Stevie!

Suz!

neuro!

CT!

i heard this song in that nun’s on the run video of teddy’s and had to find the video for it… sorry about the stupid logo on it

Neuro hope you are digging!

hey nahant – not taking any chances (laughing)

Get your DIGGS in!

dugg and thanks neuro

Hi Suzanne,

My wife says that our hummingbirds are about to leave their nest, which is three feet from our bedroom window. She says that, when the mother is out of the nest, the two of them both stand up in the nest and vibrate their wings testing them out to see what they’ll do. Very exciting for the family, except the dog who is not now allowed to use that door.

Bedtime for Bonzo here. Take care and enjoy. Just remember, NO REPUBLICANS.

Suzanne! OMG Stevie! Loving your selection!
Clapping hands, big time.
Er, um…Winwood for VP! Ha!

that is so forking cool, wigwam. is there any way to video it?

G’nite Sir … I’m out as well, G’nite all !

Remember to call all Dem Senators on Monday and tell them “Just Say No !” to Telecom Immunity.

g’nite dr dick
hey demi, glad ya liked it

We are, we think, now on our third generation of finches, as a bunch of mohawk-headed pinfeathery types showed up at our feeder today with proud yellow papa.

nite petro

Hey Neuro whats with that Icon you picked for the
Digg?
Oh and Suz… watching SciFi at the same time… But Neuro does such a good job digging :>)

Sometimes Digg just sneaks one past you. It sets up the first icon on the left and you have to opt out. Guess I missed it this time.

Should’ve let you (the master) do the Digging! :)

It’s too hot to sleep, so hand clapping time.
I just got back from San Diego and it was hot, even down there!
Not as Hot as Steve Winwood, though.
How you hanging, Suz?

g’nite petro

Oh no George Carlin has just died :>(

That’s not good. Oh no is right.

William the Bloody has a doozy up now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06…..ef=opinion

seriously?

tired, was up late last night getting the house ready for the open today. up way too forking early (way before noon) and token and i went to visit the bride, the groom and the girls. they are moving to oregon on the 1st :( i’ve known this for about a year but… on the plus side, they are coming here for dinner next sunday.

Hers is the link to MSNBC..just up

Oh my.

-G

shit, piss, god-damn, fuck, hell i can’t remember the 7 words

updated 18 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES – Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital Sunday, a spokesman said. He was was 71.

Well, that news ruined my roll.
:(
Whata we got on that? Heart?

fuck

Let It Roll.

Something a little more vigorous.
Before you turn your nose up, if you can last until 1:40 in, there is some very pretty guitar work. Michael Schenker was a world class guitarist in his day.
One of my favorites, anyway.

the 7 words

Yes!

hey busted

I’ll never understand why that fool is taken seriously about anything, at all. If that fuckwit told me water’s wet I wouldn’t believe him.

On the other hand, here’s some really great Hendrix.

Someone just emailed me this on Saturday:

“A Message by George Carlin:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways,?but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.?

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.?

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom,?& hate too often.

We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life. We’ve added years to life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things.?

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less & less.?

These are the times of fast foods?& slow digestion, big men?& small character, steep profits?& shallow relationships. These are the days of 2 incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality,?1 night stands, overweight bodies,?& pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It i s a time when there is much in the showroom window & nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you,?& a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete…?

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the?1 next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart?& it doesn’t cost a cent.

Remember, to say, ‘I love you’ to your partner?& your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss?& an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands & cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

RIP

Fuck. RIP,
Dude.

A groundbreaker and an Icon, you gotta know there is some hilarity going on in Heaven right now.
Wait untill he hooks up with Pryor!

Holy crap! That sucks!

cut and pasted…sorry for all the “?” and “&”

I think Carlin’s wife recently died as well.

