Swift Kids

Hope your weekend is going well.

:-)

kiss Melly goodbye for us!

what does a kid know about Edwards?

and the 4000 manicure mom? little overcharge there?

I've been there too..It sucks..
Not much you can do..Just keep them as comfortably as possible.
Sorry,I'm sure you already know that..
I'm not too good in these situations..
Hang in there..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

One election at a time...

23/6 has swift boat parody's for about half the candidates. Check em out, they're kind of funny.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/236-our-new-comedy-si_b...

and here:

http://www.236.com/

Hee Hee, you're good.

;-D

no-no-no-no-bad.

Sorry Shell.

I listen to the Sunday talk shows - so you don't have to? Sam I think he is trying to get your other gig....

Bush, Merkel vow Iran diplomacy - 2 hr ago
US President Bush and Angela Merkel of Germany vow to continue on a diplomatic path to solve problems with Iran.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/7089008.stm

Congressman Kucinich writes letter to Judiciary Committee head supporting impeachment of Vice President Cheney
RAW STORY
Published: Saturday November 10, 2007

On Friday, as the embattled legislation is pushed into committee, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) wrote to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) in support of H. Res 799, Articles of Impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Text of the letter appears below.

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November 9, 2007

The Honorable John Conyers, Jr. Chairman Committee on the Judiciary 2138 Rayburn HOB Washington, DC 20515

Dear Chairman Conyers

I am writing in support of H. Res. 799, the Articles of Impeachment which were referred to the committee relative to the Impeachment of the Vice President of the United States of America.

Recent reports indicate that the Vice President is attempting to shape the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran to conform to his misperceptions about the threat Iran actually poses. Much like his deceptive efforts in the lead up to the Iraq war, the Vice President appears to be manipulating intelligence to conform to his beliefs.

If the reports are true, they add additional weight to the case for impeachment. I believe impeachment remains the only tool Congress has to prevent a war in Iran. This information relates directly to the Article III charges in the resolution. I urge your timely consideration.

Sincerely,
/s/
Dennis J. Kucinich
Member of Congress

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Congressman_Kucinich_writes_letter_to_Judi...

Nursin' a tsunami of a hangover. Ughhhh! Me & my Muff let 'er rip last night w/ some buds & went, well, a bit overboard. : )

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Here's a follow-up to dr's post on Dershowitz from few days' back, compliments of the Sultan of Snark, Wolcott. The links therein make for some fine readin', too.

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In an Ideal World...
...Alan Dershowitz and Deroy Murdock could take turns torturing each other, forging a symbiotic bond of mutual pain and symbolic need not unlike that of Harry Lesser and Willie Spearmint in Bernard Malamud's The Tenants and sparing the rest of us their sophistic sadism.

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Also from VF this month, there's a photo spread on Padma Lakshmi of Top Chef fame. Yes, kids, I am smitten.

Chicago...Saturday Night?

Violent Femmes - When Everybodys Happy.mp3

US among worst in world for infant death By The Associated Press
52 minutes ago

The rate at which infants die in the United States has dropped substantially over the past half-century, but broad disparities remain among racial groups, and the country stacks up poorly next to other industrialized nations.

In 2004, the most recent year for which statistics are available, roughly seven babies died for every 1,000 live births before reaching their first birthday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. That was down from about 26 in 1960.

Babies born to black mothers died at two and a half times the rate of those born to white mothers, according to the CDC figures.

The United States ranks near the bottom for infant survival rates among modernized nations. A Save the Children report last year placed the United States ahead of only Latvia, and tied with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia.

The same report noted the United States had more neonatologists and newborn intensive care beds per person than Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom — but still had a higher rate of infant mortality than any of those nations.

Doctors and analysts blame broad disparities in access to health care among racial and income groups in the United States.

Not surprisingly, the picture is far bleaker in poorer countries, particularly in Africa. A 2005 World Health Organization report found infant mortality rates as high as 144 per 1,000 births — more than 20 times the U.S. rate — in Liberia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071110/ap_on_he_me/saving_the_smallest_us_p...

Beautiful flower, Brett...she's on her way to the big cat post in the sky now... *weeps* - I've taken care of like 50 cats in my life and never had to watch one die before...I learned some things doing that...

*deep sigh*

ok...

Moving right along now...

Air America Host Boosts "Centrist" David Shuster for MSNBC Show

Toni...what is going on in your
new
Submitted by Peter Dragon on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 5:42pm.
Chicago...Saturday Night?

Still trying to recoop from the hospital visit. Two night of sheer torture of constant monitoring and blood drawing. And I had a gazillion phone calls!!

I am watching my Design shows and blogging and trying to decide what I want for Dinner.

What about you?

It's difficult to lose a pet.

PP is downstairs fixing the taters and asparagus, etc. Yawn!

that makes me happy...xox

Heard it's good so it's a popcorn Saturday Night.

You were a good big cat to Melly.

Everyone here has been great.

It's a bit scary when you have to call the paramedics.

Rotten week all around but that has to be the worst.

Man Peter, the deaths are hyper-realistic. It gave me short term PTSD for about 3 days. I was torn between admiring this Scorsese masterpiece and being repulsed by it. Good Luck with it.

: )

from my teacher when I tried to explain that I'd missed class because my cat died. His name was Bruce. He'd been hit by a car and his teeth were falling out all over the place, but he was a big tough guy determined not to die in the street like mere road kill. He came home and died in the privacy of the enclosed back porch. I cried for months. I still miss him. Definitely, my heart goes out to ya, Alice!

she was a sweet little kit.

you did right by her. keep the memories close.

Spanish king tells Chavez to "shut up"
55 minutes ago
SANTIAGO, Chile - The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" Saturday during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071110/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/chile_summit_spat;...

NM Rep. Tom Udall to run for Senate
24 minutes ago
SANTA FE, N.M. - Democratic Rep. Tom Udall who will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Pete Domenici, an aide to the congressman said Saturday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071110/ap_on_re_us/new_mexico_senate;_ylt=A...

A quick read upthread says you were in the hospital.

You were missed & inquired about by dozens hereabouts.

Feel better, madam!

*sends out good thoughts to the northwest* : )

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Dear Alice: Poor kittie! I know it ain't easy...especially for the blog's Kittie Pied Piper. You are a good person for taking care of those animals. I respect you immensely for doing so.

Realistically, it’s almost impossible to believe that Bush is some kind of Manchurian President, intentionally screwing up and deliberately undermining the United States. But sometimes, it’s hard not to wonder. Dan Froomkin, for example, did a nice job today describing Bush’s disastrous dollar policy.

President Bush doesn’t talk about the dollar much, but when he does, he’s got exactly one thing to say about it: “We have a strong dollar policy.”

It’s becoming increasingly clear, however, that Bush’s “strong dollar policy” is driving the greenback into the ground.

The dollar is hitting record lows this week amidst fears that the mortgage-market meltdown will spread to other parts of the economy and as the Chinese make noise about moving more of their investments into euros. But it is the underlying dynamics of the American economy — continued massive trade deficits and a whopping national debt — that have put the dollar in such a precarious position.

