Guest blogged by Winter Patriot
I have been so busy (doing nothing) that I didn’t even notice how long — and how far down the page — the most recent open thread is. Ah, life!
Fortunately, Agent 99 sent me a gentle reminder that it’s about time for a new one — and a great pic to get us started.
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Dare I snag the full-size version of that pic for my blog? I dare.
The Finnish line…
There’s a lot of weird geopolitical stuff going on these days, but this is weird too:
Hey WP! So busy doing nothing… NICE!!! Damn the oxymorons, dull speed ahead. I had a computer once that fried its CPU and hard drive – I got at least some of my money back. Isn’t there some similar provision for pretzel-inhaling dildoes-in-chief?
WP – I reacted before I absorbed that golfing yarn. What a sweet feeling it must have been, just after striking that second heatseeker!
My favorite subject, voting machine testing, propaganda (about how good they are) and distribution
“SAIC board members Admiral Bill Owens (former military aide to Dick Cheney), and ex-CIA chief Robert Gates, who was implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, also serve on the board of VoteHere, a growing elections software company. SAIC itself is producing electronic voting systems in partnership with Diversified Dynamics.”
Link
Head of a Republican Party organization in Tennessee is arrested for having allegedly committing voter fraud.
“Remove the log from your own eye before you attempt to remove the chip from your neighbors eye.”
Link to article
Is there anything that would wake up Bush supporters, I wonder ?
First Bush had “no idea someone would fly planes into hi rises.”
Then Katrina caught FEMA off guard, even tho planning had been going on late 2004 and LA governor requested addtional help from the Feds upon seeing how huge Katrina was.
Strange that Bush gets a pass on every disaster because “he just wasn’t prepared.”
Now last Monday Bush admits Iraq “had nothing” to do with 9/11.
AND NO ONE EXCEPT THE INTERNET BRINGS THIS UP !!!!
I admit I turned off much TV with all the John Mark Karr crap. Is it really necessary to tell us what he drank on First Class returning to the U.S.
But still did Bush’s latest gaffe get covered any where ? Someone please tell me it did.
Hurricane Katrina II ?
Tropical Storm – ERNESTO,.. being tracked into the Gulf of Mexico. Images eerily familiar to Katrina.
NOAA satellite images of Tropical Storm Ernesto.
Texaslady – Comment # 8
USA MSM gives voyeurism and bigotry full play,.. information of true national significance ignored. Is it any wonder 50% of the US population thinks Iraq/Saddam had WMD’s or involved in 9/11.
Link to article : Failed MSM
… Deadeye Miyazato doesn’t have quite the same ring to it….. Maybe Mighty Miyazato.
RENO residents, mark your calendars!
I’m not quite sure how all the clamoring for rummy’s resignation transmogrified into him getting an AWARD, but you might want to show up for this:
“Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will speak Aug. 28 in Reno at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention.
Rumsfeld is receiving the VFW’s distinguished service award during a banquet at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, formerly the Reno Hilton, headquarters for the organization’s 107th convention…”
Bring some resignation forms, maybe. And a nice big RUMSFAILED banner. 🙂
NBC Nightly (cough) News is reading viewer E-Mails on the air criticising them, check it out, maybe write your own
Link
(have to have IE open when you click on the link of course, and listen to an ad first)
http://cbs4boston.com/topstorie...237111652.html
Hmmmmm . . . gop. . . Hmmmm. . .
JoJ
Terrible and priceless. The judge probably has $90K in his freezer if anyone bothered to look.
Soul Rebel, HeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeY Long Time No See ! ! !
