Nice photoshopping of the pix!

Matthews might be the single most asinine pundit person out there. His obsession with the most boring and inane personality “issues” of candidates is nauseating.

Yesterday he was in full blather, like a chipmunk on crystal meth, frothing and thrashing about, over Obama and Rev Wright, I only watched for a minute, but that was plenty.

Bush Says Pain From Economy Defies Easy Fix
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
President Bush accused the Democratic-controlled Congress of being uncooperative on bills that would address pocketbook issues.

No comment necessary

Yes, what can I say? My lack of skill is a gift. ;-)

Codpiece stuffing, it’s not just for our preznit anymore.

Low Spending Is Taking Toll on Economy
By PETER S. GOODMAN
Published: May 1, 2008
The Fractal Spiral is on…Ian Welch made several posts on the downturn vortex.

For those(like me) wanting to catch up on the now-resigned Alice Fisher, here’s the ever prescient CHS’s post on her from a couple of weeks ago. Google sent me there ;-)

http://firedoglake.com/2008/04.....onderland/

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Citizen ASttaurk:

What a fuckin’ depressin’ anniversary…Jesus, I needed that tanight like a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Well, I’d say my generation of “boomers” has failed miserably…it cost us 55,00+ dead and a whole generation of people aleinated from one another and all we did was force withdrawal from the ‘Nam after 10 fuckin’ years and then ended up with Mr. Bill as the only President representin’ our generation post war. And THEN we get a reply of Vietnam and what’s left of the “Latte left” and the socially respectable “progressives” are gunna get us Mrs. McClinton…I ken hear her and Mr. Bill laughin’ all the way to their Swiss depository.

Fuck…why did we get up taday??!!

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, DON’T WORRY ABOUT AIMIN’ THERE’S ENOUGH TARGETS THATCHA CAN’T MISS!!

On the eve of thew first Gulf War Elvez, the Mexican Elvis played her and started his show with these fine words, “Presidente Butch, Saddam Hutsein, YOU AIN’T NOTHIN BUT Chiuaua’s!

Heh heh; very nice. Love it!

Mornin’, Sunny -

That’s where I landed as well after first reading about fisher’s “end” over at Josh’s yesterday…..figured Christy would be dancin’ a wee jig upon seeing the news. *g*

Where ya bean frijole?

Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw, who has written a best-selling textbook on economics, said what he teaches is different from what Clinton and McCain are saying about gas taxes. “What you learn in Economics 101 is that if producers can’t produce much more, when you cut the tax on that good the tax is kept . . . by the suppliers and is not passed on to consumers,” he said.

Remember this gem?

Doan Ends Her Stormy Tenure as GSA Chief
Resignation Comes at White House’s Behest
By Robert O’Harrow Jr. and Scott Higham
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, May 1, 2008; A01

General Services Administration chief Lurita Alexis Doan has resigned as head of the government’s premier contracting agency at the request of the White House, ending a tumultuous tenure in which she was accused of trying to award work to a friend and misusing her authority for political ends.

“I have been asked by the White House to resign,” Doan said in a voice-mail message left with a Washington Post reporter. She added in a statement: “It has been a great privilege to serve our nation and a great President.”

I was inspired to look up info about codpieces this morning. And now I am wondering just what kind of cod piece our great leader was wearing on the day of his grand victory announcement. Did he have a  Common or
”bologna” codpiece

  or an Egg-shaped or
”huevos rancheros”
codpiece maybe it was a Be-ribboned or
”foofy” codpiece

  but in his case… being a warrior and all he probably had an Armored or
”sausage o’ steel”
codpiece Do you think we will ever find out?

Hi, darlin’ -

Long story short in two parts: 1. took silent umbrage with a few comments made here at the Lake and decided, “Pox on it!” and 2. health issues.

It’s a hoot you should say “bean” given the fact that that’s the way I pronounce the word “been”…. have caught flack about it since high school.

How’s the latest furry addition to your household doin’ these days? Get the scratching problem under control?

Matthews’s hero sends another aircraft carrier to the gulf in order to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. Of course Dumbya, the neocons, and the military chiefs don’t worry too much about the consequences.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/i.....8;aid=8839

“The nations of the world cannot rely on the USA and its Israeli advisors to be rational about bombing reactors. It is insane to say, “All options are on the table”, and it is a crime against humanity.”

Well I sure understand that, we have lost the Okies as well. Hope ya’ll are feeling better. My bride broke her leg 7 weeks ago and goes in today for, hopefully, a release to begin rehab and driving! Lil Bit’s scratching has been worse the last couple of days, less feet chewing and more scratching on her little tummy and biting her rear end. Back to the vet soon. On the upside, she’s a sweet pickle and taking command of the house and the befuddled Bohdisattva at a breakneck pace! Good ta see yer metaphorical mug!

