United States of Dick Cheynia

What Constitution?

Was that Lea, the singer? On aa LLama. Lea Krueger?

did you write this...

//Sonora Cat Rescue
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 4:57am.
Is it real or a horrinle joke?
Shell, I want to believe, but your soft-porn avatar on your cat rescue site makes me think it's just a bad "cat house" joke.
Sorry, but it is odd.//

i'll be a no nic malevolent asshole and throw the cat in with the pigeons...

(psst)

it's nicky rose

(ok)

or maybe it was toni
or sunshine jim
or shelly herself
(etc)

seems that she and ghouliani lied about the air quality in new york city in the time following 9-11. she is supposed to testify before congress today.

The Consitution?

(play)

...What Constitution?

-M the a-c

:0 whatever ;)

The Constitution video ... hahahahahahaha ... i need to hear it again ... hahahaha

seder

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when you were in australia,
did you catch a stand-up comedian called austin tayshus

http://www.tenant.net/phpBB2/

http://www.tenant.net/Oversight/Rgbsum02/index.html

An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
Charles Beard

This classic suggests that the U.S. Constitution was written by the country's monied classes and largely serves their interests. It remains an important work not merely for its historical data but because it raises the question of whether representatives need to reflect the class backgrounds of their constituents to represent their interests.
Beard is the first to compare the economic backgrounds of elites with their mass counterparts. He argues

. . .
Charles A Beard presented seemingly irrefutable proof of the antidemocratic and conservative foundations of American national government in An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution Beard's thesis was that the politics of the 1780s were dominated by a deep-seated conflict between a popular party based on paper money and agrarian interests, and a conservative party centered in the towns and resting on financial, mercantile, and personalty interests He held that the latter, suffering under the Confederation government and failing to achieve reforms through the prescribed channels in Congress, went outside the existing legal framework to adopt "a revolutionary programme" — the Constitution of 178710 Through the critical studies of Smith and Beard, to name only the most prominent examples, property interests in general were identified with defense of the existing Constitution as the basis of political conservatism. that the framers of the Constitution were exclusively "merchants, money managers, security holders, manufacturers, shippers, capitalists, financiers, and their professional associates. " Not represented were the small farming classes and the population of debtors. Their main concerns, according to Beard, were to provide a strong central government and banking system and to protect the propertied classes from tyranny by the majority, by which they meant the poor taking from the rich.

Furthermore, Beard claims that the framers of the Constitution were conscious of their economic self-interests; the Federalists presented an economic interpretation of politics to defend their work.

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I think that person was really striving to find a reason to judge my avatar photo...

Thanks for pointing out one of the correlations for the poor soul...Maybe they've moved on to more important issues by now...we can only hope... :)

morning gang!

Friends of a friend save coney island!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1025/616170581_99a87aa588.jpg?v=0

(From The Mermaid Parade!)

it's art.

art is like that sometimes.

deal with it.

They’ll Break the Bad News on 9/11

(thanks, k.)

(and soon!)

A!I!V!

Hee! mornin D6!

so, does sam really call and talk with you? i think you got his goat yesterday during the show about the signing statements.

interests are...

being a no nic malevolent asshole!!

(ding!)
(ding!)
(ding!)

so there's no point asking

i was going to ask in the interests of making petty sideswipes @ the ass-wipe...

but it's not necesssssary

: )

;)

Sam?

ya, he calls occasionally.

i give em shit, he apologises profusely, we move on.

plus a special tequilla "thing" from Fernando, I will be trying when hubby comes home from LA LA (Pas) Land soon.

delighted to have ya visit!

would you like more crumpets?

good fix on the bloggie just now Admin!

working like a champ now in Opera!

was hanging on the refreshes.

?

has anyone heard the ads for this new show - age of love. sounds like its making 30 something bachelors choose between milfs and 20 something's.

we have truly become bread and circuses. all thats left is for nero to play the fiddle.

.

first, there's the inference that you're a "slut" because you post erotica
second, this precludes you from being capable of caring
(because you're a "slut", right)
(this was established from the inference)

and, for extra nastiness, the calculating lowlife maggot attacked your love for the cat rescue instead of your love for books

(oh, how ingenious)

shelly takes the cake
: )

good question!

we're friends?

Anon with cat quip is a Moronic Asshole.Period! :)
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refresh in less than 2 seconds currently!

Bravo admin!

love it!

there is a link to Sundays Seder show ... and I think Sunshine Jim got mentioned ... and another I think was alluded to...
at beginning of Sam's show ...(the first hour, I think)-- but I read, Since I MISSED AND HAVE TO LOOK ON SUNDAY's Show, also. :D

I sure feel sorry for the people & animals there....

yesterday...

Nah, not neccessarily,

the juxtaposition just jarred his sensabilities.

shell definitely pushes the envelope.

more power to her...

total moonscape after one of those.

I'm here : http://www.lavenderlane.com/

I decided I'm going to start making essential oil things again...so I'm buying blue cobalt spray bottles...so many women at work are in menopause so I'm going to make them peppermint oil spray for them...
I once bought a gallon of organic jojoba oil from this place...I'm seeing if they still have it...

