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Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

Lord, we don’t need another mountain,
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross,
Enough to last till the end of time.

A hat tip to Burt Bacharach, and Hal David, and I hereby declare this thread OPEN!

[And a hat tip to “middleworld” for making us check. –99]

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  1. 2)
    Larry Bergan said on 8/5/2006 @ 12:53am PT: [Permalink]

    OK, enough with the sappy reminiscing. Lets jump right into the conspiracy mud pit.

    Mike Malloy proved to Webster Tarpley he was no “leftist gatekeeper” and had him on for two and a half hours. The longest time he’s ever given a guest. Wasn’t boring.

    Download the show from August 3rd here.

  2. 6)
    Agent99 said on 8/5/2006 @ 2:16am PT: [Permalink]

    Thanks, middleworld. Hal David wrote the lyrics and Burt Bacharach wrote the music. While you may only see the words here, we’re hearing the music too. So. Proper credit is now given, and thanks to you.

  3. 7)
    Larry Bergan said on 8/5/2006 @ 3:33am PT: [Permalink]

    Agent 99:

    De Niro had me in the palm of his hand after that scene. A great movie moment! One of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen is “Midnight Run”. De Niro and Charles Grodin are unbelievable!

    I just remembered there’s a sappy song with a 9-11 theme.

    “Have you forgotten” by Darryl Worley (sniff):

    You’re about to hear the truth about 9-11 Darryl. Wipe away your tears, eat your pride and grab your sidearm cowboy! The posse’s heading out at the crack of dawn!

  4. 8)
    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 8/5/2006 @ 4:19am PT: [Permalink]

    As long as we’re doing David/Bacharach stuff, here’s how a song from “Promises, Promises” might sound if it were updated to the present:

    “What do you get when you bomb Iraq?
    You get enough woes, you think they own ya’
    Those folks you freed, would sooner stone ya’
    I’ll…never bomb Iraq again
    I’ll…never bomb Iraq again

    “What do you get when you dis the world?
    They dis you back, and that goes double
    That’s what you get, for all your trouble
    I’ll…never dis the world again
    I’ll…never dis the world again

    Don’t tell me what it’s all about
    ‘Cause I’ve been there and there ain’t no doubt
    Out of those chains, those chains that bind ya’
    Insurgents rise, and they’re sure to remind ya’
    Don’t…ever bomb Iraq again
    Don’t…ever bomb Iraq again

  5. 9)
    Agent99 said on 8/5/2006 @ 4:35am PT: [Permalink]

    Yep. De Niro de man. Everybody should use Larry Bergan’s link at #2. It’s Malloy with Webster Tarpley for the whole show, and it brings a lot to the table. It sheds much more light on the events of 9/11, and may be crucial to any kind of understanding that will bear fair fruit. TAKE THE TIME. You can fast forward through the intro and commercial breaks, and, still better, you can back up and listen to what he says over again, until you believe your ears. Exposing yourself to this information could well make all the difference. Mike Malloy’s 3 August show. Listen to it early and often. It has finally explained Democratic pusillanimity, and ineffectiveness to me; finally put to rest the question of design vs. incompetence. WE MUST HEAR IT. No kidding. This is not a drill.

  6. 11)
    Dredd said on 8/5/2006 @ 6:22am PT: [Permalink]

    The preznit and Sheehan are in Crawford again, so who wants to check-out if last year’s musings during a trip there, by yours truly, was accurate (link here)?

    I also noticed that a Group of 9/11 widows ‘question the veracity of the entire Commission’s report’ (Raw Story link).

  7. 12)
    Demosupport said on 8/5/2006 @ 6:50am PT: [Permalink]

    I cant wait to see Isreal destroyed just like the nobel Iran President wants. It truely is the only way to stop the fighting. When we take the houses this fall, we must urge the government to stop supporting Isreal and their bombing of innocents.

    On a side note, anyone catch Chavez getting a medal from Iran’s President? More proof of how out of touch this dictator Bush is.

    Let us pray that the poor Lebonez people can overcome the tyrant Isreal and the infidels can be stopped once and for all!

    You guys have been great supporters of the cause and we would like to thank you and others like you for the factual coverage of the situation. Down with the infidels! Isreals started this war, and we finish it!

