hola… this page will be up and going again soon. WordPress is a nice easy to use program… but it's pretty lame in functionality. The html function pretty much sucks ass. and yea, half my post of the last week haven't worked. Check back next week though. I have weddings/shamboozling to do this weekend but will hopefully get it working again on monday. in the meantime go outside.
May 19, 2006
May 9, 2006
Rep. Obey (D-WI)
Vintage quote from one of my political heroes….
"I don't intend to retire. I intend to die in the well of the House
kicking the hell out of somebody."
– House Appropriations ranking member David Obey, D-Wis., commenting
today on his future plans at a news conference where he criticized the
Republicans' proposed FY07 budget resolution.
May 8, 2006
Stick a Fork in Ney, Hayden Cooks Quicker than Goss and Bush Catches World Record Perch.
Bush: Presidential Highpoint 7.5lb Perch
Washingtonpost.com coverage of German Interview.
"You know, I've experienced many great moments and it's hard to name the best," Bush told weekly Bild am Sonntag when asked about his high point since becoming president in January 2001.
"I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake," he told the newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.
Unfortunately… Being a fisherman i thought this # sounded a little absurd. Being Lazy, i didn't bother checking the facts, but as a reader over at americablog.com points out.. Bush nearly doubled the world record of 4lbs 3 oz. Either he lied or we have one hell of a fisherman in the White House.
TPM Muckraker keeps it coming…
CIA Nominee Hayden Linked to MZM
While director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden contracted the services of a top executive at the company at the center of the Cunningham bribery scandal, according to two former employees of the company. Read the Article
Volz Points Finger at Ney update: Copy of Plea Deal
In this, the fourth (Michael Scanlon, Jack Abramoff, Tony Rudy, and now Neil Volz) guilty plea to implicate Rep. Bob "Representative #1" Ney (R-OH), we get more details about what Ney did to earn Jack Abramoff's goodies. Read Article
Rumor Mill: Still another big fish on the loose in the "Crazy Game of Poker" – thank you Rob for the heading. I'll be posting more tomorrow, trying to put together all that's out there and some of what i've heard including who was hiring the dude prostitutes…
May 5, 2006
Goss, Hookers, and Hot Hands… (updated)
well it's out now… There's still a bigger fish left to be caught, but Goss is done. While a lot of people are putting this in the category of internet rumors and speculation…. It's true.
FROM TPM http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000494.php
CIA's Goss Drawn Into Hooker Probe Ken Silverstein reports at Harper's blog on the spreading Cunningham-Wade-Wilkes prostitute scandal. He says more lawmakers, past and present, are being investigated. Sounds like he thinks House Intel Chair-turned-CIA Director Porter Goss is one of them:
I've learned from a highly-connected source that those under intense scrutiny by the FBI are current and former lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence comittees — including one person who now holds a powerful intelligence post. [emphasis added]
fuck….
Remember that Goss is the one who plucked one of Wilkes' old San Diego friends, the unusual and colorful Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, out of CIA middle-management obscurity to be his #3 at the agency. At the time of Foggo's appointment, no one could figure out where he came from, or how Goss knew him.
But if Goss was at the "parties," I wonder, was Foggo there too? Did they see each other? Is this where Goss had an opportunity to gauge Foggo's abilities, and determine he was qualified for the CIA executive director post?
<<UPDATE>> TPM is taking the lead on posting the revelations involving the resignation of Porter Goss so if you're interested in that story please check out http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/hookergate/
2 things to think about…
>>Someone as big, if not bigger than Goss is involved.
>>Not all of the hookers were female. (this doesn't mean Goss, but at least one attendee to the card games had a thing for dudes) (not that it matters!)
comments welcome…
May 4, 2006
Afternoon Delight.
RUMSFELD gets confronted by ex-CIA Agent…. Thank you Judd, Niko and everyone else at ThinkProgress for this great clip…
http://images1.americanprogress.org/il80web20037/ThinkProgress/2006/rum.320.240.mov
Mehlman the D-bag
Here's a excerpt from RNC Chair Ken Mehlman's latest fundraising letter.
"This year, we face another momentous choice. Fight and defeat the terrorists, or retreat from the central front in the War on Terror. Live up to our calling as Americans to stand for freedom, or choose Democrats, who have been clear that they will censure and impeach the President if they win back Congress."
well shit. to me it sounds like they're taunting their base to vote for impeachment. I can't imagine that with Bush's approval in the low thirties their argument for re-electing a Republican Congress is so members can continue to support/protect Bush.
New Katherine Harris TV ad. thank you crooksandliars.com
video is even more funny in light of recent developments… everyone in the party, on her campaign, and who was ever her friend has been trying to get her to quit the FL senate race.
http://www.electharris.org/video/
David Letterman v. Bill O'reilly. (Letterman dogs the dog)
i know this is a couple months old but i still get asked about it occasionally so here it is…
May 2, 2006
Fewer than 40% of 18-24 year olds can find Iraq on a map???
