open

sam you didn't respond to the email...I guess there is no word yet....we are all aflutter...

and hovering

we want answers!

Sam

We're all wishing for good news!

its gonna be a **prize**

That's sweet of you!

Hey,Maron here-

Don't know if or how you get it or if you want to but I will be hosting American
Afternoons out of the NYC studios from 3-6 ET on Weds Thurs and Fri May 28, 29,
30 on Air America Radio. Hope all is well with all of you. I'm fair.

Maron
*TLL*

Believe it or not, first I heard that he was instrumental in the bill that deregulated the banks.

Good for Keith.

Is it so?
Will the current rotation of AA(R) administration be smart enough to put Sam on daily?

teeth

.

has left the building...

feel better!

Olbermann
Submitted by Nefferkitti on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 8:09pm.
Breaking news
Gramm - economic advisor to McCain ALSO still worked as lobbyist for UBS on the mortgage crisis.

Also coming up Scott McClellen's new book- throws Bush under the bus - accuses BUSH admin of using propaganda to get us into war and says that the myth of libral media failed and would have done the country better if they would have been liberal and done their job to serve the people better.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

'mon deu'?
30 years since I studied French in college. Fuck it!

is this a stretcher?

Do you read any of my links? I know I post that Graham helped force this mortgage disaster a month ago.

& David Bender commented on Sam 75:00 on today's American Afternoon podcast available at AAR. Go listen, tell me what you think.

Will listen as much as I can the next 3 days, Mr. Maron. Hopefully that guy from Everett will call.

Didn't get to listen to David Bender - what did he say about our Sam?

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

My favorite song from "Living With War" - it's called "Roger and Out"

Little Scotty has just thrown Georgie under the bus.

Feel like Rappin , gimme a holla if ya please

mystic 23

they were 'up for the 3-6 spot'...

besides that..did a stady job with pay just make Maron go back to AAR?

Hullo, TLL.. xo

I linked you to the podcast and posted where to fast forward. I will isolate the piece but that's the fastest way to hear it right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYw30Gb_e1w&feature=related

OK - thanks - will listen later - am watching KO now and then need to watch part 2 of The Andromedia Strain. Saw part 1 last night and enjoyed it.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Cat on my lap - hard to see the keyboard - thus double post.

sorry..god knows that is the last fiv days alone I have with my cats and my friends on the phone for a LONG, LONG time... :)

kittens!! One is long haired and one looks short haired..omg..*melt*

even though Lionel said KO was losing his mind this morning.
Little Scotty McClellen to be on KO Monday night.

Is that AAR DL premium?

"We're fighting for our lives, here!!!" ~ Maron

I thought the first Andromeda Strain, starring Dustin Hoffman, followed Michael Crichton's book closer than this new one. I remember reading it when it first came out.
I love Sci-fi.
Charlie Rose - An hour with Michael Crichton
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2663847011110488414

I must have missed the Graham info you posted.

I'm not a member of AAR podcast so can't listen. I refused to give them my Credit card number just to get 2 weeks free and then have them charge my card weekly after that. Now if Sam were on, I might do that.

But I dont have free long distance sept over the net. Like skype, Which is dope cause we can have conference calls and exchange ideas. Verbally.

Dell Committed Consumer Fraud, N.Y. Judge Rules

Customers lured into no-interest or no-payment financing were denied and offered high-interest loans that often exceeded 20% instead.

By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
May 27, 2008 06:38 PM

A New York state judge on Tuesday found that Dell (Dell) offered consumers no-interest financing for computers as part of an illegal scheme to lure them into high-interest loans.

State Supreme Court Justice Joseph C. Teresi decided that Dell and Dell Financial Services engaged in fraud, false advertising, deceptive business practices, and abusive debt collection practices, said the N.Y. State Attorney General's Office, which filed the lawsuit in May 2007. DFS is a joint venture between Dell and CIT Bank.

In his ruling, Teresi barred Dell and DFS from engaging in illegal business practices cited in the suit. The court will hold further hearings to determine restitution to consumers and the amount of profits Dell unlawfully earned that will be forfeited to the state.

[...]

BRB, promise :D

This one is purposefully updated to be of today and as a result it could never be as good as the original because the fear of an unknown bio virus type killer nano-organism etc.... is not a fantastical idea anymore. Our world makes this story less scary in general and the updating of the story setting itself does'nt make it as sci fi as it once was.
At least thats my take on it - but I am still enjoying it for what it is. I studied the scienced in sci fi while in undergrad so I find the new versions of books stories etc... into movies again really interesting.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Its still early.

Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10649.html

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_con...

I think it's like 2.9 cents per minute..

http://www.corporations.org/coors/article.html

Stick to your local brewer's...don't spend your money on Coor's - anti-labor, anti-environment and pro-bush and more

Blackwater Grand Jury Hears Iraqi Witnesses
In Interviews With ABC News Before Leaving Baghdad, the Men All Said the Blackwater Shootings Were Unprovoked
By BRIAN ROSS, AADEL FAIQ and LEN TEPPER

The FBI has brought four Iraqi witnesses, including the father of a dead 9-year-old boy, to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Blackwater security guards accused of killing 17 innocent civilians last year at a Baghdad traffic square.

The men were brought in over the weekend and seen today at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., where the Blackwater grand jury has been sitting since last November.

In interviews with ABC News before leaving Baghdad, the men all said the Blackwater shootings were unprovoked.

"It was a true massacre, a slaughter," said Mohammed Abdul Razak, whose son Ali was killed in the shootings.

Razak said he saw the guards first fire at one car and then open fire on other cars, including his.

When the shooting stopped he saw his son in the back seat. "He looked asleep, but after I opened the door, his brain fell right between my feet," he said. "I started shouting, 'They killed my son,' but who is listening?"

Blackwater guards initially told U.S. investigators they opened fire because they felt they were under attack.

But two traffic policemen assigned to the Nisour square were among the witnesses brought before the grand jury. They told ABC News they will contradict Blackwater's version of events.

"There were zero armed men in that area," said officer Hussan Abdurrahman.

"They just started to shoot; nobody shot at them," officer Serhan Dhiab told ABC News. "It is not a security company; it is a terrorist company," he said.

The father of the dead boy, Razak, said he had been pressured and threatened by Blackwater not to testify and that he has turned down an offer of $20,000 to settle the issue. Blackwater says the money was not a settlement offer but a condolence payment.

"I can't say my son was so significant, but he was tender. This is a crime that needs to be punished," he said.

He said he agreed to testify because "I feel I am going to have justice."

More here:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4941052&page=1

dan poor me a drink than!! dont choose for Bob! if that is his beer of choice im pretty sure he has his reasons!!

grown ass man...HE shuld know what he wants and WHY

Nobody even blinked at that hoax.

sometimes you have to sacrifice

Miller HIGH Life.

Wasn't aware about coors though. Thanks for the tidbit.
Ill remember ;)

MALLOY KING OF RADIO!!!!!!

told to us via the media...