(heh)

:)

I'm addictied to photo's!See what happens
when you guys teach me things?
But really,lay off Shell Moron.She has about 20 cats she's caring for.
That's alot of CatFood&poop.Be cool!!

was to a blog post i made criticizing sam for not talking about presidential executive orders enough.

actually i'm delighted he's getting hip enough to realise their impacts.

i should start calling in again, but i'm shy...

my son went camping in the costa rican rain forest for spring break and brought us back a bag of cafe maravilloso, a costa rican coffee. finally broke the bag out today and made a pot. using standard measures it came out pitch black but surprising smooth. turns out when you read the ingredients that it contains 10% sugar (don't know what form its in).

that sounds soooo goood right now, Dan... I think I'm actually jealous... ;)

animal envelopes?

http://www.paperdirect.com/images/products/000045766m.jpg

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=img&itag=crv&q=animal+envelopes&o=36

cafe maravilloso expresso!

Animals, Firefighters, and All Who Have Lost. BLESSINGS ::bow:: 3 times plus ...and of course all who have and will Die this day.

lionel is actually praising cheney because in his tiny warped twisted mind you need to have respect for someone who is willing to tell others to go pound sand (context was cheneys declaration of being a power unto himself)

to Provide Whole-Life Support for Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment Systems

...Raytheon employs 73,000 people worldwide

should do a shot

with a model and three strategically placed envelopes.

(i'm waiting for crnkr to do "lick" jokes)

A six-month research project has revealed a sharp division along class lines among the American teenagers flocking to the social network sites.

is a nebbish...

(good word to add to yer vocab, look it up)

is typically an immature act.

normal considering the TV brainwash they get as kids.

a revolting development amongst many such memes.

Sounds, Smells Wonderful. YEA! (nice blue bottles) I even have beads in colbalt, too. ;) ...

And Brava/Bravo ;) ... ESPECIALLY to the Moca and cafe espresso Yum Yum Drinks ... which I will get today, when I creep into the light! EEK!

are you on speed or something
:|

and ambulance guys

yer just jealous!

.

... Very Cool regarding " costa rican rain forest for spring break and brought us back a bag of cafe maravilloso, a costa rican coffee"
ENJOY! Almost (or really is) Magic. ;)

the amount of energy released is incredible.

No.....why?....;)
But I do drink TEA (YUM) and HAD NONE THIS AM .... YET (soon ;)

MORNING

Can we please have font and tables back?

Those tags are harmless and left with these devices, chaos will ensue.

note from the admin:

We are going to work on the spam attack issue - remember, YouTube embeds, image tags are OK. Javascript is not. DIVs are not.)

I saw that yesterday. Stripping fonts and tables thou takes so much away. :(

And I had a whole post full of FREE DICK JOKES to post too...

Whats with all the hostility and assholes on this blog lately?

air-ono, MM - Chill Out Dudes! its only a little blog

No wonder this blog doesn't get nearly the traffic it used to.

by digby

Laura Rozen posts some interesting observations on the Wapo Cheney story from a newspaper editor friend of hers.

When I read it this morning, I also thought that stuff about Cheney not really being the defacto president and how he's lost some battles with the big guy seemed pasted on to the story. I ignored them. Certainly this first part of the series gave no examples of such a thing --- quite the opposite. The portrait that was painted was of a secretive, megalomaniacal VP who has been running the country through underhanded and unaccountable means by manipulating his ridiculously stupid boss and exerting his power by any means necessary. You really can't read the article any other way.

Rozen's friend speculates that this story was held until the dead time in June and the reporters became enraged, which sounds right. And if they hadn't been enraged before, they almost certainly were when people (like me) started taking pot shots at the media for ignoring the story. Gelman and Becker must have been furious about that if they had this whopper in the chute and their editors were sitting on it.

Fascinating stuff. The DC establishment is at war with itself.
Link

As the George W. Bush administration struggles through its last two years in office, it appears that the agenda of neoconservative ideologues has finally lost its appeal among strategic parts of the U.S. foreign policy apparatus.

But as their influence has waned at the Pentagon and State Department, neo-conservative hawks have taken charge on the battlefield of public diplomacy.

Intent on fixing what American Enterprise Institute (AEI) fellow Joshua Muravchik termed Bush's "public diplomacy mess," right-wing hawks have gained control of the weapons in the "war of ideas" -- U.S. government-funded and supported media outlets such as Voice of America (VOA), Al-Hurra, and Radio Farda, which broadcast to the Middle East and aim to offer an alternative view of the news.

Morning everyone. :)

If we listen to the land, we will know what to do. - Terry Tempest Williams

twern't no attack on, wiccan

: )

"Whats with all the hostility and assholes on this blog lately?"

Lately?

fact of life around here.

wide open bloggie, we even allow Anonomous posts!

despite that we've had huge numbers of peeps posting here.

what really kills the blog is not the commenting by weirdo's

but the blog functionality going to zero for weeks on end.

that's what loses the crew when it happens,

which it has a dozen or so times

in the last three years.

Are gif's ok?Are they java?

all these photographers

(putting names to pics)
(so i know)
(hence, my distaste for anon's)

"twern't no attack on, wiccan"

OK then. good thing too! we were headed over there to pummel yer ass with pig bladders!

what's it to you

(lol)

was just curious

she's as zesty as a bag of coffee beans

: )

(i'll have 4, please)

should be ok.

the more kb's the slower the blog.

notice that? normal for bloggie "engines".

D6 is cool,

raises woofs too!

I wish I could speak with an admin here. All they really needed to lose are div's, activex and javascripts to make this place more secure. And even div's are pretty safe.

the-artists.org

superb site! tanks!

the more kb's the slower the blog.
Nevermind-K Bites,right.Thanks. :)

GROW UP beyond junior high air-ono.

It is hostile namecalling comments like
air-ono @10:54am that kill the blog.

Run Along!

