Mornin’, all -

Haven’t been able to get to the Lake for at least 12 hours. Had ted been mucking around with the toobz again?

Howdy do. Liz Cheney, the next generation of conservatives dedicated to continue the counter revolution initiated by the Kristols, Cheneys, Norquists, Bushs, Limbaughs et al. Working hard to destroy the Republic so you don’t have to.

Wow FDL is back and with yet another bloody chaynee in the spotlight. Good morning all. Will this be the last day of the clintonista extravaganza, can she return to the DLC fold now and hold the hand of McSame. She is supposed to give a speech to the same terrorist group, mentioned in the post, that the chaynette spoke to one wonders if she will blame her failed campaign on Iran?

Thanks Attaturk.

Had same thing.

I thought the Lake had become a victim of global warming so Jane would have to rename the place Firedogdrywadi

Attaturk, Maybe Liz is hoping to be McCain’s VP.

No, we’re all just tired from watching the Stanley Cup finals (like literally thousands of other Americans) and throwing octopi at each other.

oh yuck!

Wicked Attaturk!

just a sample

Just think, but for Dick and Liz bumpin’ uglies in the mid-1960s, Cheney could be presently leading the Canadian Conservative Party to record setting defeats.

AMERICA’S CONCERN TROLL ON MORNIN’ JOE!

Yeah, I changed that the Lynne, a typo too sickening not to correct.

Good Morning Attaturk and Firedogs,

good gaia – can you say cretinesque ?

and I know when I think Bo Didley, I think Pat Buchanan

odd to be rooting for Pat Buchanan, even if for just a few minutes, huh?

OT
At 8:30, David Iglesias will be on Washington Journal discussing his new book
“In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration”

I missed the slight towards the hitherto loyal West Virginians from their object of adoration. The sign at the borders does say, “We’re open for business.” I wonder what CHS has to say about all that.

It’s interesting what Cheney’s spawn said about the diversion of resources away from formally engaging in hostilities with Iran. I presume she was referring to the resources that she expects “Israel” to supply.

This one should be interesting. *g*

Almost three overtime periods and 100+ shots at the Pittsburgh goal, and the Redwings came up no trumps. Crumbs! What a great passing game and great display of puck control they have. But the Penguin’s goalie was having none of it.

Cheney explained that during the course of researching his family lineage for Lynne’s memoir “Blue Skies, No Fences” last year, he learned there were Cheneys on both his father’s and his mother’s side of the family. There was a Richard Cheney on his mother’s side, the vice president said.

“So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don’t even live in West Virginia,” Cheney quipped.

Too much inbreeding can produce inadequate, white warmongers. But do not blame West Virginia.

Posted this link last night just before I started pushing buttons in the Tardis and ended up in a warp in the fabric of space-time.

Mr Robert talks about al-Qa’ida

The family that lays together stays together.

Thanks, Elliott. Iglesias has a book event in DC this evening:

David Iglesias
In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration
Event: Speak & Sign
Where: BORDERS- DC
1801 K Street, NW
Washington, District of Columbia
When: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
06:30 PM – 08:00 PM

OT: The magic-number countdown for Obama is being followed closely by this Dkos diary: http://www.dailykos.com/story/…..895/527963

The magic number is currently 38, and The Chicago Tribune reports that 25 super delegates are ready to endorse, which together with the pleged delegates from today’s election should put Obama over the top.

Stanley Cups are won with the goalie. Fleury had a career making performance. Detroit has the best team with the exception of the goalie. Sad to say but Pitt in seven.

Can’t help but notice the cushy jobs Cheney’s kids have, while er other people’s kids are fighting Cheney/Bush’s war.

Good for him. I hope it’s made into a sequal to er . . . forgot the name of the movie.

I had the same problem last night.

That’s pretty bad. A lot of cannon fodder comes from WVa. I’m sure they’ll return the compliment by bending over.

The wingnut welfare system is very efficient.

It has to be seven for Pitt. Redwings, away. They have the experience. Their goalie is great.

The Cheney Family certainly keeps the kids in the family ‘business’ don’t they:(from wicki)
“She has been appointed to posts that make her influential in her own right, and she is married to Philip Perry, the former General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security…. Prior to attending law school, Cheney worked for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development between 1989 and 1993. After 1993, she took a job at Armitage Associates LLP, the consulting firm founded by Richard Armitage, then a former Defense Department official who later served as Deputy Secretary of State.
After graduating from law school, Cheney practiced law in the private sector and as an international law attorney and consultant at the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. … In 2002 she was appointed to the newly created position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. The appointment followed publicized policy divisions between the Vice President’s office and the State Department on Middle East policy.[citation needed] She left that post in 2003 to serve in her father’s re-election campaign.
In February 2005, she returned to the US State Department and was appointed the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State For Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiatives.”