I actually have the Seven
Words album.
My SIL was going to throw it away, NOT!!!

i saw him at the circle star back in the 70’s

Two dead journalists, can you guess which one has talent?

yep

A major flaw in Kristol’s argument is that, sure, we have a volunteer Army, but you go to war with the one you have, and boosh and cheeney have practically destroyed the one we have. If a President McBoosh were to pursue his dream of a Hundred Years’ War, and if we were to be prepared to address other threats in the world (such as capturing the real terrorists who did 9/11, or attacking Iran, as the neocons want us to do), a draft might become necessary. And so what if the kid Alex would only be 9 years old when McBoosh left office, we can count on the neocons like Kristol to find suitable warmongering replacements. It’s not too soon to wonder what kind of world kids like Alex who are young now will face by the time they reach draftable age.

Too cool.

He was the original Ornery Bastard.

I am sorry but George Carlin did not die.

la times says he did

What I mean is:
George Carlin is not, will not, could never, die. I can tell because he is right here with me. In my heart.

ok – that makes total sense.. sorry for the confusion

What do you mean?

updated 18 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES – Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital Sunday, a spokesman said. He was was 71.

I get it.
And singularly responsible for HBO comedy launch.

He shuffled off this mortal coil with a hearty Fuck You and Pass the Bong.

Reuters looks like they are joining AP

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But at least they aren’t charging yet!

George lives!

Many of us will remember his words for a long time.

My first memory of George Carlin is when he appeared, I believe on the Tonight Show, as The Hippie-Dippy Weatherman. Great routine.

See my 56 for my response to that.

Many of us will remember his seven words for a long time.
Slight edit Neuro!

Busted is back to using the People’s English…. Yeah!!

the hippy dippy weatherman

Ya gotta admit, he had more balls than a herd of elephants.

The man was not afraid to speak truth to power, well over forty years, if you weren’t pissed off, you were either laughing yer ass off or not paying attention.

I remember when I first heard this, back when it first came out. Didn’t like it then, but now it’s totally amazing to my ears. What a difference a decade can make.

Diamanda Galas and John Paul Jones.

One of those words is soooooooooooooooo forking dangerous it is not allowed on FDL. It is a moist word.

Just a coupla weeks ago we were playing some Youtubes of his routines for sonny boy. Does that make me a bad mother?

I loved that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMd5qaRlJ20

GC on voting;
pass the Handi Wipes.

no it doesn’t, demi
no forking kidding, mary mcc
hannibal, that was awesome – thanks

McStains pet word?

OT: I was speaking with my brother earlier this evening, and together we realized that the inflation rate, though low, affects only the lower classes. The key indicator for the the middle class is the decline in the aggregate buying power of their assets, e.g., real-estate and retirement investments. The decline there is much, much worse and isn’t being reported in the mainstream press.

The middle class has felt very comforted that Bush has been cutting the tax rate on the wealthy, because they consider themselves wealthy or soon-to-be wealthy. So, the fact that the value of the dollar has dropped by half since Bush took office is of no concern to them. And, to wealthy folks like themselves, what’s a few percent inflation.

But, the ex-hippies/yuppies who are soon to retire and are seeing their net-worth decline are not so sanguine. In fact, they should fucking panic.

yeap

Yes, but I was thinking more like his words at 38…he was a teller of truth, as well as dirty words!

A reminded from De Tocqueville:

“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Not indeed that, after every victory, it is to be apprehended that the victorious generals will possess themselves by force of the supreme power, after the manner of Sylla and Caesar: the danger is of another kind.

War does not always give over democratic communities to military government, but it must invariably and immeasurably increase the powers of civil government; it must almost compulsorily concentrate the direction of all men and the management of all things in the hands of the administration. If it lead not to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more gently by their habits.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. This is the first axiom of the science.”

It is his pet word and his pet. Here kitty, kitty.

I just told sonny about his death and he said he’s telling those stories to the angels now.
(I’m hitting it…g’nite all)
and, my I just say….Damn.

Crap, this just bums me out.

I have to go to bed, I had a weird day. I got up at 4 to go to work, it got cancelled at 9, 60 miles away, I took a nap after a few and now I am wide awake but I have to sleep.
Fork.

