Letters to the Editor
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I would love to have seen that..
Do you suppose it was because of all of the Ron Paul supporters who chased Sean Hannity out of that NH restaurant and back to his hotel?
I hadn't heard that.. Made my day.
A long time ago I used to listen to Neal Boortz, Hannity was on the other local AM talk station.
Every day Boortz would end his program by saying "bye bye Sean".
Boortz is a jerk but he used to be a damn funny one before he drank the neocon koolaid to make the big bucks in syndication.
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totallyblase..
I have a cunning plan, milord.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldrick
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OT: @Ondelette
A couple of months ago, you and I traded posts regarding FISA and whether there might be a role states could play in prosecuting telecoms. I was just going over the "Statement of Administration Policy" that was submitted into the record during December's Senate deliberations and I found this nugget:
The Judiciary Committee substitute fails to include the important provisions in the SSCI bill that would establish procedures for implementing existing statutory defenses and that would preempt state investigations of assistance allegedly provided by an electronic communication service provider to an element of the Intelligence Community. These provisions are important to ensure that electronic communication service providers can take full advantage of existing liability protection and to protect highly classified information.
Argh!
FISA Wiki on my sig
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@karrsic @bethincary @nuclear winter
In no particular order:
karrsic -- yes, I remember. They know the suits will be filed in the states otherwise. I still contend that the targeting, minimization, and especially continuation clauses are more important, since they effectively are forward looking immunity. I'm now banking that some of the torture and/or the emails suits are going to be the first cracks in the ice, and once the cracks start, no member of Congress of either party is going to want to admit they know who President George W. Cheney-Abramoff is anyway.
bethincary -- the Accu-vote machines are optical scan readers. There are paper ballots available for recount (the optical scan cards). Optical scan is tons better than either punch cards or touch screen for fairness, but someone has to force a hand recount. First glance it seems that Accu-vote was more prevalent in southern New Hampshire than northern. Hard to say whether the whole state votes the same.
About nuclear winter -- anyone who believes that in a nuclear winter where 5% of the human population survives it will naturally be the smartest and toughest must believe the fire fighters and special forces guys who kept Chernobyl from blowing were dumb and weak. The fallout patterns are determined by blast site and wind, with the longterm fallout determined by prevailing winds. In a 5% survival scenario, the 5% will be determined by geography only. And the next question will be, "For how long?" At Hiroshima, people kept on dying for years.
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this is a brilliant post
which is why Sam Seder featured it on AirAmerica's blog tonight. And I want to say that the same treatment that Hillary's gotten has been meted out to John Edwards. It's up to we in the blogosphere to resist it. Edwards is incredibly electable and as progressive as we are--well, almost.
Hillary and Obama, just, aren't, and you can start with their support for the laughably titled "free" trade.
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Kristol's 1st Op-Ed
I was amazed at Kristol's first op-ed. It was like a caricature. He just sets the pins up for people to knock down.
"We don’t want to increase the scope of the nanny state"
nanny state"? Like the kind of government that listens to all your phone calls and reads all of your email?
"we don’t want to undo the good done by the appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, and we really don’t want to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory in Iraq." The good done by the appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. You mean how they actively work to do exactly what they said they wouldn't do during their confirmation hearings?
Finally, "and we really don’t want to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory in Iraq." Yes, all the problems in Iraq are the Democrats fault. Forget that even if all the problems in Iraq were gone tomorrow, which they're not, it still cost a trillion dollars. That's kinda a lot of money. We probably could have taken care of all those health care problems with that kind of cash and bought me a new car.
That was just one insane Kristol sentence. In a way I guess the Times is right in hiring him. Everyone love to watch a train wreck. It will bring in many page views and advertising dollars.
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pundocrisy
Thank goodness Colbert & Stewert are back. Stewert had a brilliant show, 01-09. Put the Corpulant Media scum bags in their place, which is nowhere.
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Tearing Up HRC
A LITTLE BITTY TEAR
Burl Ives
A little bitty tear let me down, spoiled my act as a clown
I had it made up not make a frown, but a little bitty tear let me down.
The overstuffed,pompous "MSM" commentators and their vitriolic maltreatment of HRC are driving me toward overlooking all my misgivings about her. Were our presidential selection a "Mandarin" process based on choosing the most qualified, she'd easily be the first choice. If she'd give a renouncing denunciation of her earlier failure to oppose vigorously all the Bush/Cheney fascisms, I'd wholeheartedly support her. Quite frankly I'm not too stirred up by BO's message of conciliation. "Change"? The only "change" I want to see is for Democrats to start groin kicking and eye gouging all things Bush and Republican. HRC and BO need to stop sniping at each other and to focus all their energy ripping the GOPers for giving us all the Bushian travesties. HRC can tear up/lacrimate all she wants- it's a sweet little touch. What I really want to see her (or some strong Democrat) do is tear up/destroy the Bushian evil and restore dignity to the White House….. sound familiar? Outlaw torture, restore the Constitution, stop this wretched war. Fixing the economy, stopping the robber barons, and helping Americans would also be nice.