McSteele:
First, the Republican Party will be forward-looking – it is time to stop looking backward.
. . .
The Republican Party has turned a corner, and as we move forward Republicans should take a lesson from Ronald Reagan. Again, we’re not looking back – if President Reagan were here today he would have no patience for Americans who looked backward. Ronald Reagan always believed Republicans should apply our conservative principles to current and future challenges facing America. For Reagan’s conservatism to take root in the next generation we must offer genuine solutions that are relevant to this age.

Doofus. Great way to look forward. Talk about Ronald Reagan. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Keep it up guys. Heckuva job.

When you are in a maze there are lots of corners.

Since the first year of George W. Bush’s presidency in 2001, the Republican Party has maintained its support only among frequent churchgoers…

The party of True Believing torture apologists.

if President Reagan were here today he would have no patience for Americans who looked backward

No, he would still be dead. Will they ever stop dry humping that poor corpse?

You know what cracks me up about Waldman’s most excellent appearance on CNN?

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

The host was going to POP from cognitive dissonance because he simply couldn’t wrap his head around the idea that Bush/Cheney = Spanish Inquisition.

And maybe therein is the real problem the American people face: while many of us have already come to grips with the issue of a Torturer-in-Chief, a substantive majority of the American public are still mentally unprepared for this concept, because they didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition.

An enlightened discussion on CNN! When did this take place on CNN? or is it just an internet show sponsored by CNN?

Oh, joy, Amy Goodman reports that Ethiopian troops have reentered Somalia only 3 months after leaving. Another U.S. foreign policy success, all that for a handful of alleged terrorists.

The Waldman clip is too much. Who were the other 3 fenderheads? Man, they couldn’t spin the spin fast enough.

That wasn’t a reply. Hit reply button in error.

LOL. They take their direction on how to move forward from a guy who had Alzheimer’s and didn’t know backward from forward.

he simply couldn’t wrap his head around the idea that Bush/Cheney = Spanish Inquisition evil Monty Python.

heh – as if bow-tie boy would know what “a Monty Python” was….

P.S. still haven’t mastered virtual shoe-throwing; wanted to fire one at the lady from CAP.

so, so, sad–uses “get about the business” twice in his short typefest…boy, that’ll bring ‘em in fast…..“thus far”,ummmm..i’ll leave that one ‘out there’, ’so to speak’… rofl.

‘mc’steele’s 1-2 big-punch finish from the above link…….wow. fizzle.

“Republicans are getting about the business of America’s future, because our vision for America is far different than what the president and Congressional Democrats have shown thus far. And I fear the Democrats are just getting started.”

Michael Steele is chairman of the Republican National Committee.

here’s my rap(t) response–

mc steele wanna be a ‘repub’ maker
tellin’ the boys ’bout all the repub cake’a
he don’t wanna be the man to place no blame
he wan evry body to just play the game–

point the finga at everybody else
make it look like it was their choice
make em afraid, make em think twice
don’t look back-that wouldn’t be nice.

say anything just like’a mike tyson
you didn’t mean to hit your lady last night’a
we did bad things, then ok, so what?
that was me yestiday, not who i am now.

forgetta bout the days when we were king
make em think we’re underdogs, that’ll be the thing
use all the lines the dems employed
that’ll get the people back at our door.

uoompachucka uoompachucka uoompachucka oooom….

upchuck.

Did I misread something? I think you’re wrong on the “bad news” unless you mean you think DADT is great. The WSJ article says, albeit in a clumsy way, that Obama’s DOJ won’t appeal a ruling that undermines DADT. The Court has told the government they have to prove there’s a really compelling national interest to drum gays out of the military.

BTW, I don’t think this is a very good test case. The woman didn’t tell. Right before she was due to get her 20-year pension, the AF decided to “investigate her for homosexuality.” I think SHE has a case against the military for violating DADT ’cause they didn’t just ask, they snooped.

The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

If you’re referring to Erica Williams, she wrote a fine mea culpa, worth reading.

I really think her response is symptomatic of the public’s cognitive dissonance; it’s really not what she meant to come out, but the grasp of language when talking about the Grand Inquisitors really isn’t there, makes it very difficult for people to form the right words at the right time.

Literally, parts of our brain aren’t able to process how f*cking bad this stuff is. Erica can get the parts of her brain which can write about this to grasp it, but the parts engaged in speech really couldn’t get around it.

Diarist occam’s hatchet at DailyKos posted today about the impact of a movie on the Nuremberg trials; it’s going to take visual proof for many Americans to realize the truth, that we have been governed by the Spanish Inquisition for the last eight years. At that point we’ll all be able to sync our mouths with our pens.

i am truly going to barf…

the joe and bobblehead show, with ghouliani sitting there, showing a clip of ventura on the view saying torturers should be prosecuted,,,,they all sat there and laughed, and joe went on a rant about ventura and how ’stupid’ he is….

oh, yeah, it’s all so funny isn’t it, mika?

giggle giggle…

i’ve sent so many letters to that show that i’ve given up….tuned in today to see how they were framing things this am..

i think that was the sickest so far….

ghooliani is defending torture, of course.

Libetarians will not be happy. Somalia is a template for their vision of utopia, no regulation, no governmental interference in the market and in fact no government. Maybe the libertarians will start organizing Ayn Rand Brigades to go and fight in Somalia for their perfect vision.

ghooliani just said he’s been investigating islamists since the 60’s…that’s why he’s an expert on waterboarding….

Didn’t mean to imply the other side had god on its side. Just that there’s no reason for U.S. to do a proxy intervention.

