Zed…Zed is dead…Long live the Zed!!!

I got yer stimulus package right here.

It’s another trend brought to us by the new stay-at-home can’t-afford-to-go-anywhere culture. People have a lot of time on their hands.

And some of them, more than that.

I might not know pornography when I see it, but that picture is definitely obscene.

Attaturk, you do provoke the early a.m. guffaw, bless you!

Lieberman has the mighty ballast of the Israel lobby? Is that what he might be about?

Making phone calls to voicemails of Senators this week. FISA issue of course. And small detail of $400 million check of our money written to Bush by our Democrat-dominated houses in 2007 for covert Iran operations. God Bless Sy Hersh. God bless toll free number and re-dial button. Truth to power, even if late call on voicemail!

Though the “left” has entirely been thrown under the bus. Can anyone hear us from here?

Though the “left” has entirely been thrown under the bus. Can anyone hear us from here?

HuffPo has a dimension called “Off the Bus”… maybe FDL should have one called “Under the Bus”?

Good gawd, after 8 years of the Bush Regime the nation has become a country of masturbators? After getting their stimulus checks from the Bush Regime? Bah hahahahahahahahaha!

SIDEBAR NOTE: When I get my check, I will not be stimulating myself with it. Promise. ;-)

Good gawd, after 8 years of the Bush Regime the nation has become a country of masturbators?

I think that was one of the points near the end of the movie version of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Sex replaced reading.

No one could have anticipated a stiffening in certain economic sectors as a result of sudden stimu….. Never mind.

Mr.Cbl

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins, Cohen and Kristof day. La Collins produced something called “What We Learned in the War,” and says that Americans of all ages tend to both respect military service and ignore it when picking a president. John McCain presumably understands this. Mr. Cohen writes about “Mbeki’s Shame,” and says the South African president has a history of denying the facts before him, and his own people and Zimbabweans have paid the price. His post-Mandela record is now tarnished. Mr. Kristof writes about “The Luckiest Girl,” and tells us that one of the most remarkable of this year’s new college graduates, Beatrice Biira, credits her success to something utterly improbable: a goat.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee and tea are ready, and the corn muffins just came out of the oven. Hoover is going to see the vet for his second series of kitten shots and we’ll find out how much weight his stuffing of his hollow leg with Science Diet Kitten Food has added. 201 days to go… Have a good day.

Wasn’t that liarman with his smirk standing beside mcsame in Columbia yesterday? Same shows up; hostages get released……quelle surprise.

oo boys, now I can’t wait to be stimulated! I just know my check is coming any day now.

*chuckle*

Marion @ 9 -

That was a wonderful “My Pet Goat” story!

Wasn’t that liarman with his smirk standing beside mcsame ..

I gotta tell you, I just love how y’all play the name game on this site! :)

Morning, W… hope all is well.

Washington Journal Summary
Thursday, July 3, 2008

7:00-7:30 Question/Newspaper Articles/Phones

7:30-8:15 JAMES GLASSMAN
Undersecretary of State for Public
Diplomacy & Public Affairs http://www.state.gov

Glassman’s WSJ Op-ed:
http://online.wsj.com/article/…..mmentaries

Public Diplomacy Commission Report:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/106297.pdf

Topic: U.S. Diplomacy Efforts Abroad. Our guest discuss among other topics: a recent report by the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy that criticizes the State Department’s public diplomacy capabilities, the role and responsibility of the State Department’s office of public diplomacy and a PEW report released last month that found some positive signs for U.S. image abroad. In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Glassman wrote about how the U.S. can win the war on terror by winning the war of ideas. He was sworn into office last month.

8:15-9:00 AMY MYERS JAFFE
Uplink James Baker Institute for Public Policy
Energy Studies Fellow http://www.bakerinstitute.org

Locator: Houston

Topic: Discuss the recent announcement by Iraq’s Oil Ministry to offer long-term contracts to foreign oil companies in an effort to open more production fields. Guest will also update on the condition and the production capability of the oil fields, as well as the politics behind Iraqi Oil.

9:00-10:00 JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS
Washington Post Politics & Internet Reporter http://www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.joseantoniovargas.com
DL: Campaign 2008 & the Internet

Topic: A look at how the Internet is being used by the campaigns and by individual supporters and opponents.

