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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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BooMan, You need more choices in your poll. 😉
like what?
This:
“I’m just a sweet transvestite, from transexual transylvaniaaaahhh…. ah ha!”
I’m an herb. What about me? Huh?
No respect. I don’t get no respect.
it’s the female herbs that get you high.
I read a very cool thing in the paper (Denver Post) this morning. I have been paying extra for my electricity for several years now, in order to support wind power. But with the upcoming increases in natural gas costs, wind power is now cheaper, for the first time! My electrical bills won’t be going up (although our heating bills will of course be going through the roof).
So, hooray for alternative energy!
There are some things you just can’t hide. WaPo’s Dana Milbank takes a look at Bush’s body language.
holy shit. I felt like I was reading The Onion or Bood Abides. Milbank just savaged him. I guess he’s given up on ever getting to interview anyone from the administration ever again.
Administration.
Har. I hope Keith has Dana on Countdown tonight to illustrate his points with video clips. This is such a hoot! And the photo of Builder Bush hammering, I swear — LOL — the bozo has never hammered a nail before in his life.
Jeez, Louise. Somewhere else I saw a comment that he hammered “like a girl.” Insulting to us girl types who know how to hold a hammer, but clearly in that picture he is holding the thing all wrong.
I’m happy to say that my Stanley 16-oz. is old enough that it was made in the U.S. of A. and not in some other place. Lots of good used-tool stores around here; perhaps Dubya should look into buying his own hammer and doing some practicing before the next national disaster for which his administration will not be ready.
Can’t hold a hammer? Hell, he can’t use a phone!
Someone sent me that picture shortly after Katrina, with the caption “Why help never arrived.” So true.
ABC piled on, too:
Since it’s been a few years since I took the SAT, I double-checked the definition of jejune, to make sure I wasn’t misreading that. Ouch!
je·june
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin jejunus empty of food, hungry, meager
1 : lacking nutritive value <jejune diets>
2 : devoid of significance or interest : DULL <jejune lectures>
3 : JUVENILE, PUERILE <jejune reflections on life and art>
synonym see INSIPID
Does the emperor have no clothes or what?
From an NBC-WSJ poll:
That the NBC/WSJ poll is quite conservative, is it not??
Yup. It generally rates Bush about 3-5 points higher than the other polls show.
James Dobson comes clean about what he knew about Miers’ nomination. Don’t get too excited. It ain’t much.
Put him under oath. The man does like to hear himself talk (I read the transcript; now undergoing detox) – somehow, I kept imagining that interview being given in a Foghorn Leghorn voice. And folks that like to go on at length often will trip themselves up under questioning. Even if nothing earth-shattering is revealed, it might be the most fun since Clarence Darrow took on William Jennings Bryan:
Full transcript of the trial available here, for you history fans.
The more things change, the more they’re the same (sigh)…
I would also point out that Bryan died the day after testifying, the stress and the summer heat combining to do him in, but some might interpret the implication there as being a prick, so I won’t. 😉
Dobson is lying to the press now about what he knows, in hopes it will keep him from being subpoenaed by the Senate and having to either tell the truth or lie under oath.
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We are winning 53% vs 47%, that can’t be right.
I do hope it goes into extra innings and balances out nicely.
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Ah…but perhaps men tend to vote more in BT polls than women. I demand in-depth analysis. 🙂
it could be that men are at the “goofing off at the desk” part of the day, while women are at the “running around with their heads cut off trying to get umpteen million things done” part of the day.
Me? I’m at the “screwing around trying to get the inspiration to get my ass in gear and clean this place up” part of the day…
Courtesy of Sen Lautenberg’s website:
WASHINGTON — Senator Frank R. Lautenberg reiterated his call for Vice President Dick Cheney to forfeit his continuing financial interest in the Halliburton Co (HAL), in light of the surging value of Vice President Cheney’s Halliburton holdings. Vice President Cheney continues to hold 433,333 Halliburton stock options, now worth $9,214,154.93 (at close yesterday.)
