Jane!

tw3k did a fantastic photoshop of the On The Take Express. I have to smile every time I see it.

Hi Jane…it’s pathetic that it would take an investigation by Politico to get get some of these bozos to step up. McBush must have pictures.

It may have been the impetus for many a “come to Jesus” moment.

and possibly the realization that the democrats are gonna be in power for at least 8 years, all three branches of our government

They don’t care about appearances anymore. It’s all a big free-for-all.

I think bush has pictures or recordings of pelosi

Nothing like a mid-day smack down to make me smile.
*off to the store, I forgot to buy something for the pies)

Yup, grab what you can while you can.

Boy, this is getting really confusing. I just got to Cliff’s last post and made a comment and the bar popped up saying he had a new post up. I went there and made a comment, and came back here and found that Jane has a new post up. Double teamed all the way around. Cliff’s post was dated 11:15 on our FDL site, but around 10:00 on his site. Fifteen minutes later, here comes Jane’s post. Feel like I’m running a race. I’m going for a nap.

“As I went walkin’ I saw a sign there,
and on that sign it said No Trespassin’
But on the other side, it didn’t say nuthin’.
That side was made for you and me.”

Heh. Raw Story:

A bizarre Capitol Hill ceremony a few years ago in which the eccentric conservative publisher the Rev. Sun Myung Moon declared himself the Second Coming was organized with help from a senior adviser to John McCain’s presidential campaign.

Charlie Black, a Washington lobbyist and McCain confidant, lent his name to the coronation ceremony and invited a few friends, according to newly disclosed e-mails.

“What is clear from this email is that top Mccain advisor Charlie Black is admitting that he helped plan, and would have attended, an event where a convicted tax fraud would have been crowned King Of America and declared himself the Messiah–all on U.S. Government federal property (on March 23, 2004),” writes author Cliff Schecter, who published the e-mails on his blog Friday.

It’s all because you, Jane, and others filed that FEC complaint against McSane. That hooked clusterBush into removing Mason, which gave the story greater “legs.”

Isn’t there something we or Congress can do to stop this?

1,837 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Hamsher and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

“It may have been the impetus for many a ‘come to Jesus’ momnet.”

Oh would that it were true, Sister Hamsher, would that it were true!

KEEP THE FAITH, PASS THE AMMUNITION AND WATCH THE BASTARDS DODGE THE EXPLODING WINGNUTS!!

That was the topic of Cliff’s post that just preceded this one…

Maybe Congress can look at every big money contributor to McCain’s campaign and delay them from getting any federal money until after the election.

Need a damn program to keep track of the posts today. *g*

Or maybe I’ll just fire up my other two machines.

Naow battinggg…

For the FDL All-Stars

Jaaaannnnneeeee Hamsherrrrrrrrr

Thanks :)

Have a McCow!

Wow…hope!!

lol

The McCow! That’s so funny!

So, trying to stack the FEC.

What is this GOP fuckery?

Let’s see now - at FDL, we’ve got poets and artists and a rock star…

I like how it nods its’ head when you pull on it tale.

You do that very well. Ever think of trying out for Vin Scully’s gig?

As a lifelong Cincinnati Reds fan, I’d rather take Marty Brennamen’s place.

But if you want to read something great, there are a couple of baseball books that have re-printed the transcript of Scully calling the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game.

Erudite, well spoken, complete sentences that flow together as if from the written word, yet spoken extemperaneously.

Yeah, but Granma McConnell threw in the monkey wrench to kill the deal. Mason stays, for now. These klowns are just pullin’ stuff outta their ass. A bunch of spoiled brats.

It’s obvious that they have had no actual plan for anything. They just did all this stuff and hoped that they would have enough fingers to plug all the holes in the dike. So far it’s been pretty successful.

Seein’s how I’m dyed-in-the-wool Dodger Blue I’ve enjoyed him for many years. He still does the first couple of innings of each game. Now if they’d just get some stick and some pitching. Is that asking too much?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Scully
Undoubtedly, Vin Scully’s way with words comes from Fordham Prep and Fordham Univ. where he got his start in radio.

