thumper!

Gnome on the spot!

Gnome! How’s Zed?

Not dead, but ready to go to bed!

Amanda Hugankiss The Gannons for McCain!

((( ES )))

Scuds for McCain !

Nattering Nabobs for McCain

Eureka!
Sweet tune, haven’t caught the flik yet.

Spew! Scuds! hide your kids..

See, and I thought everyone was saying Zed was dead.

Muttering Manboobs for McCain

Twitchy, blinky, winky old coots for McCain.

-G

Well, some of us were :-)

Bwa-ha-ha!

If it means Huckleberry and RGJoe are gonna shed their shirts, I’d leave that one in the drawer.
Or, maybe not.

Me either, it’s on my list now.

Yikes! Where’s that tanker truck with the brain bleach?

Phil Mickelson, a Republican? quelle surprise

OMG … please watch this movie … excellent, understated film …

Get Offa my Lawn, all you People for McCain!

The Zedoxology:

Praise Zed from whom all blogging flows.
And the end of the thread we see below…

[znip]

Zed was in the beginning.
Zed now and ever shall be.
Zed without end.
Amen, amen

all rise

((Mwah)) to all - and goodnight.

LOL … ((( kirk )))

I don’t know anything about golf.

But that’s a fucking Republican if I ever saw one.

Nice Kirk!

G’nite fellow Canuck !

lilly livered hedge funders..

‘nite Fern, sweet dreams!

If this were a bar, we’d throw you out on your Haddassah for that image!

My work is done then…

The old Knight Ridder gang (now McClatchy) takes Scottie to the woodshed tonight.

May 29, 2008
Memo to Scott McClellan: Here’s what happened
Until now, we’ve resisted the temptation to post on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s new book, which accuses the Bush White House of launching a propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq.

Why? It’s not news. At least not to some of us who’ve covered the story from the start.

(Click here, here and here to get just a taste of what we mean).

Second, we find it a wee bit preposterous — and we are being diplomatic here — that a man who slavishly - no, robotically! — defended President Bush’s policies in Iraq and elsewhere is trying to “set the record straight” (and sell a few books) five years and more after the invasion, with U.S. troops still bravely fighting and dying to stabilize that country.

But the responses to McClellan from the Bush administration and media bigwigs, history-bending as they are, compel us to jump in. As we like to say around here, it’s truth to power time, not just for the politicians but also for some folks in our own business.

Bush loyalists have responded in three ways:

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Virtual bar. Next rounds on me!

niaCcM rof sokcaw sdrawkcab

G’nite Fern - sleep well.

(as well as anyone who lives atop our tar sands and water and Arctic sealanes can sleep, of course. Cheeky squatters.)

(((Petro!)))

PS - Both of you: Quit peeing in our drinking water! Only murrikans can do that…

That made my eyes bleed.

ko

707

Phhtt.

Don’t Waste Water … Dilute it ! *g*

“we won’t swim in your toilet if you won’t pee in our pool”

‘night eminent Firepups. Gotta go hit the sack and prep for Jon Stewart prior to zonking.

I just added up all of the bank owned properties on Craigslist. It was only the US cities from Atlanta to Wash DC.

9,344 houses (homes)

‘ere

g’ nite BobbyG

nite bobbyg

.yrt eciN

raspberries: Canadian-speak for terrorist.

What clearer sign that we must invade to protect our soft northern underbelly?

(and our vital bodily fluids: water and oil)

Something I saw a little while back … in parts of Detroit, homes can be had for about $11,000 … problem is, the people who’d want to live there don’t have jobs …

Give ‘em a break, Kirk - they finally let us have our fish. How long have we been arguing over that one?

Sweet and gentle dreams, Bobby.

Have a Shwarma, Dood ! *g*

I missed BobbyG? Well, goodnight BobbyG.

when I get to the bottom I go back to the top

Las Vegas was the worst. 2452 homes. Everything is a gamble in vegas.

Sleep well, BobbyG

And remember: if Canada hadn’t taken your water, our Las Vegas would not be in a desert!

Remember the Sands!

[I’m so glad reading a Hearst paper doesn’t affect me….]

Inyo county road maps….

I heard that whole sub- divisions in Cali could become Ghost towns, is that true ?

Yes. I saw it on the news. People were living in a park that was near their old homes. It was in LA county some where.

In answer to What’s on your mind tonight?, a crazy California car dealer had a come to Jesus moment yesterday. If you’re a religious minority in America, it was a good day.

Fish oil - yet another vital bodily fluid the devious Francofascists sought to deny us.

