The Cheney’s are vying for the ‘Most Hated Family in America” title.

FWIW, Liz is my current choice to clinch the title for them.

Liz Cheney…

Who wouldn’t want to procreate with that?

Coda to the Chee-knee family: Matalin on Imus. Barf.

Or as Mr. Sunshine put it, why isn’t Miz WHIG under scrutiny in the lookback at the LIES that put us in Iraq…and too many in flag-draped coffins. She, too, should STFU.

Frank Rich is upcoming.

LOL.

The war funding the House passed would spend about nine times as much on military help for Afghanistan as it would on diplomatic and humanitarian aid.

This is progress?

Will be interesting to see if Keith/Rachel take on the modo hypocrisy…..reviewing the grief she gave Biden, that should put her in contention for one of the three worsest.

Never fear, the surge will work, according to Tom Ricks in yesterday’s book salon. The U.S. can bomb civilians with one hand and increase security of civilians with the other. No problem. He saw it work in Iraq with his own eyes.

The Cheney Charm Offensive -
may not be charming but it is offensive.

The seating arrangements at the White House may change, but the killing spree abroad continues unabated.

I anticipated that would be the case. I never believed Obama’s antiwar empty rhetoric because if you took him seriously, it meant he’d be willing to leave Iraq before there was a military “victory,” and no prez would ever have the strength to do that.

Mornin’, BT, pups.

Afghanistan – where empires go to die

We are no exception.

Eight years and we can’t even catch a one-eyed insurgent leader. Yeah, we’ll conquer all. Bull fuckin’ shit.

Greetings from the latest arrivals at the weyr:

Maste (pronounced mah shday) – Lakota for sunshine

Nagi (pronounced nah ghee) – Lakota for shadow

Pix as soon as I can borrow a digital camera.

Way too many people believed Obama would end our imperialist adventures. Locally we’re utilizing films and speaking events (Cindy Sheehan will be here on 17 July) to spread the word.

Afghanistan – where empires go to die

We are no exception.

Oh no, we can do it better. /s

I had a small heated exchange with Samantha Powers on this subject at last year’s Netroots Nation. She’s either incredibly naive or a good liar. I actually think it’s the former.

Isn’t she Cass Sunstein’s, or whatever his name is, wife? What a pair.

… and no prez would ever have the strength to do that.

Jack Kennedy made an attempt to oppose the war industry, and he paid the ultimate price. His unprosecuted murder precludes any future president from any such rash boldness.

I’m surprised that you would bother me with that shit, troll.

You got it. I also had my run in with Cass-let’s-not-criminalize-policy-differences-Sunstein at the same forum. Not two of my favorite people. Hubris doesn’t begin to describe them.

Amy Goodman’s reading letters to the editor of the Phil Inquirer in opposition to Yoo’s being hired to do a column there. One suggests that they also hire Bernie Madoff to write an investment column and Hannibal Lecter to contribute recipes to the food section.

Clearly, you do not appreciate the anguish that is still felt by those who lived through the tragic events of November, 1963.

New post upstairs…

liar.

from an old comment:

power is much, much smarter than sunstein and that makes her propaganda far, far more dangerous especially to liberals. she is a so-call humanitarian hawk who uses the language to humanitarianism in order to justify war. but she gives herself away because, for all her supposed concern about genocide, she spends very little time on the genocides we have supported. i guess because they might be stopped without going to war and so hold little interest.

from herman edwards:

Samantha Power’s conclusion is that the U.S. policy toward genocide has been very imperfect and needs reorientation, less opportunism, and greater vigor. For Power, the United States is the solution, not the problem. These conclusions and policy recommendations rest heavily on her spectacular bias in case selection: She simply bypasses those that are ideologically inconvenient, where the United States has arguably committed genocide (Vietnam, Cambodia 1969-75, Iraq 1991-2003), or has given genocidal processes positive support (Indonesia, West Papua, East Timor, Guatemala, Israel, and South Africa). Incorporating them into an analysis would lead to sharply different conclusions and policy agendas, such as calling upon the United States to simply stop doing it, or urging stronger global opposition to U.S. aggression and support of genocide, and proposing a much needed revolutionary change within the United States to remove the roots of its imperialistic and genocidal thrust. But the actual huge bias, nicely leavened by admissions of imperfections and need for improvement in U.S. policy, readily explains why Samantha Power is loved by the New York Times and won a Pulitzer prize for her masterpiece of evasion and apologetics for “our” genocides and call for a more aggressive pursuit of “theirs.”

ROFL

thanks for that.

Thanks. I’ve not delved into her work in any detail.

are you convinced that jfk’s assassination could not have been something other than the official story?

Lemme tell you something, troll. My stepfather owned a deli in DC that the Kennedy’s frequented when I was a child. I met them many times. My father was a musician and played one of Kennedy’s inaugural balls. I was up front at the inauguration and attended the ball at the Sheridan where my father was playing. I met him again while I was stationed aboard USS NORTHAMPTION (CC 1), which at the time was the Presidential flagship. I also worked on Kennedy’s campaign, stuffing envelopes in the office in DC. So don’t come whining to me about the anguish of Nov 63.

i don’t like her. can you tell? *g*

No, if I read your question right, but I have yet to see any real evidence that would point to who actually carried it out and the motivation behind it.

thanks. i haven’t looked into it at all – mostly because i expect that to have a chance of having a clue about what is real, what is propaganda, what is mistaken memory, what is flack, etc, etc would take more time, effort and resources than i have.

so i don’t know and must remain skeptical.

The forensic evidence alone doesn’t fit the official version.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

I don’t deny their was anguish, but I was in 6th grade then. That was a long time ago. I think that as important as it is to study history, there are a lot of issues that need to be studied about the present anguish. Ruminating is one thing, obsession can be an unhealthy attitude.

namaste, SD.

not up to me to judge another’s anguish.

I didn’t say it was and I don’t think I was judging either.

BT and all you other pups,
I had to come back up here and thank BT for posting the article on the cost of being poor. It struck a chord in me (i.e., you can judge a society by how well it treats the weakest among it).

Even if it’s a little late in the morning, I always enjoy going for a morning swim.

Good morning BT.

Best Morning swim title ever!

Yes it is a great title:)

I don’t know about ghostof911 being a troll, but I have done some reading on the subject and I think that he is on to something as far as calling off the offensive in Cuba. The right-wing cubans in florida, the ones we trained at the SOA are still pissed off, and IMHO probably the key.

demi- It’s important that we keep our eye on the events of today, and learn about history, but who is to say which is an is obsession or a hobby? All followers of this blog are obsessed according to my son.

If you have the time, the great site on historical research is http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk, devoloped by John Simkin – he also has a forum at http://educationforum.ipbhost&…..hp?act=idx