Loosen ya straps & stay a while! Here’s an old fiend of Brad’s
http://www.stephaniemiller.com/...coulter?full=1
Its so much fun when you find shit like this,
“Clearly one of the themes going around is related to collusion among industry sources, so any meeting of all the players is, by definition… unfortunately taken by some people as not a constructive exercise, but one of negative exercise. So, it would probably be best as Doug suggested, that it would be better that we pay you to do that.†Link
and this,
“Participants asked if a task force composed of defense contractors and defense procurement contractors could help them “again†like they did with HAVA. They mentioned Lockheed (weapons contractor) and Northrop Grumman (defense contractor) and Accenture (defense procurement contractor). They discussed that these companies were the driving force behind the HAVA bill, which requires purchase of new electronic voting systems and also purchase of new, statewide, electronic voter registration.” Link
Thanks Bev, interesting stuff (the links put it all into context fer ya)
Voting Industry. Voting Industry. hmmm..? Voting Industry.
Man, I just can’t get those two words to sound right together.
Voting Industry…
nope, not gonna happen
Anyone have any follow up on Chris Bollyn’s article that said the two abducted Israeli soldiers were inside Lebanon? I haven’t heard a peep about it on MSM (not that I expected to haha) but I haven’t had any backup info from other sources. I’m fully willing to believe Bollyn, especially after he was roughed up on account of it, but there has to be some secondary support somewhere.
Soul Rebel #19
Have a look at this page: http://www.whatreallyhappened.c...i_solders.html
Texaslady #8
The other day the local morning news gave full coverage of bush’s speech and press conference. Lots about him “staying the course” and “not while I’m the
presidentdeciderer”.Not a single word about his admissions that there were no WMD in Iraq and that Sadam had nothing to do with 9/11!
JOJ #16
That’s sick!
Soul Rebel #19
Here’s another article about the captured soldiers.
And here’s an interesting development related to the incident.
Hey Bush – these guys need another tax break!
Speaking of Taxes — isn’t this where they are supposed to go — not bombing other countries that didn’t attack us?
Calling all truth activists!
Come to NYC for a weekend that will
change the world with events which
commemorate the 5th anniversary
of the 9/11 attacks and expose 5 years
of official deception.
http://www.ny911truth.org/event...nniversary.htm
Would that I could afford to get to New York, MMIIXX.
Betcha I could find a bunch of other people who’d love to go too, but none of them can afford it either. A whole lot of people have been pauperized by these last five and a half years of fascist kleptocracy, almost all of which was enabled by that drill that “went live” on the unsuspecting participants.
Holy Scombroid 99 – I’ve been pauperized and I didn’t even know it!
Is Katherine Harris imploding or what ?
http://www.nbc6.net/news/9744452/detail.html
“Is Katherine Harris imploding…”
We’ll know when she drops straight down into her own foot print. Kinda like bldg. 7 or the bad witch in the Wizard of Oz when she got wet!
BB2 – Great Metaphor for K.H. ! Since You Like my other post so much here it is again & check out the other picts there . . .
http://www.stephaniemiller.com/...coulter?full=1
Bluebear 2
#27 — You had to pick the very smelliest mackerel! And, yes, you’re spozed to be paying attention to that shit, but they’re keeping you too busy.
#29 — LOL 😛
Judge of Judges
#28 — She’s imploding if she doesn’t have the vote rigged. She is a member of a really scary religious movement that is not daunted by any of this Rule of Law stuff… so watch out. Either she needs to be hauled off to the bin, or she knows something we don’t.
JOJ
I guess I,m not up on Steph enough to get most of them, but I do like the lying sack of crap!
Bob Kincaid did a pretty cool show the other night, with a couple of guests talking about the Fundamentalist Christian problem. The show is three hours long, but you can skip the first twenty minutes to half hour and the last hour, and just listen to his two guests. The second guest might give you a clue about Katherine Harris’s religious views.
Head On With Bob Kincaid
Ben Burch’s White Rose Society is doing bodhisattva work, and he archives a bunch of liberal talk shows. He always needs support.
Well I’m going to tie on some Thai food (edible). . . . . & It’s Time for a Tune . . .
Dont you know
Theyre talkinabout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Dont you know
Theyre talkinabout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
While theyre standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Dont you know
They`re talkinabout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take whats theirs
Dont you knowYou better run,run,run…
Oh it said you better
Run,run,run…
Cause finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkinbout a revolution
Yes,finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkinbout a revolution oh no
Talkinbout a revolution oh
While theyre standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waitinf for a promotion
Dont you know
Theyre talkinabout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
And finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkinbout a revolution
Yes,finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkinbout a revolution oh no
Talkinbout a revolution oh no
Talkinbout a revolution oh no
Tracy Chapman – 1988 – Talking About A Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNPgGkNL1A
TRACY CHAPMAN WRITES LIKE GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
And, I absolutely LOVE her voice.
My wife and I saw the new Cirque de Soleil (“Love”) at The Mirage in Las Vegas last week. It is a great show for people like us who are stuck in the 60s musically.
#7 Here in TN it helps us to know such things, like a person who’s supposed to be a political leader who’s more than willing to cheat in elections. Again, that shows us why we have to have transparent elections, because no one should be trusted.
And that’s why I dig Bradblog; I often find out stuff about our own state here before I find out in the local media… Awright Old Turk!
#34 Tracy Chapman is a prophet, and what a voice! Thanks for calling that one up, Judge.
shw
JOJ
Without a doubt – Thanks for the Tracy interlude!
My 2 kids are going to college, we just moved my daughter in as a freshman, my son is a junior. They will both be starting off life with $50-80,000.00 debt. How can they pay that off, get a house, get married, and start a family? The money for a house will be the cost of their college debt!!! When did this happen? There is like NO financial aid any more. Cheaper community colleges don’t offer the majors they want. I guess this makes the military more appealing to low/middleclass kids. That’s probably the plan.
Speaking of Revolution – here’s something completely different.
Big Dan #39
My wife went to a local community college because it was very inexpensive. But it was only a 2 year program after which she would have to go to the State College which cost hundreds of dollars per unit. Since she was working full time she took about 4 1/2 years to complete the program and get her AA. Upon going to enroll in the state college she found that some of her course no longer counted because she had taken too long.
At that point she threw up her hands and gave up. She now is still classified as a Teachers Aid and is paid 33% of what a teacher is even though she runs her program including an assistant under her and is only overseen by a teacher who OK’s her program outline but is not even in the room.
Floridiot – (C) # 17
Nice BBV links,.. enjoyed the read. Locate a lobbyist
to protect the interests of the “voting industry.”
Also too Choicepoint in conjunction with Accenture came up with the bogus voter scrub lists,.. ie,.. bogus felons – purge list,.. bogus invalidly registered voter – purge list,… bogus HAVA mandated purge list.
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Purge,..suppress,.. disenfranchise as many Democratic Party voters as possible,.. keep them out of the election booth at all costs and the Republicans can easily win elections as Paul M. Weyrich stated sometime ago.( about Democratic Party voter suppression).
Paul M.Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation,.. the Free Congress Foundation,.. and one of the primary founders of the right-wing Christian Fundamentalist Fascist movement,… was taped while speaking in private, at a church, to Republican activists:
“How many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome? Good government! They want everybody to vote! I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections, quite candidly, goes up as voting populace goes down.â€
The Republican Party has turned Democratic Party voter suppression and disenfranchisement into a well practiced art and science,.. while the Democratic Party does zero to curtail this illegal conduct. Demos win elections ? Hardly,.. the percentage the Rethugs illegally shave off,.. causing Demos inability to place a valid vote,.. is the percentage the Demos need to prevail as the winners of an election. They are nibbling away at our total eligible vote count to skew the numbers by design,.. making it impossible for the Dems to achieve victory at the ballot box. And nothing is done to remedy this illegal scam to game the vote result and hijack democracy,.. giving habitual control of our government to these greedy fascist warmongers.
Ok, open thread & all, so…. I have one thing to say about tonight’s Emmy’s:
BARRY MANILOW?????????????????????????????????????????
