Conservatives live cartoon lives

St Optimus Prime and his Courageous Caucasians!

That hurt my brain, Seder.

I really reject this! Y'all in the media and the press just make fun of us!

See, what you're really sayin' is that we live our lives as if there were no more ramification for our actions than if we were living in a cartoon.

Like, if I order an air strike on Iran's nuclear processing facilities, it won't be like a cartoon -- though when they write up th' histories, I'm gonna ask they put in a laugh track.

Sluggo
Pres'nint of the United States

In a Friday mood!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SVjZnDVxk8

Matthew Continetti, clone of Bill Kristol, arrogant little prick. Watch this with an empty stomach. I couldn't get past his "unconstitutional and demeaning" bit.

DETROIT, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Top campaign officials for
Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich tonight
expressed outrage that rival candidates Hillary Clinton and John Edwards were
overheard collaborating on a strategy to eliminate other Democratic candidates
from future debates and forums.

According to the Associated Press, Fox News Channel microphones picked up
Clinton and Edwards on stage discussing their desire to limit future joint
appearances to exclude some rivals lower in the crowded field. "We should try
to have a more serious and a smaller group," Edwards said into Clinton's ear
following a Presidential Forum in Detroit hosted by the NAACP on Thursday.

Clinton agreed with Edwards, according to print reports and video footage
of the exchange. "We've got to cut the number. ... They're not serious," she
said. Clinton added that she thought representatives of her campaign and
Edwards' had already tried to limit the debates, and "we've gotta get back to
it," according to the AP.

"Candidates, no matter how important or influential they perceive
themselves to be, do not have and should not have the power to determine who
is allowed to speak to the American public and who is not," said Kucinich.

"Imperial candidates are as repugnant to the American people and to our
Democracy as an imperial President."

The Kucinich campaign will immediately take steps to address the planned
actions of the Clinton and Edwards campaigns.

around here, where he comes from. He is not

even taken seriously. It's Always All About

Dennis! Cleveland Scene and Cleveland Free

Times lampoon him almost weekly. BTW...there

was an interesting article in the Free Times

last week about a 1980's mob hit on Dennis that

went awry. You might be able to read it in

archives.

is a perfect way to communicate to a bed wetting holier than thou racist conservative. That's about their speed.

i agree with Kucinich statement, regardless if he is taken seriously by his own local paper or not, he has the right to speak and to run for office. if Clinton and Edwards are caught trying to cheat the system they should pay the price of embarassment. who are they to decide that certain people are not serious. their comments make it obvious that they are the same breed of politician as the ones we already dislike; corporate and cut throat. i'm not sure i can believe or support either candidacy.

Terrible.

Same ol' corporate slant, plenty of Chimpi and Condi soundbites, polls crapping on Congress, entfotainment news.

AAR blows it again.

My bet is that Fred Thompson is the one with the Rovian machine behind him if it is behind anyone.

By now I am sure of it, actually. And this classic Rove-like maneuver only helps make me more sure.

Thompson Swoops In On Anti-Giuliani Firefighters

Of all the candidates currently in the race, none have any real momentum and are either complete impossiblities or disasters waiting to happen. Thompson might be also, but he is the one with the stealth campaing right now and despite the usual hypocrisies that plague all Republicans, this guy is totally groomable and willing to be groomed. Put the Rove-bots behind him and a few media whores like Matthews on his tits and watch out. Here comes the Aqua Velva man!

He's on his way!

Too friggin' busy lately to do much more than read a bit. Miss you guys!

*

And given Sammer's header post, "Conservatives live cartoon lives," I'll raise you hippies this:

[compliments of the inimitable TRex@FDL]

[poor ferret...*snark*]

Aqua Velva Man

Submitted by 60th Street on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 2:16pm.

Of all the candidates currently in the race, none have any real momentum and are either complete impossiblities or disasters waiting to happen.

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Good thing that's not true on the Democratic side, huh?

Yes, and I can tell the Republiklans are drooling to jump on his moronic coattails because despite the sheer idiocy of all their asinine "Hollywood liberal" fuckery, they are pining to chug celebrity cock just like they did for Reagan, Schawrtzenegger and, eesh, yes, it will happen Fred Thompson.

I can't wait to see how the Fox pansies jump on the Aqua Velva bandwagon.

Considering people voted for Bush because of his accent, swagger, handshake, and whether or not they'd have a beer with him, versus pegging him for the utterly pussified, milquetoast daddy's-boy that he is, I have no dobut the same fluffers will turn out to vote for Thompson because he has a cigar in his hand and takes pride in being a womanizer. Morals? integrity? eh!

because he has a cigar in his hand and a womanizer. Morals? integrity? eh!

Submitted by 60th Street on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 2:47pm.

Again, good thing that's never been true on the Democratic side. (Actually, according to the stories HE put the cigar IN the woman!...LOL)

'A dead Iraqi is just another dead Iraqi... You know, so what?'
Interviews with US veterans show for the first time the pattern of brutality in Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2758829.ece

H/T to Gen. JC Christian, Patriot
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2007/07/wouldnt-be-prudent.html

Hmmm....
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 2:34pm.
Aqua Velva Man

Submitted by 60th Street on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 2:16pm.

