Pakistan is sure enjoying some blowback from U.S. drone attacks. Thanks O.

Good morning everyone.

Wrt the Obama girls getting vaccinated…..que the wingnuts screaming, “Preferential treatment!”

Thanks for the post, BT.

Jane was very good on teebee last night. I especially liked the ‘I double Firedog dare you’ part.

Well, my-oh-my, Armstrong Williams and the Washington Post, a match made in Grammar Hell.

You’re morning bit of unintentional hilarity, worth at least a cool-quarter-million bucks from the Bush Administration.

Thanks. I needed a chuckle.

Peter Gailbraith is still speaking out.

Rarely is the question asked…

Harry sez Joe is with us on everything but the war. What Harry didn’t know is that Joe’s war is on Democrats and poor people.

Afghan plan is to protect 10 major population centers & turn the rest of the country over to Taliban. That seems likely to work, about as well as paying Karzai’s brother to keep the Khandahar region peaceful under the CIA’s paramilitaries.

Morning all, Jane was gooood last night.
I am battening down the hatches for a snowy day or two. Right on the line here 1 to 2 feet to the east, 2 to 4 feet to the west. Here we go

Yes, I heard about that storm when I was flipping thru channels earlier. Gonna be quite a doozy.

Al Qaeda in Iraq kills 155 people with truck bombs. Or was it the Iraq Security Forces? Or perhaps they are the same.

U.S. military & paramilitary actions always are destabilizing in oh so many ways. That’s an overstatement, but not much of one.

Mornin’, BT, pups

Short Ride is Short Ride.

Harry Reid is a fool.

If, repeat if, a Senate health care reform bill makes it to a floor vote it will probably have been amended into a worthless piece of shit. Defeat on the floor. After the 2010 elections we go for single payer. Fuck Obama and anybody else who doesn’t support it then.

What is it about blowback that McChrystal et al don’t understand?

Kilcullen (sp) had it right but even as their counterinsurgency expert he’s ignored.

Jane was great! I wish Rachael and Keith would have more from the blogospher on their shows (Dylan Ratigan too, but not Scar)

They never get it. I’m repeating this comment on several threads. Listening to Dallek’s Nixon & Kissinger. The way they talked about VN bears no relation to reality. Ditto Iraq. Ditto Afghanistan. Ditto Pakistan. This is a bipartisan comment. Doesn’t matter the political party. They all think the vaunted U.S. military can do it.

U.S. military & paramilitary actions always are destabilizing in oh so many ways. That’s an overunderstatement…

Corrected…! ;-)

Fine with me.

Thought ya wouldn’t mind…! Aloha, eCAHN, SD, BT, and all you early birds…! ;-)

Wasn’t Liarman Obama’s “mentor” in the Senate? I can’t help but wonder if Obama put Liarman up to threaten a filibuster of health care to make the legislation more favorable to the insurance companies and big pharma at the expense of the American people.

It seems Iran is accepting the deal for inspection etc. Meanwhile Bolton is reccommending we go ahead and bomb Iran. We need to either lock that lunatic up or put a parachute on his back and push him out of an airplane over Tora Bora.

Hey, CT

Yep. As if Pakistan wasn’t shaky enough for starters. Just what we need, a civil war in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Irak.

I think it’s called hubris.

What keeps you awake at this hour?

SD, did you see this letter of resignation… Quite a devastating critique on how FUBAR it is in Afghanistan…!

Bolton’s role is to keep pushing the discussion frame to the right. And he’s pretty good at it.

Yes, so he says.

At this point all I’m hoping for is for the corporatists to show their true colours, once and for all to see. No bill is better than a giveaway to the greedheads. That would give us a year and some to pump up single payer as the only acceptable “public option.”

Hubris to be sure, but they seem to be able to go out of their way to avoid genuine information. For example, B&B was published in 1969, so Nixon & Kissinger had to have avoided reading it, or reading any of the news coverage at the time. They wanted to lock up Hersh for his reporting.