I could pull my hair out thinking of all these people that want to “get Iran”, “get Syria”, “get Chavez,”. These Neo-nuts create bogeymen everywhere (and infect everyone in Congress), and I am seeing an increasing amount of antagonism toward China, because of the fuel thingy, as if China should be hard scrabbling rather than supplied with fuel for making more Walmart Tchockes for Walmart Nation.

There is the town of Cheney in Washington, near Spokane. I avoided driving through that town lat time I was up there.

She just might have to find a real job in Jan 09. Mickey D’s could use someone with her experience at the drive-thru window. Or the Order Here window at Checkers. Or she could join her worthless friends at AEI or AIPAC.

Definitely a chip off the old blockhead!

And Liz Cheney’s husband is no slouch in the Rethug Department either: (nod to EW here – the timeline to look at is: Liz Cheney married Phil Perry in 1993)In 1997-98, Perry was Counsel to the United States Senate hearings on campaign finance abuses in the 1996 Presidential campaigns. In 2000, he was a policy advisor for the Bush-Cheney presidential transition team and an advisor on the Vice Presidential Debate preparation team.
One can only assume that Phil and Liz’s five children are all being brought up “carefully taught” about being good little Conservatives.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Keep the trolls down at the shallow edge of the Lake, where the depth matches their intellect.

China is blamed for the recent run-up in fuel prices to hide the fact that the run-up is due to speculators in Commodity Index Funds (among whom are public employees pension funds, for Cliffsakes).

I don’t know which line I like better… They’re both wonderful!

Are you suggesting her father’s mafia connections got her to where she is today?

Ahem. I’m going to go waaay out on a limb and say that not only did her daddy’s connections get her where she is today, it got her husband where HE is today. AND, in addition, I am also intimating(in a not very subtle way, I admit – and Dick, if you or one of yours is reading this – I mean this most sincerely, and not in a good way)that Dick Cheney, even though he was out of office, while he was chairman of Halliburton between 1995 and 2000, was doing his dirty work behind the scenes, using his son-in-law — “In 1997-98, Perry was Counsel to the United States Senate hearings on campaign finance abuses in the 1996 Presidential campaigns..” He was using his SIL to attack Bill Clinton. Dick Cheney has a very long reach and he obviously feels no compunction about using family members to extend his reach and do his dirty work for him.

Liz has a taxpayer slush fund that spends tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. The Foundation For The Future is supposed to support democracy in the mideast, but it operates quite secretly. At one time Paul Wolfowitz’s angry mistress was put in charge of the Foundation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..02172.html

Elizabeth Cheney, who has since left the State Department, was in charge of democracy promotion and was instrumental in creating the Foundation for the Future, which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced with fanfare at a conference in Bahrain in November 2005. The foundation would make grants that let “reformers to draw upon their ideas and their ideals to nurture grass-roots organizations that support the development of democracy,” Rice said.

Riza moved to the foundation in December 2006 to become senior adviser to its executive committee and board of directors, according to documents released yesterday by the World Bank.

A letter dated Oct. 1, 2006, from Anwar Ibrahim, the foundation’s chairman, to Robin Cleveland, Wolfowitz’s counselor, said that if Riza moved from State to the foundation, she would recruit staff, supervise the hiring and training of senior management in the Middle East, identify programs to receive grants and supervise the implementation of policies on programs, finances and administration.

Liz also had great success with Iraki Deconstruction Reconstruction. Wolfowitz was asked to “get the smartest minds in America…and put together a world-class governance team that we can bring over there that begins immediately putting together a government fior us.” Wolfie answered with “Whay do you think about Liz Cheney?” (State of Denial, pg. 140).

George Soros testifies on oil speculation in front of the Senate Commerce Committee hearing at 10 am — will be on CSPAN 1 fyi

Manipulation of Energy Prices

Recently, investor George Soros told the London Telegraph that the speculative bubble driving oil prices would only fall when the U.S. & England entered a recession. Soros is one of the witnesses at today’s Senate Commerce Cmte. hearing on energy market manipulation. Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) chairs the hearing.

Mike Masters Testimony before Lieberman committee is worth a read while you’re waiting for the Soros statement and interrogatory.

The Bush dollar has lost so much value that it will be a long time before oil is cheap for US consumers. Even with more oil or decreased demand, the US is still buying oil with a depreciated currency. This is Bush’s fault, yet he escapes blame.