Of all the candidates currently in the race, none have any real momentum and are either complete impossiblities or disasters waiting to happen.

------------------

Good thing that's not true on the Democratic side, huh?

*

Certainly, some of the dem candidates don't "have any real momentum and are either complete impossiblities or disasters waiting to happen."

All the political parties are subject to that comment, dear no-no-mouse.

But frankly, these trends make this leftist smile. Unless, of course, you're a wingnut or a "pox on all your houses" proponent, eh, nonnymouse?

This part is telling:

CBS News Poll. June 26-28, 2007

"If the 2008 election for president were being held today, would you probably vote for the Republican candidate or would you probably vote for the Democratic candidate?"

(R) 28% (D) 55%

*does a little happy dance*

I think this happy dancing dope did a daily jig for Fitzmas. Two years worth I think. Hahahahahahahahaha. He who happy dances last, dances longest. Hahahahahahahaha. What a chump.

Tucker Carlson, stalwart defender of sexual privacy
The MSNBC host expresses completely opposite views of the virtues of sex scandals depending on the party affiliation of the accused.
Link
[Originally posted at 3:08pm. Edited to shorten link]

ßißiπiπi™©®♥♪€£₣יתﻔﻟﺲ¢

You could smell the Republican fear. Hahahahahahahahah. You were gonna get Bush, Rove, Cheney! Send em to jail. Hahahahahahaha. Frog marched out of the White House Well you almost got a Scooter but that fell apart too. No one charged with outing anyone! Hahahahahahahahaha. The great Fitzmas joke!

read this---

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1100316

(or don't as it may upset your fantasy world, Impeachment fans!)

No wonder you always went home alone after the dance, or would that be dance-fighting, Gare? Bruhahahahahaha!

Hey, everybody...say hi to Gare's significant other:

Gare's hand to Gare: "Hey, is that a fresh tube of astro-glide in your pants...

...or are you just glad to meet me?"

*

Fucking wanker!

Florida lawmaker plans to fight prostitution charge

A Republican state lawmaker charged with offering to perform oral sex for $20 on an undercover male police officer vowed Thursday to defend himself in court and said he would not resign from office.

"I am filing a not guilty plea. I am vigorously going to fight this," State Rep. Bob Allen, a co-chair of Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign in Florida, said at a news conference. "I am not resigning my office because the people elected me and want me to do a good job. I am going to do a good job for them in finishing this term."

Allen called his arrest "an ugly and unpleasant situation that has been thrust on me and my family." The lawmaker had sponsored a failed bill that would have tightened the state's prohibition on public sex....

Free Democracy

They're bouncing!
new
Submitted by Cat Chew on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 3:19pm.

Submitted by Kevin © on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 3:30pm.

..."I am filing a not guilty plea. I am vigorously going to fight this," State Rep. Bob Allen, a co-chair of Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign in Florida, said at a news conference...
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I commiserate with the poor guy. I can't count the times that I have been in a public restroom, exclaimed "Damn! The paper towel dispenser is empty!" and been misunderstood by the undercover Vice Squad cop as having said, "I'll give you twenty bucks to let me play your skin flute."

a clip on Randi is enuf to make me shit 'em.

It's my all time favorite booby shot.
But then, who doesn't love boobies?

Well, imp. You have your laugh, always note that it came at the expense of your countrymen and women fighting in your place. All the denial in the world won't make that go away.

Fitz ws a Republican hired by your boy, the Republican Chimp, and the CIA leak case was undertaken by your boys at the Republican DOJ at the request of the CIA led by Republican George "Slam-dunk Tenent himself.
It was an orgy of incompetent clusterfuquery and everyone walked except the thousands dead in Iraq. You dance on their graves as your kind always has. We'll pick you off one by one and wipe off our boots like we always have.

Game Removed Due to Copyright Concerns.

You can create your own Simpsons character using The Simpsons Maker.

Damn ... I heard on the News that you could upload a pict of yourself and it would Simpsonize you. Can't remember who was doing it though.

[looks around, silence]

PHOTOS: NEWARK RACE RIOTS: 40 YEARS LATER

On 40th Anniversary of Newark Rebellion, a Look Back at Historic Unrest that Changed the Nation - Democracy Now

Free Democracy

I just read McCain's whole staff but one is gone.

Hahahahahahahaha. You work so hard on your evil little plans. You work yourselves up into a nasty little sweat. And for what? Any child could tell you that you are wasting your time. Even Nancy tells you to get fucked. Real Americans just shake their heads and laugh at you. Fitzamas, Impeachment, Surrender, Hahahahahahahaha. You're the joke of the political system. Hahahahahahahahaha.

Simpsonize Yourself .... It's on the Simpsons Movie site.

ßitch ßettah have ma $!!

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/41026/detail/

Girls Gone Gubment

Those two words alone, expose what a total dick

you are!

