June 2006
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Tomorrow is the big day: thousands of MoveOn members from Nashville, Tennessee to Phoenix, Arizona will come together at more than 300 rallies across the country to demand an “oil-free” future.
Tomorrow’s National Day of Action is really important because this weekend is the 4th of July holiday and gas prices are on everyone’s minds. We need to seize this moment to make sure the media and the public know that the Republican addiction to oil money is keeping gas prices high and holding America back from the clean energy future that we desperately need.
Can you join us at a rally near you?
National Day of Action for an “Oil-Free” Congress
Where: 5 Star Parking across the street from Bob Stivers Shell Station at 10th and A
1011 A St.
San Diego, CA
When: Wednesday, 28 Jun 2006, 4:00 PM
Link to RSVP: http://political.moveon.org/event/oilfree/9551?id=8139-4350126-l5TwvpSTl1nApWx_ZMUtlA&t=3
National Day of Action for an “Oil-Free” Congress
Where: Mobil Station Hwy 67 (aka Main St)
16992 Sky Valley Rd
Ramona, CA
When: Wednesday, 28 Jun 2006, 4:00 PM
Link to RSVP: http://political.moveon.org/event/oilfree/9650?id=8139-4350126-l5TwvpSTl1nApWx_ZMUtlA&t=3
Or click here to search for events near you:
http://political.moveon.org/event/oilfree/?search_zip=92103&id=8139-4350126-l5TwvpSTl1nApWx_ZMUtlA&t=4
As we write this email, Republicans are using the national frustration with gas prices as an excuse to push through even more giveaways to Big Oil instead of getting serious about clean energy alternatives that can move us away from oil.
Why? Because the oil industry has bought the majority stake in the Republican party. Big Oil has given hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions to Republicans and in return, Big Oil has received billions in subsidies from Congress.
We can’t afford Congress’ addiction to oil money anymore. It keeps gas prices high, keeps us dependent on the Middle East and is blocking progress on a clean energy future,
Congress needs to know that we’re paying attention. We need them to start working for us, not Big Oil. Tomorrow we’re going to make it clear that we want an oil-free, clean energy future and we want it now.
Can you join us on our National Day of Action for an “Oil-Free” Congress?
http://political.moveon.org/event/oilfree/?search_zip=92103&id=8139-4350126-l5TwvpSTl1nApWx_ZMUtlA&t=5
Renewable and alternative energy sources, like biofuels, hybrids, solar and wind power are ready today, but Congress’s addiction to oil money is holding us back. Breaking the addiction to oil is the first step towards energy independence and the clean energy future we all want.
Thanks for all you do,
–Nita, Matt, Tom, Eli and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 2 hours ago… The NDF alliance consists of five political parties, the Zambia Democratic … and Development (PUDD) under Isaac Musonda; Zambia Direct Democracy Movement (ZDDM …
Where Labour should go next?
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 5 hours ago… There will be background reports on the good life, political economy and democracy and the public realm published for more debate over the summer and autumn. …
Cabell library to show election documentary
Huntington Herald Dispatch, WV - 10 hours ago… our state the better word is undermining or stripping our state of its democracy.". … "While we can't always blame poor voter turn-out on political corruption, it …
China showing less angst over Taiwan
The Japan Times, Japan - 19 hours ago… China has become a regional political, economic and military power … Taiwan, after decades of authoritarian rule, has become a democracy and an economic tiger …
The search for justice for Haiti’s Yvon Neptune and his fellow …
Caribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - 14 hours ago… s rule and director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti … has limited himself to working with co-defendants to apply political pressure, including …
Is the US Through With Arab Democracy?
Mother Jones, CA - 23 hours ago… on the Egyptian ruling elite to open up the country's political space … falling back on its traditional soft diplomacy approach with regard to democracy promotion …
By Chang Cheng-shuh ???
Taipei Times, Taiwan - 14 hours ago… an official class of Mainlanders produced a cultural and political phenomenon unique to … of crisis and were unable to adapt to the changes brought by democracy. …
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 5 hours ago… There will be background reports on the good life, political economy and democracy and the public realm published for more debate over the summer and autumn. …
Sana’a conference on democracy, political reforms and freedom of …
Yemen Times, Yemen - Jun 26, 2006SANA’A, June 25 — While inaugurating the Sana’a conference on Democracy, Political Reforms and Freedom of Expression, President Ali Abdullah Saleh gave a …
Who is to blame for the deaths of the Russian diplomats in Iraq?
RIA Novosti, Russia - 4 hours ago(RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr … victims of a war that was started on a false pretext and will end, at best, with the creation of a feeble democracy. …
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
TomPaine.com, D.C. - 4 hours ago… What the filmmakers understand is that this story is but one of many examples of how big money and the thirst for political power undercut American democracy. …
Politics of hierarchy to go now: President
PakTribune.com, Pakistan - 20 hours ago… democracy the President said the parties, which have agreed upon this charter, should bring democracy within their ranks first of all. The political parties of …
New Nepal possible through inclusive democracy: Badal
Gorkhapatra, Nepal - 10 hours ago… added KC. The political parties must practice inclusive politics otherwise there would be no meaning of democracy. Meanwhile RSS …
The military, our democracy (3)
Vanguard, Nigeria - 19 hours ago… civilian governors, while a total ban was placed on all political activity. … Moving swiftly, Abacha clamped most of the pro-democracy activists into jail while …
Yemen’s democracy: Orchestrated free will
Yemen Times, Yemen - Jun 26, 2006… So many Yemenis gave their lives to achieve the progress we have made in political democracy and here you are turning all the democratic practices you have …
Al-Malki's Deductions
Dar Al-Hayat, Lebanon - 6 hours agoThe political forces represented in the Iraqi Parliament endorsed this initiative … by overthrowing the previous dictatorship and setting up a democracy and new …
Jonah Goldberg: The Internet’s ‘political media’ are really …
The Union Leader, NH - 14 hours ago… all physically meet, newspapers were essential to American democracy because “newspapers … but they were still mostly creatures of specific political biases. …
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
tbogg: the prophet ….
Class War, It’s Time pt II
by Hale Stewart Ladies and gentlemen, we are living in an undeclared war. �The Republicans have allied themselves with the top 10% of income earners, doing everything they can to benefit them while they are still in power. �They have created a society for them. �Meanwhile, the middle class faces increasing financial pressures. �We are already in a class war. �And they are winning.
C&L’s Late Nite Music Club with the “Red Violin”
I’m a big string fan. "Leave it to composer John Corigliano and violinist Joshua Bell–two of biggest names in classical music–to team up and create one of 1999’s best soundtracks. For many, the soundtrack to The Red Violin was just as impressive as the film, a moving blend of gypsy, folk, and classical compositions. –Jason [...]
