Honour – a keen sense of ethical conduct; integrity

How hard is that, McSFB?

Yo Raven, looks like ya got some dood tryin’ to steal yer thunder.

Mornin’, BT. Well, at least the pic’s not another abomination like choc chip pancakes and sausage on a stick. JHFC that was f*kin’ gross.

Tap, tap. Is this thing on?

Still can’t find McCain’s new biography ‘A BOY AND HIS PIG’!

Easy. Don’t make me switch that pic out for the Jimmy Deans.

Morning BT
I was kinda hoping for sausage on a stick wrapped in pancake this morning.

even the “truthsquad” spouts lies.

But *those* lies we should all take more seriously, I guess.

Or something.

how ’bout a bacon, egg & cheese Hotpocket, instead?

I’ve also got Bagels and blasphemous cream cheese, if you prefer…

Those suicide statistics are so sad.
I blame Bush.

You’re a sick person.

the bagel, please ;)

Thou shalt NOT bear false witness…seems to be missing from McLiars personel copys of his Bible, at all 9 houses.

CNN – Mrs. Palin’s baby shower for child #4 was at a shooting range.

yup, can’t wait to have this woman’s finger close to “The Button”. What could go wrong?

They’re criminal. I’ll do some research later on but methinks this is the possibly the highest number ever in the military. That is unacceptable.

she’s plucky!

“Truth Squad”

Another Karl Rove branding strategy.

You can always count on Karl to name every initiative to imply just the opposite of what it is intended to be accomplished.

“Coverup Squad” is in fact EXACTLY what it is.

bacon, egg & cheese Hotpocket

Aw, geez. Another artery clogger. That’s gotta taste like shit.

Did you see this
16 US troops commit suicide in Iraq
could it possibly be true!?

Wonder if she could handle a Marlin .444 lever action. Prolly put her on her butt.

she’s plucky!

well, that’s a word. So is “Wacked”.

People are outraged at the cynical dishonest campaign the Republicans are running. Who can honestly say they are surprised? Did people actually believe McSame when he said he would be running an honorable campaign, especially the corporate media. Anyone that doesn’t know that the Republican Party is nothing more than a criminal conspiracy dedicated to nothing more than power and greed is either naive or ignorant or both.

how ’bout a bacon, egg & cheese Hotpocket, instead?

Would that be a “pigstick” on your “lips”?

That’s gotta taste like shit.

dunno yet – I took a flyer yesterday.

In my culinary (heh) experience, enough hot sauce fixes just about anything. *g*

Can’t connect to the link.

“PMSing With The End Of Daze”

Congress had better fall into line under President Palin, or she’ll just be delighted to nuke the planet and meet her maker.

“I’ve got my finger on the button right now, Senator, are you sure you won’t change your vote?”

FUCKING WACK-JOBS:

“President Bush said to all of us: ‘I’m driven with a mission from God. ‘God would tell me, ‘George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan’.” “And I did, and then God would tell me, ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq…’ And I did.

Secretary of State Rice’s response to the disaster in New Orleans was: “The Lord Jesus Christ is going to come on time.” She added: “If we just wait.” “On time”? How does Rice know the exact time Armageddon starts? “If we just wait”? That means in her, that is our, lifetime!

“At Church one day [Tom DeLay, House Majority Leader] listened as the pastor declared that ‘the war between America and Iraq is the gateway to the Apocalypse.’ DeLay rose to speak, not only to the congregation but to 225 Christian TV and radio stations. ‘Ladies and gentlemen,’ he said, ‘what has been spoken here tonight is the truth of God.’”

They insist that they want to see the End Of Days during their life times, and have the ability to accomplish their insane goal.

That’s why I always have 2 bottles of Louisiana hot sauce around.

Worked for me try again, should be spread wide it is appalling

“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”

Karl Rove.

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when
everything the American public believes is false.”

– William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)

Worked for me, and so sad. Several seem to have survived the overdose and are in the hospital.

This year, MN State Fair featured newest edible oddity on a stick: bacon dipped in chocolate. Called ‘em Pig Lickers. I am so not kidding.

