Sad Zed!

Well, not to worry. I’m sure that sometime around Christmas Timmeh or Tweety will expose this hypocrisy for what it is!

And then won’t President McSame feel silly.

To show solidarity with the victims of Hurricane Katrina, McSame’s giving up birthday cake!

BTW, if you ever get tired of that picture of McBush hugging, you can mix it up with these pictures of McSame & Bush eating cake while New Orleans drowns…

Heh! Way back when, I think it was when the elder Bush was running for his second term, some reporter was interviewing the guy who ran Dan Quayle’s golf club and asked “So, it takes a lot of talent to play a good game of golf, eh?” The guy replied “Nah, it just takes lots of practice.”

Scathing
and well deserved, Attaturk.

Great post, Attaturk.

I would be very happy to sacrifice having Republicans in our government. Who’s with me?

Well, the good senator seems to think that he will be able to do what 8 years of Bush/Cheney have not…Osama Bin Laden, Dead or Alive… http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..ning_style

Rolling Thunder, terror bombing of Europe and Japan (the atom bombings being the punctuation mark at the end of that), Dresden, Falluja…such sacrifice (of other people) for the cause of capitalism and the American way.

“Kids, this-piece-of-paper’s-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna- know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing- you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting- officer’s-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say”, and talked for forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there, and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the following words:

“KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?”

I went over to the sargent, said, “Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I’ve rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I’m sittin’ here on the bench, I mean I’m sittin here on the Group W bench ’cause you want to know if I’m moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein’ a litterbug.” He looked at me and said, “Kid, we don’t like your kind, and we’re gonna send you fingerprints off to Washington.”

That’s a sacrifice I’d be MORE than willing to make, starting with our 2 moron Senators.

Keith had a few words on the subject last night. *g*

Amy Goodman had a great interview with Gore Vidal yesterday who sliced and diced the “America is the greatest country!” concept into pieces resembling the size of those produced by a high security shredder. After it was over I was almost standing on a chair screaming, “Now tell us what you really think, Mr. Vidal!” Vastly different from the usual looking around for a large object to throw at the screen.

I wanna see burnt dead bodies

Absolutely no self-awareness:

Bush denounces Mideast extremists

they are trully ONE dimensional characters…sociopaths and Narcissists have that one thing in common…they can not imagine,nor do they care about ANYTHING ,but themselves ,and their agendas…mebbe their kids to some extent,but only as representations and extentions of themselves…they SHOULD NEVER ,EVER be placed in leadership positions of power

veins in my teeth!

(or have i remembered this one incorrectly too?)

Look for this story later today…CNN just said that Bush, speaking in front of the Knesset, said that Democrats were appeasors of terrorists just like Neville Chamberlain was of the Nazi’s. I kid you not.

i love amy goodman. it continues to amaze me that she (and especially democracy now!) are not watched and/or referenced more. we complain all day long about the lack of decent national news – let’s promote the good stuff we do have.

you can mix it up with these pictures of McSame & Bush eating cake while New Orleans drowns…

Every anti-McCain ad from now on should end with one or the other cake photo, with an appropriately snarky caption.

Great post, Attaturk. Thanks.

he did….what more odious excrement can flow from his lips?

what was the response of the knesset?

p.s. did you hear schumer last night. made me sick, had to turn it off.

good mornin…thats a good idea…2 of the same breed…INBREDS!

what did he say?

No, I did not, selise – what did New York’s ‘other’ senator have to say?

