
…and I said “Litterin’ - and they all moved away from me on the bench there, giving me the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things…
(not that I have the entire song memorized or anything…) *g*
you know that if you press the space bar it changes the order of the letters, right? so you can see them in a different combo
and then i added and disturbing the peace and they all moved back in and we were having a grand ole time
Yes, I know. I’m just not fast enough.
Best day this year — sunny, breezy, face to the sun. It is hard for us former east coast sun lovers to wait for spring (comes to Delaware in February).
Ahhh. Thanksgiving memories.
Hi gang! Just got in from late night in Austin.
Not Alice’s Restaurant…!
Bless you, my dear :)
I figure everyone has to be good at something…
“If you can’t say something good about someone sit right here by me”
Where you can get everything you want?
pointing to jayt —>
he started it
OK, I did not hit the submit button twice. Mod???
Alice Roosevelt Longworth!
“Your head feels like my wife’s bottom”
“Why, you’re right”
‘Cepting Alice
try a hard refresh and see if that resolved it gnome - not seeing a duplicate backstage
and then i added and disturbing the peace and they all moved back in and we were having a grand ole time
but we had fun filling out the forms and playing with the PENCILS on the bench there,…
Please see my #101. heh.
OK, clearly it’s a movement.
eh, we don’t need no stinkin’ pen-cils… we got fonts!
I figured that out. Is this what I saw you guys were talking about? Comments kinda messed up? My screen shows two 116’s and 117’s, no 118, but the only dupe is mine. Oh well. Hard refresh here it goes.
Not Alice’s Restaurant…!
We couud all sing a few bars the next time it comes around on the guitar - with four-part harmony - and *Feeling*!
ok - I’m done.
hey gnome
with pleasure…
Heh, Alice’s Restaurant…
see my 99 ct *laughing*
Hi gnome! How does the garden grow?
[ducks]
you’ll be amazed, I’m sure, to hear it’s on YouTube
thanks, kirk, adding to the news queue
All better.
I saw a shiny black Suburban speeding down the highway in Austin,with all sorts of Repuke stickers on it, including one for McCain. But the one that blew me away read, “I SUPPORT WATERBOARDING”
I almost had a wreck and I said words I never say. I want to write what I wanted to do the that guy, but that would be advocating violence, and I know that is a no-no here.
Heh, I’m not the only one, Julia succumbed too…! 8-)
Actually the garden is great. We got an inch of rain last night so everyone is happy.
I am so trying not to download ten years of debates on whether property destruction is or is not violent) when arson is not involved.
There - I succeeded in not doing so.
Interesting that we all know an Eighteen minute long song’s lyrics…! A true Icon…!
just sent the link to - My. Mother. (who, in her later years, has begun to develop a fine little streak of twisted). We get along a lot better now… *g*
excellent choice kirk.
although, i did have ‘ya gotta sin to get saved’ ready if ya went the other way…
Glad to know things are improving.
Err…on the (ahem) - infrequent - occasion I write a post in excess of
100012501500words, I hear that guitar ‘coming round…(what, me repetitive?)
Yay for rain!
[slugs]
Good evening, all-
Happy to see someone else writing about Orlando Bosch. It wasn’t just Reich who helped him get off, though-in 1989 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, was running for Congress. Her cmpaign manager, one JEB BUSH, approached Bush 41, asking for a pardon. Bush’s own Justice department freaked…especially when Bush gave the pardon over their objections. And don’t forget-Bosch’s partner Luis Posada Carriles, is now free here too.
What good are words if you’re not willing to use ‘em…? ;-)
looking at that 1,000 word count number, i’m thinking that one musta been a short post?
(what, me repetitive?)
Sorry, could you repeat that?
Certainly one of his quick missives…! 8-)
Good night friends. Long weekend ahead and I still haven’t had a full night’s sleep all week.
Night. Happy holidays.
Nite Betsy - sleep well.
That hugs, Ma’am! Well, hugs to ya, and, wishes for pain free sleep…! *g*
pain free sleep wishes tex
Mr. Negroponte, 65, now ambassador to Iraq,…
What, no vacancies at the Ministry of Peace, Love and Understanding?