:)
Later, fine peeps and sweethearts.

made of 100% real cheese, will ingest what ever is put in front of them, thinks Simon Cowell is an effing genius, hears alot, processes and learns nothing

Thanks Cat Chew ... this one is like that game that was removed .. I am going to make one there and at the Movie site.

The one on the Simpsons Movie site ... is the one where you upload a pict of yourself and it will make you.

Free Democracy

Dunno, bibi, I'm with you on the "learns nothing" part but these Chimp-chuggers can certainly process the royal jizz with gusto.

my apologies for the inevitable visual

You know, people who love this country. People who work for a living. People who pay taxes. People who are not begging from the the government. People who are still shocked when they see the kind of garbage that is posted here. People who are not losers or deadbeats. People who are not stoners and subversives. You know, the real Americans.

John Birks Gillespie!

I just didn't want you to think his mother named him

Dizzy.

Real Americans?
Submitted by Peter Dragon on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 4:17pm.
Those two words alone, expose what a total dick you are!
-----------------------------------------------------------
Yeah. I'm embarrassed for him...and I'm disgruntled with my embarrassment. Seems like a waste of empathy.

that is posted here.

Oh! You mean ASSHOLES! Now I get your point!

Thank you!

I just finished reading an interesting book about

the Enteric Nervous System called "The Second Brain,"

by Doctor Micheal Gershon. Not a quick read but a

good one!

That's why you are here.

Bill Moyers On PBS

A public opinion poll from the American Research Group recently reported that more than four in ten Americans — 45% — favor impeachment hearings for President Bush and more than half — 54% — favored impeachment for Vice President Cheney.

Unhappiness about the war in Iraq isn't the only cause of the unsettled feelings of the electorate. Recent events like President Bush's pardoning of Scooter Libby, the refusal of Vice President Cheney's office to surrender emails under subpoena to Congress and the President's prohibition of testimony of former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers in front of the House Judiciary Committee have caused unease over claims of "executive privilege." In addition, many of the White House anti-terror initiatives and procedures — from the status of "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo to warrantless wiretapping — have come under legal scrutiny in Congress and the courts.

Bill Moyers gets perspective on the role of impeachment in American political life from Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and THE NATION's John Nichols, author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT.....

one of my favorite tunes of all time is "Birk's

Works!" We played it in my high school dance/jazz

band, back in 1956.

(spoing)

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 4:38pm.
That's why you are here.

A direct quote from "The Book of Enlightenment,"

by A. Scmhmuck.

was what I didn't mean!

You know, people who love this country.
...enough to undermine an entire covert intelligence operation designed to ferret out info on Iran's WMD or cheerlead for the criminals who did it.

People who work for a living. People who pay taxes. People who are not begging from the the government.
...See Dean Baker

People who are still shocked when they see the kind of garbage that is posted here.
...Troll doesn't like boobies >:(

People who are not losers or deadbeats.
...Heh! Don't get me started.

People who are not stoners and subversives.
...Prefers junkies like Rush Limbaugh to stoners like the Bush brats.

You know, the real Americans.
...North or South? Geographically challenged, doesn't understand there are two continents of "real Americans."

Trolls are your best entertainment value!
The li'l knuckleheads, blog bless 'em.

just dancin in the sun...

it was fun.

http://www.folkfest.bc.ca/photos/photo011.jpg

But I draw the line at putting a magnetic ribbon

on my car to brag about it!

"You know, people who love this country. People who work for a living. People who pay taxes. People who are not begging from the the government."

So...Big corporations like PGE aren't real Americans? (They don't pay taxes)Hedge funds earners aren't real Americans?(They don't 'work' for a living.) How about giant companies who beg the government for bail-outs so they don't have to pay the pensions they promised?

Cheney and BushCo HATE this country. They'll turn it out to the highest bidder like we're just another commodity.

Real Americans. Hrmph.

http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/PhotoAlbums/photoAlbum.aspx?Membe...

A magnetic car ribbon for Peter Dragon:

I think I finally need a magnetic ribbon...

Thank you! But it goes on the fridge!

My apologies.

People who work for a living.
like undocumented workers and union memebers?

People who pay taxes.
Like Jack Abramoff, Italia Federici and Duke Cunningham?

People who are not begging from the the government.
Like United Airlines and Enron?

People who are still shocked when they see the kind of garbage that is posted here.
Like me?

People who are not losers or deadbeats.
Like John McCain, Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, Ted Klaudt, Roy Pearson, David Vitter and "Bob" Allen?

People who are not stoners and subversives.
Like President Marching Powder, Deadeye Dick, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Alberto Gonzalez and the SCROTUMS in SCOTUS?

He he, yeah, I know, REAL Americans.

Are those sold anywhere?
Submitted by Harold on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 5:05pm.
-------------------------------------------------
It would seem so. I found it here (scroll down):

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova

http://jeffrey-feldman.typepad.com/frameshop/2007/07/frameshop-a-p-1.htm...

Only Tom Tancredo shows up.

here's a review from the Cleveland Free Times...

