What a Maverick.
Kinda like Zed.

….and partying abroad with future felons.

Good morning Attaturk and thanks for the post. Don,t want to nit pick here but this Follieri guy was not a future felon in 2006. He was a full on, hard core, think huge con man. A current and practicing felon. That McShitforbrains (now with baggage)would hang out with this guy is speaks volumes about his judgment. Or more accurately, lack thereof.

Not to stray to far from the topic here but is it just me or did the baggage part off McShitforbrains (now with baggage)come of as a hopeless, amateurish moron in her “interview” last night?

baggage part off of McShitforbrains (now with baggage)come of off as a hopeless, amateurish moron in her “interview” last night?

Man, preview would be my friend, if I would learn to use it.

This from The Irish Times is probably old news there;

Venezuela expels US ambassador

http://www.irishtimes.com/news…..aking8.htm

Thank jeebus we have real diplomats at State that can diffuse this crisis before it gets out of….. Oh, wait……never mind. Nothing like “supplpy disruptions” to get the price of oil back up, eh?

Did McCain get taken, and for how much? Raffaello Follieri is not a GOPer he is a Conman and only does things for money.
Or maybe McCain introduced Raffaello to Rick Davis’s, Davis Manafort the lobbying firm’s rich clients?
Is there any way to see Davis Manafort’s client list and the list of investors Raffaello took?
How would McCain disguise such an embarrassing loss on his campaign or personal finances if he was taken?

A few months after McCain’s yacht party, Follieri strengthened his ties to McCain’s orbit by retaining Rick Davis’s well-connected Washington lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, and offering Davis both an investment deal and help in securing the Catholic vote for McCain’s presidential bid.

From late late nite

ThingsComeUndone September 11th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
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In response to Hannibal @ 17 (show text)

Is the MSM going to ask Bush if its true?

Speaking before a crowd in Miami on Cuban Independence Day, he pledged that, if he is elected U.S. president, he would keep the embargo against Cuba, prevent Bolivia and Venezuela from taking the same road as Cuba and strengthen ties with Brazil, Chile and Peru.

McCain’s position will reinforce the wild desire of President Bush to go out of office with a bang.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/…..wid=122373

Newly released CIA documents show the Bush administration—at the very least–knew about the plot to overthrow Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez weeks before the April 2002 military coup and did nothing to stop it.

Until now the Bush administration has claimed it had no role in the failed coup and didn’t know one was being planned.

The CIA documents, which were heavily censored before being released, were obtained by Venezuelan-American attorney, Eva Golinger. One of those documents, dated April 6, 2002, says explicitly “dissident military factions…are stepping up efforts to organize a coup against President Chavez, possibly as early as this month.” The document adds the groups: ” may bungle the attempt by moving too quickly.”

http://www.democracynow.org/20…..sh_knew_of

And more from Late Late nite

The IRI engages in what it calls “consolidating democracy.” That is, it facilitates the coming together of splintered opposition parties, civil society organizations such as churches, human rights organizations, worker unions, women’s organizations and student unions– hence consolidation. This becomes a formidable force that is then either able to vote the incumbent out of office or when that fails, overwhelm the incumbent into submission through mass action.

Outside issues of international law and sovereignty, this may sound well and good. For example the so-called color revolutions in former Soviet Union republics toppled bad guys and replaced them with stalwarts of the free-market economy and Western-styled democracy. Hence in Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, the IRI-backed candidate, defeated Viktor Yanukovych, who was representing old decrepit Soviet style authoritarianism.
Controversial Actions

But IRI activities in countries like Haiti and Venezuela are more controversial. In Haiti, even those opposed to Jean-Bertrand Aristide would agree that he was democratically elected. Yet the IRI consolidated democracy against him leading to his violent ouster. Mother Jones reported that “several of the people who had attended IRI trainings were influential in the toppling of Aristide.” Today, Haiti is more poor, divided and violent, and less democratic than it was at the time of Aristide’s ouster.

In 2002 the then-IRI president George Folsom is reported to have applauded the failed Venezuelan coup against President Hugo Chavez. “Last night, led by every sector of civil society, the Venezuelan people rose up to defend democracy in their country,” he said in a statement the IRI released.

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5330

John McCain is the Board Chairman of this group that supported the last coup his wife Cindy runs a charity that aside from providing her with pills operated in El Salvador it might be a CIA front I wonder if her charity worked in Venezuela?
Is the MSM just going to let this pass again! Hugo trades oil to Cuba for Doctors and the GOP can’t stand the example it sets!

