Jus Cogens!

Good Morning tw3k,
Matt Stoller’s up on CSPAN now

and Happy Father’s Day to your fathers

looks like cable co. dumped cspan in favor of ewtn :(

Mornin’ all! Happy Father’s Day!

t00b version:

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs.....38;Code=CS

Morning, all Daddy Pups this morning - hardest and best job in the world is to be a good father. I miss mine every day.

I miss mine too, we were good buddies.

Many many good memories, sigh.

My dad gave me the best relationship advice I ever got - “Don’t marry a hot tomato” - until that moment, I never knew that ‘hot tomatos’ came in male as well as female forms. He was definitely a man of his time - wore a hat, dressed in suits or sportcoats, and could not resist a sale on wool socks or white dress shirts, ‘because it’s a great price and you never know what might happen.”

Good morning everyone! You may feel free to begin the “relentless mockery” that I understand is now mandatory for trolls of the “troofer” bent such as myself. I confess all in abject shame, for subversive and idiotic as I learned yesterday that all this might be, I have indeed come to doubt to the official explanation, something that years of training and observation led me do.

Research has reinforced these questions. What I have regarded as logic, I have learned is merely rightwing militia like behavior, inspired by crazies from the Murrow Building bombing in Oklahoma City-who knew? But I hope you folks tolerate my presence nonetheless. I promise, as in the past, to keep my all of positions on these matters to myself, unless directly questioned. I do not, however, appreciate the type direct personal attacks such as took place yesterday.

I was pretty surprised at the venom displayed by some of the commenters on the subject. Especially one infrequent visitor who complained at length about people from our mutual hometown. /vent off

good morning!

9-11 theories will forever stand as tribute to the appalling mishandling of the event.

When we have an Administration filled with people who have themselves(and their families for several generations in the case of the Bushes)such a capacity for amoral and evil behavior, it’s sort of difficult to mock anyone’s ideas.

I,ll find out what the talking heads said,when I log on tommorow.I refuse to watch these “shows” anymore.
In the mean time Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there.We are needed more than ever now to step up to the plate and set examples for our families,for there is so much out there now and we must keep things real.

think progresss has this up right now

Bush tells Brown not to withdraw from Iraq.
This week, media reports indicated that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will soon announce a final timetable for the withdrawal of Britain’s remaining 4,000 troops from southern Iraq by the end of the year. In an interview with the Observer, President Bush, who arrives in London tomorrow, issued a “stern” warning to Brown urging him not to “announce a timetable for a British pull-out from Iraq”:

is brown really gonna listen to a “stern warning” from this little boy?

Check out Mat

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs.....38;Code=CS

he’s doing a good job :)

There are 8 of 27 European Union Member States in The Coalition of the Willing and 7 members states have departed the coalition. Participation in The Coalition of the Willing of European Union Member States have dropped to 29% from a high of 55% reducing the Multi-National Force-Iraq by 53% .

If Brown pulls out that will be pretty much the end of The Coalition of the Willing.

Current EU Members MNFI
United Kingdom 4000
Poland 900
Romania 608
Bulgaria 155
Czech Republic 99
Denmark 50
Estonia 38
Latvia 3
Total 5853

Withdrawn EU Members MNFI
Italy 3200
Netherlands 1345
Spain 1300
Hungary 300
Portugal 128
Lithuania 120
Slovakia 110
Total 6503

http://www.coalitionnumbers.com/

Is Bush able to bribe Brown with something better than being Prime Minister?
The Labor government was unpopular because of the war, but now that oil prices have gone up England an oil producer is having trucker strikes, oil trucker strikes!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....tages.html

Things must be hard if oil truckers are striking.

Good Morning Elliot and Firedogs,

I can’t decide which is more of an epic stretch - calling O’Hanlon and Pollack “scholars” or “controversial” - you decide

and thanks for the heads up on Stoller

Happy Fathers Day

Things must be hard if oil truckers are striking.

hang on to hats, food prices to cost your paycheck sometime soon

I can’t decide which is more of an epic stretch - calling O’Hanlon and Pollack “scholars” or “controversial” - you decide

man, I wish some of these interveiwers or at least the callers would start asking;

“why would anyone hire people who have been wrong about everything and how does a man that promoted this war for protit live with themselves”

or something of that sort

Yesterday someone linked to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ site where he had put together a booklet of letters he had received from constituents, titled “The Collapse of the Middle Class.” It’s well worth reading, and will break your heart.

