If you'd care to, provide your email addie to me: bamage02 at yahoo.com

I have a feeling you'd like some of the "political" stuff that gets passed back and forth betwixt my buddies and I. Some is duplicate coverage of what goes on here, but much is not.

Derbig, about typos - my motto is

"Don't read what I typed, read what I MEANT!"

I'm becoming, more and more, a "fan" of this guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc9PepjyDow&eurl

BHO responds to a bit of (is there a consensus term for Versailles, yet? I'm starting to settle on) "fuckwit media" kerfluffle surrounding some remarks he made about Pennsylvania.

Did you catch your girl on KO last week? I often/usually miss Fridays, so I didn't. I'd like to see her, Cliff Schecter, and David Schuster get a show together. GG gets his own show when I'm Programming Director...

Off to break fast.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040802914.html

or click sig for linky

Gen. Petraeus and Mr. Crocker have gotten more confident about calling the surge a success, and rightly so. "It's worth it," said the general. "We have seen a significant degradation of al-Qaeda's presence and its abilities," said the ambassador. "Al-Qaeda is our mortal and strategic enemy. So to the extent that al-Qaeda's capacities have been lessened in Iraq -- and they have been significantly lessened -- I do believe that makes America safer."

...What also hasn't changed is the sobering but firm bottom line the two envoys offer -- one that neither party wants to hear. While "progress is real," as Mr. Crocker put it, it is also "fragile" and "reversible," as Gen. Petraeus said. That's why Gen. Petraeus is recommending -- correctly, in our view -- that troop withdrawals be suspended after the five surge brigades are withdrawn and that further reductions be based on conditions in Iraq.

We can forget the accomplices in Congress. How does one get a "Truth Commission" fired up. Hand the damn case off to the Hague.

Goddammit, every single one of these zombies needs to have their heads chopped off, a stake driven through their hearts (scratch that, heartless bastards) be riddled w/ silver bullets, and dragged out into the sunlight to die, motherFUCKERS, DIE!!

Paul, I'm going to quibble. I willingly concede that my earlier screed might, perhaps, be slightly (but only slightly) "over the top", if you will concede that, while

a moral calculus that would call for John Yoo's head on a platter and all the BushCo enablers brought up before the Hague

is inaccurate.

Yoo's head on a platter, bad. Buscho at the Hague, very, VERY good!

But if something isn't done, the zombies reanimate. See, f'rinstance, Ford/Nixon, Iran/Contra, and where we are today.

Do yoo smell that? I smell it...

The Torture Memos and Academic Freedom

Christopher Edley, Jr.

The Honorable William H. Orrick, Jr. Distinguished Chair and Dean

UC Berkeley School of Law

While serving in the Department of Justice, Professor John Yoo wrote memoranda that officials used as the legal basis for policies concerning detention and interrogation techniques in our efforts to combat terrorism. Both the subject and his reasoning are controversial, leading the New York Times (editorial, April 4), the National Lawyers’ Guild, and hundreds of individuals from around the world to criticize or at least question Professor Yoo’s continuing employment at UC Berkeley School of Law. As dean, but speaking only for myself, I offer the following explanation, although with no expectation that it will be completely satisfying to anyone.

Professor Yoo began teaching at Berkeley Law in 1993, received tenure in 1999, and then took a leave of absence to work in the Bush Administration. He returned in 2004, and remains a very successful teacher and prolific (though often controversial) scholar. Because this is a public university, he enjoys not only security of employment and academic freedom, but also First Amendment and Due Process rights.

Click sig for linky to letter

Floyd's entire post is definitely worth the read.

Hope it goes well w/ Amy Goodman. You ought to be a regular on that show. Democracy NOW!

Book news... Appearing on DN! manana.

And damn! You've got to cheer for Rachel Maddow. I love to see her kick Joe Scabrous' ass.

link to C&L is too long:

http://tinyurl.com/4zej36

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Did GG make a demonstrably egregious error by "unbanning" Proximate Wanker?

-- Amity 09:29 AM Did you see the "American Experience" program on Walt? Uniformly (hierogriphically) excellent IMO.

-- casual_observer 10:01 AM I agree. Obama has managed to do exactly that, and I personally attribute much of hos success to his ability to do so. OTOH

-- Canuckistan Bob 10:02 AM My sentiments, exactly.

And GG, you'd be doing me, perhaps some others, a huge favor if you'd review the last part of the previous thread. It adds nothing to the discourse when a previously admonished Wanker explicitly states that their m.o. is to come in here and "shit on the floor" for the expressed purpose of their sole amusement.

Are you in a position to share more about your discussion w/ the Dems? Who attended, topics, their reactions, any possible good you saw coming out of the meeting, and etc?

and WATCH this VID!

http://www.condimustgo.com/

I'm voting for McCain based on policy; he's determined that our military will prevail in Iraq.

That statement, in and of itself, reveals a mind-set and world view that is anathema to me. The chasm between you and your fellow-travelers, and I, is so unbridgeable, I am compelled to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin:

You are a [Republican], and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn [the World's]Towns, and murder {the World's]People. Look upon your hands! They are stained with the Blood of your Relations! You and I were long [political rivals]; You are now my Enemy, and I am,

Yours