Who's this Nobody you speak of? ;)

Ok..fun weekend..xox...goodnight and sleep sweet, All...
xox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g&feature=related

for the Coors was the five perent alc content. and the price. And I like thouse big cans. :D

kee--thats all i DO!

My husband's name is Bob and he always listens to me - Not - but thanks for considering...

I'd rather not drink. Besides, Coors is like making love in a canoe.

This is fun

http://www.realbeer.com/edu/health/calories.php

Word...........

has beer with a 6% alc and actually higher brews - Davidson Brothers Brewery - Glens Falls, NY

Sounds like it's time for someone to open the bog bar...

Today, David Bender commented about Sam at 75:00 on today's American Afternoon podcast available at AAR. Here is what I heard him say:

Well, I am pleased and proud to say that Politiclally Direct is going to be back. We are going to start again a week from this coming Sunday June 8 from four to seven pm. (snip) Sam who has decided that he's a little tired of working on Sundays is now letting me do it. Now he has a young child and a family and I get that, and so I honor that for Sam, but I suspect we are going to be hearing and seeing Sam a lot more all over this network and all I can say is that I continue say that I'm proud to follow Sam Seder anywhere... - Bender today on American Afternoon

I suspect Sam will be available somewhere soon. If Novam knows what's good for them they will make an offer quick.

Call me a dreamer

Imagine

is not impossible but difficult...?

choice is yours darhlin!

dont choose for someone else!!

I would rather have him on nova m so he could actually be heard on the am radio or xm.....

Dont really even need the beer, just see if it relaxes me.

See if you can just open an account with AAR. I stopped sending them money over a year ago and I still have an an account with DL privileges. Do they even have a premium subscription anymore?

and frankly, i'd do that again.
[sighs wistfully, singing "Memories"]

I do.

stay relaxed baby

dont let anyone tell you different

CHOICE IS YOURS!

Not in our society. Strikes work.

Far less effective as solidarized Labor.

nobody pays me to think---if that is what you think---im behind you!! trust me!!

Organized labor - Miller Beer is unionized - you are ok there!

Sam the new radio sensation.
"Randi Rhodes: EAT MY DUST"
*

that's crazy. I can't even drink a beer in a canoe and not tip over. You teasing?

anyone

spunk (pun intended) lays on his back in the canoe and his partner straddles him her back facing him, and lets the canoe do the work...right spunk?

more so than you will ever understand!

Folks contact me through BlueRoots to play their songs. Most are marginal, but today I got one that caught my ear.

Here's a new comedy tune by Brett Eidman - Barack Theme (parody of Shaft)

Artist's website: http://www.bretteidman.com

___
bluerootsradio

tastes bad, besides all of the righ twing qualities of the ownership.
*TLL*

and it was a night to remember. We took it slow and took our time, but i barely had the energy to paddle us back. I used to be quite a good canoer. I don't think i've ever had a beer in a canoe, so perhaps that's why it worked out so well.

A PRA publication by Russ Bellant

Journalist Russ Bellant examines the influential but little-known role of the Coors beer family in American politics. Through their philanthropic donations, Joseph Coors and other family members have bankrolled a right-wing agenda of union-busting, homophobia, sexism, racism, and covert operations. The Coors family has served as the cornerstone of the right-wing movement known as the New Right.

The Coors Connection details the individuals, organizations, and causes supported by Coors philanthropy. A picture emerges of a family's frighteningly narrow vision of the American dream, and its willingness to support extremists who would undermine American democracy

http://www.publiceye.org/bellant/coors_connection.html

and i live in MANHATTAN!

when i learned about Mary Cheney's work on their behalf.

still calling BS.

Canoe's have those fixed seats. Do you think I haven't tried this? It's not plausible unless the Canoe is on shore.

Maybe you were in one of those "scout" canoes that are flat bottomed and not real canoes. I'm talking about a real canoe. You can't screw in them. Yeah, there's room but ... it's about the balance. Slow you say, ummmmm...... How about real slow and careful. If you did it, then props to you spunk. I wish I could claim your grace.

toniD
new
Submitted by Fernando on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 9:19pm.
See if you can just open an account with AAR. I stopped sending them money over a year ago and I still have an an account with DL privileges. Do they even have a premium subscription anymore?

I've been signed up for several years, Nando. It was asking me for a credit card for a 2 week free trial. Not ready to give them that yet.

YOUR CHOICE!!

who needs the seats? Besides, if the canoe is on shore the mosquitoes will getcha. That's why you paddle out into the lake in the first place... and better view of the stars. And the minimal risk adds a little fun.

I will say no more, cause that would be tellin'!

Alchohol is a major intoxicant.

Hope he comes back soon.

Twingers!
*TLL*

reconsider when Sam lands.

..it was a 17.5 footer (fiberglass) built from a kit. Plenty wide enough and very stable on lakes. There were no seats but the thwarts tended to get in the way.

Was it fun? Yes, until we had drifted close enough to some other people who could tell what's going on. Sure am glad that was in the days before Utoob.

I married that girl.

Never had sex in the canoe again but sure got whacked with the paddle plenty of times. ;-)
___
bluerootsradio

The Beer and The Boycott

Beer is Guuuuuuud.

Guuuuud for the Soul. yes sireee.

Breaking: McCain Campaign General Co-Chair At Heart Of Foreclosure Crisis
By: Logan Murphy @ 6:20 PM - PDT

Breaking news on Tuesday’s Countdown, as Keith Olbermann reveals that former Senator Phil Gramm, a general co-chair of Senator John McCain’s campaign, actually lobbied Congress on behalf of financial giant UBS to try and stop legislation aimed at installing industry regulations that could have prevented the current mortgage foreclosure crisis. As with many issues, McCain has done a full flip flop on the mortgage crisis and the gaffe filled train wreck that is his campaign continues to fall deeper into the muck. Can you imagine the outrage from the right and McCain’s media if Gramm worked for a Democratic candidate’s campaign?

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Gramm officially joined the McCain campaign on March 12, 2007… but as early as October, 2006, RealClearPolitics reported that McCain was already relying on Gramm for fundraising help… McCain’s top political operative at the time saying, Gramm, quote, “obviously gives us advice on economic issues.”

At the same time he was giving that advice, federal disclosure forms reviewed by Countdown show that Gramm was simultaneously being paid by U-B-S to lobby the U-S Senate about the mortgage crisis… opposing government regulation… helping to kill a 2006 anti-predatory lending bill that would have tightened consumer protections, and might have mitigated the current crisis…

As recently as Dec. 31st of last year, still working for Swiss bankers specifically to help kill the “Emergency Home Ownership and Mortgage Equity Protection Act” and the “Helping Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy Act,” a bill that would have let bankruptcy judges adjust mortgage terms so American families facing foreclosure could repay their loans, and keep their homes.

(Transcript below the fold…)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/27/breaking-mccain-campaign-genera...