Hey Dude!

The angry hostile air-ono child mouth was at 11:04am.

referring to the size of the picture MMR.

The bigger the pictures, the more work your network and processor has to preform. It affects refresh times too.

We always should welcome all the dozens of anonymous contributors here.

WELCOME ONE AND ALL!
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RE: "Whats with all the hostility and assholes on this blog lately?
new
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 10:54am."

I see this a wonderfully ACTIVE blog. I think Air-Ono and MMRules are Active but NEVER negative ... I think a difference are just in the many signs in one person. :blush:: Now I do get a bit acrid and tad sarcastic at times ... My Bad.
I do not even have a problem in getting my angst out on a few "trolls". YUM ::spank:: But I haven't found them yet. RATS. (Oh and I have them now 2 ... I just fed my "ex-dead-rats-walking" giggle)
;)

not having a running dialogue with the gang running things here has always spooked and irritated me personally.

asked to do an interview with Lauren and she blew me off. never got back to me eh?

bummer. what a shame eh? she's an interesting peep.

actually the interest for me was getting all the crew some press and credit here on the blog.

tell ya when sammer starts giving peeps recognition and rewards the bloggie REALLY picks up.

i've told him but he keeps forgetting (mostly) to give that feedback.

he's way better than most at AARgh though.

Well said! :)

Could you possibly repost your photos from alaska please...I can't find them now & missed looking before...

"I think Air-Ono and MMRules are Active but NEVER negative"

(snicker!)

AO?

can be an extremely negative asshole!

we allow him to get away with it cuz we know it's theraputic for him.

he's our premier basket case!

gives him a chance to provide some feedback.

And I was on IM briefly with him and he said some really nice things about Gnocchi. That made me feel like he does in fact read and enjoy the blog.

When I asked him if there were some way to donate for his effort, his response was just blog. Me blogging is hardly a contribution. But it did reinforce the earlier sense I got of it.

tanks!

i lovers a good compliment

deserved or otherwise...

we spent an afternoon in Seattle yakkin bout the bloggie.

lot's going on behind the curtain i (we) won't talk about.

.

did that great satire on his open mic thread recently.

hope he keeps it up.

these no-nic/no-guts assholes can play their stupid sock-puppet games all day

name-calling...

*boo-hoo*

(you are the "boo-hoo asshole")

woo-hoo

now you got a nic, asshole

the confusion

comes along becuz they don't know u well enough to understand tha "inside" jokes and references you make.

for example: "ex-dead-rats-walking"

ya gotta let em in and explain what yer talking about!

they have'nt a clue about the seditionists.

"don't call me asshole"

(who!)

maybe i was talking to another nameless asshole

when u gonna ignore the "static"?

yer as bad as my grumpy relatives listening to my first radio 'build' when i was a kid.

"but it's all static ie!"

"gimme a break mom! it's a signal from china on AM fer chrisesakes!"

double sheesh!

...like the one differing with me but just wrote and run. That's A Bit Chicken S___ (rhymes with...) LBH = LED BALLOON HUMOUR = Doesn't Fly = "eye roll".

LOL teehee snicker giggle
Air-Ono is not negative, just at times he is a bit "bitchy".
HaHaHaHaHaHa ... ;)

*boo-hoo*

"you're fucking up the blog"

you're disingenuous, freak

of course, you know that & i know that

(the stupid game)

you're here to be an asshole

is fun

(except when he's whining)

then he's BORINK!

(or whatever)

i know i being an asshole

it's water off a ducks back

and so it is with the anon

the difference is i wear it

(yes, guilty)

and don't shed croc-o-shite tears

http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/turn-your-windows-mobile-phon...

Instead of taking a contract with AT&T that wants to take our blog away.

We are all ass holes from time to time A/O. Be proud bud.

in bed

: )

yer not that good at being a hypocrit,

that's yer problem.

u need to listen to cheney more, he's a pro!

the sooner we all admit we're cumulatively FUBAR as a society, the sooner we can get on with it.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-usa-politics-thompson...

There went the neighborhood.

The best way to sum up some hateful foulmouthed children is that air-annoying needs serious therapy.

;)

is lurking.Any new Pic's?

air-annoying needs serious therapy

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 12:04pm.

The best way to sum up some hateful foulmouthed children is that air-annoying needs serious therapy.

;)

-

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Dead on the mark whoever you are!

Now we can all get along...

PEACE

PEACE PEACE

PEACE PEACE PEACE

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MM why did you post a self portrait with you in your antenna helmet?

Now we all know what you look like.

Today's Daily Quiz: June 22, 2007

What should be done with the expensive prison facilities built by Halliburton in Guantanamo after its closure?

Two words -- Cheney estate.

Run Along!

What A Fool Believes

Submitted by Rick Perlstein on June 22, 2007 - 2:41pm.

Big Con readers may enjoy my cover article in The Nation on how the notion that the nation is fundamentally conservative is, um, a big con. Don't miss the quote from the Campaign for America's Future/Media Matters joint report on "Why a Conservative America Is a Myth" about how the stubborn oxen in the mainstream media botch the job: "Democratic victories are understood as a product of the Democrats moving to the right, while Republican victories are the product of a conservative electorate."

LINK

Assimilated Press:
Los Angeles, California - Assimilated Press has learned that early last week American counter-intelligence agent Jack Bauer tortured his twenty year old daughter Kim until she admitted that she had withdrawn 200 dollars from his bank account by stealing his ATM card.

When questioned about this by Assimilated Press, Bauer admitted that he had engaged in some enhanced interrogation techniques on his only child in order to find out if she was the one who had stolen his money. Said Bauer, "I had no choice. The unauthorized withdrawal had dangerously depleted my funds and checks were starting to bounce. I had to act quickly. The clock was ticking and I was running out of time. Fortunately, after a few bouts of waterboarding, a broken kneecap and some electrical jolts from a wall socket, I got the truth from my daughter."
Doctors said that Kim Bauer should be released from the hospital in six weeks and that it is likely she will regain most of the use of her left leg after extensive therapy.

In a later development, a transient was found with Bauer's ATM card and 200 dollars in cash. Apparently, Jack Bauer had left the card in the ATM machine on his last transaction and the transient used it after Bauer left to make the unauthorized withdrawal.
Commenting on this latest twist in the story, Bauer said "Wow, I guess Kim didn't steal the money from me after all. I wonder why she confessed if she was innocent. Oh well, I'll make it up to her when she gets out of the hospital."

:)

which is why its done off shore in our name...

yup. don't we all?

air-anonomous needs serious therapy too is my guess.

only an arrogant shit head and it's sock puppets would claim perfection by pointing out someone elses flaws.

WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT A LAW DEFYING, POWER GRABBING VICE
PRESIDENT?

The descriptions are not ours. In the face of new revelations of the
wholesale dismissal of the Constitution by the Vice President Cheney,
"Power Grab" was the headline on the ABC News site. "Defiant" was the
headline of the Washington Post. By now you could not have escaped
hearing all the stories of the assertion by the vice president's
office that he is branch of government unto himself, and not beholden
to any other. And if you have not read the stories, they are all
linked in the "Arguments" section of this action page, where you can
also cast your vote on whether Cheney should be impeached or not.

NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL:
http://www.speakus.com/cheney_impeachment.php

And if the situation were not extreme enough, it was also reported
this week that Cheney is aggressively campaigning for Bush to pardon
Scooter Libby, which is an act of obstruction of justice on its face,
according to John Dean, who should know a little something about
impeachment. Whether or not Bush has the Constitutional power to
grant pardons without cause, it is still an abuse power for him to do
so, and a Constitutional high CRIME for Cheney to campaign for him to
do so.

YOUR YES VOTE IS WELCOME. YOUR NO VOTE IS WELCOME.

Now is the time to speak out, as more than 75,000 already have in the
National Cheney Impeachment Poll. Maybe you think that the Vice
President is doing a great job and that Scooter Libby deserves a
medal of freedom for outing Valerie Plame, thereby trashing our best
source of REAL intelligence on WMDs in the Middle East. If so, then
vote No, please vote No and take responsibility, and tell us you like
having our Constitution ripped into little shreds.

By if you are as stunned as everyone else in the country about the
increasingly brutal way that Cheney is abusing the power he has
already grabbed, from the time he appointed HIMSELF as Bush's running
mate, then please vote Yes to impeach. If you are as outraged as
everyone else about a rogue executive operating as an imperial outlaw
unto himself, please vote Yes to impeach.

stop picking on him...

...

I see a flock of children approaching the library...time to go hide....

Ono has a steady personality. You see "ono" and you know what you're getting.

When you see "anonymous" in a social setting, you know the person has issues with socializing.

If you're writing the Federalist papers, by all means, be anonymous. When you're interacting with other humans, it doesn't cut it.

Post articles anonymously. If you want to converse with people, than work within the most basic social conventions. It's not asking much.

What's the allure towards being anonymous anyway, I'll never understand. It looks like you spend 90% of the time defending anonymousness. I guess if you're on some big anonymous crusade, all your time is consumed with the implications of being anonymous, than posting anonymous is for you.

man, the chubbs...
Submitted by air-ono on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 3:03am.
will be mega-pissed at me
--------------------------------------------------------------
Following please find a quote from my most recent letter penned by the Rajah:

"When you next are online with Air-Ono tell him I NEED a postcard from Australia...It really goads these hick-town corrections officers that I get mail from all over the country as well as Canada & Japan...& me reading the NY Times (that leftist rabel-rousing rag) is icing on the cake!"
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I gotta love him. He crossed-out rable, replaced it with rabel and still got it wrong. It's probably the stress and, like Paris says, the food...

--If you're writing the Federalist papers, by all means, be anonymous. When you're interacting with other humans, it doesn't cut it.--

my guess.

Have you been catching my Benny Hill posts?

I dedicated the youtube video of the crucifixtion scene from passion of the christ to the tune of "Yakety Sax" to you.

Good morning, GBC

Could you possibly repost your photos from alaska please...I can't find them now & missed looking before...

~-~-~

Here ya go, Alice... added a few more. :)

GBC's Alaska Trip

great pix bud!

PRESIDENT".

by Steve Young Page 1 of 3 page(s)

http://www.opednews.com

in·ten·tion: A course of action that one intends to follow, no matter what one actually says.
"We don't dispute that the ISOO (Information Security Oversight Office) has a different opinion. But let's be very clear: This executive order was issued by the president, and he knows what his intentions were. He is in compliance with his executive order."
White House Spokesman Tony Fratto

Location: The White House Pressroom

Tony Snow: Good morning. I see we have an overflow crowd today. We
intended to build a bigger press room with more chairs, so will those in
the back please sit in those seats. First of all, the President would
like to send out early birthday wishes to Professor Irwin Corey who will
be 94 next week. Helen...
Helen Thomas: Vice President Cheney is refusing to allow an inspection of
his office by the National Archives' Information Security Oversight
Office. Isn't that a clear contempt of President Bush's own executive
order?