Worked this time. WTF? Sounds more like they got hold of some really nasty drugs. I just can’t see 21 Airborne troops in a suicide pact. Anything’s possible though. The description of the bodies is really strange, too. I don’t know of anything that would do that. Poisoned? Need a lot more info on this one.

That’s unbelievable! If true, should be frontpage news.

Never too old to be amazed. The old lipstick on a pig bit is now the talk of the media. Give. Me. A. Break.

Palin TRIED to sell a jet on E-Bay.

Is this supposed to be evidence of wisdom or tone-deafness?

Her effort failed.

Is this supposed to be evidence of executive management prowess?

It Didn’t Work! This story is evidence of failed strategy.

You’re right we need more info, including a doctor to explain how this could happen.

“The bodies of the US troops became misshapen such a way that they looked like 5000-year mummies,” said a witness.

Much more here than was reported in that article.

Here is more “pig” news. Mad scientists have produced a pig cross bred with spinach. But, there are also other “franken-pigs” that have been cross bred with jellyfish. It is not easy being green! You can put lipstick on these pigs and they still glow in the dark.

When Sarah found out the teen was pregnant by high schooler Levi Johnston, she was actually banished from the house. As part of the cover-up, Palin quickly transferred Bristol to another high school and made her move in with Sarah’s sister Heather 25 miles away!

http://www.nationalenquirer.co…..rity/65407

If in fact the foregoing is true (always worth asking given the Enquirer’s track record), then let’s do the math and examine the behavior of the mother to learn her own tendencies and values. If her daughter was actually banished from her own home and sent to Heather’s to “coverup” the truth, this is indicative of what? Willingness to lie and coverup – in the extreme? How extreme? That is a question the public deserves an answer to. How does that square with this from the New York Times?

“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support,”

the Palins said.

I guess unconditional love includes banishment, lying and covering up the shame. Are you learning anything about Ms. Palin the elder? Two weeks ago, Bristol was said to have been out of school for five months with mono. On what date did she actually stop going to school? School’s been out for summer for over three months, so nailing down that date is useful. When did she move in with Heather?

According to comments from classmates and other members of the community, Bristol Palin was out of school during what would have been the last trimester of the governor’s pregnancy due to a bad case of mono. A case so severe, according to the Palin family, Bristol missed nearly 5 months of school.

We were told a week ago that Bristol is five months pregnant. On March 5th, 2008, Sarah Palin told her co-workers that she was seven months pregnant. They were said to be shocked, as she showed virtually no signs of being pregnant. Bristol was out of school in the same time frame as Sarah’s third trimester.

Something doesn’t add up here. We’re asked to believe that Bristol had a case on mono so severe that it caused her to miss five months of school, during which time she had sex and got pregnant. Having had mono, I can tell you that this didn’t happen. You can lie about the mono or you can lie about the pregnancy, but lying about both doesn’t work. Propensity-To-Lie is a valid campaign issue.

So she had a severe case of mono, during which she had sex and was kicked out of the house, moved in with her aunt, pregnant, with mono, as a sign of her parents unconditional love? Got it, Madam Vice President. Now tell us about Iran’s WMD program again.

That WaPoo article linked up in the post about “lying doesn’t hurt them” is pure horseshit. Gee, lies can take hold as facts Bigedia writer decries. Whatever can we do!?!?

Dude, you and your colleagues flog said lies over and over first, so matter how much “fact-checking” you do after this, it’s already sunk in with much of the electorate. Plus, the “fact-checking” gets about 1% of the airtime and page space as the original lie. Case in point: Lipstick on a Pigs.

Any excuse not to cover what is important. Really no need to release bad news on friday just feed the media some BS and they will all start jumping up and down in unison.

Hopefully we’ll have at least 16 families beating on the Pentagon’s doors demanding answers and separate complete autopsies. I’m beginning to think it’s time for another mass march on the War Department’s home.

