Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Give a reporter a good picture and they can write a story that could have a half life of decades.

TO Wit To Woo

Patrick Swayze with wife Lisa Nieme dancing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y0TWOttkVo

You tube going down for maintenance at 7:00 Pacific so you might have to come back to link later.

Goodness, Craig, I'd completely forgotten about that incident until you mentioned it! Our media in action--

RIP to Mr. Powell. I was touched to read that Mr. Jimmy went to tell Mr. Powell's mother of his passing--more proof (as if we needed any) that he truly is a great southern gentleman. As, it seems, was Powell.

PS although I have to say, never knowed of a knobite rabbit carryin' on like that--it must have been wounded--even cottontails will act crazy when they're hurt--

Was it a white rabbit?

it was Mister Rab-BIT..........

really good friends with Mister Tur-TELL and Mr. Buzz-ARD

We've got to do something about this "death" thing. How about a war on dying? This is of course humanity's greatest scandal of which we spend the greater part of our lives in denial.

What would seriously pushing the envelope back cost? 10 trillion? $2000 per every living human would just about cover that. Given a lifespan of a thousand years, we would undoubtedly look to the stars and be less inclined to desperation...

Bye Patrick and Jody. You have left your ripple in the fabric of time.

there is no life without dying

and usually with that comment comes "better you than me".....law of the jungle........code of the west......

Billionaires for Wealthcare singing Putting On The Ritz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHVwrCzRUX0

Mr. Monk is right. It's a jungle out there. If it isn't the water, it's the showerheads. Get clean at your own risk.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i6ZZSMcG-ITeA01X3RbIIVG88sxQD9AN9IBG0

TOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAADYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

And yet the supreme drive of life is to survive Sturg. If one believes the future is "open", human evolution does not necessarily depend on death as a selective mechanism for the evolution of adaptation through differential reproduction. Olaf Stapelton was a hard read......

I'm not talking immortality. I'm talking extending individual life.

Ah, to be outlived by an olive tree or a turtle. Nope. Mother Nature has a liberal view of lifespan and it could be modified to allow for the full expression of individual human potential. We would be in a far better position as a society to keep a big rock from killing Mother Nature.

There would either be caps on reproduction or a green way to get off this planet.

Stapleton that is.....First and Last Men. A real classic of sci fi.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/obama-kanye-is-a-jackass_n_286623.html

the evolution of adaptation throught differential reproduction.......say what?

kanye west and joe wilson are commonists...............lordy lou

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260150

Let's all sing like the birdies sing
tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet

didja ever hear Pete go "tweet tweet tweet" on the piccolo? No?

--Sid Caesar

McDonald's Only diet illegal in Brazil. Bet Micky D's hated this verdict.

http://consumerist.com/5358537/brazil-declares-mcdonalds+only-diet-a-crime

Jon Stewart returns -

He pointed out that Joe Wilson is raising money with a Tee Shirt that sez :

I'M WITH JOE WILSON

Which is a reworking of the much more famous :

I'M WITH STUPID
<<====

Waiting for the 3rd famous person to pass.

Craig -
Just this weekend Mike Huckabee, pronounced that journalism is dead.

Your Powell story proves just how long it was ill.

Just this weekend Mike Huckabee, pronounced that journalism is dead.

He said it wearing his bass guitar.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A team of scientists studying rock samples in Africa has shown a strong link between falling carbon dioxide levels and the formation of Antarctic ice sheets 34 million years ago.

Levels of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, mysteriously fell during this time in an event called the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition.

"This was the biggest climate switch since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago," said co-author Bridget Wade from Texas A&M University.

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE58D20U20090914

Thanks for the memories, Craig. I remember being really mad when the press turned the rabbit story into a national joke, but now it just seems hilarious.
I mean...after a dog bit me last month as I cycled through an alley, today a little pug chased me for a block trying to bite my ankle, but that was just funny because the little pug couldn't jump high enough to nail me...animals! Always good copy for a laugh.