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
If you’re a person of faith who is troubled by the death penalty, and if you supported George Bush’s recent Supreme Court appointment of Samuel Alito, then you need to know that you supported the continuation of the death penalty.Not as warm and fuzzy as you thought, these conservative judges, eh?Life is a lot more nuanced than always voting Republican.Alito upholds death penalty
Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel joined Wolf Blitzer on Late Edition yesterday and talked about Dick Cheney and the war. Hagel is taking a hard line against the rehtoric that is beinfg spwed by Cheney and Biden said: Video -WMP Video -QTBIDEN: No, I don’t want to respond to him. He’s at 20 [...]Hagel and Biden on Cheney: Potted Plants and 20% of nothing.
See, this is the one (or three) inescapable fact about the war in Iraq. The situation will continue to get worse, US troops will continue to be attacked, and the American public will continue to lose confidence in the war effort. There is no way other than an outright victory to turn it around. And victory isn’t going to happen because Bush has already lost the war. No matter what stunts Bush pulls, things will get worse, and the American public will know it.Polls continue to worsen on Iraq
From JoshFrom Josh
From APFrom AP
Some of us were obsessed three years agoSome of us were obsessed three years ago
Blair and his talk has fallen shortBlair and his talk has fallen short
Who would have thought that this issue could come back as an issue? What is disturbing is that the pro-commercial whaling efforts by Japan don’t even seem to match up with the Japanese people because they simply are not interested in eating whale meat. It is more an issue of some people within power who want to cash in from killing whales, but disguise their ambitions by cloaking their argument to clinging to a piece of their history that is as outdated as slaughtering buffalo one hundred years ago in America.I like Japan and the Japanese but if they really want to flash money around, they ought to continue spending it on many of the excellent development programs they have already started in some of the poorest countries of the world. I’ve stumbled upon many of these programs in remote corners of the world and they truly benefit some of those most in need. It’s sad to see that some removed from the real world people have hijacked Japanese government money and influence for this incredibly bad cause. They are targeting some very poor and needy countries such as Mali, Nicaragua not to mention a few greedy and short sighted governments and giving those countries a bad reputation.Let’s hope that the US and other countries can work together and turn the tide on this unfortunate change.US, UK, Australia, New Zealand to step up fight against whaling
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Monday, June 26, 2006
Washington Post :"The fundraiser thrown for Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele on Thursday night, while ordinary in most ways, struck some African American leaders as notable because of the host. Unlike the dozens of high-dollar events across the country in his U.S. Senate bid, this event was thrown by the [...]Steele?s donor list stirs controversy
Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel joined Wolf Blitzer on Late Edition yesterday and talked about Dick Cheney and the war. Hagel is taking a hard line against the rehtoric that is beinfg spwed by Cheney and Biden said: Video -WMP Video -QTBIDEN: No, I don’t want to respond to him. He’s at 20 [...]Hagel and Biden on Cheney: Potted Plants and 20% of nothing.
by Hale Stewart
There were many great things that happened at YearlyKos. However, the best thing that happened to me was the opportunity to meet many people who had one primary goal: getting Democrats elected and helping them develop policies that help the nation as a whole.
Yearly Kos + Grassroots = New Consulting Business
Beckett pulled a classic Blair/Bush spinBeckett pulled a classic Blair/Bush spin
From JoshFrom Josh
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Monday, June 26, 2006
Borat and BrunoOpen Thread
Bruce was on Conan’s show Friday night and played "Bring ‘em Home" from the new album "We Shall Overcome : "The Seeger Sessions "What an incredible song and performance. Video -WMP Video -QT If you love this land of free, Bring ‘em home, Bring ‘em home.Bring them back from overseas. Bring ‘em home, bring [...]Bruce Springsteen: Bring ?Em Home
Switching to Word Press Tonight
I’m going to make the move tonight. I hope there are no problems, but who knows. I have some great people in place handling the technical side. The new template will look very similar to this one. On Radio Userland, I just passed the 50 million hits mark and that’s pretty amazing to me. I want to thank all the readers, comment monitors, Mike’s Blog Round Up and all the people who lend their constant support to C&L that has made it one of the top blogs in the world.
Switching to Word Press Tonight
Geraldo gets his Buzz on…
Check out this clip of the man who thinks Kerry isn’t a very good judge about combat situations:
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(h/t Mike)
Geraldo gets his Buzz on…
The boys who cried wolf?
Dick Cheney said yesterday that the group of would-be terrorists caught in Miami were “a very real threat.” Except, after scratching beneath the surface just a little, there’s ample reason to believe that’s not the case.
Anyone who claims that the administration just broke up a plot to attack the Sears Tower is overstating what’s occurred here. The “Miami 7″ could hardly attack a convenience store .
– Guest Post by Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report
The boys who cried wolf?
What a complete ass. Margaret Beckett pulled a classic Blair/Bush spin this past week but as one expects from that crowd, facts do not match reality. The British troops are finding themselves caught up in the middle of the violence and are being pushed out by local militias. The relative calm that used to be common in the British section has fallen victim to the regular cycles of violence from the American region.Lieutenant General Nick Houghton told the Commons defence committee: “There is a worrying amount of violence and murder carried out between rival Shia factions. There is no doubt that it has got worse of late, due to the protracted period of talks to form the government.”Since a spate of bomb attacks against them last autumn, British forces have largely kept out of the centre of Basra. Much of the police force in the south has been taken over by Shia militias who often clash with one another as well as intimidating ordinary people and attacking what is left of the Sunni community in the south.UK Foreign Minister’s “mission accomplished” sounds familiar
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Sunday, June 25, 2006
The boys who cried wolf?
Dick Cheney said yesterday that the group of would-be terrorists caught in Miami were “a very real threat.” Except, after scratching beneath the surface just a little, there’s ample reason to believe that’s not the case.
Anyone who claims that the administration just broke up a plot to attack the Sears Tower is overstating what’s occurred here. The “Miami 7″ could hardly attack a convenience store .
– Guest Post by Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report
The boys who cried wolf?
Anything interesting going on?Open thread
It’s done. I hope it works for everyone. Let me know what happens on Talk Show Sunday. Word Press Update Complete: Open Thread
Saturday Funnies… Check out this clip of the man who thinks Kerry isn’t a very good judge about combat situations: Video-WMP Video-QT(h/t Mike)Geraldo gets his Buzz on??
I usually don’t post about the hatred that I receive on a daily basis. I understand it comes with the territory, but I won’t be holding back anymore. This is only one sample of what appears in my inbox. And without my comment monitors-would pollute the C&L threads. In response to a post I did earlier about Jane [...]Hatred from the Right
Taylor Marsh:But does anyone really believe it’s a coincidence that Snesko and his wife are attached to Duncan Hunter’s office? I would like to know if yet another Republican is involved in the swiftboating campaign of yet another veteran. Is Duncan Hunter, who was part of the 173rd Airborne and 75th Army Rangers and served [...]Duncan Hunter: Is he behind the Switfboating of Murtha?
Chat away.Saturday Evening Open Thread
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
MySpace Mystery
Jesus General found an interesting entry…
MySpace Mystery
Mike’s Blog Round Up
THE NEWS BLOG: This is wrong
The New York Review of Books:??Afghanistan on the Brink
Facing South: “Tort reform” enacted last year in Georgia, isn’t helping doctors…or anyone else
Your Right Hand Thief: Hurricane Crime?
