zed is dead

They are all waiting for their Hewlitt Packer rebates like me. Staples advised me to throw the malfunctioning product in the trash do not hold breathe for big corporate to back their crap. The voters are disgusted with the corporate rip offs large and small. Spent 2 days wasted. Voters don’t want any more BS.

FISA…Off shore driling…Stopping war we are up to here with wrong action. Paris does it better!

Swopa..strayed a little with the Hewlitt Packard remark. Consumers are fed up and they vote with dollars. Their home values have been destroyed by Bushco…so who do you trust?

Anybody catch Condi’s response to Mike Allen (Politico) when asked about the letter Suskind says was ordered to be forged? Very interesting wording…something like….the WH wouldn’t order something to be forged on a matter of such importance.

So….if it was something not quite that important…they would????

I can’t find the transcript. Interesting response.

I suppose some of us know about minimal groups paradigm but some of us do not and it really should get it’s own blog entry

it is indeed what describes the effect republicans have with their constituents

I like to believe most of us here at the lake are immune from the symptom, however I do know most democrats are not immune

Republicans are surely victims though

yeah, i’m sick of the presidential race. This counterpunch article sumed up my feelings well.

Obama and the Empire

Given all this, can we expect a more enlightened, less bloody, more progressive and humane foreign policy from Mr. Barack Obama? Forget the alleged eloquence and charm; forget the warm feel-good stuff; forget the interminable clichés and platitudes about hope, change, unity, and America’s indispensable role as world leader; forget all the religiobabble; forget John McCain and George W. Bush … All that counts is putting an end to the horror — the bombings, the invasions, the killings, the destruction, the overthrows, the occupations, the torture, the American Empire.

Al Gore and John Kerry both took the progressive vote for granted. Neither had ever been particularly progressive themself. Each harbored a measure of disdain for the left. Both paid a heavy price for the neglect. I and millions like me voted for Ralph Nader, or some other third-party candidate, or stayed home. Obama is doing the same as Gore and Kerry. Progressives should let him know that his positions are not acceptable, keeping up the anti-war pressure on him and the Democratic Party at every opportunity. For whatever good it just might do.

I’m too broke to pay attention, said America.

If it’s really important, it couldn’t have been anticipated anyway.

I preferred the Fafblog version myself…

Ding.

this is off topic but very important

Ron Suskind’s new book alleges that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein linking the dictator to the 9/11 terrorists. The American Conservative’s Philip Giraldi argues today that “an extremely reliable and well placed source in the intelligence community” told him Suskind’s overall claim “is correct,” but that it was Douglas Feith’s Office of Special Plans — not the CIA — that forged the letter:

this is what I have been saying from the start, that the cia are almost entirely professionals and that the faked data would have been created by a “fake” or “anex” of the cia created by cheney and rumsfeld, created specifically to undernmine nixon’s detante and then re created specifically to get us into war in Iraq

it is being used again by these sociopaths to get us into war with Iran

a must read about cheney’s team b

more from that link

A CIA counterrorism expert said that, in the run-up to war, Feith’s office recommended that the CIA’s finding of no link between Iraq al Qaeda relations “be ignored. Not challenged, not made the subject of a critical dialogue between policymakers and analysts, but ignored.”

Suskind is up next on Hardball…he’s kind of on that book roll. We’ll see how Mike rips him. You know he’ll try.

I’ve pretty much given up Hope on this crop of candidates. It looks like we know McCain will certainly do unacceptable things, whereas Obama just can’t be relied upon to honor his word. Plus when I look at his advisors and listen to his rhetoric of late, it strikes me that we’re in for more of the same.

I don’t even trust him to appoint good Justices anymore, especially since the campaign floated Ann Veneman’s name the other day.

So it nothin’s happening in the presidential race, can we talk about our Blue Am candidates for Congress? Sometimes they turn out really well. Just got an email from Rep. Tim Walz [the coach guy from MN] who is praising Blue Am candidate John Hall for his work getting the veterans disability program off of the dime:

Dear Friends,

I asked John Hall for the opportunity to write you, because, as a veteran myself, I wanted to let you all know how appreciative I am of his tireless work on behalf of our brave men and women. Last week marked an important milestone in his work on behalf of veterans. On Wednesday, John’s bill, the Disability Claims Modernization Act, passed the House of Representatives by a margin of 429-0. This bill represents the most sweeping and important overhaul of our national Veterans’ Affairs system in decades, and it would not have happened without John Hall’s unyielding commitment to ensuring that our nation’s veterans receive care that is truly worthy of their sacrifice.

When John came to Congress, he was given the unique and important opportunity to serve as Chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance, a position which he has embraced with incredible vigor and passion. When his bill arrived at the full Veterans’ Affairs Committee, on which we both serve, Congressman Hall presented a picture of a VA system in distress. In 2007, more than 800,000 claims for disability assistance from veterans were pending in the VA, and the number was growing rapidly — expected to exceed more than one million in 2009. The time between when a claim was filed and assistance delivered had ballooned to an average of more than six months, with many veterans or their surviving relatives waiting years or even decades to collect on disability pension claims.