Here's how Senator Enzi feels about abused woman.

It turns out that in eight states, plus the District of Columbia, getting beaten up by your spouse is a pre-existing condition.

Under the cold logic of the insurance industry, it makes perfect sense: If you are in a marriage with someone who has beaten you in the past, you're more likely to get beaten again than the average person and are therefore more expensive to insure.

In human terms, it's a second punishment for a victim of domestic violence.

All ten no votes were Republicans, including Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming), a member of the "Gang of Six" on the Finance Committee who are hashing out a bipartisan bill. A spokesman for Enzi didn't immediately return a call from Huffington Post.

At the time, Enzi defended his vote by saying that such regulations could increase the price of insurance and make it out of reach for more people. "If you have no insurance, it doesn't matter what services are mandated by the state," he said, according to a CQ Today item from March 15th, 2006.

Here's the link for above story.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/when-getting-beaten-by-yo_n_286029.html

rabbit? how about a robot that hops?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8253807.stm

Joe Wilson still has not put his main office page back up yet. See what his link gives you when you go there.

http://www.joewilson.house.gov/

He must be still taking a lot of heat for his you lie remark as his phone now rings and is not on answering machine. I'll see if I get anyone later today after I come back from the Vet with Lady Greeneyes.

She has a bladder problem and has blood in her urine so I'm taking a personal day today to get her into the Vet for treatment.

Here is Joe's phone number if you want to call and state your disapproval of his remarks.

Call Joe at: Rep. Joe Wilson (R, SC-2)
House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-4002
Phone: 202-225-2452
Fax: 202-225-2455
Email: Joe.Wilson@mail.house.gov

Or any of these below as contact info.

# West Columbia, SC office phone number: (803)939-0041

# Beaufort, SC office phone number: (843) 939-0041

# Fax number: (202) 225-2455

# Twitter: @CongJoeWilson

# E-mail: Joe.Wilson@mail.house.gov

# Contact Form at House.gov

Let him know how you feel by sending him some of your love. (snark here).

Got to run now and get Lady Greeneyes to the Vet, later.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260172

AP

The party of family values and the sanctity of marriage strikes again. Might want to check if Enzi is a "dominionist" where it isn't just the lower animals that are under the dominion of man but the wife and kiddies as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominionism

About a week ago, I was talking about the economy possibly going into a downturn for a second time. This WaPo article shows some of the fear out in no jobs land that could make it happen when combined with the unwillingness of Congress to put the brakes on Wall Street

http://tiny.cc/gaWFl

Are there any other rule violation cases before the House at this time? It's possible that the gop stand-by-our-man response to the possible reprimand may bite them if there are other rules matters that are in the works and are important to them (like maybe rangel's) not to be seen as partisan.

That story always made me think of Monty Python's killer rabbits.

Thought for the day :
" Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. "

These are the sleeper cells the Right has always warned you about, and who the Left ridiculed anyone that would believe in such fairytales. Well, they're here.

http://wcbstv.com/local/fbi.raid.queens.2.1183160.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1451768020090914

Then by all means stay under your bed.

53 Trajan 13th Roman emperor (98-117)
1789 James Fenimore Cooper 1st major American novelist (Prairie)
1903 Roy Acuff Maynardville Tenn, country musician (Hee Haw)
1946 Oliver Stone NYC, director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon)
1946 Tommy Lee Jones actor (Executioner's Song, Bloody Monday)

1620 Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims
1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during the Revolution
1830 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
1853 1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell
1862 Stonewall Jackson takes Harpers Ferry
1904 Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1916 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France
1935 Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship & makes the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany
1938 British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
1940 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
1947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph
1957 "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premiers
1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
1961 Hurricane Carla strikes with winds of 175 mph
1963 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
1965 "Lost in Space" premiers
1970 Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million

Mission Motors Shatters eBike Speed Record
All-electric Mission One achieves a 161-mph top speed

http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/newsandupdates/122_0909_mission_motors_shatters_ebike_speed_record/index.html

mark twain savages the works of J. Fenimore Cooper:

http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/writings_fenimore.html

Joe Wilson -

" I'm for immigration, legal immigration, I've been an immigration attorney. " ...................

