Sam's Post-show Wrapup

Go home now.

power. My head started to ring.

Get your local libraries to buy the books, too.

It started off so well
They said we made a perfect pair
I clothed myself in your glory and your love
How I loved you,
How I cried...
The years of care and loyalty
Were nothing but a sham it seems
The years belie we lived a lie
I love you 'til I die
Save me, save me, save me
I can't face this life alone
Save me, save me, save me...
I'm naked and I'm far from home

and life is good!

nice to see some old IWW stuff popping up.

weyerhauser has always played dirty pool with it's logging crews.

http://tinyurl.com/ypfu3c

Ten years of the International Socialist Review

You take my body
I give you heat
You say you're hungry
I give you meat
I suck your mind
You blow my head
Make love
Inside your bed - everybody
Get down make love
Get down make love
Get down make love
Get down make love

http://expelledthemovie.com/video.php

http://expelledthemovie.com/home.php

"Big Science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom. What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel...

Ben blows the horn on SUPRESSION!"

It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming let me out!
Pray tomorrow takes me high high higher
Pressure on people
People on streets

Turned away from it all
Like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work
Keep coming up with love
But it's so slashed and torn
Why why why?

(Love, love, love, love)

Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking
Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
Why can't we give love give love give love?
Give love give love give love give love give love give love?
Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care
For the people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way
Of caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
this is ourselves

Under Pressure

Doris

Lauren.... Jesus, honey, relax.

Drudge stated that Florida's proposed move to an earlier time was forced by the Clintons.

Hilldebeast is concerned that she will lose Iowa and New Hampshire.

-M the a-c

“Providing relief in earthquake battered Peru”

"Ayudanos Por Favor" ("Help us, please"), is written on signs a family holds up along the roadside of the Pan-American highway in Peru. And they’re right. Even with so many emergencies going on in the world today, in the wake of this 8.0-magnitude earthquake, Peruvians do need help.

Link:

http://www.care.org/newsroom/articles/2007/08/20070820_peru_reliefstory....

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To Get Involved -

http://www.care.org/getinvolved/index.asp

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“Changes in CARE's Food Aid Policy Grab Headlines” -

“A Bold Gesture”

CARE's decision concerning federally funded food aid has generated strong opinions and media coverage across the country.

For More Information:

http://www.care.org/newsroom/articles/2007/08/20070823_foodaid.asp

...please, no commas before conjunctions or mid-sentence. You're killing me here!

This ain't radio fer crissakes; it's writing.

If you gotta pause, you gotta pause but (< note no comma) not every breath is a cause for a pause nor (< note no comma) a good grammatical reason for a comma.

Thanks. Sr. Mary Helen thanks you, too.

http://www.radicalpress.com/

Article 19 of the UN Human Rights Charter: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

this is what the [...] is for to me...it's a pause whether my breath or my brain...I guess it varies...

the zero tolerance approach to punctuation.

The Unself

There ain't nothin' like livin' onna raft. (Well, OK, so a houseboat's got it all over onna raft, but it's still kind'uva romantical notion.)

Manatee Springs, offa the Suwannee R., where sturgeons is a-jumpin' en verano todo el dia y noche.

Evidently them sturgeons likes to spawn on the plentiful limestone ledges what's found on the Suwannee R. (well, who wouldn't?). Don't nobody really know how'z'come sturgeons leaps 'n bounds like they does, but I likes to thinks it's on accounta they's in love.

Sturgeons is been known to leap into folks' boats 'n one jet-skier here recent gotta broken leg from a jumpin' sturgeon, which I thought were a rather poetical warnin'.

Course, fishermen's is usual 'bout as fond a jet-skiers as lions is a crocodiles or sperm whales is a giant squids or leopards is of babboons (or buffoons or bassoons or eben babboons w/bassoons hockin' away at spittoons).

Ol' Father Time learns them snot-nosed whelps at the rope swing a thing 'er three 'bout Tarzanin' off a Withlacoochi coo-coo-ca-chew swing-set.

Gollum glowers 'n broods over lost treasure at the mouth a the Devil's Den.

"Just can't learn 'em nothin', sez I." (Canines is gotta mighty low regard fer that higher learnin'.)

Y finalmente (and if I don't reply to no one for a spell it's on accounta I is fainted dead away that this pitcher-postin' actually worked:

Pan de platano, for to break bread w/a caballera especial.