??
PERRspectives Blog:
…Mike’s Blog Round Up
Who declassified Santorum’s Folly?
Steve raises a good point:
“Do you wonder like me why Santorum and Hoekstra chose this week to embarrass themselves, at a time when Santorum is heading for a huge drubbing in November? Guess who helped these two roll out this ridiculous claim this week? Our Director of National Intelligence.
So let me get this straight. Negroponte is now using his position to play a partisan role in the 2006 election? He is politicizing intelligence? Or does this go higher?…read on“
Who declassified Santorum’s Folly?
The Joe Lieberman we knew left the Democratic party years ago. It will simply be one more sign that Lieberman has lost touch with himself and his constituents.Speculation grows about Joe Lieberman leaving the Democratic party
Did Santorum show classified documents to FOX about his WMD’s scam?
Greg Sargent picked up my original assertion the other night that Rick might have violated federal laws by holding up a classified document to the camera on H&C: I wrote
“If that is the document that’s classified, isn’t little Ricky breaking about a gazillion different federal laws by exposing them? I’ve taken the precaution of blackening it a bit. Of course, I’m no attorney, but I believe this is the law.”
Sargent: Turley told me this:
“If the document he had with him was classified, it was a violation of security protocol and classification rules to take such a document to an interview, let alone wave it around before a camera. Presumably he didn’t have a transport card or a security officer transporting the document . Presumably the interview location is not considered an authorized location for such material.”
…read on“
Did Santorum show classified documents to FOX about his WMD’s scam?
Snow gets rattled by Helen Thomas: I’m the Teacher!
Tony Snow was asked about the news that the country is going through bank records…
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Snow: Helen, will you stop heckling and let me conduct a press conference… Well no, I’m making an argument, and you’re, you’re pestering the teacher…
Tony hasn’t faired too well in his new job.
Developing…(h/t Lawrence)
Snow gets rattled by Helen Thomas: I’m the Teacher!
by Stirling Newberry
Latest missive from Joe Libelman Weekly
It’s a bizarre phenomenon, the blogosphere. It radiates democracy’s
dream of full participation but practices democracy’s nightmare of
populist crudity, character-assassination, and emotional stupefaction.
I think they mean that they are working that our friends over at The Nasty Republicans, are working this side of the street. Rest assured you guys have the blogsphere beat cold in all of those departments.
TNR Melting Down
Bruce Springsteen is one of the best advocates for progessive politics in America — and his smackdown of Coulter works, too: O?BRIEN: In 2004 you came out very strongly in support of John Kerry and performed with him – your fellow guitarist, I think is how you introduced him to the crowd. And some people gave you a lot of flack for being a musician who took a political stand. I remember??SPRINGSTEEN: Yeah, they should let Ann Coulter do it instead. Think Progress has the both the video and the full transcript.Bruce Unplugged
by Hale Stewart
Chief executives of U.S. corporations earned 262 times the pay of the average worker in 2005, the second-highest level in the 40 years the data’s been kept, an economic research group said this week.
Last year, the average CEO was paid $10.9 million a year, or 262 times an average worker’s earnings of $41,861, the Economic Policy Institute said Wednesday.
The research group also found a CEO earned more in one workday in 2005 than an average worker earned in 52 weeks.
The group includes salary, bonuses, stock options and other payments in its definition of CEO pay.
Income Inequality: Execs Make 262 Times More Than Employees
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
Open Thread
Freaks
Open Thread
Not that there’s a trend or anything but 28,000 US Navy and family personal records, including Social Security numbers, has been posted online. Why does Rummy hate the military? Why does Rumsfeld hate America?Another day, another personal data story
Mike’s Blog Round Up
THE NEWS BLOG: This is wrong
The New York Review of Books:??Afghanistan on the Brink
Facing South: “Tort reform” enacted last year in Georgia, isn’t helping doctors…or anyone else
Your Right Hand Thief: Hurricane Crime?
??
PERRspectives Blog:
…Mike’s Blog Round Up
Who declassified Santorum’s Folly?
Steve raises a good point:
“Do you wonder like me why Santorum and Hoekstra chose this week to embarrass themselves, at a time when Santorum is heading for a huge drubbing in November? Guess who helped these two roll out this ridiculous claim this week? Our Director of National Intelligence.
So let me get this straight. Negroponte is now using his position to play a partisan role in the 2006 election? He is politicizing intelligence? Or does this go higher?…read on“
Who declassified Santorum’s Folly?
The Joe Lieberman we knew left the Democratic party years ago. It will simply be one more sign that Lieberman has lost touch with himself and his constituents.Speculation grows about Joe Lieberman leaving the Democratic party
I’ll have Springsteen on CNN soon…
I’m working on it now…
I’ll have Springsteen on CNN soon…
Josh Marshall has an open letter to Senate Democrats about their Iraq messaging:The Democrats have to be much more aggressive. But ‘more aggressive’ doesn’t mean a quicker withdrawal. It means making your point forcefully, on your own terms, repeatedly.But they’re not doing that.What I see is Republicans on TV repeating their ‘cut and run’ charges. And to the extent I see Democrats, it’s Democrats denying the charge. No, we’re not for cutting and running.Marshall’s advice is sound. I just want to focus on one small aspect of the Democratic messaging: STOP using Karl Rove’s language.I saw a snippet of Dianne Feinstein’s floor speech today on CNN. The first line was “Despite what may have been said these past few days, our amendment is not about cutting and running.” Now I know that wasn’t the first line of her full floor statement, but it’s what got picked up by CNN. Even Soledad pointed out to Carville that saying your opponent’s line was bad messaging.At the beginning of 2005, George Lakoff’s book on framing, Don’t Think of an Elephant, was all the rage. One of the most important lessons was to avoid using GOP frames. That’s the trap they’ve fallen in to on the Iraq debate. STOP IT. NOW.STOP using their language
Bruce Springsteen is one of the best advocates for progessive politics in America — and his smackdown of Coulter works, too: O?BRIEN: In 2004 you came out very strongly in support of John Kerry and performed with him – your fellow guitarist, I think is how you introduced him to the crowd. And some people gave you a lot of flack for being a musician who took a political stand. I remember??SPRINGSTEEN: Yeah, they should let Ann Coulter do it instead. Think Progress has the both the video and the full transcript.Bruce Unplugged
by Hale Stewart
Chief executives of U.S. corporations earned 262 times the pay of the average worker in 2005, the second-highest level in the 40 years the data’s been kept, an economic research group said this week.
Last year, the average CEO was paid $10.9 million a year, or 262 times an average worker’s earnings of $41,861, the Economic Policy Institute said Wednesday.
The research group also found a CEO earned more in one workday in 2005 than an average worker earned in 52 weeks.
The group includes salary, bonuses, stock options and other payments in its definition of CEO pay.
