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DEL.ICIO.USPrize fight
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By AJC Management
March 12, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this
{{{{OBAMA WINS ANOTHER ONE}}}}
6 more delegates to the lead of the “vice president.”
Bwa.
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Look at the Urinal angling towards the total ruination of the demokrat party:
{{{{What is more, Clinton advisers question whether Obama has a real base of support in swing states that Clinton won, arguing that he has relied on upper-income liberals, college-educated voters and students —- groups that, the Clinton team argues, will support whoever the Democratic nominee is.}}}}
{{{{>>>>”Obama’s supporters are going to support whoever is leading our ticket,” said Harold Ickes<<<<<, a senior adviser to Clinton, “and he doesn’t have the drawing power with Hispanics, women concerned about security, and other key groups.”-Urinal}}}}
You like how team Klinton is thinking for you now?
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{{{{NATION IN BRIEF: House fails to overturn Bush’s veto- The 225-188 House roll call was 51 votes short of the majority required to overturn a veto. Georgia’s delegation split along party lines, with the exception of Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon, a Democrat who voted with the GOP.-Urinal}}}}
Bwa, torture happy demokrats, haha.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this
The Bush Debt: $7.7 Trillion »
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this
McCain gets defense firm cash after helpful comments. Last year, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign advisers “lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion” contract, which Boeing advocates say McCain helped make possible. Huffington Post is now reporting that the day after McCain “formally called for multiple bidders in the tanker deal,” contributions from the Northrop Grumman/EADS consortium “began to flow” his way.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this
Fallon was the subject of an article published last week in Esquire magazine that portrayed him as opposed to President Bush’s Iran policy. It described Fallon as a lone voice against taking military action to stop the Iranian nuclear program
John McCain’s wet dream
By Fly_on_the_Wall
March 12, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this
The Spitzer issue has me troubled a bit. I know what he was doing is wrong and he should resign but WHY were the Feds looking in his direction? I’ve heard that $5000 money transfers got him caught. Is that true? Lots of people move $5000 around so why was he ‘picked’ for this operation? I’m sure there are lots of men of high income and position (by this I mean either business or political) that pay high priced call girls the same way. Why weren’t they caught up in this? It just doesn’t pass the sniff test to me. There is something more to this and it being an election year I’m sure has something to do with it. So let him resign in disgrace but I think we should also ask the question why him and why now.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this
The US dropped China from its list of the world’s worst human rights violaters, but added Syria, Uzbekistan and Sudan to the alleged offenders in an annual report released Tuesday….No reason was given for removing China — which has been a key partner in talks with Washington to denuclearize North Korea — from the list but the new report said China’s “overall human rights record remained poor” in 2007.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this
The Iraq Follies Eighteen things you’ve already forgotten about the media’s flawed coverage of Iraq.
AND
Lie by Lie: The Mother Jones Iraq War Timeline (8/1/90 - 2/14/08)
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this
Senate Phase II Report To Be Whitewash?
By Copyleft
March 12, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this
Excellent cartoon. Why on earth would Obama listen to a “deal” offering him second place when he’s already WINNING? This smacks of arrogance on Hillary’s part.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this
Mississippi Turning by Meteor Blades Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 09:55:01 PM PDT The vote today in Mississippi had special resonance for me. It was 44 years ago this month that I decided to participate in Freedom Summer in the Magnolia State, registering black voters. After training at the Summer Project in Ohio, I traveled by bus to Jackson, arriving with a handful of others the fourth week of June.
YES WE CAN!
By AJC Management
March 12, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this
{{{{David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’-Village Voice}}}
{{{{The play, while being a laugh a minute, is, when it’s at home, a disputation between reason and faith, or perhaps between the conservative (or tragic) view and the liberal (or perfectionist) view. The conservative president in the piece holds that people are each out to make a living, and the best way for government to facilitate that is to stay out of the way, as the inevitable abuses and failures of this system (free-market economics) are less than those of government intervention.}}}}
{{{{I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.}}}}
As a child of the ’60s, I accepted as an article of faith that government is corrupt, that business is exploitative, and that people are generally good at heart.
Wait until you find out about all the other lies in liberalism, David.
Imagine your surprise.
By AJC Management
March 12, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this
{{{{Left-wing paternalists regard themselves as architects of racial progress, guarding and guiding blacks along the path of success — a role in which they assume to stand forever at the head of the march. But what happens when blacks overtake their enlightened white helpers? All hell breaks loose and the mask of progress drops to reveal the stricken faces of the white avant-garde.}}}}
{{{{Since liberalism is not based upon natural justice but willfulness, it never fails to devour its supposed beneficiaries. Ferraro’s condescension captures the tone of paternalistic liberalism perfectly. Its “victims” should know their place and plot their ascent according to the progressive charts set up by the white liberal establishment.}}}}
We’ll let you know, Barack, when it is your time to win — that’s been the tacit theme of the Clinton campaign all along. Such is the generosity of Lady Bountiful she’ll even let him serve as her apprentice in the VP chair for eight years.- By George Neumayr
The White Powers are not happy how “things” have worked out.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this
The stereotype of a cranky old man, set in his ways, getting more conservative by the day, is an enduring one. But new research has debunked the myth that people become more conservative as they age. By comparing surveys of various age groups taken over a span of more than 30 years, sociologists found that in general, Americans’ opinions veer toward the liberal as they grow older. “All the evidence we have found refutes the idea that as people age their attitudes become more conservative or more rigid,” said Nicholas Danigelis, a sociologist at the University of Vermont. “It’s just not true. More people are changing in a liberal direction than in a conservative direction.”
By Paul
March 12, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this
IThN 8:10
Cause and effect? Or the standard practice of donating to any politician who is, or who might be, in a position that will affect their interests?
Don’t forget - the documentation shows the AF planned to “lease” 100 tankers from Boeing (a plan, BTW, that went against existent policy concerning leasing) when McCain intervened. A top Air Force official went to prison. Now, years later, following standard procedures, the AF is buying nearly twice that number - for the same price.
So, bottom line - what’s your point - that big-ticket defense acquisitions should remain US-only, in effect another domestic corporate welfare program, regardless of the negative impact on America’s defense capability or the impact on soldiers?
Northrop-Grumman/EADS provided more military capability at lower cost. They did it with a political concession to assemble the aircraft in Alabama. Washington state politicians, where Boeing assembles aircraft, lost.
Care to post another link showing if any Boeing dollars “flowed” to Washington’s Senators and Congressmen?
Fly on the wall 8:11
Don’t have a hypertext link as I read it in the newspaper this morning - evidently Spitzer had a number of transactions where he split transfers to less than $10,000 - by law, banks have to report transfers of over $10,000. When the bank questioned him, he asked the bank to take his name off the transfers. The bank declined.
IThN
How about a link stating the number of times NBC’s and ABC’s morning and evening news shows identified Gov Spitzer as a Democrat? Can’t find one? Maybe it’s because there aren’t any! How about CBS? You can find maybe one instance. Possibly you could run a comparison with the reporting for Larry Craig?
Re: China - mind-boggling, isn’t it?
CopyLeft
If you look up the definition of “Chutzpah” in the latest dictionaries, you’ll see the definition includes the example “Hillary.”
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this
Iraq A Violent Stalemate: New Government Stats
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this
Dr. Laura Blames Spitzer’s Wife
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this
[NEARLY OVER: AMERICAN IDOLATRY] (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/11/bush-sings-farewell-at-grn90969.html)
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
A Match Made In Heaven: Ann Coulter Attends D.C. Event As Bob Novak’s Date
EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
A Match Made In Heaven: Ann Coulter Attends D.C. Event As Bob Novak’s Date
EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
By Paul
March 12, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
Fly on the Wall 8:11
Sorry I wasn’t explicit in the earlier post - the bank reported Spitzer to the Feds. The Fed’s didn’t go to the bank looking for dirt.
