mornin’ Christy!

why are these murders not prosecuted at least shunned?

I’m starting to think they want him to lose.

Ask this fellow criminal………….

OT: What’s up with the FISA callin. My peeps are standing by to assault the Craven Clowns of Congress with…

The facts.

somebody must list the killers he represented,Marcos,Savimbe[sic],Chalibi…………etc,etc

Amen and Amen: Say it more and say it loud. An assassination that favored McShame and maybe a terror attack, please, please, please. What planet are these monsters from. This is the kind of speech that hardly gets protection. How stupid can one be? I think we do not yet know. Thank you. I’m guessing that we will keep getting reminders.

BLACK = TERRORIST lover,and PROFITEER

Another attack and the GOP’s shameless talking point, recently advanced by Bloody Bill Kristol: No attacks on US interests, barring Iraq and Afghanistan, for 7 years running.

This of course excludes the fact that a US embassy in Serbia was just burnt up and also, why do they get to exclude what is supposedly the “main front in the global jihad, Iraq”?

Sure is nice to always to set the rules for the games every time.

-G

war on terra,war on terra………..hypocrits

I don’t think that an attack would help McCain at all. In fact, it would ruin the whole Repug/Bush/McCain/Loserman argument that their policies had made us safer. It would make it icily clear that they had not made us safer.

Have thought all along this type of “statement” is a Rovian tactic. You simply have a staffer say something negative about your opponent (no matter how ludicrous) and presto!, the meme is out there.

Also, the timing is always impeccable, as when there are other issues (like FISA) being considered. He’s the master of the “no, look over here” approach.

Why is this so difficult for people (and the MSM) to figure out?

ok short list Marcos,Chalibi,Savimbe,Seko,Mabuto????? more???

Only a less than human, souless, craven, sick fuck would see that as a “campaign advantage”.

Black’s fecal utterings are not newsworthy.

The Corporate Media and The Villagers have deemed Don Imus more newsworthy.

ok going for a walk…need a release,and fressh air

http://health.usnews.com/artic…..min-d.html

http://shaggydogfarms.com/

Is it just me, or are you catching a whiff of Turdblossom, too?

Rove, the one-trick pony. He used to be creative in his ass-hattery, at least, but it seems that he hasn’t had an original idea is about 7 years now….

Would we be surprised if Mugabe were on his list? Or the generals of Myanmar?

It does seem rather stale and unenticing, doesn’t it?

Because the MSM are SBM*…Arianna got that one right.
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* Swift Boat Media

See also, Small Bowel Media…they are concerned that if they don’t work to elect McCain they will be scheiss-canned… that’s the trouble with sellin’ your soul to the corpborg.

GOOD Morning Christy and pups, after all!!!

Did anyone else meet with only error messages when trying to access the site this morn? Scared me to death. I didn’t used to be this much of a ninny.

I hate deadeye for that. I want my country back.

toobz acting up a little. the guy must pedal faster !

We had a hiccup this morning with an upgrade. Should be running smoothly now, though, eh?

Isn’t it awesome (now, there’s a word) that one of the most significant phrases came from the hated FDR: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I get such satisfaction from the phrase and from the source. There are times I start to feel really afraid of what is happening or what we are becoming. Then I hear his resonant, confident voice. How reassuring. And of course he was a Democrat taking courageous steps for our country. Cheers.

Yep. It was short lived.

tired of that name

coc#eyed won’t work

mebbe roosterpeephole

sorry. brain seriously frazzled.

will attempt to maintain thready silence.

it’s hard.

He got caught up in the flooding and is using a water paddle boat.

The House Republicans have went into the All Stop Mode again. They have demanded a recorded vote on approving the Journal of the Preceding Days Proceedings and now they have introduced a Motion to Adjourn. Twenty Minutes killed. They will waste at least two hours today like this. And then they will complain about the “Do Nothing ‘Democrat’ Congress”

dear gaia -

as the villagers are all about the values – sure hope Len Downie’s successor will consider using
Warning Labels

btw, all — please do give Spencer Ackerman a warm welcome!

oh awright, folks. i guess i oughtta put down the caffeine & take a deep breath.

thanks!

