Yet Another Instance of Liberal Media.....

from Greg Sargent

"Media Outlets That Went Nuts Over O'Hanlon Ignoring Cordesman's Pessimism About Iraq"

Here is a list of the big news orgs and network shows -- compiled from here, here, and here -- that lavished coverage on Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack over their now-infamous Op-ed saying that we just might win the war in Iraq:

As noted here yesterday, national security analyst Anthony Cordesman went to Iraq with O'Hanlon and Pollack, and reached a strikingly different conclusion. The Center for Strategic and International Studies, where Cordesman works, just told me that they sent out a release about this yesterday morning."


And yet the Bush Admin can only manage to get abour 26% of the people to believe this garbage......USA! USA! USA!

This is why I havent voted for Dems since 96....

I am so ashamed of this country.

Roll Call for the Dems who let down their constituents once again....

Ladies and Gentlemen, here are your Democratic traitors.

Altmire
Barrow
Bean
Boren
Boswell
Boyd (FL)
Carney
Chandler
Cooper
Costa
Cramer
Cuellar
Davis (AL)
Davis, Lincoln
Donnelly
Edwards
Ellsworth
Etheridge
Gordon
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Lipinski
Marshall
Matheson
McIntyre
Melancon
Mitchell
Peterson (MN)
Rodriguez
Ross
Salazar
Snyder
Space
Tanner
Taylor
Walz (MN)
Wilson (OH)

This will go down as the most insidious political ploy ever devised. Rove tricked his opponents into believing this was for fighting terrorism. We will find out after the Bush Admin leaves office that they were wiretapping and spying on the Democrats. Ever wonder how Rove seems to be able to out maneuver the Dems so easily and frequently?

Prescott Bush Planned to Overthrow Roosevelt?

"The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression."--The Whitehouse Coup via BBC Radio


Are you suprised that a bunch of right wingers would think Hitler had the best economic model for getting out of the depression? They also forget that the depression was caused by Republican malfeasance to begin with.

"Hoover and the Republicans saw aid to corporations as being different. Whereas they believed that helping the individual citizen weather the Depression would corrupt him or her, aiding corporations and other business was different. To many, it appeared that the Republicans were only interested in the rich. The newly-created Reconstruction Finance Corporation aided only the large corporations.."

Lets not forget who Prescott Bush was....

Can this week get any worse?

Verdict is out on that one.....

I am almost in support of people being on a cocktail of anti-psychotic medications. I must be unwittingly in possession of a "crazy magnet".

Why Do Right-Wingers Hate Kos?

Courtesy of Think Progress:

"Every Democratic presidential nominee is going to the DailyKos convention," said Kristol. "That’s the left-wing blogger who was not respectable three or four years ago. The Howard Dean kind of sponsor. Now the whole party is going to pay court to him and to left wing blogs."--Bill Kristol July 22, 2007

From Bill O:

"O’Reilly went on to compare the YearlyKos blogger convention to "a David Duke convention" while calling DailyKos "hatemongerers" like "the Ku Klux Klan" and "the Nazi Party."--Bill O'Reilly July 17, 2007

Here is why Cons hate Kos:


"After high school, Moulitsas served in the U.S. Army (1989-92) as a 13P -- Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Fire Direction Specialist. He trained at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma and served the remainder of his three-year enlistment in Bamberg, Germany. While he entered the Army as a Republican, he abandoned the GOP soon after his enlistment."


Chickenhawks like to push pencils as opposed to doing push ups.

David Brooks.....aka The Shill Who Luvs GWB

Via Think Progress

David Brooks is confused about Iraq?

"Let me say, I’m more uncertain about what to do than I’ve ever been in this war," he said. "I really have no clue. So I almost have no judgment on what we should do, stay or go. I really am so confused."--NewsHour with Jim Lehrer-July 20, 2007

Remember when David "the shill" Brooks thought he know WTF he was talking about when it came to Iraq?

"The country wants to get out of Iraq, but they don’t want to get out precipitously. They want a managed withdrawal. The majority just isn’t there. So the majority in the Congress had to accede to those two realities."NewsHour with Jim Lehrer-May 25, 2007

Ohhhh but wait...there's more....he even goes as far to help the Bush Administration out with "connecting the dots" on Iraq and 9/11 back in 2003.

"You're in a context, post-September 11 where everybody is blaming you for not bring all the information together, to think about a theory of how the World Trade Centers got blown up. So you want to be aggressive in connecting the dots. They were aggressive and they did take this Niger thing seriously. But to me, that's what I want my president to be doing in those circumstances because nuclear bombs could be months away in Iraq." NewsHour with Jim Lehrer-July 18, 2003

Mushroom clouds anyone?

Republican Obstructionism or Treachery?

Republican's say one thing and do another.....typical in the land of self-loathing hypocrisy. Lets look at this little tidbit of how the Republican mantra of "Party Before Country" has wreaked havoc on the country.



"WASHINGTON — This year Senate Republicans are threatening filibusters to block more legislation than ever before, a pattern that's rooted in — and could increase — the pettiness and dysfunction in Congress.

