While America obsessed about Brittany's shaved head, Bush offered a budget that offers $32.7 billion in tax cuts to the Wal-Mart family alone, while cutting $28 billion from Medicaid.
OH MY GOD! I fucking hate Blogger! I can't comment here on Firefox! So I had to open Explorer! Gag!
Well.. I can say you definately make my blogs look punk assed, Toni. I don't think I have had more than three commentors total in months... and if you remove people who also blog there .. totally fucked up.
Well.. glad you are well .. and sorry to hear Sam's place is fucked. Hopefully he will get that place back up for you all.
Yeah, the pic is pretty heinous. It's the only one I can find that was on that roll of film (thank god). I remember scaring an old lady at the beach. She did the most perfect double-take I've ever seen.
Just felt like making a few people laugh. Hope it worked.
"Outrageous" Armed Raid on Iraqi Journalists' Union
The International Federation of Journalists today condemned as "outrageous and inexcusable" the action of American soldiers who carried out an armed raid on the Baghdad offices of the Iraq Syndicate of Journalists. United States soldiers caused destruction and havoc last night when they broke into the offices of the Syndicate, which is a member of the IFJ's global union network. They destroyed furniture, ransacked the offices, arrested state-employed security guards, and confiscated 10 computers and 15 small electricity generators destined for the families of killed journalists.
Lobbying restrictions on the “revolving door” are “completely ineffectual.” Five of the 39 ex-lawmakers who lost in November are now at firms that lobby Congress, including Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT), who said last year that “Congress is not for sale.”
At least 10 people have been arrested in protests ahead of Vice President Cheney’s arrival in Australia. Cheney will be meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, who has been a staunch supporter of the war in Iraq. More than 70 percent of Australians believe the war in Iraq was not worth fighting.
If Bush were CEO, he'd be fired, says business executive Michael Roston Published: Thursday February 22, 2007
Comparing the United States to a troubled private corporation, a business executive in Salon this morning says that if President Bush were the CEO of a private company, its board would send him packing.
Warren Hellman founded Hellman & Friedman, a private equity investment firm, and was the youngest employee ever appointed partner at Lehman Brothers. Noting that Bush is the first president with a Master's degree in Business Administration, he writes in Salon that "if the United States were a company, it would be a troubled one," pointing to Bush's shortcomings in managing the national budget, its poor warfighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and other crises.
i was also pleased to hear that people in the czech republic followed the italians in protesting upgrades to US bases in those countries.
did you see that? ----------
No I didn't. Still looking for things to post. Thanks!
I'm trying to post things that you don't see on the news here. Wish I had more time today but I have to work. This blog is a full time job if you want it to be. I need to get some other posters to help.
Another US helicopter down, British bases bombed dpa German Press Agency Published: Thursday February 22, 2007
Baghdad- Another US helicopter has crashed in Iraq, Al-Arabiya television reports said Thursday. The reports quoted witnesses as saying that a helicopter had crashed north of Baquba, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad. None of the crew were hurt, according to the reports.
If the US military command in Baghdad confirms the report, this would be the eighth helicopter lost by the US military in Iraq within the last month.
US General William Caldwell said that a helicopter attacked by insurgents north of Baghdad on Wednesday was hit by bullets and rocket-propelled grenades.
US media had recently reported that insurgents in Iraq had changed their tactics to step up rocket attacks on helicopters.
Baquba is a Sunni insurgent stronghold.
An Iraqi security source said Thursday that two British military bases in Basra, which has a predominantly Shiite population, had been bombarded with rocket-propelled grenades in the past 24 hours.
The two British bases, located in downtown Basra and in the city's Shat al-Arab hotel, were bombed Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, the source added.
Documents show drugmaker Merk donated $50,000 to the Governor of Texas the same week that the Governor ordered a million Texas schoolgirls to get innoculated with an expensive Merk STD vaccine 2-22
Evangelical megachurch diverted contributions meant for tsunami and hurricane victims to cover salaries and other operating costs. Bonus: pastor and Promise Keepers founder resigns suddenly 2-22
Clinton and Obama camps succeed in drowning out other democratic presidential hopefuls at Democratic forum 2-22
Cheney denigrates Dems and 70 percent of the American public by calling them terrorist sympathizers 2-22
Pelosi seeks tougher oversight on ethics after discovering that Bush administration official was sharing a bed with an oil industry lobbyist. Literally 2-22
EXCLUSIVE: REP. MAXINE WATERS ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO WITHDRAW CO-SPONSORSHIP OF HOLT ELECTION REFORM BILL! Calls for a Return to Paper Ballots During Commemorative MLK, Jr., Keynote Address in Santa Cruz! California Congresswoman is First of Bill's 192 Co-Sponsors to Pull Support Amid Heavy Criticism of Legislation by Election Integrity Advocates...