  8. 15)
    Joan said on 8/5/2006 @ 10:06am PT: [Permalink]

    I watched ‘Enron..The Smartest Guys in the Room’ recently (speaking of ugly) & there’s this haunting, raspy Tom Waits song during the ending credits, that just…well…you just gotta hear it. These are the lyrics:

    God’s Away On Business:

    “I’d sell your heart to the junkman baby
    For a buck, for a buck
    If you’re looking for someone
    To pull you out of that ditch
    You’re out of luck, you’re out of luck

    The ship is sinking
    The ship is sinking
    The ship is sinking
    There’s leak, there’s leak,
    In the boiler room
    The poor, the lame, the blind
    Who are the ones that we kept in charge?
    Killers, thieves, and lawyers

    God’s away, God’s away,
    God’s away on Business. Business.
    God’s away, God’s away,
    God’s away on Business. Business.

    Digging up the dead with
    A shovel and a pick
    It’s a job, it’s a job
    Bloody moon rising with
    A plague and a flood
    Join the mob, join the mob
    It’s all over, it’s all over, it’s all over

    There’s a lick, there’s a lick,
    In the boiler room
    The poor, the lame, the blind
    Who are the ones that we kept in charge?
    Killers, thieves, and lawyers

    God’s away, God’s away, God’s away
    On Business. Business.
    God’s away, God’s away,
    On Business. Business.

    [Instrumental Break]

    Goddamn ther’s always such
    A big temptation
    To be good, To be good
    There’s always free cheddar in
    A mousetrap, baby
    It’s a deal, it’s a deal
    God’s away, God’s away, God’s away
    On Business. Business.
    God’s away, God’s away, God’s away
    On Business. Business.

    I narrow my eyes like a coin slot baby,
    Let her ring, let her ring
    God’s away, God’s away,
    God’s away on Business.
    Business…”

  9. 16)
    Joan said on 8/5/2006 @ 10:12am PT: [Permalink]

    I’m not ready to say “it’s all over” though, not quite yet.

    JoJ,
    Love that image! Hmmm…ok, kinda nasty…but not ILLEGAL to send a pretzel through the mail, I would think. I mean, I’m just sayin’.

  10. 17)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 8/5/2006 @ 11:11am PT: [Permalink]

    Hurray I awake from yesterday
    Alive but the war is here to stay
    So my love catherina and me
    Decide to take our last walk thru the noise to the sea
    Not to die but to be reborn
    Away from the lands so battred and torn
    Forever forever

    Oh say can you see it’s really such a mess
    Every inch of earth is a fighting nest
    Giant pencil and lipstick-tube shaped things
    Continue to rain and cause screamin’ pain
    And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red
    As our feet find the sand
    And the sea is straight ahad
    Straight up ahead

    Well it’s too bad that our friends can’t be with us today
    Well it’s too bad
    The machine that we built
    Would never save us that’s what they say
    That’s why they ain’t comin’ with us today
    And they also said it’s impossible
    For a man to live and breathe undrerwater
    Forever was a main complaint
    Yeah and they also threw this in my face they said
    Anyway you know good and well
    It would be beyond the will of god
    And the grace of the king
    Grace of the king
    Yeah

    Ooo

    So my darling and I make love in the sand
    To salute the last moment ever on dry land
    Our machine it has done it’s work played it’s part well
    Without a scratch on our body when we bid it farewell
    Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile
    Before our heads go under we take our last look at the killing noise
    Of the out of style
    The out of style out of style oh yeah
    Oooo

    So down and down and down and down we go
    Hurry my darlin’ we mustn’t be late
    For the show
    Neptune champion games to an aqua world is so my dear
    Right this way smiles a mermaid
    I can hear atlantis full of cheer
    Atlantis full of cheer
    I can hear atlantis full of cheer
    Oh yeah
    1983 … (a Merman I Should Turn To Be) – 1967 – Hendrix

  11. 18)
    czaragorn said on 8/5/2006 @ 11:58am PT: [Permalink]

    Thanks for the open thread, the OT where we can go OT! Nice start, fellow Bradvillians. I love that image too, JOJ, and Joan, and I’ve been wishing for a couple of years now that enough of us could get together and each mail a bag o’ them tricky ole pretzels to our preznit at about the same time. It might get dicey for them, how to handle 6 or 7 bags of pretzels, if ya think about the logistics and the possibilities for publicity and ridicule, satire, parody, etc. Sure, the message is utterly nasty, but in this case I believe it’s not just justified, it’s called for by all that is sacred.

  12. 19)
    Peg C said on 8/5/2006 @ 12:07pm PT: [Permalink]

    Wow! This thread has turned me up and then rolled me over again!!