If you’re referring to Erica Williams, she wrote a fine mea culpa, worth reading.

yes I was, and yes, she did.

thanks.

This segment is hard to watch. But funny that giuliani said “it’s easy to lie about the past.”

Scarborough is fully on board with torture.

to go and fight in Somalia for their perfect vision.

That would certainly clean up the gene pool here in the States.

ventura is getting this one right and I bet if he ran again he’d win hands down

Scarborough is fully on board with torture.

is it possible for an entire network to be treated for a really bad bi-polar disorder?

“MSNBC – We Don’t Know What the Fuck We’re About!”

Though he did say he was ashamed of America. The media would have a field day with that.

Yes, a must read/see diary.

twolf 20 perris 22

i kept thinking, how can this man not know he is an ass?

i kept picturing ’steven colbert’ the true republican sitting next to him, the caricature of someone like rude-e….wouldn’t that be a scary mirror image.

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jesse’s been putting out sentence after sentence of perfectly worded points…he’s been amazing.

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they kept rude-e long for another segment like the did with lizzie cheney the other day to take on the liberal, ha, eugene robinson skinned her ass, let’s see what happens today. ooops, specifics, names, lookout rude-e, he’ll say ‘911′…

707!~!!!!!

Here’s Jesse beating up Sean Hannity. Beautiful!

Thanks for the link, Rayne. Knut referenced it downstairs this morning without adding the link.

Nuremberg, Germany, November 1945: … Fittingly, given the unprecedented scope of the atrocities, the prosecution was seeking to prove the Nazis guilty of a new crime in international law: the waging of aggressive war, a war perpetrated against people and nations that posed no threat to Germany.

yayah, he’s been slammin’ lately….really has. have to give him that.

left you a message over at FB :D

Mornin’ All

Oooh! That’s a dandy fun smackdown. Thanks!

well, take care pups.

have a helper coming, have to go get gravel, am making a ’scree’ in a little bed in front of my house….alpine plants. waiting. to. be. planted. in. it.

scree-though i am doing mine differently than what this says
http://www.ehow.com/how_210700…..e-bed.html

is a way to grow alpine plants, which are my favorite. here’s some photos of some. some of them are ‘miniatures’ and are REALLY cool….people also plant them in
hypertufa. we are making some of these later this year…have to let them sit for a while after they are made–to leach out the bad stuff. they are way cool, too….people make little ‘faerie’ gardens in them.
http://images.google.com/image…..=hypertufa

http://images.google.com/image…..f&oq=

Good Morning all. Thanks for all the updates BT.

I’ll go look. Left some pix of new tigers at 40 on Attaturk’s post.

mornin’,

getting our brains around it – caught a really good documentary on History Channel the other night on The July 20th plotters/military resistance to Hitler – fascinating to watch the evolution of the German people’s response – took some time for they as a people to embrace them as heroes

oooh thankee

Have fun. Nice pix. I’m jealous. Kinda hard to get midOhio to think alpine. *g*

ditto ;->

That’s quite the post. We’re all different. My intrusive memories come from the shit I did, not the shit I didn’t.

umm. adie, that’s the point, i’m in se ohio…..plants are from baker’s acres in alexandria, north of granville…

with a scree, and in hypertufa, you can grow them. some of them…

they just have to have a ‘flush’ kind of drainage….their habitat, plus our ‘freeze and thaw and freeze and thaw’ makes them rot, so, the ’stone chips’ peat for acidity and soil for roots is the mix.

they’re pretty cool, had one at my last house out in the country. worth it.

this one is in a patch surrounded by the concrete in front then the walk-unusable because of junipers grown over it…..

so, is surrounded on three sides by concrete, low side open, house side concrete higher than sidewalk,,will be perfect…dug out a hole 2+ feet and go from there……’junk’ pieces, then gravel, then leaves or straw, then 2 parts stone chips, 1 part peat and one part soil. my soil is old mushroom compost i’ve been saving from a guy who grows mushrooms.

ok, have a great day pups.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

which just makes his point again -

I always have to look back. Too much of what I see I don’t like. We cannot afford to make our national memory like mine

Dare I say that’s cool? Sorry didn’t read much – only had time for a few of the pix. It seemed I was SUPPOSED to be painting the bathroom, ahem. Sometimes life’s more fun-able than others, sigh.

I wish I could try something like that. I fear where we’re moving, it might be a bit of a stretch, although they assure we can garden to our hearts’ desire. I may just have to visit yours, heh.

A prof. of ours in totally unrelated subject had alpine gardening as a hobby – more like a passion. Beautiful beautiful stuff, but labor intensive. I hope this new idea cuts down on the back-breaking work for you. Go for it! ;->

p.s., yes, i finished the painting. great fun in a tall room with almost no free floorspace to maneuver. Gonna be stiff, and hope there weren’t any pix commemorating the effort. contortionist could have done a bit better, but i did o.k. for 67yo gray-hair. picture 3rd step from top of ladder, one foot, other dangling out in space so’s i can reach over behind meself by doing some yoga unintentionally… it worked, tho not pretty in the doing. *g*

yay! one step down! twenty-two hundred to go! you can do it!

yeah, the alpines done this way are less work….can’t do all of them, but many love it…

and, yes you can do them where you are moving because you can make hypertuffa troughs, planters, and put them in it….can put a little japanese maple in there, too…can make them look really cool. i know a few people who make little mini-worlds in theirs, faerie gardens…

and yeah, busy here, too, was taking a break this morning.