Film Picks
Forget Regret
La Vie En Rose Paints A Psychological Portrait
La Vie En Rose "Paris is a city of gaieties and pleasure where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief," goes a quote (no, not Balzac; remarkably, it was Nicholas Chamfort) that I liked so much that I illustrated it as a poster for French class. That contradiction found human form in legendary French vocalist Edith Piaf, born in the brothel environs of Belleville as Edith Giovanna Gassion in 1915. By the time she died in 1963, wasted by drink, morphine, mob ties, heartache, bereavement, serial car crashes and scandal, France's most popular singer looked ravaged, twice her age. Yet the diminutive, hard-living "Little Sparrow" could still take as her theme song a ferocious self-empowerment anthem, "Je Ne Regrette Rien" ("I Regret Nothing").

A fresh, big-budget dramatization of Piaf's life, La Vie en Rose sure sets the bar higher for incipient gay-icon tragediennes Britney and Lindsay. The bad news for American audiences, sated with high-profile musical bios such as Ray, Ring of Fire, De-Lovely and Beyond the Sea, is that the French people know Edith Piaf's shooting-star arc from gutter to the toast of France better than the average tabloid subscriber knows Anna Nicole Smith's final hours. Director Olivier Dahan isn't going to spoon-feed an A-to-B plotline either to his countrymen or to stupid Yankee imperialist warmongers, a story that embraces such supporting-cast members as Yves Montand, Charles Aznavour and Marlene Dietrich. Moreover, Edith et Marcel, a 1983 Claude Lelouch attempt to cover the Piaf legend, was something of a monumental misfire.

What Dahan does instead of telling it straight is to present a psychological portrait of Piaf in vignette form, with a time-fractured chronology worthy of an Alain Resnais memory puzzle. We do indeed begin with little Edith's poverty-scarred upbringing as a pox-scarred street waif (who underwent a period of blindness in childhood) and occasionally homeless child of a street acrobat. Then the narrative snaps ahead to the pathos of her final years, when the frail but ferocious black-clad Little Sparrow, attended by an entourage of old friends, abused servants and new lovers, was filling concert halls across Europe and America with signature renditions of French cabaret songs - and, with increasing frequency, collapsing onstage. There's a cryptic Q&A with an aged (say, 40) Piaf on the beach, answering questions for a chic young journalist that could have been freestyle-improvised by Jean-Luc Godard. And then there's a bravura set piece of operatic passion and intensity - the day in 1949 when Piaf realizes that her unattainable lover, the middleweight boxing champ Marcel Cerdan, is lost to her forever. It's done in a dazzling, continuous multi-staged single take that could make Jeunet and Caro weep. But lost in Dahan's time/space shuffle are little things like WWII and Edith's brief film-acting career. Any attempt to keep up with the changing scenery of songwriters, mentors, comrades and boyfriends is frustrating indeed; I think I might even have missed when Cerdan first enters the picture.

But if you judge a musical biopic by the strength of its lead performer, La Vie En Rose sits strongly on the thin shoulders of actress Marion Cotillard, who is absolutely merveilleux in the starring role (her singing is a mixture of the actual Piaf and impersonator Jil Aigrot), capturing the mixture of clochard and diva that was Piaf. Dahan seems to be suggesting the "I regret nothing" part was less a lifelong credo than Piaf's wishful thinking at twilight, delivered to her rather providentially as an 11th-hour hit song. Je Ne Regrette Rien is, in fact, the only one of Piaf's classic melodies here to get full subtitles, so that not even the Americans can overlook the point.

- Charles Cassady Jr.

Idioti!

By JOSHUA FRANK

The shameless trashing of Ward Churchill from the left side of our political setting was perhaps the most grotesque of all the attacks faced by the tenured University of Colorado professor after his essay "Some Push Back" began making headlines in early 2005. It was predictable that right-wingers like David Horowitz and pundit Sean Hannity would blather about Churchill being un-American, but the liberal loathing of the radical academic came with an extra unexpected fervor. Let's take Marc Cooper, contributing editor to The Nation magazine, whom, on his personal blog, responded to Churchill's 9/11 thesis:

"Move over, Mumia. The Left has a new cause celebre that's a guaranteed loser: Ward Churchill I saw the essay at the time and was nauseated by it. I have been tempted over the years to write something about it, but have always decided not to. Only because I consider Churchill to be an irrelevant and clearly deranged loner on the edge of the looniest left.

"Now I regret not having denounced him. Too bad others on the left also didn't quickly hurry to divorce themselves from this guy.

"Churchill, as you know, surfaced in the news last month when he was invited to speak at an upstate New York university and some conservatives raised a ruckus as they damn well should. If this guy can hang on to his tenure at CU[,] fine. But damned if student funds from somewhere else should be used to host him as some sort of guest speaker."

It was the kind of cheap jab Cooper is famous for. He's spelled out all sorts of ad hominems over the years -- from the bashing of Mumia to the castration of Hugo Chavez -- Cooper claimed to have reread Churchill's essay, only to find "it more offensive than when I originally saw it right after 9/11." If one only read Cooper's grotesque distortions of Churchill's fiery analysis (thinking a liberal would at least give Ward a fair crack), they would most likely believe the professor deserves the filthy muck that has been shoveled all over his career.