Alice,

In informal (conversational) writing, anything goes so long as it does not interfere with unintentionally interrupted reading. I like to use the ellipses (...) and must resist using them too often.

The comma, on the other hand (where, to, start?)...

The comma is overused as the all-purpose pause. It is used as if the written word were spoken which it most often is not. It ain't even the same animal.

Okay, okay (I'm breathing into a bag now). In a quotation of spoken words, the comma can be used to indicate a pause.

In informal writing, the comma can be used sparingly to indicate a pause as if the words were spoken.

In formal writing, the comma is a piece of punctuation that should be used according to rules.

Generally, a conjunction stands alone without a comma. Period (so to speak).

cool pix DR!

Love the pitchur postin'!
Janice Brown

pitcher-postin', ahem, attempt [cringes]
new
Submitted by dr on Sun, 08/26/2007 - 10:46pm.

dr: "Course, fishermen's is usual 'bout as fond a jet-skiers as lions is a crocodiles or sperm whales is a giant squids or leopards is of babboons (or buffoons or bassoons or eben babboons w/bassoons hockin' away at spittoons)."
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Shortly after writing this sentence, smelling salts and smart smacks to the jowls revived dr from his unending, alliterative, spasmodic fit.

(For a few moments there, we thought we'd lost him.)

Long day.

Come Out Of It, Boy!
new
Submitted by Crank Bait on Sun, 08/26/2007 - 10:54pm.
dr: "Course, fishermen's is usual 'bout as fond a jet-skiers as lions is a crocodiles or sperm whales is a giant squids or leopards is of babboons (or buffoons or bassoons or eben babboons w/bassoons hockin' away at spittoons)."
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Shortly after writing this sentence, smelling salts and smart smacks to the jowls revived dr from his unending, alliterative, spasmodic fit.

(For a few moments there, we thought we'd lost him.)

_______________

I reckon some enterprisin' inkernets guru oughtta hunt down that moment in Moonstruck when Cher slaps Nicolas Cage, twice. Hard. 'N sez:

"Snap out it!"

Janice Brown

missed you today.
Janice Brown

Weeeee!

:)

It's so YOU!
Janice Brown

Love this one...
Submitted by Alice on Sun, 08/26/2007 - 11:12pm.

dr: "Then there was anglers aligned all ashore aimin' ta finagle all-a dem angel fish---"

Bait: "dr?"

dr: "Yes?"

Bait: You're ailin' from alliterations.

dr: "I know. They takes 'hold o' me and the next things I knows I never need 'nuthin' n'at-all but 'nother--"

Bait: "dr?"

dr: "Yes?"

Bait: "Consider this an intervention."

dr: "But I can't help mysel--"

Bait: "dr?"

dr: "Yes?"

Bait: "One word: Xerox."

dr: "Reminds me of the time a zebra xeroxed a xylophone and...and..."

Bait: "Take a deep breath."

dr: "...and a zephyr zithered and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble--"

Bait: "dr?"

dr: "Yes?"

Bait: "Jabberwocky doesn't count."

dr: "I didn't think you'd notice."

These fires in Greece are getting worse.

The brush fires in Greece are very near to the town where my mother was born. Very near Olympia. It's very hot and dry there with hot winds but the fires are breaking out in different areas, even an island. It has to be arson. They said this is the worst it's ever been.

Great photos. I like the one Shell likes also.

Have a good night, sleep tight, no bedbug bites! G,g,g,g,g.g'Nite FOLKS! and POETS! LOL!

Janice Brown

http://juliesmagiclightshow.com/?&pic=2076

US could be heading for recession
Last Updated: 2:05am BST 27/08/2007

Ex-Treasury Secretary Summers warns of risks 'greater than any since aftermath of 9/11', reports Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers warned that the United States may be heading into recession as the biggest victim to date of the sub-prime mortgage debacle was humiliatingly sold for a token sum in Germany.

Traders are braced for another week of turmoil after the near breakdown of America's $2,200bn (£1,100bn) market for commercial paper.

"It would be far too premature to judge this crisis over," Mr Summers said. "I would say the risks of recession are now greater than they've been any time since the period in the aftermath of 9/11."

In Germany, it emerged that the state-bank SachsenLB may have accumulated $80bn of exposure to risky assets through a set of Irish funds kept off balance sheet.

The regional government of Saxony agreed yesterday to sell the East German bank - the biggest victim so far of the worldwide credit rout - for a token €300m (£204m) to the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart (LBBW), ending a three-week saga that has revealed the extent of German involvement in the some of the most treacherous areas of US sub-prime debt.

