this is huge

The look on Pelosi's face this morning when she heard about Malaki endorsing Obama's foreign policy was great. It was like an the look an elitist gives when a person of color moves into their neighborhood.

This post at Lenin's Tomb along with the comments section beneath gathers many recent articles about US-Iranian relations.

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2008/07/now-youre-talking-to-iran.html

I don't hate you, Mike.
Submitted by dada on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 6:02pm.
Don't you go dragging me into this. And I don't remember any hard words between us.
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Yeah, I didn't mean to include you in the "words exchanged" column, but you seemed to hold a grudge against me after that period.

Zeek, I might have confused you with maggiesboy as far as the date, but I do remember that you flew off the handle when I criticized Malloy.

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

>>but I do remember that you flew off the handle when I criticized Malloy.

Mike, look at it this way, the sharper the edge, the deeper the cut.

I think we both share a tendency to get caught up in the heat of the moment, much like SJ's beloved doggers, and maul whoever we're tussling with. In our case we might resort to savage wit, of worse, to make our points.

When I first saw this sheet, there was a link at the very top, READ, thich took you to Fernando's blog and a very interesting article.

here's an example:

SPIEGEL: In southern Iraq, where you come from, you have been compared with Saddam Hussein when it comes to harshness.

Maliki: That's the sort of thing that people say who don't understand how urgently Iraq needs stability -- or these people prefer instability. We don't want to spread fear and terror in Iraq. We have, for example, given the militias several deadlines to hand over their weapons. Their resistance was tremendous, so we had to oppose them with tremendous force of our own.

I'm Malloy agnostic. Maybe it was some position you were criticising Malloy for that I thought was off. Fly off the handle? I'd love to see it.

July 18-20, 2008 -- Cheney continues to be embroiled in "Kazakhgate"

There is a major scandal still haunting Vice President Dick Cheney. However, the mainstream media is studiously avoiding it, save for the Sunday Times of London, which continues to delve into largely verboten areas, a rare occurrence in corporate journalism that Sunday Times owner, Rupert Murdoch, appears willing to support.

The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus wrote about the scandal in the paper's July 16th Op-Ed page with the caveat that the scandal, one amounting to bribery, is perfectly legal. Not so fast.

The scandal surrounds Republican fix-it man, fundraiser, and lobbyist Stephen Payne of Houston, the owner of Worldwide Strategic Partners. Payne was recently caught in a secret videotaped sting by the Sunday Times. Payne offered one Eric Dos, a purported exiled political leader from Kazakhstan, meetings with Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, or National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley for a payment of $700,000. The George W. Bush Presidential Library would receive $250,000 of the amount. In return, Payne would ensure that ousted Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev's "sponsors" would receive personal attention in his attempt to regain power in Kyrgyzstan with senior Bush administration officials, including Cheney. Akayev lives in exile and teaches mathematics at Moscow State University.

The only problem for Payne was that "Dos" was not an exiled Kazakh politician an but a Sunday Times reporter. The smoking gun documents revealed by the Sunday Times include a July 9, 2008, email from Dos to Payne stating that "Money can be tomorrow . . . They [Akayev's sponsors] can give the Bush donation in cash as I told them that the Bush library still to be created. Do you want me to bring cash to London to simplify things?" Payne wrote back the same day, "That's Great news . . . cash is very hard to deal with in and can't be easily brought to USA — a wire transfer for 700 to cover everything at once is best way (but we can discuss options if it's a problem)."

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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080718

Grateful Dead - Wharf Rat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzod0oadu2Q

[cont'd.]

Options in dealing in cash has never been a problem for the Houston GOP cabal that surrounds the Bush family. They have, over the years, enriched themselves with cash and gold from Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, and other countries thanks to various off-shore contrivances, including accounts the UBS bank in Switzerland, now the subject of a major tax evasion investigation of wealthy Americans by the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI, and a U.S. Senate investigative committee.

In an email reply, Dos refers to a Cheney trip to Kazakhstan in 2006: "OK. I'm telling them that transfer can do as well. It did work when you successfully brought VP Cheaney [sic] to Kazakhstan in 2006. Correct me if I said wrong. The last time the Kazakh govt through KMG or whatever entity transferred directly to Worldwide Strategic and then some of it was transferred to Bush's people? Was it to Bush Sr library or foundation? or did your company just pass it on to Cheaney's people."

Perhaps smelling a rat in Dos' reference to a payment directly from the Kazakh government of dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev or KMG, the state-owned Kazakh oil company to Payne and possibly Bush and "Cheaney's people," Payne responds to Dos by stating that "Cheney's people" were not paid anything for his trip to Kazakhstan and that "donations" to the George W. Bush Library are not tied to any "specific request or Govt. action." Right, and a $700,000 payment to Payne, with $250,000 of it going to the Bush Library is not a quid pro quo?

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Pretty Weak
The McCain campaign has just come out with their response to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki's endorsement of Obama's withdrawal plan. I think the clotted, dodging-the-issue nature of the response communicates very clearly the box this has placed the McCain camp in.

ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, McCain 2008 Senior Foreign Policy Advisor Randy Scheunemann issued the following statement:
"The difference between John McCain and Barack Obama is that Barack Obama advocates an unconditional withdrawal that ignores the facts on the ground and the advice of our top military commanders. John McCain believes withdrawal must be based on conditions on the ground. Prime Minister Maliki has repeatedly affirmed the same view, and did so again today. Timing is not as important as whether we leave with victory and honor, which is of no apparent concern to Barack Obama. The fundamental truth remains that Senator McCain was right about the surge and Senator Obama was wrong. We would not be in the position to discuss a responsible withdrawal today if Senator Obama's views had prevailed."

Got that? Rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Set aside for the moment that McCain doesn't believe in withdrawal at all. Scheunemann is betting on our believing that Maliki himself doesn't know what he means.

Late Update: CNN has finally picked up the Maliki statement story. There's some effort to play it down but there's only so much you can. It will be particularly interesting to see the response of the jejune Washington Post OpEd page.

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/204751.php

"The look on Pelosi's face this morning when she heard about Malaki endorsing Obama's foreign policy was great. It was like an the look an elitist gives when a person of color moves into their neighborhood."

In a sence a person of color IS moving into their neighborhood.

What do you think would be stranger, the look on Nancy-girl's face or the look on Uygur's face when being palmed a luv-glove?

[cont'd]:

Turning back the clock to Cheney's 2006 visit to Kazakhstan is trip down corporate malfeasance memory lane. On Aug 26 2005, WMR reported:

More details concerning illegal Bush enterprises are coming out in the trial of former lobbyist for the oil industry and the Kazakhstan government, Jim Giffen, a New York investment banker. Giffen was indicted for bribing Kazakhstan government leaders with some $84 million in return for lucrative oil drilling rights for Amoco, Mobil, Phillips Petroleum, and Texaco in the years immediately following the fall of the USSR and the independence of Kazakhstan under the rule of Nursultan Nazarbayev, a former Soviet Communist Party leader. Giffen also represented the interests of Chevron in the former USSR. Kazakhstan's Tengiz oil fields rank among the world's largest reserves.

Because the Kazakh oil and gas fields were in poor condition and needed refurbishment, Halliburton was later brought in by Enron and the U.S. oil company consortium developing the Tengiz fields to help in the effort. Halliburton's President and CEO at the time was Dick Cheney. The billions of dollars needed to refurbish the Kazakh production facilities were requested by George H. W. Bush from the Saudis, whose former Oil Minister Sheik Zaki Yamani was an ardent backer of the plan, which, from the Giffen trial, now appears to have included bribes paid to Kazakh government leaders with the support and acquiescence of Bush, Sr., Baker, and Gates.

