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ABC and CNN online are finally reporting on missing pregnant non-white woman….
Okay, Brad, you post cartoons, so….
If you need a laugh, check out the Gergen thread, here. It has, for example, the poetic saga (first reports only) of the beginning of the end (or the middle of the end, or the end of the end… whatever…
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from Robert Lockwood Mills:
There once was a hermit named Rove
Who kept a dead whore in a stove
If trouble was brewing, and a foe needed screwing
He’d cook up a meeting, by Jove
Karl’s whore came to life in the oven
Where she’d given Karl’s critics good lovin’
A sexy loose cannon, by the name of Jeff Gannon
A warlock was loose in the coven
His name wasn’t Jeff, it was James
And Rove used him for partisan games
A very high ratio, included fellatio
All except Valerie Plame’s
Now Jeff’s nudie pics drew a sigh
From girlie men both far and nigh
Once out of the closet, it was easy to posit
That Scottie would let him come by
But then something awful went wrong
A Dick got ensnared in Jeff’s thong
It might have been Cheney, and I know this sounds zany
But it’s why he’s been hiding so long
Mara #1–
So sorry my comment happened to follow yours re: this story, which Brad previously highlighted, here.
I guess we were typing at the same time. Here’s a link to the CNN story:
Pregnant Philadelphia mother of one missing
The London bombings are probably off most radar in the US, but here’s a link. Not sure if it’s important whether he was shot 8 times or 5 times, but it is important that he is now known to be innocent. What consolation here?
Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian man killed by police after being mistaken for a suicide bomber, was shot eight times at Stockwell Tube station on Friday, not five times as had previously been reported.
Since my last report, RLM has been hard at work, here.. Just had to repeat the first 5 verses, bec. they are "background"
———————–
from Robert Lockwood Mills:
There once was a hermit named Rove
Who kept a dead whore in a stove
If trouble was brewing, and a foe needed screwing
He’d cook up a meeting, by Jove
Karl’s whore came to life in the oven
Where she’d given Karl’s critics good lovin’
A sexy loose cannon, by the name of Jeff Gannon
A warlock was loose in the coven
His name wasn’t Jeff, it was James
And Rove used him for partisan games
A very high ratio, included fellatio
All except Valerie Plame’s
Now Jeff’s nudie pics drew a sigh
From girlie men both far and nigh
Once out of the closet, it was easy to posit
That Scottie would let him come by
But then something awful went wrong
A Dick got ensnared in Jeff’s thong
It might have been Cheney, and I know this sounds zany
But it’s why he’s been hiding so long
Now George has a bulge in his back
To keep him from going off track
Jeff’s bulge is in front, and that dog will hunt
Any liberal they want to attack
Now Monica gave Bill a blow
And the media covered the show
But a stud runs amok, seeking liberals to f**k
While Bushie pretends not to know
RLM, please see my legal advice, here
Not to forget where we are right now, humor aside, from the UK press:
Scale of Iraq insurgency unforeseen, says MoD
Just in case anyone wants to read what the MSCM has to say about Fitz, and Miller into the bargain, check out
The Prosecutor: The Mystery Man
—– snip
A particularly annoying offender, coincidentally, was Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter. Fitzgerald sent her to jail earlier this month for failing to comply with a court order to testify before the grand jury about conversations she had with sources on a matter about which she never wrote a story. In an earlier, unrelated clash, Fitzgerald had accused Miller of compromising a probe into Islamic charities by phoning one of the groups just before a government crackdown.
Different subject, but let’s not forget the most important story of all; the hijacking of democracy thru election fraud.
Have all y’all seen the HARPERS magazine cover story titled "None Dare Call it Stolen?"
Again, I urge you to buy a copy and buy a few more for your friends and neighbors, and your Republican brother; so someone will see that it SELLS MAGAZINES! That’s the one thing that will get the MSM’s attention. MONEY! If they think the story will sell big, some of them may just print more stories about it. And no, I don’t own any stock in Harpers…
Take action y’all, and buy a rag and make somebody read it. I’ve already thrown this thread out to several comment threads, so forgive me if I repeat myself…
peace,
shw
John G. Roberts: An Iran-Contra Connection?