Hmmmm…isn’t THIS interesting…not at all surprising, but interesting…this is a quote from
“…John Ashcroft, in 1997, arguing against expanded Federal Government surveillance powers in the wake of the Oklahoma City terrorist attack:
The Clinton administration wants government to be able to read international computer communications – financial transactions, personal e-mail and proprietary information sent abroad – all in the name of national security . . .
Why…should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web?
The protections of the Fourth Amendment are clear. The right to protection from unlawful searches is an indivisible American value. . . .
Every medium by which people communicate can be exploited by those with illegal or immoral intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records or translate our international communications.”
–firedoglake’s ‘Book Salon’, quoting from John Dean’s “Conservatives Without Conscience”
link
Ok, that was perfect: Colbert & Stewart presenting together, & Colbert shouting “I LOST TO BARRY MANILOW?!”
Alright, am I the only loser watching the Emmy’s?
*sigh*
God, you guys, back in the analog days I used to be an indefatigable researcher. Now these search engines for whole internet, and individual sites, just fry me. I’m wanting me some Giordi Laforge “glasses”… or one of those eye transplants like in The Minority Report. It’s so much worse when you’re looking for stuff they really don’t want you to know, but even looking for a damn recipe can give you a headache online.
I need a nice long visit to one of those yuppie spas, beside the new eyes. YOUTH IS WASTED ON THE YOUNG!!!!!! I know. I was young once.
Joan, I don’t have a tv, but I’d be watching if I did. I’m rooting for Stephen Colbert.
ITMFA!
Agent99 #46
LMAO 🙂
Yes, ha, ha! I need a 50 inch flat screen monitor, and +5 diopter glasses in order to save the world… OR magic.
Seems we have some neo-matrix citizens popping up over to the thread about investigators suddenly dying strangely. What’s wrong with people?
And I hear Alda beat Shatner, which is awful, because Alda could walk through his West Wing gig, but Shatner has transcended all to bring us Denny Crane. He’s no longer the wooden Kirk. He’s finally someone with zing and dash and crackling insane humor.
Stewart could beat Colbert, only because the Correspondents’ Dinner doesn’t really qualify for that Emmy…. That’s okay.
Pretty good for someone who has no tv, huh?
99 re #26 Ditto on NY
Joan re #44 Blows me away , if the pen(keyboard) was mightier than the sword ,a-holes like Ashcroft would have “bleed out” by now.
Bluebear2:
Yeah. Harris as a controlled demolition. Great image!
Joan:
You can at least revel in the fact that Ashcroft and these other hypocrites live in a world of demons. Because he knew HE would abuse the powers, he JUST KNEW Clinton would. Just like they KNEW Clinton was starting a war to get Monica out of the news. You have to pity them!
How did Tracy Chapman get that one published!
Re #44,
Yeah, let’s hear it for the GOP cheer:
HIP! HIP! HYPOCRISY!!!!!
BB2: I think college should be FREE for American kids, if you keep up your grades. Or adults, actually. Are we trying to make this a better country or not? Free college would be a huge step in it. We can find hundreds of billions of $$$ for Iraq, but college kids enter the world with $50-80,000 debt. It’s really a reflection on how bad this country is going.
Big Dan #54
They have certainly lost sight of what is important – what made this country great! It seems I can remember when our educational system was one of the best in the world. It has devolved into an only for the richest system. How many great minds are now lost by the wayside?
BB2: What is important to THEM is not the same as what is important to US. Historically, oppressive regimes have acted on the knowledge that an educated population may be their worst enemy. Or as a very wise observer once put it: “They don’t see any benefit in educating their people; but they do see the danger!”
http://www.rawstory.com/news/20...ress_0828.html
BB2: It sure makes the military more appealing to kids, middleclass & poor kids, that is…definitely planned. I realize this plan because I can put 2-and-2 together, most sheeple can’t. And the MSM does not point this out.