There’s a real nice espresso machine up here in the Gemini Observatory…! I do have to pace myself tho… Too much and I won’t sleep at all once I get down the mtn…! ;-)

That works for me. Plus our helicopters are bigger than they used to be, so there won’t be such a line-up on the embassy roof like there was in Saigon.

I have it bookmarked but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. From what I’ve heard it’s a barn burner.

I like the parachute idea.

With friends like Traitorman—who needs enemies? This phony needs to be busted down—now.

I’m looking forward to the Bway musical version.

Scorching…! Kinda punctuated by the Grey Lady’s story about Karzai’s brother being a drug lord and on the CIA’s payroll…! ;-)

Every once in awhile, I think I should learn something about the stars. After about a day, it occurs to me that would have to be done at night. Snooze. I’m an incurable night sleeper.

I don’t find being involved in the opium/hashish trade so surprising. It’s been their biggest export commodity for generations. Every official in the country gets some sort of bakshish out of it.

Instead of Saigon the Khyber Pass will be a wasteland of vehicles…! It’s the one and only viable route in and out of Afghanistan…!

Perhaps they could attach convenient handrails on the skids!

Daniel Ellsberg in coming up on WJ around 9:15ET. Should be good. He’s usually quite outspoken.

Couldn’t agree more… And it’s not like the CIA hasn’t had it’s grubby paws in all the major drug trafficking centers such as S.E. Asia, Mexico, Colombia, etc…!

As I just commented on Spencer’s thread, Air America/CIA asked my father to fly sticky white packages out of the Golden Triangle when he served in Vietnam. Offered thousands of dollars, which he refused.

Palin’s book advance was $1.25 million.

New post upstairs…

Any irony that the librul radio calls itself AirAmerica?

Ship Air America, the CIA’s premiere narcotic shipment airline. *g*

Sarah Palin: $1.25 Million Book Deal, Home Mortgaged to Pay Legal Fees

Hehe…always loved that one!

Good gawd that is an obscene amount for such drivel…! How soon will it be found in the dollar book bins alongside other luminaries like Coultergeist, etal…?

Advance probably split into 2 or 3 parts, which she’ll have to pay the writer from, and could be liable to pay back if book underperforms.

I always wondered if whoever named the network knew the history of the name. It wasn’t unusual to see one of their aircraft at Tan Son Nhut in Saigon.

Do you think they plotted this during the mentorship period, or while they worked out the extended ruse about Lieberman supporting McCain?

I dunno. Beck’s drivel is still at #2 on NYT non-fiction best seller list. There have to be a lot of teabaggers buying it in addition to the right wing orgs buying it in bulk. I suspect Palin’s crap will do as well.

It might make good kindling this winter.

More than likely done in the spirit of promoting bipartisanship.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Irak: 4352

US KIA Afghanistan: 906 Yeah, we’re winning, alright. Motherfuckers.

US MBS 2009: 37,200 Single payer single payer single payer single payer

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

So rather than Obama telling Reid not to announce the opt-out decision, or the administration would pull the rug out from under it, they elected to let him take them all out on a limb and the saw it off? The worry over getting 60 votes to avoid a debacle, smart or not, seems more likely to me.

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That Hamsher woman is shrill

try to keep up Blue Texan, that Hamsher woman is tiresome

it wasn’t unusual to see their planes parked outside Bangkok . . .long after Peace Was At hand – Golden Triangle much ?

I had the same thought. I think it is a pretty good thought. Obama and Liarman are bought and paid for by the Health care industry.

Preferential treatment, they scream..

How ’bout those devout American Muslims ‘extremists’ being treated like despicable world terrorists because they planned to bomb a Dutch paper for it’s offense to Muhammad, yet we have a fucking honors ceremony going on in this country for all the killers and bombers of abortion care providers by devout American Cristian ‘extremists’.
In this country we don’t call those particular Christians ‘terrorists’.
In America and Israel, we don’t call Christians and Jews who participate in the cluster bombing of non-Jews ‘terrorists’. Do we?
No. Of course we don’t.
Instead, we call them “patriots”.