A true strong dollar policy, aimed at increasing the confidence of international investors, would require Bush to do a bunch of things he doesn’t want to do. For instance, he would have to stop borrowing so much money to fund his tax cuts and his wars. He would need to encourage the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, rather than depend on it to keep propping up the domestic economy by decreasing them. That sort of thing.

Instead, Bush just offers the strong-dollar line, without specifics, and moves on.

If Bush were a Manchurian President he’d, well, probably do exactly this.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/10/so-much-for-the-strong-dollar-p...

I got the feeling while I was with her that it was her heart...which would make sense if she had a tough start..maybe she felt literally heart broken from the lack of care during her early weeks..I don't know...

I'm glad you got to see the video of her though, SJ... she certainly taxed the boy kitties trying to nurse on them...

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LIBERTARIAN BOOK CLUB / ANARCHIST FORUM

-----------------> People's Media Takeover in
-----------------> Oaxaca:<--------------------
-----------> A Screening of "Un Poquito De Tanta
-----------> Verdad"<-----------------

@@@@@@@@@@@@> The November Anarchist Forum <@@@@@@@@@@@@@

On Tuesday, November 13, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Club's
Anarchist Forum will present a screening of the new documentary "Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (a little bit of so much truth)" by Corrugated Films and Mal De Ojo TV. "When the people of Oaxaca decided they'd had enough of bad government, they didn't take their story to the media...

They TOOK the media."

In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century. But it was the people's use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. This 90-minute documentary captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.

After the screening, the Forum will be open to discussion.

The event will take place at The Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street,
Manhattan (just south of Houston St) (212-792-8050).

Everybody is welcome and invited to come and to have their say. There is no set fee for the presentation, but a contribution to aid the LBC is suggested. If you have questions, contact the LBC /Anarchist Forum, 212-247-7180 or e-mail: roberterler@erols.com

FINAL SCORE - Illinois 28, Ohio State 21

I can't understand why we catch so much shit from people ...what's to hate?

what if you can't get to the phone...?

Conserve their Compassion

We are not conservatives.

nasty people that support it. Like this misnomer of the Compassionate conservative. Every thing is opposite.

Thanks for your good thoughts L@L.

We do have a great group here, sans the trolls.

Fox news talking heads are saying right now that we're better off now than we were in the '70's because if you adjust for inflation...

came across yer girl...she's a free woman now!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article...

The picture says everything....
Submitted by toniD on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 6:27pm.

Swift kids for truth....

[insert smiley emotion con here]

Tomorrow began yesterday

Toni that's worrisome..you need a better plan..
new
Submitted by Alice on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 6:38pm.
what if you can't get to the phone...?

My apartment is not big. Living Room, Galley kitchen open counter to living room, bedroom and bathroom. I have two phones, one in living room, one in bedroom, a cell phone and in the bathroom is a pull cord. Remember, I'm in a senior building. I'm the baby here though.

But I am well covered on the phone issue.

And hopefully these new meds will control the irregular heartbeat.

I'm going to call my attorney on the Merck Vioxx suit on Monday. I have all the paperwork from the Hospital for this latest visit. I was on Vioxx for 4 years. The first was in a test for Vioxx, so I may be getting something.

glad

sad

...for the Padma article, but I knew. *devilish smile*

The photo of Padma & Salman in that piece depicts a real Beauty & The Beast pair, eh?

Kinda reminds me of my Muff & me. *snark*

[And to all you sharks out there (points @ crankie), me being The Beast.]

by Naomi Klein

In less than two years, the lease on the largest and most important US military base in Latin America will run out. The base is in Manta, Ecuador, and Rafael Correa, the country's leftist president, has pronounced that he will renew the lease "on one condition: that they let us put a base in Miami--an Ecuadorean base. If there is no problem having foreign soldiers on a country's soil, surely they'll let us have an Ecuadorean base in the United States."

Since an Ecuadorean military outpost in South Beach is a long shot, it is very likely that the Manta base, which serves as a staging area for the "war on drugs," will soon shut down. Correa's defiant stand is not, as some have claimed, about anti-Americanism. Rather, it is part of a broad range of measures being taken by Latin American governments to make the continent less vulnerable to externally provoked crises and shocks.

This is a crucial development because for the past thirty-five years in Latin America, such shocks from outside have served to create the political conditions required to justify the imposition of "shock therapy"--the constellation of corporate-friendly "emergency" economic measures like large-scale privatizations and deep cuts to social spending that debilitate the state in the name of free markets. In one of his most influential essays, the late economist Milton Friedman articulated contemporary capitalism's core tactical nostrum, what I call the shock doctrine. He observed that "only a crisis--actual or perceived--produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaW_lwrs-Rk

A former top narcotics officer, credited with over 800 arrests in eight years, is now selling a DVD that shows marijuana users how to avoid arrest when traveling with a stash. Law enforcement officials are outraged.

The opening of Barry Cooper's DVD has that same compelling, grainy quality you find on true-life cop shows: police cars in high-speed pursuit, drug dogs jumping into the backs of pickups, hidden cameras in hotel rooms and cardboard boxes stuffed with cellophane-wrapped marijuana bricks. But one thing is clear: this is real. The people are about to make their debut on local news.

The DVD is called Never Get Busted Again, and these pictures are from Barry Cooper's previous life. That's what gives him his unique credibility. As a narcotics officer in West Texas, Cooper was a law enforcement star. That was partly due to his work ethic: Stopping 30 cars a day on the highways was routine for Cooper and his K-9 companion.

"We would pull over cars that had college bumper stickers, because we knew college kids often partied with marijuana," Cooper says. "We would pull over 'Vietnam Vet' plates, because a lot of our vets developed a habit over there."

"I feel bad about it," he admits. "I would look for Mexicans. I would look for black people. It works."

keiran
I'm so sorry to hear of your travails. I hope you are feeling better. I hate hospitals (unless it's to have a baby) they terrify me.
I am also sorry about Melly. When I was 11, my parents divorced and I adopted a street cat and named him Leo. He was one tough cookie but not as tough as he thought he was. He was always getting into fights with bigger, meaner cats and getting his ass kicked. One day I was crossing the street and there he was. Lying on the street with tire track right through him. Broke my heart.

was off making my dinner. Thanks for your concern. I hate hospitals also!!!

Losing a pet is difficult. And it does break your heart. I get all emotional over road kill let alone a pet.

Submitted by Alice on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 6:38pm.
Toni that's worrisome..you need a better plan..what if you can't get to the phone...?
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toniD,
There was a blog vote. It was decided that you have to wear one of these around your neck (except when you're drunk).

I missed the vote..
But,enjoyed the outcome..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2007/11/can-radio-daily-show-work.html

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

:(

The picture says everything....
Submitted by toniD on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 6:27pm.

yeah, it does...

