Good morning all.

Another day, more bigotry.

Good Morning, eCAHN
How people see the Other sure says a lot about how they feel about themselves, I think. And, also how much they buy into what others say, instead of actually thinking for themselves?

OT – Anyone hear that Obama is going to be on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart this Wednesday? I have to say that I find this in really poor taste. He has ignored calls for the past two years from the young people who voted for him because they thought he was the second coming, but he has let them (as well as everyone else) down.

Now he wants to show what a caring man of the people he is?

He can go screw himself. I’m shocked Mr. Stewart let him on the program. I hope (but I know will be disappointed) that he doesn’t throw him just a ton of softballs.

Good morning demi.

Troll cregan (or whatever his/her screen name is) dropped a stink bomb into one of the comments section yesterday. I was thinking about using your line as a put down, but restrained myself. That was the right thing to do as everyone ignored it and s/he disappeared without further ado.

Mostly I agree. However, sometimes Stewart pulls a good one on his guest, so we can still hope (TM).

Wah! My employer won’t let me be a bigot!

Employers however continue to be bigots.

democracynow first segment is on wikileaks Iraq docs.

It sounds like you showed great restraint. With the new short time “on edit”, and also the feature on the “friends” page that makes it very easy to view everyone’s activities, including everything we comment, I might just have to be more circumspect around here.

Did you watch the clip of mr. wikileaks walk out of a CNN interview?

Wah! My employer won’t let me be a bigot!

Just how do you keep your job when 50 women file a sexual harassment case against you?

Guests on dn leaks section are Pratagee (sp?), Nir Rosen, and Guardian reporter, David Lee.

No, I couldn’t bear it. I read about it. What a piece of junk interview.

Has Assange ever explained why he waited until Saturday (UK time) to release this stuff? I mean he picked the worst time in the news cycle for this stuff to be released. Perhaps he was doing that to stop the Pentagon from getting ahead of the story, but I think he lost a lot of his thunder with the timing of the release.

You know how it is, the collective memory of the country is purged on Friday evening and only select gems get to hold over to the following week. That is of course unless it involved bigotry or Republican/Teabagger wrongdoing.

I have to say that one of the possible unintended outcomes of the leak is that the U.S. military will stop keeping records in the future.

True to my predictions, here comes a doubling down of the narrative. Democrats and Progressives might as well use the time that it would take to go vote in a more profitable enterprise because they’re doomed I tell you. Doomed! Let me know when Elvis gets here.

I’ve not seen anything like that. However, we have no idea what goes on backstage at leaks, so I wouldn’t be too judgmental until we know more. What Assange is trying to do is difficult enough.

She was a snoty little thing, in a passive/aggressive way. Wonder how long she’ll keep her job?

Leaks is the full hour on dn.

Wonder how long she’ll keep her job?

For pursuing the gossip line of questioning, she might actually get a promotion. If not, there’s always TMZ…

Morning BT, Firepups.

I dunno. Stewart isn’t really a softball pitcher. I’d be willing to bet some of my dwindling savings that he puts Obama on the spot at least about LGBT civil rights.

Wolf Brigade, Iraq interior ministry special troops, that tortured & slaughtered Sunnis, current topic.

Rubio should drive though AZ and see how he is treated its about race not legal status.
Notice Rubio never mentions going after CEO’s who hire illegals.
I think all CEO’s, board of directors top 5% of company executives should spend a year in prison for every illegal they hire.
Why because they get bonuses for performance so they should get the Smack when they don’t perform.
Lets see the GOP run against us on immigration if we make our stand here.

Let me know when Elvis gets here.

The aliens are going to bring him back? Cool. Let’s have a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich (extra butter) to celebrate…

Rosen points out one obvious thing: the leaked docs are STILL from U.S. POV, so reality is far worse than in the docs. Esp exaggerated is Iranian role.

One has to wonder how much stuff was already off the record. I’m going to go ahead and guess there was some…

Rubio is no different than a Log Cabin Republican. Far more interested in accumulating wealth and power than addressing the plight of his own community.

Good morning all and thanks for the linkfest, BT

Cool new stuff here this morning. Looking forward to seein pictures of all my favorite pups.

Indeed. It’s a fair hypothesis that anything a soldier could keep off the record, he did.

I think so too. Just more people who can’t embrace their selves. Hockey moms with lipstick. Bald guys with ponytails. I could go on….

