Jus cogens!

Jus cogens yourself, Smgumby. And Buenos Dias!
It’s soupy here, I hope you’re cool.

Good morning all!

Hey twolf!

Washington Journal on Vice Presidents right now. I wonder who McCain will choose, or perhaps I should say, I wonder who will be chosen for him. I’m not sure it’ll be a former Prez candidate, I’m betting it will be a woman.

whoa! a cat just flew by me!

Can’t, my Dad always told me I would go blind if I did…

I think he “picks” Bobby Jindal. He has two things that McCain desperately needs. Youth and a little color.

So you think it’ll be Lindsey Graham?

Kissinger? I was really hoping for something completely different. I guess I’ll watch old Python shows on BBC.

Good morning all.

I haven’t agreed with almost anything Prof. Light has said yet. Sent an email asking him to defend why he thinks McCain is “smart” when all the evidence is to the contrary.

Rumors persist that Charlie Crist is getting married, so I figure that he is grooming himself for higher office.

Good morning, pups. It’s Dowd, Friedman and Rich today. Not content with what she’s already done, MoDo decides to kick someone when she’s down. She typed a thing called “Watch Out, Meryl Streep! She’s a Master Thespian.” She says as Hillary Clinton transforms herself into a team player, she must again fake it till she makes it. Will no one rid me of this troublesome typist? Mr. Friedman’s column is titled “People vs. Dinosaurs,” and he says before dismissing prospects for Israel’s longevity, Iran’s toxic president should remember that while his country invests in oil, Israel invests in its people, a renewable resource. Mr. Rich writes about “One Historic Night, Two Americas,” and says Barack Obama’s resolutely cheerful embrace of the future is a wildly different vision of America than John McCain’s promise of vigilant conservation of the past.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and stopped at the bakery yesterday and picked up some chocolate croissants. There are also some plain ones in case anyone else is like my poor boss at work, allergic to chocolate. It’s going to be another scorcher here, forecast up to 98, with no rain in the future. Have a great day, and stay cool.

rofl, I had a kooky old lit prof who would repeatedly tell us his mother warned him he’d go blind if he didn’t wear his gums, his gum rubbers! Perhaps he was encouraging us to use protection.

If McCain picks Jindal, he won’t be able to harp on Obama’s youth and inexperience. But it sounds like Jindal is on the short list. Christ made it to the Governor’s office, but still seems a risky choice for the Republican ticket.

uh-oh. first caller: “prof light, i agree with almost everything you’ve said”

Yeah, I heard. Didn’t change my mind. On the caller’s issue of fixing the govt, that means going against corp interests and I don’t think either candidate will do that.

second caller too.

from what i’ve heard (tuned in late), i’m with you.

mMmm chocolate croissants, what a treat! Your boss has my sympathy, what a curse to have a chocolate allergy.

Sounds like we’re going to have to do rain dances again this year for you guys down there.

here’s something i bet you will agree with: mccain is not god’s gift to even temperment

Christ made it to the Governor’s office, but still seems a risky choice for the Republican ticket.

Oh shit. If McCain gets Jeebus on the ticket we are screwed!

(couldn’t resist)

Quite an understatement & yes it’s one of the few things I agree with the guest.

scorcher here too. not as hot here in MA as you have to deal with (mid ’90s). but i’m trying to cope w/o air conditioning. yuck.

this is not typical weather for us - especially for early june.

I live in hope that Obama finds something in a debate or town hall meeting that pushes one of his buttons…

I read somewhere that the other day it was over 100 in TORONTO, fer gawd’s sake. But there’s no such thing as climate change…

Ditto midHudson & no AC. I can always go into the city, where I do have AC, if it gets too bad, and it did get down to 70 overnight so sleeping was fine.

Yesterday I had the annual meeting of the Board I’m on* & by the time I got home it was too hot to move. So I’m working my way thru Dreiser’s American Tragedy, a mere 858 pages.

* http://www.huguenotstreet.org/

Paul Light: Obama’s made mistakes, Clinton’s made mistakes… uhhhh McCain… uhhhh has made some… uhhhh… bad decisions… uhhh….