"United States" plaque behind which is an exhausted-looking old chimp in a suit

he looks more simian in some pictures than in others

there the resemblance is fucking uncanny-- it's like a monkey grandfather or something

-M the a-c

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:D

would you like help carrying it?

Writers Strike.
new
Submitted by jbenet on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 4:17pm.
Crank Bait on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 4:02pm.

...no safer time to do something stupid than when the Writer's Guild is on strike.

Newspapers aren't effected by the strike because they no longer use writers.

[please stop me -I need to eat some food- I don't want to go down a mean-spirit sarcastic path today.]
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That's *a*ffected. As in, newspapers aren't affected by the strike; however, the writers' absence is having an effect on what we see.

Sorry for the late 'edit.' Just surprised Crank didn't say something. (Um, if he did and I missed it, sorry for that too!) LOL

Upcoming Palestine/Israel negotiations: A lasting peace with justice is possible.

http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=14241&sectionID=107

Don't blow it George.

all our animals have identities.

spirits, souls, personalities and feelings.

what an amazing world we live in truly. i appreciate that.

jbenet: "Newspapers aren't effected by the strike because they no longer use writers."
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I was referring to joke writers for late night television shows. I assumed that jbenet knew that but seized the opportunity to take a shot at newspaper journalism.

Funny

Thanks yes to both of you. I was affected by my lack of eating but ....effect is now gone.

{anyone post this already?)
edit of Submitted by jbenet on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 8:52pm.{was trying to figure out why the cite didn't carry through the white spaces.]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toby-barlow/news-alert-if-you-love-r_b_718...

Got that? Congressional leadership is moving an energy bill with nothing in it for renewable energy. Dropping the biggest pro-solar provision this country has ever seen, just when the industry is gaining momentum and making an impact."
According to Adam, we've got maybe 24 hours to turn this around. 24 hours. That's not a lot of time.
Now he suggested a script to use when you call the Hill, but mine is better, it goes like this:
'Hi Senator Pelosi? Um, 90% of America, would like more renewable energy and you are ignoring them? So you're either crazy or you are possessed by the devil. Which one is it? I hope you're possessed by the devil because insanity takes years of therapy to cure and we are running out of time but all you need to get rid of Satan is a flask of holy water and a sober village priest. Toby Barlow

Not a Senator. Speaker of the House.

But the rest is absolutly right!

Because all the polls show you are in the 27%.

You can claim anything but doesn't mean we believe you or that it is correct!

So maybe you should stop trying so hard. Falls on deaf ears here!

Back up what you say.

Who is the AP associated with these days that it is not really that good?

And caught a quote from Bush Now, on Iran, what the Iranian regime must understand is that we will continue to work together to solve this problem diplomatically, which means they will continue to be isolated.

huh?

And another sentence he put together which I can't find the text for bla bla bla and we're running out of time.

That's for sure. Did a quick look at the WH web site and counted about 25 uses of the word time in todays news pages. Maybe they always use it that much.

Saxton to Retire in NJ-3
Chris Cillizza reports that Rep. Jim Saxton (R-NJ), the twelve-term Republican from New Jersey's 3rd District, "plans to retire after his current term, an announcement that could come as early as today, according to sources familiar with his decision." With the retirement of Duncan Hunter announced earlier this year, Saxton was set to become ranking member on the House Armed Services committee.

Saxton, the 15th House Republican to retire this cycle, was facing a challenge from State Senate Judiciary Chair John Adler.

CQ has more information on the NJ-13 district.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2007/11/09/saxton_to_retire_in_nj3.htm...

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Giuliani blames Clinton for overstretched military. Rudy Giuliani faulted former President Bill Clinton for having weakened the American military. “Our military is too small to deal with the Islamic terrorism threats, but it really is too small to deter would-be aggressors to even think of challenging us. And that’s due to Bill Clinton,” he said. Steve Benen responds, “Does this make any sense? … Bush has stretched the military to the breaking point,” but acknowledging this would mean holding Bush “to account for his irresponsible policies. What to do? Blame Clinton of course.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/10/giuliani-blames-clinton-for-overstre...

‘Rank-and-file’ dissatisfaction with Rice at State Dept. Within the State Department, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is “viewed by many rank-and-file empoyees as an aloof manager.” A recent American Foreign Service Association poll found that just 12 percent of officers “believe that…Rice is fighting for them.” The Washington Post has more on her mismanagement:

A third official who served under both secretaries recalled how, after an assistant secretary of state made a mistake resulting in several days of negative news coverage, Powell treated that person with civility. By contrast, the official said, Rice becomes angry over even minor news accounts, turning furiously to the relevant assistant secretary for an explanation. “Dressing someone down like that is not great for morale and does not encourage people to bring up bad news,” he said.

In a change that may have limited Rice’s exposure to the rest of the building, Rice moved news conferences to the fancier higher floors of State’s headquarters. While Powell held news media sessions outside — after escorting out foreign officials — Rice wanted a more dignified venue. Powell, after meeting with the media, chatted with workers in the lobby, reaching out to lower-level staff.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/10/rank-and-file-dissatisfaction-with-r...

The following is the handiwork of a pair of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant geniuses from the Bible Belt. The missing-girl-found-dead story has gone international but the confessions are only hours old. I don't know for certain that Spears and Collings are Protestants of one denomination or another, but I know their turf. It's fire and brimstone country. It's Roy Blunt's district.
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http://ozarksfirst.com/content/fulltext/?cid=13920

Step-Father and Friend Charged With Murder and Rape of Rowan Ford

Saturday, Nov 10, 2007 @04:16pm CST

The man charged with taking care of a little girl is now charged with killing her. Today, Rowan Ford's step-father and a friend were both charged with raping and murdering the nine-year-old girl. Those charges answer questions that people have been wondering about for a week now...

...Barry County authorities say Collings kidnapped nine-year-old Ford from her home last Friday evening and took her to his trailer home in rural Barry County. Records show Spears showed up a short time later and that's when authorities say the two raped the girl.

After that, a curtain cord was apparently wrapped around her neck to strangle her. Authorities say the two then drove Ford's body to a cave in McDonald County and left.

Ford's mother says if Spears is guilty, she hopes justice is served...

...Spears and Collings are both charged with first degree murder, forcible rape, and statutory rape...

That was his last post before Sam killed the thread. I thought it had a priceless straight line in it that Crank never got to respond too. That's why I retrieved it, code and all, and reposted it.

: )

Right-wing starts pushing Lieberman for VP. In a new Weekly Standard editorial, William Kristol, one of the most prominent and influential voices in the conservative movement, suggests that Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-CT) recent speech attacking war critics may be cause for the eventual Republican Presidential nominee to “offer him the vice presidency.” Peter Wehner, a former assistant to President Bush, endorses the “Joe for VP” meme at the Corner.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/10/right-wing-starts-pushing-lieberman-...