...

[cont'd]

The Washington Post Op-Ed page can insist that there was nothing illegal about the Payne deal with Dos. However, it was violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act with Kazakhstan that landed Giffen, who was popularized as "Tim Blake Nelson" in the movie "Syriana," in hot water with the Justice Department. Giffen was known as "Mr. Kazakhstan" for his close ties to the Kazakh leadership, contacts that were used by Bush 41 and 43, as well as Cheney. Payne was offering access-for-money to the Bush administration every bit as much as Giffen.

The Marcus Op-Ed in the Post correctly points out that Denise Rich, the ex-wife of fugitive Russian-Israeli mobster Marc Rich, ensured a last-minute pardon by President Bill Clinton after she donated $450,000 to the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Bribes from foreign sources for presidential libraries is something that unites the Bush and Clinton families.

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[cont'd]

It was thirty years ago that bribes from foreign officials was a major crime. In 1978, an "Arab sheik" named "Kambir Abdul Rahman," President of "Abdul Enterprises, Ltd." offered U.S. politicians money in return for political asylum in the United States, lucrative investment schemes, and laundering money from abroad in the United States. However, there was no Arab sheik or company. The ruse was crafted by the FBI with the help of a con-artist named Melvin Weinberg, a swindler with ties to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a pro-Israeli right-wing organization. Two New Jersey federal prosecutors objected to the entrapment methods used by the obviously anti-Arab Weinberg but they were overruled by Justice Department Organized Crime and Racketeering chief David Margolis [who would later be appointed the "firewall" between Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and CIA leak special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald] and Philip Heymann, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division.

After the FBI sting, known as "ABSCAM," the political careers of Senator Harrison Williams (D-NJ), Representatives John Jenrette (D-SC), Richard Kelly (R-FL), Raymond Lederer (D-PA), Michael "Ozzie" Myers (D-PA), Frank Thompson (D-NJ) were in tatters. In addition to the ABSCAM Congressional Six, members of the Philadelphia City Council and State Senator Angelo Errichetti (D-NJ) were all convicted of bribery, Representative John Murtha (D-PA) was also a target of the sting but he escaped indictment.

In hindsight, those entrapped in ABSCAM were no different from those currently selling access to the White House in return for cash payments to the Bush Library. If the ABSCAM defendants committed crimes, so are those involved with various "Kazakhgate" outrages, including Cheney, Bush 41, and Bush 43.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080718

"BLARE"!

when Bush or McCain was around them ...

Free Democracy

July 18-20, 2008 -- McCain trying to buy votes for $1

John McCain still believes there is a country called "Czechoslovakia." He also obviously believes $1 still buys something in the United States.

This editor recently received a solicitation for support from the McCain presidential campaign. Before I tossed it, I noticed a window in the back of the envelope with a brand new, crisp one dollar bill enclosed.

The mass mailing of one dollar bills to potential contributors is right out of the Political Schlock 101 textbook and is an indication as to the desperation of the McCain campaign, which recently underwent another staff shake-up and "reinvention." Something smacks of old wine in new bottles with the faltering McCain campaign.

McCain must be having trouble raising funds because the first sentence of his solicitation letter states: "I want you to know that I don't take sending you this $1 bill lightly."

He continues, in a manner reminiscent of an old-fashioned chain letter: "I understand that there is a chance that you will not send this $1 bill back to me. But I'm willing to take that risk, because after all we've been through together in this historic campaign, I believe I can count n you." Today I need you to send this $1 bill back to me along with $1,000 or $750 of your own to help our campaign take the next crucial steps in this pivotal presidential election."

The rest of McCain's solicitation letter is full of typical Republican and neocon tripe about "Jimmy Carter-style" energy policies, socialized medicine, maintaining the "surge" in Iraq, and tax hikes.

The GOP and the McCain campaign have moved the old Republican trick of handing out "walking around money" in political campaigns right into the U.S. postal system. Not only is paying for votes illegal but something tells me that the McCain campaign is treading very closely to committing mail fraud by sending out dollar bills in return for campaign contributions. Of course, some Gucci-shoed GOP attorneys have found some way around the law, likely by having the McCain letter request the $1 bill be returned. My $1 bill from McCain will not be returned, it will be framed as an example of a desperate antic by a doomed campaign.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080718_1

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last 2 weaks no show---what is up with that? CUT-OFF????

McCain trying to buy votes for $1
new
Submitted by Catharine on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 8:18pm.

July 18-20, 2008 -- McCain trying to buy votes for $1

John McCain still believes there is a country called "Czechoslovakia." He also obviously believes $1 still buys something in the United States.

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$1 will buy some penny candy ... the kind your grandma used to have give you ... with the lint stuck to it from sitting in her purse.

I think Sammy's having server problems. Given the little bit The Rick Copeland saw of the SammyCam when he subbed for Malloy, it just wouldn't cut it for the Seder/ Maron smack-down. Do you think Marc would settle for the little Lauren window? Do fuckin' way...

Brown plans to withdraw troops as he backs Obama over 'war on terror'

The Independent

Gordon Brown prepared the ground for a historic realignment in the "war on terror" yesterday by setting out a four-point plan for withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by the end of next year.

Although he is refusing to set a detailed timetable for withdrawal, it is clear Mr Brown is in agreement with the US presidential candidate Barack Obama on the need for military action in Afghanistan to take priority. Both appear to be working to a 16-month timetable.

While Mr Brown addressed troops in Basra and met Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, the Democratic hopeful arrived in Afghanistan to declare the US mission there to be more important than that in Iraq. Mr Obama is expected imminently in Iraq, and he will continue on to Europe. He will meet Mr Brown in Downing Street on Saturday.

Their approach is a marked departure from the policies of Tony Blair and President George Bush. But it nonetheless carries echoes of the "shoulder-to-shoulder" relationship between Britain and the US – if Mr Obama defeats his Republican rival John McCain in the November election......

is he puttin?????

July 17, 2008 -- Bush administration is stacking the UN with neocon ideologues

The Bush administration has been packing the United Nations Secretariat and other specialized UN agencies with its favorite neocon ideological soul mates. Even as its former unconfirmed ambassador to the UN John Bolton was trying to tear down the UN system put into place during and following World War II by Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, with the assistance of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Bolton and the neocons, including Israeli UN ambassador Dan Gillerman, an ardent Israeli expansionist and war hawk, were busy infiltrating their allies into the top levels of the United Nations. Their situation was made much easier after the Bush administration and its allies denied a second term to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and paved the way for Ban Ki-moon, South Korea's pro-U.S. Foreign Minister, to take over as Secretary General.

Bolton led the charge, along with his friend Gillerman, to prevent Annan from appointing any UN officials to terms beyond his own term which ended on December 31, 2006. There was one exception, a former managing editor for the Sun Myung Moon-owned Washington Times.

The first indication of infiltration of the UN by neocons was the appointment by Annan of ex-Washington Times editor Josette Sheeran Shiner as Executive Director of the World Food Program in November 2006. Suspiciously, Shiner's appointment came after Annan consulted with his successor Ban Ki-moon. Ban's own relationship with Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church has come under scrutiny, although the two are not related.

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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080717_1

Sheeran, as Shiner is now known after her divorce, had previously served as U.S. Undersecretary of State for economics, business and agricultural affairs and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative under George W. Bush. President Bush, according to the French and Swiss media, personally lobbied UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director General Jacques Diouf to appoint Shiner. Bush's father, George H. W. Bush, has accepted lucrative speaking fees from Sun Myung Moon since he left office in 1991. Sheeran now insists, including in an email to this editor, that all her contacts with the Unification Church have ceased and that she is now an Episcopalian. The Bush White House leaned on a number of media organizations not to mention Sheeran's past Moonie links when she was appointed as head of the World Food Program.