Georg Milbrandt, prime minister of Saxony, said the sale of state-owned lender was the only viable option.

"Given the market turbulence and the pressures on the bank, it could not have gone on without a partner. We want to get our ship off the high waves and into a safe port," he said.

Sachsen LB, founded in 1992 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was rescued two weeks ago in a state orchestrated bail-out. A consortium of banks agreed to provide a €17.3bn credit lifeline, but only on the understanding that it agreed to be sold to a stronger player.

It allegedly used no fewer than five Irish 'conduits' (off-balance sheet vehicles) to invest in collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) and other high-risk instruments, according to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The biggest losses stemmed from structured investment vehicles (SIVs) which involve using short-term credit to buy longer-term assets, creating a mismatch in maturities.

The rescue deal comes as investors waited to learn whether the US Federal Reserve would succeed in stabilising the US commercial paper market, the latest - and biggest -domino to fall in the spreading contagion from sub-prime debt. Investors have suddenly lost trust in this form of debt, fearing it may be tainted by exposure to CDOs.

Stock markets rallied strongly late last week on the belief that the Federal Reserve would start to cut its key lending rate in September, and that the European Central Bank would refrain from further tightening. Goldman Sachs said any hint the banks may prove more hawkish could quickly dampen investor spirits again, warning it was too early to give "all clear" on equities.

Federal Reserve data shows that the outstanding stock of US commercial paper has fallen by $255bn over the last three weeks, a sign that borrowers have been unable to roll over huge amounts of debt. The fall is comparable to the sudden shrinkage that occurred at the onset of the dotcom bust, and may have the effect of draining liquidity.

The New York Fed issued a statement on Friday stressing that asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) would be accepted as collateral for loans to banks from the discount window. The move has helped trim the average yield slightly to 6.04pc, helping to calm a key part of the money market that lubricates the financial system.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=4EFJ1B0K5B111QFIQ...

Yeah CRANK, that would be a BAD day!
Janice Brown

The Final Photo
Submitted by Crank Bait on Sun, 08/26/2007 - 11:40pm.

Can't stay awake.

Later

pitcher-postin', ahem, attempt [cringes]
Submitted by dr on Sun, 08/26/2007 - 10:46pm.

_________________

dr,

Cool Zarian pics! Thanks for sharing.

Good to know that dr has some schooling (with the fishies, no doubt).

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It reminds me of “The Song of Hiawatha” -

dr’s tale begins:

"Forth upon the Gitche Gumee...

[and three days later...dr is still telling the blog about the fish that got away...]

“Hiawatha's Fishing” - (sturgeon, The King of Fishes) -

Link:

http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/hiawatha/hiafish.html

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More from “The Song of Hiawatha” -

And Iagoo answered straightway,
"You shall hear a tale of wonder,
You shall hear the strange adventures..."

you said Gitche Gumee...
Janice Brown

Submitted by toniD on Sun, 08/26/2007 - 11:43pm
"...In Germany, it emerged that the state-bank SachsenLB may have accumulated $80bn of exposure to risky assets through a set of Irish funds kept off balance sheet..."
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(I know, I know. It's a really cheesy pun. Just let me Teuton my own horn. We're marching to a faster pace, look out, here comes the bankrupt race.)

Janice Brown

The Final Photo

Submitted by Crank Bait on Sun, 08/26/2007 - 11:40pm.

____________

I wisht we'da gotta pitcher of that 9-foot bull shark what swooped into knee-deep water when we's shore-fishin' offa Cayo Costa Island.

The boy in the pitcher ("Gollum" @ Devil's Den) hadda 18-pound snook on and that shark just invaded the shallows 'n destroyed it.

Broke the fish-crazy boy's heart.

(Didn't do no favors for the snook neither.)

Had the snook a only known, if it hadda be caught, the boy was the perfect one to catch it -- he don't eat no fish 'n woulda released the snook, sure; his dad 'n me, well, that's another story, tho' a snook that size we prolly woulda released, too.)

Here's what's peculiar about his Old Man, tho'.

In that sharky instance, w/o no thinkin' (as will be evident momentarily), my buddy Tom jumpt into the water w/the bull shark, ultimately wadin' in up to his chest, wavin' his arms 'n hollerin' inna vainglorious attempt to drive off the shark so's his boy could land that snook. Sure, it's foolishness, but -- 'long's catastrophe didn't strike -- a body's gotta admire his parental spunk.