Guest will also update on the condition and the production capability of the oil fields, as well as the politics behind Iraqi Oil.

Capability poor enough to make us go after Iran oil fields, IMHO.

Hey Elliot. Thanks.

I’ve had Heifer International on my Christmas wish list for years. Lord knows I don’t need more stuff, and getting a notification from a friend that a family somewhere now has a flock of chicks or some honeybees makes me a happy camper. Also, if you’ve never heard of it, you might look at Kiva. I have about 6 loans out right now.

Oil $144 a barrel today.

Been meaning to ask……do you put these nice expanded Washington Journo descriptions together yourself? The linky I check contains much less info; the ones you provide are great!

Marion @ 16 -

Iirc, Christy introduced me to Heifer on a PUAC; probably also learned of Kiva at the Lake as well……FDL – the source of many good things. *g* Have been sockin’ all my spare cash into downstream races recently but need to get back to non-political donations asap.

All will be well when the dims kick that twit six ways to nowhere!

Marion @8 (reply not always working)

Thanks for good reads. Good luck at the vet with little mighty mouth. :)

LOL We’ve been stiffed alright. Bah hahahahahahaha!

He’s going to be in a bit of a temper when he sees the vet. He’s used to going out to play in the yard before I go to work, and he’s telling me he’s ready to go out now… Sadly, No. All the piteous mewing for naught. I’d feel like a worm if I didn’t know that he needs his shots!

OT, forgive me Attaturk… I was away from the blogs and I just commented on Ian’s Turning Obama into a Punchline one…Popped off and would like to share it again here since time has passed and I am still going through my BO stages of grief and would like to vent and was pleased with my points. Hope this is kosher.

he’s leaning on some slender reeds, easily broken by the avalanche of mud soon to come his way.

Mud from both the D’s and the R’s and the MSM. Thanks for this blog, Ian. So solidly sound.

I am commenting late in the game, but I feel like we need to process this “under the bus experience.” Hey, Reverend, Samantha, Wesley, moveon, and 60s hippie activists (wow… that one really po’d me)…. I can’t believe he threw the entire “left” under the bus. And I thought Bush had hubris. And how deliciously titillating to MSM who justifies the strategic wisdom of this decision for a few minutes, to use it later to club him with.

So Bush’s numbers are in the toilet. We on the left have been screaming about the emperor’s nakedness for eight long years. Suffered our own form of PTSD when awesomely he was reelected in 2004 … but no one, apparently including Obama, will acknowledge our wisdom and our Cassandra-like warnings. The first line enablers of Bush and his war … of lemming-like apathy to corporate rapists …. won’t give us our due. I guess we gotta let go of that. Respect for our sanity.

I was thinking of the adage about how Republicans fall in line, Democrats fall in love. And Barack just sent us a massive Dear John letter. Wow.

IIRC … long ago Joan Baez said wistfully she wished she had had time to become a “person” before she became a “personality”. I fear this may be happening with Barack. Potential there for sure… but is it beyond his emotional capacity? Also IIRC Einstein said evil wasn’t darkness, it just was the absence of light. Now, we need a leader who can lead us toward the light … of truth and goodness. I fear you can’t see the true light, Barack and how can you lead us to the future if your stride is not sure, but you are puppeted by your ego-strategic mind and those of your “handlers” … lost to the dark.

I SAY AGAIN, BARACK, LEARN TO LET GO OF THE SUPPORT YOU DON’T HAVE, AND HOLD ONTO THE SUPPORT YOU HAVE!

oh, that comes from the CSPAN radio schedule
Washington Journal Summary

Sometimes I get server configuration errors from that link, but it does give a much fuller description than the WJ web page.

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Hope Mighty Mouth (lol) comes home with a clean bill of health, and in better humor.

Marion @22,

Tough love. The greatest of all.

I think I will send the goat story to my Conn college cousin-in-law. How cool is that story. And our workplace sent some livestock two years ago for xmas. Will share it with them, too. Wow.. what an endorsement for a program. I thought the story would have a funky, funny catch… but it was simple and incredible.