On March 1, 2007, Lynn Pascoe, a career U.S. Foreign Service officer with reported neocon leanings, was appointed by Ban Ki-moon as the UN's powerful Under-secretary for Political Affairs. Pascoe, who speaks Mandarin Chinese, was posted as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, Malaysia, and as top diplomat at the US diplomatic office in Taiwan. He was posted to Bangkok, Beijing, and Moscow. Inj his present position, Pascoe has wide authority on the appointments of pro-neocon ideologues to top UN posts even as the John McCain campaign has embraced the neocon ideology of creating a "League of Democracies" to eclipse and eventually replace the UN.

One such appointment that bodes ill for the UN is the reported next Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and UN Legal Counsel, Peter Taksøe-Jensen, currently head of legal affairs for the Danish Foreign Ministry and due to replace Nicolas Michel as top UN lawyer. Taksøe-Jensen has been an ally for the neocons in the Danish government, having written the legal justification for the Iraq war presented to the Danish parliament even though the authority for the war was not sanctioned by the UN Security Council. He also coordinated a Danish government attack on the Danmarks Radio for broadcasting a TV documentary called "The Secret War" that provided evidence that the Danish government knew of the torture and mistreatment of prisoners in Afghanistan. Taksøe-Jensen also stood in the way of an investigation of Danish businessmen and politicians involved in the UN "Oil-for-Food" scandal. He has also been the Danish legal point man on a diplomatic row with Canada over Hans Island, a small speck of land between Greenland and Canada's Ellesmere Island. As the Arctic ice pack melts and countries stake claims to potential lucrative oil resources, Taksøe-Jensen will be in a position at the UN to look for the interests of Denmark and the United States in the polar scramble involving Russia, Canada, Denmark, the United States, Norway, and potentially other countries.

John Bolton once said someone could take off the top ten floors of the UN Secretariat Building with no resulting effect. It appears the neocons will just stack the top ten floors and others with others of their ilk.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080717_1

what is up with dat?

Obama's swish prolly got the vote of every hoopster in the Army. The skinny kid from Illinois can relate to the people.

FWIW, I have the new show uploaded and am just going to jump start it from the beginning. It will kick in after the current song finishes.

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bluerootsradio

Huffington Post - Paul Abrams

As reported in these pages, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has endorsed Barack Obama's 16-month withdrawal timetable.

The McCain Campaign is effectively over.

McCain had two rationales for his candidacy. The first is that he is a selfless war hero, who placed duty over self in the Hanoi Hilton. That image is partially tarnished by his kowtowing to people he called "agents of intolerance" (Pat Robertson, the late-Jerry Falwell, Pastor Hagee), his embrace of George W Bush and his policies, and the constant stream of sleazebags who he has called 'honorable', but who have had to exit his campaign. That is not to say that his heroism during his imprisonment will ever go away, but rather that he just does not seem to be the same man today as he was then, or even in 2000.

The second rationale is that he, somehow, was the man to pursue the Islamic terrorists. Barack Obama seized the bin Laden/Taliban national security mantra way back in the early days of the Democratic Primary debates, took a lot of criticism from his Democratic rivals and the Bush Administration for it, stuck by his position, and now has McCain following suit. Victory: Obama.

All McCain had then was Iraq, amazingly quoting bin Laden (without recognizing bin Laden's vested interest in disinformation to focus attention away from himself--and McCain is supposed to be the experienced one!!) that Iraq was the central theatre of the "war on terrorism" to prove that the US could not leave because of chaos, genocide and Islamic terrorism. That image, too, was tarnished by McCain's lack of clear understanding just who the enemy was, but he still staked claim to maintaining the "gains" made by the surge that, depending on the day, he either invented or supported or both.

With al-Maliki's statement, what is McCain to do now? Is he going to say that the US will stay even if the Iraqi government does not want us? If not, then is he willing to allow the descent into chaos and genocide he has been predicting?.............

July 16, 2008 -- CIA "blowback" haunts Bush 41

Former President George H. W. Bush had a very good reason to lash out at "conspiracy theorists" in support of the Warren Commission Report at President Gerald Ford's funeral in January 2007. Bush, who oddly used a eulogy for Ford to bring up the assassination of President John F. Kennedy said, "the conspiracy theorists can say what they will , but the Warren Commission report will always have the final definitive say on this tragic matter. Why? Because Jerry Ford put his name on it and Jerry Ford's word was always good."

Bush had good reason to praise Ford. WMR has learned from ex-CIA sources familiar with the November 22, 1963 assassination operation against Kennedy directed by the CIA, elements of the U.S. military, and Mafia mobsters with whom the CIA had a long-standing connection, that George H. W. Bush was present at the Texas School Book Depository at the time multiple sniper teams shot President Kennedy to death.

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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080716_1

BORING----
NEXT<<<<<<<<<<

[cont'd]

The above photo was taken at the time of Kennedy's shooting. Bush, at the time, was President of Zapata Off-shore Drilling Company in Houston, Texas. WMR's intelligence sources have confirmed that the above photo is that of then-CIA operative George H. W. Bush. Zapata was used as a CIA front for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. Individuals standing in the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) have always been a subject for controversy in the Kennedy assassination. A man who was alleged to have been accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and who was spotted in the TSBD moments after Kennedy's assassination was actually Billy Nolan Lovelady. A photograph taken by Associated Press photographer James Altgens shows Lovelady wearing a plaid shirt, not the solid shirt worn by Oswald.

Billy Lovelady (left) was mis-identified as Oswald. Lovelady died during the House Select Committee on Assassinations hearings.

Negatory, The Rick Copeland's man. He's in a pensive mood. Plus it's the weekend so the wussocrats haven't had the oppotunity to pretend they have some 'nads...

Who do you think The Rick Copeland is; Mike Malloy?

Nothing.

DO YOU REALLY?????
me good boy!

haaretz.com

The deputy to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran was a friend of Israel, Iranian news agencies reported.

"Iran wants no war with any country, and today Iran is friend of the United States and even Israel.... Our achievements belong to the whole world and should be used for expanding love and peace," said Iranian Vice President Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, who is also head of the Cultural Heritage Organization.

The Cultural Heritage Organization news agency quoted him as saying that even during the eight-year war against Iraq, Iran just defended itself against the military invasion by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.......

[cont'd.]

In 2004, this editor wrote the following:

The name "George Bush" appears much too frequently in documents, some newly released, relating to the assassination of President Kennedy. Since there is no statute of limitations on murder or accessory to murder, I can understand why Bush pere and fils may want to erase November 22, 1963 from the history books.

BUSH stated that he was proceeding to Dallas, Texas, would remain in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel and return to his residence on 11-23-63. His office telephone number is CA 2-0395.

i dont want nothing from yourll---I REALLY DONT---leave me the fuck alone---you play with me, ALL the fucking tyme---its ALL a game right?????????? it better B! i am too old for this shit-----SERIOUSLY--

woop now there they go threatnin' the FAT skater!!!
FOR FUCKIN WHAT?

i came here to praise ceaser not to kill him!

