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Thursday, April 17, 2008 07:12 AM

O/T @ GC!

Monsieur 'bop - I don't know how old the grandkids are, but you ought to check out a PBS show called (I think) "The Big Wide World"... Geared toward the pre-school set, but my 4th grader! still likes it. Of course, he's very sweet, and wonderfully good-natured, just like his Old Man. ;)

Thursday, April 17, 2008 07:46 AM

WT

When I recognize the ferocity of my love for that child, and think about the families in Iraq... The Madness has to stop. Not only in Iraq, but in any number of other places around he world. I can't do all that much about the Chinese Gov't, but I can accept my moral obligation to at least try to influence my own.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 08:17 AM

Eman you miss the point entirely

You invoke the depredations of the Islamufascistliberobogeyman

to justify your blood-thirsty embrace of policies which result in abominations orders of magnitude worse. At least 600,000 dead in Iraq. Children blown to bits. And you justify it by invoking 9/11.

You and your ilk make me sick.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 08:50 AM

New (Debate) Post up

n/t

Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:04 AM

Arne

It brings a smile to my face whenever you drop in to skewer a few of the more (or, less) obvious targets.

Monitoring enemy communications. As 'bop might say, "Grunt!".

Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:18 AM

@AmiBlue

Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:11 AM

Why, there's Charlie Savage at the Boston Globe, and uh, James Risen at the New York times (sometimes) and, um, well...

Thursday, April 17, 2008 04:54 PM

Question: And I'm "Serious as a Heart Attack" here...

Nasalbarfer MUST be paid to write that tripe, right? Right?

Thursday, April 17, 2008 05:07 PM

NOrbit you need to get together w/ nasalbarfer

It's uncanny how can string together words that, while resembling written English in their grammatical construction, have no bearing whatsoever on objective reality.

Is it me, or have the trolls just gone batsh!t f*cking crazy tonight!? Is it always like this after work?

Thursday, April 17, 2008 05:09 PM

Uh, "you can both"...

...string together...

Friday, April 18, 2008 06:43 AM

RE: Media Differences

Via C&L, this guy asks a good question:

http://www.cogitamusblog.com/2008/04/question-for-th.html

(He has linky's embedded)

Do you think if Barack Obama had left his seriously ill wife after having had multiple affairs, had been a member of the "Keating Five," had had a relationship with a much younger lobbyist that his staff felt the need to try and block, had intervened on behalf of the client of said young lobbyist with a federal agency, had denounced then embraced Jerry Falwell, had denounced then embraced the Bush tax cuts, had confused Shiite with Sunni, had confused Al Qaeda in Iraq with the Mahdi Army, had actively sought the endorsement and appeared on stage with a man who denounced the Catholic Church as a whore, and stated that he knew next to nothing about economics -- do you think it's possible that Obama would have been treated differently by the media than John McCain has been? Possible?

And -- this is fun to contemplate -- if Michelle Obama had been an adulteress, drug addict thief with a penchant for plagiarism -- do you think that she would be subject to slightly different treatment from the media than Cindypills McCain has been? Anyone?

Friday, April 18, 2008 07:10 AM

RE: Media Differences

Via C&L, this guy asks a good question:

http://www.cogitamusblog.com/2008/04/question-for-th.html

(He has links embedded)

Do you think if Barack Obama had left his seriously ill wife after having had multiple affairs, had been a member of the "Keating Five," had had a relationship with a much younger lobbyist that his staff felt the need to try and block, had intervened on behalf of the client of said young lobbyist with a federal agency, had denounced then embraced Jerry Falwell, had denounced then embraced the Bush tax cuts, had confused Shiite with Sunni, had confused Al Qaeda in Iraq with the Mahdi Army, had actively sought the endorsement and appeared on stage with a man who denounced the Catholic Church as a whore, and stated that he knew next to nothing about economics -- do you think it's possible that Obama would have been treated differently by the media than John McCain has been? Possible?

And -- this is fun to contemplate -- if Michelle Obama had been an adulteress, drug addict thief with a penchant for plagiarism -- do you think that she would be subject to slightly different treatment from the media than Cindypills McCain has been? Anyone?

Friday, April 18, 2008 07:21 AM

NW Woods

Did you see your girl Rachel get under Joe Scabrous' skin again?

Gotta love that woman.

Linky goes to C&L clip

or click sig

http://tinyurl.com/673ymp

Friday, April 18, 2008 07:36 AM
Original article: Mukasey dishonesty update

@Pow Wow - About that phone call...

Was [Fenton?] correct about the precise nature of the call?

Friday, April 18, 2008 07:37 AM

New (Mukasey) Post Up

N/T

Friday, April 18, 2008 09:20 AM

GG is hard to watch on the Tee-Vee

I'm so used to talking heads blathering on about effectively nothing, that it's difficult when you have to actually, you know, listen to somebody's words.

Man, when you get going, if I were unfamiliar w/ your work (i.e. like, I'm hypothesizing, most of Amy Goodman's listeners/viewers) I'd have a hard time keeping up.

Saturday, April 19, 2008 06:41 AM

Didn't post this yesterday (O/T) but HRC does NOT like many of us...

Audio @ the linky, or click sig

http://tinyurl.com/4g4x26

...Clinton said to a meeting of donors. "We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. MoveOn didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers. And they are very driven by their view of our positions, and it's primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don't agree with them. They know I don't agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me."
Saturday, April 19, 2008 09:09 AM

Back in Briefly. I sense a Game Show in the offing.

"Catch-All". List the members, (it's OK if they have no connection at all to one another), and come up w/ the Catch-All label that best fits the category - Most Misleading, Likeliest to Hasten Imminent National Self-Immolation, etc. You get the drift...

GC! Suddenly, I can use another of those 6-fingered jobs. Is my sore that obvious?

Casual_O Wild Turkeys on your roof? Dang, I've only seen a flock in the wild a few times. Litchfield County, CT of all places, if I remember correctly.

Saturday, April 19, 2008 01:44 PM

Cindy Ross and Che

Thanks for the linkys. Everybody should see that interview.

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