I only really drink on special occasions. I get far more entertainment value watching my friends drink, being designated driver and making sure the night goes smoothly. And on the lake, if i had been drinking i would have had to wear a life vest... ;-)

I dunno what that weird message was out there.

Anyway...

May 26-27, 2008 -- Another good reason why Fox News should have all of its FCC and other licenses yanked

Former Washington Times New York bureau chief Liz Trotta, commenting on Fox News Channel on Senator Hillary Clinton's recent reference to her staying in the presidential contest and the June 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, stated: "And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama — Obama. Well, both, if we could." Trotta appeared on Fox on May 25.

Trotta previously worked for Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, CBS, and NBC and has taught journalism at Stern College of Yeshiva University.

As a Fox News "contributor," Trotta receives payment from Fox for her appearances. For that reason, calling for the assassination of the leading Democratic presidential candidate should not only earn Fox stiff penalties and fines but the pulling of its broadcast licenses by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and cable regulatory permits by the FCC and local governments.

Complaints to the FCC may be filed at:

http://www.fcc.gov/eb/oip/Compl.html
fccinfo@fcc.gov
Toll Free: 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322); 1-888-TELL-FCC (1-888-835-5322) TTY Fax: 1-866-418-0232

OR BAD--trust me they already know it by now!

if they dont "than you and me are fucked"

STOP!!!!

Obama, Clinton finance reports overwhelm FEC computers
By: SilentPatriot @ 5:30 PM - PDT

What a terrible problem to have…

Politico:

Yet it’s had another consequence that has gone all but unnoticed. The campaign finance reports filed by Obama and Clinton have grown so massive that they’ve strained the capacity of the Federal Election Commission, good government groups, the media and even software applications to process and make sense of the data.

A milestone of sorts was reached earlier this year, when Obama, the Illinois senator whose revolutionary online fundraising has overwhelmed Clinton, filed an electronic fundraising report so large it could not be processed by popular basic spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel 2003 and Lotus 1-2-3.

Those programs can’t download data files with more than 65,536 rows or 256 columns.

This is astounding on two levels. For one, the huge influx of money to both campaigns is absolutely unheard of. Can you even imagine how much cash the eventual nominee will have to throw around this fall once we combine forces? Couple that with McCain’s pathetic fundraising appeal, and we have a huge money advantage right off the bat, not to mention the luxury of running against the third term of the most unpopular President in US history. Secondly, is the FEC so outdated that they’re really still using Excel 2003? They can’t be that incompetent, can they?

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/27/obama-clinton-finance-reports-o...

geez stop deciding someone's elses life--leave dem be!!

we all know the diffence 'teen right and wrong'

and if we dont by now

WE ARE FUCKED TOO

Coors is just one of the worst on every level.

http://www.realbeer.com/edu/health/calories.php

Recount
By: Nicole Belle @ 10:30 AM - PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH8gm9I0eM4

I admit that I’m too cheap and too disinterested in TV in general to have HBO, so I missed Recount (although I’m sure I’ll catch up on it when it comes on DVD), but Digby gives her impression of that nervewracking time that inspired the movie. There’s one particular passage at the end that all Democrats must heed:

It’s pretty to think that this is all ancient history and we can move on. Maybe we can. But just this week, Tim Griffin was hired to run the RNCs Obama opposition research team. And the voter fraud apparatus that Rove and others before him have built, which includes Republican lawyers like Carvin and Griffin, is still up and running. Maybe they are spent and useless now. I hope so.

For those interested in discussing election fraud further, we will be hosting author Mark Crispin Miller on Friday, May 30th for a live chat on his new book, Loser Take All: Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 2000 - 2008, starting at 11:00 am Pacific/2:00 pm Eastern. It should be an interesting discussion.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/27/recount/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tesD7inx880

High Stakes for McCain in Grassley's Televangelist Probe

Just days after rejecting the endorsements of his "ministers of war" John Hagee and Rod Parsley, John McCain may be about to confront another faith-based conundrum. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) is facing withering criticism from prominent conservatives and evangelical leaders over his Senate probe into the finances of Kenneth Copeland and other so-called "prosperity gospel" televangelists. Republican nominee McCain may have to choose between his party's increasingly disgruntled religious right base and a fellow Republican Senator he once called a "f**king jerk."

As the Washington Post details, the Senate Finance Committee's inquiry to determine whether Copeland and five other televangelists "are improperly using their tax-exempt status as churches to shield lavish lifestyles" is raising hackles among Christian conservatives. In January, former Arkansas Governor, Baptist minister and now McCain VP hopeful Mike Huckabee stood by Copeland, a supporter who raised - perhaps illegally - over $100,000 for his presidential campaign. Now Copeland and Georgia minister Creflo Dollar are refusing to cooperate further with Grassley's probe.

Alleging bias by the Baptist Grassley against the Pentecostal preachers, Copeland and many familiar faces among the religious right are fighting back. Copeland has launched a web site called Believers Stand United, which claims the Iowa Republican is "publicly questioning the religious beliefs of the targeted churches, their ministers, and their members while ignoring televangelists of other denominations." Copeland went on to liken Grassley, the man John McCain labeled a "f**king jerk," to the devil himself:

http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001083.htm

and you are 'aposed to be dr. who? by the way?

May 27-28, 2008 -- Another confirmation that Calipari was targeted by US forces

On March 4, 2005, US forces guarding the road from Baghdad to Baghdad Airport opened fire on the car transporting the deputy head of the Italian intelligence service SISMI and Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, freed by hostage takers, to an awaiting plane bound for Rome. Calipari was shot to death by New York National Guardsman Mario Lozano. Sgrena was seriously wounded in the American attack.

Previously, WMR reported that National Security Agency (NSA) sources had revealed that Calipari's identity was known in advance because his cell phone calls to Rome had been monitored by the agency's assets devoted to intercepting communications in Iraq. WMR has received yet another confirmation that Calipari was purposefully targeted by US forces who feared he was bringing out of Iraq evidence proving US war crimes in Iraq. It was reportedly part of a quid pro quo arranged with Sgrena's Iraqi captors who released her to Calipari in return for informing the world about US war crimes in Fallujah.

Our NSA sources have confirmed the evidence given to Calipari proved the use of poison gas and white phosphorus in Fallujah. NSA intercepts of phone conversations in Fallujah revealed that civilians were reporting that bombs and mortars used on the city contained poisonous gas and white phosphorus. The phone calls, intercepted by Arabic linguists at NSA, frantically reported that Iraqis were suffering from burning eyes, inability to breathe, and burning skin.

The latest report confirms an earlier WMR report from January 18, 2006: "the number two man in charge of Italian military intelligence, Nicola Calipari, and Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, were targeted by the U.S. military in a purposeful assassination last year while they were enroute to Baghdad International Airport after Sgrena was freed by her Iraqi insurgent captors. Calipari was killed and Sgrena was severely wounded in the U.S. attack. Both had reportedly been given information by the insurgents about U.S. war atrocities committed in Iraq and other sensitive information that was embarrassing to the Bush administration."