You’re way ahead of me, lol. just got here.

and doctors and lawyers and bona fide journalists.
And that’s just the front-pagers!
FunnyD

Check out Glenn Greenwald:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g.....index.html

They’ll leave town in November having gotten the big stuff they wanted, more bucks for Irak, telecom immunity, etc, thanks to Nancy and the Blue Dogs. I can’t go up there and actually stick ‘em in the butt with a pitchfork but I’m sendin’ some heavy vibes of that nature.

Yeah, those moonies know how to party. I left a comment lingering at Cliff’s post…

tw3k@19 & 25:
Good one. Now if McCow could only mumble “My friends” while chewing his cud…

Yep - one of the reasons this is such an amazing community - we actually have people here with expertise to bring to bear. But the artistry of it all just floors me, really.

if he is on the Commission when a quorum is restored he will agree

doesn’t get any more presumptuous and cocksure than that!

707

klowns kar filled with spoiled brats!

who will watch the watchdogs? da blogs…

Moooooooooo Friends!

That’ll be the made in china version ;)

wit’ stinky diapers.

ROFLMFAO. Scared the hell out of the tigers.

lol :)

Right on, brother.
That other side is fir Truth Tellin’!
You pups know that verse is from This Land Was Made For You And Me, doncha?
FreewayBlogger!!!
Woodie Guthrie!!!

What my husband says about George Bush everyday, seems to be applicable to John McCain and his campaign thus far, ” Look at him….every move a mistake.”

It’s the National Anthem, isn’t it?

Bushco’s machinations are being exposed at an ever increasing rate. I wonder how long msm can keep holding back the flood.

This morning while we listening to a story about how the UN was (temp?) halting aid to Myanmar because their government was stopping the aid from getting in, my asked me why that was. I told him about the evil, corrupt junta over there. I told him, and you thought our government was messed up! He responded with But, mom, our government’s fine, it’s the government officials that are messed up!

well,golly gee whiz … another transparant thug attempt to game the system … who could have imagined?

Forever. If shame, truth, or duty could break them they’d have broken by now.

Boxturtle (What to do to recover a true Free Press????)

That’s actually a very good question. Just how long can they deny the building is on fire while firefighters are in the room with them.

that should read MY SON asked me…
Sorry…this sprained finger with the big splint on is messing with my typing.
It’s getting in the way of housework too. Poor me. Ha!

“Lost His Bearings”

Now we know why McCain almost flunked out of Annapolis. How can a third-generation Navy man not know that this is a NAVAL TERM that means an individual has lost sight of their navigational standards. It has nothing to do with AGE…Navy men and those that used this slogan were ALWAYS referring to people who had become sidetracked away from their presumed course. Young captains could “lose their bearings” as well as old ones.

Sad that McCain doesn’t even know Naval Terminology!

Of all human inventions, the excuse is the most worthless.

(Compliments, and in memory, of my high school English teacher, Mrs Cooley, who told that to each new class right off the bat. Dog ate your homework? Tough.)

Here’s another smile. It’s the middle finger of my right hand.
Looks like I’m flipping everyone off.

Sad that McCain doesn’t even know remember Naval Terminology!

Fixed it for you!

Boxturtle (I bet he has somebody to remind him how to tie his tie)

He mixed it up with “lost his marbles”…or maybe he was thinking..”he lost his ball bearings”…

I’d say his defensive reaction is interesting…

I have a friend that say’s Tryin’ is Lyin’.
Tryin’ to cover your butt usually doesn’t work out well, for someone, in the end.

OT, but related to a conversation downstairs:

Come together

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....00986.html

Almost everyone I know just detests msm including the republicans. Poor republicans still think it’s because it’s “liberal”, although they don’t quite what to say when I point out that I & all my liberal friends hate it just as much. Maybe msm should do some polls asking who less popular, bush or themselves.

Late lunch, back to work. Later.

Peace Love Light

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....vered_data
If they can recover data from melted disc drives from teh Columbia disaster, the White House people can damn well find those emails.

Also the ones from the WTC…they sent them to Germany to retrieve the data.

Hmmm - the same emails that burned up in Cheney’s office a few months ago?

He was following the incredible heat and moisture seeking missile.

There might be some smoke in those 8,000 pages of documents that just got dumped of pre-war talking points that they gave to those “analysts” in the admitted psyops operation perpetrated on the American people.

psyops operation perpetrated on the American people

Ha, that’s a really tough mission!

