Open Thread

11 Comments

1. 

   nalbar on June 29, 2008 at 8:04 pm

   HAHAHA!

   They want the elimination of no fault divorce! What morons wingnuts are.

   I bet you anything that after a Obama wins the republicans go FURTHER to the right, believing that was their problem.

   It’s like that old quote after McGovern lost by a landslide…”But everyone I know voted for him”. Except this time it will be…. “But everyone I know thinks we need to outlaw divorce and the birth control pill”.

   nalbar

2. 

   supersoling on June 29, 2008 at 8:16 pm

   The democrats are thinking they score a ten in November, but with Obama’s jump to the right I think this flip flopping business will be more of a flop and certain cheerleaders in the blogosphere will all applaud and call it a tour de force regardless.

    

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     dada on June 29, 2008 at 8:35 pm

     ouch!

     ya think they’re not likely to set a guinness world record, eh. professor splash to the rescue…:{)

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       supersoling on June 29, 2008 at 8:44 pm

       A little water goes a long way :o)

       Diving into dirt has become a Washington art form in itself though.

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         dada on June 29, 2008 at 8:46 pm

         they actually seem to prefer eating it, super.

         good to see you around again, btw.

         peace bro

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           supersoling on June 29, 2008 at 8:59 pm

           Must be an aquired taste. Least they could do is offer up a little ketchup or koolaide to wash it down with :o)

           “peace bro
           “

           Tryin to get my sea legs under me again, Dada. Think I’ll be in DC next week to raise a little hell over this FISA bullshit.

           btw, thanks for challenging the conventional think monster.

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           dada on June 30, 2008 at 9:22 pm

           good luck, my friend.

           l still have the mental image of you from way back when with damnit janet and your flag.

           imnsho, as a veteran of the nam era protests, it’s gonna take millions in the streets to effect any change. satyagraha as ghandi called it.

           torches and pitchforks ain’t gonna work because we’re out-gunned. we all do what we can.

           excerpted from a treatise on the tao te ching:

           We reject hatred, intolerance, and
           unnecessary violence, and embrace harmony, love and
           learning…

           peace, a hell of a concept, eh.

           peace bro

3. 

   idredit on June 29, 2008 at 9:12 pm

   there’s a diplomatic crisis in Iraq.

   McClatchy reports on

   a U.S. raid that killed PM al-Maliki’s relative.

   BAGHDAD, Iraq — Senior Iraqi government officials said Saturday that a U.S. Special Forces counterterrorism unit conducted the raid that reportedly killed a relative of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, touching off a high-stakes diplomatic crisis between the United States and Iraq.

   U.S. military officials in Baghdad had no comment for the second day in a row, an unusual position for a command that typically releases information on combat operations within 24 hours.

   The raid occurred at dawn Friday in the town of Janaja near Maliki’s birthplace in the southern, mostly Shiite Muslim province of Karbala. Ali Abdulhussein Razak al Maliki, who was killed in the raid, was related to the prime minister and had close ties to his personal security detail, according to authorities in Karbala.

   The incident puts an added strain on U.S.-Iraqi negotiations to draft a Status of Forces Agreement, a long-term security pact that will govern the conduct of U.S. forces in Iraq. Members of the Iraqi government and security forces said the raid only deepened their reluctance to sign any agreement that did not leave Iraqis with the biggest say on when and how combat operations are conducted.

   [.]

   “We are afraid now of signing the long-term pact between Iraq and America because of such unjustified violations by the troops. Handing over security in provinces doesn’t mean anything to the American troops,” said Mohamed Hussein al Musawi, a senior Najaf-based member of the prime minister’s Dawa Party. “We condemn these barbaric actions not only when they target a relative of Maliki’s, but when any Iraqi is targeted in the same way.”

   [.]

   “This is a big embarrassment for Prime Minister Maliki because he was in that area two days before the incident, telling his people that we are the masters in our country and the decisions were ours to make,” Othman said.

   Sovereignty, huh.They think they’re not an occupied country.

4. 

   americanforliberty on June 29, 2008 at 10:39 pm

   “Roberts played a role in retooling the procurement landscape by deleting from a defense bill a provision that would have forbidden EADS from joining the tanker war. Roberts’ son, David, started lobbying for EADS.”

   Actually, I think  Sen. Roberts seat may be in play as it becomes evident he turned his back on Kansas Workers at Boeing in favor of his son’s lobbying EADS.
   Plus he’s under 50% for approval rating or something like that.

   http://www.cjonline.com/stories/062908/bus_297190495.shtml

5. 

   1watt on June 29, 2008 at 11:46 pm

   Prosecutor to go after Bush for murder:

   http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/story

6. 

   diane101 on June 30, 2008 at 10:59 am

   I don’t know if this has been talked about here yet, but this is really bad, so I hope you will go to the link and read the entire article.  talk abut big brother and spying on us, well this one does it all.

   link
   Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd’s 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill’s managers without debate this week, would require the nation’s payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government.
   Call Congress and Tell Them to Oppose The eBay Reporting Provision in the Housing Bill: 1-866-928-3035