Gnite you Firedoggies.
God took one home tonight.

Like Mary said though, he ain’t dead.

e

g’nite demi

g’nite busted

nite busted
nite demi

nite busted, newton, suz….:(
He really was the voice of my generation.

Another one from Diamanda Galas and JPJ. And for those going to bed, a little reminder from the late Mark Sandman. And George Carlin on Abortion.

George Carlin was a major contributor to my youthful cynicism. I have been able to maintain it through the fiftes. It was a gift.

I’m sure we all remember Rickie Lee Jones’ contribution to the 2004 election: well, Chuck E (who RLJ told us was in love some time) wrote a great song for the targeted Blue Dogs. Can we let those Dogs know to pack their bags?

Goodbye baby, driving me crazy…
So long…

Most excellent! Thanks. It is an interesting contract to this from Sun Tzu, 400BC:

When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming,
[…] you will exhaust your strength, and if the campaign is
protracted, the resources of the state will not be equal to the
strain. […] In all history, there is no instance of a country
having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the
distasterous effects of a long war can realize the supreme
importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.
[Sun Tzu, The Art of War, 400BC]

i believe steny finds out tuesday when the print ad airs (iirc)

he sure as hell nailed the pro-life conservatives

$308,105 and counting..

2006 election

Now, i’ve probably heard Carlin’s rants from the time i was little as my mom is a fan of his. I do miss him myself. He’s got a singular wit that’s going to be sorely missed with the current politics.

I never really learned how to recognize him until i saw Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure(at 11 years of age) but i had known his voice from somewhere before that day.

From my mom watching him on tv and me totally disregarding the swearing. Because even then, i showed a liking for sarcasm. I knew he was smart, when i got older and really appreciated it? Oh man, even funnier. If you became his target, you generally deserved it too. He’s a voice for at least 2 generations really. :P

When Meet the Press came on they said: “This is Meet the Press with Tim Russert..sitting in for Russert is Brian Williams”.

“Sitting in” for Russert? What…Like he’s coming back?

Sounds like they went a little overboard there

tom brokaw is gonna host it until the election

maybe brian williams wasn’t so hot this morning? i missed the show

That should be good. Brian Williams did a good job today. Note that in the link it says “steps in” for Russert. That is more appropriate wording methinks.

It is re-running right now on MSNBC.

science channel is hosting a cosmos marathon today… before the series goes away again.

Did I hallucinate that Addington is going to appear at a hearing on the 26th? Did I dream that?

thursday – you are not dreaming

I saw that…I should watch it. Love that stuff.

I can’t wait.

He will appear suddenly, in a cloud of sulphorous smoke

Not.Gonna.Say.Shit.

and evoke executive privilege on behalf of the white house against his testifying before congress

Doesn’t it just blow your mind or what? Imagine Sun Tzu saying in 400 BC:

In all history, there is no instance of a country
having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the
distasterous effects of a long war can realize the supreme
importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.

And more than a millineum later De Toqueville saying:

“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. […]

War does not always give over democratic communities to military government, but it must invariably and immeasurably increase the powers of civil government; it must almost compulsorily concentrate the direction of all men and the management of all things in the hands of the administration. If it lead not to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more gently by their habits.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. This is the first axiom of the science.”

Those guys must have had “time-travel.” How else could they have so accurately anticipated what would happen to the United States of America if its citizens gave unlimited war-making powers to their chief executive. The ruin of the national economy and the ruin of the nation’s democratic heritage. What a pity!

After all, he is the Decider’s Decider’s Decider

found an essay at huffington post written by george carlin’s daughter about her mom’s death in 1997 that has some nice moments that resonate tonight:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..26988.html

Well, they wanted to make history. They got their wish.

thanks rosalind for this – very poignant

hopefully, they will make further history by being the first american administration tried and convicted of war crimes at the hague

Hear. Hear.

that would certainly clear the air a bit

Iceland quotes!