So it was a “bad decision” to confuse Sunni and Shi’ite? [snarl]

Historic Huguenot Street looks wonderful, serving on that board must give you real satisfaction.

let me say something because the talking points are already making the rounds

even democrats are bemoaning what they think are the proposals of obama, the republicans are saying he’s going to “cut the military” and though I tell them “he will REBUILD the military with the assets presently being squandered in this rediculous occupation”

they get it but obama needs to make certain people know he is going to undermine our armed forces he is going to rebuild them

they are also saying “he is going to grow government with his social welfare programs”

first, they are not “welfare programs” they are forcing industry to pay the bills they aquire and second, (hopefully), he will not use “taxation” to “fund” these programs they will be funded by “reclaiming assets missapropriated” and “they will be funded by those industries that created the need for said programs”

frame progressive programs correctly, point out that wour economy became the juggernaught BECAUSE of the progressive programs in the new deal and we have half the battle won

McCain isn’t going to decide who his VP will be until the Democratic convention has chosen its ticket… he will have three or four fully vetted options available to him, and will base his pick on what the Dem ticket looks like. (forget Crist, tho… Florida is a lock for McCain, and LA is already GOP country, so Jindal is out)

I’d not be surprised to see McCain pick a surprise candidate like Petraeus (or some very high ranking woman in the military). But I don’t think that McCain is going to pick another ‘white male’ unless it is someone like Petraeus — nothing will establish McCain’s bona fides as a “change” candidate than picking a woman.

Obama, of course, is stuck between a rock and a hard place with his VP pick. Virtually anyone he picks is going to be more qualified to be President than he is, and the more “reassuring” his pick is, the starker the contrast will be.

I love the place. And to add satisfaction, it was on the brink of disaster when I joined 1-1/2 years ago (spending down endowment for the very expensive maintenance of the houses), but the board members already in office & determined to turn it around, plus a talented & dedicated staff (after much turnover) are repsonsible for turning the corner & moving ahead in a great way.

I thinkwe can start to look at evaporative cooling, it’s not a new concept, it’s efficient and inexpensive

here’s an example;

my brother in law created a brook in his backyard and he piped some of the water through the trees and over the leaves to create somthing like a rain forest affect

well, sitting in that area is remarkably cooler then anywhere else in the back yard.

“evaporative cooling”…we need to develope this technology, we don’t need tap water for the process either

An American Tragedy was one of the dullest books I ever read.

2 nice not 2 play tennis

c all L8tre

If there is an evil cabal controlling things through blackmail, then a closeted gay man is their dream (think Justice Roberts). Crist may be their guy.

Well, then, I’ll regard reading it as punishment for my sins. Lord knows I need to do some retribution.

this is good news, the lead over at think progress right now;

House Dems call for special council investigation into torture.
In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey yesterday, 56 House Democrats “urged the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to examine whether top Bush administration officials may have committed crimes in authorizing the use of harsh interrogation tactics against suspected terrorists.” The lawmakers, including House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI), “cited what they said is ‘mounting evidence’ that senior officials personally sanctioned the use of waterboarding and other aggressive tactics against detainees in U.S.-run prisons overseas.”

i have a couple of window units (air conditioner) in the basement tempting me…

well, if i’m going to do anything today before i turn into a heat stroked zombie it better be now before the worst heat of the day. catch you later pups.

first, they are not “welfare programs” they are forcing industry to pay the bills they aquire and second, (hopefully), he will not use “taxation” to “fund” these programs they will be funded by “reclaiming assets missapropriated” and “they will be funded by those industries that created the need for said programs”

frame progressive programs correctly, point out that wour economy became the juggernaught BECAUSE of the progressive programs in the new deal and we have half the battle won

uh, progressives had better learn how to frame things that sound like spoken english first (”reclaiming assets misappropriated?” WTF!?!?) And the GOP frame is easy to predict — it will be “reparations” — and while Obama can try and distance himself from individuals at TUCC (”I didn’t know”) he’s going to have a much harder time distancing himself from the political implications of the theological foundation of that Church itself (’black liberation theology’)

McCain will pick Jeb!

(bows) Konnichiwa, selise

Gonna have a little treat for ya soon as the station (WMNF) puts the show up to listen again (a little after 9am ET).