[cont'd]

So we have George H. W. Bush telling the FBI that he did not know the source of the information but knew that a John Bircher named James Parrott, who was the same age as Lee Harvey Oswald (24), wanted to kill President Kennedy in Houston. Bush did not know much about Parrott but gave the name of two Republican Party officials in Houston. Of course, Bush's Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company had been a CIA front since 1960 and had supplied the Bay of Pigs invasion (code named "Zapata") force with two of his company's ex-U.S. Navy landing craft, renamed the "Barbara J" and the "Houston." In any case, Bush's phone call to the FBI was a false lead, and Parrott was cleared. However, Bush's phone call creates more questions about him than about Parrott. First of all, there is no evidence that Bush was in Tyler when Kennedy was shot. There was no Caller ID in those days that would have allowed Special Agent Kitchel to know, for a fact, that Bush was calling from Tyler. Bush's wife, Barbara, claimed he was in Tyler but Bush once said he may have been in Port-au-Prince, Haiti that day. But Bush himself admits to the FBI that he was booked into the Sheraton Hotel in Dallas on November 22.

Bush always had a keen interest in what files the government had on Kennedy's assassination. When he was CIA Director in 1976, Bush wanted to see all the agency's files on the Kennedy assassination. His memos specifically requested information on Oswald, Jack Ruby, and others linked to the assassination. In her book The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, author Kitty Kelley writes that "Years later, when [Bush] became president of the United States, he would deny making any attempt to review the agency files on the JFK assassination… when he made this claim, he did not realize that the agency would release 18 documents [under the Freedom of Information Act] that showed he had indeed, as CIA director, requested information-not once, but several times-on a wide range of questions surrounding the Kennedy assassination."

Dude, you should up the meds...

Media Matters for America

Media's assessment of likability doesn't match voters'

Yet again, the political media is obsessed with the question of whether the Democratic presidential nominee is "likable" and whether he can "connect" with "regular people." We go through this every four years. It's a remarkably bad way for journalists to spend their -- and our -- time, but old habits die hard, especially when the alternative is doing some actual reporting.

Voting for president based on who seems the most likable -- or, in the media's favorite shorthand, based on who you would rather have a beer with -- is a spectacularly bad idea....

But that isn't the only reason why journalists shouldn't spend their airtime and column inches pontificating about which candidate is more likable. For better or worse, voters will allow their opinions of the candidates' personalities to have an effect on their vote -- and that isn't an entirely bad thing.

But voters don't need to be told who they like. They can decide that for themselves. They don't need to be told who "connects" with them or does not -- they will feel a connection, or they won't. The pundit class' insistence on talking endlessly about candidates' purported "likability" and ability to "relate" to "regular Americans" is, at best, a waste of time, and the ultimate in pointless horserace journalism. And at worst, it introduces an observer effect, where the view promoted by the media -- the purported observers and chroniclers -- that a candidate has a likability problem with the public becomes inseparable in the public's mind from the candidate's inherent "likability." Not to mention that, if the media talk enough about "likability," the public absorbs the idea that that is a key criterion in judging a candidate's qualifications. In other words, the public hears enough from the media that a candidate is not considered likable by the public, and the public itself begins to view the candidate as less likable.

And then there's the fact that the pundit crowd doesn't have the foggiest idea what they are talking about. They sit around their insular little echo chamber in Washington and New York, prattling on about people in Michigan and Pennsylvania being incapable of liking a candidate who doesn't bowl well or who drinks green tea. And, incredibly, they tell us the candidate is an elitist, even as they make elitist assumptions about the voters.

Needless to say, they're wrong. A lot. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to spot the clues that the pundit class obsession with Barack Obama's purported inability to connect with regular people is misplaced. He is, after all, consistently running ahead of John McCain in the polls. And he did just raise $52 million in one month, with an average contribution of $68. That's a hell of a lot of support from regular people for someone who is supposed to have trouble connecting with regular people....

dir! cope!

[cont'd.]

Then there is the business of the November 29, 1963 memo from the Director of the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research to J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI Director. The subject is "Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963." The memo states:

The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to us, George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963 by Mr. W.T. Forsyth of this Bureau.

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Media Matters: We don't need the media to tell us who's likable
Submitted by Kevin © on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 8:58pm.

[cont'd.]

A copy of the above memo was furnished to the Director of Naval Intelligence. That is important for reasons that will be explained in the following paragraph.

Bush's role as a CIA operative in the Bay of Pigs invasion, a military action in which the Office of Naval Intelligence was closely involved, suggests that the other links between Bush, ONI, and the anti-Castro Cuban exiles are not benign.

...

Free Democracy

Sam is referencing Kevin's blog not mine. It is a good article.

The blowback haunting Bush has links in MMR's Howard Hunt blog from almost a year ago.

Look here and click on the picture:
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/511#comment-13960

[cont'd]

George H. W. Bush has still other, more oblique links to Kennedy assassin. The Houston-based conspirator James Parrott, like Guy Bannister, was a fervent John Bircher. Bannister was not only associated with Oswald but also David Ferrie, the commander of a Louisiana Civil Air Patrol unit whose members included not only Oswald but also James Reynolds Bath, the future buddy and Texas Air National Guard pal of George W. Bush. According to one of Bath's former Houston business associates, Bath became a pilot through the cadet program of the Louisiana Civil Air Patrol, a known recruiting ground for future CIA agents. Six days before Pearl Harbor, the Civil Air Patrol was founded by Dallas oilman David Harold Byrd who also owned the Texas School Book Depository from the 1930s to 1972. Another supporter of the Louisiana Civil Air Patrol was Claire Chennault, the founder of China's "Flying Tigers" and the notorious "Civil Air Transport" of China that later became Air America. Chennault died in New Orleans' murky intelligence-connected Ochsner Foundation Hospital in 1958. In 1964, Byrd apparently removed the "Oswald" window pane from the fifth floor of the Texas School Book Depository and made it a souvenir fixture in his home. [Since this report, WMR has discovered that the late Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant and CIA pilot Barry Seal, gunned down on February 19, 1986, gangland-style in Baton Rouge, was also a member of the New Orleans-based Louisiana Civil Air Patrol, along with Bath, Ferrie, and Oswald. Seal was due to testify in a major drug smuggling case that was thought to implicate then-Vice President Bush and Iran-contra felon Oliver North in the smuggling of cocaine from Colombia.]

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I'm thinking this gets the skinny kid some red state votes.

The blowback haunting Bush has links in MMR's Howard Hunt blog from almost a year ago.

Look here and click on the picture:
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/511#comment-13960

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I hadn't seen MMRules' blog on this before.

terrfic MB, very clever.

[cont'd]

Another connection between Bush and the assassination is George DeMohrenshildt, an anti-Communist White Russian-émigré who befriended fellow White Russian Marina Oswald and her husband Lee upon their emigration from the Soviet Union to Texas, where DeMohrenshildt was involved in the oil business. DeMohrenshildt's son-in-law told the Warren Commission that is was likely that his father-in-law was involved with the Kennedy assassination. DeMohrenshildt had an interest in pursuing oil exploration contracts with Haitian President Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier - something that may have involved George H. W. Bush's one-time alibi that he was in Port-au-Prince on November 22, 1963. In March 1977, the House Assassinations Committee was due to interview DeMohrenshildt but just a few hours before his scheduled appearance he was found dead of a "self-inflicted" gun shot wound. When DeMohrenshildt's personal address book was discovered, it was found to contain the following entry:

From the directory entry it appeared that DeMohrenshildt, who was rumored to be with the CIA, knew George H. W. (or Poppy as his family calls him) from before 1959, when Bush moved from Midland to Houston. It is also noteworthy that while he was taking care of the Oswalds during 1962, DeMohrenshildt was in close contact with Admiral Henry Bruton, the former Director of Naval Communications, who would have played an important supporting role for Naval Intelligence's activities in the Bay of Pigs invasion.