That would be a most mementos event!!! I would chip in for their air fare!!

ok, pups. wall hit. i need to get some sleep and tonight, the forking dishes are staying in the sink and the floors will be unswept. i’m gonna leave my dirty towel in the bathroom and not put my clothes in the hamper.

g’nite all and thanks for hanging out with me tonight. lurk will be around if ya need anything

Netroots at the Hague!

Those bastards need to be brought to justice. The universe demands it.

nite suz
be lazy for once

Good Night Suz and DO leave a mess just the way YOU want it..

Dayem Suzanne…same here…shhhhhh….I’ll do the dishes in the morning too…fork it.

Sleep well and have nice dreams.

Send a hedgehog into space.

I don’t know anything about international law, but it would certainly be ironic and amusing at the same time if it turned out that the world court did not grant them some of the same rights that this administration has tried to deny to its “detainees”…in other words, if they were not afforded all of the protections that, despite their worst efforts, American courts still continue to provide to defendants…make them wish they could be back in the old pre-9/11/01 USA…

Lindsay Graham is emotionally involved with John McCain. His lips quiver when he defends him.

Good one…t’is an amazement.

tis better than his leg getting all tingly

*poof* and thanks pups for understanding

and I bet his heart goes pitter-patter-pat

Does Lindsey think he has a shot at veepee?

Which one??? inquiring minds want to know /S

LOL….ewwwwwwww…

PS. I’m glad I’m not the only one with a bunch of dishes in the sink, laundry in the forking dryer getting wrinkly (I’ll have to put it on fluff or something), etc….

The cat’s away, so I’ll have to hustle in the morning…:)

Yes. And he plans to bring flowers and candy.

was that pee??

That’s why he won’t be VP. It will be McBush’s other boyfriend, Lieberliar…….nah..on second thought…that won’t fly either.

What is up with McBush’s fan club?

omg

Crist?

thanks for reminding me, I have laundry in the dryer!

LOL

Shhhh – don’t mention it, maybe it will go away!

Or Mrs. McCain?

I hate it when “someone” puts it on fluff, and “I” think I’m drying it….and it’s all wet, cause it was on “fluff”. I hate it when that happens. Kinda like Lindsay Graham doing my laundry.

Lindsay Graham and Lieberliar are the “fluffers”…ooooo…my bad..

FWIW, I commented a bit of my shit at Dkos: http://www.dailykos.com/commen…..pid=0#c113

I would never let him anywhere near my laundry.

Yes, I did watch Huckleberry and Biden, and Harwood and Mrs. Greenspan this morning so you all wouldn’t have to.
Fluffery is precisely the word.

“Poor America! – This Barack character is a disgrace for being so popular among the ‘little people’ that he doesn’t need taxpayer bucks to run! Whoa is America! Now, John McCain – there’s a real American!”

It was the same faux outrage that led to the “What about the children” dribble we’re so used to.

Which committee? House judiciary…?

Good job.

Two words for Nancy & Stenchy:

“Al Wynn”

Great gathering of information in that comment. And Glenn drills it perfectly. So damned strange to know where your strengths are, and run FROM them.

Good night, Suz.

When, if not past, are the primaries in California and Maryland? It would suffice to scare the shit out of them.

Yes. The 26th.

Good for you wigwam!

Personally, I’m not yet convinced that a “bill” trumps the Constitution, as opposed to an Amendment to the Constitution. The bill perpetuates the perception that the behavior can persist, which is heinous itself…but I haven’t been convinced that it actually destroys the 4th Amendment…rather, it permits the behavior to persist unrestricted by Congress. That is the Problem. Congress IS the problem. The 4th Amendment stands, and there are remedies to stop those that violate it, but Congress is impotent.

Maybe we should mail them some V**gra.

Obama is being so goddamn fucking crazy. He is abandoning exactly what got him where he is.

But, now, Nancy has to be primaried, if that’s still possible.

This could buy a whole lot of V**gra.

http://www.actblue.com/page/fisa

Very astute!