ROFL

Hi Waccamaw.

Yes indeedy, tons of Fisher in the FDL archives. And Jane on the subject elsewhere.

Toss-up on the precipitating issue. So many choices. Seigelman and torture at Gitmo are pretty ripe and Abramoff et al, (particularly the et al)is evergreen.

The break occurred just before I left…delighted to hear she’s progressed to the stage of possible driving tho’ rehab can be a right pain.

Feeling better but testing continues to try to find out why I wasn’t and still no definite answers. MRI scheduled for next week to take a better look at some “spots” on two internal body parts.

Poor LB; Isn’t she a cocker and aren’t they subject to skin problems?

I’m getting her ready for boot camp and I’m the DI!

Yea, the Bit is a cocker and they are.

Love the photoshopped pics, Attaturk! Hysterical. I love this comment from the “Want some wood?” link in your post:

Nala writes:
Wow! Bush is very amazing. I think when he goes to bed at night, he comes up with ways to seem more and more stupid.
21 of 26 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

Oh yes. 21 of 26 of us do find this comment very helpful. LOL And we find it to be true and filled with angry sarcasm that we’ve all come to enjoy and look forward to. ;-)

Waccamaw, so happy to see you. Hate those pesky health issues. hope things are better.

Very OT - I’ve been wondering for some time what the tomato man suggested to you.

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins and Kristof today. La Collins asks “How Will It Play in Apex,” and says men with egos are the central topic this week, with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. dominating the American conversation to an extent that he could not have imagined. Mr. Kristof, writing from the Amazon jungle in Ecuador asks “Can We Be as Smart as Bats?” and says instead of living in harmony with the rain forest — or only as parasitically as, say, a vampire bat — we’re destroying the jungle in ways that contribute hugely to global warming.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and there’s a selection of bagels with cream cheese. Did anyone put on 2 Hazmat suits and check out Hillary on Bill Orally yesterday? Happy May.

I think we like having a hero as our president. It’s simple.

Warrior presidents like rayguns, clinton and w are without doubt the most popular. Pacifists like Carter are shunned. All goes to show we get what we deserve.

Carter wasn’t a pacifist when he was president.

MATTHEWS: We’re proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who’s physical, who’s not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern. They want a guy who’s president. Women like a guy who’s president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It’s simple.

Common men of the Press like Tweety, Brooks and Pumpkinhead might swoon over the manliness of a draft dodger who unlike themselves still has the *cough* balls to lie about how he got into the national guard, in two states.
Despite test scores for the pilots exam that were near the bottom of getting in a plane. I’m wondering why the Press has never asked if Bush got any Rich White guy privilege not in getting into the guard thats obvious but to fly?
Has Bush ever flown since the war? I here its a thrill that not many people would ever give up especially if they could afford their own plane.

Sunny -

“Very OT - I’ve been wondering for some time what the tomato man suggested to you.”

Memory aging along with all the other body parts….and this discussion somehow totally slipped away. Refresh me, plez.

Carter was the only one of the four to have been in the military. The others were, at the risk of upsetting cat lovers, pussies. Irony.

a guy who has a little swagger, who’s physical, who’s not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern.

Yeah the press corp sure hates elites who work hard and study to go to college. They prefer if your like Reagen a General Electric propaganda hand puppet like Tweety and Pumpkinhead are.
No wonder the press hates Obama he reminds the press of all the Smart African Americans who didn’t have the money for college or who went to substandard schools who went to Viet Nam.
While they partied, drank beer and pretended to be Lefties to get women at least until they could sell out their principles/souls and make some money.
Obama makes Bush, Pat Buchanan,Newt feel guilty about being alive they all took college slots from better BLACK people and they know that they were not the best and brightest…just better connected lucky enough to have been born white and gotten to a good school.

Unless I’m confused (quite probable), thought you’d posted here that you’d e-mailed the nc tomatoman for advice re: flavorful varieties that might work in your micro-climate. Just idle curiousity, I grow only herbs.

But cherokee purples started coming in last week at the farmers market, so life is good on the tomato front.

“Pat Buchanan, on MSNBC:

If President Bush is more unpopular than the Reverend Wright, the Republicans are in a lot of trouble.

Was there ever any doubt about this? I know Clinton supporters and Republicans fervently believe that Wright is a top concern among voters, but really, were people supposed to think that the crazy rantings of a Chicago preacher are more relevant to their lives than the mess Bush has left behind the last eight years?”

Buchanan was likely responding to this new NBC/WSJ poll:

According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, could end up hurting his chances of winning the White House.