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Wasn't that the title of a bukake movie set in 1776?

Thank you ladies and germs...

There is a video link there if you scroll below that has all the information you need. Nixon, the Plumbers, George's role as CIA Operative. It's a pretty compelling case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2orthS3TQ

[cont'd]

Seal was also believed to have worked for CIA Miami station chief (and Bay of Pigs coordinator) Ted Shackley in Laos in the late 1960s. The above photo was taken at a Miami nightclub on January 22, 1963 and shows a number of CIA individuals involved in "Operation 40" plots against the Castro government in Cuba. On left, foreground, going clockwise, Felix Rodriguez (who later worked for Vice President Bush in illegal Nicaraguan contra support operations), Porter Goss (who would be named CIA director under George W. Bush and became involved in a prostitution/poker ring at the Watergate. Note: E. Warren Goss, a Boulder, Colorado attorney, has been reportedly involved in secret money movements involving George H. W. Bush. E. Warren Goss is, according to CIA sources in Houston, the brother of Porter Goss), and Seal.

I'll take a look at it...

WMR has also recently been told by U.S. intelligence sources that, in addition to the 6th Floor sniper's nest from which Oswald allegedly shot Kennedy, there were snipers positioned in the Dal Tex Building on Dealey Plaza and behind the fence on the Grassy Knoll. In addition, the sources said that assassination conspirators had been infiltrated into the President's motorcade. Others were bought off to change their stories. One, a Texas Department of Public Safety Officer, altered his story about what he saw to FBI and other investigators and was rewarded with an appointment as a Texas Ranger. Perhaps owing to the fact that the circumstances of his appointment were made with the blood of the President, the individual was never presented with the honorary Texas Ranger badge upon his retirement.

WMR has also learned from U.S. intelligence sources that the Egyptian Lounge in Dallas was used as a planning venue for the hit on Kennedy. Co-conspirator Jack Ruby (aka, Jacob Rubinstein) met there with CIA intermediaries to plan the details of the assassination.

It is now also clear why George W. Bush has gone to extraordinary lengths to secure National Archives materials and presidential papers from researchers. Bush's Archivist, Allen Weinstein, has cut a number of deals with the CIA and other agencies to keep secure from the public view a number of documents dealing with past covert and illegal activities by U.S. intelligence. The Kennedy assassination records are no exception and Weinstein has even allowed the "reclassification" of previously declassified documents held by the government.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080716_1

July 16, 2008 -- U.S. contractor leaving Saudi Arabia - another warning sign of impending war with Iran

Although Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns is meeting with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator in Switzerland and the State Department announced plans to open a U.S. Interests Section in Tehran, the Dick Cheney-American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) war hawks and neocons are still beating the war drums for a U.S. attack on Iran to placate the Jerusalem government and the Likud Party opposition.

Another ominous war sign has been reported to WMR. The U.S. contractor Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) is reportedly planning to withdraw its training staff that is supporting the Royal Saudi Naval Force at its base in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Jubail is located on the Persian Gulf and is well within the range of Iranian missiles expected to be used against Saudi and U.S. targets in the Gulf in the event of a U.S. and/or Israeli attack on Iran.

The report on BAH states that its contractors will begin pulling out of Jubail in October of this year.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080716_4

McCain dribbles...

Where?

Depends!

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Keeping things under control in WV?

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Submitted by Kevin © on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 8:58pm.
...And he did just raise $52 million in one month, with an average contribution of $68...
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The shot heard round the world...
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 9:13pm.
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Nuthin' but net.

While Obama shoots...
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 9:33pm.
McCain dribbles...
Where?
Depends!
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The only time he doesn't need to pee is when he's peeing.

(I love that joke.)

over oveereen again---quit while you ahead!! getteen' sick with your shit right about now
BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@
SERIOUS EM GETTIN READY TO QUIT!!
CUM GET ME AND MINE'S------
YOU KNOW WHERE ME AT!
ONLY SO MUCH CRAP I CAN TAKE!!! B'4 I XPLODE FOR REAL! AFTER DAT DON GIVE A FLYING FART!
WILL SHOOT IT DOWN!! YUP FART I WILL!!!!

..what Obama's done today in Afghanistan will play in Peoria and Pottstown Pa.

Can't wait to see how the M$M plays it down or tries to ignore it. God, I'd have to show up for work at FauxSnooze tomorrow morning. Bwahahaha.

He's still pissin' me off a bit, but I read some things today that take the edge off a bit regarding his advisors in general and Furman in particular.

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Log Cabin Republicans Unmoved By Straight Talk Express

...Come Together on Straight Talk Express.

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Yoda on acid
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 9:48pm.
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No, thanks. None for me. I've had enough.

saw that here!
HA! read what you want----

You just had to bring out the fruitcake didn't ya? Now I'll have to see my analyst twice a week.

Thanks man, I needed that.

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tra la la

u kant shut me up.

grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

rosebush

mommy

earth

good.

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Commercial bankruptcies soar, reflecting widening economic woes

By Tony Pugh | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Driven by a sour economy and skittish consumers, U.S. business bankruptcies saw their sharpest quarterly rise in two years, jumping 17 percent in the second quarter of 2008, according to an analysis by McClatchy.

Commercial filings for the first half of 2008 are up 45 percent from last year, as the national climate for commerce continues to deteriorate amid rising energy and food costs, mounting job losses, tighter credit and a reticence among consumers to part with discretionary income.

From April through June, 15,471 U.S. businesses called it quits, according to data from Automated Access to Court Electronic Records, an Oklahoma City bankruptcy management and data company.

States that saw the biggest increase in filings were Delaware, Montana, Oregon, Maryland and Connecticut, suggesting that the economic gloom is spreading beyond large population centers.

It was the 10th straight quarter that business bankruptcy filings have increased. Nearly 29,000 companies filed in the first half of 2008.

Another 60,000 to 90,000 others probably have closed, because roughly two to three businesses fold for every one that files for bankruptcy, said Jack Williams, resident scholar at the American Bankruptcy Institute.

The vast majority of these failed companies are among the nation's 23 million small businesses, with fewer than 100 employees. Their fortunes have tumbled as the national economic downturn has deepened.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/44717.html

eh?

..or maybe their psychology failed them?

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Thanks!

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GOP cyber-security expert suggests Diebold tampered with 2002 election
Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
Published: Friday July 18, 2008

A leading cyber-security expert and former adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says he has fresh evidence regarding election fraud on Diebold electronic voting machines during the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial and senatorial elections.

Stephen Spoonamore is the founder and until recently the CEO of Cybrinth LLC, an information technology policy and security firm that serves Fortune 100 companies. At a little noticed press conference in Columbus, Ohio Thursday, he discussed his investigation of a computer patch that was applied to Diebold Election Systems voting machines in Georgia right before that state's November 2002 election.

Spoonamore is one of the most prominent cyber-security experts in the country. He has appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs and ABC's World News Tonight, and has security clearances from his work with the intelligence community and other government agencies, as well as the Department of Defense, and is one of the world’s leading authorities on hacking and cyber-espionage.

In 1995, Spoonamore received a civilian citation for his work with the Department of Defense. He was again recognized for his contributions in 2004 by the Department of Homeland Security. Spoonamore is also a registered Republican and until recently was advising the McCain campaign.