I don't know how you do that .... but it sure is swell!!

Thank you for providing me with smiles and giggles!!

Takecare, :) :) :) :)

Peace

Deborah from Kansas

This info is a little outdated, but still relevant.

1. COORS SUPPORTS TERRORISM IN NICARAGUA

Each sale of Coors beer helps the contra terrorists in Nicaragua, who have been ambushing and killing civilians, murdering teachers and medical workers, and destroying rural schools and medical centers. The contras, a band of mercenaries established by the CIA, are attempting to overthrow the elected government of Nicaragua. Joseph Coors has contributed to and helped to raise millions of dollars for the contras. (Washington Post, May 3, 1985). The Heritage Foundation, funded and established by Coors, provided a report in 1984 to the Reagan

2. COORS IS ANTI-LABOR

Coors has a long history of violating federal labor laws and union-busting - breaking 19 unions in the last 20 years. Coors has blocked the efforts of federal safety inspectors to investigate workplace hazards, which have led to the death of Coors employees (San Francisco Examiner, July 5, 1984).

3. COORS IS RACIST, ANTI-WOMEN'S RIGHTS, AND ANTI-GAY

William E. Coors fought against passage of the U.S. Civil Rights Act, and in 1984 told an audience of black businessmen that blacks don't succeed because they "lack intellectual capacity". (Rocky Mountain News, February 24, 1984). The Coors Company, cited for unlawful employment discrimination in 1970, settled out of court IN 1977 and paid thousands of dollars in back pay and rehired minority and female workers. Joseph Coors supported the campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment and is a major contributor to the Moral Majority, which has called for the imprisonment of gay persons diagnosed as having AIDS.

4. COORS SUPPORTS NAZI SYMPATHIZERS

When Joseph Coors established the Heritage Foundation in 1974, he chose Roger Pearson, an outspoken anti-semite and pro-nazi, as co- editor of the Heritage Foundation publication Policy Review. Pearson is the author of a book on Aryan supremacy called "Race and Civilization", and has been the editor or co-editor of several racist and neo-nazi magazines. (National Guardian, May 1, 1985). The Heritage Foundation is a right-wing think tank which seeks to abolish civil rights laws, minimum wage laws, affirmative action, rights for the handicapped, and arms control.

5. COORS POLLUTES

In contrast to the advertised association of Coors beer with "pure mountain spring water", Coors is one of the largest dumpers of hazardous waste in Colorado. (National Catholic Reporter, March 25,1983).

THE NATIONWIDE COORS BOYCOTT has been extremely effective. Begun in 1977 by brewery workers at the Coors plant in Colorado, the boycott has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO, the NEA (National Education Association) and NOW (National Organization for Women). As a result, Coors has steadily lost sales every year since 1977. Coors is now looking for sales in eastern markets (such as Boston) but here too the boycott has affected sales. At the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Brandeis University, for example, sales of Coors beer were recently halted.

http://www.corporations.org/coors/

Beer is pee pee dicky!

You can look it up.

Red Cross warns of food riots
over soaring prices

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The Red Cross warned Tuesday of a possible surge in "food-related violence" because of soaring prices that are increasing hunger around the world.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080527/ap_on_re_eu/red_cross_food_violence

If someone doesn't talk about this, I'm seriously through with this blog. Lately what was once serious commentary has become a fucking chatroom. And this is fucking SERIOUS, people.

GODDAMMIT.

(Sorry for the bitchiness. But seriously, I think this is all the EU, Putin and China would need to declare all out war against America. How could we be so naive as to think we are immune?)

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JE28Ak01.html

Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August'
By Muhammad Cohen

NEW YORK - The George W Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently.

Two key US senators briefed on the attack planned to go public with their opposition to the move, according to the source, but their projected New York Times op-ed piece has yet to appear.

The source, a retired US career diplomat and former assistant secretary of state still active in the foreign affairs community, speaking anonymously, said last week that that the US plans an

air strike against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The air strike would target the headquarters of the IRGC's elite Quds force. With an estimated strength of up to 90,000 fighters, the Quds' stated mission is to spread Iran's revolution of 1979 throughout the region.

Targets could include IRGC garrisons in southern and southwestern Iran, near the border with Iraq. US officials have repeatedly claimed Iran is aiding Iraqi insurgents. In January 2007, US forces raided the Iranian consulate general in Erbil, Iraq, arresting five staff members, including two Iranian diplomats it held until November. Last September, the US Senate approved a resolution by a vote of 76-22 urging President George W Bush to declare the IRGC a terrorist organization. Following this non-binding "sense of the senate" resolution, the White House declared sanctions against the Quds Force as a terrorist group in October. The Bush administration has also accused Iran of pursuing a nuclear weapons program, though most intelligence analysts say the program has been abandoned.

An attack on Iraq would fit the Bush administration's declared policy on Iraq. Administration officials questioned directly about military action against Iran routinely assert that "all options remain on the table".

Rockin' and a-reelin'
Senators and the Bush administration denied the resolution and terrorist declaration were preludes to an attack on Iran. However, attacking Iran rarely seems far from some American leaders' minds. Arizona senator and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain recast the classic Beach Boys tune Barbara Ann as "Bomb Iran". Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton promised "total obliteration" for Iran if it attacked Israel.

The US and Iran have a long and troubled history, even without the proposed air strike. US and British intelligence were behind attempts to unseat prime minister Mohammed Mossadeq, who nationalized Britain's Anglo-Iranian Petroleum Company, and returned Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to power in 1953. President Jimmy Carter's pressure on the Shah to improve his dismal human-rights record and loosen political control helped the 1979 Islamic revolution unseat the Shah.

But the new government under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned the US as "the Great Satan" for its decades of support for the Shah and its reluctant admission into the US of the fallen monarch for cancer treatment. Students occupied the US Embassy in Teheran, holding 52 diplomats hostage for 444 days. Eight American commandos died in a failed rescue mission in 1980. The US broke diplomatic relations with Iran during the hostage holding and has yet to restore them. Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's rhetoric often sounds lifted from the Khomeini era.

The source said the White House views the proposed air strike as a limited action to punish Iran for its involvement in Iraq. The source, an ambassador during the administration of president H W Bush, did not provide details on the types of weapons to be used in the attack, nor on the precise stage of planning at this time. It is not known whether the White House has already consulted with allies about the air strike, or if it plans to do so.

Sense in the senate
Details provided by the administration raised alarm bells on Capitol Hill, the source said. After receiving secret briefings on the planned air strike, Senator Diane Feinstein, Democrat of California, and Senator Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, said they would write a New York Times op-ed piece "within days", the source said last week, to express their opposition. Feinstein is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Lugar is the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee.

Senate offices were closed for the US Memorial Day holiday, so Feinstein and Lugar were not available for comment.

Given their obligations to uphold the secrecy of classified information, it is unlikely the senators would reveal the Bush administration's plan or their knowledge of it. However, going public on the issue, even without specifics, would likely create a public groundswell of criticism that could induce the Bush administration reconsider its plan.

