Does this mean the end of Steve Soto's media is against Democrats series? Even thou it never was. Well good ridence to that series.
How many lawyers have had an 12th Amendment case? I know of one.
How about a case involving the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment?
How about the litigation involving the Microsoft upgrade from MS DOS 6.0 to MS DOS 6.2?
As a conservative, the more I read about her the better she gets. Sure she wasn't on my radar, I sure wish she was.
Posted by peter at October 8, 2005 02:08 PMKick a$$ and take names, Steve.
Posted by Tug at October 8, 2005 02:22 PMI might even watch some Talk TV tomorrow. Is Dirty Mouth Dick Cheney scheduled to appear anywhere to once again (for the hundreth time) try to save Bush's bacon...or is Dick hiding out and waiting for Fitz to indict him. Let's watch and see which GOPers come to Bush's defense on Miers.
Posted by T2 at October 8, 2005 03:16 PM"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Joseph Goebbels, Geman Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945
Posted by ROGNM at October 8, 2005 04:52 PMwell, yes, the Big Lie has been used, with Media complicity, for the entire Bush regime. The Corporate Media Giants have much to gain from throwing in with a ruling power, and they are strongly GOP/Rightwingnut/Religio-nut owned. What we saw with Katrina is the "wild card" reporters on the ground actually "reporting" as opposed to "reciting". "Reciting" is what most of them have been doing for the last 5 years, because that is what their Bosses wanted them to do. But, as Herr Goebbels understood, once there is a breakdown...well, there will be a bigger breakdown. Humpty Dumpty knew it also.
Posted by T2 at October 8, 2005 05:27 PMthanks for the advice, ROGNM. think i could get that gobbley guy to come work for me? karl's goin out of town, i understand.
Posted by dubya at October 8, 2005 05:41 PMthink i could get that gobbley guy to come work for me?
His spirit has been working for you scince the day you met Rove.
Why bother trolling this site? It's like skimming stones over a river of shit.
We're very pleased to flush you! Happy landing! - p
Posted by Mr Damage at October 8, 2005 08:41 PMOT -- Mary, I commented on your test from earlier in the week. I missed it before. Hope I was helpful.
Posted by dorita at October 8, 2005 08:45 PMMr. Damage: Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Posted by redstater at October 8, 2005 09:05 PMIt's strange that the inventor of dynamite, created the peace prize. In the years following the great new invention, factories sprung up, in the middle of a bunch of people. Once in a while these factories would explode, killing a bunch of people. After a large popular outcry , they put blast walls up outside the dynamite factories, so as not to blow up the town, a good lesson to learn ahead of time. That was a good regulation.
If you find yerself wonderin bout high gas prices, just look who y'all voted for, a guy who ran a failed oil business due to low oil prices. The NeoCons have been suckering you so bad, I can't even begin to tell all the honest folks how their "good" intentions are paving the road to hell.
So did you vote for de-regulation? It was a state thing. If you did it was well intended, in the spirit of free market capitalism, now an ordinary man could buy shares of the energy from the energy companies and sell it at a "lower" price than the energy companies. It created a demand for future prices, an imaginary demand driven market. There are two pretty good reasons that gas is 16 cents a gallon in Venezuela. #1 M-1 gets a gallon or two per mile. #2 since there is no actual supply when trading in futures, thanks to de-rugulation, the price is driven soley by investors and they are buying a lot of oil futures. That's your war for oil. It's helping Enron( their accounting was accurate the future price went way up, they'd have been paid off a year ago), Texas, Saudi Arabia, Alaska, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Kuwait and I think you can deduct who's most in favor of trading on future prices instead of actual production capacity. Thanks, De-regulation beneficiaries. I think it should be noted, that if you don't like taxes, then you really won't like de-regulation. Just look at what you, the consumer, are paying for your overall energy expenditure. It's a wicked tax it is. Glad I put a 2 barrel on my 68 Olds. No, the average fellow does not have the capital to invest in blocks of power, only the middle men do. De-regulation let's the middle men control the price we all must pay to live in America. It;s a backdoor tax that actually subsidises war contracts to people investing in the future of the war.
We gotta cut the fat. That's a good compromise and a good regulation.
Posted by L. I. Beralhawk at October 8, 2005 10:19 PMStart the Draft
L. I. Beralhawk,
Your first post seemed well-informed, even though the study of economics tends to confuse me at best and frighten me at worst. The second post was..tongue-in-cheek, I hope.
There is one good thing a draft would do: it would sure as hell get people motivated to pay more attention to what's going on in the world of politics. When their very lives are at stake, people will jump at the opportunity.
I find it very interesting that we have more wars when there isn't a standing draft beforehand or a war imminent (ie, not counting drafts intended to build forces with a specific war in mind like WWII). Korea and Vietnam were during the draft era. Since then, we've had Iraq Wars I and The Sequel, Somalia, Kosovo, various South American intrustions, and all that fun stuff.
Now, I'm not advocating a draft. However, I must admit that historically it has meant less conflict...
Posted by DukeRevolution at October 8, 2005 11:31 PMOT
Is there any Court in the world that can convict Bush of crimes against humanity, war crimes, etc.?
It appears that Bush cannot be convicted by the ICC (International Criminal Court) because he refused to sign the agreement.
Posted by Judith at October 9, 2005 12:35 AMInstead of calling myself OTF, I now think OffTheDeepEnd is more in order. GW's selection of Harriet Miers for has driven me into the abyss. My diagnosis is based upon mostly on a couple of symptoms, giggling and snickering. I know these symptoms are really some kind of defence mechanisms to sheild my true emotions, but I practically laugh out-loud whenever I think of it. I've even found myself praising Bush for nominating her. Really, when someone can find a way to flip-off a whole nation, they deserve a little credit.
Posted by OffTheFence at October 9, 2005 01:30 AMI've proven once again that one should use the preview tool. This one is a bit tidier:
Instead of calling myself OTF, I now think OffTheDeepEnd is more in order. GW's selection of Harriet Miers for Supreme Court nominee has driven me into the abyss. My diagnosis is based upon a couple of symptoms, giggling and snickering. I know these symptoms are really some kind of defence mechanisms to sheild my true emotions, but I practically laugh out-loud whenever I think of it. I've even found myself praising Bush for nominating her. Really, when someone can find a way to flip-off a whole nation, they deserve a little credit.
all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put humpty together again..
the toothpaste is out of the tube and the fraud is trying to put it back in..his ineptitude and shallowness has cost us much and we will be paying for a long time..we need to stop the bleeding..maybe even the media cartel even realize it...must be effecting even them...
Posted by dennis at October 9, 2005 04:12 AMmaybe even the media cartel even realize it.
No, like most corporate entities, their standard operating procedure is short term smart but long term stupid. W wasn't chosen as their current frontman until '99. In 2007 with a new face on the box the same defective product will be peddled by the corporate media whores. The real question is how many people can you fool again?
Posted by rlp at October 9, 2005 08:06 AMwhen someone can find a way to flip-off a whole nation, they deserve a little credit.
thank you; i've been feeling unappreciated lately.
Posted by joe stalin at October 9, 2005 08:35 AM