Oh,.. we thought you were off on a golfing junket to Scotland.

Welcome Back !

I take mine with an olive!

"Open Threads"- just one question :

There are open opens, closed opens, open closeds, and closed closeds. The question is, if a thread is open and unknown, is it really open? Or, to put it another way, if a thread is closed, but is opened by force, was it ever really closed to begin with?

If a thread opens in the forest and there's no one there to follow it, did it really open?

Or, ala Heisenberg, if a thread is placed in a box and cannot be observed, might it not be said to be in both states, open and closed, at the same time?

Oh yes...congrats on your fame and notoriety(?), Brad. Fun interview.

Nice interview, Brad! Martini, what have you done with Rossi?

And GOD, I feel so guilty. Alright alright, I'LL DONATE!!!

The rest of you deadbeats better pony up, too.

bu$$h says we are un - settled,..

we say he is a neo-nazi and in - sane..... video link....

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bu$$h approval ratings in the State of New York

November 2001 - 82%
January 2006 - 33%
May 2006 - 22%.......... media link

photo link

The Horror...The Horror

Does that refer to your opera singing?

Funny interview!

After my first visit to MartiniRepublic I felt great. After my second, I felt a bit dizzy. And after my third, I called my next-door neighbor a whore and drove my car into a tree.

Interesting interview ... you don't really smoke cigarettes do you Brad? Say it ain't so ... and martinis ... ???

Fun Interview, tricky those Martini guys. . . That reminds me, I'm out of vermouth. Any sugestons other than Stock?

Tribuno is the only vermouth worth the name.

Donald Rumsfeld #3

It all boils down to what your definition of "is" is!

It's sad that the only commenters at martini are folks from here. I was hoping some would come check out BB and go back to encourage others to take a look.

BLUEBEAR2 :

Why can't we reroute all the traffic on the WWW to Bradblog at least until November 2006,.. get these issues out there big time,...

Of course we would have to follow up with a massive increase of financial support to Brad,...
so he can procure a super super duper Cray
computer system to handle the increased traffic load to his site.

Boy,.. wouldn't the NSA be left scratching their heads,... wondering how Brad pulled that off.

Any hackers out there looking for a project,.. with
socially redeeming connotations,.. Please get to work !

You said we could scandalize you Brad so here goes.
(Yeah Dredd how do you put the picture directly here?)

From "Crime Scenes" a picture of a great patriot.

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Testing static Brad

Eeek!

Did he say..... "open thread" ?

Well,... bust them gates open !

Incidentally I searched high and low and I could not locate any vermouth,... so I drank the 180 proof vodka right from the bottle,.. stuff went down just like water. I woofed down a jar of Spanish olives,.. so it was like a mini Martini Party of sorts. (burp)

Next thing,.. I wanted to do,... how you say,..
"bone up" on vocabulary and proper grammatical usage,.. but I was so blind drunk seeing the dictionary was all but impossible. But I got lucky,..
I found a nice (?) video, so I didn't have to look up this word. I was although left in the state of being agape,.. I did not realize how many usages there really were for this word in the English vernacular.

(scroll down about five inches to center black box.)
(give it about 30 seconds to load)
(then click the arrow below play)
The Word/the video/the link :

I hope this little stunt does not cause the
"open thread",.. to become slammed shut.

Old Turk..........thanks, that video was soooo funny...!!

Will be donating to the bradblog cause when my commission cheque finds its way into my mailbox..!! They keep jacking up the price of stamps here but the service keeps going down, just like your CiC's ratings......yahhhhoooo...!!

BTW....how's your hangover..?

Oh my God,... what have I done ?

Not a good idea to get shit-faced,..

and then hit the World Wide Web.

The hangover,.. I don't want to discuss it.

How's Brad,.. has he maintained his cheerful

sense of humor,.. or is he pissed,..

and barred my comment postings to this blog

for a six month duration ?

Sorry,.... for the momentary incoherence

I just put some money in the pot for Brad!

Larry Bergan - Comment # 23

Indeed,.. Indeed,.. dinero's for Mr. Friedman.

Fact: We are only five months out from the 2006
mid-term election.

Realistically,.. in the next 60 days Brad has to get the message out there beyond the the confines of this blog,.. if we are to hope this information will be taken seriously and positively impact the results of this 2006 election. Brad is here,.. Brad is there,..
Brad is everywhere laboring to get the message out,.. can we help to maximize that impact ?

Brad,.. any ideas,... contributors to this blog any ideas,.. how can we help externalize the info on this blog to the general public. Brad can not hope to do that my himself alone,.. there is a small army here,.. how can we assist to get this info disseminated,.. put all this research to work,.. achieve maximum exposure for all this effort.

Maximizing exposure to this blog will will not only get the message out there,.. by way of enumerating upon the details of how this administration brings jeopardy to our very Democracy. But additionally bring attention to the amazing repository of information found on this blog,.. hopefully a receptive audience will dig into their wallets to financially support the message of this blog,.. thus enabling dissemination of the information that much wider and further. Kind of like the "domino effect" in reverse.