“As Halliburton’s fortunes rise, so does the Vice President’s, and that is wrong,” said Senator Lautenberg. “Halliburton has already raked in more than $10 billion from the Bush-Cheney Administration for work in Iraq, and now they are being awarded some of the first Katrina contracts. It is unseemly for the Vice President to continue to benefit from this company at the same time his Administration funnels billions of dollars to it.”
All of Vice President’s Cheney’s stock options are “in the money” for the first time in years. According to the Vice President’s Federal Financial Disclosure forms, he holds the following Halliburton stock options:
100,000 shares at $54.5000 (vested), expire 12-03-07 33,333 shares at $28.1250 (vested), expire 12-02-08 300,000 shares at $39.5000 (vested), expire 12-02-09
The Vice President has attempted to fend off criticism by signing an agreement to donate the after-tax profits from these stock options to charities of his choice, and his lawyer has said he will not take any tax deduction for the donations. Valued at over $9 million, the Vice President could exercise his stock options for a substantial windfall, benefiting not only his designated charities, but also providing Halliburton with a tax deduction.
The Vice President also continues to receive “deferred salary” from Halliburton. While in office, he has received the following salary payments from Halliburton:
Deferred salary paid by Halliburton to Vice President Cheney in 2001: $205,298 Deferred salary paid by Halliburton to Vice President Cheney in 2002: $162,392 Deferred salary paid by Halliburton to Vice President Cheney in 2003: $178,437 Deferred salary paid by Halliburton to Vice President Cheney in 2004: $194,852
In September 2003, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a memorandum to Senator Lautenberg concluding that holding stock options while in elective office does constitute a “financial interest” regardless of whether the holder of the options will donate proceeds to charities. CRS also found that receiving deferred compensation is a financial interest.
The CRS report can be downloaded at:
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/Report.pdf
The CRS findings contradict Vice President Cheney’s puzzling view that he does not have a financial interest in Halliburton. On the September 14, 2003 edition of Meet the Press in response to questions regarding his relationship with Halliburton where he was employed as CEO for five years, from 1995 to 2000, Vice President Cheney said:
“And since I left Halliburton to become George Bush’s vice president, I’ve severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven’t had, now, for over three years.”
Go Frank!
The correct link for the CRS report is
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/documents/domestic/financialties.pdf.
Thanks, I just cut & pasted from his site. Have you let his webmaster know about the correction?
That’s freaking disgusting. That ass lying about it on Meet the Press is the icing on the cake. What a pig. Cheney the pig.
It’s very hard to choose! Are we allowed to answer “both”?
Spike Lee is going to make a documentary about the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.
Good. That’s all I can say about that.
ND’s lone Rep (D)Pomeroy just returned from Baghdad. In today’s Fargo Forum 10-12-05, A 14, (sorry couldn’t find a link) Pomeroy said he believes the US must stay in the country to achieve progress. One General told him that a US pullout would create a “cesspool of chaos”.
Isn’t that what we’ve got now, a “cesspool of chaos”.
Obviously many Democrat politicians are not aware of the reporting of Dahr Jamail, one of the few independent/non-embedded journalist reporting form Iraq. Or of the Iraq blogs, such as the one done by Riverbend.
Dahr Jamail and Riverbend paint a quite different picture from the news available on MSM or anywhere else for that matter. I would encourage everyone who has not visited these sites to do so.
IMHO these two sites particularly are essential to an understanding of the realities.
Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
Baghdad Burning – Riverbend
Questioning the New Imperial World Order: A Hearing on the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
Brussels Tribunal on PNAC
I voted “Yes.”
It’s such a funny poll–I’m so used to long, complex questions, that I had to look twice to be sure I wasn’t misreading. LOL
And I like your answer, Omir.
Quite true. How can an aspiring policy wonk EVER merely answer yes or no?
I’m going to demand a recount.
I’m going to demand a recount.
I’ve stacked SCOTUS. You lose. Have a nice day.
Curses! Trumped!
Next Deal!!
Need to run some “demographics polls” to show the advertisers why they should advertise here?
You should.
It may turn some advertisers away from the site, BUT it would also make others “more regular” (perhaps even permanent) if they know you have the market they want to target…
CNN’s Anderson Cooper has landed a $1 million book deal to write his memoirs. Memoirs? He’s so young. 🙂
Will we finally find out if he’s gay or not? I’ll be so bummed.
But, think what he might reveal about his Mommie and their travels around the world with assorted husbands in tow.
Actually, it might really be interesting to see how someone from an extremely rich background decided to be a television personality and stumbled into being almost a real journalist.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051012/ap_on_el_pr/sweden_gore
Uhg. No Dean. No Gore. I know it is early, but why is my dream ticket so damn stubborn? It’s like there is some unwritten rule that you can’t be vocally, unabashedly, unappologetically critical of Bush and still run for Prez. Like you have to choose one or the other.
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hard to get. Never say oui too soon!
Can be more fun …
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Would explain why I find that ticket so sexy. Teases…
rescuing someone alive from earthquake rubble after 3 days = not a “miracle”
rescuing someone alive from earthquake rubble after 3 years = “miracle”
Perhaps George should ask a Pakistani to run FEMA in the U.S.
A new definition when to start search & rescue and request International assistance in first 24 hours!
UK special rescue teams were doing their job in Islamabad at the collapsed 10 story appartements building within 24 hours.
Even more telling is that US troops were in Pakistan dropping food and supplies from helicopters within a day or two too.
Ah, but that was Pakistan, not a DOMESTIC project.
Bush is a conservative, you know. He can’t do domestic.
Were assets in Pakistan doing the eternal search for OBL, the chinooks just happened to have food supplies on board.
Too bad KR had a period of kidney stones growing larger into a mill stone, otherwise he would have provided the MSM with adequate press releases that these exercises were part of US readiness in the WOT.
You did read Bush’s speech?
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lol – Poor Tony Blankly (er Blanky…umm…Blankley…his Blankness?). It’s just always the press’s fault, isn’t it? – unless, of course, he’s the press guy reporting on the story.
I’m so mad…
at first the “news” showed the 64 yr old black man being held up against the wall, while claiming he was drunk and resisting arrest. No real big story there one might think.
Well since so many have come out as witnesses, the poor media now has to show ALL the tape including what the AP journalist was was also beaten said.
This morning they show Davis, a retired teacher who came down to NO to look at his family’s property and who had bought some smokes and was walking toward a mounted police to ask about city curfew, laying in a clotty pool of his own blood from head and mouth wounds.
They fi-fucking-nally show this. Because this story won’t die down like “they” had hoped.
Fuck Bush
Fuck his mediawhores – you’re continue the Red Regime lies gets people killed.
Fuck Brutal Police
Fuck the America’s idea of “free press” and “liberty and freedom”. It just aint so nowadays thanks to Bush Inc. We’re all slaves now.
Sorry my Venti Vent.
Obviously I can’t type or form a sentence straight either.
… off to find a happy diary to hop into 🙂
Since this is an open thread….
Does anyone know anything about The Wilson Quarterly? I got a subscription thingy today, but I’ve never read it before.
Scholarly but not pretentious. If one has to characterize it politically, it’s not liberal. Some might way moderately to the right of what once was the center. I find it truly (un Fox-ily) fair and balanced.
I read it occasionally and enjoy it. In fact just read an excellent in depth article on the impact of Al Jazeerah media on the ME.
Web site here.
Thanks for the info. I think I’ll try it out.
Looked at their web site and they seemed to have some interesting stuff.
dad-in-law has subscribed to it for years; that and his annual Guideposts are his favorite bathroom reading…fortunately the in-laws have two bathrooms; we only have one so have not installed the magazine racks yet… 😉
Arkansas Mother Gives Birth to 16th Child
Gets me to wondering how common this is.
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I do hope she is 4th wife of a Saudi prince living in Bill’s Arkansas, and it’s his 16th child.
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She must be rich.
Because she sure as hell couldn’t afford to feed, clothe, educate and provide health care for all those babies unless she wasn’t some type of a Brazillionairre…
ACK!
She is rich and of some sort of christian faith. I think it is notable that they are white as the driven snow as well. I wonder if it was an African-American or Hispanic family it the paper would be so kind to them.
She says that if God wants them to have more babies, she will be happy to have more. I say if God wanted them to have more, perhaps he could tell them to adopt them?
If G-d wanted them to have kids wouldn’t he do that miraculous insemenation?? 🙂 And yes to the news treating them kindly only because they are white and political and some form of Christians.
Good news; I found out something super duper cool about my brother the other day.
He says he wants to one day ahve kids but he will only have kids by adoption. He says there are so many children out there needing to be raised as someone who is wanted and cherished. 🙂
I have two stepkids I could give him. I did not just say that.
You’re so right. If god wanted us to have babies, there wouldn’t be any such thing as sex. We’d all be his kids, literally.
Obviously, it’s not babies god wants us to have. It’s sex.
Never mind she’s married to a former state rep who has eyes on the US state senate….
in other words, WE pay for their housing, meds, clothes…
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Is securing a majority at the polls in a few years!
I like it better than a Diebold or ES&S trick. A planning for his future.
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OMFG!
I saw that story and thought it was funny that it would even make the news, considering that families used to be that size in N America not so long ago. Makes you wonder how many of those church goers are actually using birth control when they’re not supposed to be. 🙂
From what I was told when I was much younger, Quite common for the previous generations in parts of the South, and Midwest. Lots of kids=you could farm more acres! Today, I would think much less common?!
A request for extradition of a Dutch citizen with Egyptian roots Mohammed A., has been dismissed by a Dutch Court today. US Prosecution suspects the Egyptian from facilitating financial and telecom activities as a service to Al Qaeda counterparts. The suspicion of terrorism in an earlier stage had been dropped in the final request to prosecute him for telecom fraud only. The request of the Dutch Court that the suspect would not end up in Guantanamo Bay could/would not be given by the US. To avoid any chance of prosecution other than for telecom fraud, the court’s decision was to deny extradition.
Dutch Justice will now follow up and prosecute Mohammed A.
See my diary :: CHEVRON’s Cabinda (Angola) & Condoleezza Rice ::
Arrest A. Membe at Peace Talks in The Hague
Latest news — A. Membe has been released on bail, needs to report daily at police station so he does not flee country. The Dutch State Dep’t has not delivered the information the court needs to make a verdict.
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Just wanted to mention – right now on Bravo is the episode of the West Wing – about religion and abortion – that got the Reblicans so up in arms. (I believe toward the end, there’s a nice little speech by Vineck)
dream of ‘clean, safe’ nuclear energy saving the world, please check into the disposal of nuclear waste accumulated by nuclear power plants.
The local (near the US/Canada border) nuclear waste dump, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, WA has never, never lived up to safety standards.
From Handford Watch:
And what is Bush doing? He is deregulating safety codes for second generation nuclear power plants in the USA.
Of the Dammed things. “We almost Lost Detroit” chronicles a near Chernobyl “event” at the Monroe Mi. nuclear plant in the 70’s I think. Sorry, can’t remember the author or publisher,
radioactivity. The federal government has guide lines on the safety limit and the plants are monitored carefully, we are told. However proponents of nuclear power deny that there are any emissions at all. There’s a chain of danger from the mining of uranium, to the building of the plant, to the dishcarge of heavy water, to the dismantling of the obsolete plant. Plant licenses are only good for 40 years. Then there is the radioactive waste and its transport to the Nuclear Waste Reservations like Yucca Mountain, Nevada, or Hanford,Washington. Both are not getting clean bills of health.
SOURCES CLOSE TO FITZGERALD
SAY CHENEY EXAMINED IN LEAK INVESTIGATION… DEVELOPING…
no article yet.
include the Drudge sirens?
More rumors, via Jane Hamsher, firedoglake:
“A source close to the Plame case is saying that Fitzgerald met alone with Judge Hogan yesterday, presumably to ask for an extension of the Grand Jury.”
The beat goes on…
Peace