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colbert emcees white house correspondents dinner.

video @ crooks and liars

- dave 4-30-2006 5:06 pm [link] [17 comments]

"Here's a story of importance, via Matthew Yglesias, who doesn't seem to appreciate the gravity of what he's discovered. Francis Fukuyama, the apostate neoconservative, says that in the 1990s, neocons tried to manufacture an enemy, because they felt that the Republican Party "didn't do as well" when there wasn't a ruthless, monolithic pinkomuslimcommienihilist threat to America."

- dave 4-30-2006 4:23 pm [link] [add a comment]

i was all for this immigration rights nonsense until my food delivery service was inconvienced by some ridiculous boycott. get back to work. i need my asparagus, dammit. god damned commies.

- dave 4-30-2006 5:04 am [link] [add a comment]

this is one odd juxtaposition but im sure its just a coincidence that an african american congresswoman is onscreen in handcuffs. but seriously, how gruesome must you be to get turned down by a prostitute?

- dave 4-29-2006 5:37 pm [link] [add a comment]

feature on kos blogger georgia10.

- dave 4-29-2006 3:58 am [link] [add a comment]

Kristol squirms on the grill as Colbert peppers him with questions about the PNAC.
- steve 4-28-2006 9:54 pm [link] [add a comment]

Jim, I would really like to get your thoughts on "net neutrality." I remember at one point you said you wished there *were* priority systems in place where people who used more bandwidth paid more. Hope I'm not misstating that.

Cory Doctorow seems to think government regulation to achieve neutrality isn't the answer. On the other hand, MyDD and others are framing this as "the end of the Net as we know it" and arguing that government regulation is the only thing protecting us from the telecoms busting up the Internet. I'm very confused, partly because i still don't understand how the Net actually works.

- tom moody 4-23-2006 2:01 am [link] [8 comments]

salam pax -- a few weeks ago in San Jose. Salam said (since he's an Arab) that to visit Kurdistan he has to get a permit equivalent to a visa that allows him to visit for just a few days. It's essentially a different country, and has been for 16 years now.

- mark 4-22-2006 9:42 am [link] [add a comment]

FoxNews Poll


8. Who do you think should have the final say on U.S. military matters --
civilian leaders or military personnel?
. Civilian leadersMilitary personnel DependsBothNeitherDon’t know
18-19 Apr 06 20% 54 5 14 3 4
Democrats 17% 60 5 12 2 4
Republicans 22% 58 3 11 2 4
Independents 24% 39 6 20 5 6

- mark 4-22-2006 5:34 am [link] [add a comment]

holy crap! your liberal media.

- dave 4-22-2006 3:38 am [link] [1 comment]

all this saber rattling drives up the price of oil. im sure the bush cronies hate that. i think jon stewart mentioned that an exxon exec had a $400 million retirement package.

- dave 4-21-2006 4:52 pm [link] [add a comment]

bit of inside blogball. steve gilliard refers to digby as "her" in this post and has yet to address queries in his comments. slip of the keyboard?

- dave 4-21-2006 1:56 am [link] [5 comments]

booja scotty quit.
- bill 4-19-2006 6:00 pm [link] [7 comments]

Mr. [Jack] Anderson's son Kevin said that to allow government agents to rifle through the papers would betray his father's principles and intimidate other journalists, and that family members were willing to go to jail to protect the collection.

- bill 4-19-2006 3:45 pm [link] [add a comment]

two via wolcott --

david byrnes blog

and bernstein comes out of his hole only to see nixons shadow.

- dave 4-19-2006 1:11 am [link] [2 comments]

I know this is obvious, but I have to vent.

If I hear one more politician say that we need to "keep all options on the table" with regard to Iran my head is going to explode. There is not a single person who actually thinks we should keep *all* options on the table with regard to Iran or any other country or situation we might face. Obviously we aren't going to release smallpox in Iran. Obviously we are not going to launch an all out ICBM attack on every city and town in Iran. So why the fuck do people keep saying we need to keep every option on the table. It doesn't mean anything. What they mean is they want to keep the option of nuking Iran with locally deployed weapons on the table. But they want the cover of being able to say that they aren't saying specifically we should use nukes - it's just part of "keeping everything on the table."