What did Cooper find so offensive anyway? Most likely it was Churchill's commentary on the "technocrats" in the World Trade Center:
http://www.counterpunch.org/frank07122007.html

searchable database for the DC. Madam phone numbers
A Liberal Blog Serving Orlando Florida and Surrounding Areas — by Christopher Wilson
Due to my complete lack of a life I now have a searchable database for the DC. Madam phone numbers.
http://www.theliberalblogger.com/

They stopped sending me flyers. Guess I shoulda bought something from them...

http://www.northernsun.com/n/s/2901.html

Hokey

I left you a post yesterday

I went out and saw a matinée (sp?) after you mentioned it

La Vie En Rose

my review

nothing but gray skys do I see ( I thought the preview for Goya's Ghosts was good.)

[the new me]

re Tucker Carlson was dismantled on his own show
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/812#comment-30253

[this is the old me]

60th!

That's a KEEPER!

"One has to wonder why this photo was not the lead on every morning show and on the front pages of every morning newspaper in America.

The reason, most likely, is a coordinated effort by Republicans to pressure news agencies to downplay the obvious implications of having 8 out of 9 of their Presidential candidates as "no shows" for a debate at the NAACP."

Shit why isn't this anywhere except on Frameshop and FDL? Good Lord! Tancredo!?! Is there a most awkward moment in politics award? The Awkies! LMAO!

Amazing, heh?

I seem to remember a lot of buzz about the Democrats' boycotting the Fox sponsored debate.

Yet we hear next to nothing about this embarrassing show by the Rebublicans?

Robert "Bob" Allen ensures that family name is well-sullied.

2007, and beyond...
M. Albert
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=13271&sectionID=1

I don't know which has irked me more? The dime store, cheesy, hooray-for-our-team, pseudo patriotism expressed with magnetic ribbons and radio antenna flags made in China after 9/11, or the fact that the displays have disappeared now that we are suffering the carnage and damage created by the knee-jerk patriotism in the first place.

I suppose that the kind of cretin who would fly an antenna flag as a sign of national solidarity can't sustain the enthusiasm after the flag has rotted away and the caskets are arriving at a rate of one-hundred per month with "Return To Sender" stickers on them.

...and the caskets are arriving at a rate of one-hundred per month with "Return To Sender" stickers on them.

Haven't they considered having 'mass-funerals' because there are just too many deceased to have separate services?

1. Zmag
2. Counterpunch
3. Carvel Subsidy

The return of your neighborhood patriot.

A Tommy Burger at Beverly and Rampart (1988)

get a look at this wonderful burger here http://tinyurl.com/33bugr

[the old me]

Rep. Allen Arrested, Cosponsored Public Lewdness Bill
House speaker Marco Rubio released a statement Thursday on Allen’s arrest.

"... Rep. Allen has advised that he intends to defend himself vigorously. That is his right and the House will respect that right. We will continue to monitor the situation and take appropriate steps if necessary." [Rubio; "Any body got a 20?"]

[me]

Giuliani was in Michigan that day.
Mitt Romney didn't seem to have anything scheduled.
Excuses from earlier in the week:
Republicans cool to presidential forum at Cobo [Hall, Detroit, Michigan]

NAACP Republican Presidential debate
re http://www.samsedershow.com/node/813#comment-30313

Sun Ra - Space is the place (1974)

"I'm not real I'm just like you, you don't exist in this society. If you did your people wouldn't be seeking equal rights. You're not real, if you were you'd have some status among the nations of the world. So we're both myths."

[me]

Our Economy is on an Artificial Life-support System

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6239

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 5:26pm.
I left you a post yesterday

I haven't seen it. That's why I was asking if anybody had

seen it. I was trying to get an idea if it was worth

driving in to Cleveland to see it. I hate driving into

Cuyahoga County and try to avoid it.

The Crashing U.S. Economy Held Hostage
Submitted by dada on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 6:37pm.

---
I just emailed this to my brother because we were just talking about this today when he came over to visit.

Robert Novak on bloggers: They “bloviate. They give their opinions. They don’t try to find things out.” (Neither does Novak.)

UPDATE: Novak says he’s “never going to retire.”

UPDATE II: In his upcoming memoir, Novak discloses that he has “never enjoyed such a good source inside the White House” as Karl Rove.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/13/robert-novak-on-bloggers/

House Judiciary Committee subpoenas RNC documents. Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), issued a
subpoena for RNC documents as part of ongoing congressional investigations into U.S. attorney purge. Statement from Conyers:

The White House has been stonewalling this investigation at every turn. We attempted to negotiate terms with the RNC as well as the White House to secure these documents. Yet again, the White House has stepped in to prevent the RNC from turning them over. So, we hope that the RNC - unlike Ms. Miers yesterday - will choose to comply with the legal obligation set out in this subpoena, as opposed to the opinion of the White House.

Also today, Conyers “wrote a follow up letter to Harriet Miers’ attorney informing him that her claims of immunity and privilege had been rejected,” and “could subject her to contempt proceedings.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/13/house-judiciary-committee-subpoenas-...

