They don’t let him play with the proton packs — he’s more the Louis Tully/Keymaster of Gozer type. Just another day for Fred Hiatt’s 20 Mule Team.

America’s past interference with Iran, motivated by our addiction to petroleum as a form of stored energy powering our liberty to overcome time and space limitations, is akin to a park littered with trash.

Those calling for stronger rhetoric from the President toward Iran’s are responsible in may ways for the fundamentalist reaction to the rape perpetrated upon the Iranian people by the Shah’s Savak, at the behest of western oil interests and the grand old oil party.

Iranians fight for “human rights,” “self determination” and the inalienable rights to; Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness, free of interference, forced coercion or economic servitude enable by the power of law! This is the same fight we American’s are embattled as politicians protect powerful corporate interests who see Americans as a means to profit at the expense of Life and Liberty……….

McCain and Graham were hoping for more war drums to be added to the Obama jazz piece.

Good morning, pups. I guess I’ll never know everything that Cohen had to say. No Froomkin, no WaPoo traffic from me. Today in the NYT it’s Bobo, Herbert and Cohen. As much as I hate to say it, Bobo seems to make some sense today. In “Something for Nothing” he says Senators Ron Wyden and Robert Bennett already have a vetted plan for health care reform that has bipartisan support, but Senate leaders aren’t considering it. Mr. Herbert, like many of us, wonders “Who Are We?” and says that President Obama promised to bring both transparency and accountability to matters of national security, but, so far, he has failed to do so. From Tehran Mr. Cohen sent “Life and Death in Tehran,” and says despite warnings, mourners gathered Monday for Neda Agha Soltan, whose name has already become another word for the anger smoldering there.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got corn muffins that I got out of the oven before it got too warm. On Saturday we went to PetSmart to their adoption center because our laps were empty after losing Victoria, and we found Delilah waiting for us. She has little white feet that you can’t see in that picture, and she talks a blue streak. It’s good to have a lap cat again. (Hoover is much too busy to loll in laps!) Have a great day.

Delilah looks beautiful. She will have you wrapped around her paw in no time.

I’m afraid I’ll have to ding you for the improper use of the future tense!

From Tehran Mr. Cohen sent “Life and Death in Tehran,”

If the ‘mercun press had used but a fraction of the time it has now wasted on the Iran elections in investigating the Bush coup in 2000 the last eight years………

Not my fault…..Holmes and Watson wrote the comment.

He can acknowledge your pain, but he cannot feel it.

Since that sentence is in a paragraph about McCain and Graham whining about Obama’s lack of intervention into Iranian politics is it then fair to say that Cohen is pretending to believe that the always ready to bomb anyone and everyone into the stone-age, McCain and Graham, actually do “feel your pain”? In my opinion those two creepazoids are all about what’s best for John and Lindsey and John and Lindsey’s money troughs and no one else but John and Lindsey and John and Lindsey’s money troughs.

Ah… But I think those elections went just the way the corporate masters of the MSM wanted them to. Why investigate something you’re pleased about?

[tap, tap tap] Is this thing on?

Good Morning. Been lurking, Marion. Too tired and depressed to comment.

Morning all, Waiting on coffee, Hoping those judges in MN are enjoying their vacation.

I had actually forgotten (for a moment) about those judges. Maybe this Thursday?

Reza Pahlavi had a presser yesterday. That ought to help the protesters. Not.

It was particularly funny when he had a complete breakdown when talking about how the current regime is killing demonstrators. Guess he was born without irony & hypocrisy genes.

I guess I see Reza Pahlavi’s situation differently; he’s only a few months older than I am, and I was 18 when his father was booted out of Iran. I don’t think it’s incompatible with his life-long positions on human rights to feel great sympathy for the people of Iran, being Iranian himself.

Just because his father was illegitimately restored to dynastic rule by this country doesn’t automatically mean Pahlavi is bad stuff and a hypocrite.

creepazoids

Nice!

I’ll be using it frequently.

The President of Cool seems emotionally disconnected from events in Tehran — not unconcerned but not particularly upset, either.

And to think you can get paid to write this crap.

As I have written before, these a-holes go from cocktail party to cocktail party glad handing each other and turning the most simple situation into a Rubik’s Cube that only deep beltway thinking can solve.

What part of “Stay the (f-bomb) out of other countries internal affairs” don’t they understand?

Sorry to leave but my cheese making got to a stage that I had to be there. Rude of me ….sorry.

Mornin, Marion. Delilah looks delightful. Are her eyes as bronze as they appear in the pic?

She’s gorgeous! Congratulations.

Sure doesn’t take long for this crew to get sidetracked by tigers. *g*

Who needs bright shiny objex?

Checking in from work… Cheese making??? Wow! What kind? Milk from your critters? Next time I catch you in the threads I’ll try to remember to ask again, when I’m not EPU’d.

Every bit.

Saw a Persian at the vet’s the other day. Her eyes were the deepest bronze I’ve ever seen. Absolutely stunning. If she’d been available she’d have gone home with me.

On edit. Fully grown but the size of a 6 month old kitten. Solid gray.

I rather like the end bit there!

Concern Troll Richard Cohen would likely be unable to purchace private health insurance under the current, never cover the needy, scheme. Just sayin’