" One lawyer from Wilson's home county of Lexington -- who said he has known Wilson personally since 1985 and described himself as very familiar with Wilson's law practice -- declared flatly to TPMmuckraker: "Joe has never been anything but a real-estate attorney."
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/did_joe_wilson_lie_about_having_been_an_immigratio.php?ref=fpblg

Why the next "Lion of the Senate" will probably be a "Lioness".

This is one of those "Duh!" type studies. Hiring in recession: Save money, hire women, work harder for less. They also multi task making them perfect for jobs requiring a lot of interaction with others which is a necessity for legislation. The men just have their female staff do it. :-)

13. Use the right word, not its second cousin.
Twain

morinin.

You sure it wasn't a Welsh Rabbit?

"According to the American satirist Ambrose Bierce, the continued use of rarebit was an attempt to rationalize the absence of rabbit, writing in his 1911 Devil's Dictionary: "RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that ris de veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she-banker."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit#Legends_and_humour

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260182

TIR

No one has denied that there were terrorist hopefuls in the U.S. Most said it wasn't best handled by the military, but rather as a police/FBI function. Apparently, that is what is going on in NY.

There has never been any necessity to drop bombs on women, children, and other innocents who never did a damn thing to us.

The Brits understand terrorism and have handled it as good solid police work from the beginning. We tried to break ourselves financially (and may yet succeed) by running around killing people and breaking things.

Trust in news media falls

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/business/media/14survey.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

Maybe if they actually broadcasting news would help?

broadcasting = broadcasted

'Norma Rae' Dead at 68 After Struggle With Her Insurance Company to Get Chemo

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/norma-rae-dead-68-after-two-year-stru

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260188

Sturg, buddy, I owe you one. I've been laughing my ass off reading Twain's criticism of Cooper.

Mark Twain........Old Curare Pen.........

I think there are sleeper cells. A lot of the right wing strike me as people who have been asleep for a hundred years...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260194

Pew Research Center finds just 29 percent of U.S. adults think news organizations generally get the facts right. That's down from 55 percent in a similar survey in 1985.

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This number shrinks in inverse proportion to the media concentration that occurred since 1985.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260188

I'd like to associate myself with these remarks.

"Joe has never been anything but a real-estate attorney."

cbob, maybe joe thinks immigration includes helping people move in and out of their houses that were foreclosed by his friendly financing buddies.

40 Years After Moon Landing: Why Aren't People Smarter?

More data, same processors

The amount of human knowledge has increased exponentially over the past few centuries. We have more information than ever before on virtually every imaginable topic, from physics to medicine to sociology. (The notable exceptions are paranormal, possibly non-existent subjects like ghosts, Bigfoot, and psychic powers; the body of knowledge about these topics has not increased at all.)

But all that data and information is useless if people can't effectively understand or apply it. Without logic, wisdom, and reasoned analysis, facts are useless.

http://www.livescience.com/culture/090716-critical-thinking.html

patriotic crab cake:

http://www.donandkate.info/crab-cake.jpg

More proof of the new Era of the Jackass -

" "Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential," Moran wrote. "

Looks like young Crawford has a lot of work cut out for him.

thanks sturge for the twain link.
twain's rules 12-18 are good goals for tmr commenters to seriously consider; however 17 is way beyond my ever accomplishing (as you can see how well that example of mine dangled there at the end):

12. Say what he is proposing to say, not merely come near it.
13. Use the right word, not its second cousin.
14. Eschew surplusage.
15. Not omit necessary details.
16. Avoid slovenliness of form.
17. Use good grammar.
18. Employ a simple and straightforward style.

where is miss manners in our hour of need?

sturg, LOL. I've never seen that kind of crabcake - I'm familiar with little things that resemble biscuits made of crab and just enough other stuff to hold the crab together.

