I saw "An Inconvenient Truth" last night and am sadly convinced that my children will not only inherit the unnecessary debt that the Busheviks are imposing on us, but a world where extreme weather and disease are the norm. Its amazing how much damage one group of men can do in eight years. Hopefully my grandchildren will not be living in a third-world USA.
Posted by Cookie Monster at June 11, 2006 05:17 AMI am so GRIEVED and ASHAMED about the suicides of the Gitmo prisoners, I can't express it except in the above words. Well, there's always, GREAT GOD, WHAT THING FROM HELL DO WE HAVE IN THE OVAL OFFICE?
Posted by Mal Feasance at June 11, 2006 06:07 AMI am so pissed. MTP has been cancelled for tennis on NBC. I guess that is one way to keep bloggers from getting any exposure in the MSM, since one of the guests was a blogger. I guess tennis is much more important.
Posted by Judith at June 11, 2006 06:11 AMMal, a psycho evil man.
Posted by Judith at June 11, 2006 06:13 AMMal, how about the comment that it was not an act of desperation, but rather warfare?
Posted by Judith at June 11, 2006 06:35 AMFrom the NYT on the Guantanamo suicides.....
Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., the commander of the detention camp at Guantánamo, told reporters… “I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."
If the US could only get the rest of the "terrorists" to wage war in this fashion, our worries would soon disappear.
Posted by at June 11, 2006 06:38 AMIf the US could only get some GOPers to wage war in this fashion, our worries would soon disappear.
Posted by Judith at June 11, 2006 07:09 AMPress the Meat was on at 5:00am for viewers of the Seattle affiliate. This may seem early to some folks, but it is usually on at 6:00am. I missed half of it, because I didn't realize it was on one hour earlier than usual. I did see Kos though. There was much made about the Bilbrae - Busby race. The Repulsives talking victory and the Dems not willing to concede - I grew up in the north county and all things considered, if I was a ReThug (kill me if it were to happen, please), I wouldn't be too pleased with eking out a narrow win in a special election where I spent over twice as much money and in a district where being non-rethug is virtually illegal.
Some of the biggest obstacles that the Dems face this fall is the gerrymandering, black-box voting machines and various unethical if not illegal techniques to suppress the minority/poor vote and voter registration.
Posted by theExile at June 11, 2006 07:12 AMMore media coverage of YearlyKos at MSNBC.com.
My favorite quote;
Republican party spokesman Tucker Bounds characterized the convention as proof that "the squeaky wheels, no matter how wobbly, get all the Democrats' oil."
That quote coming from a Republican whos party just put preventing gays from getting married and banning flag burning at the top of their legislative agenda. You can't make this stuff up.
Posted by snark at June 11, 2006 07:30 AMBush, can we at least make a few steps forward? Isn't there anything you can do and be successful at doing it?
WASHINGTON, June 10 — President Bush's two-day strategy session starting Monday at Camp David is intended to revive highly tangible efforts to shore up Iraq's new government, from getting the electricity back on in Baghdad to purging the security forces of revenge-seeking militias, White House officials said.
Three years of efforts to accomplish those goals have largely failed. Billions of dollars have been spent on both electricity and security, yet residents of Baghdad get only five to eight hours of power a day, and the American ambassador acknowledged on Friday that the city is "more insecure now than it was a few months ago."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/world/middleeast/11summit.html?ex=1307678400&en=869d56711b585e85&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Posted by Judith at June 11, 2006 07:34 AMHow do we know they were suicides?
Posted by raisin at June 11, 2006 08:04 AM"How do we know they were suicides?"
Posted by raisin
If we had killed them, there would have been a lengthy cover-up period, a denial period and a "you're unpatriotic to be making a big deal of it" period before we would have caught wind of the deaths.
You will love this one. Seems George is confused on what makes sense and to whom:
"I decided to work with our state governors, Republicans and Democrats, to move 6,000 National Guard troops on the border to help the current Border Patrol do the job until the new agents are trained. That makes sense to me, doesn't it?"
WHAT MAKES SENSE TO ME GEORGE IS YOUR AN IDIOT!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060606-1.html
Posted by Judith at June 11, 2006 08:37 AMHerbal Tee, and the corrupt business of stealing elections begins.
Posted by Judith at June 11, 2006 08:42 AMIn Seattle, Kong channel 6 replays Meet the Press at 10am.