Lieberman: Bush’s ‘Ratings Among Historians Will Be Greater Than His Ratings In The Polls Today’
Yesterday in an interview with right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) praised President Bush’s policies in Iraq and predicted that Bush will be remembered by historians as a great President:

HEWITT: Oh, that’s fascinating. Last question, how do you think history’s going to evaluate George W. Bush?

LIEBERMAN: Well, I personally believe look, mistakes were made, and I know the polls are down, but I think on the largest issue of our time, which is the rise of Islamist extremism, that he will be judged as a president who saw the threat, and in the midst of an unpopular war, he stuck with it. And so I think overall, over time, his ratings among the historians will be greater than his ratings in the polls today.

Lieberman’s comments echo those by Rush Limbaugh, who in May said, “Long after we’re all dead and gone, when historians who are not yet born begin to write about this era, they’re going to place George Bush in the upper echelon of presidents who had a great vision for America, who looked beyond our shores, who didn’t just restrict himself to domestic policy niceties.”

It’s interesting that now, with the war more unpopular than ever and violence skyrocketing, Lieberman decides Bush is a great president. In contrast, in May 2003, when Lieberman was competing for the Democratic nomination for president, he said the Bush administration “seems to have been unprepared for the quick victory it predicted.” Similarly, in Sept. 2003, Lieberman stated:

I am shocked at how unprepared the Bush administration was for what to do afterward. They’ve left a vacuum which the terrorists, the Saddam loyalists, our enemies, have jumped into.

Rush and Lieberman may not be aware, but historians are already debating Bush’s legacy. In fact, Rolling Stone recently wrote, “Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/13/bush-lieberman-historians/

‘Hundreds of American troops’ will be lost before Sept. The AP looks at the costs of waiting until September for President Bush’s status report:

While many in Congress are pushing President Bush to alter course in Iraq by September if not sooner, his new status report on the war strongly implies that the administration believes its military strategy will take many more months to meet its goals.

The report cited no specific timeframe, but its language suggests what some U.S. commanders have hinted at recently: The troop reinforcements that Bush ordered in January may need to remain until spring 2008. […]

Between now and September the battle for Baghdad will intensify, likely costing hundreds of American troops’ lives.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_07_08_archive.html#598705489706122020

It's not a happy film

But it does give food for thought about the era which extended into the fifties.

That drug abuse (alcohol) was taken for granted for too long.

Made me think about the myth of if you are and artist, Paris is the place to go. I didn't, (in my 20's) and this film makes me glad for that. Seems everybody ended up in So. California when they were a success, and I was already there.

The film also jumps around in time in an unusual way. Maybe the technique works better after a few viewings. : )

[me]

ABC Hit Piece On Reid Embraced By Right Wing
During a press conference yesterday after President Bush’s briefing on Iraq progress, ABC’s Jake Tapper pressed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to speculate on post-withdrawal from Iraq.

Even though Reid responded and explained that the U.S. should withdraw because Iraqis feel more insecure right now, Tapper refused to back down. Later that night, he produced a segment for ABC’s World News Tonight attacking Reid. Watch it:

Tapper then wrote a piece for ABC News entitled “Benchmarks and Bickering: Where Are Dems on Iraqi Security?,” stuffed with right-wing rhetoric. He alleged that Reid “refused to discuss whether the United States had a moral obligation to secure the country for Iraqis or even answer questions as to whether withdrawing troops would make the country safer for the tens of millions of Iraqis.”

In fact, as the ABC segment showed, Reid did answer the question, telling Tapper: “It is clear that the Iraqi people don’t want us there. It is clear that there is now a state of chaos in Iraq, and it is up to the Iraqi people to make themselves safe.”

Nevertheless, the Washington Times picked up on the exchange today and reinforced Tapper’s attacks in an editorial titled “They Still Have No Plan“:

Mr. Reid’s response to this very reasonable question was to dodge here, dodge there. … What they [war critics] lack is any compelling rationale for the precipice over which they seek to push Iraq. Congress, do not turn a bloody and difficult stalemate in Iraq into an even bloodier, still more dangerous strategic catastrophe.

These talking points have been refuted time and again. Numerous military and diplomatic analysts argue that withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq would in fact “prevent Iraq’s multiple sectarian conflicts from spreading beyond its borders and gives Iraq and its neighbors the right incentive to help resolve Iraq’s internal conflicts.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/13/tapper-reid/

Cheney funding cut stripped from Senate bill. In a 15-14 vote yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an amendment introduced by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) “to strike language in the Financial Services Appropriations bill that would have barred funding for [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s office until he complies with an executive order Democrats argue compels him to provide information on classified data.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/13/cheney-funding-cut-stripped-from-sen...

GOP senators want new war authorization. Sens. Richard Lugar (R-IN) and John Warner (R-VA) “said today that President Bush should seek a new war authorization and present a plan to Congress by Oct. 16 outlining contingency plans in Iraq. Those plans, which would include reducing American forces, should begin by the end of the year.” Their measure will be “considered next week when the Iraq war debate resumes.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/washington/13cnd-cong.html?ex=13419792...