During a question and answer period after a speech at a Black History Month event last night sponsored by the University of California Santa Cruz, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) announced that she plans to withdraw her co-sponsorship of Rep. Rush Holt's Election Reform Legislation, (HR 811).
Citing the bill's failure to require paper ballots, allowing for uncounted "paper trails" instead, Waters replied to a question of mine that she would be "glad to withdraw [her] name from the bill" when she returns to Washington on Tuesday in the wake of recent conversations she's had in California with Election Integrity advocates. The announcement drew an enthusiastic round of applause from those in attendance at Tuesday night's 23rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Convocation at UCSC which was keynoted by Waters.
Waters would be the first of the bill's current 192 House co-sponsors to withdraw her support. (The full list of current co-sponsors is available here.) Given her leadership on civil rights and election-related issues over the years, Waters's move could be significant in the current debate which has seen Democrats and a number of their public-advocacy group supporters use the issue of civil rights, ironically enough, to support the continued use of DRE/touch-screen systems as allowed by the Holt legislation.
I have about 15 minutes b4 I have to get ready for work. We are having a baby shower for my boss today also. She's due next month and my workload my increase while she's on maternity leave.
c-span 2 has a forum on medicare and medicaid costs right now. It's a repeat from Tuesday.
How to stop the Fox's lying propaganda machine "Sliming" is the rabid, rapid, media barrage of persistently repeated lies and innuendo mastered by the right-wing media machine, which aims to tar candidates with negative associations before their campaigns get rolling.
this is so cool!
ReplyDeletethanks Toni!
Via bobcn at dKos:
ReplyDeleteMaybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires
By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com.
Posted February 20, 2007.
While America obsessed about Brittany's shaved head, Bush offered a budget that offers $32.7 billion in tax cuts to the Wal-Mart family alone, while cutting $28 billion from Medicaid.
The rest is here.
G'night and enjoy yourselves!
sweet dreamz catchoo!
ReplyDeleteOH MY GOD! I fucking hate Blogger! I can't comment here on Firefox! So I had to open Explorer! Gag!
ReplyDeleteWell.. I can say you definately make my blogs look punk assed, Toni. I don't think I have had more than three commentors total in months... and if you remove people who also blog there .. totally fucked up.
Well.. glad you are well .. and sorry to hear Sam's place is fucked. Hopefully he will get that place back up for you all.
Ciao -
Wil
you know that this is where the action is, willow
ReplyDeleteso if you want action...
we'll be waiting
and next time bring dar, mat, and mel
spike comes by once or twice a month
ReplyDeleteand i'm sure if he saw your sexy nic, it would entice him to blog more often
and your nic is like nector to a bee for mel
Wot's "nector"?
ReplyDelete: )
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Yeah, what ono said, Mme. Salix. The old night crew was a lot of fun. And I may not comment, but I still read BabAcad.
As for Sam's place: "totally fucked" is about par for course, isn't it?
hey, waits
ReplyDeletei checked out your pic...
and quickly looked away
(it was a case of having too)
Wot's "nector"? = nectar
ReplyDeleteBlackhole, Beck
ReplyDeleteYeah, the pic is pretty heinous. It's the only one I can find that was on that roll of film (thank god). I remember scaring an old lady at the beach. She did the most perfect double-take I've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteJust felt like making a few people laugh. Hope it worked.
just checked out some of shelly's blogs
ReplyDeleteand photos of her...
she looks different'ish in each
On A Plain, Nirvana
ReplyDelete---
Haven't read A. in a while. I think I've only ever seen one of her pics posted.
Aneurysm, Nirvana
ReplyDeleteGonna call it a night, ono.
Many blessings
well if you don't know where they are
ReplyDeletei shouldn't tell you where they are (on a public blog)
because photos are personal
and although shelly wouldn't mind...
it's best to ask her
(not that it's a grand secret in a grand secret hiding spot)
good snoozing, waits...
ReplyDeleteand get a hair-cut
Come on over, and do the twist
ReplyDelete(ahhhh haaaa)
Love you so much,
it makes me sick
Cat Chew said...
ReplyDeleteMaybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires
2/22/2007 12:48:00 AM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
An upward redistribution of wealth.
"Outrageous" Armed Raid on Iraqi Journalists' Union
ReplyDeleteThe International Federation of Journalists today
condemned as "outrageous and inexcusable" the action of
American soldiers who carried out an armed raid on the
Baghdad offices of the Iraq Syndicate of Journalists.
United States soldiers caused destruction and havoc last
night when they broke into the offices of the Syndicate,
which is a member of the IFJ's global union network. They
destroyed furniture, ransacked the offices, arrested
state-employed security guards, and confiscated 10
computers and 15 small electricity generators destined for
the families of killed journalists.
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2918.shtml
Jenise said...
ReplyDelete"Outrageous" Armed Raid on Iraqi Journalists' Union
2/22/2007 07:48:00 AM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
It's hard to figure out what
the hell is going on over
here much less in a war
zone in another country.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
ReplyDeleteSams backup blog is as slow as molasses and a pain in the ass
to use.
Morning all!
ReplyDeleteCan't stay all morning because I have work today. So I will put up an open thread b4 I leave.
Sam's blog overloaded now and he can't put up a new thread coz he doesn't have his password.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
ReplyDeleteHey toniD.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
ReplyDeleteHi Jenise,
"Round Midnight" Miles Davis Quintet 1956 06:01
Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Davis (tp) John Coltrane (ts)
Red Garland (p) Paul Chambers (b)
Philly Joe Jones (d)
Got some stuff to do.
bbl -
I like that song NC! Always have.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting, I'll add that to my collection of your posts!
Lobbying restrictions on the “revolving door” are “completely ineffectual.” Five of the 39 ex-lawmakers who lost in November are now at firms that lobby Congress, including Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT), who said last year that “Congress is not for sale.”
ReplyDeleteLINK
morning gang!
ReplyDeleteSam has a good show going so far this AM!
ReplyDeleteAt least 10 people have been arrested in protests ahead of Vice President Cheney’s arrival in Australia. Cheney will be meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, who has been a staunch supporter of the war in Iraq. More than 70 percent of Australians believe the war in Iraq was not worth fighting.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.smh.com.au/news/national/cheney-visit-prompts-protests/2007/02/22/1171733922521.html
Morning Jim! Good show and I'm glad he had Feingold. He needs to get some more politicians on.
ReplyDeleteFeingold is a goodun, takes care of business and is a straight shooter.
ReplyDeletesort of a miracle him even being there, we otter treasure him.
one thing,
ReplyDeletesam should talk less sometimes.
his guests are more interesting to listen to for me.
embassy and permanent bases...
ReplyDeletewhat they want, they won't give em up, the scam is too profitable.
any noise out of the whitehouse is all aimed at that.
Just put up a new post about Cheney's trip to Japan and Australia. Gave a hat tip to Jenise for one of the stories re Japan.
ReplyDeleteGlad that AAR covered this on the news because the MSM isn't. The protesters in Sydney today!
He's got to drop this gay thing too. It's important but there are more imprtant things right now.
ReplyDeletethanks, tonid.
ReplyDeletei was also pleased to hear that people in the czech republic followed the italians in protesting upgrades to US bases in those countries.
did you see that?
it's an easy segment for him to do.
ReplyDeletethe kids doing the producing picked the topic.
If Bush were CEO, he'd be fired, says business executive Michael Roston
ReplyDeletePublished: Thursday February 22, 2007
Comparing the United States to a troubled private corporation, a business executive in Salon this morning says that if President Bush were the CEO of a private company, its board would send him packing.
Warren Hellman founded Hellman & Friedman, a private equity investment firm, and was the youngest employee ever appointed partner at Lehman Brothers. Noting that Bush is the first president with a Master's degree in Business Administration, he writes in Salon that "if the United States were a company, it would be a troubled one," pointing to Bush's shortcomings in managing the national budget, its poor warfighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and other crises.
LINK
Jenise said...
ReplyDeletethanks, tonid.
i was also pleased to hear that people in the czech republic followed the italians in protesting upgrades to US bases in those countries.
did you see that?
----------
No I didn't. Still looking for things to post. Thanks!
I'm trying to post things that you don't see on the news here. Wish I had more time today but I have to work. This blog is a full time job if you want it to be. I need to get some other posters to help.
Another US helicopter down, British bases bombed dpa German Press Agency
ReplyDeletePublished: Thursday February 22, 2007
Baghdad- Another US helicopter has crashed in Iraq,
Al-Arabiya television reports said Thursday.
The reports quoted witnesses as saying that a helicopter had
crashed north of Baquba, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad. None of the
crew were hurt, according to the reports.
If the US military command in Baghdad confirms the report, this
would be the eighth helicopter lost by the US military in Iraq within
the last month.
US General William Caldwell said that a helicopter attacked by
insurgents north of Baghdad on Wednesday was hit by bullets and
rocket-propelled grenades.
US media had recently reported that insurgents in Iraq had changed
their tactics to step up rocket attacks on helicopters.
Baquba is a Sunni insurgent stronghold.
An Iraqi security source said Thursday that two British military
bases in Basra, which has a predominantly Shiite population, had been
bombarded with rocket-propelled grenades in the past 24 hours.
The two British bases, located in downtown Basra and in the city's
Shat al-Arab hotel, were bombed Wednesday night and early Thursday
morning, the source added.
LINK
Today's Headlines for the news junkies:
ReplyDelete(much more there as well)
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/index.htm
Documents show drugmaker Merk donated $50,000 to the Governor of Texas the same week that the Governor ordered a million Texas schoolgirls to get innoculated with an expensive Merk STD vaccine 2-22
Evangelical megachurch diverted contributions meant for tsunami and hurricane victims to cover salaries and other operating costs. Bonus: pastor and Promise Keepers founder resigns suddenly 2-22
Clinton and Obama camps succeed in drowning out other democratic presidential hopefuls at Democratic forum 2-22
Cheney denigrates Dems and 70 percent of the American public by calling them terrorist sympathizers 2-22
Pelosi seeks tougher oversight on ethics after discovering that Bush administration official was sharing a bed with an oil industry lobbyist. Literally 2-22
This is not good!!
ReplyDeleteEXCLUSIVE: REP. MAXINE WATERS ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO WITHDRAW CO-SPONSORSHIP OF HOLT ELECTION REFORM BILL!
Calls for a Return to Paper Ballots During Commemorative MLK, Jr., Keynote Address in Santa Cruz!
California Congresswoman is First of Bill's 192 Co-Sponsors to Pull Support Amid Heavy Criticism of Legislation by Election Integrity Advocates...
During a question and answer period after a speech at a Black History Month event last night sponsored by the University of California Santa Cruz, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) announced that she plans to withdraw her co-sponsorship of Rep. Rush Holt's Election Reform Legislation, (HR 811).
Citing the bill's failure to require paper ballots, allowing for uncounted "paper trails" instead, Waters replied to a question of mine that she would be "glad to withdraw [her] name from the bill" when she returns to Washington on Tuesday in the wake of recent conversations she's had in California with Election Integrity advocates. The announcement drew an enthusiastic round of applause from those in attendance at Tuesday night's 23rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Convocation at UCSC which was keynoted by Waters.
Waters would be the first of the bill's current 192 House co-sponsors to withdraw her support. (The full list of current co-sponsors is available here.) Given her leadership on civil rights and election-related issues over the years, Waters's move could be significant in the current debate which has seen Democrats and a number of their public-advocacy group supporters use the issue of civil rights, ironically enough, to support the continued use of DRE/touch-screen systems as allowed by the Holt legislation.
LINK
here they are, tonid. i saw the czech story on the BBC today.
ReplyDeleteItalians Protest Planned U.S. Base Expansion
Some 300 people protest U.S. base in CzechRep
http://www.cursor.org/
ReplyDeleteanother good aggragator site.
Thanks Jenise!
ReplyDeleteI will put those up when I get home from work.
I have about 15 minutes b4 I have to get ready for work. We are having a baby shower for my boss today also. She's due next month and my workload my increase while she's on maternity leave.
c-span 2 has a forum on medicare and medicaid costs right now. It's a repeat from Tuesday.
Cya T
ReplyDeletethanks for the threads!
How to stop the Fox's
ReplyDeletelying propaganda machine
"Sliming" is the rabid, rapid, media barrage of persistently repeated lies and innuendo mastered by the right-wing media machine, which aims to tar candidates with negative associations before their campaigns get rolling.
LINK
Later Jim. Off myself soon.
ReplyDeletetonid, happy to do it. i rarely have the chance to give you news posts. ; )
ReplyDeletehave a good day at work.
New Open Thread up
ReplyDeleteLINK