The proposed air strike on Iran would have huge implications for geopolitics and for the ongoing US presidential campaign. The biggest question, of course, is how would Iran respond?

Iran's options
Iran could flex its muscles in any number of ways. It could step up support for insurgents in Iraq and for its allies throughout the Middle East. Iran aids both Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Israel's Occupied Territories. It is also widely suspected of assisting Taliban rebels in Afghanistan.

Iran could also choose direct confrontation with the US in Iraq and/or Afghanistan, with which Iran shares a long, porous border. Iran has a fighting force of more than 500,000. Iran is also believed to have missiles capable of reaching US allies in the Gulf region.

Iran could also declare a complete or selective oil embargo on US allies. Iran is the second-largest oil exporter in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and fourth-largest overall. About 70% of its oil exports go to Asia. The US has barred oil imports from Iran since 1995 and restricts US companies from investing there.

China is Iran's biggest customer for oil, and Iran buys weapons from China. Trade between the two countries hit US$20 billion last year and continues to expand. China's reaction to an attack on Iran is also a troubling unknown for the US.

Three for the money
The Islamic world could also react strongly against a US attack against a third predominantly Muslim nation. Pakistan, which also shares a border with Iran, could face additional pressure from Islamic parties to end its cooperation with the US to fight al-Qaeda and hunt for Osama bin Laden. Turkey, another key ally, could be pushed further off its secular base. American companies, diplomatic installations and other US interests could face retaliation from governments or mobs in Muslim-majority states from Indonesia to Morocco.

A US air strike on Iran would have seismic impact on the presidential race at home, but it's difficult to determine where the pieces would fall.

At first glance, a military attack against Iran would seem to favor McCain. The Arizona senator says the US is locked in battle across the globe with radical Islamic extremists, and he believes Iran is one of biggest instigators and supporters of the extremist tide. A strike on Iran could rally American voters to back the war effort and vote for McCain.

On the other hand, an air strike on Iran could heighten public disenchantment with Bush administration policy in the Middle East, leading to support for the Democratic candidate, whoever it is.

But an air strike will provoke reactions far beyond US voting booths. That would explain why two veteran senators, one Republican and one Democrat, were reportedly so horrified at the prospect.

people k-now what tyme it is

aint nobody here dumb!

(sorry jez me)

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2761#comment-173176
Happy Birthday bibimimi

I bring you the head of Phil Gramm.

Co-Author of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Bill that rescinded Glass-Stegall

The general co-chairman of John McCain’s presidential campaign, former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), led the charge in 1999 to repeal a Depression-era banking regulation law that Democrat Barack Obama claimed on Thursday contributed significantly to today’s economic turmoil.

Diet Coke to drop additive
in DNA damage fear

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Coca-Cola is phasing out a controversial additive that has been linked to damage to DNA and
hyperactivity in children.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021820/Diet-Coke-drop-additive-...

shit.

too late.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryf1NpGOgvg&feature=user

will be live next Monday. Should be good.

Not me.

We Have A Winner: HuffPost's Community Suggests A New GOP Slogan

Inspired by the GOP's decision to choose a slogan that was already being used to market an anti-depressant, HuffPost asked our community to suggest a new slogan for the Grand Old Party. Hundreds of you sent in your responses, and here are our favorites:

20. A Chickenhawk In Every Pot!

19. Heckuva Job, Dubya!

18. We'll Relieve You Of Your Financial Future. You Can Count On it.

17. We're From The Republican Party And We're Here To Help You

16. "If They Won't Let You Vote, Don't Blame Us, You're Probably A Democrat.

15. Shut Up And Shop

14. It's Still All Clinton's Fault. Vote Republican.

13. Hoover Was An Amateur!

12. Government Is The Problem And If You Elect Us, We Will Prove It

11. Vote GOP. I Wasn't Using My Civil Liberties Anyway

10. The GOP: Please, Please, Please Vote For Us!

9. We're Like Wonder Bread. White. Puffy. Tasteless.

8. The GOP: "You Have Nothing To Fear, But Fear Itself - And Who Can Scare You Like We Can?

7. Give Me A Lapel Pin Or Give Me Death

6. Change For The Bitter

5. GOP: Nowhere To Go But Up

4. I Believe in Miracles

3. Vote For Us Or You'll Have To Marry One Of Them Gays

2. Thanks For Your $ - Sorry About Your Kids

1. Pennies On The Dollar: The Change You People Deserve

Congratulations to HuffPost user RealityBaseCamp who submitted the winning slogan.

Here I think

can you imagine
Submitted by mhappenow on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 8:18pm.

No break

and it is still stretched...

accuse again zeek....

what does no break mean..?

neoliberalists. Calling them neoliberals is too confusing.

You have it centered and it centered the blog posts.

It must be here after all

That Wayne Madsen story tonight is a hoax. Check this
Submitted by Regnad Kcin on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 8:44pm.

All the ***

AMY GOODMAN'S SPEAKING EVENTS
05/27 New York City, NY
05/30 Los Angeles, CA
05/30 Grass Valley, CA
05/31 Davis, CA
06/05 Minneapolis, MN
06/06 Minneapolis, MN
06/08 Minneapolis, MN

...and back over on the left where it belongs.

Peaceful somnambulations bloggers, I'm off to Nodsville.
___
bluerootsradio

There were breaks

riposted

can you imagine
Submitted by mhappenow on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 8:18pm.

phil graham in Mcwhatever's administration...oy....that guy should be ashamed...if he ever felt any shame...

thanks get it now. But it still wasn't that post and Nando seems to be gone.

I HATE BEER!!

but i will take a swig with anyone that LOVES IT!!

gave up both..diet about 3 mos ago and coors about 28 years ago. It is my poor writing skills.

SOUTH AFRICA HAS THE BEST BEER BEFORE GERMANY IN THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD!!!

take that!

all

I just saw no breaks on the right. Please don't put a Buddhist hex on me that makes me crave Coors.

So I think there are two problems, Nick Danger's *** and 'nando's center. The centered does not show on my Firefox but does on IE.

Both are gone so I guess we're fooked.

Who put the blog on the rack?

we are always in the cut i guess!

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-me-hagen28-2008may28,0,3...

Earle Hagen, 88; Emmy-winning TV music composer
He wrote (and whistled) the memorable theme music for the "Andy Griffith Show," as well composing music for the "Dick Van Dyke Show," "I Spy" and other classics.

ma ass

Fernando, where are you?

She also says that she's taken off the Buddhist hex that she had previously had on you.

Was it Nick Danger that said "IN THE BEGINNING THERE WERE HOT LUMPS"?

Here's one from way back in the shire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdTQ3OPtGY

mmpphhhph!

A candidate could only get away with such an elaborate and long-running con with the media as willing accomplices. “The press loves McCain,” explained NBC host Chris Matthews (9/10/06). “We’re his base.”