By Terrence
March 12, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this
Hillary will be seated as the nominee. She will win with the super delegates. Obama should write another book about the dem’s identity politics & racial intolerance when the dust settles.
African Americans comprised nearly half of the Democratic vote in Mississippi — and 90% of those voters, according to exit polls, pulled the lever for Obama, his strongest showing yet among African Americans. But Obama did poorly among whites, winning only 30%, according to exit polls. While this split was visible in Alabama and the border state of Tennessee earlier this year, it was visible in Ohio’s primary last week, too.
Mississippi is one of the most reliably Republican states in presidential elections. Only a Democrat who could win 35 to 40% of the white vote, while holding onto a lopsided percentage of blacks, could put the state in play in a head to head match with a Republican in the fall. Obama’s 30% showing in the primary against Clinton falls short of that target.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
Democrat Andre Carson of Indiana won a special election to succeed his grandmother, the late Rep. Julia Carson, and serve out the final 10 months of her term. Carson will be the second-ever Muslim to serve in Congress.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
In January, two top political appointees at HUD “exchanged e-mails discussing” how they could punish the director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority for refusing to transfer a $2 million public property to a business friend of Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson. In Feb., Authority director Carl Greene alleged that Jackson threatened retaliation against him.
By RW-(the original)
March 12, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
I wonder why any time I look at this site in the morning that old Mott the (Hussein) Hoople song, All the Young Dudes, pops into my head.
People that think Hillary’s continued use of the Clintonian phrase “you may get a chance to vote for both of us in the future” and think that means she’s offering Obama the VP slot are being hoodwinked just as you were all through the nineties. It’s more like let Bill float the idea of them both on the ticket to plant the seed and make him feel obligated to take her when what she really means is vote for her and eight years from now you can vote for him.
IT(H)FS,
I’m leaving now. Don’t get scared by any shadows you see in the corners.
BOO!!!
By Goldie
March 12, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this
The Clintons need to bow out of the race gracefully today — they are only staying in because of their overinflated egos and not because they care about the Dem Party!
The Dems are truly having their “50-state strategy” that Howard Dean has been promising… and at this point, the Clintons cannot catch up with Obama in the number of elected delegates that he has… going into the convention in August, it’s those elected delegates who are gonna matter most!
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
RW/DUH/HEADCASE/ZELL/RB/NOOSE/ETC
That BOO of yours gives me am idea….
You can be our own little
“Canterville Ghost”
By Apocalypse
March 12, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
13 % of Republicans voted for Hillary today…….and she still didn’t win….but this is why her numbers were so high among Whites in Mississippi…………..
As I wrote HERE, Barack Obama’s performance on March 4th represented a real loss in support among non-Democrats who up until last week had tended to support him over Hillary Clinton by fairly large margins. We’re seeing the same thing in Mississippi today.
According to CNN’s exit poll, 13% of those that voted in the MS Democratic primary today were Republicans and they went for Hillary Clinton by a huge margin of 77-23%. Among independents who voted in the Democratic primary today, Clinton loses only by a slight 48-51% margin. These results represent a phenomenal improvement for Clinton among these groups as compared to her overall pre-March 4 results when she lost among Republicans 29-64% and among Independents 36-56% (h/t Open Left.)
The real story here is Clinton’s performance among Republicans though. This is the first open primary since John McCain secured the nomination, so it makes sense that they would participate in the Democratic primary in larger than normal numbers (Republicans represented about 9% of the Dem primary electorate in the last 3 open contests in Wisconsin, Texas and Ohio) but going for Hillary by more than 50%? What made her Republican support in TX and Ohio so surprising was that she had closed the gap to a single digit deficit or a tie, but here she is well ahead. I was skeptical of the right-wing campaign to turn out for Hillary Clinton so that the battle for the Democratic nomination would drag out even longer, supposedly meant to help John McCain (John, who?), but today’s results make it difficult to ignore. Although, the more insidious side of what may have motivated these Republicans to vote for Hillary against Barack is that the racist vote may have been alive and well. The electorate was deeply polarized along racial lines (90% of black voters went for Barack, 73% of white voters went for Clinton) in Mississippi today and I don’t think it’s entirely unrelated that the exit polling The AP did show Clinton benefiting from a distinctly anti-Obama sentiment.
—[Just] 4 in 10 Clinton voters said she should pick Obama as her running mate if she wins.
— Nearly three-fourths of Clinton voters said they would be dissatisfied if Obama wins the nom
By Lunatic Fringe
March 12, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
I think I know the proper forum to discuss this Spitzer situation.
JERRY! JERRY! JERRY!
By Shawny
March 12, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this
HRC will not win the nomination. While liberalism is generally an incurable disease, the super delegates aren’t stupid enough as to line up behind her, basically bucking the ‘will of the people’. The resulting implosion would kill their chances in November.
By Just Curious
March 12, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
Why are blacks so quick to embrace Obama? Afterall, he is 50% white and 50% black, and the last time time I checked, blacks want nothing to do with anything white.
By Shawny
March 12, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
Why do republicans vote in late primaries for HRC? Duh…they want the infighting to continue. The longer it drags out and they continue to slug it out, the better it sets up McCain, who has already won.
By Shawny
March 12, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
Why do republicans vote in late primaries for HRC? Duh…they want the infighting to continue. The longer it drags out and they continue to slug it out, the better it sets up McCain, who has already won.
By Shawny
March 12, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
Why do republicans vote in late primaries for HRC? Duh…they want the infighting to continue. The longer it drags out and they continue to slug it out, the better it sets up McCain, who has already won.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this
“Republicans support our troops” is going to go down as one of the biggest lies ever told in American politics. We’ve seen a litany of things done by Republican leadership to the men and women who serve our country: not enough equipment, faulty equipment, Walter Reed, long deployments, stop-loss, and war based on a lie without an end in sight. The latest outrage, dirty water provided by KBR, actually made U.S. soldiers sick:
By Apocalypse
March 12, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
— Nearly three-fourths of Clinton voters said they would be dissatisfied if Obama wins the nomination.
—Only about one in five Clinton voters said Obama [offered clear and detailed plans to solve the country’s problems.]
By Shawny
March 12, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
Paul,
You hit it on the head. The press, generally left leaning, absolutely will not put it to the democrats (with Spitzer) like they did to the republicans (like tap tap tap guy). Both are scum, as are most politicians.
Listening to MSNBC and James Carville last night…most of them said that Spitzer need not resign, that it was a victimless crime and a personal matter (like WJClinton). Please…lest we forget that the rise to power as govenor was built around the AG position of cleaning up illegal activities, like prostitution…all the while, participating in said ILLEGAL activity. At least with Billy Boy, it was consensual and legal.
By Goldie
March 12, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
Just Curious @ 9:43 — I believe “the last time” you checked must have been the mid-20th century!
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
Dorgan said a lower-level employee of KBR, which has received hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts for services in Iraq, told him that he had been ordered to put the company’s logo on towels being furnished to troops, even though it could triple the cost. The unnamed employee said he was told the price did not matter because “it was a cost-plus contract,” Dorgan said, waving a white towel embossed with a large KBR emblem.
By Goldie
March 12, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this
Spitzer must resign… can’t have a “law & order” Dem breaking the law!
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
LEST WE LOSE OUR PERSPECTIVE:
The Real Threat to Marriage: Top 10 GOP Adulterers
Hopefully, Spitzer will resign TODAY!
By Bosch
March 12, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
Spitzer is resigning today. So now we can move on to more important matters.
By Paul
March 12, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
Shawny,
Correct with Pres Clinton: nothing illegal.
With Gov Spitzer, there are legal issues. Also, a governor’s position includes being the top law enforcement person of the state. His conduct is incompatible with his position - so, yes, he should go.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
I see that the chattering hordes on the right at FOX are beefing about Spitzer not being suffienctly identified as a Democrat.
D’UH - They didn’t know????
Hell, ain’t Fox the ones that:
Labeled Foley as a Democrat repeatedly?
Labeled Arlen Spector as a Democrat?