In the meantime a very timely comic from this morning:

Non Sequitur

of course there are politicians being blackmailed, I have no doubt republicans but surely democrats as well.

that’s what the nsa program is about after all, just like nixon they are reliving that era, the only differance is they’ve learned from their “mistakes” and think they have pulled it off this time

I fear pelosi might not only be blackmailed but threatened

these are sociopaths in government right now and I do not put it past them to threaten our officers with;

“do not think new york would survive if we are impeached”.

I cannot for the life of me see how someone like pelosi has not impeached and I cannot believe they are holding something over her head enough to prevent it, I am left with other choices other then simple blackmail

My house is historic, so no window AC units for me. I once had an estimate on getting am internal unit installed & it was going to be $12,000 before paying the very expensive electricity rates. For the couple of weeks when it’s too hot, I don’t need to spend that kind of money.

well, you get the idea, I’ll use a thesaurus to get something better for the republicans to follow along

he cannot possibly be that stupid…well he is senile so I suppose he could be but his handlers could not possibly be that stupid

oops, my 43 was for your 38

(bows) Konnichiwa, SouthernDragon,

is this the link i should be streaming?

http://www.wmnf.org/listen

lol!

ccmask! please no more Bushies

Yes, well … we might also consider that US affluence came from the 80% of gold reserves accrued to America for ‘winning the war’, ya know?

And between 1946 and 1971, it was well spent for post-war prosperity. Which is why Tricky Dicky had to trash Bretton Woods. Of course, FDR had his little fiddle with citizen gold (that barbaric relic) in 1971 and it’s been downhill ever since.

In other areas, the best way to rebuild the military of a country that spends more on ‘the military’ that the rest of the world: pull the ?130 overseas basis out of commission. The women of Okinawa, for one, would welcome it! Why should the US be supported the EU with 19 bases in Germany? And so forth.

Remember that the stock market crashed in 1929 but it took three years for it to bottom out. And then there was a recession in 1938 … ( I was but two years old, so what did I know then?)

But in my 72d orbit of the sun, I have learned enough to buy ‘that bararic relic’ and hope I last long enough to survive life as we know it.

Coffee’s been consumed and it’s still not too hot, so I’m going to ride my bicycle for awhile. Catch up later.

Good morning Elliot and pups.

Hot, humid and cloudy today central Texas. Reading the lineups for the gab fests I can’t see anyone I would listen to. Oh well….

Not this time. That’s the link to listen to the current program. Every non-public affairs show is archived for a week so folks can listen a second or third time, whatever, about an hour after the show ends. I didn’t catch the first hour of the show this morning so I have to find where the four bits of sermons starts. I’ll put the link up as soon as I’ve determined where they start. It’s a local show called the Gospel Classic Hour and is mostly gospel music but this morning she played segments of sermons by African American preachers. I only caught part of Rev Wright (a new one) and Dr King but there were two before that. I’ll put it up soon as I can.

Have a good ride ecahn. I will ride later also but my 2 wheels have an engine.

For all of the undigested bits of potato:

Alright, you told us so.

I thought of that the other day. I think you may be right.

Kaliméra everyone….. it is a lovely 70 in Phoenix this morning but it will be over 100 by noon…

A McCain/Bush ticket would forever cement the idea of a 3rd Bush term…

…there is just no way they will put the Bush name on the ticket!

McCain will pick Jeb!

I don’t think that’s even remotely possible. If that does happen, then I’d be convinced that the voting machines have been programed.

Chris Matthews: Topics: Will Hillary’s supporters get behind Barack? Will Obama use Bill Clinton on the campaign trail?

Is it too much to ask for this fucking asshole to go fuck himself?

I think that is the deal he sold his soul for…. before 2004 he was thinking of leaving the Repugs, he was thinking of becoming a Dem (OH GOD) and even considered being Kerry’s VP pick….. BUT big meeting with BushCo and the deal with the devil was done…. bought and sold to get Jebby the Veep slot… [lots of rumors going way back from people in the know here in AZ]

ANYONE want another Bush as Prez ever?

if only!

and please no more Bushies ever!

OK, here ya go.