But, in a 'nuther parental instance:

Middle a the day, we was divin' offa the roof of the houseboat into the S'wannee R. All of us just happent to be outta the water at the time 'cept Tom's other boy, who were treadin' water half-a-boat-length away from the ladder.

'Long comes a smallish gator (5 1/2-footer or so). It's a-headin' right for the 14-year-old boy, ridin' high on the water like a duck (as Sam I am sez), mebbe forty feet off, no sincere intent on attackin' or eatin' the boy or 'nuthin, just more a slow 'n langorously curious approach, tail hardly movin'.

It looked like a cartoon character. I thought I seen a thought balloon above its head what said: "No, I'm not really innerested, but if you float there like a bobber long enough, I suppose my pride will force me to eat you."

Tom points out the gator to the boy below, and then he starts to laughin'.

The boy's been around gators some so he warn't freaking out or nothin'. But then, he warn't real eager to stay in the water neither.

The gator (prolly) warn't no danger, just curious, but it were so absurd seein' that lazy methodical approach, specially when the boy had plenty a time to get outta the water, so we couldn't none of us stop laughin'.

('Cept the boy in question, course: he high-tailed it outta there.)

I gotta say; I've made a lazy, methodical approach to the buffet more than once't.

Just A Thought

Submitted by Crank Bait on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 12:19am.

I gotta say; I've made a lazy, methodical approach to the buffet more than once't.

_____________________

Now that I think onnit, Dick The (Grown-Up) Jaws of Death Cheney don't move none too fast neither.

"Food for thought." How in the fuck did I miss that one?

Kicking Myself

Submitted by Crank Bait on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 12:28am.

"Food for thought." How in the fuck did I miss that one?

_________________

Well, I'll own I were considerable s'prized as well.

But, hey, I didn't wanna kick a man when he's down, so I just put 'er demurely in the header.

dr,

I wanted to mention that it looks like you have quite a nice trailer for a wordy dweller.

http://www.gitchegumeervpark.com/

dr the demure dweller

Submitted by Star Vox on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 12:36am.

dr,

I wanted to mention that it looks like you have quite a nice trailer for a wordy dweller.

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Trailer dweller? Ha!

You must have me confusered w/someone else.

Me, I lives inna van down by the river.

dr,

The hayloft beckons but, first, I have an evil thought to relate that I have been formulating for some time.

The "edit" function tosses the previously previous post down to the currently later post, right? So here's my idea: Write some pointed nastiness or a post filled with misspellings and grammatical atrocities. Then, whilst the sharks are circling, edit the sumbitch into a completely unrelated peace, love and flowers sing-song of loveliness.

If the target is well-chosen and the timing is right, it's like having a "whose is bigger" competition with only one pants-down contestant on stage.

...on a blog.

d "Chris Farley" r
Submitted by dr on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 12:41am.

Trailer dweller? Ha!

You must have me confusered w/someone else.

Me, I lives inna van down by the river.

________________

dr,

Then I shall pray for you.

Since you are down by the riverside, here's Sister Rosetta Tharpe with a song to lift your spirits.

Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk

Gaming The Edit Function For Fun And Profit

Submitted by Crank Bait on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 12:44am.

dr,

The hayloft beckons but, first, I have an evil thought to relate that I have been formulating for some time.

The "edit" function tosses the previously previous post down to the currently later post, right? So here's my idea: Write some pointed nastiness or a post filled with misspellings and grammatical atrocities. Then, whilst the sharks are circling, edit the sumbitch into a completely unrelated peace, love and flowers sing-song of loveliness.

If the target is well-chosen and the timing is right, it's like having a "whose is bigger" competition with only one pants-down contestant on stage.

_________________

Was that "fire" I just heared inna crowded buildin'?

Ooh, you is an evil one, you is.

Only a devoted conscientious objector, unaccustomed to the incendiary flame-warrior cage-matches of yore, coulda come up w/such a fiendishly diabolical piece de resistance.

Ever'one else is too busy packin' powder 'n takin' aim.

p.s. I near got in trubble w/both you 'n the ghost a Sr. Mary Helen over the possessive of "who"; boy, fer a minnit there I thought you was a-gonna be grindin' yer molars to nubs just thinkin' onnit.