Filed under: * Crime * Republicans * National
Yesterday, the National Archives released 14,000 pages of documents regarding Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts, Jr’s service in the Reagan Administration’s Justice Department during the early 1980s. However, thousands more pages of documents apparently remain unreleased, including the period, from from 1982 to 1986, in which he worked as Associate Counsel to the President under White House counsel Fred Fielding. For whatever reason, the Bush White House does not appear particularly eager to supply information from that period. **more** **Oooo … so juicy!**
PLUS …
Bellaciao — Tuesday WH Briefing: John Roberts and Iran-Contra
John Roberts: Supreme Distraction (At CannonFodder)
Rove, Roberts and the Relentless Power Drive of the Christian Fascists…Or, Don’t Get Fooled Again!
Hi guys –
I’ve missed a party, it seems! RLM has been prodigiously prolific! I’ve been off the grid for hours, but will try to catch up…
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SIR BEDEVERE:
And that, my liege, is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped.
ARTHUR:
This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep’s bladders may be employed to prevent Global Warming.
BEDEVERE:
Oh, certainly, sir.
SIR LAUNCELOT:
Look, my liege!
[trumpets]
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Arianna Huffington has a brilliant editorial on her post this morning.
She’s seldom if ever wrong on her facts. It seems Judith Miller didn’t reveal her sources in the Plamegate scandal because SHE HERSELF WAS THE SOURCE. Pissed off that her reporting of WMD in Iraq had been proven inept (and had led to thousands of innocent deaths) she retaliated by revealing Valerie Plame’s identity, knowing it would wound her husband Joe Wilson’s reputation.
Nice lady. And a martyr to the cause of press freedom, according to The New York Times.
Interesting that Karl Rove might have told the truth for once when he said he’d first learned about Wilson’s wife from a reporter. That still begs two questions, "What was Judith Miller doing passing along classified information to a political hack?" and "How did Judge Judy obtain the information in the first place?"
I felt last week that there HAD to be a connection between London and the renewal of the Patriot Act. Brad’s old friend Feeney was on NPR saying, "If England had the Patriot Act, those 50 dead Britons would be alive today." The next day the Patriot Act passed the House. Who was it who said there’s really no coincidences in politics ? Let me also second Shannon’s comment about the article in Harper’s – very thorough and well done. the author, Mark Crispin Miller, is great. I’ve seen his "A Patriot Act" on DVD, quite good. Very good analysis of the Bush regime. He also has a cameo in "Horns and Halos", which I thought was OUTSTANDING.
Here’s the judges comments regarding the Patriot Act in the sentencing of Ahmed Ressam for planning to bomb the LA airport in 2001.
“We did not need to use a secret military tribunal, detain the defendant indefinitely as an enemy combatant or deny the defendant the right to counsel,” he said Wednesday. “The message to the world from today’s sentencing is that our courts have not abandoned our commitment to the ideals that set our nation apart.”
He added that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have made Americans realize they are vulnerable to terrorism and that some believe “this threat renders our Constitution obsolete … If that view is allowed to prevail, the terrorists will have won.”
Full Story:
http://my.netscape.com/corewidg...09400001941046
#14
Thanks, Robert, for mentioning the Huffingtonpost piece, a good one indeed. In it she refers to the Novak article, about which I have a question:
Novak writes..
"Wilson’s report….was regarded by the CIA as less than definitive…."
I’m not sure how important it is, but why does he come to that conclusion? Based on what?
Meanwhile back in the hallowed halls of Congress…
The House passed CAFTA last night by TWO votes, 217-215. Another victory for corporate greed, another blow to human rights. From today’s WaPo:
"…Only 15 of the 202 House Democrats backed the accord, while 27 out of 232 Republicans voted against…"
How does one find out who the 15 Dems are who voted for & who the 27 R’s are who voted against? (I ask with apologies for my ignorance)
Most of us have seen the video of Bush giving the middle finger salute to the camera while preparing to be videotaped, and there are stories of him flipping off protestors (I’ll look up the URLs later if anyone’s interested) And most of us have heard about Dick Cheney telling someone on the Senate floor (in cruder terms) to "go be fruitful and multiply yourself".
Now we have THIS, from "The Tonight Show"..via Rawstory:
Bush Gives The Press The Finger
Ya gotta love those conservative morals and family values!
Great find, Kes.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH PEOPLE WHO STILL THINK THIS GUY IS CHARMING AND RESTORING HONOR & DIGNITY TO THE WHITE HOUSE?
(Excuse me for yelling.)
Kira – Yell it from the highest tree.
While Rove et. al. swing from the branches below!
Have we done enough to help Jim March of Black Box Voting who was arrested and falsely charged with a felony?
(link here)
More from Ohio, another bottom feeder makes news:
Chairwoman for Bush in OH – tampering with taxes?
don’t cha think that Jim March of Black Box Voting knew very well that he would most likely be arrested if he went in there? You know he did. I did and I know next to nothing about election fraud compared to those guys.
Now, if you’re saying that he did know what he was doing and did it anyway to bring attention to the problems, then maybe he does deserve our help. But if you’re saying we should pay his fees for knowing that he was gonna get busted…..
well….I guess he should have thought that out better.
then again, will they pay my fees if I get busted for a little purposeful civil disobediance that I find myself engaged in? (no details)
also, hasn’t BBV been questioned about what they have done with the donations they have received in the past?
so, thats my views on that and please do educate me if you can. Not really trying to slam anybody, it’s just that there are sooooo many causes and people and blogs and organizations that need our money that I have to consider who gets mine and this one just doesn’t pass my first test with so much competition.
ON the bush middle finger: DU has blown up pics and suggest it was a pen. I agree with them, The position of the supposed raised finger is not correct on close-up.
too bad.
sorry no link you’ll have to go do a du search for it.
Linda6or7 #23
You don’t have to give money — I would think you can lend support by writing letters. I think any civil disobedience cases should be watched carefully by us and we should continue to be verbal about retaining the right to our freedom of speech and our freedom to watch the election process.
It’s not just the person Jim March — he represented "us."
ok, I don’t want to get banned for conspiracy theories like has happened on some blogs but I got this email from legitgov.org about the picture of the four suspected London bombers. They think that one of the bombers pictured has been superimposed into the pic coz the bar seems to go in fron of his arm. My opinion is that it looks to me like the guy is sitting on the bar and not even part of the group. What I am more concerned about though is bomber number 4. First off he looks like a woman to me. Second he is suppose to be 6ft tall. I know he is a little further back than the other guys but he looks more like a 5’6" or so to me. I can’t seem to copy the pic to take it and lighten it so I can see better. Here’s the link. What do u guys think?
http://www.legitgov.org/cctv_im...ts_240705.html
Kira: ahhh so you are saying not so much support "Jim March" but support efforts to get the word out that our election is as bogus as a 3 dollar bill? (oh hey, someone once asked what bill shrub should be on. The 3 dollar bill! That’s the answer. haha)
Yes, it’s a damned tiresome thing this bogus election deal. I mean it just exhausts me to think about. I have written letters and answered polls and I did go to DC for the Boxer rebellion and I have given small monies to Cobb and a couple of other election truth people, but I haven’t done much recently. So yes, I can write some letters or make some phone calls about at least the "WHY" of his actions.
thanks for the perspective.
next time, he should bring some binocculars though. If thats allowed.
Has anyone looked into this claim about unemployment only being 5%? I think this warrants an investigation. If I remember correctly, When Bush came into office he stopped any extentions people would have normally been able to collect. Thus if he continues for 4 or more years, of course he can claim that, because when you run out of the initial claim you do not stay on the rolls any longer and are no longer counted. Thus the 5% claim.
Anyone want to fill me in on this? Like to hear from you.
Not sure quite how I found this, from the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Question: Are they related to PNAC?
Rove and Safire Spring 2001
snips:
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and veteran columnist Bill Safire offered comments about Washington when he spoke to overseers.
Safire said he takes the long and experienced view of politics, particularly when addressing issues such as the controversy over voting in Florida, presidential pardons, and the number of press conferences a new president may have conducted.
"We act as though there’s never going to be another election," he said, laughing.
An insider’s view of the White House was provided at dinner that night when Karl Rove, senior adviser to President Bush, spoke. In a humorous talk, Rove said he’d learned about the importance of security credentials, abbreviations used to identify the president, the first lady, and other White House officials, and the intricacies of the White House food service.