Snow: Oh, I'm sorry, Helen. I intended to call on David.

David Gregory: Helen's question.

Snow: (Sigh) If you actually read the order, the President clearly
intended it to only apply to those he intended it to apply to and not
have it apply to those who he did not intend it to apply to. All of
that, quite intentional.

Gregory: But I did read it and it doesn't exclude the Executive Branch.
Isn't the Executive Branch part of the government?

Snow: Now you're just speaking gibberish. But let's say, for argument's
sake, this (gestures finger quotes) "Executive Branch," as you call it,
is part of the (gestures finger quotes) "government." If that
hypothetical were applied, then sure, the order would apply to the
Executive Branch, but not necessarily to those in the Executive Branch.

Gregory: But when the president says "government," and doesn't exclude
anyone in that government, he'd have to mean all of government, wouldn't
he?

Snow: You're not saying you can read minds, are you David? Because the
only one who can read the President's mind is the President. And he does
so every day after finishing his morning bike ride.

Gregory: But in the President's order, it distinctly mentions any number
of times, that the President and the Vice President fall under this
order.

Snow: He also said we would find WMD in Iraq. Just because we didn't
doesn't mean he didn't intend to find them there. And if that didn't
raise any red flags I don't see why this should be any different. Look.
When the founding father drew up the two branches of government...

Gregory: Three.
Con't Reading

not only is Snow a complete idiot he's rude to Helen Thomas too!

definitely a representative of this 'goverment"...

now that cuts to the bone.

i think she stepped in it though, when she published a column which hinted of praise for raygun.

hope she wiped it off on "W's" oval office rug.

that would explain part of the stench coming from that place. i think the rotten bodies and blood of their victims explains most of the rest of the stink.

by Joan Brunwasser Page 1 of 1 page(s)
http://www.opednews.com

The Take Back America Conference and Me

I have just returned from Campaign for America's Future: Take Back America 2007 in our nation's capital. It's hard to imagine that this forum hasn't been happening forever. In just six years, this baby of Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey has morphed from Very Modest to Major League. This year, there were more than 3,000 conferees. All of the major Democratic contenders were there, as well as Speaker of the House Pelosi and Howard Dean. The conference was extremely well-run and full of interesting sessions, often at the same time. I struggled to be in more than one place at the same time. The only glitch was that Michael Moore's flight was cancelled due to bad weather conditions. So he missed his session on health care with clips from his new movie "Sicko". We were pretty universally disappointed about that.
I stayed with my friend Diane Perlman again and made the trek from Dupont Circle every morning, returning late at night. Each time I got to the corner of Connecticut and Florida, I was greeted by a street sign saying: 2000 Florida. It resonated for me, symbolizing just when everything started to go wrong. Every time I passed that darn sign, it gave me another jolt. I have felt for a long time that each of us can make a difference, can make the world a better place. This is a perfect example of the flip side of that equation. W has succeeded in changing the political landscape and it will take us a very long time to undo all the damage he has done. It began with Jeb and Katherine Harris instituting voter purging in Florida, prior to the election. According to Greg Palast, author of Armed Madhouse, of the 94,000 'felons' purged, "at least 91,000 were innocent legal voters, but the vast majority of these were guilty of nothing more than being Black, Democrats or both." (p. 40). Then, there was the networks' premature pronouncement (kicked off by a Bush cousin) and the Supreme Court's interference in the state recount. It's been downhill ever since. Whereas a few years ago, I might have been more reticent about saying that, much of the public has pretty much caught up with my assessment by now.
I'd like to touch briefly on two of the sessions I attended. The plenary on Media Reform: Building a Bigger Tent, was moderated by Josh Silver of Free Press. In his opening remarks, he spoke about how it's impossible to ignore the failings of the corporate press. He was referring to the war in Iraq, but of course, I was busy extrapolating to the long-time virtual media blackout on the subject of election fraud. Thank goodness for bloggers! Otherwise, what would any of us know about anything? I am proud to be a part of that effort to get the word out through OpEdNews. At the Gala Dinner on Tuesday night, progressive bloggers were honored with the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award for their contribution to keeping honest journalism alive and Rob Kall, Mr. OpEdNews, was up there on stage with them.
Silver pointed out that while media reform is necessary and urgent, it is only one part of a broken system that reaches beyond party lines. What's needed is a revitalization of journalistic integrity, but it must be accompanied by campaign finance reform - to create a level playing field, and election reform - to make sure that votes are counted accurately. It's part of a package and we need to reframe the issue to include each of these components. Achieving (or making progress on) one without the others has limited value. I had long thought the same thing and was happy to have my take on this validated
Con't reading

the jack bauer posting was good solid double. it not only got the point out that torture doesn't work, but also poked fun at the conservative perspective (was it scalia that used it recently?) that jack bauer is a real person.

by Rob Kall Page 1 of 1 page(s)

http://www.opednews.com **Action**
I've always thought Cheney was way out there - the most Voldemort-like official I've run across. But even in my harshest musings about the vice president, I never imagined that he would declare himself not only above the law, not only above the president, but actually his own dark planet - a separate entity from the White House.
Maureen Dowd

Now we have it-- clear evidence that Cheney is again hiding, evading, avoiding the transparency and checks and balances that keep America safe and fair.
Today, the lamestream media are covering the story. But, if they follow the same old M.O., they will be off the story by tomorrow and on to the next kidnapping, the next off the wagon celebrity, the next siamese twins surgery, or an update on Paris, Anna Nicole or Michael Jackson.