Tue May 2, 2006 12:40 PM ET
By Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most American young people can't find Iraq on a map, even though U.S. troops have been there for more than three years, according to a new geographic literacy study released on Tuesday. Full Article Here
>>Fewer than 4 in 10 Americans aged 18-24 in a survey could place Iraq on an unlabeled map of the Middle East, a study conducted for National Geographic found. Only about one-quarter of respondents could find Iran and Israel on the same map.
-any chance we can send the other sixty percent over there???
>>Sixty-nine percent of young people picked out China on a map of Asia, but only about half could find India and Japan and only 12 percent correctly located Afghanistan.
- Okay… how the fuck did 31% miss picking out China on a map of Asia?????? I wonder what the overlay is between this 31% and people who voted for this jackass of a President.
>>For example, most young people were able to locate a port city on a fictitious map, but one-third would have gone in the wrong direction in the event of an evacuation.
-I guess we can write that third off to natural selection. Still What the hell? Tsunami! Hurricane! Let's go towards the ocean…
>>one-third failed to find those two states [Louisana and Mississippi] that were the subject of daily news coverage after the onslaught of hurricanes Katrina and Rita last year.
-Sad thing is a majority of those who got this wrong probably live in this south.
So much for proving Tom Brokaw wrong…
May 1, 2006
Mission Accomplished?
May 1st, 2003
Check out ThinkProgress for a Mission Accomplished by the numbers.
just for shits and giggles check out the WH press release from three years ago today.
you'd think they'd take it down?
Also in case you were one of the few that didn't get this email from me…
Bill O'reilly Attacks Dead Man… (no joke)
"O'Reilly is pissed at the Syracuse Post-Standard. You see, they've "smeared" him (i.e. brought up the Mackris scandal.) Said O'Reilly, "The villains at that paper are publisher Stephen Rogers and
editorial writer Mark Libbon. These men are not only unprofessional, they are incompetent."
He even put their pictures up on the screen during his April 24th broadcast.
O'Reilly left out one key bit of information. If you want to bitch out the man on the left, you'll have
to dig him up first. He died on November 12, 2002.
We want to recognize O'Reilly and his crack staff for smearing a man who dedicated his life to his community until he passed away at the age of 90."
lunch time update.
video of televangelist on crack… nothing like a public access televangelist. watch it. you're going to want to send it to friends. http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/jesus/1685099/
also in case anyone missed Colbert at the WH correspondents dinner (hopefully you weren't watching msnbc on a saturday night) it was somewhat funny but a lot of his jokes were "awkwardly biting" http://movies.crooksandliars.com/WH-Dinner-Colbert.wmv
One of my favorite websites www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com just released a book. which you can find here… http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560258810/ref=nosim/103-8403636-5002254?n=283155
wackiest political ad of '06
Brad Miller (NC-13) has got a wacko of an opponent this year… you have to hear the miller_mariachi.mp3 ad. It is so far beyond ridiculous. His opponent Vernon Robinson is black and his over-the-top hatred for gays can only be understood as some serious self-loathing. But yea… this guy is nuts. In almost every speech he suggests that brad miller and markos (from the dailykos) are sleeping together and planning a gay world order.
Here's his radio ad
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/miller_mariachi.mp3
TV spot
April 30, 2006
health insurance video and funny quote.
Great video on Health insurance in america…
This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is BS – not only do you kick him – you kick him until he passes out – then beat him over the head with a baseball bat – then roll him up in an old rug – and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below!!!!”
– Michael Scanlon (abramoff associate) during the Clinton Impeachment.
Come on Napoleon, Give me some tots.
Teen Shot in Fight Over Tater Tots
LAST UPDATE: 3/14/2006 2:13:20 PM
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=9349EA4D-7FC9-492A-BFA9-4E917A90F563
A teenager was shot Monday afternoon after he was arguing over tater tots with another teen, San Antonio Police said.
The shooting happened close to 5 p.m. at the Spring Hill Apartments off Raybon on the northeast side.
Neighbors told police the uncle of one of the boys told the teens to stop fighting. They were ready to stop, but investigators said a 20-year-old man would not let them.
"Another person out here in this apartment complex, I think wanted to see the young boys continue fighting," Sgt. Rudy Cran with SAPD said.
The man then walked into a nearby apartment complex, grabbed a gun and started shooting, authorities said. He fired several shots into the living room where the boys were watching television, police said.
"One of those rounds hit the young man in the back," Cran said.
The boy was rushed to University Hospital, officials said. His condition was unavailable Monday night.
The suspect remained on the loose Monday. Police were looking for him.