Catherine: I’ve been suspicious of those figures too. I think I saw an article that said fast food jobs were in the group of manjufacturing. So when the shrub says that there is such a wonderful increase in the manufacturing sector, he really is saying that many of the people who had higher paying jobs have now taken a job at McDonalds.
Lindy #26
I’m frustrated too and fingertips worn practically to a nub from signing petitions & writing letters, etc. Sometimes it seems like nothing is happening, but what else can we do? Actually, tonight I’m tired and can’t put my thoughts together very well … life goes on and the country gets sicker. We gotta get that slimeball out of the White House.
As for Jim March – I had lots of disagreements with him on many issues, mostly regarding his NRA allegience and his tendency to be trollish. I haven’t studied the whole arrest thing yet, to be honest. I need to do that — but I will support anybody who is attacked by the neoCons and anybody who takes a stand against them. We’ll never find anybody we agree with on everything 100%, we just have to stick together on the big issues and work for enlightenment and change that is beneficial to the most people.
Err, KIRA! Ann’s voice can be heard at the end of the clip….. I think?
Q:
(are we sure ann-thrax isn’t a transexual or at least a cross-dresser?)
A: KIRA, I’m not sure of anything anymore, but my best bet is that Ann-thrax Coulter is at least Tri-sexual!
The Election Song
(Parody of The Galaxy Song)
When politics gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
and things seem hard or tough,
and people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
and you feel that you’ve had quite enough…..
Just remember that you voted in a booth in Palm Beach county,
that’s a million-person county in our state.
It’s growing at 23,000 folks a year, or so I hear,
enough to make a difference had we picked November 8.
Palm Beach and you and me, and all the folks that we can see
live in a 67 county state,
that’s Florida, a state that’s one of 50 total states
in the nation that we call the USA.
Our President’s elected from 100 million votes,
that’s 50 million voters side by side;
But states elect electors first, five hundred and thirty eight,
who then elect the President as though we hadn’t tried.
A state elects electors based on who has won the state,
and Florida gets only 25.
But 25’s enough to throw the balance either way,
when Harris certifies our votes at five.
Our state elects electors from about 6 million votes,
3 million votes for Bush, 3 more for Gore.
With all 6 million votes divided equally in two,
I hope you like the guy you voted for.
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly important is your vote,
and pray that someone tried to count your pregnant dimpled chad,
’cause there’s no one who can count it here in court!
by Tom Bracewell
(With all due apologies to Eric)
#32
Hahaha, nice. "Ann-thrax" hahahaha
Well, I too, sign petitions, make phone calls & write letters…..
(Oh and HEY!! ONCE IN A WHILE I BUY SOMETHING FROM THE BRAD STORE!!
Got two new bumper stickers on my car, woohoo!
Brad can’t do this alone & shouldn’t have to, right?
‘Cause he’s got US! We’ve got his back, right?
RIGHT?????
So when he’s not lookin’, stuff a coupla bills in his back pocket!
Via The Brad Store.)
…..but right now, I’m writing limericks. Can’t remember who started this, but I’m beginning to dream in limericks.
The Bush Gang:
While they claim they are good & God-fearing,
These inept bungling liars are steering
All of us straight to hell.
Where they really excell?
Propaganda & war-profiteering.
They assume we are ignorant rubes
Who don’t know they’re incompetent boobs.
Some are fooled (though they’re few)
By the bullcrap they spew
As their country goes right down the tubes.
But those slow-turning wheels shall not miss
All their fetid and foul rogueishness;
No they grind by design
So exceedingly fine
So that none may escape Nemesis.
Just found this interesting article in the Toledo Blade regarding Noe & Coingate:
Petro accused of holding out on coin records
[snip]
By MIKE WILKINSON
BLADE STAFF WRITER
COLUMBUS — In the two weeks since the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the state to make public the records of rare-coin funds managed by Tom Noe for the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, only three of an estimated 120 boxes of documents have been released.
… “The stonewalling that’s going on in these cases is truly reminiscent of Richard Nixon,” he said, referring to the months of delays it took to get information from Mr. Nixon’s White House during Watergate.
Mr. Dann said the attorney general’s office should not be reviewing records to determine which ones to release. [snip]
**MORE**
Very interesting …… watching the story develop. Watching "Worse than Watergate" ……
Unearthed, a very rare audio clip of Ann-thrax Coulter speaking the truth!