    First, “Love, Sweet Love” going through my head like a mantra (thanks, WP and 99) and then Joan’s contribution at #15 –

    CAN we salvage the world, guys? One honest heart at a time? We have to try…

  13. 20)
    czaragorn said on 8/5/2006 @ 12:27pm PT: [Permalink]

    Just on a whim I searched back to https://bradblog.com/?p=1239 and found it a wonderful thread to read, Supersoling and most of the usual suspects speaking up righteously, Peg C lending her universally sisterly wisdom, it was really cool reviewing the thread, nasty trolls and all, WP holding the fort of last resort, in short, I got a laugh, although I admit to being kind of miffed about no one taking seriously my idea of, say, 5 million of us each sending a “family-values-sized” bag of good old pretzels to our buffoon-in-chief

  14. 21)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 8/5/2006 @ 1:06pm PT: [Permalink]

    Do ya still call it a “cospiracy thery” . . . . . When polls say 33%

    . . . of folks don’t believe da “official story” ? ? ?

  15. 22)
    Abby said on 8/5/2006 @ 1:18pm PT: [Permalink]

    How interesting is this! Gandhi as good as absolved Muslims for all “acts of terror” they would undoubtedly be accused of once the State of Israel was forcibly created in the middle of “Muslim lands” at the point of the barrel of a gun. He had advised the US and UK to use honey instead of vinegar if Jews ever hoped to live in peace among Muslims. The West, of course, did not listen. That was a full ten years before the creation of Israel.

    It’s a pity that cultural differences make concepts like Ahimsa and Satyagraha, which Gandhi considered evidence of moral strength and real courage, manifest themselves as “pussy” or signs of weakness to the western mindset.

    Not that it matters anymore but very interesting never the less.

  16. 27)
    Bluebear2 said on 8/5/2006 @ 2:00pm PT: [Permalink]

    Freedom is a word I rarely use,
    Without thinking, m-hmm,
    Without thinking, oh yeah.
    Of the time, of the time,
    When I’ve been loved.

    Donovan – “Colours”

  17. 28)
    MEP said on 8/5/2006 @ 2:04pm PT: [Permalink]

    I hate to break the mood of this thread. We all need to take some downtime from the many evils we chose to confront in our separate ways. So I’ll call to your collective attention potentially good news from south of the border. According to narconews.com the Mexican Fed. Election officials appear to have taken a half step forward for Democracy. They have authorized a partial recount. Also the good citizens of Oaxaca continue to hold the State Gov. Ruiz and his henchmen at bay. There is hope as long as people resist.
    Special Note For Agent 99
    In the pics that narconews has posted concerning Oaxaca there are some tough looking Mamas fighting for freedom. What you do so well with words these gals appear ready to perform on the Gov with a wooden spoon. Ouch!!!!!!!

  18. 29)
    Bluebear2 said on 8/5/2006 @ 2:09pm PT: [Permalink]

    Walk along and talk along and live your lives quite freely
    But leave our children with their toys of peppermint and candy.
    For seagull I don’t want your wings,
    I don’t want your freedom in a lie.

    Your thoughts they are of harlequin, your speeches of quicksilver,
    I read your faces like a poem, kaleidoscope of hate words.
    For seagull I don’t want your wings,
    I don’t want your freedom in a lie.

    On the quilted battlefields of soldiers dazzling made of toy tin
    The big bomb like a child’s hand could sweep them dead just so to win.
    For seagull I don’t want your wings,
    I don’t want your freedom in a lie.

    As you fill your glasses with the wine of murdered negroes
    Thinking not of beauty that spreads like morning sun-glow.
    Seagull I don’t want your wings,
    I don’t want your freedom in a lie.

    I pray your dreams of vivid screams of children dying slowly
    And as you polish up your guns your real self be reflecting.
    For seagull I don’t want your wings,
    I don’t want your freedom in a lie.

    Vietnam Iraq, your latest game, you’re playing with your blackest Queen
    Damn your souls and curse your grins, I stand here with a fading dream.
    For seagull I don’t want your wings,
    I don’t want your freedom in a lie

    Donovan – “Ballad Of A Crystal Man” (Updated)

  19. 33)
    Agent99 said on 8/5/2006 @ 2:19pm PT: [Permalink]

    MEP

    Yipes! Those women look serious as heart attacks! I just bookmarked narconews under “heroes”.

    Everyone

    Just a thought, but the long posts make it hard for the dial-up people, so maybe we could just take small excerpts from our songs, or link?