Income Inequality: Execs Make 262 Times More Than Employees
Geraldo Rivera: ” I’ve seen a hell of a lot more combat than John Kerry”
And the insane hits just keep on coming. Geraldo, the man who mapped our troop movements in the sand, told O’Reilly on The Factor that:
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Rivera: …To withdraw at a date certain. I’ve know John Kerry for over thirty five years. Unlike me-he is a combat veteran, so he gets some props, but in the last thirty five years, I’ve seen a hell of a lot more combat than John Kerry…
How many medals did Rivera win? Do I really have to comment on the idiocy of his statement? Here’s another moment of objective journalism from Geraldo in Iraq. TV Newser too…
Geraldo Rivera: ‘I’ve seen a hell of a lot more combat than John Kerry
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
The real Swiftboating of Murtha has begun
There is nothing beneath these people.
The Agonist…
The real Swiftboating of Murtha has begun
Sears Tower Terror Plot Demolishes Bush Rationale For Iraq War
Great job by the FBI to grab these lunatics.
Peter Daou hits on a point that is important though:
“The notion that “we’re fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here” has been nullified by the news that “a federal indictment against seven men revealed Friday details of what the government said was a plan to “kill all the devils we can” by blowing up Chicago’s Sears Tower.”…read on“
Sears Tower Terror Plot Demolishes Bush Rationale For Iraq War
Froomkin provides his usual excellent insight in to the minds of the Bush team today. He examines the fear that Cheney has of “weakness”: Vice President Cheney yesterday offered an unusually revealing glimpse of his worldview — one in which a withdrawal from Iraq may have less to do with Iraq, and more to do with the message it would send to the world about the limits of American power. In Cheney’s view, withdrawal from Iraq would first and foremost make the United States look weak. And that, in turn, would have cataclysmic domino-style effects across the globe: Afghanistan could fall, and so could Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The Iranians could get nukes. And the United States itself would become dramatically more vulnerable to attack, not to mention lose its ability to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests.Cheney’s fears of the United States looking weak have already been realized — and it’s because of the failed policies of the Bush/Cheney administration. The Iraq debacle and the actions of the past few weeks have reinforced that perception to the rest of the world. What does it say when the leaders of the world’s “lone superpower” (as Dan Bartlett described us repeatedly the other day on the Today Show) practically declared a national holiday because we killed one bad-ass terrorist? Al-zawqari was an extremely dangerous and bad man. He got what he deserved. But by making it seem like it took the entire concentration of the world’s “lone superpower” to take out one terror leader in a country we occupy, well, frankly, that made us look weak — and terrorists like Al-zarqawi strong. All this is set against the backdrop of a country that cannot locate the one terror leader, Osama Bin Laden, who killed Americans on American soil. Also, Bush’s secret photo op trip to was considered a great p.r. move here. Of course, it was viewed solely through a political lens. What message did it send to the rest of the world that the President of the U.S. had to sneak in to a country …American Weakness courtesy of Bush/Cheney
What were they thinking when they signed on in the first place? Either way, just another indication of how bad America’s image is during the Bush years.While I sympathize with Costa Rica
Battling the Ghosts of Vietnam
Arthur:
If you want to provoke an especially heated reaction from the supporters of our current foreign policy — those who proclaim that we must stay in Iraq for the indefinite future, and until an impossible series of events miraculously transforms a bloody, murderous failure into something they might finally dub a “success” — there is one guaranteed method of achieving that end: compare Iraq to Vietnam. Almost without exception, the hawks instantly burn with white-hot anger. Their moral outrage is palpable…read on“
Battling the Ghosts of Vietnam
Open Thread
Freaks
Open Thread
Not that there’s a trend or anything but 28,000 US Navy and family personal records, including Social Security numbers, has been posted online. Why does Rummy hate the military? Why does Rumsfeld hate America?Another day, another personal data story
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Friday, June 23, 2006
Lieberman endorsed by Coulter
Lieberman keeps racking up those top flight endorsements. On Cavuto’s show today Coulter said:
Cavuto: You know there is talk about him maybe bolting to a third party and that-seeds are there for a third party movement.
Coulter: I think he should just come all the and become a Republican. He wouldn’t be our best Republican…
He’s doing a pretty fine job acting as a Republican at this point…
Go Ned!
Global Warming caused by….. Humans
Damn those pesky scientists.
Global Warming caused by….. Humans
Mike’s Blog Round Up
Attytood: How did our beleaguered Pentagon find the time to write a 74-page briefing book for the sole purpose of trashing Democrats?
Talk To Action: The Left Behind video game will come with built-in spyware
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tracking the playing and ad viewing habits of evangelical Christian children and young people. To many of us, the only thing “Left Behind” is the criticism they so justly deserve for spreading hate and conspiracism as well as promoting religious violence as a heroic duty.
Martini Republic: Alex has more on Santorum’s phony WMD grandstanding…and O’Lielly says he would
…Mike’s Blog Round Up
The White House has completely failed in Iraq. They can’t run a war, but they can run political campaigns. So, the Bush administration is blatantly treating the Iraq war as just another political operation. It’s all about politics for them:
But people who attended a series of high-level meetings this month between White House and Congressional officials say President Bush’s aides argued that it could be a politically fatal mistake for Republicans to walk away from the war in an election year.
CNN’s Dana Bash just said the GOP is “downright giddy” about the current debate. They’re all loving it.
Meanwhile, in Iraq
The U.S. military announced Thursday that four Marines were killed during operations in insurgent-ridden Anbar province, three of them in a roadside bombing.
The White House is worried about politically fatal mistakes, not about actual fatalities in Iraq. So just exactly how many more Americans have to die so the Republicans can win the elections?While you were politicking
After sitting in legal limbo for over 3 years for conspiring to activate a “dirty bomb”, Padilla is now making his way into the court system and surprise, surprise, the actual facts seem to be a bit slim. The federal judge has had the audacity to ask for more then the word of federal prosecutors and his royal heinous George II who would prefer a kangaroo court system where every day is a success and stupid details like facts are forgotten. If these people are in fact guilty of conspiring against the US, sure, throw the book at them and send them to prison but this tired act of factless cases, legal limbo and disrespect for the American Constitution and American values is really old.U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke said Tuesday she agreed with claims made by defense attorneys that the indictment against Padilla and the others is “very light on facts” that would link the defendants to specific acts of terrorism or victims. “We are so shooting in the dark,” said Jeanne Baker, one of the attorneys representing defendant Adham Amin Hassoun. “The government has to tell us, what are these acts they conspired to commit?”Bush anti-terror case looking light on facts
Here’s the argument the White House wants Republicans in Congress to use against Democrats in order to win re-election.
…White House officials say will be a central line of attack against Democrats from now through the midterm elections: that the withdrawal being advocated by Democrats would mean thousands of troops would have died for nothing, would give extremists a launching pad from which to build an Islamo-fascist empire and would hand the United States its must humiliating defeat since Vietnam.
Unfortunately, we’ve already got all three. George Bush’s lies and incompetence have already killed 2,500 American soldiers. It’s hard to spin their deaths as a good thing when they were killed by a president’s folly. Second, Bush’s incompetence has turned Iraq into an Islamo-fascist state that we now can’t do anything about. And finally, George Bush’s incompetence has handed us our most humiliating defeat since Vietnam.