Labeled John McCain a Democrat?
Labeled Obama as Osama?
By Fly_on_the_Wall
March 12, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
Thanks for pointing out that the bank turned Spitzer in. Payback is heck.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
Hoekstra: American mental health at risk without PAA.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
I would have been more than content to avoid further comment on John McCain’s outreach and embrace of anti-Catholic, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-woman, and anti-Semitic televangelist John Hagee. The media collectively decided to give McCain a pass, the senator made a half-hearted effort to distance himself from some of Hagee’s comments, and McCain critics had no choice but to give up on making this an important part of the campaign. But before we can move on in earnest, McCain’s latest explanation for his relationship really deserves a closer look.
By mm
March 12, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this
Isn’t it amazing how Fox News, Rush, Hannity, etc. keep repeating BS, then it shows up on this blog from the wingnuts? Now they are all whining about Spitzer not being identified as a democrat.
Yet the wingnuts here claim they never listen to Rush, etc.
Watch out lemings, the cliff is near.
By Apocalypse
March 12, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this
It’s tough to think of two states more different than Wyoming and Mississippi.
But we won Wyoming on Saturday, and we won Mississippi by a large margin yesterday.
Between those two states, we picked up enough delegates to erase the gains by Senator Clinton last Tuesday and add to our substantial lead in earned delegates. And in doing so we showed the strength and breadth of this movement.
But just turn on the news and you’ll see that Senator Clinton continues to run an expensive, negative campaign against us. Each day her campaign launches a new set of desperate attacks.
They’re not just attacking me; they’re attacking you.
Over the weekend, an aide to Senator Clinton attempted to diminish the overwhelming number of contests we’ve won by referring to places we’ve prevailed as “boutique” states and our supporters as the “latte-sipping crowd.”
I’m not sure how those terms apply to Mississippi and Wyoming — or Virginia, Iowa, Louisiana, or Idaho for that matter.
I know that our victories in all of these states demonstrate a rejection of this kind of petty, divisive campaigning.
But the fact remains that Senator Clinton’s campaign will continue to attack us using the same old Washington playbook. And now that John McCain is the Republican nominee, we are forced to campaign on two fronts.
It’s up to you to fight back. Please make a donation of $25 today:
https://donate.barackobama.com/math
Thank you,
Barack
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
The Pentagon is hyperventilating about China. It recently issued a report accusing China of understating its military spending and of not clearly stating its “intentions.”
WHAT????
What about this?
US drops China from list of top human rights abusers………..No reason was given for removing China — which has been a key partner in talks with Washington to denuclearize North Korea — from the list, but the new report said China’s “overall human rights record remained poor” in 2007.
By Apocalypse
March 12, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Obama also finished first in the Texas Democratic caucuses. The caucuses were held last week, but the race was not called until Tuesday night.
Obama will get more delegates out of the state than Clinton, who won the state’s primary.
Under the Texas Democratic Party’s complex delegate selection plan, Texas voters participated in both a primary and caucuses last week.
Two-thirds of the state’s 193 delegates were at stake at the primary, while the remaining third were decided by the caucuses.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
Apocalypse
Hillary may be tossing the
“kitchen sink” at Obama….
but you and me and millions of others are going to show Clinton the garbage disposal.
She’s starting to remind me of Veruca Salt…..
By RB from Gwinnett
March 12, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
By mm 10:13 AM |
mm, what’s more amazing is you’re too blind to see the evidence right in front of your face and constantly attempt to accuse R’s of only repeating what they hear on Fox News. I haven’t watched Fox since last weekend (before this story broke), yet check out these articles RIGHT HERE ON THIS LIBERAL PAPERS WEB SITE.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/03/12/NYGOVERNOR.html?cxntlid=homepagetabnewstab
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/03/10/spitzerirs_0310.html
See any reference to his party there?
I couldn’t find the story I read on here yesterday that also didn’t include anything about his party.
While we’re at it, when blacks attack whites, you won’t see race discussed (see the Six Flags attack for evidence), but when whites attack blacks, it’s all about race and instantly called a hate crime. See video headline on AJC online today about the news reporters being attacked. “BLACK NEWS CREW ATTACKED IN S.C.” What difference does it make what race the news crew was in this story?
ITN, is it so hard for you to accept we’re not all the same blogger because YOU post under so many ID’s yourself you assume everybody else does too?
By Bosch
March 12, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
ITN,
You’ll appreciate this. I just saw your Veruca Salt comment. I was thinking why does Hillary remind ITN of a rock band? So I did a quickie look up on Wiki - I didn’t know that was the spoiled brats name in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - learned something new today. Thanks.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
RB(Possibly part of the Canterville Ghost troll association)
says:
{{{ITN, is it so hard for you to accept we’re not all the same blogger because YOU post under so many ID’s yourself you assume everybody else does too? }}}
NOPE AND NOPE
Just lil’ ole me IN THE (hussein)NEWS and proud enough of it not to use multiple id’s.
Now, hush up you old goat until happy hour.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
AND
BOO MAN RB
{{{{While we’re at it, when blacks attack whites, you won’t see race discussed (see the Six Flags attack for evidence), but when whites attack blacks, it’s all about race and instantly called a hate crime. See video headline on AJC online today about the news reporters being attacked. “BLACK NEWS CREW ATTACKED IN S.C.” What difference does it make what race the news crew was in this story?}}}}
This sounds suspiciously like the garbage that was posted under multiple ID’s yesterday.
Verrrrry Interesting……….
By Paul
March 12, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this
IThN 10:06
The issue is whether or not the mainstream media treat Democrats and Republicans in the same circumstance, equitably.
From my 8:46: “…the number of times NBC’s and ABC’s morning and evening news shows identified Gov Spitzer as a Democrat? …there aren’t any! How about CBS? …maybe one instance. Possibly you could run a comparison with the reporting for Larry Craig?”
The reporting is usually couched in the context many of these Reps ran as family-values candidates, so it’s appropriate. Gov Spitzer ran as the morality guy, so it also is appropriate. But the party references are woefully lacking.
Not that they should be an issue, but the mainstream media have already set the standard that it is.
Remember what you said a few days ago about the number of people who think there was an al Qaeda/Hussein operational link? So how on earth can you make a comment that people outside NY would know Gov Spitzer’s party affiliation?
Fly on the wall 10:11
It’s a karma thing. Religion wins again.
:-)
mm
Again, the issue is not what conservative radio entertainers say. It’s the record of ABC, CBS and NBC, not to mention their cable affiliates.
IThN 10:21
I’ve referenced this cartoon before, but it’s timeless.
New Yorker. In the 90’s, after the fall of the Soviet Union. Two guys in suits in a glassed-in area overlooking a military command and control center. One guy says to the other, “Your job, Smith, is to find an enemy to justify our $350 billion defense budget.”
Timeless.
By Bosch
March 12, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this
RB,
Were you, by any chance, posting as AtlWay yesterday? Because I have to tell ya’ what you just posted was a cleaned up version of what Mr. AtlWay was saying yesterday. He/she even made a joke about how funny it was people were trying to guess who they were, implying, at least in my opinion, they had posted here before.
Geez, what rascist bullsh!t that was. Even Mr. Headcase was creeped out!
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this
IRAQ LIKELY TO HAVE A BUDGET SURPLUS??????????
AAARRRGGGHHH!
By Rick
March 12, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this
Snail-mail ballot? Howard Dean likes the idea, of course he does, isn’t he the one who went postal last time around?
By Bosch
March 12, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Paul and ITN,
I find it useful never to trust anyone who brings up morals in an election. In my opinion, they are the ones you have to watch out for. Morals should be a given, and I really don’t need anyone telling me what is moral and what isn’t.
By Paul
March 12, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
IThN 10:59
Ya gotta learn to laugh at life.
Irony is great.
By mm
March 12, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
RB from planet Koolade,
The first article you posted states that Spitzer is a democrat in paragraph 12.