...On the program, Sahl had a blackboard on which he wrote things in chalk like "We Demand Faith in the Future," and the audience applauded faithfully. He wanted to have a mock trial on the show as a preview of the Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal, and he asked me to return and act as defense attorney. He wanted me to actually defend war criminals such as Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara. I agreed to do it. My plan was to plead insanity.

http://www.counterpunch.org/krassner08252007.html

"Down By the Riverside"

Submitted by Star Vox on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 1:00am.

dr,

Then I shall pray for you.

____________

Better to be prayed for the preyed on, I allus sez.

I'ma gonna put the mule in the barn.

Night, owls.

How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury

How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swind...

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2007/08/spectre-of-yanqui-kapital.html

...if there could be a Spirit of Yankee Kapital - a spectral, unified, far-sighted capitalist class mind - it would surely pursue a geopolitical vision not at all dissimilar to that of PNAC: siezing the window of opportunity afforded by the lack of a rival superpower, trying to create a pro-US regime in the Middle East, demonstrating the ability to fight and win wars in multiple theatres, comprehensive military dominance in order to secure and sustain comprehensive political and economic dominance etc. If such a policy, broadly construed, could have been carried out successfully, then it would have been a master-stroke of strategy. If they can save the situation, and not lose either Baghdad or Kabul, and even claim Tehran or Damascus as part of an elevated war, then they will have carried off a real coup...

Awesome show Sam,

Just podcasted, and I'm buyiig two of every book.

Totaly Movated Me!

So,.. How about that Theresa Duncan?

http://rigint.blogspot.com/

Watch out, don't fall in...

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

If you have no idea what this post means, consider yourself lucky.

In a disgusting display of mendacity not seen since the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, a pro-war advertising campaign spearheaded by former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer is buying $15 million worth of 30-second television spots that repeat the lies linking 9/11 to Iraq – and explicitly threatening another terrorist attack in the US if we "surrender." It's the first storm in a season of fear.

The content of the ads – four of them, so far – is so completely dishonest that one wonders what the producers were thinking: do they really imagine the American people are going to swallow another round of complete fabrications? It's hard to believe, but there you have it. Even more surreal than the assertions tying the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the Iraqis is the blatant exploitation of US troops in Iraq: this one, for example, shows a soldier who has lost a leg declaiming that he will have lost it for nothing if we allow "politics" – i.e. the overwhelming majority of Americans – to influence our policy. Then "everything I've given and sacrificed will mean nothing." Here is the complete text:

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11498

What's interesting, aside from the crude content of these ads, is their funding: who's paying for this pack of lies?...

Per c-span just now.

Who won the pool?

Just announced Gonzales resignation.

About time!

Morning toni, FERNANDO, missed you yesterday. What a beautiful way to wake up with friends and good news! Enjoy your day, I'm going for a run in Prospect Park!
Janice Brown

says Gonzales resigns over fired US Attorneys controversy

Wish I could run, can barely walk due to arthritis.

I don't believe it.

...late yesterday. And Thank You for your work. ;)

GaaaawwwnzooOoooOOoOO!

They made this happen!

just keep doing you! Love ya!
Janice Brown

We knew the devil we had, we don't know the devil we will get!
Chertoff? With all the problems we have with that FISA Law could really do some damage!

Now jail the bastard.

out much more interesting to see this development.

No one will be happy with his replacement either. How long will he last?

the perjury charge as a civilian. But who's gonna protect the children now?

To the Editor:

Samantha Power has done extraordinary work in chronicling the genocides of our time, and in exposing how the Western powers were complicit by their inaction.

Edward Herman responds to Zinn:

[Responce to Zinn's letter to NYT's]

Howard:

Your first sentence in your reply on Samantha Power astounded me. Did you actually read her book? I’m pretty sure you never read my two pieces dealing with her. The long text item below is from a review of her work that I wrote in Z in 2004. You should also read the following: Edward S. Herman, "Richard Holbrooke, Samantha Power, and the 'Worthy-Genocide' Establishment" (Kafka Era Studies Number 5), ZNet, March 24, 2007

http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=13626&sectionID=80

BREAKING: Alberto Gonzales Resigns

The New York Times reports Alberto Gonzales will announce his resignation later this morning:

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.

Mr. Gonzales, who had rebuffed calls for his resignation, submitted his to President Bush by telephone on Friday, the official said. His decision was not announced immediately announced, the official added, until after the president invited him and his wife to lunch at his ranch near here.