Hurrah for techies and upgrades. Huzzah! (that’s what one of our sonny’s does, so i’m especially proud and appreciative – magicians, they are!)

Morning all, sorry to go OT so fast, but has this already been noted/opined on??
‘Washington, DC – Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd’s 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill’s managers without debate this week, would require the nation’s payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government.’
http://freedomworks.org/newsro…..45522527a7

Black’s comment is an example of the old meme: It’s always good if it is for the Republicans.

So if there is no terrorist attack, this shows that the Republicans have been effective in preventing one.

If there is a terrorist attack, then you need a Republican because they’re tough on national security.

You can construct something like this on just about any issue, and both Republicans and the media do.

Wow !

Ackerman Unleashed !

whatever happened to that nice young man blogging over at the Washington Independent ? *g*

thank you Christy and thank you Jane

He’s still working for the Washington Independent, too — he’s just got a new blogging URL. *G*

The House Republicans have went into the All Stop Mode again. They have demanded a recorded vote on approving the Journal of the Preceding Days Proceedings and now they have introduced a Motion to Adjourn. Twenty Minutes killed. They will waste at least two hours today like this. And then they will complain about the “Do Nothing ‘Democrat’ Congress”

The obvious way for the Democrats to retaliate is to pass a FISA bill that gives Republicans even more than they asked for. That’ll show ‘em.

Wanted: Creative fiction writers and/or Very Scary People. No experience required. Brown skin a plus.

Abilities to transform positive personal traits and to re-characterize as character flaws a must for writer position.

The Very Scary Persons chosen will exhibit skill in making cataclysmic threats, even if implausible. Experience with, and contacts in, the MSM will put this candidate over the top. A demonstrated personal relationship with the editorial boards of the New York Times or Washington Post will provide this candidate with immediate bonus opportunities.

Resumes should be sent to the Republican National Committee, attn: K. Rove.

Yes. Feel the logic. *cough*

the ones who pretend NOT to figure it out are the ones who earn the most doggie-treats?

no. seriously.

i wish it were snark. *sigh*

Kind of shoots in the neck that whole meme about the Iraq war creating more terrorists, doesn’t it?

(The hiccup may have been short-lived, but it took me three tries to log in just now)

I got a call from McNerney’s campaign last evening, trying to get me to support them against what sounds like GOoPer swift-boat type ads. I said that yes, his district is conservative, but he’s been voting sort of purple. The caller was telling me all about how he couldn’t vote to de-fund the troops because that wouldn’t be supporting them, and I said “FISA. We noticed!” And hung up on him.

Re Richard Cohen, as I suggested last night in the Broder thread, it would be useful to have a database on media figures where their histories of idiocy and pandering could be laid out with appropriate links.

Rove has so far avoided ANY poo sticking..He is very good at what he does. And it is still working…..just not as well!!! and if the Judge rules that Myers and ? have to face Congress or Jail, then Rove becomes touchable…Cool.

I strongly disagree with your position on this – tut-tutting at the egregious nature of McSame’s campaign manager admitting that a terrorist attack would “help” is not strong enough.

We need to remember the following:
1. The AQ terrists (and their fellow-thinkers/doers) both closely follow American politics and believe they can influence them.
2. They have seen that the appearance of bin Laden on video about a week prior to the 2004 election swung that election to them.
3. They have seen that a Republican administration is, for them, the best recruiting tool going.
4. They stand to benefit from a McSame administration.
5. Any terrist attacks between now and January 20, 2009 will have happened because of the failures (deliberate or otherwise) of the Republican adminstration now in power.

Thus, we need to argue:
1. McSame is encouraging terrorists by
(a) allowing Charlie Black to remain in his campaign
(b) playing the fear card.
2. The blood from any terrorist attack between now and January 20, 2009 will be on Republican hands – and solely Republican hands.
3. Why should the American people want to elect a person whose campaign depends, for its success, on Americans either dying (with the blood on that campaign’s hands) or being scared to death of dying, after a terrist attack? There is no good reason for it.