    And, no kidding, Malloy’s 3 August show is a must hear, must listen, and Ben Burch’s White Rose Society is 100% bodhisattva action. A link is at #2 above, or just click here.

  20. 35)
    MEP said on 8/5/2006 @ 2:30pm PT: [Permalink]

    Update on South of the Border.
    Reuters has posted on the “Recount” and their take is not as positive as narconews. If you read between the lines it seems that Senor Obrador looks upon the 9% recount as maybe an attempt to cherry pick the “Recount” results. At least that is my humble take. Makes sense and explains Obradors’ strong rejection of the move. Shit! I was trying to find some good news guys, I guess we’ll have to wait and see how it plays out.

  21. 36)
    MEP said on 8/5/2006 @ 2:37pm PT: [Permalink]

    After Thought on #35
    The fact that the Mexican Feds have been forced to address the recount issue is in itself somewhat of a victory for Obrador and the PRD. These people are not going to go “Quietly into the Night”.

  22. 37)
    Agent99 said on 8/5/2006 @ 2:38pm PT: [Permalink]

    Bluebear2 and MEP…

    Thanks so much for your support. I don’t think women should be made to wrestle up from underneath so many layers of cultural bias to be able to play hardball when this much is at stake. I am heavily in favor of achieving comity with even those of “clashing” ideologies, and I am a peacenik on the cellular level, further in than my marrow. Guess what!

    “Peacenik” does not mean wimp, or girl, or even utter nonviolence. One has to deal with the real, and sometimes the real will not allow you to just hold up the peace symbol and shuffle on. Sometimes the lives of thousands and thousands and thousands of our fellow humans are at stake, and now even our planet is at stake. True humans get busy in times like these. There really does come a point where self-interest has to drop, and the interest of life itself must be upheld.

    So. Thanks guys. I mean it. Thank you.

  23. 38)
    MEP said on 8/5/2006 @ 2:46pm PT: [Permalink]

    Flash for BB2
    I have it on good information that the one often refered to as Agent 99 does in fact own several wooden spoons. This info has been confirmed by several of my “off the record” sources from Trolldom. I would have confirmed this sooner but I have to have the TrollSpeak analysed by audio professionals due to the fact that they speak at a very high octave.

  24. 39)
    MMIIXX said on 8/5/2006 @ 4:40pm PT: [Permalink]

    World Wide Whack-a-mole.

    The world burns and bush holidays…so much “brush” to clear ,so little time …

    Dang it’s hard keeping up with all the reading and listening needed!

  25. 45)
    Bluebear2 said on 8/5/2006 @ 6:55pm PT: [Permalink]

    MEP #38

    Four spoons in fact – one of clear oak, one teak, one well aged rose wood and one redwood.

    Her pans were hand-formed – hammered from brass by mountain top monks. When rubbed with the spoons they sing.

  26. 47)
    Agent99 said on 8/5/2006 @ 7:36pm PT: [Permalink]

    Well, the most effective weapon “lops off the head of delusion” and, so, therefore, it is not always experienced as weaponry at all… something more like music.

    Quoth Albert Einstein, when asked how he could accomplish such feats as he did just in his head: “Truth makes music.”

    Truth is avoided, and indeed fought, at all costs by those who feel they will lose something should it will out, even when it’s only a comfortable illusion they prefer to preserve. And truth attracts, indeed soothes and energizes, even when it’s awful, all those who would use it to manifest positive intent. Wooden spoons can serve as mightily as swords; they ARE swords: swords of truth.

    So the monks are happy to make these spoons, and donate them to all who might use them in service of fundamental reality, the truth.

    Namaste

  27. 48)
    MEP said on 8/5/2006 @ 8:45pm PT: [Permalink]

    99
    You do have a way with words. Anyone who looks at those women in Oaxaca and is not awestruck by the power of their posture of courage, dignity and commitment,is beyond hope. Those photos gave me renewed energy. They also made me a little ashamed for feeling down a bit. Cause if those good simple folks can take over an entire province and face down the tyrants of their gov’t, we too are capable.

  28. 49)
    Joan said on 8/5/2006 @ 9:20pm PT: [Permalink]

    #8
    Great lyrics, Robert! Thanks for all the good songs, you guys!

    Man, I was away for a bit, lotsa links to check out.