Posted by iamcoyote at June 11, 2006 08:50 AMIamcoyote, yeah I can see MTP at 2:30 am in the morning. Is it just me, or does it seem like more and more political shows are being preempted? The McLaughlin Report is seldom on anymore in St. Louis.
Posted by Judith at June 11, 2006 09:11 AMSo...Ann Coulter thinks the 9/11 widows are harpies and witches who are enjoying their husbands deaths by using them for political purposes. I wonder if she felt the same way about those Swift Boat harpies and witches who used their husbands to slander John Kerry and put George Bush in the White House.
Posted by PretzelsOne at June 11, 2006 09:16 AMJudith: My sister has DirectTv which has a new red button you can push to "track" the amount of traffic each channel/program is getting. She's sure it is just the DirectTv customers cause it is really whacked. But it tracks religion, news, politics, on the basis of top 10 watched. Yes, all channels seem to be going toward religion but, as she says, some of the religious channels run The Lone Ranger off and on ...
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[Editor: ignore=off]Bendito:
Notlike George Bush trying to hide his senseless war and utter failures behind the victims of 9/11, using them as excuses for carrying out his wingnut agenda, huh? He has no more concern for them than he does for the victims of Katrina or the lives of the soldiers we are losing almost daily. He is the one who invokes 9/11 in almost every speech. It's all he can do.
Posted by PretzelsOne at June 11, 2006 10:30 AMBendito, I think that something must be said for experience. People who have been directly affected by tragedy and policy have much more of a right to speak up about it.
In addition, those who have been victims of bad policy and negligence are also those who come forward to fight to change the negligence that caused the tragedy; be they right, left or center. Perhaps they do this because they sincerely wish to make a change and have a positive impact to help save others from experiencing the tragedies that they have.
This is much different than pundits and chickenhawks who have not experienced shit yet claim to be experts on what the "majority" of people want.
No matter how much you attempt to paint us as "left" we speak for the majority of Americans. We are people who care about a living wage, fair trade policies, protecting the environment, common sense self-defense, fiscal responsibility, health care for all, ending hunger and poverty, workers rights and civil liberties, to name a few.
If you read the numbers these are issues that the majority of Americans care about. We fight for policies that benefit everyone vs. fighting for bigotry and hatred and fiscal policies that benefit a very small percentage of people.
We speak for America - you do not.
Posted by Anjha at June 11, 2006 11:14 AMBush also promotes killing future soldiers to justify the deaths of the previous.
This makes perfect sense in chimp-think.
Posted by TIKI AL at June 11, 2006 11:24 AMThe left likes to hide behind victims of tragedy,
So these victims should be hidden away, like the war dead returning from Iraq.
knowing that few would dare to appear so insensitive as to challenge their fallacies,
Exactly. So when these people return or protest, we should be sensitive and challenge their statements that things have gone horribly wrong in Iraq.
much the same way terrorists hide behind women and children
Missian Accomplished! I served too! Photo ops with Firefighters in NY! Pictures from Katrina zone! Brownie did it! I'm the decider!
Posted by phidipides at June 11, 2006 11:35 AMChildren with Terminal Cancer Using Their Disease to Get Sympathy: A Satire by Ann Coulter
Chapter 12 - Like We're Supposed To Care?
I have never seen children enjoying their incurable diseases so much.
It seems to be all the rage for witches of want with a so-called "terrible illness" to try and turn their maladies into some sort of whining, cause-celeb begathon for medicines and research to cure their condition or relieve their pain.
To read the whole story, go to:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-young/children-with-terminal-ca_b_22718.html
Posted by Judith at June 11, 2006 12:07 PMI love it when a coward who's never had the cajones to engage anyone in honest debate has the audacity to talk about other people "hiding" and the importance of "challenging fallacies."
Posted by jondee at June 11, 2006 01:11 PMThe left likes to hide behind victims of tragedy
As opposed to just flat out using them as BushCo has done, as in bringing parents of fallen soldiers to political events to support the war.
Posted by ann at June 11, 2006 01:59 PMMurder as suicides at Gitmo? Possible. Anything is possible in Nazi America. Naaah, it ain't no Nazi America, Nazis let you know where you stand. We ain't got a footing here in Stasi Amerika.
Posted by Mal Feasance at June 11, 2006 03:36 PM