Hah, the Pres' description of Kanye West may not have struck Moran as presidential. I wonder what the presidential equivalent of jackass is.

... I'm assuming that Moran was being sarcastic when he said "THAT'S" :-)

Patrick Swayze's death brings to mind the movie "Red Dawn" . It's producer has whined for years that conservatives can't get movie deals in Hollywood. Red Dawn had plot holes that the Red Army could drive through.

pogo, never assume until you know which network he was on at the time

CREW's 15 most corrupt members of Congress
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL)
Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA)
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
Rep. Nathan Deal (R-GA)
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN)
Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)
Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV)
Report Summaries

* Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
* Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL)
* Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
* Rep. Nathan Deal (R-GA)
* Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)
* Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
* Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
* Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
* Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV)
* Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA)
* Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)
* Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA)
* Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN)
* Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
* Rep. Don Young (R-AK)

http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/

President Bush mocked other prominent politicians behind their backs while in office, according to a new book by former speechwriter Matt Latimer.

Last month, the Washington Post reported that ex-Bushies were feeling a "growing nervousness" over what might be in their old colleague's tome. The October issue of GQ includes some eye-opening excerpts from the book.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/15/matt-latimer-book-bush-sl_n_286853.html

Bob, back to the the 2009 Birthing Man Festival from the weekend - there is another slight problem with that picture - it has to be more than 5 years old since the National Museum of the American Indian isn't in it - and it opened 5 years ago.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/912-tea-party-photo-false_n_286082.html

"This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for," he said. "She hasn't spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let's wait and see how she looks five days out." It was a rare dose of reality in a White House that liked to believe every decision was great, every Republican was a genius, and McCain was the hope of the world because, well, because he chose to be a member of our party.

Bush on Palin

Actually jamie, the comment was apparently a tweet. I stand my the sarcastic comment.

my, by, it's all the same among friends.

Pogo -
Yep

" But all that data and information is useless if people can't effectively understand or apply it. Without logic, wisdom, and reasoned analysis, facts are useless. "

Any picture of the mall will do.

Gee Jody Powell was sixty-five. No wonder CC said "shocking death."

I was not a Carter fan during the primaries but became one during his term in office. I always like Powell and thought he mostly did a pretty good job for his boss.

Military robot 'hops' over walls

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8253807.stm

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260210

Pogo,

Jonathan Glutus Maximus?

Ghost fleet of container ships off Singapore

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/15/ghost-fleet-of-conta.html

jamie, LOL. Indeed.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260207

... just had to go look this up. Makes me wonder how many things are 'off the record. (I guess twitter 'is' a good thing, real time and all)

Obama Calls Kanye a ‘Jackass’
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0909/ABCs_Moran_tweeted_OTR_Obama_swipe_at_Kanye.html

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260218

Pogo

That's why I sang "Lets All Sing Like The Birdies Sing"

Everybody is excited because we hear that President Obama called Kanye West a jackass after West had a Joe-Wilson-meets-Serena-Williams moment at the MTV Video Music Awards. Yeahyeahyeah, awesome. Now we don’t have to talk about real issues again for at least three or four days. I can probably take the rest of the week off.

But that is not the part of this kerhaha/broufuffle I want to indulge. No, rather, more interesting to me than what Obama said is how we know that he said it:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8148

terry moran journalist (sic)

"I wonder what the presidential equivalent of jackass is."

Probably the equivalent would be keeping his mouth shut and just thinking it. He must know that his every word is repeated, by now. He should have learned that long ago in San Francisco.

Politicians leading double lives. I don't know how they keep things straight in their head.

Do they still even teach logic courses in high school or junior colleges? Critical thinking seems to have gone on a permanent vacation.

Moran wasn't present when Obama made the ALLEGED remark how do we even know he said it
Moran should be fired

The story Boing Boing picked up -

" The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore. Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination - and is why your Christmas stocking may be on the light side this year

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1212013/Revealed-The-ghost-fleet-recession.html
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Hell of a report.