Things must be hard if oil truckers are striking.

you got that right, Things!

and true dat, cbl. I don’t get CNN so I haven’t seen Fareed’s new show. Hope his guest list improves. But at least he’s talking about something other than my candidate is better than yours.

I wonder how much discussion there will be this morning on the SCOTUS decision.

lol, Chinese hackers up on cspan1 now.

I’m sure they’ll be interviewing ted stevens for some sage advice.

Is this an “existential threat?”

G’morning, Elliott and dads and everyone.

perris, it’ll be too late for this show, but ask Fareed anyway, here’s a link to contact him, and let us know next week if you get a reply from him.

gah, this guy is wonking cyber command now :0===|

talk about a hack.

That is a great link Marion
*wiping french toast waffle crumbs from my mouth and licking sticky fingers*

The stories are powerful and only just beginning to come in.

Did you see the headlines yesterday that “Wall street experts” assert John “don’t know nothin’ bout economiks” McCain will be a better President for the economy than Obama?

As if!

The stock market always does better under Democrats but Wall street experts always do better when the rules are tilted in their favor — like now, for instance. A change to oversight and proper regulation makes raiding the citizenry’s bank account a lot harder for them, no wonder they favor the status quo.

and hugs for David — and QuakerGirl

- gonna tivo it just on the chance Ware doesn’t play nice with the respective Wankington and Astroglide scholars -

More on the Haves vs the Have Nots (or Bush’s Base vs US)
U.S. considers upscale hotel for infamous Alcatraz

The National Park Service is considering adding a hotel to Alcatraz Island, site of one of the world’s most notorious prisons.

Unlike the cells afforded to inmates such as Al “Scarface” Capone, the facility would offer upscale accommodations like those now available at the Ahwahnee Hotel in California’s Yosemite National Park.

“People are constantly saying they want to see more of the island,” National Park Service Spokesman Rich Weideman said. “A hotel would be the ultimate experience in visitor access.”

Alcatraz Island is run by the U.S. National Park Service and is already San Francisco’s second most-popular tourist attraction, after its famed cable cars.

About 1.5 million people take ferries to visit the prison cellblock every year, and summer tickets sell out weeks ahead.

link

lol!

“People are constantly saying they want to see more of the island,” National Park Service Spokesman Rich Weideman said. “A hotel would be the ultimate experience in visitor access.”

follow that logic, i dare you!

mornin’ all, and Happy Father’s Day.

Talking Heads today looks like a lot of Republicans, and a lot of boring. Luckily, the weather here is gorgeous - I think I’ll play outside.

Oh, and oddsmakers report the best chance of some good fight action will be on the Fareed Zakaria show, (if the two hacks try to spin that Iraq is peachy, Ware will eat them alive). Longshot possible fight -> Edwards v. Thompson on George Stephy.

Not surprising that Dennis Kucinich is not a guest on any of the talking head shows today. Will experts Kay Bailey Hutch and Karl Rove provide some good tips for offsetting the high cost of gasoline?

Happy Father’s Day jayt, how’s you son doing? Where is he now and will he be heading over to the Middle East?

will do elliott, off to work now for a few hours then taking m’dad for some top down driving

enjoy daddy day firedogs!

Have a nice time with him, give him an fdl hug from the rest of us.

OK kids, donning Marion’s HazMat suit and jumping into Fox News Sunday. Can’t wait for Rove’s words of Wisdumb.

Any idea why Olbermann was so extremely lavish in his praise of Russert? Olbermann had to know of these two nuggets regarding the role Russert played in the Plame affair:

Russert said that all his interviews of gov. officials are “off the record” by default (is that good journalism?).

Was it Kathy Martin who said that Dick Cheney told her that MTP was the venue with which Cheney could “control the message”?

Happy Father’s Day all you fathers.

I lost mine in 1980, aged 55. I thank him, my mother and my grandparents, for the wisdom and values they passed on to me. My dad couldn’t throw or hit a ball, wasn’t handy but was uncommonly wise, smart as hell and played a really wicked piano. I miss him every day.

After the Haves and Have Mores are tucked in for the night, can they change it back in to a prison?

Hi Elliott - stepped away for a few. #1 Son is still here - delayed a couple of more times this week. He’s supposed to ship for basic training tomorrow.

dunno, hackworth,
I’m in the emptywheel camp on Russert:
At the Risk of Being Churlish

The show should not be about the host, in this case Tim Russert; it should be about edifying the viewer to the truth of the issues that matter most. Not journos scratching each other’s backs while they fill up their big egos and bank accounts.