Ah well, it took the Great Depression for the electorate to get serious enough to bring in FDR. It’s starting to look like it will take an equal or greater disaster for the public to get serious. We were lucky to recover the last time.

agreed

al Jazeera -

Sixteen US troops form the 57th Unit of the Airborne Division have committed suicide inside a military base in Iraq, security sources say.

Iraqi security sources have revealed that 21 US troops had committed suicide inside a former Iraqi air force base 27 days ago, Fars News Agency reported on Monday.

According to the sources, the 21 troops were treated in a hospital but only five soldiers have survived and they are in a critical condition. Security officials said they used potent narcotics to kill themselves.

The troops’ motivations for suicide are not known but according to Iraqi sources the servicemen belonged to the 57th Unit of the US Airborne Division that was behind the massacre of several Iraqi families– mostly women and children– in northern Baghdad, said Ali al-Baghdadi an Iraqi security official.

The suicides took place in the soldiers’ dormitory after the dinner time.
“The bodies of the US troops became misshapen such a way that they looked like 5000-year mummies,” said a witness.

According to Iraqi officials’ estimates, some 600 US troops, including senior officers, have committed suicide in Iraq since the invasion of the country in 2003. Half of the suicide attempts have been successful

Just did a quick Google re the U.S. troop suicides. So far, have found only “fringe” outlets. Can’t find an MSM reference. Anyone doing better than I am? (Great straight line, eh?)

With a few notable exceptions today’s media appears to be composed of rich f*kin’ stooopid people. Best response to any of their stupid questions would be to laugh in their face and say, “That’s stupid.”

If you think the Pentagon will investigate and come clean in response to pressure from families, then you were sleeping during the Pat Tillman episode.

That’s pretty much a rewrite of the link Elliott posted.

Just did a quick Google re the U.S. troop suicides. So far, have found only “fringe” outlets. Can’t find an{insert: a U.S.} MSM reference. Anyone doing better than I am? (Great straight line, eh?)

The old lipstick on a pig bit is now the talk of the media. Give. Me. A. Break.

I muted the Morning Empty Heads quite a while ago. Just in time, luckily enough, to cut off Pat Buchanadana as he was launching into another impassioned defense of Mrs. Palin’s “honor”, such as it is.

How can I possibly remain in a party which is so demeaning to women pigs?

I got a laugh outta that photo where Flailin is talking to TV news reporter, and you see her “belly” sticking out, which is supposed to stop the rumors. Funny thing is, no photos taken shortly before that one, and shortly after show Sarah with any signs of pregnancy whatsoever. In fact, she doesn’t show any other signs of pregnancy even in that photo in her neck or face. And then back to work three days later at 44 years old.

Sad how bad things have gotten with our “press” where we look to the National Enquirer to break the big stories.

I don’t expect the Pentagon to do anything but cover it up. Right now I want to see if the corporate media picks it up. Meanwhile we need to send the PressTV and al Jazeera articles viral.

forgot to include al Jazeera link

mondo bizarro

The circling of the wagons around Flailin by Pat Spewcanon and his partners in crime makes we think we’re on the right trail. There’s much more to find out about Guv Sarah.

Gareth Porter’s on dn, scaring the shit out of me wrt drone attacks inside Pakistan.

Yep. Everybody and their brother is in Alaska diggin’ dirt on the Queen of Mean.

AND the really big kicker…

She was willing to game the system in order to receive over 300 days worth of per diem (intended to cover costs of time spent on the road) while living in her own home, yet apparently took NO paid pregnancy leave? Does it get any more obvious than that?

Boy, I’m really in the market for a bridge to nowhere. Know where I can get one?

McCorpse accepting Dobson’s nominee – a pig in a poke

McCorpse Campaign will tell the truth – when pigs fly

Corp Media Lemmings to Cover Real Issues – in a pigs eye

I expect to hear that the “militants” in Pakistan are using Stingers against the drones any time now.

This is something that happened four weeks ago and we are just now beginning to get info. I can understand and respect a few days to notify next of Kin but this is ridiculous.

Selling the Queen of Mean to the public – turning a sow’s ear into a silk purse

lol.

The part that really scared me is the possibility of Pashtun members of Pakistan army will dessert & join Taliban.