UPDATE: The Carpetbagger Report has more

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/13549.html

Deadliest year in Afghanistan. Six U.S. troops were killed by insurgents today in “the most lethal [attack] against American forces this year.” The death toll for number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan is at least 101 this year, making it the “deadliest for Americans here since the 2001 invasion.” As SusanG points out, 2007 has also been the deadliest year in Iraq.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/10/deadliest-year-in-afghanistan/

http://tinyurl.com/3cgyoy
PRESIDENT BUSH: It's up to her to tell you. I don't like to put words in leaders' mouths. I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it. But she can tell you what she came up with.

But I will tell you that it intrigued me, and my -- as I said -- listen, I stood up in front of the U.N. and said precisely what I'm telling you now, that we're open-minded. There's a good non-answer for you. (Laughter.)

CHANCELLOR MERKEL: (As translated.) ... but is also an interest that was explained to us here and clearly stated by the U.S. administration.

PRESIDENT BUSH: I'm now going to go feed the Chancellor a hamburger. (Laughter.) Right here, Crawford, Texas. No, well, I mean back over there. Thank you all.

CHANCELLOR MERKEL: Obviously, for me, as a person who originally came from Hamburg --

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes.

CHANCELLOR MERKEL: -- it's even more important.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Hamburger.

Thank you.

Chancellor Merkel: Thank you.

END 12:16 P.M. CST

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If you read or listen to the news conference [not just this end crazy part] its a perfect example of POTUS being like the God of War. And MARS, who is fickle in war and does not concern himself with right or wrong, is called ALLOPROSALLOS, that is, leaning first to one side then the other. ...

Broken Supply Channel Sent Weapons for Iraq Astray
By ERIC SCHMITT and GINGER THOMPSON
This article was reported by Eric Schmitt, Ginger Thompson, Margot Williams and James Glanz, and was written by Mr. Schmitt and Ms. Thompson.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 — As the insurgency in Iraq escalated in the spring of 2004, American officials entrusted an Iraqi businessman with issuing weapons to Iraqi police cadets training to help quell the violence.

By all accounts, the businessman, Kassim al-Saffar, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, did well at distributing the Pentagon-supplied weapons from the Baghdad Police Academy armory he managed for a military contractor. But, co-workers say, he also turned the armory into his own private arms bazaar with the seeming approval of some American officials and executives, selling AK-47 assault rifles, Glock pistols and heavy machine guns to anyone with cash in hand — Iraqi militias, South African security guards and even American contractors.

“This was the craziest thing in the world,” said John Tisdale, a retired Air Force master sergeant who managed an adjacent warehouse. “They were taking weapons away by the truckload.”

Activities at that armory and other warehouses help explain how the American military lost track of some 190,000 pistols and automatic rifles supplied by the United States to Iraq’s security forces in 2004 and 2005, as auditors discovered in the past year.

These discoveries prompted criminal inquiries by the Pentagon and the Justice Department, and stoked fears that the arms could fall into enemy hands and be used against American troops. So far, no missing weapons have been linked to any American deaths, but investigators say that in a country awash with weapons, it may be impossible to trace where some ended up.

While the Pentagon has yet to offer its own accounting of how the weapons channel broke down, it is clear from interviews with two dozen military and civilian investigators, contracting officers, warehouse managers and others that military expediency sometimes ran amok, the lines between legal and illegal were blurred and billions of dollars in arms were handed over to shoestring commands without significant oversight.

In the armory that Mr. Saffar presided over, for example, his dealings were murky. Mr. Tisdale, who recalled seeing a briefcase stuffed with stacks of $20 bills under Mr. Saffar’s desk, said he thought Mr. Saffar enriched himself selling American stocks along with guns he acquired from the streets. Mr. Tisdale was supposed to sign off on any transactions by Mr. Saffar, but he said many shipments left the armory without his approval and without the required records.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/world/middleeast/11weapons.html?_r=1&h...

Neo - Nazi March in Prague Leads to Clash
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 6:31 p.m. ET

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Neo-Nazis trying to march through the Jewish quarter of Prague on Saturday clashed with groups trying to stop them, and at least 80 people were arrested in outbreaks of violence around the capital.

Police seized weapons including a gas gun, axes and sticks as the extremists tried to reach the Jewish quarter, police spokesman Ladislav Bernasek said.

At least six people, including one policeman, suffered head injuries, said Prague rescue service spokeswoman Jirina Ernestova.

The march was scheduled a day after the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night in 1938 when the Nazis attacked synagogues and Jewish homes and businesses throughout Germany and parts of Austria.

Authorities banned the march, and about 1,400 police were deployed in the capital, including riot police and officers on horses to prevent it. Equipped with armored vehicles and water cannons, they sealed off most of the historic Jewish quarter.

In a major clash downtown, a group of about two dozen neo-Nazis was attacked by people who said they were in the streets to prevent the march, Bernasek said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Czech-Neo-Nazi-March.html?pagew...

Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Trickle Down or Bottom Up

Over a decade ago when, as Secretary of Labor, I hollered about the scandal of widening inequality in America, I’d get phone calls from Democratic officials who politely asked me to shut up. After all, I was part of the administration, and my complaints made it seem as if the administration wasn’t doing nearly enough. It wasn’t. We hadn’t delivered on Bill Clinton’s 1992 election promises. An expanded Earned Income Tax Credit helped the poorest but the old working class was going nowhere. At Alan Greenspan’s insistence (Greenspan’s memoirs make this crystal clear), Clinton jettisoned most of his agenda to cut the budget deficit. In return, Greenspan lowered interest rates and created a booming economy that helped Clinton get reelected. The boom also created enough demand to lift blue-collar wages in the late 1990s and temporarily halt widening inequality.

But controlling for the business cycle, the underlying trend hasn’t changed. As I noted a few blogs ago, recent data from the IRS show that the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans are earning more than 21 percent of all income – a postwar record. The bottom fifty percent of all Americans combined are earning just 12.8 percent. (Right-wingers have attacked these data by arguing that the IRS improperly counts adjusted gross income, but however you try to bend the numbers the trend is unmistakable.)The consequence of fiscal austerity and unwillingness to raise taxes on the rich is that America doesn’t have the means to lift the bottom half. So what are leading Democrats prescribing? More of the same.

There are only two economic philosophies in America – trickle down and bottom up. Trickle down means the rich get richer and pay less taxes. Supposedly they use their extra income to invest in America, which makes all of us more productive. But it doesn’t work that way. In a global economy, investments don’t trickle down; they trickles out to wherever on the planet the rich can get the highest return. If trickle down worked as advertised inequality wouldn’t be widening so fast.

http://robertreich.blogspot.com/

Submitted by Brett on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 9:18pm.
...I thought it had a priceless straight line in it that Crank never got to respond too...
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I gave him the litany of impeachable offenses per constitutional law expert Bruce Fein. He ignored them and continued to focus on Kucinich's resolution as if it were a formal indictment. It is self-evident that passing the resolution is the first step in the process of investigating and identifying offenses. His willful ignorance eventually caused me to lose interest in the conversation.