As always, IANAL – but until a “person” is granted standing, I assume that there won’t be a case before the Supremes to determine the constitutionality of this violation, evisceration, of the 4th.

Good job, wigwam.

I believe that Obama is either a Repub shill….or….that he is sincere but must play a very centrist position to win (most likely). I feel like I’m riding an emotional yoyo.

I really don’t like being in a situation as a voter where I can’t figure out what he’s “really” about. It is unsettling. The alternatives at this point are:

McBush
The Dem Convention
Bob Barr
Nader
Write in candidate.

Geez. More Issa. I’ve never heard Addington speak. Hope they can outsmart him…

Good point. Per the Wikipedia:

n the common law, and under many statutes, standing or locus standi is the ability of a party to demonstrate to the court sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged to support that party’s participation in the case. In the United States, for example, a person cannot bring a suit challenging the constitutionality of a law unless the plaintiff can demonstrate that the plaintiff is (or will be) harmed by the law. Otherwise, the court will rule that the plaintiff “lacks standing” to bring the suit, and will dismiss the case without considering the merits of the claim of unconstitutionality. In order to sue to have a court declare a law unconstitutional, there must be a valid reason for whoever is suing to be there. The party suing must have something to lose in order to sue unless they have automatic standing by action of law. [Emphasis added.]

IMHO, you are obviously correct. But, damn, I’m losing sleep over the possible loss of my fourth-ammendment rights. IMHO, I have standing.

10th Amendment. The powers not delegated to the US by the Constitution, nor addressed by “it” to the States…. i.e., those things they could not address in that century; such as technological advances, etc., are to be at the mercy of the states and the people. I believe that is a remedy in all of this. JMHO

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

This is one helluva brilliant “check”.

I say, checkmate.

Oh, oh! I want a Cosmo!

Goodnite, pups. Sorry about George Carlin.

So, my view is that he is yet another politico. There is no doubt that he’d be better than McCain. That said, I’d like that we scare the bejezzus out of him, regarding the Deocratic majority he’ll have when elected. And that is what glenn greenwald is proposing.

Standing on behalf of 290,000,000. Not exactly a suspect class.

This is the same bet that’s gotten ChimpCo as far as they’ve gotten. Slug it out as long as they can in the Federal courts, and pull back at the last second (See Padilla). And time is almost up.

It’s time to bag those bastards, how ever we can.

There is no one “politician” that is going to kiss us, blow on it, and make it all better.

We are it. We are supposed to be the government. We are “We the People”. We are the force. That is what the US is “really” supposed to be about. We have a Constitution, and we have ultimate control….not those groups, like the Neocons. They just pulled a smoke and mirrors on a couple hundred million uneducated, distracted people, who actually are their bosses.

What’s going on? Why would this bill even come to the floor, much less with immunity? Something is seriously up.

The only thing I can come up with is that possibly the gang of 8…Harman, Pelosi, and crew who were informed about it and did nothing…are somehow threatened with being dragged into the Telco lawsuits in some way, and they want to get the immunity in to save their collective butts. That, so far, is the only thing that makes any sense to me….and their cronies (cocktail buddies) are covering their a*ses.

They were also privy to details of interrogation tactics, destruction of evidence, and perjury by officials of no less than the Justice department. And they didn’t do jack.
They have real skin in this game.

Obama to reintroduce himself:

In the opening weeks of the general-election campaign, Sen. Barack Obama has moved aggressively to shape his campaign and offered a clear road map for the kind of candidate he is likely to become in the months ahead: an ambitious gamer of the electoral map, a ruthless fundraiser and a scrupulous manager of his own biography in the face of persistent concerns about how he is perceived.

Exactly.

It can be challenged ultimately in the SCOTUS though, because I don’t believe the new FISA language is Constitutional at all.

Yes. Harmon and Pelosi are involved in it as members of the intelligence committee. But Steny?