It is my fervent hope that MTP changes from a showcase for NBC’s crew to one that puts the truthlight back on the subject.

Morning everyone. I, too, lost my father a few years back. The hubby, on the other hand is alive and well and expecting to be treated like royalty today.

Happy Father’s Day. What a great photo to use w/today’s post, Elliott. Here’s a vid I thought might be a good one to accompany that photo:

Father On Leave From Iraq Surprises Daughter At Dance

My Dad’s been gone a long time now. I miss him a lot; he was a wonderful Dad & a good friend, too. I wish you were still around, Pop, so I could play As Time Goes By on the piano for you, & you could tell me, as you did a hundred times, how Ingrid Bergman couldn’t hold a candle to our Mom.

Marcy’s post was spot on.

Now there’s an idea I can get behind ;)

I would like to see it go back to it’s original format. But I suppose that’s impossible with this current crop of mainstream people. Now a panel that included an alternative media person or two would be heavy duty…

aww that was a sweet tribute.
speaking of Father’s Day, how are your tigers? but more importantly, how was the big gig yesterday!!??

I pulled a stunt like this on my stepmom in 68.

touching video, think of all the families disrupted here and in Iraq. I’m haunted by the families BushCo has decimated, whether they be American families or Afghan or Iraqi families.

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I wish you were still around, Pop, so I could play As Time Goes By on the piano for you, & you could tell me, as you did a hundred times, how Ingrid Bergman couldn’t hold a candle to our Mom.

Sweet!

Another librul version of a “gated community”? Give ‘em a taste of their “sink or swim” attitude toward the little people.

Fareed Zakaria GPS: Topic: Iraq. “Two controversial scholars, Michael O’Hanlon and Ken Pollack of the Brookings Institution, have just returned from Iraq and we’ll be hearing their assessment of the current situation.

So these guys have been dog-and-ponied again by Petraeus, and are going to tell us about the fragile success of the surge.

Good Morning everyone…. Happy Dads day to all those Dads & Granddads

Heard on Washington Journal - Brit calling in to complain about Bush shutting down Heathrow for over 3 hours for his visit…. Brit explains that other dignitaries and the Queen uses a nearby airport which does NOT disrupt air traffic…

Guy on WJ - blah blah blah in this day of the need for high security…. blah blah ….

click …not going to watch that anymore…. Poor Brit… now he things we are all rude and egotistic pigs…

BREAKING!
FoxNewsAllScars don’t like SCOTUS decision.

Brit seems to think Cuba controls Guantanamo.
Kristol wants legislation correcting this, not quite as reactionary an idea as Lindsey Graham’s Constitutional amendment.
and then there’s Juan Williams.

oo and Kristol is NOT wearing his flag pin, why does he hate America?

happy fathers day all…cages cleaned babies and all others fed

are you ok ? one of your comments yesterday indicated you might be under threat of midwest floods - somehow had you as a Californian

Very interesting dynamic. My boss has been a bigwig in politics here for the last 35 years. None of the politicos he invited to the wedding showed. Jody and Rob’s friends were definitely the majority. The Chucks were the hit of the youngsters. One AA lady (boss is on the board of the local NAACP and there was quite a number of members there) said I was the “sharpest dude in the place.” LOL. We had a great discussion about universal health care and I think I won her over to the idea. Her thinking had been coloured by all the negative stuff being put out about Canada’s system. Great wedding. Bride was beautiful (should have 1 pic of me & bride). Hoity toity yacht club food sucked, with the exception of a crab and anchovy dip. Hmmmm, that was goooooood. Spent a lot of time out on the patio with the younger crowd swilling scotch and smokin’ Turkish cigs. And wishin’ I was 35 years younger. Some very attractive young ladies there and fun to talk with.

Apparently he’s unaware of the huge minefields we have sown around the perimeter. “Danger! Peligro! Mines!” signage is over the place-or was in the 70’s and early 80’s when I was frequent visitor.

Can you spell L-O-S-E-R-S? Man, what a crew.

