Open Thread: My Wanker of the Day

6 Comments

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   KnotIookin on February 12, 2007 at 12:22 pm

   the grammy’st night were about the best they have been in a LONG Time.

   It wasnt ONLY that the Dixie Chicks won FIVE (count em) awards…but that Joan Baez was tapped to intreoduce their performance of ‘not ready’ and she did a wonderful job of it…especially tasking the viewing audience to actually ‘listen to all the words”

   I also enjoyed when ludicis thanked the idiot aka bill oreilly and that ornette coleman got a lifetime award

   but the ultimate moment, for me, was when AL GORE took the stage to present the best roick album award and he gave to to the chili peppers.

   I want a president who is equally comfortable at a dinner table filled with world leaders AND on stage giving rock awards to the red hot chili peppers.

    

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   DaveW on February 12, 2007 at 12:48 pm

   Big prick? I hardly think so. He clearly fears and hates the clitoris, presumably because they dwarf his own alleged prick. As with his fellow wingnuts, there’s nothing to see down there.

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     Kamakhya on February 12, 2007 at 12:53 pm

     LOL…I immediately thought the same thing.  He should now be called Riehl Little Weewee.

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     AP on February 12, 2007 at 7:08 pm

     Obviously, he can’t find it with a map. He’s a Riehl jackass.

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   boran2 on February 12, 2007 at 1:15 pm

   From the rightwing rulebook:  When you can’t attack content, attack the individual(s).

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   on February 12, 2007 at 5:21 pm

   There’s an interview with Elizabeth de la Vega at Truthdig, both as an mp3 file and as a transcript. De la Vega has written the book US v. Bush et al., which makes the case that the top members of the Bush regime committed the Federal crime of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. when they made the case for invading Iraq. As far as I can tell, it has been mentioned only once at BT.

   I really do not understand why the blogosphere has not made more of an effort to publicize this book. One of the ways public opinion must be changed, one of the fronts we have to work on, is for people to understand that BushCo demonstrably committed actionable crimes in the lead up to the war. From the interview:

   Robert Scheer: I just wonder at what point does this become actionable? Deceiving the public consciously about information that would lead you to war?

   De la Vega: Well, I actually think it’s been actionable all along. We’re in this strange suspension of reality I think that we’ve been in for several years. Because the reason I wrote the book was because it was very obvious to me, and I think it’s obvious to you, because you wrote a book about it too, but that we had more than enough information a couple of years ago to know that the Bush administration not only manipulated the underlying intelligence to make it look better, but they used the information they had in a way that was deceitful by leaving off half of it or artfully wording their statements in a way that would be deceptive to people, or they simply just made reckless statements without any regard for whether they were true, truthful or not. And those are the very essence of fraud. That’s how people defraud people in any realm, whether it’s investments or contracts or anything. So, I don’t know, the tipping point ultimately is a political question, which is the problem that we have right now. Because I think well over half the people in the country already believe, already know, that we were deceived about this war. So it’s been actionable in a legal sense. The information has been there for a couple of years. And, and these things that come out, these new reports, really they’re just additional conclusions about the same facts that we’ve known all along. And that’s why I wrote the book. I wanted people to be able to look at those facts themselves and they can decide for themselves. And I think the conclusion is pretty much inevitable.

   It’s well worth listening to the interview on your mp3 player, because she just sounds so reasonable, so mainstream-American. (She is a formal federal prosecutor.)