See my # 30 on the previous thread.

here’s my bit – from tuesday:

DEMOCRACY NOW! EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Military Intelligence Sgt. Reveals US Listed Palestine Hotel in Baghdad as Target Prior to Killing of Two Journalists in 2003

Last month marked the fifth anniversary of the US military shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. The attack killed two journalists: Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk and Jose Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television network Telecinco. The Pentagon has called the killings accidental, but in this broadcast exclusive Army Sgt. Adrienne Kinne (Ret.) reveals she saw secret US military documents that listed the hotel as a possible target. Kinne also discloses that she was personally ordered to eavesdrop on Americans working for news organizations and NGOs in Iraq

i adore Gore Vidal…he has travelled vastly…his opinions have perspective of a man of the world

In-forking-conceivable! I wish…

the bit of schumer i did listen to was: terror, terrorist, terror. i turned it off when started explaining to the audience how arabs think.

this from the asshole who in 2004 made a statement in the SJC supporting bush’s choice to use torture in the so called WOT.

This is the CNN visual:

Bush compares Dem’ stance on war to appeasement of nazis

CNN reporting Obama campaign already made a written statement. Don’t have that yet.

omg

CNN talking about it now

Obama campaign…CNN visual Time to end “Politics of Fear”

seriously, democracy now! rocks. it is the very very best, by far, daily national news program i know of. and you can listen on the radio, on cable and satelite tv, online video and audio streaming and itunes podcast.

McCain has a point.

Can anyone name the leader of another country who has sacrificed his golf game during wartime?

How about a country where, during a war costing $400,000,000/day, 50 people earn a combined $29 billion? I’m guessing they could have earned $100 billion but felt restraint was important, so they made the sacrifice.

And let’s not forget those tax cuts for millionaires during wartime. Those millionaires are taking those cuts and reinvesting in their hedge funds and paying those country club dues and putting their young Republicans through college so they too may make sacrifices, like their golf game, and send other people’s kids to war in the future.

There’s been a lot of sacrifice!

I gave up golf because I sucked. Same reason Bush should give up Presidentin’.

Bingo! How to promote?

oh dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyum…im so very sorry
{{{{{{SD}}}}}}}} …..oy,i cant imagine how you feel…..my very good friend in Knoxville,lost her 14 year old long hair Calico Monday…i just do not have words….you were such an amazing daddy…what a bond…its funny cause i quoted your words to Wobbs(to my friend)…what a supreme compliment for a natural PREDATOR to love us and bond with us….peace to you…and she is at peace to,and in a better dimension….

Ike was such a “traitor” he TOOK UP GOLF during World War II when he was Supreme Commander in Europe.

The horror, the horror

How the f* does Chuck Schumer know ‘how Arabs think’? This is a guy who doesn’t even know how people in Upstate New York think – because he never, ever comes up here. North of Yonkers may as well be Ontario, Canada as far as he is concerned. He does have an office up here but he does not have a clue about what the issues are for people who live in Upstate New York. If there is any bit of credit I can give to HRC, it is that she did her Upstate homework to get elected senator and has continued to spend a lot of time in our area talking to people, dealing with issues and problems, etc.

Uh, Robert the Bruce?

Golf is a great game to go numb your mind from powerful stress of running the ship of state…i love the game…that being said…CHIMPSTERS mind is ALREADY numb,so we know he doesnt commune with bature on the links,so his game is TOTALLY a waste of golf balls,and SHREDDED turf

off topic attaturk, I hope you’ll forgive

think progress has this up right now;

Through a Freedom of Information Act request, the ACLU “has obtained previously withheld documents” from the Defense Department that “shed light on the deaths of detainees in Iraq.” One of the documents is a list of “at least four prisoner deaths” that were investigated by the Navy, including one detainee at Abu Ghraib who died after “his head was beaten with a stove”:

ok, enough of this “water boarding is not torture”, of COURSE it’s torture, it’s actually called “water torture” NOT “water boarding, it is drowing your victim and then reviving them, showing them the face of their own destruction and then reviving them again

but never the less, that is NOT the only torture these criminals have used and continue to use

Is McCain flying missions again?

Navy Bomb Misses By Mile, Starts Woods Fire

Remember also that war is romantic, so how much sacrifice can there really be?