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4

It was a two week Electric/Acoustic gig in S.F. thrity years ago.
Love Ya!

for your extra effort to transcribe Bender's statement for us.
You are a prince among men.
Sammy withdrawal is a real beeotch.

((((Nando))))

Blog still stretched here.

Now it's back to normal for me. What about all of you? Anyone still centered?

I got severely charlie horsed on the thigh by my freid who is a certified MMA fighter.

I cant even walk

Dunno whether to try to get in Docs tommorow for pain killers if pain dont ease.

This is just ridiculous.

I got severely charlie horsed on the thigh by my freid who is a certified MMA fighter.

I cant even walk

Dunno whether to try to get in Docs tommorow for pain killers if pain dont ease.

This is just ridiculous.

Records show roughly 40,000 troops have been diagnosed with the illness, also known as PTSD, since 2003. Officials believe that many more are likely keeping their illness a secret.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080528/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/troops_post_trauma...

Bummer, this things just keeps hurting worse and worse.

Hope you're feeling better.

I recommend a hot bubblebath followed by a cold icepack, followed by a heating pad. :-)

Statement of Senator Feinstein in Opposition to $165 Billion Supplemental Bill

Release Date: May 22, 2008

“Simply put, I cannot vote for another $165 billion to give President Bush a blank check and fund the continuation of the war in Iraq, without condition, for over another year.

This is a difficult decision and not one I take lightly. But I believe that the time has come for Congress to exercise the power of the purse and bring this war to a conclusion.

I am a strong supporter of our troops in the field. They have done a tremendous job under difficult circumstances. They weren’t greeted as liberators as Vice President Cheney said they would be.

Instead, they found themselves targets in an internecine battle, whose roots go back hundreds of years. They found themselves in the crossfire between Sunni insurgents and Shia extremists. They’ve done everything asked of them, with the courage and dedication that we expect from our service men and women.

But President Bush has never provided an exit strategy for Iraq. He has never laid out a plan for bringing our troops home.

So, here we are more than five years after this war began. More than 4,000 troops killed. Tens of thousands injured. And no end in sight. $525 billion spent – all designated as emergency spending and none of which is paid for – simply added to our nation’s growing debt.

This is the first major war that has not been paid for, but instead has relied time and time again on emergency supplemental funds outside of the federal budget.

I, along with many of my colleagues in the Senate, have voted again and again for a change of course – to transition the mission. But the minority has obstructed the vote or President Bush has vetoed the bill each time we’ve tried.

So the power of the purse is the only tool we have to change the Iraq war. And it is time to bring this war to a conclusion after five long years.

The $165 billion supplemental funds the war for one year and one month, or until July 2009. This is all funded on the debt. I simply cannot agree to do it.

It would have been one thing if the supplemental had been to fund the war for an additional six months. But it is not. This means that the next administration essentially need not make any move or change until July 2009. This is simply not acceptable to me.

To me, it’s a big mistake to have a supplemental this big because it simply means ‘business as usual.’ And I don’t believe we can be ‘business as usual.’

On Tuesday, I questioned Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on the funding for this war. I told Secretary Gates that it is unclear to me why the passage of a $70 billion '09 bridge fund is urgent at this time, particularly given that funding needs for next year are very much up in the air.

I told him that it is my understanding that if DOD transfers funding to the Army to meet its personnel and operational expenses, the Army could stretch its current funding quite far. And I asked how long the Army and Marine Corps could operate without the ’09 bridge fund.

The Secretary said:

"The notion of having to borrow from the base budget in ’09 to pay war costs…we probably could make it work for a number of months.” And “can we technically get thought some part of FY09 without a supplemental? Probably so.”

So the other question that I have been grappling with is why should we provide 13 months of funding now? Where is the urgency to fund this war through July 2009? That is over a year away. It is simply not necessary to appropriate $165 billion for the Iraq War in a single day. This is almost twice the size of any previous supplemental the Senate has considered to date.

President Bush won’t listen to the wishes of the majority of Congress and the American people. He has shown a complete unwillingness to evolve – in the face of compelling evidence of the need for change.

After the fall elections, a new President will offer new ideas and policies, and at the top of the list should be a new plan for Iraq.

Congress should not, during this time of transition and great opportunity to seize the moment and change our war policy, allow the war to linger unaddressed for up to seven months of the new Administration.

Congress should not relinquish its Constitutional right and obligation to use the power of the purse to require the next President to present a plan for Iraq – one that includes the funding he or she will need to put that plan in motion.

So now, we are faced with another choice: Do we provide $100 billion through the end of this year and an additional $66 billion to take us through July 2009? Do we give the next President a pass and affirm that he or she does not have to change the mission or plan an exit strategy until the middle of next year?

I cannot support this.

Passing a year-long supplemental is an abandonment of the power of the purse, the greatest power that the Congress has. I believe that the time has come for the Senate to assert its will, and another year and a month of funding for this war is not the answer.”

http://www.cadem.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=jrLZK2PyHmF&b=1846057&content_id={BD684273-0AF7-4445-82BB-12031AD2E4B2}&notoc=1

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,213,716"

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In U.S. War And Occupation Of Iraq 4,083
Cost of U.S. War and Occupation of Iraq

$523,241,439,266
For more details, click here.

Key Articles

Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President
The president's real goal in Iraq

The Project for the New American Century.
The Plan is for the United States to rule the world.

America's War for Global Domination:
Will Iran Be Next?
Memo: Bush made intel fit Iraq policy
Secret Downing Street Memo

UK Ministers Knew WMD Was "Excuse"
Leaked Cabinet Office paper

Poll: U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006
Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map? - Does He Deny The Holocaust?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

Cute

http://www.blackcommentator.com/268/268_images/268_cartoon_bush_vetoes_w...

Why I Left America
The Rise Of Elitist Fascism And The Death Of American Democracy
An essay in hypertext by Scott Bidstrup
"The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."

-- U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944

How's it going?

Hillary, you fucking liar.

Despite Sen. Hillary Clinton's insistence that her husband didn't clinch the Democratic presidential nomination until June 1992, Bill Clinton had a very different recollection in his own memoir, My Life.

He writes: "On April 7, we also won in Kansas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. On April 9, Paul Tsongas announced that he would not reenter the race. The fight for the nomination was effectively over."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/27/bill-clinton-1992-race-en_n_103...

Everything is mellow here...

Think Ill take me a hot shower here in a few hours. Now I just need to relax and blog for few. Get some Brain juices a flowin. :)

U.S. Driving Curbed at Historic Rates
As we noted earlier, American’s drove less in January. While February showed a modest increase, March dropped sharply. In fact it was the sharpest monthly drop in 66 years of reporting.

High gas prices and this continued downward trend (which began in 2006) only reinforces the fact that we need to provide more transportation options for Americans, including public transit and bicycling facilities.

Here is the complete press release from the Federal Highway Administation:

Americans Driving At Historic Lows
Eleven Billion Fewer Vehicle Miles Traveled in March 2008 Over Previous March

WASHINGTON - Americans drove less in March 2008, continuing a trend that began last November, according to estimates released today from the Federal Highway Administration.

