After reading that exchange, I can only surmise that Galloway was NOT a part of the DOD "program". Aside: I always read/appreciate your comments.

'bop! Hope you roast that asparagus w/ some drizzled olive oil, sea salt, and fresh ground pepper. That's on my menu this evening.

Eric Brewer's (Raw Story) post on the incident is here:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_Blacklist_Breakthrough_Online_media_0430.html

or click sig for linky

Or, you can click Glenn's link to the article in his post...

But I'm curious as to what you think it means, Glenn.

I understand your discomfort with having to swear fealty to the neocon vision of Israel. But I'm not all that surprised that Obama kowtowed a bit (disclosure: I haven't read the interview) given the "Obama's a Muslim who hates Israel" background noise.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/good-morning-america-helps-promote.html

or click sig for linky

And now Friedman has shifted his phallic, warmongering eyes from Iraq to Iran.

Glenn, did you just call Friedman a "dick"? Pretty funny. (I'll grasp at my humor straws humor where I can find 'em, inasmuch as the rest of the post, and what it says about Serious U.S. foreign policy is so bleak).

(I'll grasp at my humor straws where I can find 'em, inasmuch as the rest of the post, and what it says about Serious U.S. foreign policy is so bleak).

READ WHAT I MEAN, NOT WHAT I TYPE!

Friedman obviously has a hard-on for a war w/ Iran, as he shifts his (blood)lustful gaze to there from Iraq. It's a feeling with which you are undoubtedly familiar.

So take your "literary criticism" and shove it.

They're talking about Congress/legislation not responsive to the "American People". I'm going to bring up Kit Bond trying to strike a back-room deal w/ Steny Hoyer for retroactive telco immunity.

I think it's when you give somebody a look that says (to quote the Hillary/Hitler spoof vid) - "I'll f*ck you in half!"

-- Pedinska

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 08:30 AM

Don't know what that was supposed to be.

Don't wanna know.

The fleshy phallus thing wanders around sightless until the multi-egged (scratch that) eyed thing it bumps into grunts one out, so now the fleshy thing is a one-eyed phallus? And that sells Zunes?

Please, make it stop.

Here, P, a bit of a non-sequitur, but back atcha. 8')

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/the-first-genet.html

N/T

Glenn, Eric Brewer likes your work

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Psyops_on_Steroids_Update_White_House_0514.html

Glenn, do YOU email your stuff to [in this case] Harry Reid, et al, sinc eHR has vowed to "investigate"? or should we?

And to whom else?

I sent the entire column to Harry Reid via email. You have to fill out one of those stinking forms first, but roboform did most of that for me...

http://www.reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

WHITE HOUSE INVOLVEMENT?: Last month, reporter Eric Brewer asked White House Press Secretary Dana Perino about whether the White House was involved in the military analyst program. Perino responded, "I just said, no." But the Pentagon's document collection raises questions about the White House's role. A March 16, 2006 e-mail from Pentagon official Dallas Lawrence referenced "a closed call opened only to our retired military analysts...to get them on message heading into the weekend on Iraqi troop strength, advances, etc." A follow-up from an anonymous e-mailer said he or she was "hoping to have Hadley brief these guys next week," referring to National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Responding to this e-mail, Lawrence added, "Id love to see if we ocould [could] get them in with potus [President Bush] as well. (I think that was submitted to karl and company...last week)." A May 23, 2006 from Lawrence also references "karl." As Salon's Glenn Greenwald noted, the "karl" references strongly suggest that at least former Bush political adviser Karl Rove was involved.

MEDIA STILL QUIET: The media has been curiously silent on the Times's exposé, despite clear involvement in the program. "Did we drink the government kool-aid? -- of course," said CNN military analyst Don Sheppard in a June 23, 2006 e-mail about his government-sponsored trip to Guantanamo. In the week after the story broke, the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that out of roughly 1,300 news stories, "only two touched on the Pentagon analysts scoop," both airing on PBS. "I can only conclude that the networks are staying away...because they are embarrassed about what some of their military analysts did or don't want to give the controversy more prominence," said Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. As Media Matters reported, the military analysts cited in the Times article have been quoted more than 4,500 times by a range of news outlets since Jan. 1, 2002. On April 24, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) wrote letters to the heads of the major networks on the "specifics about each outlet's policies surrounding the hiring and vetting of military analysts reporting on the Iraq War." As of May 8, only ABC and CNN responded.

What part of "Equal Protection Under the Law" should not apply to somebody simply because of their sexual orientation?

About the most "thoughtful" retort I've received was along the lines of "You're not actually suggesting gay marriage is a civil rights issue, are you?"

My response was, that's precisely what it IS, I'm not "suggesting" anything.

Blank stare.

Where A. Virtually every judicial decision of which I become aware cleaves, oddly enough, to the "conservative" caricature. So there's no chance of a similar decision.

and B., The State Constitution is amended at the drop of a hat, so any "problem" caused by such a decision would be rectified post-haste.

Do you know the penalty for bigamy?

Ba-dump [cymbal crash]