So Joe Wilson isn't really sorry....who can forget all the apologies the gooper congress required from Democrats?

Pete Stark among others. Another case of Republican hypocrisy.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260226

and do you think Obama is lying when he allegedly called Kayne a Jackass?

Do you really care 'what' I think?

Read the post. I said he should know that what he says may be repeated. That's all I said. I could care less what he said, or whether he was right or not.

I think Kanye West behaved badly and is a jackass
what I don't know is what Obama really said or didn't say

Moran was not present at the time of the alleged remarks
and is a known liar

Kanye West is a known jackass.

True KGC.

It's just weird that ABC said it was supposed to be off the record, and was twittered too soon.

If Obama said it, then he has every right to have done so, and I'm sure many people agree with him. But it shouldn't surprise him, 'if' he said it, that it was repeated.

I've just on a thing now, about all the double talk that politicians are doing, and I'm not really talking about Obama.

I surprised that any one could find what I said offensive.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260227

ha, jamie, that one flew right past me. :-)

Now THAT’s Terry

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8148

Chloe

It wasn't even an ABC interview but CNBC.
I agree with you however that "off the record" is a dodge but in this case there is much more going on and Terry Moron (not a typo) is the real culprit.

Chloe -
Your premise -

" But it shouldn't surprise him "

The president is surprised , why do you think the president is " surprised" ?

Missed this clip last night on Anderson Cooper

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/15/tea-party-leader-melts-do_n_286933.html

kc, I've read Calderone's column and all the columns I've found on the Moran tweet, but don't see anything that suggests he wasn't present for the off the record remark. Where did you see that? I could easily have just read over it.

(Who needs to talk about real issues, like healthcare insurance reform or the economy anyway?)

"Terry Moron (not a typo) is the real culprit."

I'll buy that KGC

Pogo

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8148

Politico --what a waste of right wing money and now that's a bunch of non journalists

And KC, I did see Greg Levine's musings - but they are, as you often refer to the posts of some of our more, ummmm, conservative posters, fact free as far as the interview goes. He could be right, but it's nothing more than speculation best I can tell.

Actually, I never said the president is surprised. I said he shouldn't be surprised if his every word is repeated. But I never accused him of anything, surprise or anything else.

Don't tell me what my premise is CBob, I'll figure that out on my own.

Hey, I'm not citing Politico as anything other than a column I read 'cuz it was linked at HuffPo.

Glenn Beck loses half of his advertisers

http://bit.ly/3LYHq

"Just Desserts" for him. Just "dessert" for everyone else with a brain.

Pogo

No offense meant, I always like to point out that politico doesn't make a profit but has to be supported by a rightwing loon

Hey newpogo.

I guess I shouldn't file this under "real issues". I know that healthcare which the bipartisan group seems to be reaching common ground on is the most critical issue effecting the future, but maybe this very unimportant problem might be worthy of some consideration:

Despite our general obsession with partisan bickering, the American quest for the Grand Bargain with Iran continues. The next 60 days are very important.

1. New bipartisan report on Iran discusses the dangers of inaction or anticipated Israeli pre-emption:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aGXuRWqsEFos

2. Dancing with the Mullahs:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112807711

3. Israeli clock as seen from the Israeli Left:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112807711

4. What the O-team is saying now in Congressional hallways….

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27020.html

And for the record: The Iranian regime is preparing final logistical positioning for nuclear weapons. Delivery systems, intelligence and special ops, conventional, chemical and possibly biological weapons manufactured for minimal signature have been supplies to internationally recognized terrorist groups. This would include Hizb'Allah as well as some support to the Taliban. Illegal activities such as arms shipments continue.