Did you see the cartoon with Arbusted’s 710 reasons for invading Iraq?

Turns out there was only one….

Good point he was a Con when he met McCain now who in McCain’s circle introduced him to McCain and is that person still part of McCain’s circle?
It would be a huge lack of judgment to keep as a friend someone who might served you up to be taken.

IIRC there was an award winning documentary of the Chavez coup. As I recall the links with the CIA were solid, it was the failure of nerve within the coup that allowed Chaves to live. It is a damning indictment of Washington policy, so it may not have had much of a run over there.

I just hope Meghan McCain can emerge from the $700,000 condo her mother bought her and explain to us all how this is more evidence that only her family understands war.

John spent how many hours in combat before he was shot down? He volunteered he is brave, he risked his life for his country America owes him yes, however but his experience is as a prisoner for years (he gots my county jail time beat) so if he wants to talk Prison Reform he has Cred.
John was tortured if he wants to talk about how what was done to him was wrong he has Cred. Well only if he admits that all humans have the same rights not to be tortured.
John’s hours of combat however does not make him Patton he cannot claim to be able to win the war because only he has the experience that somehow all the generals in the Pentagon lack.
John could have spoken up when General Eric Shinseki was fired for saying we needed more troops, that would have given him Cred in my book.

For a mirror on how the election is being seen elsewhere, this report (teh comments in particular) may be a good source.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…..johnmccain

Hope it comes to Seattle.

Who introduced him?

Well, it may very well be Rick Davis who is just in front of McCain in that picture, and who did business with with the felonious con-artist.

Did not see that. Got a link?

‘morning TCU. Can’t help but feel it is all about oil. The current screaming about “drill here, drill now” at a time when the story breaks about the selling of said domestic production being sold offshore. It makes perfect sense if you keep in mind the fact that U.S. corporations have, for many of bush’s 7+ years, been “repatriating” foreign profits at deeply discounted tax rates. Gotta foment unrest with major suppliers to get the price back up.

It must not have seemed that way to Follieri. According to the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, in January 2007 Follieri sent Rick Davis a packet of information on his companies Follieri Capital and Follieri Media, apparently hoping to get financing from Pegasus Capital Advisors, a hedge fund in Connecticut that Davis represented. “Follieri’s proposal to Davis had two dimensions to it–first, as an investment opportunity for Davis’s fund; but secondly, there was the political dimension, in which Follieri offered to help deliver Catholic votes to McCain,” said Claudio Gatti, a reporter for Il Sole 24 Ore, who investigated Follieri for eighteen months.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/2…..ames/print

Did Pegasus Capital Advisers ever invest with Follieri and did John or Cindy McCain ever invest with Pegasus Capital Advisers?

Then we got McCain we can’t have a President who is also a Mark.

I saw the documentary in Ireland within a year of the coup. I don’t recall the title, but it had a major film award (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, etc.). Sorry for not having a link or youtube, but it should be there somewhere. It delineated the groups associated with the coup as being exclusively from the elite of Venezuela.

I will see if it is on google, back if I find something ;-)

Morin Oldnslow I agree its all about oil but the timing of this latest Coup suggests it was also about helping John McCain in the Presidential Election and given McCain’s ties to the American Group that helped the last coup.
Well its going to be real hard for John to deny that he didn’t know about this Coup or had a hand planning it. So far McCain and his group have lost twice to Hugo but McCain thinks he can lead us to victory in Iraq?

Isn’t thee an IIRC cable channel? I should be getting cable next week I’ll look for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T…..Televised_(documentary)

Noonan, Palin has been “boning up on John Mc Cain”! Oh yea.

In January 2005, he apparently pitched executives of Pegasus Capital Advisors, a private investment firm in Cos Cob, Conn., on the idea of putting money into a new firm in which he would be a partner, documents indicate. He told Pegasus Capital’s representatives that experienced “Washington insiders” like him could use their ties to advance the interests of companies seeking federal contracts, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. A spokesman for Pegasus did not respond to a request for comment on Monday.