Let's try something different. Tell them you want them to cover the Cheney story. Tell them you want them to put investagive journalists on the story-- if they still have any. Tell them that you want to hear about this more than about any of the distrations they usually waste the airwaves on. Tell them failure to do so is failure to do their job to protect democracy.

Tell their advertisers that you don't want to see more Paris Hilton, that you are disappointed in Larry King for giving her airtime.

Make two phone calls. Send two emails. Send two snail mail messages. You ought to be able to do it in ten minutes. Send this on to ten friends.

There are eight members of congress on the Cheney impeachment bill. Call your member of congress. Ask what your representative is doing about all of Cheney's abuses of the constitution. Ask why he doesnt' think the constitution is important enough to protect. Ask him or her to sign on to Kucinich's bill to impeach Cheney. That should take you three to five minutes.

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Cheney's arrogant abuse of the constitution, the secrecy in which he's operated has been going on since the first days he was in office. He's gone too far. It's time to call for hearings and investigations. Reps conyers and Waxman should be subpoenaing Cheney current and former staffers to start building pressure. There's no need for a full impeachment. It will never go that far. As soon as Cheney sees the writing on the wall, he'll get a note from his doctor and resign for health reasons. I repeat. Cheney will resign for health reasons as soon as the heat starts to build under him. That's okay. We can prosecute after the 2008 elections are over.
So make the calls, send the emails and letters today. Recruit your friends. This is doable. Keep the stories about Cheney coming. Demand that the lamestream news network break their pattern and do their job.
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I've been in Sam's spot before and I really hope he knows how many people out here are on his side.

 
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just didn't want to listen to big fat eddie today so i thought i would try aar streaming (normally i use xm). i don't understand what the hell these clowns are thinking of with their instant winner popups when all i want to do is listen to tom hartmann.

A caller had a theory....

What if Bush/Cheney told Pelosi "You impeach us and the moment we get wind of you trying it, we'll launch the missiles and fighters into Iran...maybe even send in the 'Surge' troops.....create a world-wide recession, panic in the markets, and even if you guys win in 2008, you'll inherit a mess WORSE than it is now.....so back off and keep it 'on the table', Nance!"

gnocchi if he doesn't know we love him by now too bad.

I'm not going to the next level of love and devotion with Sam.

yeah but he had a tin foil hat on at the time.

(& the scenery is good too..) heh.. :)

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Constitution protects right to collective bargaining

On June 8, the Canadian Supreme Court held that collective bargaining is a fundamental aspect of Canadian society and recognizing that right reaffirms the values of dignity, personal autonomy, equality and democracy that are inherent in the Charter. link.

But the Missouri Supreme Court showed them. It beat the Canadian decision by two weeks.

On May 29, the Missouri Supreme Court held that the Missouri Constitution gives collective bargaining rights to both public and private sector employees. Among other things, this means that once a public employer agrees to terms with its employees' union, the employer cannot unilaterally rescind or modify the agreement. Independence-National Education Association v. Independence Sch. Dist.

This ruling marks a victory that took four years of litigation. The union plaintiffs filed suit in 2003 after the school district unilaterally imposed terms that differed from the parties' Memorandum of Understanding.

it has gone to crap in the last hour. all three indices (dow, s&p, nas) have given up their gains for the day and gone below where they opened.

Your such a fucking liar Sunshine Jim.

One at a time we find out.

Dan, trhy this link for AAR. Usually works well for me.

http://play.rbn.com/?url=airam/airam/live/live.rm&proto=rtsp

It originally was posted by SJ.

works much better.

The Bush administration has begun “exploring ways of offering Congress a compromise deal on Iraq policy to avert bruising battles in coming months.” Senior administration officials have discussed advocating a “sharply decentralized Iraq, a notion that has seen a resurgence on Capitol Hill.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-iraqdeal25jun25,1,1...

GBC, what great photos!!

Cruising with Family is great too.

What a great trip that must have been.

The New York Times endorses new House and Senate legislation that would end a tax law provision allowing private equity and hedge fund operators to “pay a lower capital-gains tax rate of 15 percent, instead of the ordinary top income-tax rate of 35 percent.” It is “untenable for the most highly paid Americans to enjoy tax rates that are lower than those of all but the lowest-income workers,” the Times writes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/opinion/25mon1.html?ex=1340424000&en=a...

U.S. attorney was ‘cheerleading’ for GOP caging scheme. Just four days before the 2004 elections, Assistant Attorney General Alex Acosta — who is now a U.S. attorney in Ohio — sent an “unusual letter” to a federal judge in Ohio who “was weighing whether to let Republicans challenge the credentials of 23,000 mostly African American voters” in a caging scheme. Acosta argued in favor of the Republican party. “Robert Kengle, former deputy chief of the department’s Voting Rights Section who served under Acosta, said the letter amounted to ‘cheerleading for the Republican defendants.’”

http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/239832.html

White House opposes declassifying WMD report. “The White House is resisting a move by both Republicans and Democrats to fully declassify a Senate report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction,” believing the declassification “would trigger another round of negative news media coverage and Democratic-led congressional hearings, said a Senate Republican, who asked to remain anonymous because of ongoing private discussions.”

http://www.examiner.com/a-797444~White_House_opposes_move_to_declassify_...

