Thanks Brad! I can't remember the last time I laughed so much.

Please thank Guest Blogger David Edwards, since *he's* the one that got all this stuff up so quickly!

Thank you thank you thank you David!!!!!!!!

We sooooo needed that...RT is one of the few things we miss since we had to give up the satt tv!

R & R !

David & Brad...

4 thoes of us with little time 4 tv

this is GREAT

Thank U, RogerART.com

Holy Judy! She's up at the NYT.

Bush looked gloriously presidential as he spoke to our handsome troops! We're at war and now is not the time to abandon our great leader!

The GREATEST GENERATION

Voted 4 Bush In Big Numbers ?

Why, How Could they B So Wrong ?

What Does It Mean ?

I Want 2 Know…

http://www.RogerART.com

Thanks for the laughs.

#6
Put down that spliff, Scott...you've had enough.

re #9: spliff? keg!

I assume Scott from CA is kidding. If he isn't, he should understand we didn't abandon "our great leader," he abandoned us.

Thank you for posting stuff from Real Time...like the Daily Show, one of the few places on tv where you can hear actual news that hasn't been whitewashed discussed by actual people who haven't been brainwashed, at least not completely.

And speaking of brainwashed, I just read in an AP article, "Big Easy Bar Owners Complain About Curfew", that
"... In Louisiana, 1,035 people died from the storm..."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/...bi_ge/new_orleans_curfew

My question is, Does this number include all the bodies still waiting to be identified? Does it include the missing?

Or is it the "official" number, like the "100,000" people who were at the DC protest? Or like the number of dead American soldiers, which doesn't include the ones who were taken to hospitals & died there or who died en route? Or like the number of Iraqi divisions that are combat-ready?

RLM #11

I hope he is kidding too. If not, I'm with #8,#9, and #10.

When a President is at an incredible low in the polls, his office and supporters in the sights of indictment guns, he looks propagandist (by scripting the whole SHOW) and some would call that presidential?

Gotta be a stone cold fascist to be that hynotized into the fog.

AND DAVID, thanks for the clips. Good humor ... it really is a good medicine ... beats the hell out of the blue smoke they are pumping up bu$hit's booty to "keep him a compassionate conservative" ...

Number 6 must be joking or smoking some strong stuff.

Joan - Many bodies in LA had to be washed out to sea with the surge, so their number will not be counted. And with the relocation of so many how would a final count of living or dead be done?

The administration has such awful crediability makes one wonder if a plan was made so bodies couldn't be counted. How do we know everyone from 9/11 was accounted for?

Let's see, wasn't it right about this time in Hitler's career(the end) that he went down into the bunker and killed himself? Wonder if any of our leaders are thinkin' the same way. Because, it might not be an accident that McCain did the anti torture ammendment. Seems as if, Bush vetoes it. He is saying I like torture. Gonzales wrote the law that torture is o.k. if you have good intentions. Maybe McCain will have the last laugh for what they did to him in S.C.

Wow, great clips, David, thank you. As Roger said, there's almost no chance we could have happened to catch them all on tv. Sometimes we have to laugh to keep from crying. I really liked Max Cleland and that whole panel. I completely and totally agree with his opinions about Iraq, not only as the mother of a son heading there for the second time, but as an American working citizen and tax payer. We should be worrying about OUR country.

This administration has destroyed our reputation in the world for many generations to come and have jeapordized our future safety, imho, because what scares me most is that many countries are holding joint military exercises nowdays. Russia and China just had their first joint exercise ever and Russia and India just did recently too. Now, in 2006, Russia, China and India are planning the biggest joint military exercise EVER in the world. Should we be concerned about being spread too thin, downsized too much and/or being viewed as "a threat" to the world, or a region thereof??? Tell me I'm just being nervous for nothing please.

Between the dates of August 18-25, 2005, Russia and China participated in their first ever bilateral war games, dubbed Peace Mission 2005. The games were symbolic of the growing cooperation between the two powerful states. Since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, which led to an increasingly influential role for Washington in Central Asia, Moscow and Beijing have drawn together under the common interest of preventing further U.S. influence in the region.