We are indebted to Alan Greenspan and his successor for the state of the dollar. Greenspan’s Fed policy is what helped GWB get re-selected by Diebold, et al.

You have confronted Liz Cheney herewith. Will the MSM tell the public anything at all about Liz Cheney? Was she not the Cheney hypocrite who has a child with her lesbian lover. The father is David Crosby. /s I don’t believe that Liz even exists in the eyes of the American public.

You know Cheney crack about West Virginia, the incestous one? Well I think there must a special breeding program for Cheneys. They breed back within the family kind of like the Royals used to do in England. Bring in few new bloodlines but only very conservative/fascists ones.

Morning all :) Going to be an interesting day.
Power to the Supertechs re; keeping the Lake going today, been noticing more problems getting into The Lake over the last few days.. NSA might be pissed at us…GO Jane and All…LMAO :)
Talking about NSA, look what just popped up just as I tried to submit comment.
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Watched it. Someone asked the very question I wanted to hear an answer to: What are the chances that it won’t happen again? But it was a two part question and by the time they answered the first part, they couldn’t remember what the second part was.

Fallon on CNN right now, briefly. Apparently the full interview already took place (damn, I forgot this was supposed to be on at 6:00 AM!). Hopefully, they’ll play it again or it’ll be available on-line.

I’m going to stay down here to see if the link stays open…

thanks for the link to Mike Masters testimony.

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on CSPAN 3 is Senate Hearing on Cost Overruns at the Defense Department, coming up in a few minutes: here’s video link

Mary Cheney says “So?”

Hmmm, am I the only one who can see the error message re; new post message?

the Cheney hypocrite who has a child with her lesbian lover

That’s Mary, not Liz.

In my experience that generally presages a crash of the site.

I’m not seeing anything for a new post here, have you cleared your cache?

Arianna enumerates Republic after Republic keepin’ it in the family in
Pigs at the Trough

and let’s not forget Cheney spouse Philip Perry

Probably not. The site has had some issues in the past few hours, apparently. I saw the same thing yesterday evening. They probably had to do with the inability to access mysql.

You are confusing Liz and Mary although both have been active as Republican merchants of Constitution destruction in their own ways

This is the error message I’ve got each time The Lake went down the last few days…sucks…

That error message was copied off the Lake page.. Not sure if that would be my computer? (not any sort of techie here :)

1,862 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Attaturk and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Wow…the draw bridge is down now and the guards have opened the gates to the castle…what the fuck has been goin’ on with access to this site in the last 12 hours??!!

As for Lyn Cheney and the rest of the fascist first family of corruption, it would appear that since 2001 the entire cadre of the junta has been thumbin’ their collective nose and moonin’ us all without fear or concern about any repercussions either political or legal. They couldn’t have gotten away with all this shit and in the process completely destroyed the political and economic institutions of this country without the active complicity of the elected leadership of the Democratic Party. This election is gunna be a Democratic tsunami of historic proportions, and it should provide enough margin in both the Senate and the House to replace the entire existing leadership. I hope that FDL and the other major political blogs can divide some of their efforts during the fall campaign to advancing the idea of a change in leadership in both houses…it seems to me that the Convention might be a place where bloggers might be able to make contact with some of the potential candidates for an insurgent leadership contest.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THERE IS NO COMPROMISIN’ WITH FASCTISTS WHERE EVER YOU FIND ‘EM!!!

I think it could be the Lake?…I only hit submit comment once…Is my computer stuttering???

See my 31, 36 and 41 on Phil Perry.

It seems to do that repeated error message prior to a site crash.

it appears to be some post migration hiccups with the servers -

does anyone know if we open a ‘gabbly’ window and the site then goes down – does gabbly remain up ??

Actually clearing my cache maybe be a good thing..Could someone lead me gently though the process?

my apologies my dear – was so busy trying to remain logged in I didn’t see ‘em. thanks :D

Nice job Attaturk.

Stretching the point a tad(!), I wonder if anyone has mentioned yet, Liarman was all over dedamplace yestidie calling himself a “Liberal Democrat”.

Where’s a flyswatter when ya need one?! He IS one pesky critter.

are you on FireFox?
I’m not so techie myself

Thanks for your great post, Attaturk, I linked to it in my own blog commentary this morning, about the consequences of The Long War.

Raven, Scarecrow, if you’re hereabouts this morning, or if you were in Albuquerque just a short time ago, I hope you’ll stop by…you may find an old friend.

Shamelessly blogwhoring this morning because I’ve had a vivid life reminder of just what flippant comments about stuff like 50 years, why not 100, can actually mean to real people.

I think I should wait quietly whilst our Heroic Techies battle the Toobz Demons…

Yep, I run Firefox :)

Dang! Not enuf coffee yet. Please allow correction.