It’s like the Republicans run up deficits (see Reagan, Bush’s…) so they can then say “we need to cut social programs because the deficit is so high.” And the sheeple and MSM don’t point out that the money was taken from social programs for war and tax cuts for the rich. They are done as separate actions, and sheeple and the MSM do not connect these actions that are in fact, planned as one big connected action.
Contested Mexican election battle is being worn-down,.. the protesting seems to be dying on the vine.
The 9% of the precincts that were recounted by a ruling of the judges of the electoral court, the evidence indicates no wide spread election fraud having had occurred.
It is expected that conservative candidate Felipe Calderon will be determined victor of the presidential election. A decision by the judges of the election court must be made by September 6, their decision is
final without rights of further appeal.
Final determination of Mexico’s election : Reuters article
Here’s 3 good articles:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworl...83191156511966
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=532
http://www.neworleansvfp.org/node/3011
…for your reading pleasure!
oldturk
Put the Reuters story next to this one:
http://www.narconews.com/Issue4...ticle2010.html
Greg Palast article on Katrina…….Hurricane Expert Threatened for Pre-Katrina Warnings http://www.rense.com/general73/threat.htm
MSN = BSN
I love Katherine Harris. She’s the crazy aunt I never had. I love the fact that she is a Republican.
The msm was successfully diverted from the bush nsa spiing rulling & lieberman by that J.B.Ramsay HOAX / RUSE.
cnn used to be the “clueless news network” now it’s truely the CONservative or “crap news network”.
I only hope nancy graces eyeballs pop out of her fucking head into glenn beck’s mouth . . .
http://ubersite.com/m/65880
A long time ago I posted on Brad Blog lyrics to a song I was working on and hoped to have ready for the Brad Blog fundraiser. Then I got sick and wasn’t able to accomplish what I had hoped to do. Well I finally got the song finished, recorded and posted on http://www.soundclick.com/valzudell It’s called “The Ballad of the Roses” and tells the tale of a young couple about to have their first child when the young husband is called to active duty. It’s told from the perspective of the young wife. Hope you will go listen and vote. It’s free to listen and free to download if interested. Hope you like the song!
Val #66
Nice. Thanks!
Re: Katherine Harris, I find it ironic that she would use her freedom of speech rights, to explain how she plans to exclude, from the political process,those who do not share her religious beliefs.It might be very important to hear this, just prior to an election.
Val #66 Love your song, thanks
A-99 – (C) # 61
The American and British MSM will be happy talk propaganda about how clean the Mexican election was run. The “leftist” candidate should stop all unsupported contentions of fraud and concede the election to the (fascist) neo-conservative. Hoping does not make it so.
The clock is rapidly running out in Mexico. August 31 the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (AKA-TRIFE) must conclude its election/ballot review process. By September 6 this past election must be declared invalid or a winner must be announced. On September 1 Vicente Fox must give his State of the Union Address.
If the Mexican neo-cons continue to ignore implications of fraud and do not invalidate this election and persist upon installing Felipe Calderon there will be a street revolution in Mexico. Fox and Calderon will unleash the riot police and the military,.. a major bloodbath could ensue.
OldTurk: don’t look now — I think it’s already happening!
http://www.narconews.com/Issue4...ticle2026.html
The story of the Greek cellphone intercept equipment found at Vodafone Company by Kostas Tsalikidis who was supposed to have committed suicide by hanging himself. That story is exploding with new facts and details. The family has hired an attorney and someone has stepped forward to communicate with the attorney to say Tsalikidis was murdered because he knew too many details of the phone wiretaps. Such as who perpetrated the wiretaps,.. how extensive and pervasive it was and who specifically were the intended targets. This mystery person with the information promised more details to the lawyer in ten days. As usual the American media has little details
the Greek media is starting to delve into the odd details,.. there seems to be a much more significant story than has thus far been told. Are the neocons and fascists behind/implicated in this European wiretap operation ?