    #26
    Thank you for posting that GODDAMN KICK ASS song, BB!! (my daughter found it for me & said “WHY do you LIKE this, Mom??!”)
    LOL, I have to rethink my use of the word ‘haunting’ in describing it at first. Ok, maybe that was NOT the best adjective choice! Maybe more like ‘carnival-of-Satan-ish’?
    I haven’t gone to Agent99’s Malloy link yet, but last night he was deep into rumsfeld madness. Awhile ago there was a freewayblogger sign that I really liked calling rummy “rumsfailed”, but Mike’s new name for him is “rumsferatu”. God, that is so appropriate. The man is a clown & a ghoul.
    It occurs to me that ‘God’s Away on Business’ could be rumsferatu’s theme song.
    Gotta get up early tomorrow so I’m off to dreamland.

    Thanks for the Open Thread, WP! You guys ROCK.

  29. 50)
    bvac said on 8/5/2006 @ 9:20pm PT: [Permalink]

    Couple things I’ll be paying attention to next week in the Connecticut primary:

    1. Lamont trending in the polls over the past few months (currently with a ~13% lead over Lieberman) vs. outcome vs. exit polls if any

    2. Type of voting machines used

    3. Machine malfunctions (better check the heat index and relative humidity!)

    4. This and this

  30. 51)
    oldturk said on 8/5/2006 @ 9:39pm PT: [Permalink]

    Structural distortions, propaganda, and suppression of the truth by the American media deny the United States citizenry a clear picture of who is perpetrating the atrocities in the Middle East on a regular basis.

    The international media, even Canada run balanced media stories of the endless Israeli and Palestinian daily conflicts and asking pointed questions of why more is not done, an effort is not made to bring less war and more peace and harmony to the area. News interviews of American media would not dare ask in depth and balanced questions as seen in these international media news clips. Why are the viewpoints we are given so one sided, could it be the intentions of those who control the media. The American taxpayers
    blindly supports the Israeli government, her apartheid
    policies, her unjust interventions and and endless
    neo-con wars. Our guns, our bullets, our war planes,
    our helicopters, our most advanced weaponry, smart bombs and munitions bring much suffering to those who live in this area. The American taxpayer’s wallets of financial support for Israel should be slammed shut
    and no longer monetarily condone this madness of perpetual and endless warmongering.

    Dare to compare international access to more balanced media of events transpiring in the Middle East.


    Video Links : International media news clips of Middle Eastern strife/endless illegal occupation/war.

  31. 52)
    Joan said on 8/5/2006 @ 9:41pm PT: [Permalink]

    I couldn’t resist posting this last little bit because it offers such real hope for our president!

    “Anti-stupid” pill tested on mice

    “BERLIN (Reuters) – “A German scientist has been testing an “anti-stupidity” pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported on Saturday…”

    ‘Night, all.


    link

  32. 54)
    EmAitch said on 8/5/2006 @ 10:26pm PT: [Permalink]

    What about Leonard Cohen? His lyrics have been timely for about six years now:

    Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
    Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
    Everybody knows that the war is over
    Everybody knows the good guys lost
    Everybody knows the fight was fixed
    The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
    That’s how it goes
    Everybody knows
    Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
    Everybody knows that the captain lied
    Everybody got this broken feeling
    Like their father or their dog just died

    Everybody talking to their pockets
    Everybody wants a box of chocolates
    And a long stem rose
    Everybody knows

    Everybody knows that you love me baby
    Everybody knows that you really do
    Everybody knows that you’ve been faithful
    Ah give or take a night or two
    Everybody knows you’ve been discreet
    But there were so many people you just had to meet
    Without your clothes
    And everybody knows

    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That’s how it goes
    Everybody knows

    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That’s how it goes
    Everybody knows

    And everybody knows that it’s now or never
    Everybody knows that it’s me or you
    And everybody knows that you live forever
    Ah when you’ve done a line or two
    Everybody knows the deal is rotten
    Old Black Joe’s still pickin’ cotton
    For your ribbons and bows
    And everybody knows

    And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
    Everybody knows that it’s moving fast
    Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
    Are just a shining artifact of the past
    Everybody knows the scene is dead
    But there’s gonna be a meter on your bed
    That will disclose
    What everybody knows

    And everybody knows that you’re in trouble
    Everybody knows what you’ve been through
    From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
    To the beach of Malibu
    Everybody knows it’s coming apart
    Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
    Before it blows
    And everybody knows

    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That’s how it goes
    Everybody knows

    Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
    That’s how it goes
    Everybody knows

    Everybody knows

  33. 59)
    Larry Bergan said on 8/6/2006 @ 4:16am PT: [Permalink]

    Dredd #11

    Thanks for the pictures from Crawford!