The trend has been evolving for 30 years. The reasons behind it are too complex to pin on one party. But it has been especially pronounced since the Democrats' razor-thin win in last year's election, giving them effectively a 51-49 Senate majority, and the Republicans' exile to the minority."--Senate tied in knots by filibusters

Republicans, what are they good for? Not you or me....

Over 1000 Subpoena's Issued to Investigate President Clinton

from Rep Brad Miller

"In other words, they think we’ll act like Republicans. After Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, the House Government Reform Committee issued more than 1000 subpoenas to investigate alleged misconduct by the Clinton Administration and the Democratic Party, or two for every day Congress was in session.

Are Republicans worried that congressional investigations will be burdensome? The Clinton Administration produced two million pages of documents, an average of 4,000 pages of documents for every day Congress was in session."

.....you heard right...Republican's issued TWO SUBPOENA'S for every day they were in session and Clinton produced 4,000 pages of documents for the same. What did all this "Matlocking" uncover? Hmm...Clinton cheated on his wife (see Newt Gingrich) and found that Clinton had done nothing illegal in the Whitewater Investigation. By the way....Republican's wasted $50 million.

But Clinton Did It........

Tony Snow Thinks Executive Privilege Pertains to Republican's Only...

"What kinds of conversations does executive privilege protect?…What are the limits on privilege?'' a newspaper columnist wrote in the spring of 1998 on a subject strangely familiar today."

"Evidently, Mr. Clinton wants to shield virtually any communications that take place within the White House compound on the theory that all such talk contributes in some way, shape or form to the continuing success and harmony of an administration,'' the columnist wrote. "Taken to its logical extreme, that position would make it impossible for citizens to hold a chief executive accountable for anything.''

More from the Chicago Tribune:Snow swallows own old words

Thanks to Aravosis

By the way, Clinton did let his aides testify UNDER OATHE.

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Conservatives Cannot Govern.....Incompetence is by Design

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."--Grover Norquist (Honest Jerk)

"Donald Rumsfeld has been axed. Tom DeLay cut and ran. “Scooter” Libby stands convicted. Michael “you’re doing a heck of a job” Brown was tossed. Newt Gingrich disgraced himself. And now the clueless Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, is surely the next to go."

......continued

"What is it about conservative administrations that lead them into disgrace and indictment? Incompetence isn’t at the core of these scandals—ideology is."

more from Robert Borosage at TomPaine

Cant See the Forest, Thru the Trees...

Pretty much sums up the mentality of Iraq War advocates aka Republicans and the Democratic sell-outs (Hillary, Lieberman, Kerry) when it comes to the attrocities being committed in our name.


"March 19, 2007 | One-year-old Shams was brought to the National Iraqi Assistance Center with her uncle to seek plastic surgery in the US. Her mother was killed in the blast that burned her face.
(Photo: Eros Hoagland / The New York Times)" Courtesy of Truthout

Read the story here

Watergate Cover-Up 2.0

"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."--Richard Nixon (during Watergate investigation)

"In DOJ documents that were publicly posted by the House Judiciary Committee, there is a gap from mid-November to early December in e-mails and other memos, which was a critical period as the White House and Justice Department reviewed, then approved, which U.S. attorneys would be fired while also developing a political and communications strategy for countering any fallout from the firings."

.........more below

"Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a member of the Judiciary panel, noted that six of the eight fired prosecutors were involved in corruption investigations focusing on GOP lawmakers or officials, and she questioned whether the firings were an effort by Republicans to protect their own."

Courtesy of The Politico

BOYCOTT YAHOO!!!!

'Yahoo Betrayed My Husband'
"FAIRFAX, Virginia -- Early one Sunday morning in 2002, a phone rings in Yu Ling's Beijing duplex. She's cleaning upstairs; her son is asleep, while downstairs, her husband, Wang Xiaoning, is on the computer. Wang writes about politics, anonymously e-mailing his online e-journals to a group of Yahoo users. He's been having problems with his Yahoo service recently. He thinks it's a technical issue. This is the day he learns he's wrong."

Continued:

"Moments later, government agents swarm through the front door -- 10 of them, some in uniform, some not. They take Wang away. They take his computers and disks. They shove an official notice into Yu's hands, tell her to keep quiet, and leave. This is how it's done in China. This is how the internet police grab you."

I encourage all Americans to boycott Yahoo. Kill your IM accounts and refuse to use their search engines and news services.

The Oscars...groupthink at its best.

A film that receives an Oscar is by no means a guarantee to potential viewers that its a great film. When my fellow Americans start electing intelligent leadership then I will listen to their opinions on their entertainment selections.

group·think-noun:

1. The practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity

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2. the lack of individual creativity, or of a sense of personal responsibility, that is sometimes characteristic of group intereaction

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Americans Support Killing Civilians? A New Low For America

A new poll reported in CS Monitor:

The myth of Muslim support for terror

WASHINGTON - Those who think that Muslim countries and pro-terrorist attitudes go hand-in-hand might be shocked by new polling research: Americans are more approving of terrorist attacks against civilians than any major Muslim country except for Nigeria.