Spoonamore received the Diebold patch from a whistleblower close to the office of Cathy Cox, Georgia’s then-Secretary of State. In discussions with RAW STORY, the whistleblower -- who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation -- said that he became suspicious of Diebold's actions in Georgia for two reasons. The first red flag went up when the computer patch was installed in person by Diebold CEO Bob Urosevich, who flew in from Texas and applied it in just two counties, DeKalb and Fulton, both Democratic strongholds. The source states that Cox was not privy to these changes until after the election and that she became particularly concerned over the patch being installed in just those two counties.

http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Cybersecurity_expert_raises_allegations_o...

OH! so now only you say something?
dirdy dirdy down south-----WHY CLIFF jon! good song check it out some tyme

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foof!!!

I got a million of 'em

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Another nuclear leak in France
Reuters, The Associated PressPublished: July 18, 2008

PARIS: Uranium-bearing liquid has leaked from a broken underground pipe at a nuclear plant in southeastern France, the national nuclear safety authority said Friday. It was the second leak discovered at a French site this month.

The Nuclear Safety Authority said experts were trying to determine how much leaked uranium was present at the plant, which is owned by the electricity company Areva.

Areva, which is owned by the French government, is at the forefront of President Nicolas Sarkozy's effort to sell home-grown nuclear energy technology to the rest of the world.

An Areva spokesman, Charles Hufnagel, said the leak of lightly enriched uranium did not spread outside the site in Romans-sur-Isère and had "absolutely no impact on the environment." He said the factory hoped the problem would be classified as Level 1, the most minor of seven possible.

Among all nations, France is the most dependent on nuclear power, with 59 reactors churning out nearly 80 percent of its electricity. The Nuclear Safety Authority said the pipe was believed to have ruptured several years ago. It added that the pipe "was not in line with the applicable regulations, which require shock resistance ability sufficient to avoid rupture."

News of the leak came just a day after the government ordered tests at all French nuclear power plants after Areva disclosed that liquid containing non-enriched uranium had been accidentally released from another site, in Tricastin. Areva said that problem "did not affect either the health of employees and local populations, or their environment."

The Nuclear Safety Authority has criticized Areva for the way it handled the leak at Tricastin, saying it delayed communication of the problem and had unsatisfactory security measures in place.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/18/europe/leak.php

Thanks again to Travis at the 'banning' blog!

:)

Good night and sweet dreams!

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That's it for me kids.
Good night and
good bloggin'.
Man, this was the newiest Saturday in a long time!
S W I S H !

Don't stay up too late tD!!!

So much for the party for small business
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 10:32pm.
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It is long past time to bust the myth. Surely (don't call me Shirley) the executives and Wall Street movers-and-shakers know better by now?

The myths:

Republicans = Pro-business, free market, no regulation. It's fat city for everyone!

Democrats = Anti-business, bureaucratic regulation, tax-sapping social programs. How's a company supposed to get ahead in this environment?

The truth:

Recent Democratic history had almost everyone doing okay. Was it perfect? No way. But the economic indicators were headed in the right direction.

Recent Republican history has screwed the economic pooch. When the economy sucks, so does business. When business sucks, so does the economy. Who cares if the oil industry has been kicking ass if your corporation makes widgets?

So the "Republicans are good for business" bromide is wrong. Dead wrong. Ask Bear Stearns. (Oh, I forgot. Bear Stearns doesn't exist.) When did the biggest bank failure in U.S. history occur? Hint: If you guessed a date prior to a week ago, you would be wrong.

Corporate America needs government oversight and regulation to keep it from cannibalizing itself. I am seeing more and more Conservative economy "experts" admit to this truth every day. (What's out? Reaganomics and Grover Norquist. What's in? Watchdogs. Big ones.)

The only remaining claim for the Republican party is "a strong defense" and "security for all Americans."

Whoops! 9/11 happened on their watch! Even after the experts warned them. And then the Republicans fucked up the war. No, wait. TWO wars.

Republicans are good for business and good for protecting American citizens from harm?

Horse-fucking-shit. Check the stats.

Just about to say goodnight myself.

If today is newsy, can you imagine the bobble heads tomorrow!?

Night all

Just checking in and catching up!
Too much yard work!

I have the Sunday Guest list up
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3483

And here's a fun video for Saturday Night
Santana w/ Clapton - Jingo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAf3gqdCrDs

Back to catching up!

At 52 meters, the main figure (with the sword it reaches 85 meters) was at one time the tallest monument in the world...

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Robert Anton Wilson: "Conspiracies and TSOG" podcast

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Linda Ronstadt - Willing [3:00] - Heart Like a Wheel

Weed, whites and wine! us truckers know the lyrics,

and we're still on our feet...

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just dropped her off for an oil change at the hospital.

2nd one today, swelling is going down but the red is still there and going up her arm.

local quack says she's out of danger in his opinion but wants her to keep coming in for more antibiotic loads.

she's a lot better than on saturday. also talked them into loosening the wraps on her bandages.

she's having a hell of a time snoozing, she has to prop herself just tikkity boo to get any snooze time.

excellent riffs and some of my favorites.

I hope all citizens are well.

ticking along here and keeping busy.

eya A., i see that Ja dropped in way earlier and i missed him!

and i miss him.

How's it goin', kids?

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Hiya SR! :)

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Nudity: Shameful or Innocent?

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Bgurl and the Vet swapping stories.

his most memorable scar came from a giant african dog that was bred for hunting down escaped slaves.

the dog had a muzzle on at the time...

Hi SJ. Hi Catharine. Hi Alice.

excellent stories on the Kennedy murder.

"poppy" is a digusting murderous "keeps his own hands clean" capo to some of the sleaziest assholes in Amerika.

"An Areva spokesman, Charles Hufnagel, said the leak of lightly enriched uranium did not spread outside the site in Romans-sur-Isère and had "absolutely no impact on the environment." He said the factory hoped the problem would be classified as Level 1, the most minor of seven possible."

Reminds me of my uncle Effingham Huffnagle, the balloon ascensionist.

http://meandyobo.blogspot.com/2006/10/dont-be-luddy-duddy-friend-recentl...

Crank might get a kick out of this. WCFields routine from The Bank Dick.

Hope Bgurl is feeling a little better. That doesn't sound too good.

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Hey Sir Real. Tis indeed a beautiful night ..

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moon is orange.

We leave paradise tomorrow. Can't wait for the tax-payer funded terrorists to bully us in the airport as we head through the security checkpoint toward the gates. Just to keep the shit scared out of everybody.
Oughta be ashamed.
Ah well. Back to the Uneasy States of Ambiguity. Thanks all for being there to help us grope toward clarity.
I think I'll go out and stand with treebu and gaze once again at the moonlit water. You still have equal access to moonlit water at home, right? Or has that been privatized?

what the hells going on in the streets?

people weirding out here and it still has'nt hit 90 degrees.

By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER, Associated Press Writer

GENEVA - Some pre-negotiation jabbing turned into a potentially damaging diplomatic incident Saturday when Brazil's foreign minister said rich countries' deception in trade talks reminded him of tactics used by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.

His comments drew a sharp rebuke from the United States, whose chief trade negotiator, Susan Schwab, is the daughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors. Her spokesman described the reference to Goebbels as "incredibly wrong."

The controversy threatens to overshadow next week's last-ditch effort to save seven years of frustrating talks on a new global trade pact toward alleviating poverty around the world.

Con't

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

Hey ellwort ... where are you?

keep on truckin bud, and smile a lot, it keeps em guessing.

It's all those sinister forces the CIA unleashed, with the MKUltra and occult mindcontrol stuff. Sinister forces, coming home to roost.

Submitted by Alice on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 11:45pm.

Robert Anton Wilson: "Conspiracies and TSOG" podcast

is "incredibly wrong".

just another propaganda victim hand picked as a shock absorber.

back in a bit, i'm off to get Bgurl back home.

she thanks everyone for caring btw.