If the resolution states that Cheney is guilty of A and the resolution passes, and the subsequent investigations determine that there is insufficient evidence to support the claim that Cheney is guilty of A BUT there is sufficient evidence to conclude that Cheney is guilty of B and C, then the accusation that was stated in the resolution is moot.

It is absurd to expect that the resolution would precisely and concisely describe the crime(s) PRIOR to the investigation. If all of the facts had already been determined, there wouldn't be any reason for an investigation.

The 97% are the Real Americans that Fully Fund the Iraq War, Condemn Kos and approve the Surge, Confirm nominations made by President Bush, kill foolish Impeachment bills hastily tossed together by Dennis and the 3%. Yes, the 97% are the Real Americans that make the United States the great country that it is!

And that is just how it turned out. Tabled! Dead! Off the agenda! You can just sit there and wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. And wait! That's the whole idea.

There has got to be a better way to make a living fella.

heres the real percentages tp pay attention to...

"So let us paint a picture of what the next decade will look like. The picture became clearer last week with the release of income and wealth dispersion statistics within the United States, as seen on Bloomberg News as well as the newly released Zogby poll on expatriation.

As we have pointed out before, there has never been a period of consolidation of wealth and income as that which has occurred under Bushonomics I (1984 to 1992) and which is occurring again under Bushonomics II (2001 to present.)

We now see that not only does the top 1% of the nation control 70.6% of all of the private wealth in the nation, but it also inures 24.8% of all of the individual income in the nation and that, indeed, the total income of the bottom 50% of the economic strata of the nation has fallen to 12."

we're all in this together,

comrade...

Will be left sitting at his computer waiting day after day for his investigation to begin.

Perhaps he will find some little thing to keep him busy.

You're on you own baby. Ain't nobody gonna tow you along!

I was going for the low road, the line:

"But I know Mr. Bait has something to get off his chest."

Sorry about that

I was just being silly

: (

She clearly has the best chance with the American voter.

11 November

Armistice Day, Remembrance Sunday. Five chances.

I mind as ’ow the night afore that show
Us five got talking – we was in the know,
‘Over the top to-morrer; boys, we’re for it,
First wave we are, first ruddy wave; that’s tore it.’
‘Oh well,’ says Jimmy – an’ ’e’s seen some scrappin’ –
‘There ain’t more nor five things as can ’appen;
Ye get knocked out; else wounded – bad or cushy;
Scuppered; or nowt except yer feeling mushy.’

One of us got the knock-out, blown to chops.
T’other was hurt, like, losin’ both ’is props.
An’ one, to use the word of ’ypocrites,
’Ad the misfortoon to be took by Fritz.
Now me, I wasn’t scratched, praise God Almighty
(Though next time please I’ll thank ’im for a blighty),
But poor young Jim, ’e’s livin’ an’ ’e’s not;
’E reckoned ’e’d five chances, an’ ’e’s ’ad;
’E’s wounded, killed, and pris’ner, all the lot –
The ruddy lot all rolled in one. Jim’s mad.

Wilfred Owen, The Chances

"You're on you own baby. Ain't nobody gonna tow you along!"

I see you must belong to the 3% that has enough money to survive the dollar crash.

Congratulations.

Make sure you have a safe place to hide.

i'm probably one of the few that has a tow rope in his truck and the knowledge to use it.

hope yer a hell of a mechanic.

where was I?

oh yeah, thinking about some of the vets i know.

amazing stories.

Thank you Jim, I had forgot that is tomorrow.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Run Run Run!

Hahahahahahahahahaha.

to The Koolaid intraveinously !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Submitted by Brett on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 10:09pm.
I was going for the low road, the line:
"But I know Mr. Bait has something to get off his chest."
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dr wrote it as succinctly as it could be written. Mr. 97 makes the bogus argument that the failure of Congress to adopt a resolution for consideration of impeachment is de facto evidence that no impeachable crimes exist.

If that argument were valid, then the preemptive pardon by President Ford is de facto evidence that Nixon committed no impeachable crimes.

See how that works? No investigation of impeachable offenses, thus no reason to impeach.

I have never been formally accused of rolling through a stop sign, therefore I have never rolled through a stop sign. I have never been formally accused of driving 100 miles per hour, therefore I have never driven 100 miles per hour.

You see, if I HAD rolled through a stop sign or if I HAD driven 100 miles per hour, I would have been busted for it. Since I wasn't, I didn't.

Convinced?

: )

Another US is rising

Grass-roots working class participation and the solidarity, generosity of spirit and organisational skill it mobilised made the first Social Forum in the US something special, writes Judy Rebick

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/article420.html

No, the sky isn't falling, but your ass is drooping.

is that the decline of the US dollar is Clinton's fault!

Out Of Work Vets Have An Unhappy Veterans Day

• It’s not easy to come home from a war. [Forbes]
• Military reservists are having difficulty returning to the jobs they held before being shipped off to Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Reservists are guaranteed five years leave of absence and a return to employment once their deployment is done (sort of like a long, scary, jury duty).
• But the Department of Labor, who’s supposed to ensure their job security, is letting people slip through the cracks.
• Some numbers from a 2005-2006 survey of returning vets just obtained by the AP:
• 23% of reservists did not return to the jobs they held before shipping out in part because their employer did not give them prompt re-employment (which a reservist is entitled to).
• 44% of reservists are “dissatisfied with how the Labor Department handled their complaint of employment discrimination based on their military status.”
• 29% said they had trouble getting assistance and 77% said they didn’t even try to get assistance because it wouldn’t make a difference.
• The bottom line, according to a 2005 American Bar Association study, the Department of Labor is “not seen as an aggressive advocate for the returning veteran.”
• This difficulty returning to work is exacerbating another growing problem: homeless vets. [ABC]
• Today, one in four homeless Americans is a former veteran. Already, 1,500 veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq have been identified as homeless—an ominous sign of things to come.
• It took a decade after the Vietnam war ended before they started showing up among the homeless. But the rate of Iraq and Afghanistan vets becoming homeless is rising.
• Says Daniel Tooth, director of veterans affairs for Lancaster County, Pa, “We’re going to be having a tsunami of them eventually because the mental health toll from this war is enormous.”

http://miccheckradio.org/issues/2007/november/09/necessary_news#14547

I'm convinced that you did get ticketed for speeding, but you went to traffic school and got it off your record.

Therefore, you didn't really get impeached.

Does that make sense?

>>if I HAD driven 100 miles per hour, I would have been busted for it. Since I wasn't, I didn't.

what about rolling through a stop sign at 100 mph?

It's called the burden of proof. Innocent until proven guilty. Congress is not going to start investigations every time a 3%er makes a loony charge. The Bill is just where is should be, tabled! Dennis can waste all of his time that he would like, but Congress will not waste their time on his foolish bill.

and KU has the ball...

Hoooooeee yeah!!!!

sense is not the currency of wingnuts, nor truth...they deal strictly with blind obedience

like the way they didn't investigate every silly allegation against Bill Clinton?

the proles are your friends. Don't fall for O'Brien's tricks, get out while you can.