The Iranian Minister of Defense is wanted by Interpol for bombing a temple in Argentina and killing several dozen Jews. Where is the clerical ruling on that one? The Spiritual advisor to the appointed Iranian President Ahmadinejad advocates that rape is permissible in extracting confessions and that the regime is the mouth of God.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/09/iran-maverick-mehdi-karroubi-refuses-to-back-down-from-rape-allegations.html

The Iranian regime is indeed an existential threat to Israel and a danger to the US. It has done almost all it can to delay and destroy any dialogue wit the West. The material above confirms much of this as Western media turns from interest about the struggle of the Iranian people against tyranny to framing Iran as a question of more unwanted US intervention. Lost is the effect retreat on this front will have on the deteriorating struggle in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Certainly, lost is any existential threat to our trajectory in history.

The Iranian regime signifies an abomination to Liberal Democracy. So called “moderate” blog sites like TMV might want to call tea partiers the “American Taliban” (and then pull the header), but the situation the West is facing several years out at the hands of our present adversaries is quite alarming. At times, Obama appears to understand this and I am certain Hillary does.

There is a fine line between hyper vigilance and obsession on this issue of Iran, but given the eventual ubiquity of unidentifiable terror and destruction embedded in the new Multi Polar world, prudence is the name of the game. Just days after the eighth anniversary of 9/11, it would be a grave lesson to forget. The existential threat to our peace and prosperity is both real and present if not clear to all.

The healthcare debate should not remove this issue from the front page.

Hawaii Tries Green Tools in Remaking Power Grids

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/science/earth/15hawaii.html?_r=1&hpw

heheheheh

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/200you li'?"9/09/15/wilsons-wife-i-said-joe-w_n_287077.html

Wilson's wife to Wilson - "Who was the nut that hollered out 'You Lie?'"

Pele Defense Fund, which sprang up here in the 1980s to protect religious gathering rights in the rain forest on the Big Island. The fund seeks to prevent desecration of Pele, the native goddess of fire and volcanoes, and finds geothermal energy projects sacrilegious.
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Who knew volcanoes needed a defense fund ?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1113816.html

correct link: Israeli clock as seen from the Israeli Left

sorry...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260251

I yield to the little lady with the burr under her saddle.

No need to do that CBob. I yield to the man who accuses me of having a burr under my saddle.

A Republican House member from South Carolina, Bob Inglis, is now calling on his fellow South Carolina GOP Congressman Joe Wilson to apologize to the House for his "You lie!" outburst.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/gop-rep-bob-inglis-joe-wilson-should-apologize-to-the-house.php?ref=fpblg

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260258

Pogo

It's sad that his wife's remark is now part of his commercial with her saying what a great husband and father he is. The commercial doesn't mention his rather rampant racism of the past.

The Southeast, especially the Pee Dee River Basin in North and South Carolina, had the highest rates of feminization. In Bucksport, S.C., 10 of 11 largemouth bass examined were intersex. In parts of the Mississippi River in Minnesota and the Yampa River in Colorado, 70 percent of the smallmouth bass had female signs.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32848267/ns/technology_and_science-science/

You won't let the Wilson thing go as Dowd calls it a sign of racism. Brilliant, just brilliant. Given the new effort to correct Obama's claim Wilson responded to with "incivlity" (and obviously racism) during the speech and now seeks to restore status verification, the issue of truth has been blurred. Obama knew at the time he spoke that having no verification would mean his claim was false. How can someone so smart have unintentionally missed this? And the debt claim?

If we want to explore incivility in vitro, then perhaps my Iranian rape link above will suffice....

Sorry, Max, but while the Iran nuclear threat is something that our government should pay attention to, they are a lot further from posing a threat to the US than, say NK is. NK actually has missiles that can fly across an ocean - Iran doesn't. And yes, Iran probably is at the proverbial fork in the road, but sanctons only go so far, and sometimes have unintended and counter intuitive results (See, e.g. Cuba).They may be moving toward that, but shocking second hand stories about Iran's regime raping and peeing on protestors, according to reports that are at best secondhand related by the opposition leader have little to do with threats to Israel or the US. The accusations are shocking, and if true, disgusting, but they aren't surprising. I can't comment on the truth of them, but hey, the same or worse is going on as we blog here in no less than half a dozzen African countries. Sanctions are probably in order, and ar a pretty likely outcome, but without an international consensus that we don't have they won't stabilize Iran or prevent Iran's nuclear ambitions, whatever they are.

jamie, I'm sure Wilson is a wonderful person and husband - and that his racist past is in his past. I'm sure he has tea with Cliburn regularly - and invites him to his country club for dinner. And I think I just saw a pig fly past my window. What is it about SC anyway? Sturg, what the hell is going on down there?