If David Addington can subvert the Constitution and cause people to commit crimes merely by threatening that “if we get attacked, the blood will be on your hands”, well, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Time to take off the lace, people, and put on the leather.

I used to like him but all the pundits seem to have gone off the rails. I think it’s desperation – all their writings seem covered in sweat.

Good Morning, all,

I have a very special powder that I sprinkle on the lawn.

This powder is designed by very knowledgeable people.

It’s purpose is to keep marauding mastodons away.

It works!

In fact, it works so well that none of my neighbors have had any mastodon problems either.

Indeed, so far as I know, the fair City of Pittsburgh has not had a single instance of mastodonial misbehavior during the time which I have lived here and made use of my very special powder …

There may be those who doubt the properties found in my very special powder, but they have yet to produce a mastodon …

And the saddest part is that without the protection afforded them, indirectly, by my very special powder, they would be over-run by the beasts.

Oh well, there is no accounting for ignorance. Which is a good thing because the line would be unbelievably long and people would get tired of waiting.

may I both preach to the choir and belabor the obvious -

Would love to see the Obama campaign directly challenge McCain on his vaunted National Security record – what zactly are the bullet points of his accomplishments ?!?!

the only ones feeling safer with McSafe are Grover Norquist and the rest of the Abramoff gang

prediction:

Charlie Black is gone by the end of today.

Good point: I think he crashed about 2 or 3 planes; I think he “ratified” the mission accomplished BS put out by W. Is that a start?

He did that earlier in the week: “These are the same guys who helped to engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could have pinned down the people who actually committed 9/11,” the presumed nominee told reporters aboard his campaign plane. “This is the same kind of fear-mongering that got us into Iraq … and it’s exactly that failed foreign policy I want to reverse.”

((((Quaker girl))))

nagunnahappen

they are hunkered down and hoping their villager allies will make it go away and so far that is working

Black is an integral player and even more important to him than Salter

saw that as well -

but in going through his record in the 110th and 111th Congress – there is no there there

I used to like him but all the pundits seem to have gone off the rails. I think it’s desperation – all their writings seem covered in sweat.

That or the effort it takes to keep up the pretence of the integrity they no longer have and the principles they sold out long ago.

McCain on his vaunted National Security record – what zactly are the bullet points of his accomplishments ?!?!

He was a soldier and a POW. Thus he has extensive National Security policy-making experience.

*I know this because JoeScar told me so – for about three days running on The JoeScar show.

** Wanna watch JoeScar get red-faced, spitting mad? Suggest that McCains’s having been a soldier and POW does not confer National Security experience…

Go Kucinich Go. Via Betsy at Iamtrex.

example – he has 9/11 Comm Co Chair Kean touting his work to adopt the commission’s recommendations – fibber! McAbsent missed 2 of those votes

Nah. IOKIYAR, as always.

“I do think this is a total farce with regard to the immunity [for telecommunications companies]. It basically guarantees the immunity,” Feingold said. “It doesn’t simply have the impact of potentially allowing telephone companies to break the law. It may prevent us from ever getting to the core issue … which is the president ran an illegal program that could’ve been an impeachable offense.”
ILLEGAL = Criminal Charges…DO IT….

…

nagunnahappen

I kinda hope you’re right. Hell, if McLame *were* to dump him, the media would have him up for sainthood – non-stop – for weeks.

following Scar’s ‘logic’, McCain should tap one of the released Gitmo detainees as his VP :D

Once the Turdblossom is taken off the streets most if not all of this crap will dry up and blow away. As long as this traitor is free to practice his black arts it will continue and get even worse as the election nears.

I kinda hope you’re right. Hell, if McLame *were* to dump him, the media would have him up for sainthood – non-stop – for weeks

they already have doncha know – yesterday

HRC’s unfortunate comment about RFK was “an historical blunder”, Black committed a “gaffe” :D

Man, I haven’t had a mastodon problem either. That shit works!