Look what happened to Winston.

how does one determine the truth if one is not willing to investigate?

I think it's Snowball's fault!

(Animal Farm reference, for those who are unread)

that would interfer w/ 97's `2 minute hate'

Knock yourself out. Then come back with you have a charge and some proof!

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Kucinich, the long-shot Democratic presidential candidate, introduced his impeachment resolution without the blessing and support of Democratic congressional leaders. Sensing an opportunity to embarrass their colleagues across the aisle, Republicans in Congress changed their minds halfway through a roll call and decided to vote against a motion to table Kucinich's resolution.

Had Democratic leaders not followed with a shrewd parliamentary maneuver of their own that referred the matter to the House Judiciary Committee, the Republicans' switch would have forced an immediate debate that most likely would have exposed Kucinich's resolution as lacking in proof, if not substance, and sorely lacking in specificity.

Kucinich's resolution and House statement said Cheney deserves to be impeached for intentional deceit and manipulating intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaida connections to justify the attack on Iraq, and for "openly threatened aggression" against Iran "absent any real threat to the United States."

Neither the resolution nor Kucinich's statement explained how those charges of lying and intelligence manipulation could be proved.

Had to fix a spelling error. Orwell is more important than ever. unfortunately.

that is not an absolute.

Mr. Absolute certainty

The Barrison Sisters reveal kittens beneath their skirts, at the conclusion of their notorious vaudeville cat dance, c. 1890s. Scanned from an illustration in a period book, "Sex and Sex Worship" by O. A. Wall, M.D., 1919; copyright expired.

and Participatory Society
by Chris Spannos
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2007-11/09spannos.cfm

in the UK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyLI56nZUEw

What do you mean? a safe place to hide?

Do you know of such a place?

well...waterboarding is a war crime...has been so for quite some time.

We prosecuted Japanese soldiers for it in WWII.

how's that for a start?

and outing Valerie Plame? how do we find out if he was involved in that without investigating?

and what about all those no -bid contracts to Haliburton (war profiteering). Cheney still has a BIG stake with them...

Is most likely caused by his steady diet of human baby hearts covered in a rich human baby brain sauce. That's my diagnosis.

"Do you know of such a place?"

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Yes, I do.

There's classes for that, you know...

http://monpa.com/dwc/index.html (dwc stands for dancing with cats)

I couldn't make this shit up. I guess it's for those of you who feel a void when someone says "I had to take my kid to ballet." LOL

I could see that being the case. Especially with the more lethargic babies. (I miss having a big lethargic cat. Mine is wired for sound.)

http://monpa.com/wcp/index.html

for starting the war with Iraq and leaving poor W to clean up the mess...

It is the heart and soul of the 3% nonsense. But you forgot that Bush planned 911 and personally blew up building 7. None the less, in the real world you might notice none of those charges hold any water.

That's the point. Crazy, groundless charges are a dime a dozen.

http://www.dimeadozen.org

Great stuff here!

If Hillary wins, will we blame it on Clinton?

no, they aren't.

you partisan fool.

You're right about that. I thought the "we know for certain that there are WMD's in Iraq" was a laugher, myself.

you are saying that waterboarding is not illegal by international law?

that the US hasn't prosecuted it as a war crime?

.

.

http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN0929196920071109

NEW YORK, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Internet conglomerate IAC/InterActive Corp (IACI.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will launch a comedy news site later today as part of its broader push into online media and entertainment, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday in its online edition.

The site, 23/6, a partnership with the Huffington Post, plans to satirize people in the news through funny articles, videos and photos, the Journal reported.

The newspaper said pieces range from fake political campaign commercials such as "Swift Kids for Truth," to made-up headlines making fun of the media's coverage of oil prices.

The site is reachable at 236.com, the Journal reported.

On Monday the company announced plans to spin off the HSN cable shopping network, its Ticketmaster box office service, the Interval vacation and time-share business, and the LendingTree online mortgage service.

The transactions are expected to close in the second or third quarter of 2008 and will be tax-free to IAC and its shareholders.

Representatives of IAC were not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Justin Grant; editing by Paul Bolding)

wingnuts will believe the $4,000 manicure story...and smear Edwards with it.

because the I wanted to try the Bold thing cb just invented. Know you'll never run out

Just don't tell them nobody laughed at my baby brain sauce joke.

I want them to think I'm a talented comedy writer.

http://www.236.com/video/?bcpid=1272014315&bclid=1281307882&bctid=118270...

but I do take credit for the rest of the internets...

I didn't realize you were joking, or else I would have laughed.

I know for sure that Cheney does eat the young and likes to drink their blood.

that would make you overqualified for them...

?

um yea, Chubby is not a real great choice to emulate, but to each their own.

Have a Fabulous night!

anan's cat saying, "bad touch, grampa!"

Facts are getting in the way of my gibberish.

Therefore, since Congress won't investigate, I'm lost for words.

that is...

Anonymous on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 12:05am.

and you would know?

where did Anon touch you, kitty?

Hahahahahahahahaha. I wish you the best of luck. I am sure it will work out better than Fitzmas. After all, you have the facts on your side this time!

Hahahahahahahahaha.

Ya gotta love the 3% !

just 3% who want Cheney out of there...

what's his approval rating, 9%?

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 12:09am.

or do you want to see if we can give you an brain aneurysm before you leave?

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 12:11am.
what's his approval rating, 9%?
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That's among Republicans. It's lower elsewhere. You've probably noticed how often the Republican presidential candidates mention his name?

Duke Cunningham?

seems like the wingnuts were swearing he was innocent, too...

He will be out! Jan 2009! Then you can start to bitch about Hillary and Bill. Just like you are bitching about Nancy and the Democrat Congress. That's why you are the 3%!

That would be around 10,000,000 Americans.

I think that would shake up the city a bit.

Some Of The Words In part of the ninty seven

Aesop annoy anon antiheroes antiphon arson atrophies attention attorney aver enervations enshrine ensnare enthrones entrap entreaties entropy

envier envoy envy epithet erosive estivate eternity evasion eversion eyesore eyestrain faerie fain fainter fashioner fear feaster feather

feints fervent fester fetish fetters feverish firehose five foist forays foreseen front harpies hasten hatter haters hearse heist heresy herniates

heroin herpes hesitater hypertension hypnotist hysteria inferno infester interpose interstate inventory naive nastier neophytes nitrates nonentity

operatives opiates overseen overspent overstate overstay overstep pain pathos patterns peevish penetrants penetration pester petrify potentate

presentation pretension preventions profanity reinstate repeats repentant
rhinestone roves seethe senator serpentine

servant severity sharpie sieve spontaneity sprite stationery stereotype stratify tarnish tarot taverns teaser tension tentative testify tethers

theaters thespian thievery thorniest threaten throatiest tipster traipse transient travesty treason trophies tyrannies

tyrant vainest vanish varnish veep veneers venerations vetoes voters yarns yeti

Lieberman:

"There is something profoundly wrong...when we have elected Democratic officials who seem more worried about how the Bush administration might respond to Iran's murder of our troops, than about the fact that Iran is murdering our troops."

because that is the only writing instrument you ever see him with

them ARE some fancy words!

hahahahahaha

so what your saying is 97% of Congress is listening to the 3% hucksters.