Someone has started a Wikipedia web entry of the details of the unfolding Tsalikidis/Vodafone wiretap/intercept story. Hopefully it will be updated as more details become available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas_Tsalikidis
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Bradblog story by Joeseph Cannon – Greek and Italian wiretap equipment and suicides.
https://bradblog.com/?p=3305
oldturk, #69
I always hope the bloodbath won’t ensue, but I have to say that all of us, all humans, should be prepared for that, and prepared to prevail against it, because that is almost always the ONLY way people this nasty can be beaten. 🙁
We want to rest on our laurels, our glorious founders, our glorious sacrifices for liberty over the 23 decades of our existence, but… lookee who’s running the world right now. Either Congress suddenly goes heroic, or the minions all go whistleblower and make Congress go heroic, or…. 🙁
Hey Brad and WP have either of you seen this? Its about a job with IWT News. Please give it a read and MAYBE you should apply for it, I’m just saying I think you guys would both have a shot at this, bebest damn investigative journalists I know http://www.iwtnews.com/host
http://www.cloakanddagger.de/CL...AR%20aug29.htm
From RawStory:
“Bush White House said subpoenaed by wiretap lawyers”
-Tuesday August 29, 2006
“…the subpoenaes, directed to President George Bush, the Office of Legal Counsel, the Department of Justice, and the Chief Legal Counsel for Verizon, have already been sent, and should reach their targets tomorrow…”
link
Just a little ditty I came across while scrounging around the network:
“The Official George W. Bush Inaugural Song
(Sung to the tune of the BEVERLY HILLBILLIES theme song)
Come and listen to my story ’bout a boy name Bush.
His IQ was zero and his head was up his tush.
He drank like a fish while he drove all about.
But that didn’t matter ‘cuz his daddy bailed him out.
DUI, that is. Criminal record. Cover-up.
Well, the first thing you know little Georgie goes to Yale.
He can’t spell his name but they never let him fail.
He spends all his time hangin’ out with student folk.
And that’s when he learns how to snort a line of coke.
Blow, that is. White gold. Nose candy.
The next thing you know there’s a war in Vietnam.
Kin folks say, “George, stay at home with Mom.”
Let the common people get maimed and scarred.
We’ll buy you a spot in the Texas Air Guard.
Cushy, that is. Country clubs. Nose candy.
Twenty years later George gets a little bored.
He trades in the booze, says that Jesus is his Lord.
He said, “Now the White House is the place I wanna be.”
So he called his daddy’s friends and they called the GOP.
Gun owners, that is. Falwell. Jesse Helms.
Come November 7, the election ran late.
Kin folks said “Jeb, give the boy your state!”
“Don’t let those colored folks get into the polls.”
So they put up barricades so they couldn’t punch their holes.
Chads, that is. Duval County. Miami-Dade.
Before the votes were counted five Supremes stepped in.
Told all the voters “Hey, we want George to win.”
“Stop counting votes!” was their solemn invocation.
And that’s how George finally got his coronation.
Rigged, that is. Illegitimate. No moral authority.
Y’all come vote, now. Ya hear?”
Thanks BB2 for #76. All so true!
BB2
“Because Ebsen, unlike many in Hollywood, was a conservative Republican, some fallout resulted from his refusal to endorse fellow Beverly Hillbillies co-star Nancy Kulp* for a Congressional seat in Pennsylvania. Ebsen asserted that she was “too liberal” for his tastes and instead endorsed her opponent; they never spoke again” Wikipedia *Miss Jane
Bluebear2:
That’s funny!
BB2 #76 – Very Creative & Very True !
Pentagon orders US Military Special Forces to Mexico’s oil fields to protect American access to Mexico’s oil.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article..._article=13107
#76 BB2
“The Official George W. Bush Inaugural Song”
Thats great, are singing it and having a whale of a time.
2 new great articles:
http://tvnewslies.org/html/shut...nd_listen.html
http://www.crisispapers.org/ess...entythings.htm
big dan:
Shut up and listen. I like that approach! Interesting article for reality novices!