Supreme Court Sides With Administration, Corporations In New Decisions
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Bush administration, corporations, and a “pro-life” group in a series of decisions announced today, reaffirming the conservative, business-friendly bent the Court has taken under Chief Justice John Roberts

EPA’s responsibility to protect endangered species weakened:

In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled that the federal government can avoid its responsibility to protect species under the Endangered Species Act by handing off authority to the states. The EPA routinely delegates administration of the Clean Water Act to states. The Court’s decision means the EPA does not have to ensure that states abide by the federal Endangered Species Act when they issue Clean Water Act permits. [National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife and a companion case]

Ordinary taxpayers cannot challenge Faith-Based Initiative:

In a 5-4 decision, the Court “barred ordinary taxpayers from challenging a White House initiative helping religious charities get a share of federal money.” A taypayers’ group called the Freedom From Religion Foundation sued eight Bush administration officials, including the head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, objecting to “government conferences in which administration officials encourage religious charities to apply for federal grants.” [Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation]

Campaign finance restrictions weakened for corporate- and union-funded ads:

In a 5-4 decision, the Court loosened restrictions on corporate- and union-funded television ads that air close to elections, “weakening a key provision of a landmark campaign finance law.” The court “upheld an appeals court ruling that an anti-abortion group should have been allowed to air ads during the final two months before the 2004 elections.” [Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right-to-Life]

UPDATE: In all three decisions, the majority was formed by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy.

UPDATE II: In implicit criticism of President Bush’s recent appointees Roberts and Alito, Justice David Souter chose to read his dissent in the campaign finance case from the bench “to signal his displeasure with the changing court.”

“The court (and, I think, the country), loses when important precedent is overruled without good reason, and there is no justification for departure from our usual rule of stare decisis here,” he said, referring to the court’s rule of following past judgments.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/25/supreme-court-sides-with-administrat...

can we have tables and font tags back?

Those shouldn't cause any problems.

REPORT: Stop Training Iraqi Security Forces And Redeploy U.S. Troops »
A new Center for American Progress report titled Strategic Reset calls for the withdrawal of virtually all U.S. troops within one year, and for the United States to “phase out its training of Iraq’s national security forces and place strict limits on further arming and equipping Iraq’s forces.”

Training security forces has been one of the main tenets of President Bush’s Iraq strategy. Bush has repeatedly stated, “As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down” and the United States has already invested $20 billion into training Iraq’s national army and police force. Other major Iraq strategies — including the Iraq Study Group and Congress’s war funding bill — also advocate continuing to fund Iraqi security forces.

But Strategic Reset charts a new course, arguing that this approach is actually contributing to the violence in Iraq:

First, the United States is arming up different sides in multiple civil wars that could turn even more vicious in the coming years. Second (and more important to America’s strategic interests) billions of dollars of U.S. military assistance is going to some of the closest allies of America’s greatest rival in the Middle East — Iran. The Shi’a-dominated Iraqi national army and security forces could quite quickly turn their weapons against American troops and allies in the region. […]

Training and skill-building are not crucial for Iraq’s security forces. In fact many of them have more training than hundreds of U.S. soldiers being deployed as part of this surge. Rather, the Iraqi forces’ problems are related to motivation and allegiance. In the past three years, the size of Iraq’s security forces and the levels of violence have both grown steadily, even as the U.S. troop presence remained constant.

Other highlights of Strategic Reset:

– Redeployment of U.S. troops: U.S. troops would begin withdrawing from Iraq by the summer of 2007, at the latest. “U.S. troop levels in Iraq could decline to about 70,000 by January 2008, with a full redeployment completed by September 2008.” Troops would rotate to Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, back to the United States, or to other “critical missions outside of Iraq.”

– Engage in global/regional diplomatic initiatives: The Bush administration needs to participate in regional conferences and engage in bilaterial discussions with Iran, ensuring that “the costs of intervening to exploit Iraq’s internal divisions are much higher than the benefits gained from working collectively to contain, manage, and utimately resolve Iraq’s internal conflicts.”

– Active leadership on the Arab-Israeli conflict: Bush should appoint a special Middle East envoy who would have the support of two senior ambassadors devoted to resolving Middle East conflicts. Not only does the United States need to negotiate with Iran and Syria to solve these issues, but it must also “remove any roadblocks it may have inappropriately placed in Israeli exploration of Syrian intentions.”

UPDATE: Spencer Ackerman at TPMmuckraker has more analysis.

UPDATE: Matthew Yglesias also has more.

See chart below for the correspondence between the levels of Iraq’s security forces and the violence in Iraq:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/25/strategic-reset/

“Tony Blair’s appointment as an international envoy for the Middle East looks set to be formally agreed on Tuesday — a day before he leaves office — amid signs that the move is causing deep unease in some quarters.”

Washington Times: Sen. John Warner (R-VA) is “giving clear indications that he will not return for another term.”

Cheney Author: 9/11 Didn’t Change Cheney, Gave Him Opportunity ‘To Put His Views Into Action’
The Washington Post’s four-part series on the influence and power of Dick Cheney reveal the tactics of a stealthy operator who prizes secrecy, kneecaps opponents, stifles dissent, and dogmatically pursues a rigid hard-right agenda.