“That Americans are driving less underscores the challenges facing the Highway Trust Fund and its reliance on the federal gasoline excise tax,” said Acting Federal Highway Administrator Jim Ray.

The FHWA’s “Traffic Volume Trends” report, produced monthly since 1942, shows that estimated vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on all U.S. public roads for March 2008 fell 4.3 percent as compared with March 2007 travel. This is the first time estimated March travel on public roads fell since 1979. At 11 billion miles less in March 2008 than in the previous March, this is the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history.

Though February 2008 showed a modest 1 billion mile increase over February 2007, cumulative VMT has fallen by 17.3 billion miles since November 2006. Total VMT in the United States for 2006, the most recent year for which such data are available, topped 3 trillion miles.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimated that greenhouse gas emissions fell by an estimated 9 million metric tons for the first quarter of 2008.

The estimated data show that VMT on all U.S. public roads have dropped since 2006. The FHWA’s Traffic Monitoring Analysis System (TMAS) computes VMT for all types of motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, buses and trucks) on the nation’s public roads. These data are collected through over 4,000 automatic traffic recorders operated round-the-clock by state highway agencies. More comprehensive data are published in the FHWA’s “Highway Statistics” at the end of each year

http://www.m-bike.org/blog/2008/05/27/us-driving-curbed-at-historic-rate...

I think I'm getting good at this organizing thing...it's a lot of pictures to juggle.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdj/

I WANT GIs to get a college education as a benefit for serving. But there is a problem with this GI Bill as it is coming forward at this time. I hope I can make clear the concerns.

1/ It does not seem fair at all that the GI Bill college benefits go strictly to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans only. It is preferable to deal fairly with all vets and make the GI Bill apply to ALL veterans (not just those GIs who've fought in Bush's illegal "wars" in the Middle East).

2/ Senator Webb indicates that the GI Bill is intended to serve as an INDUCEMENT for recruitment to build the numbers of GIs in the military.

3/ The number of GIs in the military has dwindled AND RIGHTLY SO because the citizens of the U.S. have issues/concerns with the Bush "Wars", and both how GIs are being treated in the theater of military action (inadequate equipment, failed provisions such as food and water, over-deployment outside service contract stipulations and military good sense, the unsuitability of using military methods for the tasks set by Bush, being exposed to extra risk due to Bush's illegal use of torture, etc.) and how GIs are treated when they return home (inadequate medical care, inadequate mental health care, GIs forced to pay out of their own pockets for injury-related services, etc.).

4) The Congress and Bush have both REFUSED to respond to the Citizenry's issues/concerns about the illegal Bush "Wars" WHICH HAVE LED TO THE DROP IN RECRUITMENT. Congress should respond to the Citizenry's issues/concerns a) by defunding the illegal Bush Aggression in the Middle East, b) by forcing the Bush Administration to present audits and testimony as to why Congressional funding has not reached and met the needs of GIs in the Bush "Wars" (but rather been siphoned away in war profiteering scams), c) by getting to the bottom of the Bush Lies and crimes leading to both the 9/11 event and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and d) by removing the untenable risk to GIs by ending the Bush Torture Machine and Gulag.

5) To put forward the GI Bill at this time PRIOR TO addressing the U.S. Citizenry's issues/concerns that have led to the drop in recruitment means that the GI Bill is not so much a "benefit" for GIs. INSTEAD, the GI Bill is a tool of trickery/bribery to increase recruitment in a form of 'Russian Roulette'. In this rigged game of chance, the Congress and Bush will continue to put GIs in the theater of an untenable illegal war and occupation of aggression against the resisting citizens of sovereign nations. GIs will continue to be used to fight without adequate support and equipment, and under the growing unnecessary risk of retaliation/retribution because of Bush's continuing use of torture and illegal open-ended detention. In this deadly and fixed gamble where Congress does nothing to better the odds for our GIs, only the GIs who escape death and dismemberment will ever get to further their educations.

It hurts alot to know that Congress cares so little for the GIs that they care more for a Recruitment Inducement tool than they care for actually bettering the chances of our GIs surviving and serving strictly in LEGAL, JUST, NECESSARY and what have been in the past considered 'honorable' conflicts and actions.

To create an INDUCEMENT TOOL to get GIs to fight in Halliburton-style War-Profiteering Aggressive Incursions is an injustice to all of us, our GIs, and the world as a whole.

The Legislators have put the cart before the horse on this one. Instead of using the DROP IN RECRUITMENT as an impetus to do something about this horrible Bush mistake, Congress is working to entice new recruits to be sacrificed in this imperialists' hell where our servicepeople have already suffered for FIVE YEARS. Nothing like doing the Right Thing for the absolutely Wrong Reason.

Will our Capitol Hill representatives EVER get it? Americans want out of Bush's Mideast Money Pit NOW.

Bush 'Plans Iran Air Strike by August'

By Muhammad Cohen

28/05/08 "Asia Times" -- - NEW YORK

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19991.htm

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.

Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, $27.95):

• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.

• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.

• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”

• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.

• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.

This is the lawsuit that the Department of Justice recently spoke about, I actually posted the news article about it; it is an organization that instructs people on how to pay lower taxes. They're getting sued. So far they've mostly lost, but they partially won on appeal, and they're waiting to be heard by the Court of Appeals.

http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/misc2007/6700-CourtDocsList....

to a nice hot bubble bath. :-)

But then, I'm a girl...

Submitted by Annette on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 10:15pm.
...If someone doesn't talk about this [plans to bomb Iran], I'm seriously through with this blog. Lately what was once serious commentary has become a fucking chatroom...
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Sometimes I recommend the blog to a friend. Sometimes I avoid mentioning the blog to friends.

The blog goes through cycles of cooperation and uncooperation. Sometimes a needy personality arrives and uses the blog as a personal diary.

I don't recommend the blog to anyone during the uncooperative times. I wouldn't want someone to think that I am interested in reading sixty comments per day announcing hangnails and burnt light bulbs and sweat and bad breath.

The tough-guy threats are embarrassing, too. I wouldn't want to direct someone to this blog only to have them read The Threatening Tough Guy shtick. It's been done, like, a zillion times on this blog alone...probably has been done a googolplex or two on the Internet.

"I'll, by gawd, do what the fuck I please because ain't nobody but Sam can stop me, by gawd!

Who said that? Oh yeah, I remember. The assholes who are banished from this blog said it. Often. It was like a mantra.

"You ain't seen fuckin' tough 'til you've seen MY fuckin' tough!"

[Insert gang yawn here.] We've seen your "fuckin' tough" so many times, we can write the monologue for you. Shut up and go clean your room...or go do your homework...or do anything you want, just don't do it here.

Yes, Annette, it is annoying when the blog cycles around to the next batch of punks who think that they are blazing new trails by being brash, by slinging expletives and by threatening anyone who asks them to act in a civil and polite and respectful manner.