I have seen first hand John Hall’s commitment to our veterans. From his authoring of this significant piece of legislation, to his support for the GI-Bill and his casework on behalf of veterans who come into his district offices seeking assistance with claims that had not been delivered upon, you have in Congressman Hall a Representative who not only cares deeply for our veterans, but who has been able to achieve real and meaningful results on their behalf. The strong, bi-partisan consensus that this bill has achieved is a testament to that commitment.

I am honored to consider Representative Hall a friend and colleague, and this district is fortunate to have such a dedicated Congressman working on its behalf.

Gratefully,

Representative Tim Walz
Command Sergeant Major, Retired

There are times when people float their own names - or have someone do it for them. It most often means nothing and I doubt that Obama is quite to the point of thinking of justices.

Barack Obama’s vice presidential search team has floated the name of a member of President Bush’s first-term Cabinet, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, as Obama’s running mate. I was simply appalled by this item!

The woman made a complete fiasco out of the BSE testing mess. I have absolutely no idea why they would even dream of this person, she was a typical anti-regulation, pro-industry, anti-worker, twerp.

yeah yeah

For those of you with the eyes to see, and the ears to hear, I have put together a site that provides an interesting overview of the unfolding events of Revelation 12

Those who have done the research know that the underbelly of the Illuminati is satanism. This is why they censored the extraordinary eruption of Comet Holmes in October. There are pictures and further info explaining this monumental event at the site, under the “signs” button.

Go to “links” button for the astounding revelations last week from former Nasa official Clark McClelland, who supported astronaut Ed Mitchell’s recent comments regarding military involvement with alien races.

McClelland has admitted to seeing a 8 t0 9 ft tall alien on his monitor who was in the shuttle cargo bay during a classified shuttle mission. This week Clark put a artist’s rendering on his website of what he witnessed. Be sure to read the “incidents” links and you will get a pretty good idea of how credible of a witness Clark really is.

I will posting further info on the site in a couple of days that is going to shock you.

http:www.thetruthportal.com

i’ll be sitting here anxiously awaiting that post.

. . . This group seems to have become less interested in the campaign since last month.

I confess that after Sen. Obama voted to give the illusion of legitimacy to powers the Constitution expressly prohibits the office he’s seeking from excercising, the tentative hope I had that he might work to repair at least some of the damage the Bush administration and the Republican-dominated Congress have inflicted on the Constitution completely evaporated, and I became dramatically less interested in hearing what he has to say on almost everything.

Then again, he knew he would lose some support as a result of his vote, and he explicitly said that the power was worth that price.

FWIW, just an observation:

The Gang of 10: Obama’s Checkmate?

I try and avoid using grandiose rhetoric of this kind. But there is a potential checkmate scenario sitting on the board for Barack Obama, and it involves the ‘Gang of 10′ energy compromise bill currently being floated by a bipartisan group of ten senators.

The web site is there but some one doesn’t know how to post and address for it if you want to read that sort of stuff! http://www.thetruthportal.com/

Woof! Yowie zowie! The only thing I can say about the place is he uses a more attractive font and less flashing, whirling stuff than the others of that ilk. (If I can tolerate Wee Billy Kristol, and have the Hazmat suit, I can check out the prophecy sites too… I wouldn’t advise anyone else to try, however.)

lol, i guess i’ll just wait for the movie adaptation.

Ok! After looking i guess i won’t be waiting for the moive.

Nope you couldn’t pay me enough to go to that movie…

Couldn’t bring myself to go thru the portal. Does the person get points

give it a try :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb7aDZeO_MQ

points points who giving out points???

Great

McSame is giving out points to people posting his stuff in their name on a list of sites. I was wondering if Mark was trying to earn some waders or something

That’s one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen… Is it tips for some video game? (I’m a crotchety old broad who knows nothing of such things!)

Dam where can I buy one of them… I have some good ideas on some very useful ways to use one of them! Like on Cheney to return him to where he ever came from…

Doesn’t obama’s site have a “points” component to it? Kinda like the unity ‘08 site had. That unity ‘08 site had “fire jumper” for jumping into comments with talking points.

I did look at the approved list blogs mccain is giving points for but it’d be humorous if it included some progressive blogs. Not that i’m going bang against mccain at this point.

Come sit over here by me, honey! *g*

Marion.

WTF is up with Reply?

Works for ME!

It’s kinda like a movie trailer for the game that explains and demonstrates the game play.

I think it is a pretty nifty take on the tradition first person shooter genre.

It’s one of the snarls in the toobz that the wizards are apparently struggling with. It’s weird and wondrous — sometimes it works fine, sometimes you get no “reply” at all, and from time to time it attaches to something completely different. Whee!!!

Show off. ; )

bmaz post @ emptywheel frontpaged upstairs.

lol, it’d be a great to way reduce dependency on oil too!

Ah. Thanks. It would be an extremely cool tool to have. I agree with nahant that it might be able to send Cheney back to whatever twisted dimension he came from.

I thnk I’m just being trigger happy. It seems to take a couple secs to enable.

Although I have hit Refresh and been taken to another universe.

I blame tw3k.

Shit yeah across the country in no time…now that would save in gas!

* gives wangdangdoodle the lQQk *

Hey. Be careful with that thing. You’ll put an eye out!

lol :)