The Washington Independent: The Bush administration has no intention of withdrawing from Iraq and is negotiating to keep troops there for years, even decades, after G-Dub leaves office.
TPM Election Central: Clinton fat cats threaten Pelosi.
Labor Notes: Is it illegal for an activist group or union to criticize a company’s business practices?
MyDD: Michigan state primary law ruled unconstitutional
Angry Bear...New Century Financial…Another Enron?
HOLY CRAP: Hardball politics in the church…Christvertising…Amendment to FLA. constitution proposed to use tax dollars to fund religion…Generation Squeeb…The Fear of a Mortal Empire…Crazyass Pastor Manning bashed Obama in a “sermon” but DJ Excel remixed the churchman with hilarious results…Bill Moyers and Margaret Atwood discuss religion and the dangers of theocracy
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OMG, what year is it??? Bushitolini is spewing the same fucking propaganda as ever! I can’t take it any more!
how can we force secession on Florida?
First time I’ve heard a sermon in which the term “tits” was used. I’ve been going to the wrong churches.
Rare video inside Tibet that shows brave Monks speaking out against Chinese oppression. “Everything is fake!” they say, as China’s media showcase backfires
VIDEO
http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPl.....8a20e0743f
Is that Pastor Manning fellow for real or a parody? I have never heard of him, but it reminds me of an SNL skit.
Nancy is going up in my estimation. We probably can’t imagine the pressure and blackmail that has been put on some of our Democratic leaders by the fat cat Clinton cabal, but what an exciting time: I think the grassroots Democrats are going to win.
ashton @ 5:
If you like the original, you’ll love the DJ Excel remix.
fuddled @ 2:
Federal law banning Early Bird Specials.
That “Christvertising” site — it’s got to be a joke, right?
He’s wonderfully dead-pan. :)
I wonder if anyone is taking it seriously, and actually hiring him…
Rusty Medium-Legged Mack Daddy Shackleford @ 7:
I am just listening to it. I absolutely love the “Come on” and “Obama” parts.
Hysterical.
fuddled @ 2:
I’ll take a buyout.
Christy Hardin Smith cutting through the “bullshit” Many of us have been saying for months the Obama and Clinton teams need to rise above all of the sniping. If they cannot we have to. We are busy eating our own and the incredible new enthusiasm that Obama has stirred up and the strength and knowledge of the Clintons needs to be used in a constructive way. I firmly believe there has all ready been permanent damage. The 2008 race is not a “slam dunk” for the Democrats.
Read Christy’s wise words
http://firedoglake.com/2008/03.....rossroads/
Listening At The Political Crossroads
By: Christy Hardin Smith Thursday March 27, 2008 7:10 am
We talk a lot about the importance of active participation, and we have tried to skate that razor’s edge this primary season between the “my candidate is Jesus and yours is Satan” tendencies that keep cropping up and the need to focus — really focus — on the issues that will still be problems long after the primaries have ended. Because, ultimately, what we need is for those problems to be addressed: the economy, poverty and children at risk, foreign and military policy issues, war profiteering, health care, restoration of Constitutional balance and accountability…the list is endless as to what has been woefully neglected or deliberately mismanaged for years now.
Digby spotlighted an article from Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill yesterday that deserves a much, much wider read. Digby concludes her piece thusly:
The netroots chose not to do that and it seems to me we are way too invested in our chosen candidates to try to leverage our support now. But Klein and Scahill, both very fine writers and thinkers, believe it’s still possible for the anti-war movement to affect how these candidates deal with Iraq and if that’s the case then it may be worth a try. We’ve got an eternity before the next primary and just about every insult has been hurled and every paean has been written. Perhaps we could set aside our differences long enough to try to encourage our congresspeople to sign on to The Responsible Plan and make sure the Democratic presidential candidates don’t waffle on Iraq when the heat is on?
I’m still trying to clam my blood pressure after watching that bizarre bush speech this morning. Toward the end of it I thought his head was going to explode. He said some of the strangest things. Damn, according to him if we left Iraq now the world would go to hell and fires in hell would be super duper hot.
pissed off patricia @ 13:
Try relaxing your mussels
Rusty Medium-Legged Mack Daddy Shackleford @ 14:
It would take about three martinis to relax anyone who watched that speech. I’d even share some with the “mussels” if they like cocktails.
The 5% Nation of Writers and Thinkers
The 5% Nation of Casiotone
Do you really think we are going to invest all that blood and treasure in Iraq just to leave??
The 5% Nation of Lumps in my Oatmeal
The 5% Nation of Bobble Heads
chris @ 17:
Going to invest, as in we haven’t done anything yet?
Is Bush suffering from dementia? What is progress? Iraq has been burning foe three days. Violence in Bagdad and Basara is exploding , are the idiots who are clapping aware of that? Christ!
Blogger Susanunpc’ at NO Quarter USA is as radical and close minded to fair and balanced criticism of Hillary Clinton as she and other bloggers have claimed that Daily Kos is unfair to criticism of Obama. She has banned commenters for posting on her site that comments there were similar to some of the gutter language that has taken place at Daily Kos about Hillary. The comment posted was “looks like Daily Kos” to me. She banned the commenter for saying “looks like Daily Kos to me”.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black
There are fringe Obama lunatics and fringe Hillary lunatics. Folks need to stop this ferocious back biting…it will do permanent damage. It always does
chris @ 17:
Who’s this “we”, Kemosabe? I never supported the war for a second.
ashton @ 19:
Got to fix up those oil field, need that cheaper gas….
chris @ 23:
You are probably right. When do you plan to enlist?
