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BooMan
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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to Crawford for some the Easter festivities. I’ll be in San Antonio for one of my son’s minor surgeries around that time. I would like to fly into San Antonio though, so wanted to see if anybody Boomers there would be interested in going to Crawford and splitting gas and having a really great time!
don’t you?
Today is Kimmy Cash’s birthday (of Punx for Dean and DIY Politics). I’ve posted a happy birthday shout-out to her here
http://howardempowered.blogspot.com/2006/03/happy-birthday-kimmy.html
and you can leave your own birthday greeting in the comments if you like.
3 years and ‘they’re still lying to us’
The Iraq “Operation Swarmer” was not a major offensive but a PR exercise as reported here, ‘no air assault’ and here, ‘not a shot was fired or a leader nabbed.
In a country of deceit, truth is a revolution.
2 Things:
The necessity for honest elections with paper ballots and no machines (IMO) is the definition of maintaining a democracy. Anything less is a totalitarian dictatorship. I’m scared shitless by Diebold machines all across California and what HAVA is doing to destroy our democracy. My solution: Pull the plugs on election day and get ready with the paper ballots and lots of pens.
The second thing is the precariousness of the economy and my sole-proprietor business. My work is very dependent on the economy being a bit flush, and after 4 years of building my business, I’m still at square 2, and in a state of anxiety whether I should dissolve it and be full-time at my part-time side profession.
My solution: Dump BushCo’s and the Right’s agendas, and return liberty and fairness to the US economy.
Is this why I haven’t noticed Larry Johnson posting around here much any more?
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For two consecutive years now we’ve had members of the National Guard repelling down from the ceiling of the gymnasium prior to the start of the championship game of the Class B high school basketball tournament.
This evening local TV showed a male and a female repelling down, and after they landed broke away for comment. So I don’t know if there was a skit this year.
Last year there were several guard members repelling down, complete with firearms. Upon reaching the floor the following “skit” ensued; they spread out in a small circle with their firearms pointed outwards as the remaining member arrived with the Stars and Stripes. Which if memory serves they delivered to the Gov.
Anyway, militaristic themes seem to be everywhere these days. IMO we are several rungs up the ladder of fascism. See left link in sig line for ref.
Could it be there aren’t any guardsmen to do skits because they are all in Iraq? <snark>
Actually there may well have been one this year too. I just don’t know as the coverage did not include the whole thing.
I may run into someone who was at the game, or watched via a different station.
“They” have to leave a few thousand guardsmen in the state to keep the sons and daughters, of the Norwegians and Swedes who resisted the Nazis during WWII, from getting out of hand.<snark>
You’re giving us several more rungs that I am. When there wasn’t a great upheaval over the wire tapping; the great majority of the civilian population seemingly went ‘meh. it’s not happening to me’. Though I might be more inclined to compare it to and Hong Kong Action flick where the crime syndicate comes around, beats up the shop owner and takes his money. Then the hero shows up and gives his inspirational speech about why the shop owner doesn’t stand up and he replies “meh. We give him our money and he leaves us alone.”
One question that has been bugging me is how the American people – OK, mostly the wingnuts – heralded W, who dropped the ball in the first place, as their saviour after 9/11. One realization is that, in fact, they celebrated 9/11 as being a reason to let go of civilized behaviour. Bush is their saviour cause he brought them out in the wild again.
For me, high5, as I see it, they are not the REAL of society. By real, I mean the most of us are not the wingnuts, but those who believed in the first place in what was being said by dubya, was blindsighted by not knowing much about much of anything in the first place. Those who do not read or see things clearly, are those who are clearly easey to sway. That is where they come from. Once they start to see and hear what is really happening, they start to wake up to what is really what is. I know it is not much of an answer by me, but that is how I see it. I have always said, this administration was aware and all knowing about tht hit we took on 911. I have to say it…they were complicit in the hit for they knew and did not act approriately on such knowledge. I think they knew from the get go what the mistake was that they did….henseforth, that is the reason for the rhetoric we have always heard. I have always wondered what would have been the neocons excuse for going into Iraq without 911. They were planning on it before they got to the WH. It would be interesting to know what that would have been. Well, GWB wanted to go into Iraq, he just needed an excuse. and they got it with 911. I have deeper thoughts too, but onthe basic of it all that is what I think about your question.
Anyhow, it is those who wanted something to believe in that were those who took the rhetoric the hardest…and sadly to say, they were the ones who were easiest to sway.
Bruins win an ass clencher against Alabama yahoo! One step closer to the championship!!
I have a question that has been haunting me for the whole day. I wished some one would, if they could, answer this for me, please.
Can we censure bush and still hold hearings with the NSA spying problem? If we can why dont we get started on this. If not I want to know the legal reason for this NOT. Thanks…hugs
I don’t believe that one would preclude the other. In fact censure might make the need for hearings greater.
so you are saying the excuse that most dems give is that Russ has interfered with the hearings is false. Now what…can they not give anything better than that for an excuse? If you are correct, it would seem they would be very happy for Russ’s outing this for them.
Perhaps what they mean is that if the push for censure fails, there will be less of an impetus for the hearings. Just a guess because I haven’t actually read their remarks.
well, I did hear that the motion to cenure will go to comittee. I understand that much of it. But I also heard that the repubs will not hold any further investigations on this topic [nsa spying] and that is what I was getting at. Was the motion to push for investigations or what…it is very confusing for me.
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Mar 18, 2006 (AP)– When a gasoline spill and fiery explosion killed three young people in Washington state, officials announced a record penalty against a gas pipeline company: $3 million to send the message that such tragedies “must never happen again.”
When nuclear labs around the country were found exposing workers to radiation and breaking other safety rules, assessments totaling $2.5 million were quickly ordered.
When coal firms’ violations were blamed for deaths, injuries and risks to miners from Alabama to West Virginia, they were slapped with more than $1.3 million in penalties.
What happened next with these no-nonsense enforcement efforts? Not much. The pipeline tab was eventually reduced by 92 percent, the labs’ assessments were waived as soon as they were issued, and the mine penalties largely went unpaid.
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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Been googling some stuff and finding out a hell of a lot that makes absolutely no sense…what else is new?
So, I’m listening to Motown, Seger, and Roberta Flack…
Just chilling…
I’m wondering why Congress gets ten days off for St. Pats? Clearly these people don’t have enough work to do.
C-Span’s Washington Journal has a special guest, red from firedoglake, on right now…brilliant and beautiful.
It is good to finally see who one is when reading, isn’t it. Reddhead is actually as smart as she writes.
It does make the blog/net experience a more personal connection to have a ‘real’ person to relate the writing to. She’s a great representative for us mildly opinionated folk.
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She was great. Thanks for the heads up.
She was much calmer than I expected. It’s probably for the best, though. I thought I saw a few glances where she was biting her tongue.
I had it on and was listening but didn’t actually watch much of it. So I didn’t notice any glances.
I expected her to be calm. Prosecutors learn how to play to ordinary people; they have to make juries trust them, if not actually like them. That’s also why she’s so good at taking complicated legal issues and putting them into terms that everybody can understand.
I thought she was GREAT at not taking the bait and getting into an argument over a Republican talking point but simply sticking with points that helped our side. But again I think that’s where working in front of judges and juries helps. You don’t win if you don’t focus on YOUR argument.
Yup. She’s an excellent speaker and a great representative. I would likely yield to temptation and reach across the table and Liberally shake some sense into the GOP’er. It’s best that I’ll never appear.
plus, an appearance would blow your cover 🙂
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