The proposal never bore fruit. But it came at the same time Mr. Davis was lobbying the Defense Department on behalf of Imagesat, an Israeli company that sells satellite imagery in which Pegasus Capital had invested. He was also then drawing a salary as the part-time president of the Reform Institute, a Washington group Mr. McCain helped found to champion ideals like reducing “the influence of special interests” in politics and government.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05…..nted=print

My Bold Ok maybe my Pegasus Capital Advisers idea didn’t pan out…yet but this is interesting.
What contacts in Washington was he referring to does anyone he has contact with have more clout that McCain?

Just as he can not define honor, he also can not describe what “victory” would even look like in Iraq. He is truly a demented old man.

His value for American corporations is that he is yet another in the parade of easily manipulated shills that go back at least to their beloved St. Ronnie. Some of us knew prior to his election what he was and he wasted no time proving it by tearing the solar panels off the WH roof. McShitforbrains squared is no different. Maximize oil company profits at any and all costs.

The lower half of McShitforbrains squared made this most apparent when she actually spoke of war with Russia. (as if this were a rational option. I was literally slack jawed at the stupidity) According to oil industry experts the Caspian Region may have more oil than Saudi Arabia and still more natural gas than that. So war with Russia makes perfect sense, yes? Only if your aim is to give away mineral leases on U.S. land and simultaneously drive the price up.

Yes, that took me to the documentary by Irish filmmakers here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T…..Televised_(documentary)

The synopsis:

… The documentary portrays Chávez’s first years as president before the coup and the support the government had among the working class and the poor, referencing educational plans, distribution of the oil revenue and grassroots democracy and participation of people previously excluded from politics as a key to this.
It then explains the privately owned television channels, business and upper class opposition, who accuse Chávez of being an insane communist dictator. The documentary then moves to show how the media promoted demonstrations against Chávez and worked together with some military and big businessmen opposition to create an anti-Chávez climate leading to the day of the coup.

Good Morning, Firepups!

It’s overcast and cool here in central Jersey. More rain is on the way today. To all the coastal Texas pups out there, be safe as Ike comes ashore.

I just read the transcript of Obama’s appearance on Letterman [head on over to Shakespeare’s Sister]. Big difference from the interview that Palin had with Gibson. Can everyone relax a little bit now? I know I’ve been feeling pretty panic stricken for the last week or so.

Obama was able to run a great primary campaign against Clinton because he focused on what was needed: winning the most number of delegates. I’m confident that he is focused on winning the most electoral votes in the general. So national polls don’t matter.

He’ll certainly do well in debates. And even though there are faint glimmerings that the members of the media are finally seeing how McCain has played them for fools, I don’t have any illusions that the media will actually report that everything McCain and Palin say is a lie. Even now, plenty of the bloviators are saying that McCain couldn’t possibly have personally authorized some of those campaign ads [yes, James Carville, we’re looking at you].

For now, I’m back to being cautiously hopeful for Obama. And now it’s time to get to work. Corn bread this morning, folks, fresh out of the oven. There’s coffee and hot water for tea, too, and a big bowl of fresh fruit. Help yourselves.

Work for peace, every day.

September 10, 2008

ENGLEWOOD, CO, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ – Chevron Mining Inc. (”Chevron”) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its Mountain Pass rare earth mining operations to Rare Earth Acquisitions LLC (”REA”). The transaction is expected to close in late September, 2008.

REA is a special purpose company owned by Resource Capital Funds, , LP, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Traxys North America LLC and Carint Group LLC. Included in the acquisition is the Molycorp name and upon closing, the company will be renamed Molycorp Minerals LLC.

Rare earth minerals are used in a wide variety of applications including catalysts for the oil refining industry, neodymium-iron-boron (”NdFeB”) magnets which are used in high energy electric motors like those used in hybrid vehicles, and new high energy battery applications. Mountain Pass is the only significant developed commercial rare earths resource in the western world with enough resources to provide significant levels of global supply for 30 to 50 years. Located about 50 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada, the operation has produced and sold rare earth products continuously since 1951. In 2007, Chevron Mining Inc. commenced rare earth separations operations using lanthanum concentrates from existing stockpiles to produce didymium (a combination of neodymium and praseodymium) and lanthanum products.

The primary physical assets at Mountain Pass include the mine and ore resources, a flotation mill, and a specialty plant which refines the milled concentrate. Mountain Pass also has large stockpiles of bastnaesite concentrates located on the property. The Mountain Pass operations have an experienced and highly skilled work force, including on site operations personnel and a rare earth research and development team.

http://mining.einnews.com/article.php?nid=3714

Why would anybody sane sell something that is rare, hard to get and essential for hybrid cars in this business climate? Chevron is an oil company McCain and Sarah are pro oil companies, Pegasus Partners IV might be Pegasus Capital the hedge fund, Mr Davis was a lobbyist and still owns half of a lobbying firm that works for Pegasus.
This is financial 3 card monte I can’t prove anything without seeing the books and for that we would need subpeonas.
But is McCain and Sarah being pro oil because one of their contributors made a deal that was set up by the contributor’s lobbying firm who’s founder now works for McCain?
Or has McCain arranged to give political access through third party transactions so that he looks clean?
This is beyond my abilities to judge folks.

Good morning, pups. It’s Bobo and Krugman today. Bobo’s getting all sociologist on us today in “The Social Animal.” He’s babbling that we’re living in an age of fast-changing economic, information and social networks, but Republicans are still impeded by Barry Goldwater’s mental guard-rails. The thought of Repiglicans without guard-rails sends a frisson of horror up my spine. Mr. Krugman, who believes in calling things what they are, writes about “A Blizzard of Lies.” He says anyone with an Internet connection can disprove many assertions of the McCain campaign. This would lead me to believe that 99.9999% of the McCainStreamMedia do not have access to teh internets toobz.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee and tea are ready, and the Thomas’ English muffins are out of the toaster. I’m about to go out an pick up the Savannah Daily Disappointment and see if I can determine how much rain we got last night. At midnight or so I woke up to the sound of whistling wind and what sounded like buckets of water being poured into a pond. Have a great day.

Filmmakers Kim Bartley and Donacha O’Briain were inside the presidential palace on 11 April 2002 when Chávez was deposed and two days later when he returned to power, recording “what was probably history’s shortest-lived coup d’état.”[1]
The pivotal role of the media before and during the coup is highlighted throughout its 75 minutes, with emphasis in the importance that both Chávez government and the opposition who executed the coup gave to gaining control over channel 8, the only TV Channel owned by the state, shut down the day of the coup and recovered afterwards to communicate the news that the rest of the channels were not communicating, such as the fact that Chávez had not resigned but was actually being held as a prisoner and the fact that what was happening was not a democratical transition but actually a coup d’etat.[citation needed]

Link: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised on Google Video.

and just prove how much we need to drill, baby, drill. hey wait. sarah’s from an oil state. she knows all about that stuff.

War with Russia? Sen Goldwater lost a race for President at the height of the cold war running on the extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice theme.
Today that hardcore anti Commie vote is a lot smaller than it was then, what numbers is Rove using in his get out the vote math?
After years in Iraq does even a sizable minority of America really want to fight Russia right now?

He’ll certainly do well in debates.

Don’t bet the farm. Or the house down the shore. Oh man, I do miss them NJ bagels.

The “Daily Disappointment” ??

i missed sarah barra last night. there’s more, right? when?

Thanks bookmarked it.

It’s what I affectionately (sort of…) call our daily “newspaper.” It never fails to offer up some disappointment, whether it’s an egregious typo in a headline on the front page or columns by the like of Charles Cabbagemallet.

Nite folks

Can you even imagine how loud the howling would be from the wingnuts if she were a Dem and increased taxes on oil companies? They would be screaming that high gas prices were all her fault. Instead, she is a “reformer”. Shit.

The hypocrisy makes my brain hurt today.

G’night TCU

I’m off to work. Think about us Texans this week end, y’all.

what’s the real name? Dispatch or something like that? There usd to be a paper called the Dispatch where I grew up. People called it the Disgrace.

in our prayers.

sarah gives israel the green light to do whatever the fuck it wants. anywhere.

Well, first, we are friends of Israel, and I don’t think that we should second guess the measures that Israel has to take to defend themselves, and for their security.

i missed the interview wityh gibson. just read the transcript.

holy shit.

scary.

as gibby tried to ask follow-ups (that were pretty straightforwrad) she just repeated, two more times, this line that i think is amazing.

The Savannah Morning News. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

NYT: Obama Plans Sharper Tone as Party Frets

TODAY’S BEERFART OVER/UNDER
# OF Times McCain or a Surrogate will say “desparate” today:
792

Maybe I should more properly call it the Savannah Morning Noes, but Daily Disappointment captures more of the feeling you get when you read it.

whenn yioub said “Disappointment” it just remindfed me how we used to call the Hudson Dispatch the Hudson Disgrace

Thanks for the link. I’ll check it out.