CRIKEY!

forgot -

Selling a Loony, Anti-Woman, Incompetent, Profligate, Lying Spender as a Maverick Feminist – a silk purse from a sows ear

Obama’s Response – pearls before swine

more coffee please :D

Thank you for a smile in an otherwise miserable week.

They were hoping it wouldn’t get out. Gee, ragtag furen reporters doing real news reporting. Hold this, Katie.

Going from covert supporters to overt participants doesn’t surprise me a bit.

yeppers -

caught Jizzicoff’s pointy lil head beaming in from Anchorage on Rachel last night – coupling that with WaPo’s front pager yesterday may explain how they immediately turned the shrill meter to Max

This is the outfit that has the airborne suicide story:

About Us

Press TV takes revolutionary steps as the first Iranian international news network, broadcasting in English on a round-the-clock basis.

It doesn’t surprise me either, but I hadn’t thought that far ahead, and it will make a big difference if/when it happens.

Obama’s just as much on board with this happening as McCain.

Woe is we.

. . .here’s your Vernors :D

Al Jazeera had basically same copy. Don’t know if AJ does any fact checking before they reprint, though.

thank you.

wondering if someone like VoteVets or IAVA can verify

Just contacted Juan Cole to see if he’ll verify/bury the suicide story.

good idea, thanks.
It’s been bugging me, whether it could possibly be true.
And the sourcing is suspect yet…

Not much different than playing chess, thinking at least 10 moves ahead, only easier. That whole region is controlled by tribal politics, has been for a couple thousand years. Our fenderheads in DC have never wanted to deal with that reality. In Pakistan they put their faith in Musharrif and now they don’t know what to do, particularly with an utterly corrupt man as president of the country.

That’s standard operating procedure and actually helps to explain the selection of Palin. They Gin up the noise machine to high-volume when they need to release information that they want to disappear quickly into the ether. Anyone who thinks it’s not ALL connected and carefully orchestrated is simply not paying attention, or is a Coincidence Theorist.

Case in point:

Lieberman loses to Lamont in the Primary. 36 Hours late, the headlines (falsely) scream:

“TERROR IN THE SKIES”

This was the purported London airline terror plot, that involved would be hijackers of an international flight bound for the US, who had yet to even obtain passports.

During that news cycle, Lamont’s victory disappeared from the press, while the stories that had been held back until just such a “news dump” occasion were mentioned once – then “disappeared.” As part of the game – a CNN talking head asks the question…”Lamont is the Al Qaeda Candidate???” Rove wrote that talking point, and CNN read it on the air. The audacious question made news…but the retraction and apology did not.

During the same news cycle – these stories were released:

At approximately 11:48 a.m. August 9th, 2006, CNN reported that Ariel Weinmann – a US Sailor – had been arrested for espionage committed on behalf of Russia. CNN intentionally lied. They know precisely that Weinmann had spied for Israel, as did the Israeli Media, which initially carrid this headline:

Report: US sailor spied for Israel
David Keyes, THE JERUSALEM POST

Aug. 9, 2006

The incident had actually occurred six months earlier, but wasn’t released until Karl Rove invented the Terrorist story, and CNN created a false anonymous source, and claimed that an American Jew was spying for Russia.

THE CNN LIE:

From Barbara Starr
CNN Washington Bureau
Wednesday, August 9, 2006; Posted: 1:57 p.m. EDT (17:57 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A sailor facing espionage and desertion charges has been held at a Norfolk, Virginia, brig since March, the U.S. Navy said Wednesday.

Ariel Weinmann, 21, is suspected of having worked on behalf of Russia, said military sources close to the case.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08…..index.html

During the exact same news cycle, this story hit once, and was quickly buried:

Judge denies motion to toss pro-Israel spy case

Friday, August 11, 2006; Posted: 10:06 a.m. EDT

The indictment against Steven Rosen of Silver Spring, Maryland, and Keith Weissman of Bethesda, Maryland, alleges that they conspired to obtain classified reports on issues relevant to American policy, including the al-Qaida terror network; the bombing of the Khobar Towers dormitory in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 U.S. Air Force personnel; and U.S. policy in Iran.