    There is one piece of justice in this world. Those cattle have to vote on the same machines we do.

    MOooooooo!

    Click!

    Debold Diemocracy!

  34. 60)
    big dan said on 8/6/2006 @ 6:36am PT: [Permalink]

    The Dems and MoveOn have sound bites galore, from the idiot Tony Snow. “What do the Republicans think of mother’s of dead soldiers?” “HAVE SOME GATORADE

    THEY AREN’T CAPITALIZING ON TONY SNOW’S STUPIDITY…

  35. 61)
    big dan said on 8/6/2006 @ 6:38am PT: [Permalink]

    As usual, the msm isn’t pointing out how unacceptable Snow’s comments about American citizens are. It’s FOX news at the white house, pretty soon they’ll have Hannnity and Limbaugh there.

  36. 62)
    Floridiot said on 8/6/2006 @ 7:56am PT: [Permalink]

    Dredd, I’m lurking but not writing for a while… trying to get used to the new drugs the Doc put me on…Whew !
    (higher than a f*#ing kite I am)
    I hate it but he said theres no alternative one
    I’ll be here, lurking and drooling

    Oh, check these names out on this doc
    some familiar, some not (some fake)
    Link

  37. 63)
    Dredd said on 8/6/2006 @ 9:40am PT: [Permalink]

    Has anyone noticed that after we entered WW II, really in 1942 … declared war a few weeks before end of 1941) we were in it about the same time as we have been in Iraq?

    And as a smaller power than now, we placed democracy in three nations, all larger than Iraq?

    Japan, Germany, and Italy. And removed fascists from France.

    This present dunce republican dictatorship has done nothing but make things worse and worse for as long as it took a militarily weaker US to do three of them.

    And they are still democracies.

  38. 64)
    Floridiot said on 8/6/2006 @ 10:08am PT: [Permalink]

    Dredd #63, thats because the Republicans are trying to remove the Democracy, and install a Fascist (corporate) Dictatorship (oiligarchy) in Iraq IMO, and the people are fighting against it

    And as long as we HAVA shitty voting system here, we will never give up the fight either

    Link and
    Link

  39. 65)
    bvac said on 8/6/2006 @ 10:15am PT: [Permalink]

    Fascists and imperialists made the mistake of preemptively striking an industrial democracy with a strong anti-fascist, anti-imperialist leader. As a result, they lost and were made into democracies themselves. It seems we accomplished this by adopting their fascism and imperialism as our own, as we went ahead and preemptively attacked several nations. Now the historic question is what happens when these principles drive a right-wing government to clash with an already-despotic nation?

  40. 68)
    Bluebear2 said on 8/6/2006 @ 12:51pm PT: [Permalink]

    Good morning er afternoon!

    I was out at the grocery store last night when another shopper noticed my tyedye shirt and struck up a conversation about the 60’s. Beginning with the cost of groceries it evolved into the cost of fuel and finally to alternative energy concepts. The man was very informed and quite sincere. We talked in the isle for about half an hour.
    When he was finished he appologized for taking my time, I told him not to worry and that it was refreshing to talk with someone who was informed, rather than the average person who doesn’t take the time to know what’s going on around them.
    Then this morning, in the letters to the editor, I find:
    Pipe Down You Liberal Whiners – There’s been a whole lot of whining about Reps.John Doolittle and Richard Pompo siphoning money for themselves using their families as consultants. Seems like the only people who care about that are whiney liberals who never gave them a dime anyway. How’s it their business? We who gave them the money don’t care. So long as they get themselves elected, and then we get what we paid for after, why would we care if he keeps some of it for himself? Isn’t that the whole point of giving him the money? We would only get mad if he keeps too much of the money, fails to get elected and then doesn’t come through on his promises to us.”

    Sheesh!

    (I keep looking for a clue that this is satire, but I also know people who think that way)

  41. 71)
    MarkH said on 8/6/2006 @ 1:29pm PT: [Permalink]

    Song idea:
    Bush, Iraq, Katrina, etc. …. It ain’t nuthin’ but a heartache.

    Response:
    … Joan said on 8/5/2006 @ 10:12 am PT…
    “Love that image! Hmmm”¦ok, kinda nasty”¦but not ILLEGAL to send a pretzel through the mail, I would think. I mean, I’m just sayin’.”