It’s over. Bush lost Iraq. And no amount of partisan bluster by the White House or congressional Republicans will change the sad fact that our president is a dangerous idiot.Time to turn the White House’s arguments against it
C&L’s Late Nite Music Club with Paul Simon
(guest blogged by Howie Klein)
By the time Paul Simon’s play and accompanying soundtrack, SONGS FROM THE CAPEMAN came out in 1997, my grandfather had been dead for 3 decades. He had been a crucial figure in my life and my idea of running away from home was to take a bus to his house across town.?? I could never get enough of his stories about how he and his family escaped from Russia when he was a young boy after one pogrom or another. My gramps wound up with one brother in New York City. The rest of his family was turned away and eventually settled in Bahia, Brazil.
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I was working at Warner Brothers the first time I heard “Trailways Bus,” a month or two before the release of the album. The poignancy of the song so put me in touch with my grandpa’s soul that I decided that I had to go visit his family in Bahia. Today I want to ask you to listen to that song and think about it. If you’re moved to write about it… well, I have 10 brand new, sealed CDs by Miles Davis with Charlie Parker called OUT OF NOWHERE. I’m going to read all the paragraphs about “Trailways Bus” and look for some insights and spirit and send the 10 writers who move me the most a CD each. (If you wanna play, include your e-mail address.)
(Thanks Howie
…C&L’s Late Nite Music Club with Paul Simon
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Friday, June 23, 2006
Lieberman endorsed by Coulter
Lieberman keeps racking up those top flight endorsements. On Cavuto’s show today Coulter said:
Cavuto: You know there is talk about him maybe bolting to a third party and that-seeds are there for a third party movement.
Coulter: I think he should just come all the and become a Republican. He wouldn’t be our best Republican…
He’s doing a pretty fine job acting as a Republican at this point…
Go Ned!
Global Warming caused by….. Humans
Damn those pesky scientists.
Global Warming caused by….. Humans
Ava Lowery: “Their Lives Are More Than A Number”
Ava Lowery, the fifteeen year old girl from Alabama just made another great video. On the heels of Tony Snow saying the troops that have died are just a number-comes this:
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“Their Lives Are More Than A Number”
Check out her website for more videos.
Ava Lowery: “Their Lives Are More Than A Number”
Take action to protect your phone records privacy.Gen. Clark speaks, you listen
Net Neutrality
It’s time to get involved…
Christy:
It’s time to hit the phones, everyone. I am told that the Senate Commerce Committee will be doing bill mark-up today, and that the net neutrality vote will be pushed off until probably Tuesday. And that we are one vote short at the moment for killing the Stevens bill in the Committee. Yep, that’s right: one vote. So here are the Senators on the bubble:…read on“
Kos:
The NY Sun talks about presidential candidates and net nutrality. It notes that Hillary, Edwards, Kerry, and Warner have all pledged their support. Biden, on the other hand, is opposed. It doesn’t look like McCurry is earning his keep. The piece ends with this “exchange”…read on“
Net Neutrality
Wall Street Journal online has an interactive map with Zogby polls for the key Senate and Governor races this fall. It’s a little addicting.
In the Senate races, there’s good news for Democrats. The GOP candidate has the lead in only 5 of the 17 races that were polled. The Governor races are very tight. Nine are within the margin of error. Dems lead in 12, the GOP in 5 and two were basically even.New round of polls for Senate and Governor races
The White House has completely failed in Iraq. They can’t run a war, but they can run political campaigns. So, the Bush administration is blatantly treating the Iraq war as just another political operation. It’s all about politics for them:
But people who attended a series of high-level meetings this month between White House and Congressional officials say President Bush’s aides argued that it could be a politically fatal mistake for Republicans to walk away from the war in an election year.
CNN’s Dana Bash just said the GOP is “downright giddy” about the current debate. They’re all loving it.
Meanwhile, in Iraq
The U.S. military announced Thursday that four Marines were killed during operations in insurgent-ridden Anbar province, three of them in a roadside bombing.
The White House is worried about politically fatal mistakes, not about actual fatalities in Iraq. So just exactly how many more Americans have to die so the Republicans can win the elections?While you were politicking
Santorum debunked over WMD’s by FOX NEWS
??Santorum showed up to do his thing with Peter??Hoekstra on H&C and it took one phone??call by Jim Angle of FOX News to debunk Santorum’s WMD claims today. That’s pretty embarrassing when the Dick Cheney network undermines him. Hannity was all excited and tried to say that WMD’s were only “a part of the reason we went Iraq.” (See??quote.)
If that is the document that’s classified, isn’t little Ricky breaking about a gazillion different federal laws by exposing them? I’ve taken the precaution of??blackening it a bit. Of course, I’m no attorney.
Santorum: I’ll show you the classified documents right?? here…
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Combs:??It’s Alan Colmes. Senator, the Iraq Survey Group, uhh, let me go to the Duelfer Report-says Iraq did not have the weapons our intelligence believed were there. And Jim Angle who reported this for Fox News-quotes a defense official who says these were
…Santorum debunked by Colmes over WMD’s
Oh for simpler times when Denny was a great late-night dive.From the Wash Post:House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) made a $2 million profit last year on the sale of land 5 1/2 miles from a highway project that he helped to finance with targeted federal funds.A Republican House member from California, meanwhile, received nearly double what he paid for a four-acre parcel near an Air Force base after securing $8 million for a planned freeway interchange 16 miles away. And another California GOP congressman obtained funding in last year’s highway bill for street improvements near a planned residential and commercial development that he co-owns.Republican House Speaker Hastert and two other Republican Congressmen accused of using pork to enrich themselves financially
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
I read it on the Internets.Atrios is a Big Fag
Take action to protect your phone records privacy.Gen. Clark speaks, you listen
Like the foot dragging after the Pat Tillman death, the story of the two American soldiers who were killed by Iraqi troops in June 2004 was known since September 2005 but only now are their families learning the truth. The truth continues to be a struggle in certain circles these days. I think that the families and America also knows more about the motive and post murder actions against the Iraqi troops. What the hell happened?The June 2004 deaths of Army Spc. Patrick R. McCaffrey Sr., 34, of Tracy, and 2nd Lt. Andre D. Tyson, 33, of Riverside, were originally attributed to an ambush during a patrol near Balad, Iraq.The Army said this week a military investigation found the two had been shot by Iraqi civil defense officers. No possible motive has been divulged. Military officials visited Tyson’s family on Tuesday and McCaffrey’s on Wednesday to deliver the report, which was completed on Sept. 30, 2005, according to Sen. Barbara Boxer D-Calif. She called the nine-month delay troubling.Why did the Pentagon fail to tell the truth again?
Santorum debunked over WMD’s by FOX NEWS
??Santorum showed up to do his thing with Peter??Hoekstra on H&C and it took one phone??call by Jim Angle of FOX News to debunk Santorum’s WMD claims today. That’s pretty embarrassing when the Dick Cheney network undermines him. Hannity was all excited and tried to say that WMD’s were only “a part of the reason we went Iraq.” (See??quote.)