Why won't a reporter follow up with a question asking one of them if that therefore means they support keeping the smallpox option on the table? Or how about crashing the Moon into Iran? I mean come on! Every option is *not* on the table. This is ridiculous.
- jim 4-18-2006 9:39 pm [link] [7 comments]

juan cole piece on the harvard report on the power of the jewish lobby.

- dave 4-18-2006 4:57 pm [link] [4 comments]

Schwarzkopf called it in 2003

- mark 4-18-2006 4:02 am [link] [1 comment]

Patrick Fitzgerald demonstrates ability to deliver convictions

- mark 4-18-2006 2:38 am [link] [add a comment]

the cost of this war will be measured in destroyed lives. among them are the almost one in three returning soldiers effected for life by PTSD:

Of the 505,366 troops who have left the military after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past four years, 144,424 have sought health care through Veterans Affairs. Of that number, 46,571 received preliminary diagnoses of mental disorders, including 20,638 with PTSD, according to the VA.

The numbers don't capture the full scope of the nation's growing PTSD caseload, however. Many former troops seek psychological help from private practices or other sources. Neither does the number account for PTSD sufferers currently enlisted in the military.

(The Independent requested the numbers of diagnosed PTSD cases from the various military branches, but officials are either still working to meet the request or say the information is not readily available.)

- bill 4-15-2006 11:17 pm [link] [add a comment]

Cheney Authorized Leak Of CIA Report, Libby Says
- bill 4-15-2006 6:52 pm [link] [add a comment]

see more hersh on dee moe crazy now.

- dave 4-15-2006 4:23 pm [link] [add a comment]

urban combat skateboard?

- dave 4-15-2006 12:05 pm [link] [add a comment]

whatever you do, dont let jim read this.

- dave 4-14-2006 4:51 pm [link] [1 comment]

Sorry for the Drudge link, but this guy Gravel sounds like he might be a interesting. Any of you old timers remember him?

I need somebody better than my current pick, Al Gore 2.0.
- jim 4-14-2006 12:26 am [link] [2 comments]

"Venezuela has vast deposits of extra-heavy oil and tar sands in the Orinoco basin which traditionally are not inventoried because they were too expensive to exploit, but at 50 US dollars melting them into liquid petroleum becomes extremely profitable. The DoE estimates that the Venezuelan government controls 1.3 trillion barrels of oil - more than the entire declared oil reserves of the rest of the planet.

Venezuela's deposits alone could extend the oil age for another 100 years."


- dave 4-13-2006 4:43 pm [link] [11 comments]

oh how we love to spread those freedoms around. the cameramans name was hussein, after all. he really should have known better than to do his job.

- dave 4-12-2006 9:53 pm [link] [add a comment]

hey, we scored a blogroll link at progressive blog digest. can a link at eschaton be far behind?

- dave 4-12-2006 9:36 pm [link] [12 comments]

morning moronics from our delegator-in-chief. no wonder they kept him on a tight leash.
- dave 4-11-2006 3:55 pm [link] [4 comments]

Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.

The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 -- as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down.

- bill 4-11-2006 2:07 am [link] [2 comments]

the new house majority douchebag is on this week with stuffinenvelopes. he said weve sacrificed thousands of lives in iraq and hundreds of taxpayer money. he started to mouth "millions" (after hundreds) but then realized it sounded like alot so he cut himself off. oh, and were winning in iraq.

john kerry is on meet the tim. lets see what mr "too late to take a hard(ish) line position" has to say. ok, its never too late, except when it is.

- dave 4-09-2006 6:17 pm [link] [6 comments]

the iran plans from here


- bill 4-09-2006 4:51 am [link] [add a comment]

markos "daily kos" molit..... is on colbert tonight.
- dave 4-07-2006 7:32 am [link] [4 comments]

eat lead, drink unleaded, or try dying.

- dave 4-06-2006 11:51 pm [link] [add a comment]

Andrew Tyndall on McNeil/Lehrer tonight.
- jim 4-06-2006 1:02 am [link] [15 comments]

poor chimpy always wants to be first.

- dave 4-02-2006 1:42 am [link] [1 comment]






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