Having It Both Ways
Hadn't thought of it that way, but, yeah, good point from TPM Reader JM ...

I may have missed any commentary on this, but no one seems to be pointing out that Bush spent the whole press conference say we are fighting Al Queda, then concluded by disagreeing that Al Queda is stronger then it was in 2001. In 2001, they highjacked four airliners using box cutters and today, according to administration spin, they have the entire United States Army bogged down! How do people sit there and not start laughing, I don't know.
--Josh Marshall

Sixteen words I can really get behind

--- Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history ---

Sounds like I'll be watching that film on IFC, down the

road in time.

We're Outta Here!

Iraqi Parliament To Take August Vacation

According to Tony Snow, the Iraqi government is taking the month of August off. The White House had earlier tried to persuade the Iraqis to stay at work, but to no avail. "You know, it's 130 degrees in Baghdad in August," explains Tony Snow.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/07/us_eyes_iraqi_parlimentry_sche...

Bush (the most vacationing President in U.S. history) is probably gonna take the whole month off, too. So why not?

My brother came over to visit today and I told him about a problem I was having with my computer. So he tried to fix it and I've been all afternoon undoing what he did.

Every time I let him at my computer, he never fixes the problem but creates more.

ACh!

White House, Pentagon cite executive privilege to hold up documents on friendly fire victim Tillman Michael Roston
Published: Friday July 13, 2007

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) revealed on Friday afternoon that the White House and Pentagon were holding up a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation into the friendly fire death of former professional football player and Army Corporal Patrick Tillman.

"[T]he Committee wrote to White House Counsel Fred Fielding seeking 'all documents received or generated by any official in the Executive Office of the President' relating to Corporal Tillman's death," noted a press release from the Committee.

But the White House has apparently again invoked its executive privilege to hold up the documents sought by Waxman and Ranking Minority member Tom Davis (R-VA).

"The White House Counsel's office responded that it would not provide the Committee with documents that 'implicate Executive Branch confidentiality interests' and produced only two communications with the officials in the Defense Department, one of which was a package of news clippings," the Committe noted. "The response of the Defense Department to the Committee's inquiry was also deficient."

In their letter to Fielding, Waxman and Davis doubted that the two documents were the limits of White House-Pentagon communication over Tillman's death.

"It is difficult to believe that these are the only communications that White House officials had with the Department of Defense between April 22,2004, the day Corporal Tillman died, and May 29, 2004, the day the Bush Administration publicly announced that Corporal Tillman's death was a result of fratricide," they wrote.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_House_Pentagon_hold_up_documents_071...

Pentagon kills Rumsfeld 'propaganda' unit
Michael Roston
Published: Friday July 13, 2007

Current Defense Secretary Robert Gates has scrapped an institution established by his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld to rapidly counter messages in the press that the Pentagon considered negative, according to a report in Friday's Washington Times.

"Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has shut down a rapid-response press operation run out of the Pentagon speechwriting shop because it is not suited to his style of press relations," reports Bill Gertz in his weekly 'Inside the Ring' column.

A former Pentagon official explained to Gertz how the rapid-response unit worked.

"The unit would monitor U.S. and foreign press reports and highlight stories that were 'missing key elements,'" he writes. "It then would quickly send information to congressional and press contacts 'so people could see the rest of the story.'"

Rumsfeld during his tenure spoke vocally about America needing to win its wars in the media as well as on the battlefield.

"[T]hese are terrorists and they have media relations committees that meet and talk about strategy, not with bullets but with words," he warned in a February 2006 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. "They’ve proven to be highly successful at manipulating the opinion elites of the world. They plan and design their headline-grabbing attacks using every means of communication to intimidate and break the collective will of free people."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagon_kills_Rumsfeld_propaganda_unit_07...

Pygmy artists housed in Congo zoo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6898241.stm

The organisers[sic] say the grounds of Brazzaville zoo are closer to the pygmies' natural habitat.

But the pygmy musicians say they had expected to be housed properly while staying in the city.

Submitted by Peter Dragon on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 6:56pm.
I hate driving into Cuyahoga County and try to avoid it.
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I don't often encounter the name Cuyahoga. When I do, Randy Newman's song pops back into my head, "The Cuyahoga river goes smokin' through my dreams."

Democrats' inaction,
GOP stonewalling
"The Republicans are just stonewalling everything, and the Democrats are just not stepping up and making them do what they need to do, especially about Iraq."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070713/ap_on_re_us/congress_ap_poll;_ylt=Am...

I am currently running a script to pull hundreds of unique phone numbers. I should be ready to post results in an hour. can I get help identifying her clients if I post results?

sure - tried earlier

any search tips?

Iraq for Sale will be on starting tomorrow.

Robert and the entire Brave New Films team

P.S. There's more detail in Tracy's blog: http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/7367-iraq-for-sale-and-wal-mart-hit-the-sm...