Oh my, what a conspiracy. The second article didn’t mention that he was a democrat.
Maybe you should stick to reading your rightwing rags so that you don’t get your panties in a wad.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
Paul
Don’t ever doubt I laugh at life…..
Sieze the day, dude!
By Paul
March 12, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this
Bosch
Was that a rule for dating in college?
“Morality is in direct relation to time remaining before last call.”
:-)
By Bosch
March 12, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
Paul,
Exactly. :-)
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
{{{By Rick
March 12, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this
Snail-mail ballot? Howard Dean likes the idea, of course he does, isn’t he the one who went postal last time around? }}}}
BOOO!
By Rick
March 12, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
Ginger or Maryjane?
By Rick
March 12, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this
Betty or Veronica?
Ginger or Maryjane?
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
Paul -
Look I laugh at life…..
{{{By Rick
March 12, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
Ginger or Maryjane?}}}}
Becomes a “Boo Who?”
By N-GA
March 12, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
Paul,
A couple of things I’d like to mention. I’m not certain that what Bill & Monica did wasn’t illegal. In many states felatio is illegal, and adultery is illegal. I don’t know about Washington D.C.
Now about that $200 billion in credit facilities offered to our banking system to loosen the credit markets a little. Where do you think that maoney comes from? Uncle Sam doesn’t happen to have a spare $200 billion sitting idle in a savings account somewhere. Oops, a Euro now costs us $1.55 today. It’s hard to say if this is still more of the administration’s enlightened economic policy. When will the Piper get paid?
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this
Briton who led CIA rendition probe falls off a cliff
By getalife
March 12, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
Are there any law abiding people left in government?
Any honest prosecutors left?
Corporate power is strong and I do not see that changing anytime soon.
By Ace Mulholland
March 12, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
This job has its perks but Jayzus you just can’t catch a break. Bob and I were supposed to have two days off to rest up for the Pennsylvania push and next thing you know the mob owns the balls of Eliot the neutered Spitz. Result—two all nighters, that’s three days straight, of Bob and me seeding puff pieces on Lt. Gov. Magoo. On the weekend I don’t think either one of us could even name the Lietenant Governor of this state, and as of press time yesterday we could have told you more about David A. Patterson than his wife could. I haven’t even had time to figure out why it’s such a big deal to Hillary and Bill to knock Spitzer off the radar with Patterson puff ASAP. Seems like that ought to be Dean’s problem to worry about. Maybe he’s doing the same thing, I don’t know. Anyway it’s been an easy sell as usual. You just say blah blah blah with the magic words Harlem and black and blind thrown in wherever. And presto baby. As in press2go!
By Dusty
March 12, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
Just stopped by to see if this was children’s day. Surely the Luckovich kiddies drew this cartoon. But nobody is talking about it…very little. Spitzer seems to be the topic of interest. Oh well. Was that $80,000 he spent state money?
Bye bye, Spitzer, you shouldn’t have used exploitation for your liberal inclinations. (See! I didn’t even use the word ‘morals’.)
By luckovichisaheadcase
March 12, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
This was actually a good cartoon. Although extraordinarily poorly drawn as usual, he actually made a funny! That woman and her ‘husband’ are absolutely the most arrogant duo one can imagine. However, I do feel sorry for the perennial idiot Geraldine ‘the B*tch’ Ferraro. I think that this time she really did not mean to make a racist remark, but her foot went right into her mouth and betrayed her real feelings. Northern liberals are such hypocrites. They love black folks as long as they stay in their places and serve their fore-ordained rolls. How dare one of ‘them’ get so uppity that he would challenge the annointed one of the establishment left!
By Rick
March 12, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
Betty or Veronica?
Ginger or Maryjane?
By Denali
March 12, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
Drooling power-at-any-price Romney expresses desire to be chosen VP candidate. Wow! There’s a team destined to take the nation deeper into the sewer: McBush, Romney, & John Smith. Praise Jesussa!!
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
Recyling the old characters doesn’t hide the Canterville Ghost
boo-hoo
By Ralph
March 12, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
While we’re throwing billion figures around, consider this: Bush’s ENTIRE budget for the NIH for ALL medical research in this country for the year 2007 was $28.5B. Of that an entire $5.5B went to CANCER research. $5.5B is 12 days in Iraq.
$28.5B is 62 days in Iraq. Think of that when you grieve over the deaths of your relatives & friends & self. And then vote for McHero.
By Paul
March 12, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
N-GA 11:36
Your first paragraph opens up a bag of worms. Well, there’s illegal, then there’s illegal. Many archaic laws on the books. The ones you cite - usually used to prosecute johns or gays. Fortunately the courts are overturning such prosecutions on privacy grounds.
Regarding the other - more of our foreign friends? When will the piper get paid? Sometime after the current crop of politicians leave office, I’ll wager. I feel sorry for the coming generations. “We“‘ve left them quite the mess. Pity is, a little compromise and giving up a little to benefit others could have great long-term effects (a criticism I have of Obama and Social Security).
getalife 11:43
Something, isn’t it? Many of those who decry corporate influence and power rush to enrich those very corporations if it’s politically expedient - the Air Force tanker deal with Boeing (guess which Party’s leading the charge?).
But yes, I do think there are some honest, selfless types left. Thank heavens.
Dusty,
I’ve been waiting for that $80,000 reference so I could say it’s probably less than the taxpayer money Pelosi spends on flowers for decoration!
A sense of entitlement knows no bounds -
Rick:
When faced with a difficult choice: choose both!
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
McCain’s mistake-filled record, questionable judgment, calamitous misreading of history, nonchalance about American casualties and notorious short fuse all combine to make him a dangerous choice to lead an America at war. Simply put, John McCain is unfit for command.
By Paul
March 12, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
Denali
At least Romney has a sense of humor:
“Listening to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama talk about experience in a national security crisis is like listening to two chihuahuas argue about which is the biggest dog…”
By Likkkoduh Loves Dick Cheney
March 12, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
With or without the Cheney ;>
I find myself attracted to Dr. Laura, too.
Tell me that ain’t weird. She looks like the Travelocity Roaming Gnome, yet she haunts my dreams…
The ones that aren’t about Dick. Cheney, I mean.
By Paul
March 12, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
IThN 12:30
Getting repetitious -
By Likkkoduh Loves Dick Cheney
March 12, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
With or without the Cheney.
Hey look, most of us Fox News viewers are too retarded to know that Spitzer, Governor of New York State, is a Democrat, so we need the D thing after his name so we know what to whine and moan about.
So please MSM, spell it out for us. We are lazy stupid inbred morons.
By Rick
March 12, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
The cartoon stinks. Sorry, ml. Man take a break. Read some quantum physics. Read about the hadron collider and what they expect to find.
By @@
March 12, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this
It’s odd that you didn’t put a black fighter in the ring ml.
I’ll have to assume you’re cheering for “The Great White Hope” Hillary?
This is gonna be a nasty fight, and I’m pleased to see it taking place within the Democratic party.
Told ‘ya so…..
Book ‘em! They’re making history alright - just not the kind of history they can be proud of.
Black vs white vs female vs male vs black male vs white male vs black female vs white female vs popular vote vs delegate vote vs super delegate vote.
Some kinda unity the Democrats have goin’ on there.
By Typical Georgia Redneck
March 12, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
That Spitzer feller has about $500 million jazillion dollers, Dusty. Ain’t like you and I buying 3 pound bags of Cheetos with our food stamps - now that IS government money.
By getalife
March 12, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
Yes, corporate power is flexing its muscle.
When will you see that changed?
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
Paul
You are starting to get it…..
A McCain presidency would be a repeat of the Bush presidency.
Bush: McCain ‘Is Not Going To Change’ My Foreign Policy
AND
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” —George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
Now that’s some funny stuff right there!
By Copyleft
March 12, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
Rick, the other girl was Mary ANN, not Maryjane.
And she was MUCH hotter than Ginger.