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads. And, happy memories to all of us you remember our Dads on this day.
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I’m so glad you had a fun time at the wedding. It sounds like you did some positive “witnessing” for universal health care. Events like the one you attended are a great way to interface with people you don’t usually hang with. Good for you. No surprise, tho.
The patio part sounds like great fun for you as well. I bet the young ladies were duly impressed with the Older Dude!!!
(((Southern Dragon)))

ahh, sounds like you had a very nice time.
you know we are all waiting to see the pics of DFH in tux :)

Oh yeah, my Dad watches that crap constantly, he’s so misinformed. He figures that Mort Kondracke is quite Liberal. He can’t understand what has happened to me, especially with my military time. Everyone in my family is a staunch Republican over a single issue mainly-Taxes.

There are a lot of vids on youtube of servicemen returning home to surprise their kids. Got sad, then angry just sifting through them all. We must continue to work hard so those dads never have to go back into hell in Iraq.

As for my own Dad, I learned As Time Goes By for an anniversary party for he & Mom. Thought it was such a shmaltzy little tune then, but he was always whistling it. Appreciate the depth of its melody & lyrics a lot more now @ age 47…

Maura”
now that Russert’s dead
“Who’s going to ask the tough questions?”

I know, how about the rest of you guys?

I’ll be able to get hold of 2 for sure (1 from bride’s mom and 1 taken by a coworker.) Some of the younger crowd took pix but I’ll prolly never see them.

My own good liberal Dad started talking like some of those talking heads…. found him watching the Dobbs everyday and really liked him…. OMG… really got radical with bomb Iran and brown people are bring in diseases….

On my visit a year ago (they live 1500 miles away) I insisted on watching KO everyday….. and in the mean time I kept sending all the Media Matters fact checking on the Dobbs….. on my visit last fall…. KO rules and no more radical wacko speech….no more Dobbs in their house…..

Speaking from personal experience, it’s just such a huge relief when your father returns from a war zone. When they leave you don’t know if you are ever going to get to see them again it’s such a huge burden, on one hand, I would be happy to see my Dad come home, but damn, I’d hate to have to go through seeing him leave twice.

Christy’s upstairs
McCain’s Incoherent Economic Analysis Strikes Out Again.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY guys!

yeah, it’s cruelty to do that imo
particularly the abuse of the National Guard.

OT - George W. Bush, serial groper, is about to visit The Queen of England. Ah crap, another ally at imminent risk.

I hope Her Majesty has some Mace handy. I’m sure that if she *did* have to Mace the Frat-Boy-In-Chief, she’d do it in the most elegant and refined manner possible.

I’m glad you brought them back from the darkside! It frustrates me, because they aren’t bad people, but the Republican’s struck gold with the “Personal Resposibility” meme.

I wonder if he’ll move in for a chummy shoulder rub. Can you imagine the look she’d give him?

Living in Libertarian land…. I do understand….. had a verbal battle with a woman who said she DID NOT want any bailout for homeowners …. it was all their fault and they needed to take that personal responsibility….

Q to her: Have you ever bought a home?
A - no

Q- have you seen the pile of paper on a mortgage?
A-No

Q- How can you judge when you have no personal knowledge of how easy it is to sign a mortgage with some clause buried in 300 pages of legalese?
A- THEY NEED TO BE RESPONSIBLE…

The best way (only way?) to combat the “Repubs believe in personal responsibility” is to show all the ways they fail to practice it. A lot of work involved in that but showing the failure to practice as they preach does often work eventually. Unless they are just too far gone.

SCHEDULING NOTE:
Chris Matthews Show is Broder, Andrea Mitchell, and Al Hunt
the topic is Tim Russert.

Do you think anyone at NBC noticed there was some news this week? like in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Washington DC - SCOTUS — and that’s just off the top of my head.

This week, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, formerly a challenger for the Democratic nomination for President, read thirty five articles of impeachment on the floor of the House of Representatives. Twice. He has provided history with the Cliff Notes to the failings of the Bush Presidency, and the response of the Congresss is likely to illustrate their complicity with the Worst President Ever and his program to wreck the United States.

Why isn’t Kucinich on any of the press shows this morning? Is he boycotting them, or does the press not care?

no thanks for askin,last summeri moved away from hurricane zone S.Fla where i was hit4 x in 5 years…we are all safe now in TN

Why in the world are Ken Pollack and Michael O’Hanlon invited on GPS and allowed to spout more neocon bs?

First week Henry Kissinger, now them.

I guess I can figure out where the show’s loyalties are.

So did Salon; maybe it’s called respect.