Pelosi Tells Netroots Nation She Opposes Impeachment Because She's BiPartisan.

Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2008-07-19 19:49. Impeachment
Netroots Nation or Nation of Sheep: Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore Address the Netroots Nation Conference
By: Ronnie Cummins, National Director, Grassroots Netroots Alliance, http://www.GrassrootsNetroots.org

Saturday morning, July 19. Sitting here at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas with several thousand other online activists. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party Speaker of the House, the third most powerful politician in the United States, is up on the podium, doing her best to damp down the mounting criticism of the Democratic Party's shameful collaboration in funding the war and aiding and abetting the Bush administration's shredding of the Constitution.

Before Pelosi speaks, an announcement is made from the podium that disruptions will not be tolerated--if any of us express our frustrations too passionately with Pelosi and the sell-out Democratic Party leadership we will be arrested. The first question the Netroots moderator poses to Pelosi is about impeachment. This generates considerable applause and cheers from the crowd. Pelosi, notorious for proclaiming that "impeachment is off the table," artfully dodges the question and evasively talks about censuring the Bush administration and getting tough on Karl Rove. This generates polite clapping from the front of the room, where all the tables have apparently been "reserved" for Pelosi fans. In contrast I can see groans, grimaces, and shaking of heads from many of us, the netroots rabble, sitting at the back of the hall.

I resist a strong urge to get up and leave. How long will the centrist bureaucrats of Netroots Nation and groups like MoveOn roll-over for lowest common denominator Democrats and Barack Obama? After an hour of rather boring rhetoric by Pelosi, Al Gore makes a surprise appearance on the stage, letting Nancy off the hook.

Con't

http://www.grassrootsnetroots.org/

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

My widget says the moon is 97% full - but all the other places I checked say the full moon was Friday...

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Odd-Looking Marine Animals

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We're in an undisclosed heaven somewhere south of you. And yeah, it's reached and surpassed 99 degrees here. Still lovely in the water or under the fan though.
Couldn't agree more about smiling (hard not to in this hilariously absurd existence); when I was in corporate, I think people thought I was stealing something from the co.
Till soon -

Enjoy it while you can... !

"I would say faith is the chief fomenter of war in the whole history of the world. Even in comparatively secular societies it becomes an article of faith that the government is justified. The other side is all wrong. We’re all right. And nobody’s supposed to think about the question at all. That becomes despicable. I believe we should think about the despicable."

I'll catch the video Sunday, mebbe during that 4-7 pm timeslot!
Thanks for the link!

But monsoon rain storm crashing over house.

Will have to check in later & turn off computer now.

Love to all.

I'll try to find it..

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"Let it rain"...
Dang SR! Be safe!

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As you well know and,I had to learn when I moved to AZ is those Monsoons can get real nasty !

Kaboom !
The only 2 places I have ever heard thunder like a Cannon shot were in Mesa,Az and Kauai..
Cool after you heart slows down abit.. :)

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

Hello everyone!

My thanks to all of you who've sent inquiries and expressed concern. My hand & arm are finally beginning to look somewhat normal again as the swelling is starting to recede, although i'm still very sore! And my fingers are a lovely shade of yellowish-green. I'm hoping I have only one more day of IV antibiotics...

Cheers & thanks again for your good wishes!
Bgurl

also, MM...I had a 'brave fireman' boyfriend at the time sleeping naked with the balcony sliding glass door open...I have NEVER seen someone jump up and freak out so fast... :)
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http://www.warscholar.com/Timeline.html

here's to only one more day of IV antibiotics!

Hope you get some sleep tonight.

Yes,Those Cannon shot thunder will differently get your attention ! :)

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Bgurl..Glad your doing abit better,it sounds like..

Do you still have that Red line going up your arm ?

Hope not..That's pretty scary..Not good at all..

But,Get Well Soon..Hang in there ! :)

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

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Thanks Catharine - I'm off to bed with my book.
Cheers,
Bgurl

Just me, Ted the Bellhop

and Carl Sandburg.

I ASKED a gypsy pal
To imitate an old image
And speak old wisdom.
She drew in her chin,
Made her neck and head
The top piece of a Nile obelisk
and said:
Snatch off the gag from thy mouth, child,
And be free to keep silence.
Tell no man anything for no man listens,
Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

it's "diffused redness"

also known as a "hot red blotch"

she's getting ready to lay down for a relaxo.

had to do a one finger hunt and peck on my keyboard to post.

eya catharina!
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 12:30am.
excellent stories on the Kennedy murder.

"poppy" is a digusting murderous "keeps his own hands clean" capo to some of the sleaziest assholes in Amerika
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What show,podcast ?

Thanks.. :)

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

I had no idea you were such a big Kennedy assassination guy...

It's probably nothing you haven't heard already ... I broke the post up into pieces.. starting with ...

CIA "blowback" haunts Bush 41
Submitted by Catharine on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 8:36pm.

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3481#comment-233275

Why did you wait so long to post?
Just curious...

Glad you are on the mend... :)

she says she usually does'nt have enough time to keep up with it on a regular basis.

!!! eya gang! this is a Bgurl post !!! (her first!)

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 1:38am.
Hello everyone!

My thanks to all of you who've sent inquiries and expressed concern. My hand & arm are finally beginning to look somewhat normal again as the swelling is starting to recede, although i'm still very sore! And my fingers are a lovely shade of yellowish-green. I'm hoping I have only one more day of IV antibiotics...

Cheers & thanks again for your good wishes!
Bgurl

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Bgurl and Sunshine Jim,

It sounds like both of you are feeling better.

To good health for all! Cheers!

p.s. It's great to hear from Bgurl on the blog.

I guess I'm very interested in it because
I'm Irish,was brought up a Catholic..
Was in Catholic School the day of the Assassination..4th grade..
And,am a Liberal..

Bad,crazy times..

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/511#comment-103263

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

and in the SE quadrant.

You ought to see my Open Mic on the subject..

Submitted by MMRules on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 2:08am.

Bgurl is rewrapping her left hand, dam near a foot of bandage up her wrist on that one.

she says "Thanks and best wishes to you as well!"

is kind of an JFK Assassination nut like myself..

Plus,he lives close to Dallas..

The whole thing is and was fishy big time..

Why is it when The CIA finally released some of their
JFK files,3/4 of them were blacked out ? Hellllooo....

If it walks like a Duck....etc..

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

Didja do some "real estate" shopping while you were in paradise?

Some of us Sederistas may need safe haven!

I found this place in Jamaica!
Cousin's Cove
Quiet village area, extremely exotic. 3/4 acre with electricity and water. Full title available. House partially built House plans included. 1 hour drive to Montego Bay.

OK so it needs some work...

up thread mmrules
Submitted by Catharine on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 2:00am
*******
I guess I best go take a look..
Still haven't forked over 7 bucks for his site..
Man,I'm a cheap son of a gun..
But,I give to the ACLU so I'm not all bad.. :)

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

and a good evening to ya!

i was a freshman in high school, i thought "good riddance" at the time. Kennedy was up to some serious shenannigans back then and definitely not the saint some people think he was.

later on in my 20's i found out MUCH more about what really went down with his murder.

LBJ was in there with the dirty trix boys in a big way.

i was a young repub during high school. i stayed a repub because the older corporate types and the brainwashed were swallowing so much of the lie.

has'nt been easy, but it became worth it when my old repub friends began apologising for their "tin foil hat" comments when they knew me during my days as a lobbyist in Oregon.