By AJC Management
March 12, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
{{{{By N-GA cMarch 12, 2008 11:36 AM Now about that $200 billion in credit facilities offered to our banking system to loosen the credit markets a little. Where do you think that maoney comes from? Uncle Sam doesn’t happen to have a spare $200 billion sitting idle in a savings account somewhere. Oops, a Euro now costs us $1.55 today. It’s hard to say if this is still more of the administration’s enlightened economic policy. When will the Piper get paid?}}}}
Blah, blah, blah, China, blah:
{{{{The move continued what we’ve argued is the Fed’s best policy course in this crisis, which is to serve as a facilitator of markets frozen by uncertainty. On that point, the central bankers will supply some $200 billion in Treasury securities for 28 days in return for mortgage-backed securities >>>>as collateral.<<<< This is intended to increase the demand for MBSs, which few seem to want in the current climate. In other words, the Fed is trying to supply liquidity to revive a market locked up by fear.-Wall Street Journal}}}}
The only risk to the treasury is if the Mortgage Backed Securities fail and the Treasury collateral is used to pay the balance of the mortgages.
Not gonna happen.
416 point rise yesterday, 130 so far today, only a total housing meltdown can ruin this scheme.
I’m not going to sell my house for 10 cents on the dollar, are you?
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
The common wisdom is that the longer that the Democratic primaries drag on, the worse it is for the Democratic Party. But the increased attention and energy involved in the Democratic primaries is having some decidedly positive short-term and long-term effects. For instance, take a look at these numbers out of Pennsylvania.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
In the beginning was the Vote, and the Vote was with the People and the Vote was the People. Shortly after that, came the political strategists. From then on, the vote was only for the people who lived in the right precincts.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
Trying to explain McCain’s wildly erratic record on environmental issues is a maddening task. “We never know where he’s going to come from,” says Debbie Sease, the legislative director of the Sierra Club. “As a general rule, on land and conservation issues … he tends to be pretty good. But he’s a doctrinaire conservative on the role of government in protecting people from pollution.”
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this
McCain’s “Green Straight Talk Express” is actually the “Black Energy Twisted Action Delay Machine”
By RB from Gwinnett
March 12, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this
By Bosch 10:59 AM
One more time, morons…
I HAVE NEVER POSTED ON THIS BLOG USING ANY ID OTHER THAN THIS ONE!
I’m sure the AJC can confirm that if they so choose.
Why that is so hard for you simpletons to understand may explain quite a few other things you just don’t get.
If you think I’m wrong about the black/white issue in news reporting, you can call me a racist and ignore it, or you can start paying attention to what’s being reported and think for a change. And if you’re really smarter than an average shellfish, you’ll realize what I said was a slam on THE NEWS MEDIA and has nothing to do with the criminals involved in the story. So, are you saying I’m prejudiced against news people, or are you dumber than a shellfish?
By AJC Management
March 12, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
Boy, didn’t oil prices plummet when the dimwits in charge of our great country introduced their marvelous “cafe” standards, we really showed them Arabs:
{{{{OPEC’s present market power dates to early 1999, says economist Verleger. Oil prices then were about $10 a barrel. The 1997-98 Asian financial crisis had cut demand; supply was essentially unregulated. Saudi Arabia undertook frantic negotiations with other major producers, including Iran, Kuwait, Venezuela and non-OPEC members Russia, Norway and Mexico. The result was an agreement to cut production sharply. Compliance with output quotas was surprisingly good; countries were terrified by the collapse of their oil revenues.}}}}
{{{{By doing so little to check its own thirst for imports, the United States has contributed to OPEC’s present triumph. The extent of that triumph will be tested this year and next. Non-OPEC oil supplies — from Brazil, Canada and Kazakhstan, among other places — will increase. Meanwhile, a weaker global economy may dampen demand. Even OPEC may be unable to hold prices at today’s high levels. Whatever happens, the long-term threat of a global oil cartel will remain. We should be taking the hard steps to limit its power. Considering our past complacency, we probably won’t.}}}}
The terrorists have raised prices alright, the ENVIRONMENTAL terrorists.
Morons.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this
Methinks he doth protest tooooo much.
I don’t believe RB.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this
Finally, the Barack Obama campaign has found a big gun to help shoot down Hillary Rodham Clinton’s self-proclaimed foreign policy experience. And he may be the wackiest gun of all: Sinbad, the actor, who has come out from under a rock to defend Obama in the war over foreign policy credentials.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
Yep, as messy as the Dems’ convention is going to be, the National Review has a proposal to ensure some degree of political mayhem in Minneapolis, should McCain choose a running mate who falls short of conservative fealty.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
RB
“”I’m sure the AJC can confirm that if they so choose.”“
Ask ‘em to.
We’ll wait.
By Paul
March 12, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
IThN 12:58
And it’s just going to keep getting funnier.
While Dems were arguing over who got suckered instead of taking responsibility for their Iraq votes, and while they were trying to one-up each other over who was going to “really” withdraw (notice how that’s forgotten, now?), McCain was a tireless critic of the Bush Iraq strategy and offered alternative strategies.
If developed, that concept could cause the Democratic nominee a bit of a problem. After a few months the cry “McCain = Bush” wears thin as people think beyond the sound bites.
Not advocating - just thinking about campaign strategies -
AJC Management 1:25
I don’t see CAFE vehicle standards as a price issue. Worldwide demand will continue. What I am interested in is reducing domestic consumption, exploiting our own resources and devising alternate energy means to eliminate a major factor that keeps us involved in the Middle East.
By Apocalypse Hussein
March 12, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
ITHN@ 10:41,
You are correct my friend.
The Obamalution is in full effect!
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
McCain said he was the “greatest critic” of Rumsfeld’s failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, McCain praised the same strategy as “a mission accomplished.” In March 2004, he said, “I’m confident we’re on the right course.” In December 2005, he said, “Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.”
By Apocalypse Hussein
March 12, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this
Obama/Sebelius in ‘08!!!
By Rick
March 12, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
Betty or Veronica?
Ginger or Maryjane?
By @@
March 12, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
Paul:
I just read your response to me on yesterday’s thread. I was NOT having fun with the “Obama Blows HIS Nose” video.
Barack In The Day Long before Obama ran for president, he was a state senator in Illinois. Here’s what he did.
The morning after the story was posted online, I arrived early at my new offices. I hadn’t taken my coat off when the phone rang. It was Obama.
The article began, “It can be painful to hear Ivy League-bred Barack Obama talk jive.”
Obama told me HE doesn’t speak jive, that HE doesn’t say the words “homeboy” or “peeps.”
It seemed so silly; I thought for sure HE was joking. HE wasn’t.
HE said the black legislators I cited in the story were off-base and that they couldn’t have gotten the bills passed without HIM.
I started to speak, and HE shouted me down.
HE said he liked the other story I wrote.
I asked if there was anything factually inaccurate about the latest story.
HE repeated that his former colleagues couldn’t have passed the bills without him.
HE asked why I wrote this story, then cut me off when I started to answer.
HE said he should have been given a chance to respond.
Obama looks less and less like “the breath of fresh air” and more and more like a politician who will step over his own to get to where HE aspired to be.
((Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.))
((“I took all the beatings and insults and endured all the racist comments over the years from nasty Republican committee chairmen,” state Sen. Rickey Herndon, the original sponsor of landmark legislation that dealt with racial profiling and videotaped confessions, complained to me at the time. It was yanked away by Jones and given to Obama. “Barack didn’t have to endure any of it,” Herndon said. “Yet, in the end, he got all the credit.”))
((“I don’t consider it bill-jacking,” Herndon told me. “But no one wants to carry the ball 99 yards all the way to the 1-yard line, and then give it to the halfback who gets all the credit and the stats in the record book.”))
Hankerchief smankerchief…Obama may as well have blown a big booger at those attending HIS rally.
By N-GA
March 12, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
Now DuhUrinal is an economist? He thinks that mortgage backed securities have a shelf-life of 28 days, then they get paid back?
