I guess I feel I can do it because I'm not really trying to sway the object of the insult's opinion. The very limited number of idiots who'd be likely to broach the topic in my presence would be doing so in order to see if they could get a rise out of me. I have actual disdain for them, both politically and personally.

I understand, intellectually, that I should rise above that. But that's more or less where I am w/ these people.

I think it boils down to me being shockingly insensitive. Hey, I think Glenn's "pain" is funny. ;)

My buddy just mailed it to me... Click sig

The Truth Comes Out

On MSNBC just now...

MATTHEWS: What are we talking about two days from now?

SCARBOROUGH: Whatever the McCain campaign wants us to talk about.

I rest my case.

This is the best thing I've read this thread.

By your logic, Glenn Greenwald is an idiot because you posted here.

Most "middle-class" investments are in Qualified plans. The vast majority of the populace can only dream about LTC gains.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washington/11royalty.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

much more @ sig linky

WASHINGTON — As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct.

In three reports delivered to Congress on Wednesday, the department’s inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, found wrongdoing by a dozen current and former employees of the Minerals Management Service, which collects about $10 billion in royalties annually and is one of the government’s largest sources of revenue other than taxes.

“A culture of ethical failure” besets the agency, Mr. Devaney wrote in a cover memo.

The reports portray a dysfunctional organization that has been riddled with conflicts of interest, unprofessional behavior and a free-for-all atmosphere for much of the Bush administration’s watch.

snark? Had to be...

BTW, Glenn, were you on Rachel Maddow's radio show Monday? Do you have a link?

Consider me chastened. I'll never use that phrase here again.

In spite of the fact that I'm a huge fan of Amy Goodman's - I really enjoy your posts.

I'll have some of whatever you're having.

What is that? Did I miss a discussion about fractal-like thingys or something?

I wonder why I love America so much more than they do.

You Tube has all kinds of fractal vids. They're pretty weird. Even for me.

I'm only now back in. Anyway, thank you for the reply last night.

Your linky no worky (for me) this a.m.

I'll try again later.

Glenn, before I pass this post far and wide, will you correct this please?

It's bandoliers...

CHRIS JACKSON, FOX NEWS CAMERAMAN: I had the freedom to rein all over the objective, go to anywhere I wanted to go, and I saw the dead combatants. And they were wearing bandoleers and holding AK-47s.

You've succeeded, again, in making me physically ill.

I'm sure you know I mean that as the highest form of compliment.

I've never seen that. Learn something new every day, etc.

Innocent women and children blown to pieces, followed by U.S. Gov't and FOX news propoganda, and Shartstain says

Welcome to the real world.

FOAD you scum. You haven't a shred of humanity. I hope your mother died during childbirth. If she could see you, she'd certainly die of shame.

Got there. Mandel[brodt] mandala. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful...

Guy Fleegman, is more like it.

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0008364/quotes

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That makes sense. The REAL terrists swooped in and killed the women and children, and all the grieving townspeople decided to blame it on the Murkins.

Apologists like you make me want to fucking puke.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5778018&page=1

The Governor advocated the accession of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO.

When asked by Gibson if under the NATO treaty, the U.S. would have to go to war if Russia again invaded Georgia, Palin responded: "Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help.

Did you respond to Raum's email confirmation? With a copy of your post, perhaps? ;)

WAAAAAAHHH!! I want my MTV! I mean, Salon Radio.

In most cases, it helps me put a number of disparate threads/ideas I may have read about into a broader context, as f'rinstance when Glenn was talking about the Minn./St. Paul police brutality incidents.

In this case, I was yet again fully convinced, that even in the the foreign policy arena, the Democraps are really only marginally less bloodthirsty than the Rethugs.

Nuclear War. It's what's for breakfast.

I Wonder if it's still Morning in America.

And I have zero expertise in political strategy.

But I wonder if some ad man couldn't come up w/ a way to use McSame's flip-flops and capitulations to the right to paint him as unbearably WEAK and ineffectual, and inextricably link him to Palin. "Who's the Boss? Do you want this woman with her finger on the trigger?"

I think this might lend credence to part of Patrizio's argument (I think it's part of his argument)that an attack on [what the U.S. defines as] terrorists within a sovereign nation's borders, is an attack on that nation and it's people.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/11/azizabad/

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Fascinating clip, thanks. Do you know the title of the complete original piece?

Never mind. I'm now officially brain dead. "The Century of the Self".