Wow, that's what I call democracy!

UFO expert Dennis Kucinich is out pushing for Cheney's impeachment on the floor of the House. Hahahahahahahaha.

ain't Lieberman the lying fear-monger?

there may be some Iranians who are killing Americans...but Iran has not been proven to endorse them.

Sure, that's what they are doing. Hahahahahahahaha. Congress is hanging on your every word.

represents the 3% who want Total War. Sort of like Goebbels screamed.

Submitted by jbenet on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 12:17am.
Some Of The Words In part of the ninty seven
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Ninty? Does the list change if it's ninety?

than approve of Cheney.

and...a good deal of them are military or commercial pilots.

remember that next time you get in a plane?

They are also retiring every day.

Republicans can't stand the heat of the 3%.

Cowards.

Remember when the 3% was gotta "GET" joe? Hahahahahahahaha. He dumped the 3% then won reelection. Looks like he hasn't forgotten that either!

Republican = Democrats = Real Americans

this old Websters spell checker and it has abuild button. Type in a word, press build and it lists all the words that can be spelled using those letters. This is one of the most amazing ones I've looked at.
operatives
roves
senator
threaten
tyrant
veep
vetoes
voters and
sharpie

Its like the subconscious at work. We pick a nic because it resonates.
I think 97 is ....
well a really nice guy and I'm so glad he stops by.
: )

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 12:23am.
...but Iran has not been proven to endorse them.
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Has Dennis Kucinich proved that Iran exists? What about gravity? Does this mean that I don't have to pay my phone bill?

what the HELL is THAT supposed to mean?

Of course, they never take bribes from corporations. Real Americans are god-like and always do what is right.

Too bad the dollar is trashing...

it a small little unit. About credit card sized. That would add an extra e, so all these words would still be in there.

Submitted by Exhausted Blogger on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 12:28am.
They are also retiring every day.
Republicans can't stand the heat of the 3%.
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Keep writing. Eventually I'll find a way to slip Hypermotard into the conversation.

is as corny as War Dog. Anybody have some butter?

We heard all this nonsense for 2 years about Fitzmas. Now it's Dennis and his loony Impeachment. Well I have to say, it is always good for laugh.

All you have to do is make any kind of wild charge and the House must drop what it's doing and start an investigation. You know, you should email them and tell em that! I bet they didn't know!

what's ol' Scooter Libby doing these days?

I just can't imagine why Air America went bankrupt. Could it be that 3% is just not going to support a radio network? Surely it will be enough to force Congress to do as you wish!

I think he and Rove are playing gold at the club tomorrow. Oh! I forgot, you were gonna "GET" Rove too! The gettin stuff turns out to be kinda tough!

or maybe it was the corporate blacklist?

Yeah, Mr. Rove retired.

Seriously, I don't expect Congress to do any more investigations and I expect them to rubber-stamp everything President Cheney wants.

After all, they are the best politicians money can buy.

why the presidential pardon?

You see you have your Real Americans. Then you have your 3% or your Err Americans. I think we all know the difference. We see it in the papers every day!

do not need presidential pardons.

Where do I sign up?

Why would anyone ask not be associated with Air America? Could it be they want to sell to the 97% not the 3% ?

hypermotard: a consummate idiot from the ghetto who has attention deficit disorder.

that 975 thing...next you'll be telling us 97% approve the Iraq war...

thing

we 3% loonies have been RIGHT about Iraq all along.

for Iraqi oil revenues to pay for the war...

http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/shank...

go shopping on 'Sales Day', and watch Fox News in order to "decide".

Some 3%er fool who thinks he can makes charges against the Vice-President of the United States with no proof or details.

No need to get so upset! I am sure Hillary will be looking for your advice right after her wins in the primary.

Hillary values and respects the 3%! She looks forward to a long and productive relationship with you once she gets what she wants!

there must be an end command

;)

we just think you are an idiot.

or maybe it's just me...

Anonabutthead :-)

Great then we are all happy! Just stick to your guns and I am sure things will work out fine for all of you. The Democrats and Republicans will see things your way soon. It is inevitable!

We'll see how history judges it, OK?

Bruce Fein is a lawyer in the United States who specializes in constitutional and international law. Under President Ronald Reagan, Fein served as an associate deputy attorney general from 1981 to 1982 and as general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1972.

In March 2007, he founded the American Freedom Agenda with Bob Barr, David Keene and Richard Viguerie. Notable published writings by Fein include articles advocating the impeachment of former U.S. president Bill Clinton and current U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney and president George W Bush.
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Bruce Fein is a nationally acclaimed expert on constitutional law. He commands more than 25 years' experience in legal fields ranging from antitrust to communications to national security law. He is former Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice and former General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission. He also served as Research Director for the Minority on the Joint Congressional Irancontra Committee, and at the Justice Department as Assistant Director in the Office of Legal Policy and Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust.
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Bruce Fein commands impressive experience and influence in the corridors of both national and international power. He graduated from Harvard Law School with honors in 1972. After a coveted federal judicial clerkship, he joined the U.S. Department of Justice where he served as assistant director of the Office of Legal Policy, legal adviser to the assistant attorney general for antitrust, and the associate deputy attorney general. Mr. Fein then was appointed general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, followed by an appointment as research director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran. He recently served on the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Presidential signing statements.

He is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and other major national publications. He has been featured on the cover of the American Bar Association Journal, the legal profession’s most prestigious publication.

He has authored several volumes on the United States Supreme Court, the United States Constitution, and international law. He has assisted three dozen countries in constitutional revision, including Russia, Spain, South Africa, Iraq, Cyprus, and Mozambique, and consulted foreign nations on matters ranging from telecommunications and cable regulation to sugar quotas, oil and gas pipelines, immigration, election laws, and human rights.

Mr. Fein has been an adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, a resident scholar at the Heritage Foundation, a lecturer at the Bookings Institute, and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. He has also been executive editor of World Intelligence Review, a periodical devoted to national security and intelligence issues. He regularly lectures to foreign guests and dignitaries visiting the United States on behalf of the State Department.

As sure as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, it is inevitable that the 3% who still support this war will blame its failure on Clinton.

wow!

That guy sounds like a LOON!!!

in a good way...

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 1:11am.
wow!
That guy sounds like a LOON!!!
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A GIGANTIC loon. He is so fucking big, he comprises the entire 3% all by himself.

(He doesn't know what he's talking about, though.)

--cat dancing? ya that's what they called it, fer sure...
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 10:56pm.--

haven't heard you comment on

Some Of The Words In part of
Submitted by jbenet on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 12:17am.

Some Of The Words In part of the ninety seven

that's about how many of the US population makes campaing donations big enough to determine whose `electable'...