Liarman calling hisownself “Independent Democrat”. THERE. That better.

Twerp!

Tis the only thing I’m capable of! Well, pacing and fretting I can do…

I’d like to know what happened. this is the first time i’ve been able to get here for hours, all day yesterday?
I worried for you FDL. I thought maybe “they” gotcha!
Welcome back, and could someone let us know what happened? If it matters.
Thanks!

Joe Liar, as a good practicing Jew(full disclosure, so am I), should know that being a Democrat is like being a Jew: Either you IS, or you AIN’T. Calling yourself an “Independent Democrat” is like kosher bacon. He’s not being honest with himself or anyone else. He just doesn’t want to have to call himself a Rethug.

Under the “Tools” button on the top menu, click and then move down to “Clear Private Data.” Then click on all the checked boxes except for cache (removes the check in the box). Then click “Clear Private Data” button and voila, cache is cleared.

LOL! Yep, been doing a lot of that myself recently. :)

O/T sort of- still Cheney related…

This up at Asian Times on Cheney.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/M…..4Ak02.html

WASHINGTON – For many months, the propaganda line that explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) that could penetrate United States armored vehicles were coming straight from Iran has been embraced publicly by the entire George W Bush administration. But when that argument was proposed internally by military officials in January 2007, it was attacked by key administration officials as unsupported by the facts.

Vice President Dick Cheney was able to get around those objections and get his Iranian EFP line accepted only because of arrangements he and Bush made with General David Petraeus before he took command of US forces in Iraq.

I look forward to her speech at the Israel Pro Peace lobby, J-Street…

http://www.jstreet.org/

Never did succeed in getting the site to open last evening, but fine for me today – so far… demons be in de toobes? Aarrrrrrrgh!

We’ve got a House Wren here constantly on patrol for careless spiders in all our window wells. Very diligent little fella. Want me to send him on over to the Lake?

Late to breakfast at FDL.

The Palestinians, Cheney said, are not “ready” to reach an agreement. Making matters worse, she added, this futile pursuit of peace will ultimately draw resources away from confronting Iran.

Futile pursuit of peace . . . lordy, the Bushlicans are warmongering savages!! But then you already knew that, didn’t you?!

Thanks Toby. It just made my skin crawl. He had the interviewer calling him that while he was consorting for the cameras with Lamarrr, and I don’t mean Heddy. How DARE he?!

Yes, clearing the browser cache might be the ticket. Be careful what you choose to clear tho. In Firefox, you have a menu of items that can be cleared selectively, including cache. Also, one must not assume that a user agent is Windows-based. On the Mac OS (of the latterday UNIX variety), you choose the Firefox menu and select preferences to get where you’re going. Don’t ask me where, tho.

Hey! Wait a minute! Cheney, Washington is home to Eastern Washington University and the State Archives (Eastern District). Nice place! Don’t insult the town. It was around long before that other guy.

Why doesn’t he? Is he afraid he will lose votes next time ’round?

http://gabbly.com/firedoglake.com

firedogs – this is gabbly – we used it during the libby trial to ease up on the servers – am posting it in the event the site goes down.

it will open a box in the upper right of your screens -

ya clear out the gabbly name and put in your own – you can click on the little bell to turn the sound off

here goes nuthin’

yikes! forgot to mention you don’t need to register – just scroll down

And Raven and Scarecrow, please check in this AM…I’m takin the puppy ta the vet and will try and make contact when I get back…re: a collective frontpage post by a group of FDL vets about post war reintegration, politics and what progressive folks need to do to prepare for the comin’ flood of post war trauma victims. I don’t need to be a part of the writing but I thinbk it’s a topic that needs to be addressed in lieu of the terrible de ja vu for holier than thou bullshit that came down last week.

Hi Barbara. I just got here too.

Whut IS it with that mentality?!

They’re not ready for peace.

*THWACK*

See?

I CANNOT WAIT to get that gang of thugs out of OUR gummint!

Remember the relatively innocent times when Mr. C’s staff was accused of stealing the w’s from keyboards? Seems light-years ago.

Christy has a new post upstairs…

hey kids – a certain West Virginian is upstairs :D

Adie, honest to pooh, my heart hurts sometimes about my country. Oh, yeah, my country. And I don’t have to wear a flag pin to claim it. You?

No wonder he gets along with Team BushCo so well. Intent to mislead works best on himself….

things I’m hearing, not on the record, I think this would be important.

Got the same message last night just before the big crash.

Cheny WA has been around, but like Ayds, the association was just too much at this point.

Nothing against the town at all. It’s me!