This blog is no joke,.. there is a fine "product" to be found here,.. this "product" must be marketed to a larger and larger audience of Americans. The clock is rapidly running out,.. before we know it November 2006 we be upon us,.. prior to us even realize it. Now is the time to gasp a deep breath,.. and spring into final action,.. landing some devastating blows to the opposition. Come October
and November the opportunity to alert our voting population will have past.

The work that Brad has done thus far must have cost a small fortune. If there is any hope to maximize and disburse this info further,.. an influx of money is needed to permit that that objective. People who regularly visit and contribute their knowledge,.. the internal core group of this blog,.. must buckle down and dig deep into their wallets and offer financial support to Brad so that this message does not go silent or stale,.. but rather reaches an expanded audience. This is how I look at it,.. for me personally. The MSM,.. long ago I turned my back on them,.. closed my wallet by cancelling local and national subscriptions to newspapers and magazine periodicals,.. they short changed me,.. this fourth estate. I turned the financial spigot off in protest. They had become lapdogs to the corporatist,.. and sold us down the river by dishing out fascist propaganda.

Mr. Brad Friedman is not a charlatan,.. has well proven himself to be trusted,..the money I formally gave the Main Stream Media will now go to Bradblog to support his operation,.. and the info being disseminated. One dollar a day,..
$30.00/month,.. most of us can work that amount into our budget,.. I can not think of a more deserving and worthwhile investment. If I had cable,.. I would cancel,.. and handover that amount too. Democracy will not save it's self,.. Brad can not be expected to financially support this endeavor alone.

One other question,.. has an effort been made to
secure external funding. It amazes me that the
Democratic Party,.. some political candidate with a fat campaign war-chest,.. or some financial benefactor has not stepped forward to financially support the continuing operations of this blog. When it comes to the subject of clean elections this blog is without doubt one of the few that is constantly and consistently in front of that issue involving clean and honest elections. Hell it has expanded way beyond that,.. the issue of gaming and fraudulent elections inherently morphs into issues of egregious corruption perpetrated by the party enjoying majority rule,.. the Republican Party.

If there is anyone on this planet who will receive direct benefit from the endeavors of this blog,.. it is surely the Democratic Party. If the Democratic Party has a hope or a prayer to regain majority rule in either the US House and/or Senate,.. a prerequisite to achieving that result,.. is to get the message out - that fair,.. honest,.. and clean elections are an imperative. Is the Democratic Party blind to that issue ?

Where is Howard Dean,.. or John Kerry,.. or John
Conyers and/or the DNC or the myriad of other politically progressive organizations ? Why do they not loosen the purse strings and offer financial support to the likes of operations such as Bradblog.

How long can the Democratic Party keep it's head in the sand,.. if elections are fraudulently gamed by the Republican Party,.. we will always remain the party in the minority. Having these election thrown has ushered in fascism to our political process,.. this is not some unknown secret. The year 2000 - ask Al Gore,.. 2002 - ask Max Cleland,.. 2004 - look into the happenings in Ohio,.. and again repeated in Florida for the second time,.. if one need hear horror stories of egregious election fraud,.. talk to these individuals who won,.. but had the election stolen from them. Dirty, dishonest, and fraudulent elections means the Democratic Party gets the shaft. How often does history have to repeat it's self before effective actions are put into place to assure the integrity of our elections. Can we please be allowed to discuss this subject ? Silence = Complacency = Repetition = The Code
of Conduct of the Bully. The party of brute force and unethical conduct has no right to anoint themselves winners of political election contests,.. the best individual with acute intellectual acumen,..chosen by the populous,.. are the people we want to represent us,.. not some thug.

Bradblog is in possession of the road-maps that will enable and guide the Democratic Party towards that destination. The party should offer Brad financial support to enable him to expand upon the message and the audience,.. to assist in his ability to disseminate the message,... we need clean elections or Democracy simply will be lost.

Has the possibility for funding for Bradblog from the Democratic Party or some financing from a progressive foundation been explored ? Can someone please shake the bushes that might provide some financial resources ? Again,.. as often said on this blog,.. Democracy will not save it's self,.. it will not happen by osmosis,.. it will require some hard currency to get this job done,... and get the message out there to the masses.

The MSM will offer only token support.

Police State Fascism Issues,...

Oregon,.. bush visit,.. protesters,.. police violence,..

Link : Oregon police violence

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NYC Republican Convention,.. protesters - 1,800
arrested,.. 91% then released without charges,..
NYC Police misconduct/perjury in court,.. Democracy Now details FBI civil right investigation.

Link : Democracy Now / NYC Police misconduct/perjury

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14 characteristics of Fascism

Link : Fascism

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Link : Halliburton wins contract to build detention camps

RLM - Couldn't find Tribuno in the Local "packy" (Yuppie wino heaven) . . . . . so I settled for Martini & Rossi . . .

#18 GWN - I hope Brad does't go the way of the Brillo Pad . . . . .

#26 & #27 - Ya Same Guy . . . . . Me . . .