Treasury (notes) securities are US debt…of the American people…most likely owed to foreign corporations and/or governments holding nearly worthless dollars……..
And the markets rebounded temporarily so that what, America’s wealthiest people can gradually sell off their holdings now without experiencing the pain of the sudden drop in the market. Now it will drop more slowly?
Next you’re going to tell me that the economy is just fine…that it will only go into recession if the idiot liberals keep saying it will; a self-fulfilling prophecy? Nothing to do with the price of oil that Bush said he could manage because Saudi Arabia is his friend. Nothing to do with the government spending more money than it brings in. Nothing to do with importing more than we export. Nothing to do with the debt-driven spending habits of the American people.
Get smart….try!
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
Apocalypse Hussein
Great Name Dude!!!!
By Apocalypse Hussein
March 12, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this
ITHN,
Thanks.
@@,
Don’t be a hater, be a motivator.
By Bosch
March 12, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
RB,
Moron? Simpleton? Shellfish? WTF?
I like shellfish. Who cares what it says in Leviticus. Whoever wrote that about not eating shellfish, surely missed out on some good eating. Shrimp’s my favorite, although I’m partial to some good oysters on the half shell every now and then when they are in season of course. No crackers - those are for wimps - pour some Tabasco on that sucker and a little horseradish and bottoms up!
All I’m saying is that what you posted earlier had a mighty familiar ring to it. That’s all. If you say so, then I’m SURE it’s true.
By Apocalypse Hussein
March 12, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
Bosch,
I’m with you. I love shrimp and lobster. Those rules in Leviticus where under the law and were deemed ridiculous. That’s why God changed them.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
Hey Bosch
RB says he doesn’t post under any other name - and you know I don’t believe him……
He says the AJC could confirm that.
I suggest we challenge RB to contact the AJC and have the AJC contact us with that info ( They do after all have all our e-mail addresses)
Whaddya’ think?
It couldn’t be just me, it would have to be a few of us.
Oysters…..yumm
I had some recently at Rays - can’t remember exactly what type, but they tasted sort of like celery!
By RB from Gwinnett
March 12, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS 1:52 PM
{{{RB
“”I’m sure the AJC can confirm that if they so choose.”“
Ask ‘em to.
We’ll wait.}}}
Why don’t you just go across the hall and ask? I’m sure if you’ve already done that, you know the truth now don’t you?
By RB from Gwinnett
March 12, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS 1:52 PM
{{{RB
“”I’m sure the AJC can confirm that if they so choose.”“
Ask ‘em to.
We’ll wait.}}}
Why don’t you just go across the hall and ask? I’m sure if you’ve already done that, you know the truth now don’t you?
By Apocalypse Hussein
March 12, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
Here’s a nice running mate for SEN. John McCain…..
(CNN) – Jack Kevorkian, the assisted suicide advocate currently on parole from prison, is planning a run for Congress, a Detroit newspaper reported Wednesday.
According to the Oakland Press, Kevorkian is planning to mount an independent bid in Michigan’s 9th District seat currently occupied by Republican Joe Knollenberg.
“We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington,” Kevorkian told the paper. He also said his plans are in the “formative stage” and he would make a formal announcement next week.
The one-time pathologist needs to gather 3,000 signatures in order to appear on the ballot as an independent candidate.
Kevorkian has said he has helped well over 100 people die during the 1990s. In 1998, he was formally convicted on second degree homicide for assisting in the death of Thomas Youk, who suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease.
He was released from prison on parole in June.
Oakland County Prosecutor Dave Gorcyca, who was responsible for sending Kevorkian to jail, told the paper he thinks the candidacy is merely a “publicity stunt.” Rep. Knollenberg’s office is refusing to comment on the story. CNN has been unable to get a comment from Kevorkian.
– CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
By AJC Management
March 12, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this
{{{{By N-GA March 12, 2008 2:23 PM Now DuhUrinal is an economist? He thinks that mortgage backed securities have a shelf-life of 28 days, then they get paid back?}}}}
Oh, so that 200 Bill just got pis-sed into the wind, eh?
They’ll never pay it back, bwahaha.
Anybody else want to go down this road?
And yes, goofy as-s liberal “energy” policies, the fallacy of burning corn and all the other mindless ideas you environmental terrorists are dreaming up, is causing massive hikes in energy prices which is not going to help the economy at all.
Which is probably the goal of you socialists, now that you mention it.
By Paul
March 12, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this
@@ 2:19
Ouch. Kinda.
Well, he’s recrafted his image, obviously. Or maybe grown a bit. But really, isn’t this in kind of the same league as the McCain “temper” thing? Neither strikes me as particularly disturbing.
By @@
March 12, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this
God luv ‘ya A-Paco. I still can’t bring myself to say God love you (Insert posting name here.)
I’m not a hater Apocalypse. I spend five days a week motivating “little ones.”
I don’t understand how you can overlook Obama’s methods of “self-gratification.” It just doesn’t sit well with me.
He confiscated legislation from his own to promote himself.
I don’t get it…..I just don’t get it. If that’s something that motivates you, what can I say?
I’m out for awhile because this site is as slow as molasses.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this
RB has answered our question at 1:52
and then confirmed it again at 1:52
Thou shalt not lie, dude.
By Dusty
March 12, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this
Errr Paul somewhere earlier….
If Spitzer had spent $80,000 on flowers instead of …!0x0x0x0!… he would be in better shape today. Even Pelosi is smart enough to know that flowers are a better choice. (At least, I think so.)
But will she spit out Spitzer? Probably not. Democrats will be polishing their fingernails and looking the other way. I doubt that Waxman will be requesting an investigation. Ted Kennedy will be asking “That’s illegal? Since when?”
By mm
March 12, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this
I’m going to puke if one more wingnut blames oil prices on environmentalists. You can pump more oil out of the ground, but where are you going to refine it?
You think an oil company swimming in profits will spend the money on a refinery?
By Paul
March 12, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
I was likely a bit obtuse on that. Spitzer’s worth, as one poster noted, gazillions. 80k is chump change. But people are oohing and aahing about it. I was referring to a story from a couple months ago regarding how much $$$$ Pelosi’s spent on flowers and other such to beautify their workplace. Difference is, it’s not her money. But hey, it’s free.
By Bosch
March 12, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
ITN,
Now, now, let’s not be petty.
@@,
Don’t you think the biggest problem you have with Obama is the fact that there is a (D) that comes after his name? The Democrats could put forth a candidate as clean as the driven snow and you’d find something that doesn’t “sit well” with you, and you wouldn’t “get it” how people could like them?
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
””“Difference is, it’s not her money. But hey, it’s free.”“”
Kinda like the KBR monogramed towels…
By Paul
March 12, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this
IThN 3:19
You are starting to get it…
:-)
By AmVet
March 12, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this
I, for one, am sick and tired of the scribbler always hammering on Democrats! When is he going to make fun of that dufus in the white house or the other innumerable corrupt Republicans?
(Just doing my “conservative” blogger imitation!). Speaking of which, they have suddenly gone very silent on that particular topic, no?
I still chuckle at this quaint notion that the contest between Obama and Clinton somehow helps the GOP. How exactly is that so? Just remember this “analysis” is brought to you by the crowd that blames “variations in the sun’s temperature” as the reason for global warming!
It is unquestionably a worst-case scenario for the fake conservatives. Not one of their brain-dead candidates could beat the moderate McCain.
And then the demonized Sen. Clinton who they desperately needed to win the Dem ticket, so as to energize the “base”, is apparently headed for a defeat.
And even our always progressive (HA!) southern “conservatives” dare not make too big a deal out of that nice, young, eloquent mulatto.
Yes, so for the GOP “faithful”, no matter how they twist in the wind and no matter how they spin it, are hopelessly screwed this time around.
Too f@cking bad.
ITN at 9:45, in spite of the White House propaganda, the vets are always the ones to get jobbed the worst in any of these endeavors.