My guess is the number of uses of some form of “desperate” or “desperation move” will number over 1000. Does that mean I want to take the “over” on that? I’m tabula rasa when it comes to betting terminology.

about 1000? you take over. It’s football season again so I guess it’s time to bring back the “Beerfart Herat-over-Head Pick-o’-the-Week.

I checked out the opinion columnists and don’t think i know them? Who’s General Lynch? Republican I assume?

Heart. not herat.

morning
the WJ callers are giving Palin a bad review

Good Morning all. TPM has a video of some excerts from the interview and it’s worth watching. Sarah is a master at blabber.

Newt was on the Today Show explaining Sarah’s answers. According to Newt her answer about the Bush Doctrine depends on how she would define the word imminent. Also when she spoke to the troops and she tied 9/11 to Iraq, Newt explained that she could have been talking about the terrorists being in Iraq now. Newt seems to think that she was talking about 9/11/08.

Good morning everyone,
Didn’t see the interview watched the forum from Columbia – they were on at the same time. Obama did pretty good as did mcShame. Only difference being that Obama didn’t lie and obfuscate.

i thought Da Surge worked and the terrorists are gone from Iraq.
BTW. I saw a re-run of TDS with Newt during the RNC. He is, like, way obese. Not saying that to ridicule him, but I as shocked when tyhe sort of showed him from the side. Not healthy, Newton.

I had soemthimng to do a litt;e ways through barack so i didn’t see to the end. McCain is very good in that setting. Like he was at the Saddleback Grovelfest. He was good. Thank God he went first and brought up the ROTC thuing so Barack could piggyback. Barack never would have brought that up first, i don’t think.

Newt

is a liar. Did they laugh at him?

JoeScar and crew are all adoringly ooh and ahhh-ing over the wonderfulness of McCrazy’s advertising strategy/campaign.

(and in the category of “words I never thought I’d say) Mrs. Greenspan is the only person there within driving distance of sanity.

Noonan was actually pretty good early.

I didn’t particularly see anything that would fit in with Doc’s study. I think Obama has had military service into his public service platform for a while not sure about the ROTC thing.

Saw that, she was sure bashing the NYT editorial pages. Seems a whole lot like the pot calling the kettle black.

Thanks to Johnny McTeleprompter and his pick of Sarah Pom Pom Palin, we are screwed as a nation. No wonder the world is rooting for Barack Obama! If the republics steal this election and put McPalin in the White House against the will of the people, I think it’s time for all of us to get off our asses, pick up our pitchforks & torches, and head to DC! I’m serious. I don’t want to live under two moronic fascist lip-gloss-deodorant-wearing-Pigs anymore!!!!!

That’s not the first time. How pathetic is that when we have to rely on Andrea Mitchell to be the truthteller ?

Yeah But McCain would have scored points going into the liberal elitist college and telling them right to their faces to let ROTC back in. Samlltown America digs that kinda stuff.

Why, are the rethugs getting a pass on this experienced gov. shit. We have had a person who had been a gov. 4x as long in the white house for 7 2/3 yrs. Has he ever fouled up every thing.

BT’s upstairs
with a special moose in headlights edition of morning swim

Exactly. It’s really a slap in the face. One thing I trust about Barack Obama is he is going to pick the correct people for his Cabinet. He will not be like George or Sarah who will pick others with absolutely zero experience but who is loyal to “the cause”!

partying abroad with future felons….

Actually, it appears he was a current felon; he just hadn’t been caught yet.

just hope Meghan McCain can emerge from the $700,000 condo her mother bought her and explain to us all how this is more evidence that only her family understands war…and partying abroad with future felons.
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poor Meghan has her DADS looks and stature

and brain power it seems,children of the filthy rich,have little impetus,or inclanation to better themselves,at 22 she is already a WASTREL…sad that

how can he be a maqrk,and a CARNY …..enquiring minds want to know

CARNIES are small timers Raffaello Follieri is big time, kind of like Karl Rove has been called the Mayberry Machiavelli sure Karl can steal a race but none of the Mayberry crew can win a war, save the economy, accomplish anything.
Think of Don Knotts the tough guy sheriff’s deputy playing Dirty Harry and you got Bush or McCain what America needs now is an Andy as sheriff.
OT Andy has a great comedy routine explaining Hamlet.