Cheney has argued that his quest for war in Iraq, pursuit of torture, denial of due process to detainees, and advocacy for illegal wiretaps were all precipitated by the events of 9/11:

CHENEY: In a sense, 9/11 changed everything for us. 9/11 forced us to think in new ways about threats to the United States, about our vulnerabilities, about who our enemies were, about what kind of military strategy we needed in order to defend ourselves. [12/23/03]

CHENEY: I think 9/11 changed things to the point where we could no longer afford to ignore what was going on in Iraq. [2/23/07]

This morning on Washington Post radio, Barton Gellman — the co-author of the Cheney series — argued that based on his research of Cheney, he found “no evidence” that “9/11 exerted a profound psychological change on the Vice President.” Instead, Gellman argued, “[Cheney] has not changed his views very much over the years. What has changed is he has a greater opportunity to put them into action.” Listen to the interview:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/25/cheney-no-change/

Satisfied with the non-denial denial? When a reporter finally got a chance to ask Karl Rove about the claims he had a role in orchestrating the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (D) all he managed was a dodge: that he didn't know anything about the phone call in which his alleged role was revealed.

Well, obviously, that doesn't mean anything since no one is claiming he was a party on that call.

Folks are ignoring this one at their peril. With the track record of the US Attorney firings, when the president's top advisor is accused, credibly and specifically, of orchestrating the prosecution of a Democratic governor, he should be able to give a straightforward answer.

Apparently he can't.

Siegelman's sentencing is tomorrow.

-- Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014813.php

The Admin of this country of ours is falling into the same trap they helped to make for Russia when they became bogged down in Afghanistan.

This is what bankrupted the Russians and caused the end of the cold war. The country was bankrupt! They had been throwing defense rubles down the drain in Afghanistan. It was a long war.

And it was the US, at that time, that was arming what became the Taliban.

Here's some hitory on this:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB57/essay.html

While America is bogged down in Iraq, China's been quietly winning friends and influencing people.

This week at TPMCafe's Book Club, we're discussing Josh Kurlantzick's Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World. Kurlantzick argues that "China savvily has amassed significant “soft power” around the world through aid, formal diplomacy, public diplomacy, investment, and other tools" and is going to start to use it. We ignore this geopolitical shift, according to Kurlantzick, at our own peril.

Debating China's quiet rise to power will be Naazneen Barma, Mauro De Lorenzo, Ely Ratner, Devin Stewart, John Feffer, Reed Hundt, and Daniel Drezner.

-- Andrew Golis

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014811.php

Any Seder sub slots for vacationing AAR hosts?

Sam, maybe you can get Maron on an all alum panel Sunday.

...The Whole Administration! They ARE LIARS and ARE INVALID!
PERIOD!

Ward Churchill:
http://www.counterpunch.org/liddell06252007.html

keiran
and how dare she speak disrespectfully about my man Waxman. She's so stepford suzy sorority ick.

I really like to check in on the blog daily, however there are some people who are using it for their own personal "enjoyment", as if others of us are suppose to enjoy some of the crazy stuff that they put up. I for one would like to hear the thoughts and coherent comments of others about the things that are going on in the government and not some person making insane and irrelevent comments.
If they wish to talk nonsense to each other why, then don't e mail each other and not use the blog for your useless conversations.

Thanks HEAS

Dan
I make sure to open an AAR media player into a new window (easiest to do from Randi's website for me no matter who's show I am going to listen to) - then I shrink the window down both top to bottom and side to side til all I see with a bit of scrolling is the black play and volume bar. This allows me to stream without having to see any of those annoying popups etc... I then stick the window in a corner of my screen and forget about it til I want to turn it off.

Hope this helps.

Nefferkitti

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

"If they wish to talk nonsense to each other why, then don't e mail each other and not use the blog for your useless conversations."

Some of the most relevant info here is posted by the same people who keep the "community thing" that you dislike so much going.

What can I tell you. You have to take the good with the bad. The unique character of this blog attracts people of all political stripes. I think it's good to see what is on peoples minds. Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way.

You might have something against personal enjoyment, but we all can't be as serious and important as you. Please forgive us.

Hmmmmm I am very sleepy right now but do let me responed and I am trying to be nice.

I like a blog that is a bit irrelevant and open to all directions.

I would think EVERYTHING that is posted here that most should know of Most CURRENT NEWS, and they make STATEMENTS ABOUT THEM.
Should one waste my time in constantly repeating the rhetoric? But I am letting those type of people express themselves. I have post many intense things here what I am working on WITH SOME. Just waiting... What are you doing? I have many issues I am working on a national level.....What are you doing? I have a very ACTIVE radical past ... do you? Or are you just speaking more "talking head" BS?

I get my strength thru The Chaos of what we ALL are about.
I get my strength by the "elan" of the "dramatis personae".

I find it bothersome if it is just redundant crap, but if it part of the whole. Cool. Many here post other hot issues if "the topic" is meant to and some irrelevant issues.

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However, I am willing to reach a true compromise and just let ALL be and post all things. Are you? Or you think it can only be your way?

I BELIEVE IN ACTION BEING LOUDER THAN WORDS * AND PUT UP OR SHUT UP. If you knew of me (some here may verify) I can put up. So if all you want are words and you doing no ACTIONS then folks have fun wasting masturbating and achieving nothing except self, I do not have the time for that self involvment.
However, let's meet online here and DEBATE the relevancy of superfluous words and ALL words and pictures and The All?

BUT BE BOLD AND LIST WHO YOU GO AS! BE STRAIGHT FORWARD!
If you don't I have little respect. It's cool to go anon, but not in an attack mode and play chicken and run away giving no debate or able to deal with an issue.

Your rantings are a waste of space also ... BUT "not" as with the much needed sarcasm I enjoy.

MANY HEAR KNOW WHATS "...'going 'round...", Don't You?
Let's meet online and see where many people stand... I truly am interested. Put Up...!
(BTW I am a Woman.) ... ;) ...GRRR

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