In fact, I propose that match.com set up a whole category for those looking for the romance of war.

saw the PBS special last night on the ADIRONDACKS…wow,so purty

You have a good point there but he is a Reublican and logic doesn’t work with him.

CNN – bush taking a “not so veiled shot” at Obama. Give that one the “Understatement of the Year” award.

yes its testosterone surging ,makes em think its a great thing to go bomb shit…like when Chimpie felt his first TWINKLE about froggies

I noted this last night. The Freepers have been covering the Bushies and the Golf that they love. The best Golfer in this infamous Crime Family was Prescott Bush who helped the Nazis set up Concentration Camps.

But as of 2005, Yoonitary Golf Guy still had a golf “handicap”.

“I expect he’s about a 15 or 16 today”.

That’s why I call them warpervs.

McCain is flip-flopping.

From the LA Times

Breaking News: McCain sees Iraq combat over, U.S. troops home before 2013

In a speech he’s about to give shortly at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will for the first time talk about a specific date for when he envisions direct American military involvement to be over in Iraq.

It’s January, 2013. By then, he says, American combat involvement will be over and most U.S. troops back home.

A staunch defender of the war in Iraq and an ardent advocate for last year’s military surge, even before the Bush administration decided on it, McCain’s surprising remarks this morning are an early indicator of a significant shift in the former fighter pilot and POW’s stance on the controversial and unpopular war.

…

Moron on CNN: “Jewish american voters may be a little suspicious of obama”

its very befitting

Really. CNN also talked about McCain saying that Obama was the choice of Hamas and that the Bush statement is an effort to help McCain.

LOL

There are a lot of places in Upstate NY that are just as beautiful(different..but beautiful)as the Adirondacks..just not as famous.

The Air National Guard in New Jersey does that too, they even strafed a school once.

Yes, we need a military, and yes they need to train.

Not flip-flopping. New math. 100 = 5

and that is why its called chicken noodle news…i think the KKK will also be “suspicious” of Mr. Obama

He’s using a file compression program.

MSNBC’s visual shows: Bush takes swipe at Obama’s call for diplomatic engagement with Iran.

Bush equates talking to terrorists with appeasing Nazi’s

elephant years.

Thank you. I’ve got a houseful so I’ve still got a lot of daddy-ing to do.

I firmly believe what I told Wobbs. It is one of the great joys of living on this precious Mother Earth, and there are many if we take the time and make the effort to observe all that surrounds, embraces, us.

hahahahahahahahaaha
my moms a 12 ,she could beat poor Chimpies ass….hahahahahahahaa

We’re gonna hear this “breaking news” sh!t on the idjit’s comments for the next month…if not longer. There are days when I feel like just sticking my head in the toilet and making it all go away. :-(((((

pmorian @ 53 -

Yeh, heard that part too but here’s what your comment will morph into by this afternoon:

CNN also talked about McCain saying that Obama was the choice of Hamas and that the Bush statement is an effort to help McCain.

Math was never my subject. From the story -

…

Here’s the optimistic scenario he will describe:

“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won. Iraq is a functioning democracy, although still suffering from the lingering effects of decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension. Violence still occurs, but it is spasmodic and much reduced.

“Civil war has been prevented; militias disbanded; the Iraqi Security Force is professional and competent; al Qaeda in Iraq has been defeated; and the Government of Iraq is capable of imposing its authority in every province of Iraq and defending the integrity of its borders.

…

Two thoughts:

(1) Why does the PGA hate America?

(2) I suppose the “Tigris Woods Golf and Country Club” attached to the new US Embassy in Baghdad will not open on days when a war is going on.

May 15, 2008
Bush suggests Obama wants ‘appeasement’ of terrorists
Posted: 08:48 AM ET

From CNN White House Correspondent Ed Henry

JERUSALEM (CNN) – In a particularly sharp blast from halfway around the world, President Bush suggested Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats are in favor of “appeasement” of terrorists in the same way U.S. leaders appeased Nazis in the run-up to World War II.