And the "clever" make-believe words! Give me a fucking break. Of all of the attempts to create and use a dialect in text on this blog, only muck4doo/halfempty and dr have been able to make it work, but that doesn't prevent the next hopeless attempt from someone who incorrectly believes his attempt is original and brilliant when it's neither.

It has been like a relay race. They pass the mantle from one unimaginative putz to the other. For a while it's Hillary portraits, then it's flat earth propaganda, then it's You Tube spam. Eventually one learns to appreciate the brief respite between the last uncooperative asshole's departure and the next uncooperative asshole's arrival.

http://www.cdi.org/issues/nukef&f/database/isnukes.html

So, it's okay if you're friends of the US, but not okay if you're not?

Over 60% of People Do Not Trust the Government:

A poll conducted by the World Public Opinion (WPO) has found that over 60% of the population of Great Britain and the United States do not trust their governments. The poll showed that 67% of Brits have low levels of trust in the Labour Government while 60% of Americans feel the same way about the Bush Administration.

http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/over-60-of-people-do-not-trust-th...

I'll try to appreciate the respites. *sigh*

Thanks for the (first) response.

So, what do you think about the source? Think it's reliable? I see from Bob's post that someone else linked it, too...

Published: Tuesday, 27 May, 2008, 06:38 AM Doha Time

BRASILIA:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=220868...

Submitted by Annette on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 12:54am.
So, what do you think about the source? Think it's reliable?
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I don't know but I also don't know that it matters. There has been a lot of Bombing Iran Planning noise coming from lots of different quarters. Every time a ship moves, there is a new round of speculation.

It is very difficult for me to fathom that Cheney and Bush would pull off a premeditated attack on Iran in the waning months of the administration...but then, lots of stuff they have done was difficult for me to fathom.

If Cheney and Bush DO go after Iran, I think that the GOP will be completely screwed for a long time to come, regardless of the justification for attacking Iran and regardless of the quick success or quagmired failure of the attack.

There might be no need to impeach or prosecute Cheney and Bush for war crimes; the GOP might have them killed in their sleep.

Iran is the # 2 oil exporter in OPEC?

OK let's put the shoe on the other foot. Say we're China. Or the EU. Or any country with enough firepower to give Uncle Sam a headache. Are we going to sit idly by and just watch him take (another, much larger) golden egg?

It would seem Senators and Reps on Armed Forces Committees or whatever would be asking hard questions of BushCo's Pentagon and then the Press asking the Senators and Reps about what's going on. Is there a blackout on the media on this topic? Surely someone must be able to verify what ships are ominously lurking near Iran.

What quarters are getting the info out?

and Thanks for caring.

You, bob and Crank - that makes 3 besides me.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JE28Ak01.html

Annette,

I don't think that "taking" Iran is an option, even for the Neoconservative nutbags. It would require a shitload of soldiers who would remain for a shitload of years.

Irradiating Iran would be sorta counterproductive if the goal was to take the oil. Or the country. Or the figs. But if it ain't nuked into submission, you'd need shitloads of soldiers to do it.

If an attack were to occur, I believe that it would be comprised of U.S. bombing sorties intended to destroy specific sites using conventional explosives.

Alternately, it would be bombing sorties executed entirely by Israel as a U.S. proxy (and based on some kind of dummied-up immediate threat to Israel).

And this is why I don't believe that it will happen: A post-attack Iran would remain in the control of others. They won't be happy with the attack. No other Muslims will be happy with the attack. A destabilized Iran could invite other mischief by neighboring countries.

Nothing about the post-attack environment makes sense or is advantageous to the U.S. and its interests.

(Unless, perhaps, you are a Neocon nutbag who is incapable of learning from his mistakes.)

Thanks, Crank. :-)

I've gotta work tomorrow.

Nightey night.

I concur with Crank, but i would also like to add that it's the reactions to common everyday chit-chat that comes easiest. When you bring something important to consider such as your report on Iran, i can't speak for anyone else but i for one would like to review it and give it more serious consideration before i reply. That usually means i need to get home from work and read it more thoroughly.

I enjoy the chit-chat, whether or not i participate, but i believe i DO speak for the majority of the usual suspects here when i say that the important posts like that one are of major concern and a/the highlight of why we come back.

As for that post: on the surface it's an echo of other allegations i've heard before. Much of it doesn't make a lot of sense to me at this point, and i do find both the Asian Times and the information clearinghouse fairly dubious. As for IC i've seen news that turned bogus as well as things that turned out to be validated and read there first. So i find it a frightening concept, but until i dig up more i'm not too worried at this point.

Then again, i marched a few times before the war thinking it could have some impact.

I'm sorry to get under your skin with my part of the chit-chat, and please feel free to speak up again next time.

Cheers!
-me

Very good story.

The U.S. -- evidently by design -- is like a provincial backwater the way our newspapers won't even pick up a story from abroad. Or pursue verifying it at home. It disgusts me.

U.S.-Brit imperialism has got to stop. If it doesn't, I fear it will be MADE to stop, in some unpleasant way, unpleasant for everyone. You'd think Bush/Cheney and their neocons would quit while they're ahead.

I pray what's next is an arrested BushCo plan and new sane replacements for Bush and his crew come election time. And a humongous number journalists who desire to act as muckrakers.

trapper
My thoughts exactly, these crazy putz's might try anything to divert our attention.

Boycotts and strikes
Submitted by zeek on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 9:48pm.
The Beer and The Boycott
*******
Good article,thanks..

I knew Coors was bad news..But,I didn't know they
started the Heritage Foundation..Jeebus !
Man,they are worst than I knew..

In HS I had a friend named Buzy Coors..Yep,same family.
The Calif.branch of the family ,I guess..
He was cool,though..A stoner..I didn't know him real well.
But,He threw some great parties..Big house..A Small mansion is more like it..
But,I'm glad I never liked/drank Coors beer..It sucks..
Tastes like Colorado Piss Water..
Wouldn't buy their beer anyways on their Union-busting practices,alone..
Thanks again.. :)

Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I beg your pardon ? ;-)

Just kidding.. :)

Don't mind me..I'm about 2 threads behind..Trying to ketch up !

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

I need feedback on this GI Bill critique thang...
Submitted by nora on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 3:13am.

I like it.

And:
I think if we bomb Iran, only the young college Republicans should be drafted to serve.
They should go first, after all, Dubya would want only the "best and brightest" to protect his oil, and who else can afford a college education right now?

Toni, you did fix the centering though it is different in IE than Firefox. The funny thing is when the Late Night Wine Group (pi) dropped in, I think Annette stretched it out again with a link on the Feinstein post that did not break. It wrapped OK on IE though but was still not a clickable link.

Bob, you can drink all the Coors you want. I think there are just many of us that have bad associations with that brand and family. I also just don't like the beer. It's fucking close to water.

Before I drift into more banality, I think that covers it. Hope Marc and Sammy get their shows.

Y'all be good. Watch out for the trap door.

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