Obama's campaign had a press conference about their 50-state voter registration drive. It is reported here

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/25/141621/997/1021/503429

that the questions asked had nothing to do with this.

Bucky, you're a crabbed and nasty man. For that reason alone, you wouldn't understand what I wrote. The human community, for all its defects, is just that. Denouncing it from a distance, and carrying a list of its crimes everywhere you go to recite whenever anyone speaks of his pleasure in it is a form of insanity.

Which is why, generally speaking, I don't pay you much heed, except on those occasions when your bile gets the better of you. It's you who are responsible for your miseries, not me, nor anyone else who disagrees with you. Behaving like a swine may appease your demons, but it won't improve your powers of political persuasion.

One may feel like they gorged a dozen Nathan frank furthers with sweet pickle relish at a New York Met ball park. The umpire at UT eats a bowl of steamed rice with chopsticks at third base.

Wow.

No one insults anybody and the game is called because of threatening black Monsoon rain storms.

`mikeinportc. Gary Owen mentions that while under the Veterans Administrations care there are a average of 18 suicides a day? G.O is mighty fussy. Who wouldn't be cranky? I knew a vet in war named 'Cranky' who lost two legs. I got out of a bed at Fort Meade's Army Hospital (Kimbrough) to go see Cranky who I heard was at Walter Reed in DC in 1970. Cranky had died there at Walter Reed from his `Nam injuries. Sad. Cranky always wanted to ride his Harley. Cranky was likable. I remember in the 'Nam jungle that Cranky liked corn dogs. Serious. uck taste buds, imo. ~Requiescat~

@ 4:04. Enjoy bed time illness. It's a written O.T. proverb.

@ 6:44. Joel_Grant. 'Ole Derbig Mooser doesn't view NYC as synonymous with Israel.

You gotta admit? If you don't learn here, you won't learn when buried 6-feet under.

The undertaker will bury me? Nope.

I'll wonder off into the chirping woods and doze.

And I'll No wear ~ any uncomfortable underpants.

At the urban humane shelter there is a sign ~

It reads :

Three bagel loving beagles all need a happy home.

The vet has given them worm pills with cream cheese.

The homeless need a nourishing breakfast. Each beagle responds to bucky. One wags the tail. Two have no ears, tails, a left paw, and all the bagels have been castrated by a amputated cute wobbling penguin. Serious pet lovers are the only ones who can reply. Maybe consider changing puppy names to... no1dupe?

A preschool child spells poorly. When asked to sell 'sirloin' he leaves out the 'i'...'s.

... srlon.

@ Salon?

a comment. Oy!

a butcher smile?

a apology. o bagels.

Have a nice b-fast bamage.

If you ever write a book? An idea for a cover jacket. Edna St. Vincent Mllay.

"A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his/her pants down."

`

The photograph cover has the DOD, Rush/Drudge, White House staff, and the paid Main Media pro-war proponents, standing like preschool toddlers at urinals with their pants to the shoes.

I refuse to look at their faces.

I barf when I hear their voices.

....

A `Nam vet was homeless. He held a cardboard sign and was at a street corner.

The sign was blank. Not a word was written. The commenter at Floyd's said ~*:

'You are holding up the wrong side of the sign'... The `Nam vet flipped the sign.

`The homeless `smiled.

`

Not a word was written.

Both sides were blank.

Another. O speechless!

We gave you shelter?

We gave you a bear.

We gave you a beer.

We gave you a burp.

We gave you a crock.

We gave rot sore feet.

Skip over my gibberish

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The commenter @ Chris Floyd had tears.

The remembrance brings misty eyeballs.

The Plan was laid out in great detail as early as 1992, and there has been very little deviation from it since.

As for Cheney, he seems to have been on this track in one way or another since the 1970's. He's always been a jerk, but when he became an outright traitor is somewhat harder to pinpoint. The Chaffee story of what happened in Dec of 2000 shows that there never was any intention behind the Bush campaign except to grab the power to do what they wanted. Which was, apparently, to rule the world and seize its riches.

Simple.

The invasion of Iraq was foregone the minute the Busheviks were told they could seize the presidency. It was all but assumed, merely a matter of time. I'm convinced they were put in office ("elected" if you want to call it that) primarily for that purpose. But Cheney clearly had a much more extensive program in mind, to include looting, pillage and plunder on a vast scale, doling out favors to loyalists, punishing opposition, repressing American freedom, shredding the Constitution, basically establishing a self-perpetuating autocracy to rule from here on out. What's striking is that many people who didn't benefit from this program, or actually were harmed by it, enthusiastically supported it.

I'm thinking of so many corporate and business interests that were cut out from the plunder and rapine from the get go, or wound up losing money or even were looted themselves to pay for beefing up others' accounts.

I'm thinking of so many of the troops, who pay for it with their bodies or their sanity or their lives yet cheer on the lawlessness and the devastation.

I'm thinking of so many Congressional Democrats (and some Republicans) who lost all honor and simple decency to support a regime indifferent to them at best, overtly hostile to them as often as not.

We could add to this list indefinitely.

So many who have lost so much continue to pledge their loyalty to the anti-American program Cheney still operates from his various bunkers. A program he fully intends to see continue after he leaves office, whenever that may be. Chaffee's description of Cheney's real malevolence is right out of a noir chiller, yet who's to doubt its authenticity?

And yet for all of that, this Evil Pinky and the Brain goon show has led to as comprehensive and thorogoing a disaster for the nation, at home and abroad, as could be imagined. Individuals, of course, have profited mightily and will do darned near anything to hold on to those ill-gotten gains.

Correcting it -- assuming that is even conceivable at this point -- will require a good deal more from the People than quiet observance or ignorance from the masses, and much more than popcorn-eating and email campaigns from activists.

My bet is that most people, including many outspoken opponents of the regime, have already made their peace with it, much as the Romans did back in the day. Power-plays and the struggle for power continued of course, but the People's interests were no longer considered in the equation, except to the extent they needed "pacification." The wiser course, always, was just to stay out of the way.