(oops, got stuck in Bush-World thinking there for a moment).
All better now.
pffft
(too early for raspberries)
;)
I’m spacing on who it is, but isn’t there one of the Democrats in Florida who has declined to help anyone running against her Republican colleagues?
Remarkably responsible lot they have down there.
Sleep well, Tex!
Happy holidays.
thanks y’all
kirk must be the only man i know who gets ‘its too long’ complaints
tree; five bucks from the left.
passionate advocacy is not for the faint-hearted
…or the short winded! ;-)
Yes. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who as the chair of the House Red to Blue Program, is refusing to endorse dem challengers to three wingnut challengers, including Ros-Lehtinen.
Howie has the goods here.
china ship is now in the news box
“three wingnut incumbents…”
kirk must be the only man i know who gets ‘its too long’ complaints
Ahem. Careful, missy, there’s a moderator around here with a certain reputation for cracking down not only on the double entendres, but sometimes even the single….
oh. Never mind.
Yep. A very surprising and disappointing turnaround.
wtf? I thought I liked her.
How ya doin’, Ron?
Night Betsy, sleep well.
Pretty good, Jayt. I’ve always liked her too-she’s been one o the best on real issues. That’s part of what makes this thing so maddening. She said something to the effect that she didn’t want to “stab her own delegation in the back”, or something similar. Very frustrating, ’cause she has been good.
You doing well?
owww!
i’m stepping away from the laptop.
carefully.
the following is a public service announcement - I just made a pot of coffee.
This could get ugly….
Did Rahm step in and tell her to lay off of the Diaz-Balart Bros and Ros-Lehtinen…?
put down the coffee and step slowly away, keeping your hands where i can see em at all times
Aaw, Doc, don’t go! We were only having some fun…!
i’m stepping away from the laptop.
carefully.
If Suzanne is correct, were you ever that close to it anyway?
If her seat is as solid as I thought it was (and that’s me thinking again… poor idea), it shouldn’t matter a whit.
Would someone please tell Digg and Doubleclick that they can load after your main page does. It’s not too much to ask considering your traffic load. It shouldn’t take five minutes to load your content. I can’t imagine how pissed off the folks are who are forced to access this site on dialup are after two weeks of this.
No other site does this to my humble computer. Make it stop, you’re hurting America.
the tech crew is trying to resolve that issue astral.
step slowly away, keeping your hands where i can see em at all times
Hey, I’m un-armed (in so damn many ways) heh.
Do you have Firefox, and NoScript? You can make block everything except the site and after it loads, then open stuff up.
And I thought it was just me!
blush, I tell you. blush.
all the dfh’s need to grab your love beads in anticipation of the groove-in going on upstairs
Astral, though I’m trying to stay..er..arm’s length from the clamshell, digg’s been burying my dial-up for the past couple ‘o weeks.
Don’t understand the techy bits - but I sure wanted to digg folks at the Lake.
From your keyboard to Digg’s shovels!
I tell you, CT, I couldn’t believe it. When I first read about it, I thought someone was kidding, or wrong. Neither, unfortunately. I don’t know about Rahm, but those three are getting a pass, for reasons unclear.
wow julia, i am profoundly thankful.
negroponte is an animal……..and you provided links for people to take him on again.
i will take him on again…..he’s been in the wings, i was distracted by all of the other things, he has a list of atrocities under his name unmatched by anyone living…..hitler would like him, a lot.
i once tried to tell someone about negroponte, they didnt’ believe me until i pulled it all up, every single torturous post he has had, and fulfilled, he is an abu graib guantanamo hero, without him , who knows what wouldn’t have happened?
romero is a hero of mine, before the movie…….
that movie still shakes my soul……i still feel the sacrifice that raul julia made to make it, many forget what the times were like then, he dove off of a cliff to commit himself to make that movie.
please watch it, over and over again……. i have.
and i didn’t hear about hershey’s chocolates being outsourced, moved, i heard york peppermint patties were being moved, 220 employees……..