Archive for November, 2006

“THE GOP MUST GO” is the title of the lead editorial in THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE magazine.

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine TIMES tell W to fire Rumsfeld.
The Neo-Romanovs Perle and Ladeen say the administration is incompetent
and now…
the November 20, 2006 issue of the The American Conservative tells us to vote Democratic to help neutralize the president’s ability to screw up and to assure the world that we are not […]

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT + 1999 + DESERT CROSSING WAR GAME = BUSH/CHENEY/RUMSFELD DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ WONK BADGERS.

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

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Please find the article here.

In case you believed that Bill O’Reilly had reached his plateau of smarmy behavior, get a load of this!

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

“O’Reilly Abortion Report Riles Kansas MD
By JOHN HANNA
Associated Press Writer
November 04. 2006 11:27PM
An abortion doctor plans to ask for an investigation of the state attorney general and Bill O’Reilly over comments by the Fox television host that he got information from Kansas abortion records, the doctor’s attorneys said Saturday.
Dr. George Tiller said he will ask […]

Two Carnegie-Mellon Students Are Arrested for a 2 a.m. Break-in Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

Shall we try to guess the lame jokes this event will spawn?

“…now why would someone do that?”

After the Steelers’ 2 and 5 start, they probably wanted their money back

Extra ketchup?

They must have known they were in a pickle when they heard the sirens.

These two won’t relish the next several weeks.

Thank youse, thank […]

Here is a potpourri of sleaze you may have missed…

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Md. Gov. Returns Campaign Contributions
The Associated Press
Friday, November 3, 2006; 12:04 PM
BALTIMORE — Gov. Robert Ehrlich returned more than $540,000 in political contributions to the Republican Party after state elections officials discovered that a federal account was used to funnel funds to his re-election campaign.

Timing of Burns donation, recommendation questioned
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Republican […]

We are not viewing the Founding Fathers ‘through a glaass darkly,’ we are the glass.

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

The Washington Post reports that W and his merry government have asked a Federal judge to prevent C.I.A. detainees from revealing to their own attorneys what method of “alternative interrogation” caused thm to spill the beans.
People who want to kill us are perforce dangerous, but tearing down 217 years of American beliefs will only […]

Republicans talk the talk, but rarely stand up–let alone walk the walk.

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Employment is not that good when 60 investigators got booted from the oversight unit of the Appropriations Committee.
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Please find the story here.

Apparently Richard Denning, Hugh Marlowe and every other 1950s’ science fiction film doctor were unable to find the source of Dick’s dark personality.

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

From the HUFFINGTONPOST story about the ABC interview with Dick “The Growler” Cheney.

“CHENEY: IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT THE PUBLIC THINKS…”

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AP Photo/Yahoo
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Please find link to story here.

Sallie, Mona and Ella had angry red scars for smiles.

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

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Images: Cigarette salespersons in orignal art form can be found @(Center)geocities.com/autobotwonko; (R) shopgmg.com.au;
(L) news2.ucf.edu; (Mick) theage.com.au

Please find the actual article here. 

“Gee whiz. Fiddlesticks about the torpedoes, full speed ahead.”

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

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Keith Olberman announced on Friday night’s COUNTDOWN that the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Times would feature a Monday, 6, November editorial calling for Rumsfeld to step down and/or be replaced.
Please find the advanced copy of the editorial here.
Image: (Hornblower) theage.co.au; (Iraq desert) image.encarta.msn.com; (Rummy)  ijtihad.org

The old Neo-Cons are calling Dick ‘n W incompetent.

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Vanity Fair presents the reader with a post-neo-Romanaov view of the war in Iraq as discussed by the pre-neo-Conservatives who provided the specs for the neo-lithic president and his trained bronco, Eminence Grease.
The article also features a great Annie Leibovitz portrait of W. which certainly makes him look like the virtual president he is.
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Photograph by […]

Where are the jelly fish Democrats on this one?

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

I just heard Andrea Mitchell on HARDBALL comment that had the situation been reversed there would be a huge outcry by Republicans.
‘U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: November 3, 2006
Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents […]

“It wasn’t the break-in, it was the cover-up” summed up the two years of the Watergate mess. We can use the same construction about Pastor Haggard. “It’s not the sex and drugs, it’s the hypocricy.”

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

I will not judge Haggard for adult consensual sex or a taste for meth. Who amI? But, the constant, high-C, evangelical chorus intent on shattering the Constitution and our historical rights is our business! They certainly have every right to practice their religion–just don’t do it in our faces.

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If a degree of rudeness […]

My pal Jack just sent this long quote from Dan Froomkin’s White House Briefing in today’s Washington Post.

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

DAVE: THIS SUMS IT ALL UP WITH DEPRESSING ACCURACY
‘Michael Hirsch writes in his Newsweek.com column: “Was there any more mind-boggling bit of historic bad luck than what happened after Election Day 2000, when those 537 votes in Florida wobbled, then stayed in George W. Bush’s column? Never mind what kind of president Al Gore would […]

2000: Florida–2004: Florida & Ohio–2006: Will it be Ohio, Maryland, California, Indiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, et al.?

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

‘POLL WATCHERS
Md. Democrats Say GOP Plans to Block Voters
By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 2, 2006; Page B06
A recently distributed guide for Republican poll watchers in Maryland spells out how to aggressively challenge the credentials of voters and urges these volunteers to tell election judges they could face jail time if a challenge is […]

This guy may have co-starred with Ashton Kutcher in DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR?

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Is not evangelical the new term for holy roller? If it is even close, what’s the big deal? The only difference is the size of the churches which used to be in tents. Even that concept of overly large churches isn’t new. Rex Humbard built his Cathedral of Tomorrow close to fifty years ago […]

New low? Maybe, but the abyss is bottomless.

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

“‘Ugly’ Mailer Stirs Controversy About Negative Political Ad Trend
Perlmutter Criticizes Mailer Designed As Sex Offender Notification
UPDATED: 5:03 pm MST October 31, 2006
DENVER — In Congressional District 7, former state senator Ed Perlmutter is strongly criticizing Republicans over a piece of direct mail that was designed to look like a sex-offender notification.
The brochure accuses Perlmutter of […]

I would have thought he could have raised legal monies by upping his investment in the Car Painting While-U-Wait franchises and cashing out of the struggling Farouk Dance Studios.

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

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Lebanese lawyer Bushra Khalil, a member of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s defence team, said her client does not fear execution and will either face the death penalty for crimes against humanity or return as president of Iraq.(AFP/Marwan Naamani)
After her statement she informed the assembled media that her company would be the sole distributor of […]

How did Bob Feller get from Van Meter, Iowa to the Bigs? I know he didn’t use ‘IGNITE?,’ so he must have ridden the entire way on the old #1.

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

“Local agent faces charges

Immigration officials say Dominguez oversaw operation that smuggled Cuban baseball players to the U.S., where they signed pro contracts.

By Lance Pugmire, Times Staff Writer

November 1, 2006

A Southern California player agent who has represented defected Cuban baseball players was among five men charged Tuesday with smuggling, transporting and harboring Cuban players who were […]

Lest a few readers believe the right wing and the so-called krishyins are joking, please read this Media Advisory found by my pal Jack at FAIRNESS & ACCURACY in REPORTING (F.A.I.R.).

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

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‘Air America on Ad Blacklist?
ABC document: Sponsors shun liberal network
10/31/06
An internal memo from ABC Radio Networks to its affiliates reveals scores of powerful sponsors have a standing order that their commercials never be placed on syndicated Air America programming that airs on ABC affiliates.

The list, totaling 90 advertisers, includes some of largest and most well-known […]