The survey, conducted in December 2006 by the University of Maryland's prestigious Program on International Public Attitudes, shows that only 46 percent of Americans think that "bombing and other attacks intentionally aimed at civilians" are "never justified," while 24 percent believe these attacks are "often or sometimes justified."

Contrast those numbers with 2006 polling results from the world's most-populous Muslim countries – Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. Terror Free Tomorrow, the organization I lead, found that 74 percent of respondents in Indonesia agreed that terrorist attacks are "never justified"; in Pakistan, that figure was 86 percent; in Bangladesh, 81 percent.

Do these findings mean that Americans are closet terrorist sympathizers?

US Intelligence on Iranian Nukes Completely False

From Sunday's L.A. Times

VIENNA — Although international concern is growing about Iran's nuclear program and its regional ambitions, diplomats here say most U.S. intelligence shared with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency has proved inaccurate and none has led to significant discoveries inside Iran.

The officials said the CIA and other Western spy services had provided sensitive information to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency at least since 2002, when Iran's long-secret nuclear program was exposed. But none of the tips about supposed secret weapons sites provided clear evidence that the Islamic Republic was developing illicit weapons.

Interesting...considering the U.N. was correct on Iraq's WMDs (or lack thereof) it's hard to grasp why the Bush Admin thinks they can polish a turd and call it jewelry. This is the same Bush Administration that outed CIA operatives working on Iranian Nuclear Proliferation.....

How Many Days........?

till Bush pardons Libby?

Rove Tells America How Republicans Really Feel...

about immigrants.....

"According to a congressman's wife who attended a Republican women's luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president's amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: "I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas."

There should be no need to explain why this is an obscene statement coming from a leader in the party that promotes the virtues of hard work, thrift, and sobriety, a party whose demi-god actually split fence rails as a young man, a party where "respectable Republican cloth coat" once actually meant something. But it does seem to be necessary to explain."

Courtesy of NRO

I guess Republicans really have a disdain for blue collar workers.

Condi Rice the Most Over-Rated Person Ever?

Wow...Iran actually has more diplomatic skills than the United States.

Courtesy of Newsweek.

An Iranian Peace Proposal?

A document faxed to the State Department in 2003 sets out terms for comprehensive negotiations between Iran and the United States.READ

I DONT CARE.....

about anything that has to do with that trainwreck Anna Nicole Smith. Proof positive our media is nothing more than a detractor from our government's inept policies.

Flying Across Country?

With all this time in the media being spent on Speaker Pelosi's taxpayer funded plane, shouldnt we take a look at Congressman Hunter's transport and see if he, like Pelosi, takes non-stop flights from the 52nd to DC? It appears that most California reps do indeed fly non-stop...contacting Congressman Hunter's office.

How Many More Days?

Till Dick Cheney is charged with treason?

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 115 > § 2381

"Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."

Courtesy of Cornell Law

Biting the Hand (Bush Admin) That Feeds

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it had signed an initial deal worth $10 billion (5.1 billion pounds) with Spain's Repsol (REP.MC: Quote, Profile , Research) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile , Research) to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the South Pars gas field.
Iran signs initial LNG deal with Repsol, Shell -report

Does the Bush Admin view Shell Oil as an enemy of the state?

True Lies.....a Poem by Taalam Acey

Taalam Acey

Bush Admin Push Iran/Iraq Weapons Deal?

Could it be possible that the Bush Admin either thru sheer incompetence or skilled planning allowed the Iraq/Iran weapons deal in order to make a statement such as this?

"If Iran escalates its military action in Iraq to the detriment of our troops and/or innocent Iraqi people, we will respond firmly," said the President, who also remarked, "I take the Iranian nuclear threat very seriously, even though the intel on Iraq was not what it was thought to be." Bush warns Iran

Let's not forget that Iraq and Iran signed a military deal:

"Former foes Iran and Iraq have said they will sign a military cooperation agreement that will include Iranian help in training Iraq's armed forces." Iran and Iraq to sign military deal

When the Iraqi Defense Minister was asked about US opposition to Iranian involvment:
"Nobody can dictate to Iraq its relations with other countries"

Not All Facism Looks Like Adolf Hitler (You Tube)

Jan 24th...."Most Depressing Day of the Year"

LONDON - Is the midwinter weather wearing you down? Are you sinking in debt after the holidays? Angry with yourself for already breaking your New Year's resolutions? Wish you could crawl back under the covers and not have to face another day of rain, sleet, snow and paperwork? Probably. After all, it's Jan. 24, the “most depressing day of the year,” according to a U.K. psychologist.

Dr. Cliff Arnall's calculations show that misery peaks Monday.

Arnall, who specializes in seasonal disorders at the University of Cardiff, Wales, created a formula that takes into account numerous feelings to devise peoples' lowest point.

The equation is broken down into seven variables: (W) weather, (D) debt, (d) monthly salary, (T) time since Christmas, (Q) time since failed quit attempt, (M) low motivational levels and (NA) the need to take action.

Courtesy of MSNBC: Jan. 24 called worst day of the year

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4 Days Past 29

It is now four days past my 29th Birthday. I have decided I will write. I have no regrets.