Mornin’, BT, pups

Rubio’s nothing more than a self-centered little prick.

Krugman is just hammerin’ away. I wonder if anyone in the administration dares read him now.

I wonder if anyone in the administration dares read him now.

They can read? Who knew…

Amy points out the obvious that none of the Sunday talks reported on the leak almost at all. David Lee sez it’s a big deal in London.

Where were all of these people who are defending Williams when Helen Thomas got fired? Oh, I remember, they were cheering. Does anybody really think Williams would still have a job at FOX if he said that Jewish people on airplanes frighten him? Anger is an expression of insecurity, just like fear and conservatism. While conservatives like to go around sabre rattling, the truth is they are the biggest cowards on the planet.

I don’t think so. All tactical planning is based on those field reports. They still teach some of the encounters with the Lakota et al in basic guerrilla tactics classes. They’re all based on written field reports.

Krugman is just hammerin’ away. I wonder if anyone in the administration dares read him now.

HMPH! I’ll bet Krugman is a banned subject in the Obama bubble.

Lee sez the Brits NOW see themselves ‘sucked into’ a process of torture. Gee, nice of them to suddenly wake up.

There’s a diff between what a soldier is supposed to do, and what actually happens, esp in ‘fog of war.’ Individual soldiers are subject to scapegoating & would be foolish if they didn’t keep stuff off the record.

Field reports are compiled by platoon leaders (officers) and above. Actions that would put their troops in a bad light are routinely omitted.

Chatergee just said exactly that. If the behavior occurred out of supervision, he knows of many incidents when it wasn’t reported, both contractors (many of whom are former soldiers) & soldiers.

Great point! Maybe people just don’t want to look bigoted. We didn’t really think they were backing him because of their strong moral standards, did we?

Yep.

Task Force Odin, drone attacks, thought to be the miracle drug, is more limited, and of course a lot less effective.

I concur. Some do it out of a team spirit but many omit certain uncomfortable things simply because it would reflect poorly on their own ability to lead. Most supervisors aren’t going to willingly admit that they f*cked up and let there followers run amok.

Even recycled paper is a waste of resources to print Washington Post on.

David Lee points out that U.S. diplomatic cables haven’t been released yet & would cause major upheaval if they were.

Wow. That hour flew by.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Afghanistan: 1,348

US KIA Irak: 4,426

Iraki, Afghan and Pakistani casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

US MBS 2010: 36,828 and counting

John Trudell on Leonard Peltier

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things

Namaste

Speaking of recycled, I once stayed in a European ski resort that had recycled (stamped right on the sheets) toilet paper. It was beige. We had some good laughs about that.

Anyone know what you’re supposed to do under ‘find people’ ‘friendship requested’ on my fdl?

I buy Kuroneko catnip and fake mice to play with but her favorite toy is a bread twisty.

There are two buttons to the right of the screen for accept or decline a friendship. You must be signed into the my FDL page to work them though.

If you roll over the My account button, a drop down menu will have a friends tab. The roll over that and there will be a requests tab. Or you can click on notifications and it will take you directly to the friendship requested page.

You can either accept or reject a request for friendship. On your account page there will be a list of people who have requested to be added as your friend.

I don’t see those buttons. What do you mean ‘signed on?’ I am logged into fdl. Is there some other procedure to sign onto my fdl? On my screen, there is a check mark in the box following ‘friendship requested.’ Is that sufficient? I didn’t put the check mark in the box.

Figured it out. Thanks all for the help!

In my mind there’s a big difference between an isolated incident and a pattern of behavior. I’ve never done time in the military, but have to imagine that in the heat of the moment actions that would normally shock someone might seem like a good and prudent thing to do. I tend to think that on a battlefield some laws and regulations become more like guidelines and preferred practices.

In combat there is only one rule – stay alive, by any means necessary.

For that reason you’d hate to make it too easy for over-zealous prosecutors to drag a lot of what happens into court. It’s hard to forget things that are put down on paper. It also has to be difficult for commanders to keep a grip on where to draw lines. I guess that’s why they’re paid the big bucks. /s

Bread twisties and plastic milk jug rings.
Before I quit smoking, it was also crumbled-up cigarette packs.
Felt mouses and jingly toys remain untouched.

Obama is no liberal, but he plays one on TV. He wants to do so at every opportunity before the elections.

How many times has McLiar been on TDS, anyway?

Not a lot of difference, it turns out.