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Even Pat Buchanan on MSNBC said making this kind of statement in a foreign country is unprecedented.

that my friend is what lifes all about..and yes there is always another beastie that needs us…………..to need them and so goes the circle of life,rescued a tortise in the middle of a bridge yestiddy …oh the honking horns of all the peeps on their cell phones lol

warpervs

I like that. I like that a lot.

What Bush did today deserves fierce condemnation from everyone. Wherever this story is discussed we all need to post comments.

funny, ’cause I always think of GWB as appeasing the Saudis all the time, but that’s just me.

I don’t know much about math… Is that in base 20?

ooh. on democracy now! this morning…. palestinian hip-hop. the song is called “who’s the terrorist?”

did ja see what VON Rumsfield said about needing another attack,and that we had TOO much peace?…another little man with a war hard on,like Petreus

Amusing coming from a guy who, six months after 9/11, said Osama bin Laden was of little concern to him, and promptly allowed him to escape to Pakistan.

(((Southern Dragon and Yang)))

Knesset Comments:
he’s a Plagiarizing Bastid

it is remarkable what little interest he has in getting Osama, wonder why that is?

it is PURE EVIL,from a total moronic clown,who like Keith sez…doesnt even have the good sense to STFU

but that’s the royal family – not the dirty people

Poppies biddness comes first,pretzledentin doesnt last forever

Didn’t Gates get the We-hate-Iran memo?

From WaPo

Gates: U.S. Should Engage Iran With Incentives, Pressure

By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 15, 2008; Page A04

The United States should construct a combination of incentives and pressure to engage Iran, and may have missed earlier opportunities to begin a useful dialogue with Tehran, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday

…

oh the honking horns of all the peeps on their cell phones

F*** ‘em.

oh MITTENS…..you sad sad loser

never…i just sachet by,and S M I L E

Found this at AlterNet.

Flanders, a persistently under-utilized media talent, is trying something altogether different with a national TV magazine show on Free Speech TV. (The show airs on satellite. It also has a daily presence with streaming video on the creative blog FireDogLake, where former Hollywood producer Jane Hamsher and team are building a powerful presence by embracing activism and creative media strategies.)

In our interview with Flanders, Huffington hammered away at the corporate media for enabling the worst right-wing habits and at the Democrats for needing a spine implant. Meet the Press’s Tim Russert got eviscerated for being a zombie of conventional wisdom and rerunning, over and over, ideas that have been consistently and widely discredited by journalists and experts.

Pat Buchanan keeps repeating that this is astonishing for a president to attack a presidential candidate while on foreign soil.

And let’s not forget that it’s Republicans who “got” 9/11.

They sure did.

“Got”:

1) Happened on their watch;

2) Saw it for the political opportunity it was for them;

3) Knew immediately that, despite ZERO connection, it was their in to that war in Iraq they’d wanted for years;

4) Realized the fear it evoked could be used relentlessly to control Americans and Congress;

etc., etc. etc.

Really depraved.

Same thing.

this man may have a conscience…whatcha think?……..nah

I haven’t heard that one, but there is this.

Pat Buchanan says that Iran is an axis of evil country but so is North Korea and that Bush has been negotiating with North Korea for a long time.

This is an admin. that outed a CIA agent – an act of treason – and got away with it.

Why would Bush think he can’t do or say any damn thing he wants wherever he wants?

Who’s gonna stop him?

Belay that.

The sachet and smile makes their heads explode.

McCain needs to be forced to condemn Bush for this statement.

hahahahahahahahaha
always remember 2 legs bad…4 legs very good…”G”

I was talking to my wife on the phone just now (she is at work) and I could find enough adjectives to describe the outrageous words from the dipshit in chief. I guess there is no better place for outrageous belligerence than in a country that persues a policy of repression and apartheid but for fucks sake this guy is nuts and should be dealt with accordingly. I am truly pissed.

i wasn’t a schumer fan before… but i find it amazing how much i now can’t stand him after hearing that clip of him supporting bush’s decision to use torture.