Once the Turdblossom is taken off the streets most if not all of this crap will dry up and blow away.

Gee, if only he had committed a crime – like, say, blowing off a lawful subpoena…

Charlie Black is McBush’s brain. He the “Rove” in the campaign. My bet is that his position is rock solid.

Boxturtle (Is it true that McBush gets a headache every time Charlie stubs his toe?)

that’s only a crime for the little people.

like wiretapping.

and kidnapping.

and torture.

and fatally beating the kidnap victim.

Wow! just. WOW!

Kucinich should be in the Senate.

Let’s get rollin’ OHIO. Voinovichy needs to go home to spend more time on his family.

I’m just relieved that Obama didn’t crash any planes during his military service.

Do not feed.

meaning?? gee. you’re as loopy as i am today. somethin’ in the water?

I guess McCain really wants to take the heat off himself and blame it all on Terra. McCain and Lieberman are dragging around all those gnawing little domestic problems that are part of Chimpy’s baggage.

Hmm. Lou Dobbs wants to “impeach” for FDA lax regs. Headtip to Betsy again at iamtrex.com. So many interesting things going on.

trolls under the bridge

oops. sits with hands folded on desk, adjusts foil dunce cap.

Well, Boy George was denied a visa – don’t you feel safer already?

Rove’s bleating about the effete elite + Black’s cracks about attacks = same old crap.

Get this thing done!

What?

i used ta know how to spear squid. honest. no good, huh? *sigh*

It is time to let the mastodon chips fall where they may, Loo Hoo, and I am pleased to learn that my precautions have afforded widespread protection from mastodonic terrorism.

It is my firm conviction, though this is the first time I have ventured to say so publicly, that my careful concern, regarding the desire of mastodons for world-wide domination, has protected our entire nation and, indeed, much of the free-world.

But, wishing to remain humble and simple, I have refrained from tooting my own horn, as I am satisfied in knowing that the entire world is made safer by my unending efforts to protect my homelawn.

Yikes! I drop into FDL and what do I see? Somebody named “puravida” calling Charlie Black a “sick fuck.” Chuck’s now furiously apologizing, but as Cokie says, “it’s out there now.”

Thanks for the shout-out, Redd. (I just wish it hadn’t been my angry alter-ego.) I blame McCain.*g*

cute. compared to….

How about: No pie throwing.

here. come sit by me. i like yer style.

that’s only a crime for the little people.

Federal Judge disagrees:

Judge: Why Litigate When You Can Arrest?

Congress has the authority to hold someone in contempt, U.S. District Judge John Bates said. Did it really need to go to court? House counsel Irvin Nathan said it did.

Translation of Judge-speak:

Jebus, don’t you people have any balls whatsoever? Somebody? Bueller?

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi…..arrest.php

Sorry…I must have been reliving the 2004 election when I was told that only a combat veteran had the chops to lead America in time of war.

no skewers either, groan.

Wow, indeed!
Thanks Christy. I’m glad you were the one to get ahold of this. FDL misses NOTHING on the national stage.
So I didn’t hear anything re the Black hole of McCain’s campaign having been removed. I guess Mac’s pretty OK with this, his fake outrage was poorly presented, as though he’d just gotten up from a nap.
Cafferty is good. He rarely if ever lets Wolf and gang get away with their pandering. He’s outspoken and usually nails the bs, irregardless of how anyone tries to twist out a response. I wonder how he gets away with that and keeps his job. I OFTEN wonder that.
And having Ackerman as another cornerstone at the Lake is just brilliant.
I said downstairs, Christy, but want to repeat here, I’m so impressed watching Firedoglake evolve and change, grow and gain strength with each new addition. You guys are doing great work and then improving on it all the time.
Awesome doesn’t really say it. You best yourselves on a regular and constant basis.
And I thank you for that.
As soon as I stop giving my donation money to Obama, which could be by Friday, each cent I sent to him will be going to FDL. I just wish I could contribute more and in the form of oil, rice, corn or something more valuable than the dollar!