Here is the direct link to the documents and audio, in case anyone wants to go over them…they are in some deep doo doo perhaps:

http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/milanalysts/

The cool thing is that they say it on the audio tapes with Rummy…heh, heh…

demi at 58–hope it heals quickly.

i’ve got a similar finger right now, but there’s no splint on it……and it’s this time it’s gonna stay up for a while……

hope yours is better soon. i missed how it happened, hope it’s a good story. : )

off to run errands. bbl.

A people who will buy a Pet Rock will but anything.
(I know that was a loooong time ago, but it is still instructive)

Nope..I’m talking about the millions of emails that are supposedly lost from the white house servers that also went through the RNC just before the Iraq invasion in 2003.

o/t but who better to check McCain’s bearings than Hojo Liarman who tells us he checked them himself and his bearings are in “great shape”. ugh.

well, lubrication always helps.

Too true, but you can’t get blood from a pet rock.
Now, if we’re talking about I Raw, that’s another story.
Plus, you don’t to feed a Pet Rock. :(

I know. I forgot to note the /snark at the end of that.

I hate to say this, but I’m discouraged this afternoon.
You remember the Zilch response from Pat Leahy’s outrage about the WH saying they lost the emails about, wasn’t it FISA?
The truth is out there. How can we find it?
Discouraged.

ick!

msnbc had some “analyst” syaing Obama shouldn’t have chosen those words. Frankly I would say “lost his bearings” about anyone who doesn’t seem to be grounded in their beliefs, regardless of age. but opponents want to interpret it as an ageist remark, so throwing the wright issue is fair play. blech.

well, there are so many missing emails…the air in cyberspace is just thick with ‘em, so I was taking it at face value.

well, I suppose it was better than bringing in strut rod bushings and ball joints.

They seem to have figured out all the ways to get away with a series of crimes and abuses…

I just can’t believe that there isn’t something obvious to nail them with….they had to have planned this for years and then put everything into place so carefully, so that no one can get to them…but I believe that there is something out there..right under our noses…a thread to pull.

I was thinking that…since it is illegal apparently to use taxpayer money to feed Propaganda to the American people — especially, since the goal was to make a case to put troops into harms way based on “propaganda”…there might be something there that they can’t claim executive privilege to…seeing that the DOD had to release all of those documents via FOIA…and the “missing WH emails” are for the exact same time period and are cited as missing right when the DOD documents get released…it sure looks like they ditched the emails, because they couldn’t produce them or it would incriminate them by showing that they were defrauding the people…so they destroyed the evidence, which is a pattern with them…

I think there is something substantial in this, but I’m not a lawyer…

The DOD documents back up the Downing Street memo. There is some black and white evidence here.

It is by design and what we should do is bust them for failing to comply with the law. There is no excuse. Period. Check this out, Computer World calls the WH CIO “Even Less Credible”. I will provide a second link to a “Where Have All The E-Mails Gone?” which was written about this issue. It has a links page with lots of good information on this whole sorry affair.

What I get from reading David Gewirtz’ pieces is this: the judge is not asking the right questions and is not looking in the right places(these other servers, for example). it’s also obvious that the Bush/Cheney administration is completely and utterly consistent with picking people to do jobs that they are just not equipped to do. Total incompetance and negligence. But again, I think you are right; with these guys, when you have the choice between malicious and stupid, malicious wins out every time. We need a special prosecutor who will pull together a staff of forensic computer people with some real skills…not people looking for 3×5 cards..

Trevor Potter, John McCain’s lawyer, assumes or makes the point of argument “whether or not the FEC has to vote to withdraw from the contract it entered.” He asserts that the answer to this is “no,” that unilateral withdrawal is within regulations.

I have two points. First, I can smell a “no illegal” argument coming up, on the basis that what is being violated (by the combination of a loan agreement and not abiding by limits agreed to by contract) isn’t against statutory law. “Not illegal” will fool most of the public.

Second, while there is a dispute as to whether or not the FEC has a voice in the contract it entered (McCain’s camp insures this is disputed), there is also the question about HOW the FEC will rule when it gets the opportunity to express itself.