So could his earlier comment that small-town Americans are “bitter” and cling to guns and religion.

Question have also been raised over Sen. Hillary Clinton’s honesty and trustworthiness, as well as her husband’s possible return to the White House.

But a bigger problem appears to be John McCain’s ties to President Bush.

How much bigger? 43 percent of respondents are concerned about the 71-year-old John McCain’s close ties to George Bush.

36 percent have concerns about Clinton’s political opportunism, and 27 percent are concerned about Bill Clinton being back in the White House.

34 percent have problems with Obama’s “bitter” remarks and 32 percent give a damn about Jeremiah Wright.

Of course, Wright is about the only thing Republicans have on Obama beyond the “liberal elitist” thing they run against any Democrat by rote. But no matter how much they harp on it over the rest of the year, it’ll never have the effect that eight years of Bush have on McCain’s bid. So much so, in fact, that despite having two Democrats beating the crap out of each other, the November matchups still tilt Democratic:

McCain (R) 43
Obama (D) 46

McCain (R) 44
Clinton (D) 45

http://www.dailykos.com/

Ah…..vaguely jingles the leetle gray cells. *g* Don’t think I ever followed up on that one. :-(

B/c of feeling poorly, haven’t done much gardening this spring but found some beautiful pots of dill and flat leaf parsley this week that were not to be resisted.

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Citizen Raven and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Citizen Raven, there has been far too much “war talk” with our politics this mornin’, since most out here ain’t got a clue maybe you could put that link back up of the 1st Cav troopers gettin’ down with Mama-san’s good stuff. Let folks watch and think about the entire context within which they understand war…and maybe we ken jest walk on by the next time one of the bastards tries ta play “hero”.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, BUT REMEMBER ONCE YER THERE YA NEVER COME ALL THE WAY BACK!!

Obama has less problems with Reverend Wright, the Bitter comment and being an Elite despite the press giving it more airtime for the last 3,4? weeks than the total news good and bad about Hilary and McCain put together.

“Pat Buchanan, on MSNBC:

If President Bush is more unpopular than the Reverend Wright, the Republicans are in a lot of trouble.”

But why are they in trouble because despite the Main Stream Media’s attempt to smear Obama only 34% are concerned. Which means that only the 30%ers Bush’s hardcore base who we have no almost chance of wining are receptive to GOP/MSM propaganda.
It seems during a change election people are to worried about the ISSUES to worry about the GOP/MSM scandal du Jour.
GOP failure at resolving the issues that plague society like endless war, no Healthcare, the Dollar, Economy,StockMarket going down, while the price of Gas goes up.
Has united the 70%er MAJORITY against the Elites.
This attempt by the Elite Press to tag Obama with the hated term Elite by the Elite Press and GOP is sad.
Its the issues stupid.

Mornin’ all!

“People have to make a living,” Mr. McMeekin said. “But they can chop down 50 acres of forest to make a pasture, or they can earn the same income by chopping down 5 acres and planting cacao.”

So his organization, Yachana Foundation, is distributing high-quality cacao seedlings to encourage farmers to manage small plots that leave most of the jungle intact. Yachana also operates a factory that buys the cacao and turns it into mail-order chocolate.

Not a bad idea grow high value crops.

Morning Twolf1

1st Team Shotgun

Thanx, Brother Raven…sigh…we simply must stop this crazy nightmare in the desert!

People smoked Marijuana in Vietnam? Who knew?

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Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Please take a peek at the “1st Team Shotgun” video Citizen Raven put up up stream…then take a moment er two ta jest think about those young folks in the vid and contrast with the images of heroic proportions that have passed into your minds over the years…then think about all those kids in the desert this mornin’ jest tryin’ ta keep each other alive and outta the way of the Blackwater mercenaries.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, SOME WILL NEVER FORGET THOSE THAT WILL NEVER COME HOME.

Gotta love our manly male president and his manly male deeds like invading Iraq to:
— get rid of the Weapons of mass destruction, which they turned out not to have
— drive out their terrorists, which they didn’t have at the time
— goad locals into becoming terrorists “so we could fight them over there,” which worked so well that we now can’t leave and have had to accrue $3T in costs and have no light at the end of the tunnel
— use Iraq as a platform to launch another war against Iran, which is likely to cost us our fifth fleet including now two carrier strike groups.

It’s truly amazing how manly this one male, our brave and fearless warrior president turned out to be! Don’t it make you proud to be a ‘merican?

Mornin’ ThingsComeUndone. Happy May Day! We’re one day closer to the end of Bush admin.