I’m thinking Steny is looking at future lobby job market when he is out of office…and money until then from the Telcos.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredsci…..rected.pdf
Global warming is making lots of money very soon as venture capitalists, Utilities and solar thermal technologies that convert sunshine into steam then electriciy build new plants.
Unlike solar panels mirrors concentrate sun onto water pipe that produce ultra hot steam. Steam drives conventional turbined that generate the electicity. The best part is the capacity to store the energy for up to 16 hours will cover demand 24/7 and produce enough to power electric cars.
Ausra is building a 277 megawatt plant in my county by 2010 in an ageement with energy giant PGE. Mandatory carbon caps and trading make it financially feasable. GE, BofA, CitiCorp and a small army of big financials are on board, The kilowatt costs may lower the coast of electricity, reverse global warming and reduce the balance of payments that will heal our crippled economy. Mnay new jobs too.
The Big Oil folks can take it and stick it along with their resources wars. Best news in a long time and totally unreported. Read Earth:The Sequel google solar thermal energy to find out more. I was unable to get on the site the last two hours or I would have reported this earlier.
Imagine no need for war, hunger or poverty that cheap clean energy can give us!

Steny is a member of the Gang of 8.
The leaders and ranking members of each house from each party, and the chairs and ranking members of both intelligence committees.

The President of the United States is required by 50 U.S.C. § 413(a)(1) to “ensure that the congressional intelligence committees are kept fully and currently informed of the intelligence activities of the United States.” However, the President may elect to report instead to the Gang of Eight when he feels “it is essential to limit access” to information about a covert action.

There’s more money in lobbying than in legislating, I suppose. Unless that all gets turned around with Obama leading a strong democratic majority. Maybe K Street is a dinosaur that won’t be panning out like it has for the last eight years.

That’s a pretty sorry group, newtonusr. I’m so disappointed in Nancy…

George Carlin did not write it. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/paradox.asp
Although the sentiment still fits. May he rest in peace.

We had a shot if she had been able to act early. But what seems apparent now is that they were in it to protect their own hides the whole time.

They were, at best, intimidated into sitting still for all manner of fuckery – you know, the terra’ists and the “Homeland” – when they were in the minority, and were trapped.
I don’t even want to speculate about the “at worst” scenario.

Thanks for that. You never really know the origin when someone emails you stuff. Good catch!

Looks interesting. I’d love to see that work! I’ll read it tomorrow.

Bmaz:

Crap. A real giant has died. George Carlin gone at age 71. RIP.

* ”If you love someone, set them free. If they come home, set them on fire.”

* ”The bigger they are, the worse they smell.”

* ”The only good thing to come out of religion was the music.”

* ”Ross Perot. Just what a nation of idiots needs: a short, loud idiot.”

* ”Most people are not particularly good at anything.”

* ”There ought to be at least one round state.”
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LOL He was so great.

Emptyheel nailed it in her piece. The AIPAC history of intelligence theft from our intell aparatus and their PAC influence on our intel committee members and presidential candidates is legendary. Isreal is creating USA foriegn policy using think tanks like RAND in Santa Monica to tunnel schemes into the administrations which later turn up as policy, Jane Harman made anti activist legislation. Isreal has so much on these nitwits and I use the term as a kindness, that they would melt if they saw “sunshine”. And they need big oil to make their ME policy work. Ask Marcy it is Beamishly demonical. Three onvicted felons are walking around in spite of the conviction…go figure… these Dems are as crooked as the Bushco machine.

California primaries are over – and Nancy Pee was unopposed. However, she is being challenged by Cindy Sheehan, running as an Independent. Cindy feels like both parties sold her out. Gee, wonder where she got that idea?

Anyway, I’m sure she’s a progressive, and you know her stance on the war and everything to do with that. So if you want Nancy out – I’d support Cindy.

Even if Nancy wins, if the margin is close it might give her a wake-up call, especially if it is Cindy getting that close to her.