IRAQ FOR SALE schedule:
Starz Cinema July 14, 10:00pm (includes special segment with me before and after)
Starz Cinema July 15, 11:05am (includes special segment with me before and after)
Starz Cinema July 26, 10:40am
Starz Cinema July 30, 4:35pm
Encore Drama August 2, 4:40am
Encore Drama August 8, 8:00pm
Encore Drama August 26, 2:35am
Encore Drama September 1, 12:35am
Encore Drama September 12, 2:35pm
Encore Drama September 28, 12:50pm

The Wal-Mart movie will also be airing:
Starz Cinema: July 25, 11:15am
Starz Cinema: July 25, 8:20pm
Starz Cinema: July 26, 3:14am
Starz Cinema: July 30, 6:00pm
Starz Cinema: July 31, 4:00am
Encore Drama: August 21, 2:20am

Bush claims executive privilege
on Pat Tillman death documents
Two influential lawmakers investigating how and when the Bush administration learned the circumstances of Pat Tillman's friendly-fire death and how those details were disclosed accused the White House and Pentagon on Friday of withholding key documents and renewed their demand for the material.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2935697&campaign=rss&source...

NEWSLETTER - Friday, July 13, 2007

“Impeachment is the cure for a constitutional crisis.”
- John Nichols

This week on Bill Moyers Journal (check local listings)

In the wake of President Bush’s commutation of I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby’s prison sentence, talk of impeachment is gaining steam as a new opinion poll says that nearly half of all Americans favor the impeachment of the President and more than half believe Vice President Cheney should be impeached. Bill Moyers gets perspective from Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and The Nation’s John Nichols, author of The Genius of Impeachment.

A Bill Moyers essay on war.

On The Moyers Blog

Discuss civil liberties during times of war and take our poll.

Respond to Bill Moyers essay on impeachment.

The "Embarrassment Privilege"
by emptywheel

We've got to start calling these refusals to testify what they are--because they surely aren't executive privilege. With Sara Taylor's plea to avoid testifying because she admires--and apparently took a vow to--Bush it's not executive privilege because she didn't speak to him about the USA firings. But we might call her refusal to testify the "I love me my Prezident privilege"--because that's about as serious as the legal discussion behind it is.

And then there's Harriet Miers. To justify her refusal to even show up, some DOJ hack suggested that the branches of government are so independent that they cannot force the other branch to show up. They say:

The President is an independent branch of government. He may not compel Congressmen to appear before him.

Someone better tell Duke Cunningham and William Jefferson, because for some reason, when the Executive Branch required them to show up and be investigated, they showed up--Jefferson only even got limited immunity for his Congressional office. Maybe Cunningham can get out of the Executive Branch's prison, once he asserts the Independent Immunity Privilege, huh?

But the real absurdity is BushCo's refusal to show up and reveal the truth about when it learned that Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire. They don't assert executive privilege. Rather, they're calling this Embarrassment Privilege "Executive Branch confidentiality interests"

Oh, and have I mentioned the Exempt from Presidential Records Act but not from Executive Privilege Privilege, being used to prevent Congress from seeing emails sent on an external server?

This is getting absurd--and deserves to be treated with appropriate absurdity in return. It's like a new party game we're playing, the "dream up the most absurd privilege" game. Bush has been playing it already for six months. It's time Democrats realized that fact.

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/07/the-embarrassme...

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I'm going to make the data easier to read. California Alcohol Division is on it.....

Health officials zero in on hummus
Chicago Tribune - 3 hours ago
By Emma Graves Fitzsimmons
The number of illnesses linked to the Pars Cove Persian Cuisine booth at the Taste of Chicago continued to rise today, and city health officials said they consider the hummus to be the only dish implicated in the outbreak...
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I imagine toniD speaking a line paraphrased from one spoken by Michael Palin in The Meaning Of Life as the dinner party guests leave this mortal coil with the Grim Reaper: "Hey, I didn't eat the hummus!"

My joke writing selves have been embattled over the proper punch line. In the interest of parity, here's the other one...

toniD: "Hey, I didn't eat the salmonella mousse!"

but I need to move to post.

brb

I dialed a number and got the following recording:

"I am not available right now, but
Thank you for caring enough to call.
I am making some changes in my life.
Please leave a message after the
Beep. If I do not return your call,
You are one of the changes."

I couldn't have said it better! They're just like the terrorists!
Janice Brown

"Great Fitzmas Joke!"
new
Submitted by 60th Street on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 3:56pm.
Well, imp. You have your laugh, always note that it came at the expense of your countrymen and women fighting in your place. All the denial in the world won't make that go away.

Fitz ws a Republican hired by your boy, the Republican Chimp, and the CIA leak case was undertaken by your boys at the Republican DOJ at the request of the CIA led by Republican George "Slam-dunk Tenent himself.
It was an orgy of incompetent clusterfuquery and everyone walked except the thousands dead in Iraq. You dance on their graves as your kind always has. We'll pick you off one by one and wipe off our boots like we always have.

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when so many things you imagined could be possible with this group turn out to be true. I told you, they make me nervous.
Janice Brown

Submitted by toniD on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 7:35pm.
Pentagon kills Rumsfeld 'propaganda' unit
Michael Roston
Published: Friday July 13, 2007

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