I am shocked! He is pushin his book on the subject? YOU mean he in not a nuetral Expert?

Hahahahahhaa. Go get em Bruce - Ya gotta love a capitalist.

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Damn shame is has no vote in Congress. Damn Shame Nancy don't see it that way. Damn shame John Conyers could care less. Damn Shame the majority of Congress thinks he is wrong. Damn shame he is out hawking his new book. Damn shame he make a living on this controversy!

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Book Description
A renowned attorney and political critic, Bruce Fein reveals the dangers faced by our Constitution and our nation courtesy of the Bush Administration and a Congress asleep at the wheel.In blistering detail, he deconstructs the policies of Bush in the War on Terror--from the flouting of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to the crippling of the Great Writ of habeas corpus--and forecasts that the damage done is unlikely to be repaired by a kindhearted successor.As we head toward the next national election, there are questions regarding matters more grave than education, healthcare, and even Iraq, questions that involve the very foundations of our government and the degrees to which they have been undermined, either actively or passively, by nearly everyone in power today. By exploring the constitutional crises of the past--Lincoln and habeas corpus to Nixon and Watergate--Fein is able to begin to answer those questions and to discern a practical and rational way out of the current morass.

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Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle of Our Constitution and Democracy (Hardcover)

Availability: This title will be released on April 1, 2008. Pre-order now! Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

well...that goes without saying...

besides, he's a jewish lawyer...which means COMMUNIST!

huh..funny he would write a book that would only appeal to 3% of the population...

Fein is just making up lies to pander to the three percenters...

yeah, that makes sence...

risking his reputation just for us on the lunatic fringe...

yeah...makes a lot of sense...

Isn't really bright enough to challenge us. He will probably be replaced If they can find someone smarter. I don't see that any of his tacks worked. I think he works for the government, seriously. All based on the words contained in...

Just failed to mention Bruce has a horse in the this race. Well, well, well!

Gosh I am shocked! Cashin in using the 3%! Well I admire his ability to capitalise!

I wonder how that book would sell next April if it wasn't for that bitch Nancy putting Impeachment on the table!

What a Real American Bruce is!

you wingnuts still quote her BS!

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

thinking of how he'll spend the money he makes off of AAR interviews...

Not if he could push the foolish Bill off the table into action! But damn! It just ain't gonna happen for him! Oh well, he took a shot!

something that makes it worth it for him...

Watch it with the [=============] thingie.

Anon's don't have the edit function, and overdoing it can stretch the thread.

You have a profile now, so why not just sign in?

EB..you aren't coming up this weekend I assume, right?

no one's upset...
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 1:05am.

Great then we are all happy! Just stick to your guns and I am sure things will work out fine for all of you. The Democrats and Republicans will see things your way soon. It is inevitable!

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Like he knows us and can be all chummy and think he's pulling a mental trick with that lame sentence structure.
Use a nic. If you can't do that you will never be taken seriously.

Good night for now! Have sweet dreams about your Impeachment! And always remember "Dreams do come true"!

Wasn't it Jiminy Cricket who said that!

Hahahahahahaha!

http://solosong.net/wish.html

Japan's Kaguya probe, now in lunar orbit, recently beamed back the first ever high-definition video footage of the moon's surface. The clip consists of two sequences—one shot over the northern part of Oceanus Procellarum toward the Moon's north pole; the other is a fly over of the western side of Oceanus Procellarum. More info at JAXA.jp.

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Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts will comment on the Pump-and-Dump Economy.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

...meanie...

Chubby, you realize that someone took the War Dog sign in and he can't use it any more.

Think about it. Who used to use this term before? All the time?

~~~Biographies Of An Expert - Makin Cash
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Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 1:21am.
I am shocked! He is pushin his book on the subject? YOU mean he in not a nuetral Expert?

Hahahahahhaa. Go get em Bruce - Ya gotta love a capitalist.

And War Dog always used in instead of is...""YOU mean he in not a nuetral Expert?""

To me 97 seemed younger, and less schooled than this anon. And who would be so stupid to type in those CAPTCHA's for eight or ten hours? We check in and out all day and night because there is a reward, we want to be here. This anon is here to be mean and think (s)he's putting one over. He's gotta be on a payroll. Phishing for subversives.

it's 1997! Thanks pot97!

such insight garnered from your links

HA!

Also his fascination with Crank.

No, too many things point to him.

Also his use of percentages and real Americans! I used to study his writing because I still think he's not US born.

He wrote like a person that had English as a second language.

I'm going to have sign off for the night pretty soon.

Its been fun!

WD would always get into the list rants and rail about the stock market. And I cant see him CAPTCHA ing for all these hours. Wasn't war dog here at the beginning of the summer. He told us he was going on the bicycle trip. I took pictures of the real actual war dog memorial in riverside to show him and he never came back.

New thread

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I'm not leaving town this weekend, Alice.

I do have some really nice birthday presents for you, though.

is his use of Fitzmas and impeachment.

like my middle finger?

just as I hit the hay?

Im so sorry about Melly. I just got on the blog...been busy all day.
What happened???

That was before the new blog.

Shell, when is your birthday? Soon?

His lousy spelling and the fact that he has to rub in how we keep losing to Congress with Bush. It all points to some Wado- like pervert.

New Thread is up.

Can't wait til you can spend more time again.

loading in the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular tomorrow and monday, will miss the show. See you in a few days. These thing always go 16hrs. a day seems like.

Did this one earlier

the words in war dog
war dog
drag gad gar goad God rag raw road wad wag ward woad word

yeah...this new job has some killer hours.

my new schedual calls for 12 hour days.

only 3 times a weeks, but I bet I'll soon get at least a day of overtime.

(I'm doing really well, or so I'm told)

maybe I'll stay up a little later

and there is a new thread

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/1707#comment-96763

I'll be 41...

Eveninig smcgee43
I don't know..I took (or tried to) take a nap when I got home this afternoon and Melly was fine as usual..she slept under the covers with me, and me and P had decided when we were out this morning to keep her in our bedroom..(because she was crapping all over the house), and figured we'd make some setup where should could have a step up into the litter box, she was so small (1.8 lbs) that you could barely see her over the top of the box..so I figured she was having a hard time getting in it..

Anyway..so then I woke up fast because Tambu and Daisy kept scratching at the door...and about 20 minutes later went to check on Melly. I saw she was like face down in the bed and crapped herself, and just really suddenly looked like she was going to die...then I sat with her until she did go...She made noises like real meows that she could never make in her life...she only made this creaky squeak noise..so I think she was doing what hospice people say that dying people do too, communicating with "the other side", getting ready to go...

The only clue I had was that late last night she was standing in front of me and looking directly at me, looking back she was probably letting me know she was going to leave here soon...

Maybe an element of some truth.
But Edwards would not spend a half a trillion on an illegal and immoral war
turn his back on the environment for cooperate profit
or the poor or middle class. or substitute faith for for science
and on and on & on!

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