If that is the document that’s classified, isn’t little Ricky breaking about a gazillion different federal laws by exposing them? I’ve taken the precaution of??blackening it a bit. Of course, I’m no attorney.
Santorum: I’ll show you the classified documents right?? here…
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Combs:??It’s Alan Colmes. Senator, the Iraq Survey Group, uhh, let me go to the Duelfer Report-says Iraq did not have the weapons our intelligence believed were there. And Jim Angle who reported this for Fox News-quotes a defense official who says these were
…Santorum debunked by Colmes over WMD’s
Here’s the argument the White House wants Republicans in Congress to use against Democrats in order to win re-election.
…White House officials say will be a central line of attack against Democrats from now through the midterm elections: that the withdrawal being advocated by Democrats would mean thousands of troops would have died for nothing, would give extremists a launching pad from which to build an Islamo-fascist empire and would hand the United States its must humiliating defeat since Vietnam.
Unfortunately, we’ve already got all three. George Bush’s lies and incompetence have already killed 2,500 American soldiers. It’s hard to spin their deaths as a good thing when they were killed by a president’s folly. Second, Bush’s incompetence has turned Iraq into an Islamo-fascist state that we now can’t do anything about. And finally, George Bush’s incompetence has handed us our most humiliating defeat since Vietnam.
It’s over. Bush lost Iraq. And no amount of partisan bluster by the White House or congressional Republicans will change the sad fact that our president is a dangerous idiot.Time to turn the White House’s arguments against it
C&L’s Late Nite Music Club with Paul Simon
(guest blogged by Howie Klein)
By the time Paul Simon’s play and accompanying soundtrack, SONGS FROM THE CAPEMAN came out in 1997, my grandfather had been dead for 3 decades. He had been a crucial figure in my life and my idea of running away from home was to take a bus to his house across town.?? I could never get enough of his stories about how he and his family escaped from Russia when he was a young boy after one pogrom or another. My gramps wound up with one brother in New York City. The rest of his family was turned away and eventually settled in Bahia, Brazil.
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I was working at Warner Brothers the first time I heard “Trailways Bus,” a month or two before the release of the album. The poignancy of the song so put me in touch with my grandpa’s soul that I decided that I had to go visit his family in Bahia. Today I want to ask you to listen to that song and think about it. If you’re moved to write about it… well, I have 10 brand new, sealed CDs by Miles Davis with Charlie Parker called OUT OF NOWHERE. I’m going to read all the paragraphs about “Trailways Bus” and look for some insights and spirit and send the 10 writers who move me the most a CD each. (If you wanna play, include your e-mail address.)
(Thanks Howie
…C&L’s Late Nite Music Club with Paul Simon
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
So exactly how many soldiers have to die in order to get the Republicans re-elected this fall?Open thread
Seriously. That company needs to be made a lesson of and taken down.
It looks like they may be spying on our Internet traffic from this facility, or at the very least on the Internet traffic of all of their customers.
In a pivotal network operations center in metropolitan St. Louis, AT&T has maintained a secret, highly secured room since 2002 where government work is being conducted, according to two former AT&T workers once employed at the center.
In interviews with Salon, the former AT&T workers said that only government officials or AT&T employees with top-secret security clearance are admitted to the room, located inside AT&T’s facility in Bridgeton. The room’s tight security includes a biometric “mantrap” or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners. The former workers say company supervisors told them that employees working inside the room were “monitoring network traffic” and that the room was being used by “a government agency.”
The details provided by the two former workers about the Bridgeton room bear the distinctive earmarks of an operation run by the National Security Agency, according to two intelligence experts with extensive knowledge of the NSA and its operations. In addition to the room’s high-tech security, those intelligence experts told Salon, the exhaustive vetting process AT&T workers were put through before being granted top-secret security clearance points to the NSA, an agency known as much for its intense secrecy as its technological sophistication….
The importance of the Bridgeton facility is its role in managing the “common backbone” for all of AT&T’s Internet operations. According to one of the former workers, Bridgeton serves as the technical command center from which the company manages all the routers and circuits carrying
…Salon.com Exclusive: AT&T may be hiding a second NSA domestic spying operation in St. Louis
Bush’s plan for Iraq? Stay long enough that it becomes someone else’s problem.What Josh says
You know, winning hearts and minds, showing Iraq how to get the job done by corporate America with all of its might and expertise, not to mention millions of dollars of fed money. With all of the taxpayer money going in there are bound to be some good stories that the liberal press just doesn’t want to talk about.The Army Corps of Engineers said Monday that it had canceled a $99.1 million contract with Parsons, one of the largest companies working in Iraq, to build a prison north of Baghdad after the firm fell more than two years behind schedule, threatened to go millions of dollars over budget and essentially abandoned the construction site.The move is another harsh rebuke for Parsons, only weeks after the corps canceled more than $300 million of the company’s contracts to build and refurbish hospitals and clinics across Iraq. A federal oversight office had found that some of the clinics were little more than empty shells and that only 20 of 150 called for in the contract would be completed without new financing.So…how’s the war planning going? Do we have a plan yet?The war may not be going well, but surely the reconstruction is, right?
The trouble with Holy Joe
(Guest Post by Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report)
It’s been about a week since DSCC Chairman Chuck Schumer hinted that he’s likely support Sen. Joe Lieberman, even if Lieberman loses a Democratic primary. So, where’s the party now? According to a report in today’s Roll Call, Dem leaders are still confused about what happens next, but some insiders realize they can’t turn their back on Ned Lamont if he wins the primary. A senior Democratic aide said:
“If the DSCC and the establishment support a Lieberman Independent bid, it would send a message to state parties that they don’t matter anymore. That would be devastating. Lieberman needs to run in the primary, follow the rules, and work hard for a win. Any other option should be off the table.”
And yet, as of now, the possibility remains very much on the table, though the party leadership is taking more of a we’ll-jump-off-that-bridge-when-we-get-to-it approach. Stay tuned.
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The trouble with Holy Joe
Loving thy neighbor? What are they thinking? Everyone knows religion today is all about who you hate.Episcopalians reject ban on gay bishops
Chat away.Open thread
From bad to worse.The deaths of Army Spc. Patrick R. McCaffrey Sr. and 1st Lt. Andre D. Tyson were originally attributed to an ambush during a patrol near Balad, Iraq, on June 22, 2004. But the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command found that one or more of the Iraqis attached to the American soldiers on patrol fired at them, a military official said Tuesday.A Pentagon spokesman knew of no other similar incident, calling it “extremely rare.”Interesting that he did not say “was a single exception” because “rare” implies it has happened on other occasions.”When they come I have my list of questions ready, and I want these answers and I don’t want lies,” McCaffrey’s mother, Nadia McCaffrey, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. Soldiers who witnessed the attack have told her that two Iraqi patrolmen opened fire on her son’s unit. The witnesses also said a third gunman simultaneously drove up to the American unit in a van, climbed onto the vehicle and fired at the Americans, she said. “Nothing is clear. Nothing is clear,” she said. Her son was shot eight times by bullets of various calibers, some of which penetrated his body armor, she said. She believes he bled to death.Iraqi troops killed American soldiers
Good God. This is winning?85 to 100 Iraqis kidnapped leaving work north of Baghdad
Talk about cut and run.Republicans, fearing electoral losses, kill immigration bill for the year
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
John Kerry is determined to make a statement on Iraq — two years too late (or two years too early.) But he made the front page of the New York Times:
Mr. Kerry now describes the war in Iraq as a mistake, even though he once supported it. His critics say they believe the new stand reflects more politics than principle, and ignores other Democrats’ concern that setting a fixed date will leave those in tough re-election fights open to Republican taunts that they are “cutting and running” in Iraq.
The Democrats’ exasperation has increased in the last week, as they postponed a vote on Mr. Kerry’s amendment to try to fashion a broader consensus among themselves. Democrats up for re-election asked him not to propose a fixed date. But Mr. Kerry, several Democrats said, was unwilling to budge from that idea, even though his co-sponsor, Senator Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin, seemed willing to compromise for the sake of consensus. In the end, Mr. Kerry agreed only to extend his deadline, from Dec. 31 of this year to July 2007.
Mr. Kerry’s insistence on pushing ahead with his own plan has left the Democrats divided, and open to renewed Republican accusations that they are indecisive and weak ? the same ridicule that Republicans heaped on Mr. Kerry in 2004, when his “I was for it before I was against it” statement about a vote on money for the war became a punch line.
Vintage Kerry
Matt Lauer is reporting from the White House — although the President isn’t even at the White House. He’s in Europe making the rest of the world hate us even more.Get it started….Wednesday Morning Open Thread
Why is it that this video of the 20th 9/11 hijacker has suddenly appeared now? And wait a minute, I thought we were told that Moussaoui was the 20th and we found justice. Don’t tell me that he was just another nutcase like Abu Zubaydah who was propped up to give the appearance of a big success in the so-called war on terror.So here we are, about a week after the major propaganda/PR spin machine wrapped up its Mission Accomplished II program and what do we have? Iraq is as violent as ever. US soldiers kidnapped and mutilated. And now, the old fall back position of fear and 9/11. This team is so predictable and what’s not to love about the incredible timing involved? Suddenly out of nowhere as if someone is desperately trying to change the subject away from the failures of Iraq, the 20th hijacker is back with us, only he’s been dead for a few years. But not to worry because here’s the message of this newest propaganda tool to get us all back into the spirit:The video includes footage of al-Nashimi justifying attacks against the West. It also contains 27 minutes of previously unheard audio of a siege that he took part in on oil facilities in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Screeching car tires and gunfire are heard as the terror cell moved from building to building. A voice in Arabic can be heard saying: “Where are the Americans? … Give me the information.” The demands are punctuated with more gunfire.Remember to be afraid. 9/11. Hijacker. 9/11. Kill. 9/11. Screeching tires. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11.Propaganda program #1 failed, so it’s back to FEAR
Bush’s plan for Iraq? Stay long enough that it becomes someone else’s problem.What Josh says
Ron Suskind: US deliberately bombed Al-Jazeera
Ron Suskind appeared on “The Situation Room” today to talk about his new book????”One Percent Doctrine,” and said that the US took out Al-Jazeera office in Kabul purposefully.
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Ron talked about Cheney’s almost “Presidential-Vice Presidency” and claimed that the CIA determined the Bin Laden tape released the weekend before the ‘04 election helped Bush and that Osama wanted??him re-elected.
(h/t accord)
UPDATE: Tora Bora Decision Made In Oval Office:
“Not only was the information and decision elevated to the White House, but that the CIA specifically told the president that the local forces weren?t capable and shouldn’t be relied upon to get Bin Laden. Yet George W. Bush, when presented with the choice of committing US forces to go in and get him, or doing nothing and letting the inevitable happen, chose to let the local forces
…Ron Susskind: US Blew Up AL-Jazeera purposefully
Ken MacKenzie already smeared
After Limbaugh’s lie against the left wing blogosphere today, I knew what would happen to Ken MacKenzie after I saw him on the Today Show.
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John Hinderaker pounced on the uncle of one of our fallen soldiers immediately. Greg Sargent:
??????“A couple of minutes ago I came across this Associated Press story saying that the uncle of Kristian Menchaca — one of the U.S. soldiers who was missing and is now said to be dead — criticized the United States for Menchaca’s disappearance and death. My first thought was to do a post asking how long it would take before the wingnuts started smearing the grief-stricken uncle.??
Alas, I’m too late. Over at Powerline Blog, John Hinderaker has already cranked up the slime machine and
…Ken MacKenzie already smeared
Joe Klein on the Iraq War
Atrios documents the facts…
Joe Klein on the Iraq War
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Conservatives are so mean to Bill Kristol
But not for the same reasons we should be. Do many people know that his ideas paved the way for the Iraq War?
He says liberals are nicer to him than conservatives…
Conservatives are so mean to Bill Kristol
by Stirling Newberry
MS redesigns the ipod package
Funniest thing you will see today
Ken MacKenzie already smeared
After Limbaugh’s lie against the left wing blogosphere today, I knew what would happen to Ken MacKenzie after I saw him on the Today Show.
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John Hinderaker pounced on the uncle of one of our fallen soldiers immediately. Greg Sargent:
??????“A couple of minutes ago I came across this Associated Press story saying that the uncle of Kristian Menchaca — one of the U.S. soldiers who was missing and is now said to be dead — criticized the United States for Menchaca’s disappearance and death. My first thought was to do a post asking how long it would take before the wingnuts started smearing the grief-stricken uncle.??
Alas, I’m too late. Over at Powerline Blog, John Hinderaker has already cranked up the slime machine and
…Ken MacKenzie already smeared
This is the course.From the Wash Post:Two U.S. soldiers missing since an attack on a checkpoint last week have been found dead near a power plant in Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad, according to U.S. officials, and Iraqi officials say the soldiers had been tortured.To George Bush, they’re just numbers.Two kidnapped US soldiers found dead, tortured
Audio of Limbaugh lying about us
Here’s the lying liar in all his glory.
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This is what goes out to millions of people a day. The Cowardly Lion, Hugh Hewitt calls this responsible talk radio.
Transcript by Kevin2:
Rush: “I got an email here. “(Uh) Rush, (uh) now that two of our own have been tortured and murdered by the terrorists in Iraq, will the Left say that they deserved it? I’m so sick of our cut-and-run liberals. Keep up your great work.” Bob C. from Roanoke, Virginia. “PS, I love the way you do the program on the Little Kim (?)” (laughs) I read…no I added that! He didn’t, he didn’t put that in there. (laughs) You know, it-it’s-I-uh…I gotta tell ya, I-I-I perused the liberal, kook blogs today, and they are happy that these two soldiers got tortured. They’re saying, “Good riddance. Hope Rumsfeld and whoever sleep well tonight.”