    Joan, you wicked wicked girl. I love the idea. 🙂

  42. 72)
    oldturk said on 8/6/2006 @ 3:36pm PT: [Permalink]

    Floridiot,..
    your input and commentary is missed most recently. Hope your health issues are resolved sometime soon.

    Your energies and acumen would be of great help to win this political tug of war.

  43. 73)
    Bluebear2 said on 8/6/2006 @ 5:45pm PT: [Permalink]

    Floridiot

    This isn’t related to the black SUV’s is it?
    Beware the black oil!

  44. 74)
    Joan said on 8/6/2006 @ 9:03pm PT: [Permalink]

    Floridiot,
    Glad to know you’re still out there. I’m sending you out some good, mellow ‘old hippie’ vibes.

    #70 Bluebear2
    Right, the GOP has done such a bang-up job fighting terrorism! How can Mehlman even SAY these things with a straight face? It’s astonishing!

    #71 Mark,
    Yes, guilty as charged. I don’t WANT to wish anyone ill! But in the face of his massive, hideous, non-stop, crankin-out-wickedness machine somehow my little foray into wicked pales by comparison. In fact, maybe we should start sending LOTS of pretzels to our senators & congressmen, why not?! Heartfelt letters, phone calls & emails certainly seem to have no effect. Might as well try pretzels. Anyway, with all the HARD WORK they do for us, they deserve a snack.

  45. 75)
    oldturk said on 8/6/2006 @ 9:28pm PT: [Permalink]

    Check this scam out,..

    Republicans ask people to sign progressive petitions
    (ie – medical marijuana),.. respondents to this scam
    are likely Democratic voters.

    The Republican petition gathers then switch the Demo voters registration to Republican without their consent
    or knowledge.

    This scam is currently happening in CALIFORNIA –
    be aware.

    Read the details of this scam occurring in California,.. it will likely happen on a national basis. The results of this ploy are to disenfranchise voters and also make it easier for the Republicans to game the tabulation of the final vote,.. making switched votes seem more plausible.

    Link. Read the comments attached to the article for more local details. If you see this ploy
    being perpetrated you should report it to the Secretary of State – Fraud Reporting Division.

    Contact info Calif. SOS Fraud Investigation Unit :

    Fresno Area:
    Tom Quiroz
    (559) 445-6884

    Sacramento Area:
    Paul Rutledge
    (916) 657-2177

    Mark Loren
    (916) 654-1845

    Remain alert,.. this scam must be stopped,.. THIS WILL ENABLE THE REPUBLICANS TO GAME THE VOTE COUNTING RESULTS

    ***************************

    This scam happened in Pennsylvania in 2004,..


    Link.
    and
    Link.

  46. 76)
    Bluebear2 said on 8/6/2006 @ 9:34pm PT: [Permalink]

    Oldturk #75

    I saw that article online earlier today. My wife looked over my shoulder and saw the Legalize Marijuana sign in the photo. She would have signed their petition in a second without realizing it was a scam.
    It was amazing how hard the person in the article tried to get the reporter to let them switch the reporters registration. All a bunch of lies.

  47. 77)
    oldturk said on 8/6/2006 @ 9:44pm PT: [Permalink]

    BB-2

    They hijacked the vote in Georgia,.. then Florida,..
    then Ohio,.. The next trophy they want on their wall is California. If they game that state and get the bugs out in in the 2006 dry run,.. they will then fraudulently capture California’s electoral college votes,.. 2008 will be a cakewalk. A Fascist Rethug
    will again be in the White House.

  48. 78)
    big dan said on 8/7/2006 @ 7:26am PT: [Permalink]

    The Green Party should take all the Repulican donation money, and then drop out of the race. And then, Casey should appoint Romanelli Lt. Governor.

  49. 79)
    Joan said on 8/7/2006 @ 8:32am PT: [Permalink]

    #75 OldTurk,
    JESUS these people are vile! The underhanded GOP version of “get out the vote”.

  50. 80)
    Agent99 said on 8/7/2006 @ 10:07am PT: [Permalink]

    Yes, I can agree that the people running the Republican Party machine are thoroughly vile, but just as we don’t want the world holding our puppet regime against us, I bet a lot of Republicans don’t want us holding their leadership against them. I think it’s time for all Americans to overcome our differences of opinion and force these treasonous, and misprision of treason-ous fiends out of power. They are out of control, and if we do not, they WILL make us sorrier even than we are now.