Berets: the new headscarf

McCain: More of the same

Zed is dead

deal with it

We keep da terrists at bay with cloaks made of Back Bacon …

Yes, yes. But I heard a rumor that one of Obama’s daughters called a boy on the playground a “poopyhead.” We should be much more concerned that America’s next President might be raising man-haters.

Next on Meet the Russert.

((((( jacqrat )))))

Yup..

McCain Declares Mosul “Quiet” On Same Day As Three Suicide Attacks

Hi. :D

what?

another edition of simple answers:

If the Republican party was smart, they would embrace and defend McClellan and ask tough questions of their standard bearer: Bush.

But, that will never happen.

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

Half-off (his rocker) sale at McCain-o-rama! With scruples this low, we must be CRAZY!

hint: 3sivund helped.

Timmeh’s head looks somewhat swollen these days … or is it the nes HDTV signal ?

Love this bit, regarding Bush’s veto of the expansion of health insurance for children:

Bush said he vetoed the bill because he considered it a step towards “federalizing” medicine and an inappropriately expanding the program’s goal beyond its original focus on helping poor children.

… and what’s good for Iraq ought to be good enough for Murkah ..

I’d like to see the Obama justice department federalize boosh and his collaborators and send them all to Leavenworth

or, there’s always the Hague…

No he’s not.

Zed’s in bed.

How federalized is the health insurance plan Bush has?

Not quite. I had to do a favor for TexBetsy. Now I am off to bed.

Dizzy, violent, intellectually incontinent, emotionally labile, geographically challenged, cognitively disordered…

and perceptually impaired.

I don’t get it: why bother with the primaries?

For the GOP, John McCain is “the natural” nominee.

Hey, what’s not to like?

Balckwater sure worked in NOLA

(shooting surviviors..)

As I recall, it’s part of the largest centrally planned economy on the planet.

Not even a raincheck for dinner?

(ducks)

The zed is dead. There is no zed.

Wordpress used to label the first comment on a thread as comment “0,” but that would flash only for an instant, and then become comment “1.”

Somebody around here got the idea that “zed” meant “zero,” and started calling the first comment in a thread the zed.

Actually, “zed” means “z.” And the current architecture of FDL no longer produces “zero” comments. So it never made sense to call it the “zed,” and now it makes even less sense.

The zed is dead. There is no zed. There never was.

‘nite, Gnome, seeya in the morning!

Oh. You’re serious.

FITZ!!

Another declaration of remission accomplished?

CIA chief says Al Qaeda near defeat
Fri 30 May 2008, 3:59 GMT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the world, CIA Director Michael Hayden said in a Washington Post interview published on Friday.

The upbeat assessment came less than a year after the CIA warned of new threats from a resurgent al Qaeda, the Post said.

“On balance, we are doing pretty well,” Hayden told the newspaper this week citing major gains against Osama bin Laden’s network and its allies.

If it never existed, how can it die ?

… and since it cannot die, it lives eternally …

Yes, I graduated from the Rummy School of DoubleSpeak, however did you guess ? *g*

Al Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the world…

and

On balance, we are doing pretty well…

Yep. I like this guy’s certainty.

So, tell me again, John McCain…why do we need to stay in Iraq for the next 100 years?

Professor Plum in the conservatory with the zed.

g’nite, Gnome: sleep well!

please don’t tell us about the known knowns, and the unknown knowns, and the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns, and the known unknown knowns, and the unknown known unknowns…

Nice, first they invent the GWOT, toss 9 Trillion down the drain and now declare victory … sounds like the Boards of Ford & GM came from the same school as BushCo …

I’d love to tell ya … but they’re classified … *g*

I don’t have the stuff to hit teh googles looking for it, but I bet Yale and Harvard are commonplace in those CV’s.

And of course, they all served their Country.

Who are we fighting? Al Queda

Who will run Iraq if we leave? Al Queda

Who have we utterly defeated? Al Queda

Wait a fuckin minute here!

a more serious(?!) response would be that when Nietzsche said God was dead, he did not mean to imply that God had ever existed, but rather he meant to say that the idea of God was dead, or in other words, inoperative…so to say that zed is dead does not imply that zed ever existed, but rather to say that the idea of zed is dead, or in other words, inoperative…since I have irrefutably proven that zed never existed in the first place.

FITZ!!!

…which, however, raises the troubling question that, if boosh was going to pardon scooter libby regardless of whether he was convicted by a jury of his peers and sentenced by the court, did Fitz ever really exist in the first place?

Sooooo…
Lennon was right?

But the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. *g*

Coke!