Fascinating story, "What's The Matter With Rich People"

http://open.salon.com/blog/steven_axelrod/2009/09/13/the_trouble_with_rich_people

I've met the people he is talking about with exactly the same reaction, "What is the matter with you?"

Pogo

There was a whole flock on the Mall this past weekend

http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/5/24/flying%20pigs.jpg

And max, I assume you condemn Israel for this.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091501260.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Note that Israel refused to cooperate with the UN probe. They reject the conclusions but will read the report carefully. Bully for them.

My point is this - the mideast is a fucking crazy world where right and wrong by any definitions that would be accepted by civilized nations are meaningless and wholly situational and from the viewpoint of one party only. I have no love or support for any of the countries or factions in the region and a fair share of disdain for each of them.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/jody-powells-rabbit-days.html#comment-260271

heheheh. Thanks jamie.

now, lunch.

Pete Stark: I Won't Pee On Angry Constituent's Leg
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/pete-stark-i-wont-pee-on-angry-constituents-leg.php?ref=fpb

Joe Wilson's google ads on TMP , be sure and click them.

"What is it about SC anyway? Sturg, what the hell is going on down there?"

Posted by: newpogo.myopenid.com Author Profile Page | September 15, 2009 11:39 AM

What's the matter with South Carolina?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090911/pl_politico/27026

Dan Brown to take on Freemasonry, spoiler alert:

They're all a bunch of really nice guys.

"Sorry, Max, but while the Iran nuclear threat is something that our government should pay attention to, they are a lot further from posing a threat to the US than, say NK is. NK actually has missiles that can fly across an ocean - Iran doesn't."

Given the role Iran is playing in the Israeli/Palestinian coflict, their help to the Taliban, their activity in Lebanon and Iraq and the roles their proxies play in Africa and SA, Iran is far more active against us than NK. And Iran has killed US soldiers. Iran has also been the main supplier to terror groups we have been discussing. I do not see the President of NK on the Interpol hit list, do you?

" And yes, Iran probably is at the proverbial fork in the road, but sanctons only go so far, and sometimes have unintended and counter intuitive results (See, e.g. Cuba).They may be moving toward that, but shocking second hand stories about Iran's regime raping and peeing on protestors, according to reports that are at best secondhand related by the opposition leader have little to do with threats to Israel or the US. The accusations are shocking, and if true, disgusting, but they aren't surprising. I can't comment on the truth of them, but hey, the same or worse is going on as we blog here in no less than half a dozzen African countries. "

So you compare sitting down with a regime whose clerics sanctify rape as just for obtaining confessions and you are a lawyer? You are suspicious of the claims made against the regime and that leaders who risk being hung are liars? Name one country besides South Africa in Africa that represents anywhere near the threat Iran does?

"Sanctions are probably in order, and ar a pretty likely outcome, but without an international consensus that we don't have they won't stabilize Iran or prevent Iran's nuclear ambitions, whatever they are"

You mean destabilize Iran, I assume. No, sanctions at this point unless they block oil will just hurt Iran and not prevent nukes. Perhaps the spector of war is the only thing that will make Iran blink. Whether we can make Iran blink is another story, but the administration is being moved now to put a big stick on the table.

Read the first link I offered from Bloomberg and how different is that from what Gates did with an air craft carrier (not exactly the smartest move). Of course when Gates did this under Bush he was accused of preparing to strike Iran. Democrats I predict will get caught in their own characterizations. Ordering new super bunker busters is another move to ramp up the stick, but the pressure is building for a strike and Obama's plan so far has delayed sanctions and seems now to arrive back at the same starting point we saw a year or so ago. It almost looks like a Bush play at this point.

