Open Thread

10 Comments

1. 

   PsiFighter37 on June 25, 2006 at 2:14 am

   Over at dKos, people are going fucking nuts over David Brooks writing shit about Kos. Is it really a surprise? No. So why the fuck does everyone else think it necessary to obsess over it? Hell, why does Kos even feel the need to reassure us, like a parent to scared children, that we got here without them? I’m beginning to think that there is an extremely large narcissistic complex of sorts over there. Every time someone says something derogatory, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise, it gets obsessed over by EVERYONE.

   There are bigger fish to fry out there; talking about fucking David Brooks and his eternal wankery won’t accomplish anything.

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     spiderleaf on June 25, 2006 at 12:19 pm

     and I suppose by implication, since we didn’t get here because of the MSM, we must have gotten here because of him and his site. Oh, one question, where is “here” anyway? If it’s Booman Trib, fer sure I got here because of Markos.

     … and now back to my regularly scheduled workload.

2. 

   Street Kid on June 25, 2006 at 2:33 am

   Voting Rights, Not Wrongs!

   (And I’m having trouble sleeping.)

3. 

   James Benjamin on June 25, 2006 at 3:11 am

   read this one: The Iraqi dead over at the blog Make Some Noise!

   Zazou helps to put a human face on what is often to us Americans an abstraction.

4. 

   jimstaro on June 25, 2006 at 8:30 am

   STAY THE COURSE?
   

   Sometimes, it’s a pretty stupid thing to do.

   ~~~~~~

   THE REPUBLICAN PLAN FOR IRAQ
   

   Passing the buck…

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     jimstaro on June 25, 2006 at 9:13 am

     (Sorry no URL on this yet, it was sent to me, but the Colonel has written similar in the past and no doubt this came from his fingers. And if memory serves he’s a Repub., or was back in 2000.)

     CUT and RUN? You’re Damn Right!  We Have Had Enough!

     The Republicans have accused the Democrats of a plan of “Cut and Run”.

     We need to “Cut and Run” from failed Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld and the
     Republican Congress of attacking and murdering innocents in Iraq.

     We need to “Cut and Run” from the trillions of dollars in Republican increased
     National Debt.

     We need to “Cut and Run” from the Bush mega deficits.

     We need to “Cut and Run” from the ruinous Bush privatization plan of
     critical government programs

     We need to “Cut and Run” from the Bush Medicare disaster.

     We need to “Cut and Run” from the Republican Plan to destroy Social
     Security. (We could fix SS by making the rich pay their share.)

     We need to “Cut and Run” from the Pat Robertson/Jerry Fallwell ideal
     of American life.

     We need to “Cut and Run” from the ruinous Republican  elitist tax cuts.

     We need to “Cut and Run from supremist corporate sponsored laws to protect
     gigantean corporations from lawsuit for raping the American people and the
     American economy.

     We need to “Cut and Run” from foreign control of American manufacturing,
     foreign owned big business and foreign owned business that is critical to
     national defense.

     We need to “Cut and Run” from foreign interest taking tax free profits from
     the American Economy.

     And we need to “Cut and Run” from killing our sons and daughters for no-bid
     contracts for Cheney and Halliburton, Bush and Oil, and for ghoulish defense
     industry maggots making huge unaccounted for mega profits on the needless
     death of our brave soldiers.

     We need to “Cut and Run” from Republicans outing  CIA operatives.

     We need to “Cut and Run” from below poverty level $5.15 minimum wages.

     We Need to Shove “Cut and Run” Up every Greedy, Selfish Republicans Butt.

     Do not blame the Democrats for Cutting and Running. Blame the Republicans;
     for destroying the American Dream, for destroying American Jobs,  for destroying
     the American Economy and for destroying our benevolent American way of life.

     Finally, Most of all, We need to “Cut and Run” from KILLING OUR YOUTH in Iraq
     on a God Damn George W. Bush Lie !!!

     Cut and Run? You’re Damn Right… We Have Had Enough!

     F. Merle Campbell Jr.
     Colonel,AUS,Retired

     They Lie, Tens Of Thousands Of Others Die!

5. 

   Disgusted in St Louis on June 25, 2006 at 8:52 am

   Most, if not all, credit card transactions and all Western Union wire transfers tracked by FBI and then matched to the NSA phone data.  I have links to articles in diary, Extremes of BushCo: Bank Data Edition Episode II, which are some revelations from Ron Suskind’s new book that have been mostly ignored by the media and not been discussed in his book tour interviews.

6. 

   Ed J on June 25, 2006 at 10:44 am

   NYT:

   By MICHAEL R. GORDON
   Published: June 25, 2006

   WASHINGTON, June 24 — The top American commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects sharp reductions in the United States military presence there by the end of 2007, with the first cuts coming this September, American officials say.

   Emphasis mine. October would have been too obvious and August would have left too much time for the Iraqi government to collapse before November 7th.

7. 

   boran2 on June 25, 2006 at 11:29 am

   Glad you’re back!

8. 

   Jeffersonian Democrat on June 25, 2006 at 11:36 am

   Booman, I am sad to say that you were right about Spectre a few days ago.  I guess he came out on Fox and said something about a compromise with the WH on NSA wiretaps and writing the Prez’s request into law.  I’m not sure of the details but I’m ranting anyway…

   What the f***????  What’s there to compromise on?  The law is the law.  “Oh, I’m sorry your honor, I murdered that guy because I judged it necessary, can we come to a compromise on this?  I mean, maybe there’s someway to write legal murder into law…”

   I mean, come on!

   The next person who verbally beats me up for mentioning fascism and the US in one sentence… well, I’ll, I’ll, oh hell I don’t know what I’ll do.  Maybe send a care package to him/her when they’re in a rehabilitation camp.