hearings--calling them a "ridiculous waste of taxpayer money."

Get this shill off the television.

http://www.mysilverstate.com/...

http://www.bushlegacytour.com/...

is up now. Come over & see who "likes me" - who "really really likes me"! ;)

and probably shortly thereafter -   a diary which explores a forthcoming book by someone from this community we know very well.

If you are awake, I hope you will look for it.

Peace.

waiting for third shift to show up. Have a great weekend everybody, and see you at WYFP Saturday night.

Thanks to Tweety for this reference.

to "As promised in Austin."  That is the title of this diary in which I explain a decision I have just made about my future,and about which I had mentioned to a number of people at NN08.  Offered so that I do not have to send out emails to all who might be interested.

Peace.

...here is your Moment of Zen:

http://web.presidencia.gov.co/...

Sorry I don't know how to embed it, but it's Colombian president Uribe "explaining the economic potential of the Amazon" to Shakira, during their flight to Leticia for an Independence Day concert.

Thats more up my ally.. or how about Skinny Puppy or Nizer ebb??

lol..

Review tonight called Obama's Berlin speech "much ado about nothing" and "the mouse that roared".

200,000 people went out to see Barack Obama.  I doubt WWR had 200,000 viewers at the start of the program and after Krautslimer spoke, I doubt if they had 20.  What an embarrassment that guy is to PBS.  

And to top it off, he looks like he was dragged out of Madame Tussaud's on a hot day.

The right is falling into total desperation over Barack's tour de force in Europe.  We now have someone who not only looks Presidential, speaks Presidential and is not an abysmal embarrassment to this country.

From Politico supposed VP possibility leaked by an Obama staffer.
I had to go to Wikipedia on this one.

I'll have to ponder this for awhile before I have an opinion.

It was mentioned that the statute of limitations of all those involved in torture that lead to death could be prosecuted and sentenced to death even high ranking members of the administration post their leaving office.. made me smile.. Although life in prision is more my speed.. just the thought of justice made me get a pang of joy..

at the liesabout Obama

Have you seen the video of Grampa John saying Hello Dalai?

First he reads a short statement, that makes him look like he's reading a ransom note ... for his own life.

Then, the Dalai Lama takes Grampa John's hand - ala Bush n Saudi King Sittin' in the Tree, etc.  Watch his face as another man, equally as old as he, carresses his hand and playfully slaps him with an almost S&M naughtiness.

This won't play well down to the steam room, I can tell you.

here's my diary on a poem/rap song I made about our saving grace of a show in "Countdown"
LINK

Just came across this analysis piece from what looks like tomorrow's Financial Times:

What is it kos likes to say?  Daily Kos, like reading the newspaper, except one week early...

Great video!

In the crowd shot of Obama's Berlin speech in many papers, there is a banner that says "Angola," that appears to be backwards. Has someone noticed it who can say whether the banner is facing away from Obama, or the picture is flopped?

Check out this diary, with an interesting equation that may equal the Old Boat Anchor's demise.

regarding the HJC hearing today, lets show him some support a rec it up.

He seemed extremely relaxed, outspoken and confident in reaffirming and defending his slogan of halving poverty in 10 yrs. + We-Are-All-In-This-Together, in this country and beyond it.
DB queried him on his current relationship with the campaign and he said he had spoken, on his withdrawal, with both Hillary and Barack and both had agreed that this would be part of the package, including the creation of a poverty-fighting post "at least at the Cabinet level", with REAL clout. And that he is confident this is going to happen.
I hadn't seen much of Edwards in recent weeks, but he struck me as, well, over-a-hump, very-very easy, all of a sudden.
I didn't catch when the interview was recorded, but it seemed very new.  

http://digg.com/...

Just what could happen between now and 2030 (the time when oil from new offshore rigs will finally enter the market)? Democratic Congressional candidate John Boccieri from Ohio made this amusing Web video to mock his opponent's reliance on drilling. Let's take a look at what will transpire around the United States and around the world before offshore drilling will begin to affect our oil and gas prices in America.

Here's 2 animations.

The first one is from The Nation and is about McCain's doubletalk.

The second one is from Walt Handelsman. He won the Pulitzer for his cartoons and animations. I just love his animations. This one is McCain vs. Obama: The 2008 Summer Olympics.

Smile!

In the Baltimore Sun today, describing a well-healed fundraiser for McCain at the Center Club, a posh, walnut-lined, members only restaurant and bar on top of the Legg Mason Building:

And this guy voted for McCain/Feingold?

He's accepting federal funding?

BS.

At the gop convention, I expect to see mccain to be crouched in a corner wringing his hands saying 'my prrreciousss'. While everyone else chants:

'Ash nazg durbatuluk,
Ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatuluk,
agh burzum-ishi krimpatul'

Hoping to summon someone to replace him.

That wasn't a Republican.

It was a member of the British Labour Party.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...

the situation in Iran that you won't easily find elsewhere:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...

The music by Carlos Vives.

http://gizmodo.com/...

I just moght get the blow-out of my dreams if friggin' North Dakota is in play.

If you believe that the foreign policy of the Obama administration will differ significantly from that of Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Regan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, or Richard Nixon, you should read "The Mandarins" in the August issue of Harpers.  The contents of that article, plus the recent comments by Cass Sunstein that there would be prosecutions of Bush administration officials only for "egregious" crimes leads me to believe that Obama will be Clinton with enough Democrats to pass some kind of semi-universal health plan based on satisfying the insurance industry.  Our policy towards China, Cuba, Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Pakistan, Russia, the African kleptocracies, Burma, Indonesia, and most other countries will remain indistinguishable from even the George W. Bush administration.  In Korea and in Israel/Palestine we will revert to the Clinton policies.  Only in Iran do I expect that there will likely be a major change.  I believe that, as a part of the general settlement of the problems in Iraq, the US will sign a mutual non-agression treaty with Iran under which they will agree to stop development of nuclear weapons.  A similar treaty with North Korea will induce them to actually surrender most, if not all, of their current nuclear weapon stockpile.

Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:30pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/...

http://mccainkeatingfive.com/