That the chickenhawks protest LOUDLY that they support the troops, yet usually do NOTHING, or as little as possible, to actually help those who made the biggest sacrifices, does not change the fact that this administration is loving our valorous sons and daughters to death.
3,987 KIA.
All for George Bush. What a damn shame.
By Bosch
March 12, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this
Okay, okay, I just saw this very bizarre news story:
Sheriff: Woman Sat On Toilet For 2 Years
So many places to go with that one.
By RB from Gwinnett
March 12, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS 3:02 PM
Was that post supposed to make a point of some kind? If so, you might want to try again.
Or stick to posting links to other peoples thoughts so you don’t have to come up with your own.
By Rick
March 12, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
Betty or Veronica?
Ginger or Maryjane?
The Coen Bro’s No Country movie stank. Every scene is the bad guy busting into another hotel room and shooting a bandito at point blank range clean…..through……the gizzard!
Also, we’re expected to believe that seasoned drug war survivors would check into hotels under their own name and have tequila and senoritas and worry about the bad guy later?
The whole thing is stupid. Tommy Lee Jones has the money.
By AJC Management
March 12, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
{{{{By mm March 12, 2008 3:04 PM I’m going to puke if one more wingnut blames oil prices on environmentalists. You can pump more oil out of the ground, but where are you going to refine it?}}}}
midget: This may come as a surprise but we can’t build new refineries because of “issues” raised by the, uh, environmental terrorists.
Know what I mean?
By RB from Gwinnett
March 12, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS 3:02 PM
Was that post supposed to make a point of some kind? If so, you might want to try again.
Or stick to posting links to other peoples thoughts so you don’t have to come up with your own.
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
RB Liars never get the point.
That’s why they lie.
DUH! Oh, sorry don’t mean to use your other name in vain.
By Bosch
March 12, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
“But will she spit out Spitzer? Probably not.”
Oh, that’s just plain gross. Why would Pelosi care about Spitzer? He’s the governor of NY. OR rather was.
“I doubt that Waxman will be requesting an investigation.”
Into what? What? What?
“Ted Kennedy will be asking “That’s illegal? Since when?””
Now, that’s funny.
Ted Kennedy, whose blood is 1/4 pure scotch whiskey. You’ve got to ask yourself sometimes: “Why doesn’t he retire.” I do like his rants though.
By Bosch
March 12, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Rick, Rick, Rick (has anybody ever seen that SNL skit where Amy Pouler does that really hyper active girl and Horatio Sanz is her Uncle Rick? That really cracks me up. Just asking),
It’s fiction dude.
By mm
March 12, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this
AJCM (aka Super Duh),
I guess you didn’t read the linked article.
You are full of sh*t. Please provide proof of your claims. Actually, you never provide proof of any of your BS. Maybe because there is no proof?
By AmVet
March 12, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this
ITN, damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.
I remember the first time you were flamed for posting only links.
Somehow not adding your analysis or commentary p!ssed off one of the usual loons. (can’t recall which one and it is immaterial.)
Then you started adding commentary and now apparently you still have no thoughts of your own?
Oh the humidity!
By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS
March 12, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this
AmVet
No sweat,
Being insulted by a liar (and all his characters) is really like winning an award.
By AJC Management
March 12, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this
{{{{By mm March 12, 2008 4:02 PM Please provide proof of your claims}}}}
O.K:
{{{{Part of the issue, according to refiners, is that substantial investments were made over the last decade to lower carbon emissions and meet low-sulfur fuels regulations. The American Petroleum Institute estimates the industry invested $47 billion on such investments. More investments will be needed through 2007 to clean up gasoline and diesel.}}}}
{{{{“This is going to cost you money and the only thing you will get is cleaner air and less emissions - which are good - but no new capacity,” said Edward H. Murphy, the industry group’s general downstream sector manager.}}}}
By Dusty
March 12, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this
Bosch@3:54
Have you ever heard of D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T-S?
Spitzer is a Democrat. Pelosi is a Democrat. She is the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. (Spit out is ‘wordplay ’ on Spitzer. Duh!) Democratic leaders do NOT want Democrats to disgrace the party. So they try to forget such activity and do not want to mention it.
Spitzer disgraced his family, his state, his political party, and others who believed in their governor. Got it? Besides, it was probably illegal behavior in case you don’t know that.
Waxman wants to investigate every Republican on general principles. I thought he might like to investigate a Democrat’s procurement of prostitutes which is not model behavior.
Is there anything else you would like for me to explain to you? You seem a bit hazy today.
By Crenshaw8
March 12, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this
Upon @@’s return I have a question if it’s not too personal.
Are you black? I’m assuming you’re a female?
If it’s too personal don’t answer.
I enjoy your posts btw.
By Bosch
March 12, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
Do you know the difference between S-T-A-T-E GOVERNMENT and F-E-D-E-R-A-L GOVERNMENT? Just asking.
Worldplay? Oh, I thought you were just being gross.
Why should Pelosi or Waxman investigate Spitzer? Why should they care?
“Democratic leaders do NOT want Democrats to disgrace the party. So they try to forget such activity and do not want to mention it”
Yes, I’m sure. The Republicans too, boy those Repub leaders have been very very busy trying to forget such activities of THEIR party members. Whew! A Republican leader trying to keep the cover on a scandals work is never done!
But in all seriousness - I agree with you about Spitzer’s behavior - good thing he didn’t try to blame all this on his political enemies and just took it like a man and resigned.
“Is there anything else you would like for me to explain to you? You seem a bit hazy today”
Yes, can you tell me what the hell is going on on the TV show Lost? I’m lost. Who do you think are the other two Oceanic Six?
By Likkkoduh Loves Dick Cheney
March 12, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this
With or without the Cheney…
You know, $3000 for a hooker is huge money.
Like many other GOPers on this board, my mother was a sex worker her whole life and probably didn’t make that much the entire time.
By Dusty
March 12, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this
Bosch,@4:36
I do know the difference between state and federal. Are you as naive as you seem?
In reference to Waxman, he would investigate anything still breathing if he thought it was Republican. Federal, state, county, city or hamlet, doesn’t matter to him. Just REPUBLICAN.
You are right about politicians hiding their dirty laundry, but this is Democratic laundry so you know who is being very QUIET!
I don’t watch TV very much. Have never seen your shows. Stay lost! You should be used to it by now.
By RB from Gwinnett
March 12, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
By Likkkoduh Loves Dick Cheney 4:42
{{{You know, $3000 for a hooker is huge money…. my mother was a .. worker her whole life and probably didn’t make that much the entire time.}}}
Runs in the family, doesn’t it!
By RB from Gwinnett
March 12, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this
By Likkkoduh Loves Dick Cheney 4:42
{{{You know, $3000 for a hooker is huge money…. my mother was a .. worker her whole life and probably didn’t make that much the entire time.}}}
Runs in the family, doesn’t it!
By AmVet
March 12, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this
Yep, indeedy.
Kinda quiet on the Bush as a Farce front these day,s so let’s bring out some of the oldie but goodies!
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
“We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.” —Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002
“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is.” Texas Governor George W. Bush, April 9, 1999, on the US intervention in Kosovo
“My plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we’re going to run out of debt to retire.” —radio address, Feb. 24, 2001
“Do you have blacks, too?” —to shocked Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001
“For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It’s just unacceptable. And we’re going to do something about it.” —Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.” —Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001
“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”
“The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway.” —explaining why we should give the rich even more tax breaks, Annandale, Va., Aug. 9, 2004
“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.” —Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” —Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
By @@
March 12, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this
Paul @ 2:56:
(((Well, he’s recrafted his image)))
I’ll see your “recrafted” and raise you a “crafty”.
You’re comparison to McCain made me laugh. McCain has been a maverick throughout his entire senatorial career. While I have differences with him on some issues, his disdain for government waste in pork barrel spending isn’t one of them. You know the guy who launched Obama to stardom, Emil Jones, Jr…….the guy Obama calls his “Political Godfather”?
