Considering some of the things that she said about him, I thought that this was pretty classy:
The president said Richards “became a national role model, and her charm, wit and candor brought a refreshing vitality to public life.”
He concluded that “Texas has lost one of its great daughters.”
Al Franken is finally getting paid close to what he’s worth:
…you know things must be bad when even your top star can’t get paid. “I don’t know if that’s true or not,” Al Franken told Radar late Wednesday, when asked about the bankruptcy report. “We do know that there have been cash-flow problems. I haven’t been paid in a while. Like, there’s no cash flowing to me.”
To really make it right, though, he’d have to send them big checks.
Bruce Gagnon is nuts:
I am now convinced, more than ever, that the Bush pirate crew is going to pull another 9-11 before the November elections. I think they are going to declare martial law. Then when the public hits the streets in protest, they are going to trot out these “active denial” microwave weapons for crowd control. And if anyone stands around too long they will be killed, just like is happening today in Iraq.
They will use these weapons in order to “dissuade” the American people from thinking that we can non-violently protest to save our country from fascism. They are then hoping that activists will either give up and go home, or turn violent and then the military will be given the go-ahead to take people out – just like we see them doing in Iraq today.
The clamp down is coming. Folks had better come alive now before it is too late. The Bush team has decided that they do not intend to give up power. They are going to make a play for total control of the oil in the Middle East and Central Asia and will not be slowed down by elections.
[Via Thomas James, who reads sites like this so we don’t have to]
Bruce Gagnon is nuts:
I am now convinced, more than ever, that the Bush pirate crew is going to pull another 9-11 before the November elections. I think they are going to declare martial law. Then when the public hits the streets in protest, they are going to trot out these “active denial” microwave weapons for crowd control. And if anyone stands around too long they will be killed, just like is happening today in Iraq.
They will use these weapons in order to “dissuade” the American people from thinking that we can non-violently protest to save our country from fascism. They are then hoping that activists will either give up and go home, or turn violent and then the military will be given the go-ahead to take people out – just like we see them doing in Iraq today.
The clamp down is coming. Folks had better come alive now before it is too late. The Bush team has decided that they do not intend to give up power. They are going to make a play for total control of the oil in the Middle East and Central Asia and will not be slowed down by elections.
[Via Thomas James, who reads sites like this so we don’t have to]
Bruce Gagnon is nuts:
I am now convinced, more than ever, that the Bush pirate crew is going to pull another 9-11 before the November elections. I think they are going to declare martial law. Then when the public hits the streets in protest, they are going to trot out these “active denial” microwave weapons for crowd control. And if anyone stands around too long they will be killed, just like is happening today in Iraq.
They will use these weapons in order to “dissuade” the American people from thinking that we can non-violently protest to save our country from fascism. They are then hoping that activists will either give up and go home, or turn violent and then the military will be given the go-ahead to take people out – just like we see them doing in Iraq today.
The clamp down is coming. Folks had better come alive now before it is too late. The Bush team has decided that they do not intend to give up power. They are going to make a play for total control of the oil in the Middle East and Central Asia and will not be slowed down by elections.
[Via Thomas James, who reads sites like this so we don’t have to]
Here’s a video of the recent PBS “debate” between the “Loose Change” wackos, and the Popular Mechanics editors on the 9/11 conspiracy theories. Do these people really think that reasonable people are going to be convinced by continual accusations that their debating opponents are “liars”? This seems to be a much more prevalent tactic of the left. More projection, I guess.
Disney is being threatened by the Democrat Senate leadership.
[Friday morning update]
Lileks has further thoughts:
I don
Here’s a post, just for those morons who continue to believe that I’m a Bush shill, or parrot Republican talking points:
…as a proud Briton, I am not prepared to be a client of the United States. The coalition of the willing was, in effect, a coalition of two. Of course Britain is the junior partner, but she is a partner, and not a low-level employee. What is special about the relationship for us? America gets a European partner, world class intel, nuclear subs, men, whole regions pacified and many millions of your taxpayer dollars saved.
What does Britain get? MFN trading status?
America is going to have to give something to this relationship, and I do not mean a standing ovation for the PM in Congress. We stand with you far more than any European ally, but receive no special treatment in dollars or in trade. Usually, we do not even receive respect.
Yes, Bush is incompetent, in many ways. But as Lincoln said of Grant, “he fights.” At least occasionally.
Governments in general are incompetent. But a Kerry administration would have been even worse. We always have to choose between the less evil of two lessers.
Begins day after tomorrow:
Something almost without precedent in America will happen Thursday. That
Are the Dems really going to be so foolish as to put out a report titled “The Neo Con”? I just saw a crawl on cable indicating that they will.
Way to play to your nutty fringe base, and turn off the sensible electorate. I hope they do it.
[Update in the early afternoon]
Robert Goldberg, on the increasing (and increasingly hard to hide) anti-semitism of the left. And I think that, at this point, most of us know what “neocon” is code for.