Well. Now we know how they’re planning on “cooking the books” in November. Consider this story from the Savannah Daily Disappointment as the first indication. Turns out we’re all lying, doncha know…

Gotta go. Have a good one.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Other than “who could have anticipated,” and “my God, are the Hunts still around?”

Marion, Unfortunately, MSM won’t touch this because they would have to admit that the President lied.

Good Morning everyone. The thinking in my office was that since none of us could think of anything to buy with our stimulus check on that would actually benefit the U.S. economy, we should all take it to the local indian casino.

Marion @ 26 -

Is the SDD always inclined to one-sentence paragraphs? *g*

Elliott @ 24 -

Thankee and bookmarked!

The problem that I have with articles like that is it doesn’t say much. I have no idea how much the lie factor enters into elections and there is no comparison given in the article. Bringing up the VA gov. election seemed odd because it did not say if anything else happened the few days before the elections. Were the VA polls done with registered voters?

You have to take into consideration the Chatham County School System… It’s a wonder they don’t try to write the whole paper using only one syllable words…

See my #33 as to one reason why it doesn’t say much. And we call it the Daily Disappointment for a reason! The article’s offered as an indication of one of the ways they may “explain” how the election results are wildly divergent from everything that we’ve seen and heard and felt in the real world. It’s possible that the Atlanta Constipation (don’t care for that rag either!) may have more information on how the polling was conducted. I’ll scrounge around after I hit the break room for my morning coffee. (Tea at home, coffee at work. I’m an equal opportunity caffienator!)

Maybe the journalist went to the same schools as Neal Boortz. I can listen to Neal is I’m in the car because it’s so easy just to laugh at his lack of analysis. You are definitely right about the AJC. When I was married we received the NYTimes instead of the AJC. Now the NYTimes is out of my price range. I still miss the hard copy.

Gee, preview is my friend.. I can listen to Neal when I’m in the car

Attaturk,
This stimulus check is about one thing only… GEORGE BUSH and his cherished place in history. Reading the GDP we would be entering the recession, depression for the third month now if not for the 1/2% these checks add to the GDP. History will proclaim george one of the most brilliant economic minds ever to rule this great land. Of course the smoke may blow away and reveal the Hoover replacement we are stuck with.

Far from it LL! From the AP Wire. By midday in Europe, light, sweet crude for August delivery rose $2.28 to a record $145.85 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The Big Picture site has a decent article about how when the European Central Bank raises rates it causes the dollar to fall and therefore raises oil rates. The Bush administration is directly involved in the weakness of the dollar.

You knew they were gaming the USD when they decided there was no need to publish M3 any longer. It most certainly has to piss off the Chinese and the others holding tons of American Debt.

$146.11 now.

I haven’t gotten my stimulus check yet. Is it because I’m a liberal? LOL Well, when it arrives I’m going to put it into my super-duper-super-secret new checking account to use it towards heating oil this winter. Yep, as usual, I as an American will be stimulating the Oil Maggots lifestyle! Spit.

Okay, going to work like the rest of the schmucks in our country.

Marion, Unfortunately, MSM won’t touch this because they would have to admit that the President lied.

Actually, it’s one of the top stories on the Joe-less (yippee!) JoeScar this morning.

Mornin’ all.

The merde touch.

So funny and so true. It’s like King Midas, except everything he touches turns to sh*t!

The hug is back

http://www.boston.com/bostongl….._maverick/

It’s like King Midas, except everything he touches turns to sh*t!

I’m wondering how Barney, The First Dog, has survived this long…

cool

As my navy dad used to say:
“It’s an ill wind that blows no man good.”

And school and college is out, this may be typical. And so many out of jobs finding something to do at home that doesn’t include driving with $4.15 a gallon gas. Beer sales go up during a recession/depression too. I don’t like porn, but we have so many bigger issues to tackle I can’t let this one get me down.

Here is the bad news. Beer prices are going to go up. There is a terrible hops shortage right now, I heard that Samuel Adams allowed micro Breweries to buy from them at their price. Here is the worse news: They say that in a decade beer will be so expensive it will be considered a luxury beverage and only the rich will be able to afford it!

I won’t tell you what some meth-addicted acquaintances of mine are going to do with their stimulus check. It’s very stimulating.