Gospel Classic Hour

Click on the listen now link. The fun starts at about 39:30 into the program. The show’s two hours long and the second hour will start automatically at the end of the first hour.

Is it too much to ask for this fucking asshole to go fuck himself?

Sideways. With a rake…

I mean seriously! This horse-race shit is fucking destructive!

These MSM gasbags must hate America to keep pulling this shit. Frigging traitors.

They claim to love America it is Americans they hate.

The Biggest problem with the gasbags is that they all live in a bubble, their world is very small, who they really know is also very small and what is said just echo’s over and over again.

That is why when something new comes along [Obama and Edwards] it just freaks them out…. “OMG… what is this new thing…. eewwuuuu” … it doesn’t fit into their neat little world….

Their world view is fixed…. they pick and choose the facts to justify their world view….. or just make sh*t up

AND the ALL love to hear their own voices

Doesn’t matter if it is destructive. They do it partly for the ratings, and partly to entertain themselves, IMHO.

They would be perfectly happy to destroy America, doesn’t matter, as long as they get a good show!

over at Huffpo…..

GM killed the electric car…. high gas prices killed the Hummer…. karma all around…

If we don’t get the damn press to act like the Constitutional actor they are supposed to, we are completely fucked. What can we do about this?

And yet we all get screwed…

gm sold the battery technology that made the electric marketable to the oil industry!

that sale SHOULD have been DISallowed

I believe battery technology has progressed passed that version but if not that technology can be federalized

I also think one of the reasons they didn’t want completely electric vehicles is they don’t break down, too little to go wrong and people would only buy new cars for style not for mechanical failure

The first is educating journalism students that gossip is not news, that stories should NOT be about the journalist, that research and fact checking ARE part of the job and that anyone can use teh Google….

THEN work on a plan but keep it under wraps…. THEN have our new AG John Edwards working with the new FCC commission bust us some trusts, break up ownership, put in fairness in the airwaves [99% is right talk & 1% progressive] … institute some type of board that oversees FACTS in journalism and put in fines for reporting on the “making sh*t up”

break up the Christian station ownership….. WHY does a Christian network have to own 9 stations in the Phoenix market?

Oh Joy!

It’s time for Fox News AllScars

I’m with you on the ownership stuff. The content-review stuff bothers me to some extent. But maybe we do need really strong medicine like that, to treat this horrible sickness.

WHY does a Christian network have to own 9 stations in the Phoenix market?

The same is true here in Tampa. Where do they get the money? It always comes down to money. We should be able to find a way to starve this monster.

burp!

One of those from deep down in the gut - BELLLLLLLLCH uuuurp

That is how we lost our Air America station here in Phoenix…. they bought the frequency right out from under them….. and then put in “canned” Christian content with constant fund drives for money….. THAT is where they get their money….. targeted to give to these con artists

Whahappen!? That mu symbol was freaking me out! I thought FDL was takne over by the Illuminati or something!

Too early for the taking heads here…..

CNN story on Iraq…. first we blow them up so they loose their limbs and now nice American builds prosthetics using a pizza oven…. now Iraqis smile….. OMG…. ya can’t make up that kind of sh*t..

Must have been a very good meal!

Fox News AllScars declare this to be the Fall of the House of Clinton.

the Fall of the House of Clinton.

I ain’t puttin’ any money on that one.

Fox News Allscars. LOL. I like that.

Ah Oh….. earthquake in Greece….

Hi katymine!

Here is one on Phoenix and a Christian fundy - your County Attorney! From the New Times

Andrew Thomas spends public money to bring sinners to Christ

By Sarah Fenske
Published on June 05, 2008

The number one purpose of the Missionette program, according to its Web site, is “to win girls to Jesus Christ through love and acceptance.”

It’s the Girl Scouts, only sponsored by your local evangelical church: uniforms, merit badges — and lots of talk about Jesus’ edict to “go and make disciples of all nations.”

It’s a rite of passage for many Christian girls.

It is not, however, something that ought to financed with public money. Obviously.

But public dough is exactly what’s underwriting the Missionettes at one Phoenix church. Last March, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office wrote a $5,000 check to support the Missionettes at Abundant Living Center.