I suppose everyone knows cheney will do whatever it takes to attack Iran before the elections.

they will not declare mission accomplished ever again either

here’s what really happened with “mission accomplished”

the neo cons, fascists, and maniacs in the PNAC have realised that their “deregulation” economic “strategy” is a brutal failure as far as the populace is concerned

however they aslo see it is an unprecedented success as far as their profit margins are concerned

they have therefore changed their model, from changing to a free market where they might have once believed the market could actually thrive and regulate itself if there were deregulation to a still regulated market but regulated so they can steal the assets of the middle class and the middle class looses any rights to get those assets back

so they now have a new model;

“shock, attack, military action, keep it going till that country is destroyed monetarily and politically”

Morning all :)
The Repugs are imploding. Hill is shooting her self in the arse every-time she acts like a repug. Barak is just getting steadily stronger with each ‘created’ gotch-ya moment. Tis Good..:)
Completely OT (of course!)

Hmmm, hackers, ex-israeli spy master (or 2nd in command), Robert Murdoch and ‘other’ interesting sorts. Cable companies etc etc…This may turn over a few rocks too.
(this just cracked me up.. I know sick)

‘Although his death was officially ruled a suicide, there were enough details around it to create suspicion. Floricic’s feet were on the ground when he was found hanging, for example, and other evidence suggested that his body might have been placed in the park after he died.’ ..

TV pirates, ex-spies, and a hacker that mysteriously commits suicide.
Just some of the characters behind a lawsuit over access cards in the global pay-TV war.

http://www.portfolio.com/news-.....tage#page1

They’re doing more than that in Iraq. Check out the video on the front page of this site:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mypoint

Oh boy.

Winning hearts and minds one death at a time.

Has Perris been around? I’d like to hear his take on the carriers moving in to threaten Iran.
And I say that Congress should, right now, step in and stop this maniac. They threatened to impeach him if he bombs Iran..not good enough. They need to STOP BUSH RIGHT NOW.

A reasonable conclusion to draw is that neoconservatives within the Bush administration are willing to sacrifice much or all of the U.S. Fifth Fleet by militarily provoking Iran to launch its anti-ship cruise missile arsenal in order to justify ‘total war’ against Iran, and force regime change. A new Pearl Harbor can be averted by making accountable Bush administration officials willing to sacrifice the Fifth Fleet in pursuit of a neoconservative agenda.

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.c.....01932.html

Wigwam this is insane Bush would sacrifice a whole fleet of ships to get popular support for a new war?
But what other conclusion can I reach about the choice Bush made to leave our entire fleet in range of Iran’s missiles?
With the fleet gone do our troops in Iraq have aircover? With our fleet gone how long would it take to get another fleet over there? Whats to stop Iran from stopping every gulf oil tanker from leaving. Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran etc we could lose all those countries oil production.
Does Bush channel General Custer with a Ouji board? Does he and General Petraeus stay up late reading the “Art of War” backwards?

As opposed to when we needed to stop him RIGHT NOW for the last 5 years.

You seriously think they could sink the fleet?

read wigwam @45 and you will think your an optimist.

Read wigwam at 45 follow the link then you tell me but if the article is right the conclusion is inescapable unless your smokin whatever bad shit Bush and Darth are tokin.

perris is indeed around

this is it, cheney is making sure there is an Iranian attack or theatre of engagement, he’s setting the stage.

if it happens hang on to seat belts they will try to make it a big one and give martial law a shot to see what happens to our polulace

they will make it a very mild “martial law”, they will only declare it but do nothing so we get angry…till of course the elections

this is really a great move by the administration because the democrats really can’t tie his hands if he is show boating they will be undermining that strategy

even if I were in office it would be really hard to tell the president he better not do anything, that would tie his hands

however he has shown he is an inept commander in chief and they can say that out front, that he must go to them for strategy that he no longer enjoys free decision

however what will they threaten him with?

impeachment?

there is no table for impeachment and congress is impotent to stop them

I know I am rambling but I don’t have time to compose my thoughts, am off to work in just a few seconds

I’m going upstairs folks!

Yes, in a heart beat. They would then close the straits to ALL shipping and it seems like that would be the time Darth would unleash his hounds of hell. (having first neatly removed all ‘conventional’ choices from the chess board)
New moon this weekend.

Hi Jackie. Thanks for that link. Now I want to ask some friends what they know about it.

Ithica Model 70 12-gauge pump. The Professor’s favourite.

Good Morning, I do not recall the quote. How nice Chris thinks going to war is great sexy and courting behavior. We girls just love a nice little war. Gag. Guess that is way Laura hangs around. “Splains” alot.

Thought you might enjoy it. I personally liked the one’s made from the flares.

I thought the flares had a little too much, ah, um, after taste.