Bushw@cker — I swear, listening to the clip I thought I was listening to a drag queen (are we sure ann-thrax isn’t a transexual or at least a cross-dresser?)
Went to the site and commenters said that O’Really has proclaimed that the Liberal Media was a casualty in the War on Terror. And Coulter, of course, stated that "we own the media."
ack-ack gag. Doncha just hate it?
The Financial Conservatives:
"More big tax cuts!" demands Prez’dent Goof
While their spending proceeds through the roof.
Any time they need dough
Congress just can’t say no,
Oh, and 9 billion dollars went *poof!*
By the way – transexuals, drag queens or cross dressers are usually fun folks imho – but coulter is a slime. Since the neo-Con party’s so f…ing hypocritical, I’m not letting them get away with their deceit. Every last one of them who’s leading a double life should be "outted."
Joan #36, #37
I believe I started the verse fit, with a way way after midnight lim on the Gergen thread, in a few comments exchanged with Peg C, with her own lim. I’m trying to keep track of all of these greatly brilliant and creative efforts.
What I’m trying to do is explained here.
VG, I just posted a question for you on the Gergen thread.
I was just checking out Jim Marrs’ site,
jimmarrs.com
after the recommendation by Winter on the BradShow thread, and I wondered if there’s anybody out there in Fresno that could do anything about THIS insanity:
Jul 16 2005 Little girl faces felony charge for throwing rock at little boy
This kid is 11, was put on the ground with the knee to the back & handcuffed, spent 5 days in juvie, and after THAT was put on house arrest with an ankle bracelet,
FOR THROWING A ROCK AT ANOTHER KID!!
And apparently the prosecutor is "not interested in a deal", so I guess he intends to pursue this heinous crime to the fullest.
What is WRONG with these people??!
Joan – could you provide the link to that story at the Jim Marrs site, please? I took a quick look and can’t find it.
This reminds me of a story that came out a few years ago (after the neo-Cons took over the majority in Congress) about a 4 or 5 year-old who was accused of sexual harrasment!!! I wonder if that story made it to an online catalogue. I’ll have to look.
It’s ludicrous to do this to a kid. Notice we all, now, have to add the disclaimer "metophorically" when we say things we used to hear & say knowing no one would be attempting to charge us of making real threats.
The Fear Party is in control and they’re dumb shits. But, the personality and ethics of managements always filters down from the top.
Thanks!
Joan, I just found this article that mentions the case I referred to above:
Sexual Harassment by Children?
correction #41 — management
Kira,
http://www.jimmarrs.com/
This is the address for the page on which I read the article, but it just takes you to his home page; click on ‘Skip Movie’ & then scroll down to, I think it’s 15th on the list,
‘Little girl faces felony charge for throwing rock at little boy’.
You could probably also Google this:
Juliana Barbassa
ASSOCIATED PRESS
July 16, 2005
I think she wrote the original piece. What those cops did was obscene. The prosecutor sounds no better.
Jesus, talk about over-reacting.
Oh my sweet jesus! I just checked out your link on #42…unfuckingbelievable!!!
Whoa, someone needs to give a shout out to poor Dana Carvey…if you’ve never seen the routine where he talks about his kids & "naked time!", it’s a hoot, but he’d best watch his step lest his little guys get thrown in the slammer!!
Just read the story you found, Joan. This is absolutely unfathomable, yet exactly what’s wrong with the neoCon/theo/fascist/corporatists who have control of our country. Arresting children and Grannies who sing songs and try to enlist in the military is imbecilic and NAZI-ish.
6 or 7 of us need to write to the media and congress about this. The insanity must end — the police state mentality must be stopped.
This is nother reason to get out and protest in the streets.
Remember September 24th in DC
Three Days of Action for Peace and Justice in Washington, D.C.
Saturday, September 24
Massive March, Rally & Anti-war Fair
Gather 11:00AM at the Washington Monument
Sun., Sept. 25 – Interfaith Service, Grassroots Training
Mon., Sept. 26 – Grassroots Lobby Day and Mass Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
The truth is getting louder. And more mainstream. Check it out.
Check it out.
Hi Sam – your links didn’t work 🙁
Is this the WaPo article you were trying to link?
Carter: Guantanamo Detentions Disgraceful