That’s truly amazing. Maybe it was actually Gates who reminded him of Chamberlain. Rationalism confuses him when it contradicts the facts he learned from John Wayne movies.

“thank you jesus!”

You could argue that discussion with THIS ADMINISTRATION is the same as appeasing the nazi’s.

Let’s get these people on trial and in a cage damnit!

My favourite song of hers. Christine was here and played a small venue about 8 blocks from my place. Solo acoustic. It was w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l.

i hope he gets a very painfull case of SCABIES

perfect ! rocking chair – excellent optics :D

How many lies can you find in this statement?

Israel will be celebrating its 120th anniversary as one of the world’s great democracies, a secure and flourishing homeland for the Jewish people.

His comments are also interesting considering the recent revelation of his ex-Sect’. of Defense expressing a belief that another terrorist attack would help Republicans politically, which we’ve heard before too from another Repub.

“…on the creative blog FireDogLake, where former Hollywood producer Jane Hamsher and team are building a powerful presence by embracing activism and creative media strategies.”
YES!!!!!

Good forkin’ luck with that one, darlin’! mcbush won’t say it………….but all his mouthpieces will.

Won’t happen.

McCain has begun down the same road to go after Obama.

i feel sorry for israelis. they are governed by the same kind of militaristic bigoted warmongers that we are. and the iraqis and palestinians pay the heaviest price.

If willingness to serve and sometimes to sacrifice defines what it is to be an American, then the Bush family is not American.

What was it that Colin Powell supposedly said to Bush — You break it, you own it. Well, the GOP owns this, lock stock and barrel.

follow the money…just sayin

The only way that fairy tale works is if there’s a Dem president and a Dem Congress. Even then . . . I dunno. We’re being bogeyed by the Bush Republicans. Bingo, bango, bongo Iran?

perfectly stated

Oh – I cannot tell you how badly I wanted Keith to use the F word instead of the H word at the end of his special comment last night.

Thanks for that JW. I need a bit of a laugh after the last few minutes of shithead in chief

NEVER LET THEM FORGET IT!! sorry

than he would sound like BILLO,i liked his restraint
hahahhaahahahahaha

One or the other of the worthless talking heads made the observation that this is the first salvo of the thugs’ gameplan for the rest of the year. (My words, not his/hers.) Probably the only true statement that particular t. head has made in recent memory.

completely agree.

my working hypothesis has been that a*p*cip is really a front for a faction of the MICC (probably international arms traders).

What’s with that anyway? Is it oil envy that get the US and Israel so determined to kill everyone in the ME? It seems it is government policy in both countries to foster hate of Muslims. Nuts.

Hey, it’s not our fault that they built their civillization on our oil!

must foster hate in order to militarize society. must have a militarized society to control the proles enough to rip them off and make a ton of money selling arms.

fracking criminal protection racket.

priceless!!!

they got a veryyyyyyyyyyyy,lucrative arms biddness going

Mob,it least the Italians have good food and wine…..

In the TV News business, that’s the nuclear option. You don’t go there as long as there are other alternatives.

I’m guessing Keith may be saving it for later use, such as following an unprovoked BushCo military strike on Iran.

remember in 1984 there was the daily 10 minutes of hate? not sure i remember the frequency and time and time correctly but you get the idea i hope

McCain has begun down the same road to go after Obama.

that particular meme has
worked out so well for them in the past :D

Yeah. I heard Ed Schultz play the audio on his show Tuesday and decided I had to hear it again. It’s even better as a video. This thing needs to be posted everywhere. It sums things up so well and in such a short time.

and you have put it in such a concise,pithy sentence

Aren’t the US and Israel #1 and #2 in the killing for sale business?

Unfortunately, it actually has worked. Gave us a second Bush term.