I know you've said this many times before ... but it's still really hard to fathom, Jim...

my dad might have looked it but he was not it---EVIL!! thats how i am seeing it now...just so you know
i'll take it off my mind and put it into yours

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

A Sphinx - by Carl Sandburg

Close-mouthed you sat five thousand years and never
let out a whisper.
Processions came by, marchers, asking questions you
answered with grey eyes never blinking, shut lips
never talking.
Not one croak of anything you know has come from your
cat crouch of ages.
I am one of those who know all you know and I keep my
questions: I know the answers you hold.

it's easy to understand.

was 16 and asked my mom about dealing with the sum total of bullshit surrounding us.

she said historically the best route to change was from within.

i'll give you her phone number sometime, you can ask her about it.

she's a bright lady, well worth talking to.

Do you mind if I copy & paste those JFK
articles on to my Open Mic ?

You have some stuff there I haven't seen,some I have..
But,it all links together somehow..

I just wish we would find out the Truth in our
lifetime..Doubt it will happen though.. :(

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

i love drunken assholes.

theres a knack to it...

Lobbyist were you SJ ?

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

i was so innocent when i got here and so loved it! WHY? i dont think this broken heart will ever mend again for real...i wanted nothing but the NEWS all i got was the WEATHER!

--Submitted by cent on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 2:41am.
A Sphinx - by Carl Sandburg--

___

.♡. - .☮.

Hee..

That there is.. :)

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

good for you...wanna smell my breathe? guess you will hate me after that

i smoke,

i dont bother with paint stripper anymore. i just breathe on the paint.

quit making excuses and reach for the love.

again.

volunteer, for my fellow commercial fisherpeeps,

great story. send me your phone number

and i'll run it by you.

sofrajones at telus dot net.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34921
Before Pelosi speaks, an announcement is made from the podium that disruptions will not be tolerated--if any of us express our frustrations too passionately with Pelosi and the sell-out Democratic Party leadership we will be arrested.

The Voice continued...

You so-called "netroots" are nothing but typical rabble.
And we'll have NONE of your pleeb WHINING!
SHUT UP or we'll have you all proclaimed ENEMY COMBATANTS.
What do you think the KBR Kamps are for?
You have NO RIGHTS! We took care of that with the Military Commissions Act, the "new" FISA bill and the updated PATRIOT Act.
Ignorance of "The Law" is no excuse.
Taser him!

Ja vol! Alle HIEL Die Schpeiker!

This is what democracy looks like? Or a Police State?
They put protesters in a CAGE of 8' fence at the Boston 2004 Convention Fleet Center.
Pelosi and her ilk are AIDERS AND ABETTORS TO WAR CRIMES.

way more rewards than loving money and power though.

i always respect a fighter that picks themselves up after a serious asskicking and jumps back in.

gotta remember i ain't like you, i like you.

theres a difference.

Sick.

right on the money!

"we have seen the enemy and it are us"

Pogo

said this a hundred times here on this bloggie.

we all have sin, the trick is to get past it personally first, and THEN kick ass.

personally we ought to just shut them assholes down.

they're so vulnerable it's ridiculous.

I watched Janeane's standup act a few hours ago. It was bad.
Sorry.
I watched her perform 8 years ago in Michigan. She was much better then.

One thing that really pissed me off: "Did you read that white men aren't going to vote for Obama-- some of the same white guys who voted for him in the primary? Obama won because sexism trumps racism every time."

Utter bullshit.

#1:NPR interviewed a black female journalist a few months ago. They asked her "which is worse-- racism or sexism?"
She said, "I've experienced both, but let's put it this way: when I've been excluded from clubs, social gatherings and even press meetings it wasn't because I was a woman."

#2: Since when did the Democratic party have so many damn white guys? I guess that the core of Rush Limbaugh's audience is actually comprised of Democratic spies.

#3: Aren't most Democratic white men the "working class" bigots who voted against Obama? Did it matter?

It is a total fabrication on her part.

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

carefully picked demons.

so do you. so deal with it.

she's an asshole less often than most.

TRUE FACT.

But the HUGE MAJORITY of voters are stuck on "who's more likable" or "who'd you rather have a beer with" or "shoot hoops with" or the inane minutiae of what passes for solid news.

And even as WE SEDERISTAS KNOW what's going down, and has been going down, NOTHING will change. Keep the rabble all worked up about gay marriage or some such paper tiger and we'll just SHRED the Constitution while you're not looking, along with your "inalienable rights".

Check out Naomi Klien's China's All-Seeing Eye
With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.

We are SO DOOMED.

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 3:24am.

The funny thing was before the show she was seated three feet away from me at the bar area. I didn't say anything to her because I didn't want to rattle her.
After the show I actually looked for her for 5 minutes or so.
I wanted to say, "that was b.s., you know."

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

Good Night - Carl Sandburg

MANY ways to spell good night.

Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes.

They fizz in the air, touch the water and quit.
Rockets make a trajectory of gold-and-blue and then go out.

Railroad trains at night spell with a smokestack mushrooming a white pillar.

Steamboats turn a curve in the Mississippi crying in a baritone that crosses lowland cottonfields to a razorback hill.
It is easy to spell good night.

Many ways to spell good night.

so what?

we been doomed since we drew air the first time.

if you ain't up to it, you ain't up to it.

no biggie. i have reasons to resist,

protecting you being one of them.

like i said, loving people is a bitch.

you can get better at it though with enough practice.

she brings out the same in me.

still i really like her for many other moments she's spun off into the universe.

like i said, loving people is a bitch, especially when they're being selfcentered assholes.

sorta hard to break the patterns eh? helps when you realise theres a shitload of assholes trying to box you in.

i love her bright spots. i SURE as hell would'nt want to run a business with her, i'm way too lazy.

The stuff the Dems make up for excuses is boundless.

Glenn Greenwald nails a few here:
The motivation for blocking investigations into Bush lawbreaking

GOOD NIGHT NOW

don't let em get to ya.

they're ridiculously easy to outthink.

stream here: http://www.kfi640.com/main.html

Coast to Coast

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

First Hour: Legendary comic book artist Neal Adams will talk about Batman. Then, adventurer Robert Young Pelton will discuss his experiences in Iraq with private military contractors, and what really happened during the hostage rescue in Colombia.

Submitted by FilthyRich on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 3:45am.
The stuff the Dems make up for excuses is boundless.

Glenn Greenwald nails a few here:
The motivation for blocking investigations into Bush lawbreaking
*******
I just copied & pasted the whole Glenn Greenwald story to Pelosi with My Plea For Her To Resign !

For the good of The Country and for the good of The Democrat Party..

Because,
She Forgot To Uphold The Constitution..
And,
She Forgot To Uphold The Rule Of Law !

She,Harman and Rockefeller Should All Resign,Yesterday ! !

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

Early here in Chicago... it's been raining like mad.
More & more rain will wash the pain in the drain.

Howdy MMRules... hope your weekend is going good
" Kevin "

"If we do not change course and stand up for our Constitution, for what is best in America, for what we know is right and just, then history will most certainly decide that it was those of us in this body who bear equal responsibility for the President's decisions -- for it was us who looked the other way, time and time again."
-- Senator Christopher Dodd, July 8, 2008, on the Senate floor during debate of the re-authorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

New Thread :)

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

I find it unbelievable that stability is coming to Iraq. No one wants to think or say that "maybe the surge worked". I am sure it had something to do with it. But what Maliki said about the people being abhored with AlQueda and ready to take matters in their own hands to establish security and recovery is probably more relevent than the surge. The surge was coincicent with a quantum shift in the will of the people of Iraq. It seems quantum shifts in public will are rampant in the world today.

Don

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