Rosen and Weissman, former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, are accused of sharing the information with reporters and foreign diplomats. No trial date has been set.

Good on ya.

Why is the sourcing suspect? Just because it is Iranian? What would the point be in their making up such a bizarre story? I know about the value of putting out false stories; US does it all the time. But this one is so bizarre that its propaganda value does not immediately occur to me. Not saying it’s accurate, just saying it would be a strange thing to make up.

Anyone have Dr. Murphy’s email, to ask him whether he knows of any drugs that would mummify the bodies?

Thanks, but I’d have never thought of it without you.

I sorta don’t buy it…but that’s just me.

How many HUGE and important stories remain completely out of the American TeeVee “News” today as a direct result of the announcement of Palin for VP?

Seriously – name them.

‘cuse me, but what color lipstick was Meaghan McCain wearing yesterday when she said

“No one knows what war is like other than my family. Period.”

oy

“Suicides” and the condition of the bodies. It’s got red flags flyin’ all over the place but there’s something about it. Plus coming out at the same time as the high suicide rate. Just have to hide and watch.

I’ve got news for that little twit.

Were they organizing a protest to end the occupation?

Were they poisoned?

Probably have to send in the National Enquirer to get any answers.

agree, even before I saw the source

but I do wanna know if there were 16 simultaneous casualties.

it’s not like we haven’t electrocuted 15 more without any national coverage.

Sorry to say, but it sounds like poison to me..:(

Plus a few million other folks, on all sides.

So yesterday, SurveyUSA has McInsane up 20% in NC. Outbreak of Chicken-littleism. Today, SUSA has a new NC poll saying Obama within 4%. Strange.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talk…..er/ncpres/

That was my question in my first comment on this.

Talk about being out of touch. WHy isn’t the media over this instead of getting worked up over the lipstick BS

Seems to me there are better ways to go out to make a splash. 21 heavily armed airborne troopers could send a big message.

As fast as she was talking, I kinda got the feeling that she’s very inexperienced in public speaking. I figure she probably *meant* to say (or at least *should* have said – “…better than my family.”

otoh, it could be that she’s just a moron.

Hey, SD. Yes, you and a lot of people could correct her. I think the point for me is how her wonderful loving family taught her that it was okay, or proper, or truthful to say something like that, in public.
Children repeat or repair what they are taught. I would seem the whole family really is stuck on this POW aspect of McCain’s Campaign.
You know…love, inclusiveness, caring about the other “guy”.
The children of the Rep’s candidate make me even more worried about this nation’s future.

Plus a few million other folks would disagree with her, on all sides.

Fixed.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

what in the world could account for the “looked like 5,000 year-old mummies” line?

exposure to to something a lot more wicked than drugs – if true.

It obviously wasn’t what she meant but who cares.? It may be time to call Ted Sampley and the boys and see if we can get the Manchurian Candidate thing going.

Namaste

Certainly wouldn’t have been my choice back in the day.

CNN on my teevee – Ron Paul to make a presidential endorsement today which will have “a *real* effect on this year’s presidential race”.

hmmm….

Breaking headline at reuters: Pentagon cancels aerial tanker request for proposals: Congressional source 9:19am EDT

No link yet, but there is a new post from Lindsay upstairs

Lindsay’s upstairs
Is Sarah Palin An Evolution-Denier?

I tried the slow way. . . cigareets and whiskey and wild wild women, they’ll make you crazy they’ll drive you insane!

When McInsane launched the silly season in earnest with the Britney/Paris ad, I honest to doG thought at first, “Why did he put a picture of his daughter Meghan in an ad?” Meghan is a Britney wanna-be. Another testament to John-boy’s great parenting skills no doubt, yet he’ll tell us all how to raise our own kids.

http://stylemens.typepad.com/p…..mccain.jpg

Another testament to John-boy’s great parenting skills no doubt,
That is what I was trying to say. You were more succinct. Maybe I’ll try more coffee before I try to share.