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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 02/11/2005 : 02:49:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
Thanks for the links. How will I find the time.....
I'm also hearing rumors the elections in Iraq were a 'marketed' success. That one's hard to tell since one doesn't want to jump on the disgruntled reporters' bandwagon. But the reports are a bit credible in that they are saying the media was only accessing voting events in areas of the country expected to go well. And now we have a certain 'delay' in results. I'm sure the conspiracy theories will be flaming from that one.
Yeah. I'm reading that Scalia might be called in to fix it....
The election was something of a disappointment in some quarters due to it comimg out exactly as I and others predicted the day Bush started blithering about 'Democracy,' as if he knew what it is.
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Feb. 10, 2005. 01:00 AM
`Sistani tsunami' sweeps away Bush plan
HAROON SIDDIQUI
The imminent historic rise of religious Shiite power in Iraq, with its inevitable linkages to Iran, is decidedly not what President George W. Bush had bargained for. In fact, he spent the last 22 months trying to prevent just such an outcome.
Yet, here is his administration sounding sanguine about the sweeping electoral win of the slate blessed by Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. It is saying he won't establish mullahcracy in Iraq.
It doesn't know that. It is only hoping so. Only a handful of people know what Sistani really wants.
He won't allow any American near his home in Najaf, let alone take a phone call from Bush.
The ayatollah does not give speeches, or deliver Friday sermons. He rarely leaves his abode. He issues few statements and fewer fatwas. The latter tend to be metaphysical.
Americans are from one planet, ayatollahs from another. The latter live a simple life, eating mostly rice, yoghurt and honey. Calm, serene and unhurried, they live long. The four I have interviewed or observed at close quarters were in their 80s and 90s, and in fine form.
Emphisis mine.
Now, if an ignorant dummy like me could see that coming, why couldn't the over-paid suits in the administration see it? Must be that those suits are as empty as we thought.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/11/2005 : 04:31:24 [Permalink]
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Power of the Blogs.
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Since Abovitz posted his original account of the panel, more than 400 other blogs have taken up the cry. They located the first corroborating witnesses, pressed the World Economic Forum to release its videotape of the panel (Forum officials initially agreed, but changed their minds earlier this week and said the panel's ground rules prohibited any direct quotations) and taunted mainstream news organizations into covering the story.
That finally happened this week with stories in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and other papers, as well as on CNN's rival cable news networks.
Media critic Shafer said the sheer immensity of the blog response forced the story onto newspaper front pages. ''What they were practicing was virtuous pack journalism,'' he said. ``Everybody thinks pack journalism is bad, but sometimes, like on 9/11, you want a pack. This was pack journalism at its best.''
This marks the second time in a few months that blogs have surfaced a major controversy over television news. Blogs were the first to accuse CBS' 60 Minutes of using forged documents in a story last year on President Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service.
Their claims eventually forced CBS to retract the story and launch an internal investigation that cost Dan Rather his anchor job and resulted in the dismissal of five other CBS staffers.
Abovitz, for one, is impressed. He plans to start writing his own regular blog. ''The blog swarm is now percolating into mass media,'' he said.
``This is a new era where you can't just make statements anymore. There are too many eyes. The blogs are like a million little cameras and tape recorders.''
This is from the Miami Herald and requires registration, but BugMeNot works nicely. I forgot who first put it up here, but many thanks! Fuck registration! It's no more than another vile, Neo-con plot!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/11/2005 : 11:57:48 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
...This is from the Miami Herald and requires registration, but BugMeNot works nicely. I forgot who first put it up here, but many thanks! Fuck registration! It's no more than another vile, Neo-con plot!
All you need to register is an e-mail address. Yahoo lets you have as many free e-mail addresses as you want. We have a couple that we use to sign up for things on the net. Use any name and any data, I always put that I was born in 01/01/1900 cause it's easiest. any required phone number gets 555-1212 unless that one is taken which it sometimes is so I put in any last 4 numbers. Not that bugmenot isn't a nice resource as well. |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 02/15/2005 : 08:28:05 [Permalink]
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| Over at AMERICAblog, they've done more digging into the Gannon/Guckert story. Seems the guy really was a male prostitute with active websites even while he was a White House "reporter". Either the White House's background checks suck or something else is going on... |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/15/2005 : 08:42:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Over at AMERICAblog, they've done more digging into the Gannon/Guckert story. Seems the guy really was a male prostitute with active websites even while he was a White House "reporter". Either the White House's background checks suck or something else is going on...
Read that -- I check that blog and Eshaton regularly. I don't do Kos because I can't read the tiny font on the site. My loss.
I think it's incompentence in that they failed to completely vet their hired pimp. Typical of this administration.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/15/2005 : 13:00:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Over at AMERICAblog, they've done more digging into the Gannon/Guckert story. Seems the guy really was a male prostitute with active websites even while he was a White House "reporter". Either the White House's background checks suck or something else is going on...
Read that -- I check that blog and Eshaton regularly. I don't do Kos because I can't read the tiny font on the site. My loss.
I assume if there was a way to adjust the screen you'd have done it but two other tricks: cut and paste the stuff you want to read and make it bigger in another program. Notepad for example if you have that. Or get a big magnifying glass or a page magnifying screen to hold up to your monitor. it's not as cumbersome as it sounds.
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I think it's incompentence in that they failed to completely vet their hired pimp. Typical of this administration.
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Starman
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/18/2005 : 08:17:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Starman
How is Gannon like Bush?
That's another site I hit religiously every day and never fail to get a chuckle.
But even funnier is the predicament Fox Nooze finds itself in. Here's the juicest scandel to come along in ages -- malfeasance and gay sex, cash up front -- and they can't do much with it 'cause it involves their Republican overlords and not Clinton's whanger.
I fucking love it!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Renae
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Posted - 02/19/2005 : 06:12:24 [Permalink]
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This smells too fishy to me to be simply incompetence.
Which member of the Bush administration has a whip under his bed and subscribes to "Run, Run, Little Leatherboy" magazine?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/19/2005 : 06:24:42 [Permalink]
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Reading here and there that Scott McWhatsisface has been seen around the gay bars in TX -- dunno the truth of it, though.
As more and more evidence comes forth, it becomes more clear that the guy's a ringer and has been for a couple of years. AMERICAblog pretty much has him dead to rights, as he was getting into the White House even before Talon News was registered on line.
Thus the fragrance of bubonic rodent that you smell is in all likelyhood coming from a nest of real, Administration rats.
Edited to add a little more.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/20/2005 : 00:50:55 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Reading here and there that Scott McWhatsisface has been seen around the gay bars in TX -- dunno the truth of it, though.
As more and more evidence comes forth, it becomes more clear that the guy's a ringer and has been for a couple of years. AMERICAblog pretty much has him dead to rights, as he was getting into the White House even before Talon News was registered on line.
Thus the fragrance of bubonic rodent that you smell is in all likelyhood coming from a nest of real, Administration rats.
Edited to add a little more.
Hot topic over there at media matters, 162 comments for now. I hope this snowball rolls until a few more facts come out. |
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