Nietzsche may not have been the brightest philosopher on the block- but probably when he said that ”God is dead” he meant that God is dead.

I obviously didn’t go to bed. As I was shutting all the windows, I got the hiccups! I need someone to scare me out of them, or them out of me.

I followed that.
I’m kinda worried about what that means. Always worry first, is my motto. If you’re not worried, you’re not paying attention!

Well, if the streets have been pacified, how about the pipes? Are the filters and dragnets permanent?

Didn’t he once sing, “I don’t believe in Zed”?

Well, he was :-)

!!BOO!!

But I don’t believe he conceded that God was ever “alive”

but I could be wrong

BOO!!!

or…

CHENEY!!!

man!!BOO!!s

“Imagine there’s no zed….”

it’s really not hard to do

STOP! You and neuro are scaring me! Now I have Cheney manboobs in my brain.

aaiiigggghhh!!!!

Zed? This is Alpha and Omega season. This is political campaign season in the USA.

Good heavens, Man. Do I have to spell it out for you?

OK, Thanks! The hiccups are gone. I think it was Cheney that did it. Now I am really gone. *poof*

Is that a bogus wikipedia entry?

“I don’t believe in Zombie Terrorist…”

nite gnome

those are actually his pacemaker battery packs.

*wait a sec* (knock at door)

oops, Secret Servi—–

trying to squeeze this through the glitchy toobz

Leaders in Congress Seek to Settle on Nominee

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Party officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, had been contacting uncommitted superdelegates, encouraging them to prepare to go public and resolve any last question about the contest between Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

“By this time next week, it will all be over, give or take a day,” Mr. Reid said in a Thursday appearance at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, where he was promoting a new memoir.

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g’nite fer real, Gnome!

you sure that’s not just the Fox Security police?

maybe BillO got word of your heresies

give ‘em hell, harry…

and nancy

f*ck it. we’ll do it live!

That’s great, but illustrative of just what Nancy and Harry want - somebody else to step up.
They are perfect for the task.

Quick, the loofah!

Do they have thumbscrews or something?

sounds like they mean business

Are you sure it wasn’t Professor Zed in the Conservatory with the plum?

no, but they have a lot of experience in “persuading” members of Congress…all of whom are superdelegates…to do what’s good for the party

It never does anything beyond sound like they mean business, though. Personally, I’m looking forward to some real drama at a convention for a change.

I haven’t a clue.

snrk

Going mildly serious - it just never occurred to me that the House would be the body that held the line on FISA modernization.

So it’s possible that I don’t know very much. For whatever part Nancy might have had in that, props.

Nah…

The Rush Limbaugh protestors ought to be a hoot.

“when the whip comes down…”

at least Pelosi had this to say:

On the new book by former White House spokesman Scott McClellan, who charged that the Bush administration bungled the Iraq war and failed to act quickly enough after Hurricane Katrina: “I totally agree … this war is a big lie. It was a lie to begin with, and it continues to be a lie … at some point, maybe the lies just got too heavy for him to carry.”

there had to be a candlestick in there somewhere…

If any of them can find Denver. Wait, did I write that out loud?

I like what Steve Porter had to say in response a lot more.

707!

Just tell them it’s near the home of Coors.

what is it about Pelosi and the Rolling Stones?

Don’t Lie to Me

…at some point, maybe the lies just got too heavy for him to carry.

For him to carry. OK Nancy.

it’s all a bit foggy…

Colorado Kool-Aid

Glad you mentioned him.. I noticed Howie and crew still have him on Blue America.. I need to send him some lunch money.

True - they’re like bees, they can find each other from miles away.

Yes, me too, to be honest. He’d be on SnS Blue if I could figure out how to make that work. Unfortunately, I’d have to have two no-doubt incompatible payment systems in one page.

ding.

fog?

Noticed you still have Donna listed.. Is she running a post campaign deficit ?

Too late Gnome. Get up and get dressed.
Ms Coulter should be there any minute now. And she’ll be looking for a good time!

“Do it! We’ll pluck it live!”

Post campaign? I just received an e-mail a couple of days ago asking for more money. She’s running in a special election on June 17 (Al Wynn quit so he could spend more time with his lobbyists).

Have I been asleep at the switch again?

Awfully plucky tonight, aren’t we?

Site says a Special Election next month…

Holy smokes.. OK she’s on my lunch money list too.. PB&J for month here..)

Men with banjos who know how to use them.

From your piece:

The tragedy equally appalling is that the Democrats, who came to power promising to hold Bush accountable, have done nothing in the last two years except to contribute to the deaths in Iraq and sit idly by while gas prices have risen and our jobs have continued to be exported.

Fuck.
Lunch money indeed, Eureka.

Well, that scent of beans and tomato paste was the chili I’ve been cooking. It’s in the fridge now, and it’s time for me to hit the hay. Goodnight all, and whatever you do, don’t let your last waking moment be spent thinking about Anne Coulter. I’m still trying to recover from that dream about her fighting a velociraptor over a pig carcass. Poor thing lost a leg. Anne didn’t fair too well, either.

LOL!
nite cujo

He he..G’ nite Cujo

((((amputee pig carcass))))

‘nite, Cujo359.

g’nite. cujo - wishing you good dreams.

Obama used party rules to foil Clinton

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, rival Barack Obama planned for the long haul.

Clinton hinged her whole campaign on an early knockout blow on Super Tuesday, while Obama’s staff researched congressional districts in states with primaries that were months away. What they found were opportunities to win delegates, even in states they would eventually lose.

Obama’s campaign mastered some of the most arcane rules in politics, and then used them to foil a front-runner who seemed to have every advantage - money, fame and a husband who had essentially run the Democratic Party for eight years as president.

“Without a doubt, their understanding of the nominating process was one of the keys to their success,” said Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist not aligned with either candidate. “They understood the nuances of it and approached it at a strategic level that the Clinton campaign did not.”

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Okey dokey, no Coulter for you tonight. Sweet dreams.

About to turn in myself..

G’ nite fabulous firedogs

Whoa! I’m saving this one. Chet rules!

The inevitability argument of the Clintons torn asunder, not by hubris, or arrogance, or fisticuffs, but smarts.
Nice.

nite eureka

They say that you can predict the kind of president a candidate would become by the kind of campaign he/she runs and the kind of team they assemble. Hillary spent five million on Mark Penn who didn’t even know that Democratic primaries are proportional rather than winner-take-all. By contrast, Obama’s folks (especially Berman) understood the details, e.g., it’s important to focus on districts with an odd number of delegates, because there a whole delegate can be won or lost on the basis of even a single vote.

‘nite, Eureka, besteses!

Laura Ingraham: You Can’t Be American AND Latino
Published May 2, 2008 in Conservatives, Fox News Channel and Immigration.

On Fox News tonight substituting for Bill O’Reilly, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham made a point in a discussion of immigration to note that someone can be “American OR Latino”. Because surely nobody could be both, right?

http://www.oliverwillis.com/in.....nd-latino/

Laura Ingraham is a radio talk host worth listening to with her sharp insights intot he state of politics, culture and faith. She is an outspoken Roman Catholic and defender of the pro-life movement. Also a survivor of breast cancer. After years of waiting for the Guatemala adoption process - which her listeners id not know of - she is now a mother.

http://www.prolifeblogs.com/ar.....graham.php

Yep. I’ll admit to being amazed at the raw guts and brains they have in that group. I wouldn’t have thought it possible in one so young.

I think it starts at the top … the strategy … the winner went for ‘all- inclusive’ while the other ignored the parts it couldn’t win …

I’m really going to zed this time.

My gift to you

There is so much ugly tripe that comes to mind, reading that personal blurb at the end, that I have to bite my tongue to keep it inside.
But she is a wolverine.

When one “Z” won’t do … ya gotta have two … “ZZ” … *g*

When Obama announced, I was disappointed. Nothing like a bit of seasoning in the Governors mansion to give him some executive experience, and even now I think he should have waited. But he is the nominee, and his judgment in selecting his team is an unexpected surprise.

Senator Clinton, on the other hand..

People kept on underestimating him, myself included but he ran a brave idea for a campaign and deserves it.

To me, he’s shown that he has what it takes to be POTUS … not that the present guy has set a high bar by any means … I would like Edwards as Veep … together, they really get the crowds charged …

I saw them as old men just a couple months ago. I refuse to resemble that remark.

((((( wdd )))))

It’s 4 a.m. over here and my fingers are numb from writing all day … G’ nite all and have a super weekend !

Fuck this Great white crap!
Ian

Brave is a good word.
Not perfect by any means - heck, where are we going to find a “near-perfect” or even “not particularly” Progressive candidate that can win?

So this is what we have. I am not disappointed, given the alternatives. But the second he reaches across the aisle, we have to be ready for it. Cause he will.

Great discipline and wisdome too.

Very helpful article, particularly the history - I’ve been feeling woefully uninformed about allocation and role of delegates.

A U.S. nun who worked with victims of violence in Guatemala was shot dead in what appears to be a politically motivated murder, said human rights activists in Guatemala.

This was during the civil war, which lasted 36 years and in which more than 200,000 — most of them unarmed Maya Indians at the hands of an unbridled army — died or “disappeared,” according to a 1998 UN-sponsored Truth Commission report.

Priests and lay Catholic leaders were killed. Nuns hid children who had escaped massacres, and ministered to spiritual and physical needs, especially in rural areas.

http://findarticles.com/p/arti.....i_75247916

Wonder if Laura got one of those kids who were saved by the Nuns?

Heh, heh….

(((((punaise, Petro, Eureka)))))

forevah!

General Efrain Rios Montt, a graduate of the School of the Americas (SOA), at Fort Benning, Georgia, came to power in a 1982 coup. Praised as a “born-again” Christian reformer, in truth he was one of the most savage of Guatemalan dictators. His “Beans and Rifles” program was designed to keep guerrillas out of Indian villages — beans for those who cooperated, rifles for those who didn’t. He declared a “state of siege”, and on television, he stated that he had “declared a state of siege so that we could kill legally”. He banned public meetings, suspended the constitution, replaced elected officials, and censored the press. He also instituted Civil Defense Patrols (PACs) to control the population.

Rios Montt moved the war from urban centers to the countryside where “the spirit of the lord” guided him against “communist subversives’, mostly indigenous Indians. As Guatemalans suffered torture, kidnappings, and massacres at the hands of the government, he presented himself as the savior of the population. Using the lessons he had learned at the SOA, he implemented a “pacification” program similar to that used by the US in Vietnam, intended to give the impression that the government wanted to reestablish democracy in the country. In reality, as the “pacification” program moved from village to village, it essentially established concentration camps populated by those who had been able to survive the massacres and political genocide which the government itself carried out.

During the 17 months of Rios Montt’s “Christian” campaign, 400 villages were destroyed, 10 - 20,000 Indians were killed, and over 100,000 fled to Mexico. Early in 1983, President Reagan resumed military shipments to Guatemala, claiming that Montt’s program against the guerrilla insurgency was working. He said that Montt was given a “bum rap” on human rights.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler......_Guat.html

KIRSTINE LUMB: Every week for the past 30 years, the mothers of Argentina have marched for their missing children — Los Desaparecidos, they call them, the Disappeared. When the military staged a coup in Argentina in 1976, up to 30-thousand people simply vanished in a crackdown on suspected leftists. While the adults were rounded up and executed many of their children also disappeared, placed for adoption, often with the families of their military tormentors. The Argentine military wasn’t working alone, they joined forces with similar regimes in South America under Operation Condor. They also had the blessing of the United States.

DR PETER ROSS (LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES UNSW): Henry Kissinger as the Secretary of State made it quite clear to the Argentina military that they could go ahead with the Dirty War, he just told them, get it over with as quick as you can because it doesn’t play too well, humans rights violations don’t play too well in the United States.

http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/s.....t_2046.asp

Lefties get Disappeared the Governments of South America and the School for the Americas start killing even white American Nuns Pat Buchanan and Laura Ingraham must be horrified. I’m sure that they are leaving the church of Saint Reagen now.
Yeah and John Paul can’t do enough to free Poland but hey let the Brown People suffer. I’m sure Pat and Laura have plenty to say after all Laura’s kid is going to ask about all this stuff one day kids can find all kinds of things on the net.
A Guatemalan adoptee will google Guatemala a Guatemalan kid will find other brown kids who will have stories of their country. Nobody has a good thing to say about Laura’s hero Reagen in South America.

A 27-YEAR-OLD woman today became the 90th person to find out she was a victim of kidnapping during Argentina’s notorious “dirty war” (1976-1983), a rights group said.
Laura Ruiz Dameri was matched by DNA testing to her biological parents, Silvia Dameri and Orlando Ruiz, who were kidnapped and killed as members of the leftist Montoneros by the military dictatorship ruling Argentina at the time, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo said.

The group said Ms Dameri was the 90th person to discover her past, out of an estimated 500 children who were abducted during that time.

Ms Dameri was born in captivity and turned over to adoption to coast guard officer Antonio Azic. Her two older siblings, Marcelo and Maria, also separated from their parents, were found in 1989 and 2000 living in two different cities.

“The case of the Ruiz Dameri family is perhaps one of the most emblematic of Argentina’s missing, because the three children were deliberately removed to different parts of the country to prevent the family from reuniting ever again,”

http://www.news.com.au/heralds.....09,00.html

I wonder if the same thing happened in Guatemala?