As I said the clock is running out and I wonder if Democrats understand the risks. Moving now to ramp up a stick is not taken very seriously by Iran. About the onlt thing that will would be a new joint Israeli/US preparation for the inevitable should the Mullahs continue along their path. If Russia was caught trying to deliver S-300 to Iran, they are pretty much out of the picture at the moment other than blocking sanctions which they will likely do thus increasing Iran's need for those 3-300s.

At the toughest moment, the US is at new lows with Israel. We are facing problems in Afghanistan and Pakistan with new fronts in Yemen and Iraq opening up. What we see now in the latest WH movesis a return to Bush posturing with an Obama smile. Hillary talked about making force credible from the start and pre-conditions. We have pre-conditions and that is Iran will not discuss their nuclear program. Hillary also advocated negotiating from a position of strength. This doesn't happen when you have Middle East bloggers claiming Obama is looking to simply save face and argueing more with Israel than mutual enemies..

Aaauuuggghhh! My Eyes!

South Africa -a threat in terms of what it is capable of doing, not what it intends, i.e. technolgical assets and military organization.

DL, let New Pogo suffer. You can just wear shades......

As I suggest to Craig, just click on the links and ignore the word-stuff.....

I'm just joking, Max. Do your thing. I will read your post in it's entirety after I regain my eyesight.

Sociopathy on the Right: Ayn Rand and the Triumph of Conservative Cultism

Yet as bizarre as his words may seem at first blush, they actually illustrate with bold clarity the fundamental (and increasingly common) core of the conservative belief system. They speak to the sociopathy that is at the heart of the far-right worldview. It is a worldview that holds, quite simply, that doing for others is contemptible; that doing for self is the purpose of human life; that altruism and service are somehow pathologies pushed by collectivists and should be subordinated to selfishness and greed.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/15/782252/-Sociopathy-on-the-Right:-Ayn-Rand-and-the-Triumph-of-Conservative-Cultism

This is an excellent example of the role the stimulus is playing
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090915/BUSINESS/909151017/1350?Title=Cyan-shooting-for-stars

"Cyan already has 20 customers, mostly regional telephone companies, cable operators and data centers, Hatfield said. It has been targeting independent carriers, who stand to benefit from $7.2 billion in federal stimulus funds for rural U.S. broadband networks."

"Do they still even teach logic courses in high school or junior colleges?"

jamie, do they still even teach?

oh yeah, they teach tests.

Posted by: maxtrue | September 14, 2009 9:45 PM : We've got to do something about this "death" thing. How about a war on dying? This is of course humanity's greatest scandal of which we spend the greater part of our lives in denial.

Extra funny. Why the hell didn't someone think of this before ? Let's get a Death Tsar in the WH. He could appoint some panels. Blue Ribbon, of course. I'd rule out Dr. Kevorkian.

Get This Rat a Lawyer!

Glenn Beck says Cass Sunstein wants to give animals the right to sue humans. Really?

http://www.slate.com/id/2228259/

The diamond bust -

Diamonds Post-Lehman Have No Aura as Buffett Can’t See Recovery

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=adeU_YHAT0uQ

those empty ghost container ships present great opportunities. wonder how many homeless people you could fit in them. maybe fema could use them for the next hurricane that swamps us. a new gitmo?

Crackers - "I think there are sleeper cells. A lot of the right wing strike me as people who have been asleep for a hundred years..." LOL - Really, LOL!

Kanye was actually contrite last night on Leno. I think he really got it; I think he really meant it...in a way a politician never could.

There's a wonderful conversation in the New Thread, and you're all missing it.

Good day.

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Posted by: jamie44.myopenid.com | September 15, 2009 11:25 AM : "The commercial doesn't mention his rather rampant racism of the past."

He missed a real self-promotion opportunity there.

If the old drip at Stark's Town Hall meeting wants pee on his leg, all he has to do is stop wearing Depends.

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