Russia's rapid pace of joint exercises hints at increased steps of preparedness of not only the special forces that attempt to conduct anti-terrorist operations, but the regular armed forces as well. The Russian military has been long hindered by deteriorating conditions as a result of the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, but it has slowly been beginning its emergence onto the world scene as a more coherent and better prepared force. While its latest series of war games utilizes only a small fraction of actual forces, the frequency of joint exercises with its near abroad counterparts hints at the desire to not only achieve a high level of preparedness, but to showcase to the U.S. that the Russian military is not dormant while the number of American military bases in Central Asia increases.

http://www.worldsecurity..._id=11924&topicID=63

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/4369.asp

As for Miers, I just wanted to say, no president should ever ever ever be allowed the conflict of interest, that appointing their personal attorney and long time personal ass-kisser to the supreme court, would obviously present. Please. If appointed, that might be the straw for us citizens. The current pathetic corrupt political party presently in total power (which does not represent all Republicans, in growing numbers), will be powerless for more than just an election or two. Since we can't count on the Democrats for anything much, yet, it will be up to the non-corrupt Republicans to help put an end to all this, I think. My son and I are hoping so. They all better be packing their bags, because we'll look for someone else who might pose a promise, Dem, Ind, or Rep. We'll all be a lot more educated this election (if we get a fair one). We'll have access to their records and we're pissed off enough to read them this time. Downsize the bullshit mobile from a convoy of semi's, to one SUV. We won't be eating so much BS from now on. We're watching and reading real news now, in growing numbers. So is the world.

Great stuff!

By the way, the link for the 4th clip "new rules" windows media file is incorrect. The correct link is:

http://www.ameratsu.com/...er_new_rules_051014a.wmv

#16, So, if Russia and China join together and have a pre-emptive war against the U.S. (I know this sounds a bit bizarre) with the intention of occupying us and taking the Texas oil fields, we are to throw them flowers and be gratefull that they have come to liberate us. We should not rise up to protect our country, just let them have the oil and be sooo happy. Interesting to see how bushco would react in this scenerio. It would be really something if the public went along with it. What would Halliburton and the Texas zillionaires do. This is a stupid post, sorry, just woke up, but China really does need oil for all the factories being built there by Corporate America. (I believe bush fears China, somewhere deep inside his pea sized brain)

Hi M4! Texas has already been sucked pret' near dry, and that's just part of the problem. Haliburton would just subcontract for the bombing runs, a la Milo Minderbinder, and then snarf up the rebuilding contracts to boot. Of course duhbaya is afraid of China - he's afraid of everyone, especially Cindy! And Russia and China don't have to do anything to us, any more than Reagan had to do anything to the USSR - we're just plain imploding!

Happy trails, Bob

#19 Amen, amen, amen. lol Wonder where Walmart-made in China- could fit into this scenerio. Suppose China could boycott us and then we would be in real trouble. Bigger picture, maybe the rest of the world should put sanctions against us....oh my, I better go now, I am beginning to feel very 'light' headed. My brain is imploding! M4

OT --- Love that gal, Larisa! bu$h and the "troops" look like some kind of sleazy backstreet Las Vegas act. (Crooks not far behind the scene.) Had to wash my hands. Kind of like the whole mainstream political act right now. Liberating...??

Is Larisa our Sam Adams?

(This should have been posted under the Larisa piece, but I think I'm a jinx in guest contributor pieces. They always stop dead when I post - locked up, zipped. WP sometimes helps out, but I'm getting skittish about it.)

I should say guest essayists.

Yup.

Déjà vu

How now brown cowboys,

do you close the can of worms

opened out of vengeance?

Don’t wonder why people want to kill you;

wonder what your mission is.

Your rite of passage routes

east of Eden;

you’re hostages of orders

that say,” Go to Hell,”

and vulnerable to the disease that doesn’t end;

fight the war fought so many times before,

lie to me

and tell me it was worth a spit.

Could David Edwards please contact me? I need a copy of this entire episode, or specifically, Sen. Cleland's remarks on New Orleans and Katrina

Could David Edwards please contact me? I need a copy of this entire episode, or specifically, Sen. Cleland's remarks on New Orleans and Katrina

Could David Edwards please contact me? I need a copy of this entire episode, or specifically, Sen. Cleland's remarks on New Orleans and Katrina