Audio of Limbaugh lying about us
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
by Stirling Newberry
In a world that has bequeathed him many names, Joe Lieberman’s supporters today added another – Libelman. Libel is a fairly clear bright line, something must be willfully false, and with the intent to defame. After spinning conspiracy theories about Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitas-Zuniga, the Nasty Republicans step up to the plate and follow on with outright libel. There has been no “silence” about the attacks on Jerome and Markos. And as one of the people on the “townhouse” list, and one of its more active members, I can state for a fact that there has been no coordinated conspiracy to defend Markos. It is true that people who are Markos close supporters have, publicly, urged that the blogsphere strike back at what is clearly a smear. That’s called loyalty and it is an important quantity in politics.
But there has been no agreement, nor any steps towards an agreement, to cloud or obscure anything that Markos or Jerome have done as individuals, or to prevent matters from playing out. Instead it is TNR and others who have slung a series of false charges, not just against Jerome and Markos, but against everyone who opposes them. These charges are maliciously false.
It is reasonable to conclude – for a reasonable man would do so – that this is related to Markos and Jerome successfully publishing a book documenting their ideas, and their reasons for holding them, about Democratic Party politics.
Earlier this year a well known blogger leakes material related to this list to a Republican blogger – that Republican blogger tried to pressure the list into the public eye, and failed to do so. He raised up a false flap, tried to insinuate the kinds of absurdity that TNR now publishes. That this was tided over because, in fact, there was “no there there”.
This current tirade from the establishment wing of the Democratic Party is not coincidental – Jerome and Markos now have real power,
…The Nasty Republicans Libel the Blogsphere
The trouble with Holy Joe
(Guest Post by Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report)
It’s been about a week since DSCC Chairman Chuck Schumer hinted that he’s likely support Sen. Joe Lieberman, even if Lieberman loses a Democratic primary. So, where’s the party now? According to a report in today’s Roll Call, Dem leaders are still confused about what happens next, but some insiders realize they can’t turn their back on Ned Lamont if he wins the primary. A senior Democratic aide said:
“If the DSCC and the establishment support a Lieberman Independent bid, it would send a message to state parties that they don’t matter anymore. That would be devastating. Lieberman needs to run in the primary, follow the rules, and work hard for a win. Any other option should be off the table.”
And yet, as of now, the possibility remains very much on the table, though the party leadership is taking more of a we’ll-jump-off-that-bridge-when-we-get-to-it approach. Stay tuned.
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The trouble with Holy Joe
Seriously. That company needs to be made a lesson of and taken down.
It looks like they may be spying on our Internet traffic from this facility, or at the very least on the Internet traffic of all of their customers.
In a pivotal network operations center in metropolitan St. Louis, AT&T has maintained a secret, highly secured room since 2002 where government work is being conducted, according to two former AT&T workers once employed at the center.
In interviews with Salon, the former AT&T workers said that only government officials or AT&T employees with top-secret security clearance are admitted to the room, located inside AT&T’s facility in Bridgeton. The room’s tight security includes a biometric “mantrap” or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners. The former workers say company supervisors told them that employees working inside the room were “monitoring network traffic” and that the room was being used by “a government agency.”
The details provided by the two former workers about the Bridgeton room bear the distinctive earmarks of an operation run by the National Security Agency, according to two intelligence experts with extensive knowledge of the NSA and its operations. In addition to the room’s high-tech security, those intelligence experts told Salon, the exhaustive vetting process AT&T workers were put through before being granted top-secret security clearance points to the NSA, an agency known as much for its intense secrecy as its technological sophistication….
The importance of the Bridgeton facility is its role in managing the “common backbone” for all of AT&T’s Internet operations. According to one of the former workers, Bridgeton serves as the technical command center from which the company manages all the routers and circuits carrying
…Salon.com Exclusive: AT&T may be hiding a second NSA domestic spying operation in St. Louis
Bush’s plan for Iraq? Stay long enough that it becomes someone else’s problem.What Josh says
Loving thy neighbor? What are they thinking? Everyone knows religion today is all about who you hate.Episcopalians reject ban on gay bishops
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
by Stirling Newberry
In a world that has bequeathed him many names, Joe Lieberman’s supporters today added another – Libelman. Libel is a fairly clear bright line, something must be willfully false, and with the intent to defame. After spinning conspiracy theories about Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitas-Zuniga, the Nasty Republicans step up to the plate and follow on with outright libel. There has been no “silence” about the attacks on Jerome and Markos. And as one of the people on the “townhouse” list, and one of its more active members, I can state for a fact that there has been no coordinated conspiracy to defend Markos. It is true that people who are Markos close supporters have, publicly, urged that the blogsphere strike back at what is clearly a smear. That’s called loyalty and it is an important quantity in politics.
But there has been no agreement, nor any steps towards an agreement, to cloud or obscure anything that Markos or Jerome have done as individuals, or to prevent matters from playing out. Instead it is TNR and others who have slung a series of false charges, not just against Jerome and Markos, but against everyone who opposes them. These charges are maliciously false.
It is reasonable to conclude – for a reasonable man would do so – that this is related to Markos and Jerome successfully publishing a book documenting their ideas, and their reasons for holding them, about Democratic Party politics.
Earlier this year a well known blogger leakes material related to this list to a Republican blogger – that Republican blogger tried to pressure the list into the public eye, and failed to do so. He raised up a false flap, tried to insinuate the kinds of absurdity that TNR now publishes. That this was tided over because, in fact, there was “no there there”.
This current tirade from the establishment wing of the Democratic Party is not coincidental – Jerome and Markos now have real power,
…The Nasty Republicans Libel the Blogsphere
by Stirling Newberry
MS redesigns the ipod package
Funniest thing you will see today
Seriously. That company needs to be made a lesson of and taken down.
It looks like they may be spying on our Internet traffic from this facility, or at the very least on the Internet traffic of all of their customers.
In a pivotal network operations center in metropolitan St. Louis, AT&T has maintained a secret, highly secured room since 2002 where government work is being conducted, according to two former AT&T workers once employed at the center.
In interviews with Salon, the former AT&T workers said that only government officials or AT&T employees with top-secret security clearance are admitted to the room, located inside AT&T’s facility in Bridgeton. The room’s tight security includes a biometric “mantrap” or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners. The former workers say company supervisors told them that employees working inside the room were “monitoring network traffic” and that the room was being used by “a government agency.”
The details provided by the two former workers about the Bridgeton room bear the distinctive earmarks of an operation run by the National Security Agency, according to two intelligence experts with extensive knowledge of the NSA and its operations. In addition to the room’s high-tech security, those intelligence experts told Salon, the exhaustive vetting process AT&T workers were put through before being granted top-secret security clearance points to the NSA, an agency known as much for its intense secrecy as its technological sophistication….
The importance of the Bridgeton facility is its role in managing the “common backbone” for all of AT&T’s Internet operations. According to one of the former workers, Bridgeton serves as the technical command center from which the company manages all the routers and circuits carrying
…Salon.com Exclusive: AT&T may be hiding a second NSA domestic spying operation in St. Louis
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