We’ve yet to see if it’ll work this time around.

dare i send it to my christofascist,Limpballs listening neighbor? i trully skeeeerd of them

Brilliant vid. Methinks a certain prez candidate should use this guy in his campaign ads.

yea,thats why i loved the drubbing they got in Lebanon

excellent, excellent post from bernhard on the Stalemate on Iran. it begins:

Finally someone important says what the ‘Iranian nuclear issue’ really is about – Iran’s security:

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his crotch.

yea his voice and manner are fab

707 …cats all scattered

But when you think about it, what else do Repubs have to run on?

Nothing, far as I can tell. They’ve nearly destroyed this country and have destroyed another.

It’s the only card they have, and I wouldn’t count it out at all. Listen to the morons call in to C-Span insisting Obama is a Muslim with nefarious intentions for America.

Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public.

mebbe i refrain from sending it to the neighbors,

my first thought too – better yet if he’s wearing VFW drag

Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public.
i dunt!

There was that little pause (intentional?) before he said hell. I almost thought he was really gonna say it.

Please don’t. I sent it to the parents of a friend. I do hope they get though it seems they live in a cave in the dark ages.

Just called my rep about NOT funding the war; a Repub from TX. Good luck. Seeing Quayle’s name reminded me of the kind of record reflected by the Veep choice: Quayle + Ferraro + Joe, Repub in drag. I know that’s not all, but you get the point.

Yeah – Sue Simmons on WNBC here in NY said it off camera (but it made it onto the air; she didn’t think her mike was on). She apologized right away, but everyone is going batshit that she should be fired or at least suspended.

Personally, I love the F word. I use it every chance I get.

Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public.

I do believe that that old saw is being blunted by the upsurge of information gathered through the tubes.

Duncan Hunter says that W was correct in calling Democrats “appeasers” just now on C-span. Since Democrats and Obama are “pretending” that the Iranians are not involved with supplying the Iraqis with EFPs and training their snipers to “kill Americans”.

Desert cammy vest with VFW pin and bass fisherman ball cap.

selise,

Two Minute Hate

yes, it’s one of my favoriite BUSHCO references, why do you ask ? :D

He still needs to be pressured by all of us. We really need to make a big stink about this like we did about the ABC debate. We need to push back hard because this is one of their lines of attack against Obama.

Cool. He has a website/blog.

It’s already in the Republican echo chamber. We really need to go after them on this one. We need to be posting on all the news sites.

we may be ignorant, but i don’ think we are so very stupid.

and ignorance, unlike stupidity, is a completely curable conditioin.

That’s interesting. I thought he and Bush were “surge” supporters. Didn’t we buy-off a lot of Sunni’s who had been killing Americans? I wonder if they think Petreus is Chamberlain.

Do you think that 1984 is required reading for skull and bones nutters?

excellent. thank you.

confession: i’ve been getting a bit worried that our threads on mcsame were turning into something similar. something to be aware of imo.

Bush and his moron sycophants just can’t seem to stop digging. Instead they call for a bigger shovel.

These guys make a fence post look like a theoretical physicist.

I liked the goofy golf course in the Alexander Bay – Thousand Islands location northeast of god forsaken Watertown

fence post look like a theoretical physicist.

You know my brother?

for all of us. i hadn’t read it since probably the ’70s or ’80s – but got read it again during the run up to the iraq invasion (read some stuff on vietnam then too – some of the pentagon papers and ellsburg’s book “secrets”). it helped me put our current disaster in some context.

what kind of physics?

Well, with regard to digging, I’ve become convinced that the U.S. will be plagued with troubles in the Middle East until we invent a way to slant-drill for 7,000 miles.

I think it’s making it worse.

This is remarkable…thank you. We could add the fly over, as if he were really paying attention.