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love the way the mydd people are trying to spin the unconstitutionality of michigan’s primary law into hoping for a revote now. everyone’s glossing over that the state would have to pay for it and they have said they ain’t doing that. i’m convinced that they (mydd idiots) really don’t give a damn about rules and that neither candidate can force anyone to do anything outside of their campaign just as long as clinton wins.
chris @ 17:
Classic gambling addict logic.
Dr. Acula @ 11:
I thought Disney already did that?
http://www.informationclearing.....e19606.htm
When America Can’t Handle the Truth
By Pierre Tristam
25/03/08 “ICH” — – The word, attributed to the late writer Saul Bellow, is “angelization” — willfully putting someone beyond blame. Angelizing America is the common tongue of all national politicians, the oath candidates implicitly take when running for president. It’s what the most sentimental people on Earth expect. It’s what enables a country that committed its share of atrocities in the past and is committing more than its share of moral degradations today to look itself in the mirror and see something exceptional looking back, rather than just another empire trampling down its march of folly, as the great historian Barbara Tuchman called it. Angelizing America is the unspoken, self-evident pledge of allegiance. Someone didn’t tell the Obamas.
First, there was Michelle Obama: “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country. Not just because Barack is doing well, but I think people are hungry for change.”
Then there was Barack Obama’s spiritual adviser, the fascinating Jeremiah Wright — not the outright lies about Wright’s black separatism, which is bunk (although to most classically illiberal whites any black who adopts the fervor of Emersonian self-sufficiency is suddenly a separatist), but this, from a 2003 sermon: “The government gives (blacks) the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
TALKING THE TRUTH HERE
Dr. Acula @ 11:
like Bear Stearns
“TALKING THE TRUTH HERE”
Well, that makes it official. If you proclaim it in all caps, it must therefor be true.
fuddled @ 2:
Ah, come on. You know you want to keep us around if for nothing else but the entertainment factor. You know you can always count on us to liven up the show about every four years.
Back when we had a democratic governor we were just run of the mill normal folks, but as soon as we began having republican governors, that’s when the clown show began.
Tied to Bush policies? Bullshit. Bush is the most “dishonorable” person in American politics in history. And as far as I have seen, has not done ONE thing that is worth honoring. Does GW honor our civil liberties? The constitution? ANY international law? So why should we feel our hands are tied by any “agreements” he makes with the puppet Iraq government, and honor it? We should put the world on notice, for which I am sure the world would appreciate, that once we are rid of this dirt bag, we intend to wash the scum off and clean up our act. The most honorable thing we can do is give Dick and George a one way ticket to Den Hague.
Fellow Floridans, do any of you know if the scarey CP0020 passed yesterday or not? It’s the first I’ve heard of such a thing.
“The Bush administration has no intention of withdrawing from Iraq”
This has been obvious long before the occupation/war was started.
ashton @ 30:
“therefore” be true
Kathleen @ 35:
Sometimes when you type your own thoughts, instead of copying and pasting those of others, you make errors. You are somewhat protected since you don’t appear to do this.
ashton @ 24:
Are they taking 76year olds yet?
oldr man @ 37:
Sure, I believe that an 80-year old woman signed-up a few years back. They will take anyone these days.
oldr man @ 37:
Maybe, I’ve heard the recruiting standards are dropping even as the quotas are going up!
Wanted to share this (from my little blog):
“Why I decided to joing the army, be arrested trying, and what I learned in jail.”
A grandmother for peace shares her story.
http://quakeragitator.wordpres.....d-in-jail/
I’ve read the link about the Michigan rules being declared unconstitutional because it doesn’t allow minor parties to have the list of voters and still have no idea what the ruling means. One says it means there can’t be a new primary, while the other says, “Not so fast.”
Can anyone explain it more clearly than the linked piece does?
*join* the Army
Sorry.
oldr man @ 37:
it may get to this point
Wow. I needed That remix after the watching only 5 minutes of the real thing.
“Pastor”?
Huh, an interesting wrinkle in Michigan. And Thank god for DJ Excel!
pissed off patricia @ 13:
Don’t know how u can even stand to watch the man spew his garbage Patricia ? I started tossing up my lunch listening to him long ago. ZERO TRUTH-ZERO CREDIBILITY-ZERO RESPECT. Bush isn’t even funny anymore. You know what they say ? “pressure doesn’t create cracks…it exposes them”. Put enough pressure on the dummy and watch his little pin head explode.
Can a person make an open thread type comment here? If so, Joe Klein has once more proved what an idiot he is. He is now suggesting that the nomination be handed to Al Gore. I was at one time an Al Gore supporter but after Gore decided not to run in spite of literally being begged to, I am now an Obama supporter. Does Klein think that Obama and Hillary Clinton, for that matter, have exhausted themselves for the past year to now have the nomination handed to someone who sat on the sidelines for that entire year? And as an Obama supporter, one of the 2 million who have made an average donation of $109 each, I did not put my money where my mouth is to have that stolen from me. Talk about a smoke-filled room idea.
Col Kilgore @ 46: