http://www.dailykos.com/story/
2008/7/31/142834/892/240/560121

Billmon writes about McCain over at kos. At Moon of Alabama the folks who know his style the best say looks to be the real billmon.

No one writes quite like he does, go enjoy!

That is what I see in the status bar as I wait for a long, long time to see the next page of comments. It is so bad that I will have to stop reading these comments.

I am using Firefox 3 from Linux, and I alternate between 4 different distributions both 64 bit and 32 bit. Everything was fine until a few days ago. I have changed not one thing here.

Has anyone else noticed a long wait as you try to go to the next page?

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13236

Justin Raimondo at antiwar.com starts off with, "It's been just about a month since Joe Klein's column accusing "Jewish neoconservatives" of having "divided loyalties" appeared in Time magazine, and already the controversy surrounding it is taking on the grand scale of an opera – perhaps a stage adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." His original sin was writing this: ..."

It is one hell of a read. Of all the men who might take on the Lobby, I would have put Klein way down my list of reporters to do so. Way down that list. But, there he is taking on the idea that Americans should lobby for another country at the expense of our own. Good for him.

Justin gives a good play-by-play call on this little game.

It Really Is Time...

...for people to crank up their dvd players and start ordering some of "whacko" "screwball" "crazy" 911 Truth Movement dvd's. They're starting to look less crazy by the moment. There really does seem to be a "there" there.

If you want to discredit a group, plant someone in it who lobbies for the most crazy acts or "whacko" beliefs. If you want to discredit the people who do not accept the government's Official Conspiracy Theory on what happened on 9-11, then plant wild and crazy theories that will be shown to be wrong thereby discrediting the whole movement. For example, that the plane that hit the pentagon was really a missile. (how stupid is that?)

Rove did that to Dan Rather. Rather was right about Bush but had been handed false documents and he was fooled; so the whole thing went away. Rove is no fool, I'll say that.

As to the anthrax mess, the Democrats could have helped a bit by congressional oversite of federal agencies coupled with impeachment. But, that path seems to scare them. (are some of the Demo leaders hiding something themselves?)

Now, everything that happened in 2001 will forever be uncertain. Well, except for my memory of various intelligence officers who claimed just after the 9-11 attacks that no individual hiding in a cave did the attack. They claim it was a government opp. I believed them then, and I have seen nothing since to change my mind.

My sister-in-law's brother did commit suicide and he was a Filipino Roman Catholic.

He had been out of work for 2 years and did it because he felt so ashamed. We all cried, but it does happen.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008
/Ron_Paul_followers_pose_danger_for_0731.html

:-)

With the death (murder?) of a government bio-weapons scientist by apparent suicide, I am left with conflicting emotions and thoughts.

First, it is always nice to see the death of one of the government goons involved in the development and manufacture of biological weapons of mass destruction. These men are demons come to life on this planet. Even so, I hate to see one man take the fall for another government false-flag operation as if he were the mythical lone-gunman of the JFK mythology.

But more importantly, why was the USA developing these weapons of mass destruction (also mass cowardice on the part of the potential user) when we had promised the world that we had put that sort of evil behind us? Can the official word of the American Government not be trusted? What next? Will we discover that the USA is building a new, smaller, easier to use generation of nuclear weapons? Ones that can be delivered from space?

Why were the letters made to look like they were from Islamic middle eastern types? Ah, so to justify a mass murder call war? If so, how could it justify a war? After all, if the USA has "mad men" and "loose cannons" in our government that supposedly do not represent the policy or will of our government; can the same not be said of other governments? If we are not to blame collectively for whichever scientist or CIA black opp team that sent the letters, how can we blame other governments for the fact that there may be criminal elements inside their borders?

OT Note: Why does it take 2 minutes to load every page? Is Salon that inept?