U.S. News reported this weekend, “The buzz among top Bushies is that beleaguered Attorney General Alberto Gonzales finally plans to depart and will be replaced by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Why Chertoff? Officials say he’s got fans on Capitol Hill, is untouched by the Justice prosecutor scandal, and has more experience than Gonzales did, having served as a federal judge and assistant attorney general.”

UPDATE: In March, Gonzales said, “I’m not going to resign. I’m going to stay focused on protecting our kids.” In June, he promised to “sprint to the finish line” to “accomplish all the goals that are important to me.”

UPDATE II: In April, Gonzales said he would stay as long as he felt he could be effective:

I will stay as long as I feel I can be effective, and I believe I can be effective. Obviously, we’ll be working with the Congress to reassure them that we’ve identified the mistakes that have been made here and that we are taking steps to address them. But I can’t just be focused on the U.S. Attorney situation. I’ve also got to be focused on what’s really important for the American people.

UPDATE III: CNN’s John King: “This is the last of the Texans who came with President Bush to Washington in the close White House circle to have a senior job. Karen Hughes, of course, still at the State Department — she left and came back. But Karl Rove leaving recently, now Alberto Gonzales leaving as well. This President does not have the old Texas posse around him anymore.”

UPDATE IV: The AP reports, “A senior Justice Department official said that a likely temporary replacement for Gonzales is Solicitor General Paul Clement, who would take over until a permanent replacement is found.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/27/gonzales-resigns/

Gonzo gone eh?

but not escaped...

i want to see him behind bars.

Rummy, Rove, Gonzo and about 20 others.

"With all the problems we have with that FISA Law could really do some damage!"

Hi Toni! Long time no speak-o!

I went out of the country right as this ne FISA thing happened and I'll be honest. It was a really puzzling thing to me and I still dont get it. First, of course it seems like another maddening if not halfway suicidal move by the Democratic congress. BUT, then if I think about it, it's also a really peculiar move by the Bushies because I don't see them as so on top of their game anymore. I think they're doing more damage control these days than anything else.

What's your take on this?...I have some musings of my own, as usual. :)

Here's what the Young Turk crew put up in response to the WH exodus.

will hold a news conference at 10:30 ET

I bet those US Attorneys are happy today.

James Comey's testimony about the Ashcroft visit is really what brought Gonzales down!

I think Bush doesn't want to be bothered with the domestic issues, he is more interested in the Middle East Oil. I'm still worried about an announced war in Iran and a power play by the Bushies to stay in office because of that!

“In time everyone had a theory [about their deaths], a hypothesis, an eagerness to impose his own story line onto what had happened. To some the “double suicide,” as the newspapers called it, reinforced the quixotic fantasy that artists are somehow too pure for the harshness of the world. To others it was a Shakespearean tale of a love so tragic and potent that one person could not live, literally, without the other. According to the blog Dream’s End, the deaths were not suicides but murders connected to an “alternate reality game.” As more details emerged–about their troubles in Hollywood, their claims of harassment by Scientologists, and how many people they had thoroughly alienated in recent years–the narrative grew harsher. Now their deaths became a story of wrathful envy, of toxic ambition, of fame obsession, of a woman spurned by success, of a terrible conspiracy, of madness. People so quickly grew fixated on trying to define what Duncan and Blake represented in death that it became increasingly difficult to understand and remember who they had been when they were alive.”

–David Amsden

CNN just announced this.

“Child fighters, once a rare presence on Iraq’s battlefields, are playing a significant and growing role in kidnappings, killings and roadside bombings in the country, U.S. military officials say. Boys, some as young as 11, now outnumber foreign fighters at U.S. detention camps in Iraq.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-childfighters27aug2...

After first claiming he did not want Congress to set a timetable, Sen. John Warner (R-VA) suggested on Sunday that he may support Democratic legislation ordering a withdrawal. “I’m going to have to evaluate it,” Warner said. “I’m going to have to evaluate it,” Warner said. “I don’t say that as a threat, but I say that is an option we all have to consider.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070826/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq;_ylt=ArpwVhX5tO6...

mmmm....Fredo carcass....aghhghlhghlrhgl

say about this? How will they spin this?

Fox and Limbaugh will have the talking points.

CNN now saying Gonzales presser at 10:30 ET and Bush presser at 11:30 ET

They are talking about the Balloon fire from yesterday.

Talking about Vick and the Balloon Fire and Princess Diana. No mention of Gonzales, yet, not even on the crawl.

A shorter thread

But,I forgot I have a Dr's appointment.Gotta roll!bbl :)
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