Dox, we're not going to war with Iran, OK? It ain't in the cards.
I have this information from my neighbor Sol, who is a fine man and a mystic. He says, Iran is going to war with US!
They'll invade us from the north, and one look at the obese, dumb, laid-back dumb and rilly, rilly dumb US pop, they'll back off.
We have nothing here in the USA anybody wants. And that includes government that gives a goddamn about its people.
Posted by Mal Feasance at August 26, 2007 08:49 PMI guess this is Democratic math speaking here. We won't have lived eight years under this president until January 20th of 2009 at 12 noon. Ask Rosie, she seems to like the t-shirt.
Posted by peter at August 26, 2007 09:12 PMThe timing dates always confuse people, who associate the new term with January 1st, it happens to me all the time. In the early spring I was saying we had 17 months left, Steve 18 and then Krugman 16.
I hated math, I truly did.
Posted by paradox at August 26, 2007 09:16 PMLooks like AOL is aiding in the take down of Michael Moore.
AOL logs on 'Dissent'
Website streams Moore-bashing documentary.
Some serious Michael Moore bashing will turn up this week on AOL's True Stories website thanks to 40 minutes of excerpts from the documentary "Manufacturing Dissent."
Web users will be able to stream the digital video at no extra cost.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117970893.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Posted by Judith at August 27, 2007 01:03 AMWell, it seems not all Guardsmen have bought the Bush line of crap.
(AP) A call by Puerto Rico's governor for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq earned a standing ovation from a conference of more than 4,000 National Guardsmen.
Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila said Saturday that the U.S. administration has "no new strategy and no signs of success" and that prolonging the war would needlessly put guardsmen in harm's way.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/26/national/main3204570.shtml
Posted by Judith at August 27, 2007 01:10 AMHey, Gonzales is set to resign. I think I'll consider that a belated birthday gift.
Posted by ann at August 27, 2007 05:13 AMguess our Crawford Caligua won't be using the PR National Guard as political props
Posted by Gay Veteran at August 27, 2007 05:15 AMAnd that includes government that gives a goddamn about its people.
Posted by Mal Feasance at August 26, 2007 08:49 PM
Sick
HERE'S THE GOOD NEW, BAD NEWS:
Gonzales To Hold 10:30 AM Press Conference...Submitted Resignation To Bush On Friday...Senior WH Officials: Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff Likely To Replace Gonzales
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN
Posted by Judith at August 27, 2007 06:09 AMA 'lips firmly planted on Bush's butt, replacement.
Posted by Judith at August 27, 2007 06:11 AMgood riddance to that lieing snake in the grass
Posted by dennis at August 27, 2007 06:11 AMi'm not so sure it's his butt..with these guys you never can tell
Posted by dennis at August 27, 2007 06:13 AMNow what sort of banal evil will we have to endure after Gonzo?
Posted by idiosynchronic at August 27, 2007 06:26 AMI have to ask this: Can someone clarify what the reporting duties are for our intrepid campaign bloggers? Because while Jeff Dinelli writes well, I feel like we're not being given a different look into Sen. Clinton's campaign. I feel like we've graduated to a higher level of campaign spin stenography. If it's stenography the TLC wants to bring to the readers, that's the editor's choice, but I'm going to stop reading Dinelli's work because it's simply become another route for transmitting the same inside attacks on the other candidate's campaigns.
Posted by idiosynchronic at August 27, 2007 06:35 AMOh - and our next banal evil: current Homeland Security Sect'y Chertoff to become the next Atty General.
Posted by idiosynchronic at August 27, 2007 06:40 AMI feel like we've graduated to a higher level of campaign spin stenography.
Agreed, Idio.
It's become rather silly, all this Hillary-luvin'.
One day very soon, I expect to read a breathless thread about what Hillary eats for breakfast, or what new color she painted her guest bedroom.
Maybe Steve should rename The Left Coaster the Hillary Chronicles?
Posted by Christopher at August 27, 2007 06:48 AMI'm going to stop reading Dinelli's work
I've stopped reading most of the stuff on the primary, except your Iowa roundups. Since I'm going to be voting for whatever Dem gets the nom, I see no reason to get all hot and bothered with who said what and when at this point. It's gotten so nasty and repetitious, it's boring.
Posted by iamcoyote at August 27, 2007 07:44 AMIt's gotten so nasty and repetitious, it's boring.
Lucky for you, I don't get bored with this phase. :) But to re-read the longer and casus belli write-ups of the same silly attacks and smears in the corporate media is exceptionally tiresome. There are LOTS of little things happening here for the next 4 months to watch as they mostly splash & die away, and occasionally fan into something bigger.
It's more interesting to me that Iowa & New Hampshire won again this weekend after Florida got it's ass kicked by the Democratic Party's rules committee for pushing their primary up. And that the Floridans pleading the case hid behind "mean 'ole nasty Republicans" for an excuse for moving the date.
Or that a recent Livestrong forum in Cedar Rapids has only had 4 Democrats and 2 Republicans commit to speaking to it. But the 2 GOP contenders who have survived cancer, Giuliani and McCain, are skipping. Edwards, Kucinich, Clinton, & Richardson are showing up, and Huckabee and Brownback are showing up for the GOP.
I think both of these stories say far more than what's actually written.
Posted by idiosynchronic at August 27, 2007 08:54 AMI think both of these stories say far more than what's actually written.
And those are the two stories that actually caught my attention! I'm not sure I understand the deeper implications of the Florida one, though; from what I understand, they felt they weren't getting enough of a say in elections (HA!) and wanted to push up their primary despite having voted against that ability earlier?
Also, Obama announced he wasn't going to commit to any more debates and forums until December. Whaddaya wanna bet he's going to change his mind?
Posted by iamcoyote at August 27, 2007 09:02 AMLucky for you, I don't get bored with this phase. :)
And yes, I'm so glad you don't get bored with it!
Posted by iamcoyote at August 27, 2007 09:04 AMI'm not sure I understand the deeper implications of the Florida one, though; from what I understand, they felt they weren't getting enough of a say in elections (HA!) and wanted to push up their primary despite having voted against that ability earlier?
Well, from a certain point of view - ain't nobody getting much of a say past February. And I'm sympathetic to that. But since the process right now is very inside baseball, very few people are trying to fix the system or provoke change other than ranting on the Internets. In the face of a disunified majority opposition, the people holding power over the scheduling are fairly well fixed in place. The Republicans certainly have few reasons to change the status quo. And Iowa and New Hampshire to them will remain where they are.
Posted by idiosynchronic at August 27, 2007 12:09 PM