A farm tour is happening, and that gives me some hope. A well pump conked out after a bolt of Lightening struck. But, a well driller is outside fixing the dead water pump. GOPS are real cool chumps? No. They are a rattle from hell's old fashion underground pit. Snakes. Vipers. Oh well.

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Io`at the Well? Another $950 for a 3/4 hp. pump? You gotta have water to irrigate a garden plot. Total repair will $1,600.

Gordon needs to take up Daiza?

What in the well, or hell, is DAIZA?

Who cares. It is to carve dead stumps.

People in the world spread bad info.,

Others spread a good seed. eternal.

Beauty, peace, harmony, and peace.

And then : There is a Dead Gordon.

Gordon is no preeminent bonsai guy.

Gordon is a death monger. A rotten lily.

Maybe M. Gordon will learn about suiseki?

Michael Gordon is not an actual person, but rather a voice-activated tape recorder.

-- pantanal

Monday, May 5, 2008 07:40 AM

Pantanal wins the thread. Brilliant.

We should not necessarily be surprised that Gordon and NYT are back pimping for the administration. The Generals' brigade is under house arrest and no longer able to shill for the new war in Iran. But, the old girl friend is still close by and ready to care of her favorite customer. "He loves me, he really loves me".

In these precise words, the man is a whore.

footsore

Given your guarded optimism, expressed in your answer to the first question posed in your interview on the "The Art of the Possible" blog/website, that perceptions regarding Iraq "can't help but undermine the reflexive support Americans have for invasions, bombings and wars", do you expect to see any public outcry or backlash against such "stories" (as the NYT/M. Gordon article)? Or put more succinctly, do you think public skepticism will result in any meaningful resistance to being bulldozed into another war?

...On what possible basis can Karl Rove, now a fully private citizen, defy a duly issued subpoena?

What's going on here? We've never had people like this Rove guy just flout our laws like this so blatantly, and with seeming impunity.

If he tries to defy a subpoena (again), why don't they just go to his house and arrest him for his defiance, and toss him in the hoosegow under the Capitol? He's not even a government official, fer crissakes!

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Glenn, great post on Mike the Scrivener.

He's every bit the gasbag that he seems, too. His interview on Amy Goodman's show last year was a debacle worthy of the McLaughlin Group or Bill O'Reilly.

Iraq isn't buying the US line. They're doing their own investigation. And American promises to show the actual evidence have not been forthcoming.

U.S. military leaders in Washington, D.C., and Baghdad said they would display what it says are captured weapons at a news conference following the Iraqi lawmakers' trip to Tehran. Now [US Navy Rear-Admiral] Driscoll says there are no plans to do that while the Iraqi committee meets and prepares its report.

"It's currently not scheduled," Driscoll said. "We'll see what happens in the future here with that brief. You'll have to wait and see. It's a bit of teaser for you."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90180121

Your comments regarding aerial bombardment in Iraq provide unintentional proof of the effectiveness of the US media in keeping the horror of the Iraq war hidden from the American public.

I suggest you begin with Seymour Hersch' "Up in the Air" (New Yorker, December, 2005) and bring yourself up to date. Rest assured, the US Air Force can claim its share of the barbarism.

I was treading through Google News and I saw an article about Hezbollah training Iraqis in Iran. I thought to myself, "gee, isn't that a nice coincidence, that all these bad people are all linked together...it's probably government propaganda."

This was before I read about it on GG, mind you. Spooky...

At each coffee break, and at each stroll to the water cooler.... Please convey humanities great disgust for us. Call the pro-war ilk the truth. Tell each one you see that it's always been called Murder. Yup. Killing other people is murder. It's not to dilly dally. No more beating around the Bush.

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"Petrophilla and it's anxiety : PETRO. Maybe GOPS can do some inner reflection, ROVE?

Rocks from Lake Tai, and the field worldwide... each river, cry out for Justice. Tai. stop lies.

The administration, we have reported at NBC, are drawing up some plans for potential airstrikes in Iran at different missile weapons factories or special force compounds...

Is that these plans are just now being drawn up. They've been drawn up for years. Revising might be a more accurate term.

The second is the implication that our government is not involved in exporting proxy violence to Iran. That has been going on for years. That is hypocrisy and should be pointed out. Then there is the fact, given this may be a two way street, that hardliners in both governments are to blame and proxy war is how the game is played. IOW, it is done that way precisely to avoid major confrontation or we should have attacked the Chinese in Korea and the Soviets in Vietnam. Clearly a nuclear deterrence comes in handy. And to collectively punish the country for the actions of hardliners in the government will only turn more Iranians into hardliners.

An update to the Laura Rozen article Glenn linked to:

Update: Interesting, from the AP:

A former Iranian president has said that exporting violence to other countries is "treason" against Islam and Iran's 1979 revolution, an apparent accusation that the country's hard-line rulers are engineering unrest abroad.

Mohammad Khatami, a reformist and popular intellectual, made no mention of U.S. and Iraqi accusations that Iran is arming and training Shiite extremists in neighboring Iraq. But he said Iran should avoid actions that give it a bad image.

Engineering violence in other countries would be contrary to the goals of the 1979 Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Khatami said.

"What did Imam (Khomeini) want and what did he mean by 'exporting the revolution'? Taking up arms and causing explosions in other countries and establishing groups to carry out sabotage in other countries? Imam was strongly opposed to these behaviors," Khatami told students in northern Iran on Friday.

"This is the biggest treason to Islam and the revolution."

Khatami's remarks were published by the daily Kargozaran Saturday and also posted on the Web site of a pro-democracy foundation he heads. ...