Do not be mistaken, readers. This was not a personal check from County Attorney Andrew Thomas. (That would be okay.) Nor did it come from Thomas’ campaign coffers. (Also okay, although kind of weird.)

No, the office financed the donation with RICO funds — money seized from illegal enterprises and granted to law enforcement for four purposes: racketeering investigations, gang prevention, substance abuse programs, and substance abuse education.

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I live in hope that Obama finds something in a debate or town hall meeting that pushes one of his buttons…

Don’t you worry. It’s just a matter of time.

eCahn, if you ever want to make the trek(we can combine it with the Finger Lakes), I can take you to the very factory building where the two people involved the book met. It’s in Cortland, NY, my home town.

yep! we’ll be passing the popcorn when those two meet on stage.

You will NOT believe this but on my flight last Monday guess who was at the gate flying to NYC?

Sheriff Joe was sitting in Row 4D on a flight to NYC…. had to call two friends to assist with an intervention before I did something really stupid….

Both the Andrew Thomas & Sheriff Joe have been using RICO funds in a very creative way…… the Sheriff uses them for trips to Honduras….

WE have two really good candidates running for County Attorney…. Gerald Richard and Tim Nelson……and Dan Saban is running against Sheriff Joe.. Yeeha…. all great candidates…

and LA is already GOP country, so Jindal is out)

We agree Jindal is out, but it ain’t because LA is GOP country.

Sheriff Jow in First Calss eh! Doesn’t like to ly with the riff-raff does he. I am surprised he didn’t do an illegal immigration check with all the fellow flyers.

Actually he was bulkhead row…. US Air only has three rows of First Class… did bonk him on the shoulder with my bag going down the aisle…

The thing is I am taller than the Sheriff…. I’m 5′7″ and I towered over him…. NOW I understand a lot……..

Short in every way! *g*

Not that I mind the company AZMatt ….. but where did everyone else go?

I’m here!

Out to brunch probably. We have alot of brunch types here no doubt and they need their OJ and champagne this morning.

Anybody here watching This Week?
reports are that Kerry hands Lindsey his ass.

They’re playin’ like the little droid in “Silent Running.” Standing on the outside of the spacecraft tapping his foot, waiting for a new thread.

That’s after he broke off a 2×4 in it, right?

Does Kerry call Graham on to the $5 carpet?

Won’t be on here for 30 minutes….. watching CNN stupid discussion on the fist bump or Dap that the Obama’s did….. GIVE me a break…. didn’t anyone watch Power Rangers? Doesn’t these talking heads watch ESPN Basketball?

I’m a mid 50 yr old white woman living in AZ and I know that…

I’m here - listening to Randy Newman now. Sipping coffee and wishing for a biscotti to go with it since I missed the croissants.

Here is a wanker: From the WaPo

‘Complicit Enablers’? Not Quite.
By Ari Fleischer
Sunday, June 8, 2008

Among the allegations in former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s book is his assertion that the national press corps was “too deferential to the White House” and that the media were “complicit enablers” of President Bush’s agenda. The press, he charges, failed to aggressively question the rationale for war. As someone whose duty it was to assume the position of a human piñata every day in the briefing room, I only wish Scott were right.

Liberals have made this charge for years, and prominent reporters have split their verdicts. Critics and journalists have also said they were intimidated after Sept. 11, 2001, and pulled back from tough questions

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Boo-hoo the Liberals blame the poor Press, boo-hoo… *sniff*

The lawmakers, including House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI), “cited what they said is ‘mounting evidence’ that senior officials personally sanctioned the use of waterboarding and other aggressive tactics against detainees in U.S.-run prisons overseas.”

I wonder what was their first clue?

Maybe the hundreds of articles documenting Condi’s Torture Tea Parties in the White House?

I don’t watch any of the Sunday bobblehead shows any more. I rely on C&L to provide clips of anything worth seeing. And I just absolutely, positively refuse to watch Timmeh the Toady.

katymine, azmatt–drive by to say where everyone might be, is gonna be another hot and humid scorcher here on the other side of the country, so, everyone probably out doing things before the sun gets overhead…..that’s what i’m doin’ anyway, break to cool off, now back out to finish up…….this past week, you have to do stuff early or late in the day…….it’ll be crowded in a little while