This is how he paid Jones back for his “starburst”:
(((Last June, to prove his commitment to government transparency, Obama released a comprehensive list of his earmark requests for fiscal year 2008. It comprised more than $300 million in pet projects for Illinois, including tens of millions for Jones’ Senate district.)))
(((Shortly after Jones became Senate president, I remember asking his view on pork-barrel spending.)))
(((I’ll never forget what he said:
“Some call it pork; I call it steak.”)))
I’m pretty sure it was included in my previous link. If not just Google Jones’s response.
Bosch @ 3:19:
(((Don’t you think the biggest problem you have with Obama is the fact that there is a (D) that comes after his name?)))
Why can’t you be honest with your question? That’s what you think I think. It was your “oh so subtle” incrimination of me without basis in fact.
I’ve voted for candidates with a (D) after their name on many occasions - national, state and local.
What doesn’t sit well with me is a candidate who “builds” his platform on CHANGE while the foundation on which it was built appears to be anything but.
You might have missed it…scratch that, you DID MISS IT! I was defending those (D) legislators in Illinois who he pulled the rug out from under.
I don’t like injustice Bosch. I don’t like this game of Obama doing unto others and then crying foul when it’s done unto him. It leaves the playing field unlevel which is something else he promotes
By @@
March 12, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this
Oops! Crenshaw8 @ 4:26:
Not too personal….
Am I black? No.
Am I female? Yes.
Here’s a bonus answer to a question not asked.
I cannot sit idly by while African Americans are exploited by the Democratic Party. It just doesn’t “sit well” with me.
Now let’s see what Bosch thinks I think.
By @@
March 12, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this
For those of you who are screaming against the rising cost of oil. Here’s some possibilities you might want to consider. I remember stumbling on this story last year:
Ethanol Has OPEC Publicly Concerned
((Abdalla El-Badri, Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries [OPEC] said the biofuel strategy being pushed by President Bush and European leaders would backfire because “you don’t get the incremental oil and you don’t get the ethanol.”In this scenario, he warned, oil prices would go “through the roof.”))
((He said OPEC members had so far maintained their investment plans, but he warned: “If we are unable to see a security of demand … we may revisit investment in the long-term.” Why the change? In the past OPEC had all but mocked biofuel’s potential. This is the first public expression of concern.))
The Big Green Fuel Lie
So tell me….do you ever feel like the “odd man out”?
I do my part. I conserve. It takes me a month to burn a tank of gas in my fuel efficient auto…….mobile. Right now it’s our only salvation (economically speaking.)
I watched a special on the History Channel last night. Depleting oil supplies, growing global demand and Democrats and Republicans alike failed to see the writing on the wall?
Sure they did. They just needed to prime the pumps for the money grab.
It all started in 1979 when Carter was President. What did President Carter propose? Nuclear energy. Who objected? Environmentalists who terrorized the public against agreeing to do what needed to be done.
By Likkkoduh Loves Dick Cheney
March 12, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this
With or without the Cheney…
You got that right RB. Except I give it away.
;>~~~~
Duh!
By Crenshaw8
March 12, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this
Thanks @@.
Have a pleasant evening.
By AJC Management
March 12, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this
{{{{After defending herself in a day-long media tour, Geraldine Ferraro has stepped down from her (ceremonial) post on Clinton’s finance committee, CNN is reporting.}}}}
{{{{The move comes after Ferraro first suggested that Obama owed his success in the presidential contest to his race, and then defended her comment in combative terms, accusing Obama of tarring foes as racist, and saying she was being attacked because she is white.}}}}
Just imagine the things these KKKlintoon bigots say behind closed doors at one of their drunken “strategy” sessions.
By Glenn
March 12, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this
I guess Gerry Ferraro just didn’t know her place.
By @@
March 12, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this
For all you conspiratorial paranoid liberals who think Fallon’s abrupt resignation was because he wasn’t on board to attack Iran. Think again…
((But this was not a one-way vector, and the jihadist insurgency in Afghanistan spilled over into Pakistan, where the insurgency is not only operating from a comparative safe haven, but is compounding political instability in Islamabad and exacerbating the tensions within Pakistani society.))
((Under Fallon’s tenure, in other words, if it did not all come crashing down, it certainly did become apparent to everyone in Washington that the persistent stalemates that had been easy enough to ignore thus far — the military stalemate in Afghanistan and the political stalemate in Pakistan — had become unacceptable and unsustainable.))
((Fallon’s “resignation” was about these very unaddressed problems. Stratfor’s strategic perspective does not often fall to individuals; we see larger forces at work in the world. Fallon did not matter. But the empty seat at CENTCOM is likely to be an exception. Not simply because it is one of the most crucial posts in the U.S. military today, but because of the shift in focus Fallon’s removal entails and especially because of the two individuals at the top of the list to replace him: Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis and Petraeus himself.))
Putting our best men forward in other words.
((Petraeus was one of the architects of the “surge” strategy and has overseen its successes thus far. He was also a principal force behind the Army’s new counterinsurgency manual. Mattis is something of a legend in the Marines. Not only did he lead Task Force 58 into Afghanistan in 2001, he commanded the 1st Marine Division in Iraq and later the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force during the surge. Petraeus and Mattis worked closely on the new counterinsurgency manual.))
((The appointment of either man to the top post at CENTCOM has serious implications for the conduct of operations in Afghanistan and the situation in Pakistan. No two contenders for the job are more likely to forgo the current stalemate in Afghanistan and come at the problem with renewed intensity. Indeed, it is the first real telling potential shift in the command of Afghan operations, perhaps since 2001. And neither contender is likely to sit by and let Pakistan continue to simmer, either.))
By @@
March 12, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this
LT. GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY, Fallon’s temporary replacement ain’t too shabby either.
I loved the part about the fatwah.
(((This year, we also informed both Iraqi ministries that in the future, the coalition would only provide fuel to the ISF in extremis. We saw that the Iraqi system was capable of providing fuel to its forces, but it was much easier for Iraqi commanders to go to their American counterparts and say “I’d love to go on a mission with you, but I need fuel.” So we’ve gone from providing 60 percent of the fuel for the ISF to under 10 percent today.)))
(((When I congratulated Iraqi officials at a recent meeting for stepping up, they said there was no choice in the matter because ——>I had issued a “Dempsey fatwa!” I told them if I knew earlier that was all it took, then I would have issued the fatwa much sooner.<——)))
By RW-(the original)
March 12, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this
Bosch,
Spitzer is all tangled up in a FEDERAL investigation. Perhaps you owe Dusty an apology.
IT(H)FS,
This power I have over you is starting to be quite enjoyable. All I’ve got to do is post once in the morning and you’re like a puppy chasing it’s tail. I wish I could bottle it and sell it as a nanny for morons.
See you tomorrow……..BOO!!!
By Glenn
March 12, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this
I’ve been thinking about Hillary’ and Bill’s and Gerry’s notion that Senator Obama is not qualified to be President. I wonder what Ms. Ferraro thinks qualified Mr. Lincoln to be President. True, people in Illinois remembered him from his losing debates with Senator Douglas. And a few years later he did give a good speech at Coopers Union in NYC. But President of the United States?
No wonder the man came in as a third party candidate with only 38.8 percent peeled off a split vote. What a ringer!
By @@
March 12, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this
Alright which one of you liberals blew up the military recruitment center in NYC.
They’re finding striking similarities to past groups within a movement called Black Bloc
(((A black bloc is a nebulous entity that has no centralized command and control structure, similar to organizations such as the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front. Instead, activists who join black bloc groups usually also participate in other more benign activist organizations and affinity groups. Because a black bloc is not a formal organization, there is no clear definition of its ideology. However, ——>individuals who participate in black bloc actions are typically anti-capitalism, anti-globalization and anti-war and often identify themselves as anarchists. Overall, they oppose “authoritarianism,” which they believe is present throughout modern society.<——)))
You liberals are paranoid nuts.