Wingnut dickhead

From Pharyngula Blog

Michael Medved says something dumb

Posted on: May 14, 2008 12:34 PM, by PZ Myers

Did someone declare this National Flaming Racist Idiot week, and I just didn’t notice until now? You have got to read Michael Medved’s latest foray into pseudoscience: he has declared American superiority to be genetic, encoded in our good old American DNA. Because our ancestors were immigrants, who were risk-takers, who were selected for their energy and aggressiveness. Oh, except for those who are descended from slaves.

The idea of a distinctive, unifying, risk-taking American DNA might also help to explain our most persistent and painful racial divide – between the progeny of every immigrant nationality that chose to come here, and the one significant group that exercised no choice in making their journey to the U.S. Nothing in the horrific ordeal of African slaves, seized from their homes against their will, reflected a genetic predisposition to risk-taking, or any sort of self-selection based on personality traits.

But, he hastens to add, modern African-American genetics have been leavened with the genes of recent, self-selected immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa, so their unfortunate stay-at-home genes have a “less decisive influence”.

…

Hunter also rationalized the Iraq war by bringing up the massacre of the Kurds back in the late 1980s, seemingly unaware of the daily massacres of Iraqis now, seemingly unmoved by 9/11 and still thinking America had to avenge the Kurds rather than the victims of 9/11, etc.

But it’s Republicans who “got” 9/11.

Groan.

god forsaken Watertown

During one summer “camp” in the army reserve we found a bar in Watertown that had every conceivable pickle on the bar. Wonderful place to spend a day on manoeuvers.

That was supposed to be a reply to the NO picture. Sorry.

LOL. No, but I’d love to meet and talk with one some day. Met Carl Sagan once but he was a Cosmologist.

What’s he think of string/membrane theory?

Quantum I do believe although I flunked math at eleven.

A Bay! Boldt Castle. Very nice place. Made me decide that I could really use my very own island.

Met Carl Sagan once but he was a Cosmologist.

Getting a facial?

I love it when John gets weepy – From Dana Milbank

John Boehner, the House minority leader, had a similar case of Election Anxiety Disorder when he arrived a few minutes later in the House television studio. “Well, it was another wake-up call,” he said of Tuesday’s loss in Mississippi, using the same words he used after last week’s loss in Louisiana. His eyes watery, Boehner allowed that “we’ve got to do a better job.”

Wingnut dickhead

That doesn’t even begin to describe the guy who wrote this shit. Jesus H F***ing Christ!

LOL.

I get the feeling it’s going to be difficult to keep him hydrated for the next six months.

Or, we get smart like T. Boone and buy wind turbines. His company just placed an order for 600-700 wind turbines with GE to establish a huge wind farm in Texas.

oh man, the most unintuitive field i can think of. 1 semester in p chem was more than enough for me.

SD- i though sagan was more of a planetary astronomer (not cosmology?)

Gee – do you think Boner meant that they’ve gotta do a better job at governing? I don’t.

It doesn’t seem to work too well with HRC these days either.

Oh, perish the thought. Governing? Nope. Never heard of it.

You’re right. His varied writings and TV series fell under the cosmology umbrella. Cool dude, very personable. Get him started he could talk the bark off a tree.

Well, anyone who wonders if Barry is ‘tough enough’ to push back on Goopers smears – here is his response to Bush at the Knesset: “It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack,” Obama said in the statement. “George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.”

The White House said Bush’s comment wasn’t a reference to Obama.
Yep…like we believe that one.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..obama_bush

Missed your post upthread. Sorry bro.

and one of his most famous students is….Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Yes, I was joking. Before I retired, my job was to study proposed construction, including wind turbines, to see if they would have any adverse effect on aviation. The whole great planes will shortly be occupied by wind turbines. Initially, they gravitate toward semi rugged ranch lands, which are cheaper to lease, and the Bernoulli effect may increase windspeed in rugged terrain.

new post upstairs

i really admire people who can take their work as make it accessible and exciting to a wide audience. i know that among some scientists that is not considered “serious” work. but i think that’s bullshit.

corrwection: great plains

It’s interesting that Little Georgie quotes a leading Republican Senator of 1939 in his attempt to disparage Senator Obama…

Little Georgie sets up his usual straw man “Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,”

Can his skull be so thick and hard that he doesn’t understand that you talk to and negotiate with your enemies so you know enough about them so you know how to either defeat, neutralize, or befriend them? Talking with does not equal appeasement. Is his grasp of the English language so limited that he can’t understand this? Does he not understand that by purposefully not talking to “terrorists and radicals” he accepts their arguments as legitimate yet not agreeable?

Why does Little Georgie continue to think Americans are so stupid that they can’t see through the utter falacies of his attempts at argument?

And finally… why is Little Georgie still President of the United States? Can’t we get rid of him our of shear embarrassment over his gross ignorance, gross ineptitude, gross negligence, malfeasance, et al??? Can we impeach him now? Can we get Speaker Pelosi to (secretly) agree to begin impeachment proceedings beginning November 5???

ITMFA

If the Iberdrola deal goes through in New York, I predict they will have wind farms south of Lake Ontario within a couple of years. The wind out there is ferocious. My middle daughter was at RIT and the wind chill factors there in the winter time were in the minus 40s.

I remember seeing charming little homes on little mounds of earth and rock and vegetation dotting the great lake areas visible from Noo Yawk side.

Watertown is a village with the requisite complement of victorian style architecture in the residential areas.

The military bases (what’s left of them) is about the only economic engine in that corner of the country (upstate). That and the tourism locales.

In case nobody’s noticed yet, Isaiah Poole has a neat new post up about “Chasing the Rainbow: Is Racial Healing Within Our Reach!”

I agree.

seen at americablog

One of my best buddies from Yale knew Dubbya fairly well in the mid sixties in New Haven. He tells a tale, and this is an honest person, of how Dubbya used to get so drunk and coked out that he would vomit on himself in the Old Campus quad. And how Yale campus police would scoop him up and take him back to his dorm, and not arresting him, as they did any ordinary Yalie in those days. And how Dubbya flunked out…yes that is flunked out, not C average as Rove told the media…three times. Why does this Froomkin essay surprise anyone?

have you ever read weinburg’s “the first three minutes“? if you haven’t, and like thinking about cosmology and the origins of the universe, i highly recommend it.

Yes, they will be all over the country, but the largest expanse would be from west Texas through the Dakotas. I was somewhat concerned because hundreds are proposed and beeing build in the lakes areas of Minnesota and the Dakotas, which is the major wild fowl production area of the country. I haven’t heard any controversy, so apparently the ducklings and goslings can navigate through hundreds of 400′ towers with spinning blades and flashing lights.

Washington Post doesn’t even quote the Obama response to Bush’s speech in their story. They quote Perino as saying that Bush was not talking about Obama. CNN is still saying that they spoke with White House aids who said it was about Obama.

Bush Denounces Mideast Extremists
By Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 15, 2008; 9:42 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..id=topnews

Ohhh, thanks. That looks like fun. Road trip.

I lived and worked in Syracuse in the eighties, I really loved the area.

Interesting choice, the Dakotas. Them having to build windbreaks in order to cope.

Turbines I’ve seen in West Va. Allegheny region rotate at a rate that seems reasonable for airborne wildlife to evade. However, they are blight on the ridge they occupy. Moreover, the developers of these farms primarily interested in countrywide energy trading, not serving the region they’ve laid siege to.

Laura Bush gave up caviar in solidarity with the families of veterans.

-G

A favorite stop in N. Syracuse was Bruegger’s Bagel Bakery. Great soups and scrummy sandwiches on fresh bagels. Yum!

I my home was in the Village of North Syracuse!

I’ve got it! McCain and George W have done a Vulcan mind meld.

Excellent post, Attaturk.