  51. 81)
    Joan said on 8/7/2006 @ 11:34am PT: [Permalink]

    #80
    Yes, Agent99, you’re right. I know there are good republicans out there, just as horrified by these guys as we are, or nearly so.

  52. 84)
    bvac said on 8/7/2006 @ 8:31pm PT: [Permalink]

    Interesting diary on dailykos [ here ] about 9/11 evidence and the internet. Of course, pilloried by the usual gaggle.

  53. 85)
    Bluebear2 said on 8/7/2006 @ 8:40pm PT: [Permalink]

    BVAC #84

    Your link at KOS yields:

    “Sorry. I can’t seem to find that story.

    Tags: tinfoil, same old shit, troll diary (all tags)”

    Looks like another story deleted by KOS. Seems in line with reports people have been making about them.

  54. 87)
    big dan said on 8/7/2006 @ 9:01pm PT: [Permalink]

    BB2: There is something I can’t pinpoint, why I don’t like KOS. One thing is, it’s too slick, like Huffington Post. Another, is they don’t talk about vote fraud and specifically e-vote fraud. I trust my 6th sense, and there’s something I don’t like about those sites. And HuffPo reports too much infotainment, too, like CNN. Long story short, they don’t talk about the things that I think are important.

  55. 88)
    Agent99 said on 8/7/2006 @ 9:11pm PT: [Permalink]

    Wow. That KOS thing: that’s raunchy rude. I know why I shy away from those sites you mentioned Big Dan. I so rarely find any posts or commentry at them that are worth my eyeprints. We only have so much life to use up on this stuff. Might as well do one’s best not to fritter it away.

    What does BB2 have to say? I mean, deleting it is rude enough, but all that nastiness put in its stead? Wow.

  56. 92)
    bvac said on 8/8/2006 @ 12:20am PT: [Permalink]

    See, shit like this is why I archive blogs excessively. [ image: here ]

    Links from the article:

    http://www.hasslberger.com/abou.../awa/awa_6.htm
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....911-right.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....-rules-of.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....influence.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....-from-911.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....-versions.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....anged-and.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....ll-always.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....idence_27.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....ntial-911.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....-on-dcang.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....rcises_27.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....irgo-i_23.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....rgo-ii_23.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....malgam_22.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....scription.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....arrior_20.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....ior-shots.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....-force-01.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....paredness.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....tripod_19.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....igence_17.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....exercises.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....anyone-is.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....s-partial.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....-physical.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....leland-on.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....ommission.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....t-that-is.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....es-on-911.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot..../06/wtc-7.html
    http://wassertanzen13.blogspot....onclusion.html

  57. 93)
    Floridiot said on 8/8/2006 @ 5:13am PT: [Permalink]

    Thank you very much all you well wishers
    I love you all
    Peace
    BB2 #73, more subtle now, a beat up S10 pick-em up truck
    (must be one of them true blue, flat broke Republicans that hasn’t come out of his Kool-aid induced stupor yet) 😀

  58. 94)
    big dan said on 8/8/2006 @ 7:41am PT: [Permalink]

    WOW! Someone besides me linked to “Liberty News” on FSTV!!! I’m telling you, watching LINK-TV & FSTV, and Democracy NOW! and Liberty News and the INN Report and Source Code is how we take our country back!!! NO CORPORATE OR REPUBLICAN MISINFORMATION ON LINK-TV AND FSTV!!!!!!!!!!!! And it’s not anti-Republican, it’s just the truth. The INN Report says, “Now, the news the networks don’t want you to know…”………..

  59. 97)
    Bluebear2 said on 8/9/2006 @ 4:21pm PT: [Permalink]

    BVAC #92

    That’s strange – I don’t remember seeing your post the last time I was around here.

    It seems to be proof positive that KOS has something against 9/11 enlightenment. Maybe he is now an agent of KAOS.

  60. 99)
    waterdancer said on 10/3/2006 @ 3:25am PT: [Permalink]

    … bvac said on 8/8/2006 @ 12:20 am PT…

    See, shit like this is why I archive blogs excessively. [ image: here ]

    Links from the article:

    Thanks for that. I’d about given up all hope on DKos after that one. But who knows, maybe it was just a bit too much at once. I have a new entry at DKos now on the Tenet briefing “revelations” and how they are just the tip of the iceberg. Hasn’t been flamed yet. Anyhoo, once again thanks. Most of my newer stuff is getting posted in the Loose Change forums, though I do still try to post to the blog on occassion…

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