Just an option…

funny quote:

“Don’t you find it odd that the Senators who were actually read into the program had no issues with it? And that the moment they read in the rest of the Senators, the quibbling stopped? The real bitching about it was that they weren’t briefed, not that it was illegal,” HSToday.us was told by a career military intelligence officer who often works closely with NSA.

Interesting.
And this from the same piece:

In response to the administration’s position, Leahy declared: “I expect to get the answers. If I don’t … then I really think we should subpoena. If the president wants to claim executive authority, then let him do so, and then we can determine where we go from there.”

Leahy means, I am presuming, that it would be litigated in the courts.
Really, you have to marvel at the audacity of ChimpCo – Leahy would never have dreamed that, for instance, the US Attorney from DC would be enjoined by Presidential order from ruling on the invocation of executive privilige. It simply would never have occurred to him.

Did anyone read Marcy’s Saturday post on the AIPAC connections. It answers a lot of querstions if you read between the lines, Her timelines reveal a lot and after the 2006 election win for Ds there was very little sunxshine. A lot of scared critters in Congress are playing ball with the other side. Why one has to ask. Look at the ones who didn’t play ball they voted against telecom immunity. That should tell you a lot about who’s in who’s pocket.

Who could have anticipated!

check out the top news stories too.
http://hstoday.us/content/blogcategory/116/243/

Yes, and all of the brilliant comments. I hadn’t been following along closely enough back then.

Interesting.

“If” it went to the courts, just as the habeas cases went to SCOTUS…the consensus cannot be that, for example, the 4th Amendment is no longer in effect. SCOTUS cannot do that. They can say a bill or a law is unconstitutional blah, blah, blah…but…they cannot announce that the Constitution doesn’t stand. That would be unconstitutional. It stands. They can only ultimately rule as to whether legislation abides by it or not.

yup! great post. The Ghorbanifar Meetings Timeline

Yes. EW is outstanding.

Heading over there now, then off to snooze.
nite pups

On the other hand Leahy may be making an inferred threat of Inherent Contempt…one of those impeachment tools. By the way giving secret state security data to a foriegn government (Isreal) as in the case of AIPAC employees and being convicted is an extreme breach of natioanl security.
Aipac is supplicated to by HRC, Obama and many more including an ontourage of Billy Kristol’s PNAC at the White House. Something is rotten in Denmark…make that the USA.

Good night, newtonusr. You’ll fall asleep before you read all of that.

Heh, Ya’ll are still up…? ;-)

Whew, just a quick driveby on the way to bed but I gotta say you late late firepups are the greatest, and oh so inspiring. Thank you Suz and all for starting my week off sans the gruesome willies gripping me all weekend. How I love youse guys.

Sleep well and enjoy a good rest you earned it.

An Exercise in Political Epistemology: Mukasey, Schumer, Chertoff, and AIPAC

Sup CTut

Hi CTuttle and NPB. I fell asleep about 7:00 and Cindy Loo Hoo woke me up a bit ago. Now I can’t sleep so I’ll be delighted to keep company here!

I’ll bet you have some interesting news tidbits as an informed and avid netsurfer, What is the military sites sayinf about the Iran War Resolution?

Sad, isn’t it!!! 8P

Woo Hoo! Loo Hoo! – wish I were one half as awake as you so I could hang out – sigh – gotta re-learn to take naps. Will catch y’all on da flip side – or something like that. snooze………….

Interesting, and this was noted by klynn on Mary’s timeline article.

Check out the second comment on people in our government who hold dual US/Israeli citizenship. (Klynn noted that he/she had not independently verified this)

Sleep tight, NPB!

Attaturk has a new post up…! ;-)

Marcy’s article…

Attaturk is upstairs!
Yes indeed, it could be worse

Do you ever sleep, LM? 8-)

I got the little bugger into space in 9 days. Top that.

oh, _that’s_ why isreal is our ally.

Fundies and Zionist on the Intell committees, dedicated PNAC members running the White House this is insane. You cannot serve two masters…from the gospel. Zionist running DOJ. Wow. None if that came up at his congressional hearing did it?