Yes well I am having a hard time picturing Le Kucinich with the requisite hairplugs needed. Didn’t someone mention once that the congresscritters suddenly appear with more “hair” leaning toward election time?

our tomatoes/tomahtohs are growing nicely after that dandy hailstorm we had this week.

Sneakin’ one in from work.

The Lake network seems to be attracting the most interesting people in the blogosphere. Nice catch, Christy and Lady Jane. We keep this up we’re gonna put the pseudo networks outta bidness. That’s a good thing, right?

Wow. I feel so safe I go back to bed and catch up on my sleep. The sun is helping keep me safe today: mostly obscured by smoke. From the 1300 lighting strikes this weekend (normal for Nor Cal in June: zero). And the 800 fires (esp the ones CA had to let burn ’cause dear ol Grover and the Rethugs drowned public resources in the bathtub). The fires the lightning started on the land dry from the worst drought since the gold rush. The unprececented drought and June lightning storms here consistent with the predicted effects of global warming.

But oilmen Shrub and Shooter tell us global warming isn’t happening. And turdblossom sent some boy just ourt of college to censor NASA scientists’ public statements on global warming.

Of course I feel safer: Shrub and Shooter tell me everything is OK. What, me worry?

Unless it’s really delicious BBQ.

I don’t know about worldwide safety, but it’s working here. Not sure about South America.

Fresh thready goodness, up and running for everyone…

he’s gonna have that cute little cowlick till he’s ninety. heh.

Cheers!

I think you should go shopping to celebrate!

OT – from MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer:

“Did Charlie Black just accidentally give Obama’s campaign a talking point?”

Ya can’t find that kind of deep political insight just anywhere, ya know…

Help us.

Adie, LooHoo: Cheers backatcha!

Bom dia pups

wow.just.wow

Whatever happened to that wonderful saying, ‘Think before you speak’?

Hi I’m Mara Liasson, thank you Cokie, there is, in fact, bi-partisan consensus concluding that Charlie Black is indeed a “sick fuck.”

Ya gotta have something to “think” with for starters.

I would pay to see that

Caution: the following message may damage evil eyes.

P. E. A. C. E.

forgot to 707

true. It has been shown to me (more than once, sadly) that there are plenty of folks out there that operate sans grey matter

Relive a few earlier elections. The following are wartime presidents who never experienced combat, although a few served in some capacity: James Madison, James K. Polk, Abraham Lincoln (did some walking during the Black Hawk War) , Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan (if Granada considered war), and George W. Bush.

The following wartime presidents had some combat experience: William McKinley, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson (based on questionable WWII mission), George H.W. Bush.

It seems safe to conclude that there is no direct correlation between combat experience and effectiveness as president during wartime. So, I recommend just not considering it as an important factor. Are we really at war, anyway?

“Terrorist attacks are good for Republicans”? When did we see this happen before…about 7 years ago, I recall. So all the incumbent administration has to do is look the other way…and despite its neglect and malfeasance…it can blame the Democrats.

BTW Did McCain at all protest the weakening into pablum of the Gore Committee recommendations on increasing airline and airport security? Or did he vote in lockstep with the bulk of the Republicans that said it was “too expensive” to worry about improving security during check-ins and making sure that luggage weren’t carrying bombs?

Amen.

That’s all we are saying.

Nice Picture, Loo Hoo.

However, mammothian (for that is what you’ve provided an image of) is quite different from that form practiced by mastodons. As yet, no effective powder has been developed, either for mammoths or their modern-day descendants, Republicans.

No, there is no majic potion to ward off either of these two forms of Ego-Giganticism-Destructus, just sheer unending effort to discern their presence, as they are shape-changers, par excellence, sufficent intelligence to actually engage in thinking – the rumor that thinking destroys brain-cells, is only that, a rumor, and constant vigilence …

You’re right! I’ll rent a Hummer….

gee, why would richard cohen thinks a man who cheats on his wife had “character”? i wonder…

I’d love to see you try that link again, skippy!