The Rude One reminds us:

Democrats keep acting as if they are dealing with honorable men and women across the aisle in Congress. Instead, they need to behave as if all that exists over there is a hellscape of pedophiles and torturers. And act accordingly.

One can hope.

Posted at October 4, 2006 9:54 AM in response to Gay Baiting: How GOP Will Turn Foley Lemon into Lemonade

Siegel's writing was mostly gag-worthy. Pity the fool. On the surface this "Sprezzatura" stuff is a hilarious outing of a "grabbing for celebrity-and-Uma Thurman-has-passed-me-by" scribe.

Reality says it's a smoke screen.

"I don't believe this version of events coming a week after Siegel libeled Professor James Kincaid. Ezra Klein had this info for months. No one at TNR had a clue about this? Bullshit."

I'm with Gilliard on this.

Posted at September 7, 2006 5:19 PM in response to Anonymity, vs. Deception

Wonder if Bush knew this when he spoke today?

Pakistan Throws in the Towel

September 05, 2006 1:04 PM
Gretchen Peters and Habibullah Khan Report:

The Pakistani military will no longer operate in the area where Osama bin Laden and other top al Qaeda operatives are believed to be hiding, according to terms of what the Pakistan government calls a "peace deal," signed today with militant tribal groups allied to the Taliban and al Qaeda.

It is a stunning setback for U.S. efforts to root out al Qaeda and Taliban strongholds.

Posted at September 5, 2006 5:04 PM in response to Bush's Goldilocks Moment: Terror Just Right

Reed,

Please stop. It's over and you need to move on. Joe is never going to be what you thought he was. You might want to concern yourself with how many more Joe-like Cylons are hiding in the wings.

Posted at August 17, 2006 9:25 PM in response to Matter of Record

How long are you going to delude yourself with not being in and of this world? Are you over 42? If not boy, pack your bags and get ready to put your ass where your mouth is. Draft, baby! If you're over 42 here's hoping for more taxation and wartime work relocation for you. The GOP can't save all you soft, fat boys.

Do you think that you can skate free and escape any stake in this fight? Maybe you are hoping for The Rapture? I hope to see persons like you, who bang the war drum, suit up and ship off. Do you have quality or are you just another dolchstoss?

Posted at July 15, 2006 7:02 PM in response to Israel Takes A Stupid Pill

For the record the "Castle Doctrine" is old and based on English Common Law. The Florida law, which is called the "Stand Your Ground Law", is a result of the NRA's attempt to expand definitions of old laws concerning "A man's home is his castle."

see:
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/sebok/20050502.html

Aren't conservatives fun! Haidtha, USA ...God help us all.

Posted at June 15, 2006 8:04 PM in response to "No Knock" Meet "Castle Doctrine"

I'm confused Larry. Someone on the Great Left(which is my tribe)said you were in Las Vegas. WTF? Yo dog! You, Digby, JoshCo, and others stayed out of the sands of South Nevada? I'd love to be in Vegas.

God bless and stay safe and as always a great read.

P.S. I want you to buy a CD by Bruce Cockburn(pronounced co-burn and he's Canadian). Title: Stealing Fire. It's an oldie from 1984.

Posted at June 8, 2006 10:15 PM in response to Strategic Disconnection

I was glad to see KO put up General Jack D. Ripper's pic...I mean LeMay's pic. Good time to re-watch Dr. Strangelove and Seven Days In May seeing how the only true patriots, those in the White House and Pentagon, are banging the "Iran Is The Root Of All Evil" drum.

Tragically everything old is new again.

Posted at August 30, 2006 11:09 PM in response to Olberman Our New Murrow

We all remember this one:

Ashcroft Blocks FBI Access to Gun Records

Critics Call Attorney General's Decision Contradictory in Light of Terror Probe Tactics

By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 7, 2001; Page A26

The FBI will not be permitted to compare the names of suspected terrorists against federal gun purchase records, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft told the Senate on December 6, offering no encouragement to senators willing to guarantee the FBI the authority to do so.

Defending his decision to block the FBI from using gun documents in its terror probe, Ashcroft said the law does not allow investigators to review the federal records created when a buyer applies to purchase a weapon at a gun store.

-snip-

Bush administration officials said information collected by gun stores for use in background checks was not intended for other law enforcement purposes. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the administration is following a regulation signed in January by Attorney General Janet Reno, who ruled that records can be used only to audit the background check system.

-snip-

Posted at May 13, 2006 11:27 PM in response to A Very Different America

I think that a big factor is the taint of Cunningham's closeted, hypocritical life and thru association, by whatever degree, that helped in bringing Goss down. Bush made a defensive move and part of that was to appease the fundie-right.

Duke’s House of cards
Washington Blade
By CHRIS CRAIN
Dec. 02, 2005

~snip~

What you won’t read about in these mainstream press accounts is the other double life led by the closet case, Duke, the anti-gay conservative. Cunningham, who is married with grown children, has admitted to romantic, loving relationships with men, both during his Vietnam military service and as a civilian. That was the remarkable story that this publication reported two years ago, when Elizabeth Birch, the former Human Rights Campaign leader, inadvertently outed Cunningham at a gay rights forum.

Birch never mentioned Cunningham’s name, but she talked about a rabidly anti-gay congressman who asked to meet privately with her in the midst of a controversy over his use in a speech on the floor of the House the term “homos” to describe gays who have served in the military. Alone with Birch and an HRC staffer, the unnamed congressman shared that he had loved men during his life. In telling the story, Birch offered up a few too many details about the closeted congressman.

A few Google searches later, the Blade reported that it had to be Cunningham, whose career was pockmarked with bizarre gay pronouncements, including a reference to the rectal treatment he received for prostate cancer, something he told an audience “was just not natural, unless maybe you’re Barney Frank.” There’s every reason to believe Birch’s inadvertent outing, even as Cunningham denied it through a spokesperson.

This is, after all, a man without principles, who could “love men” in private, all the while condemning gays in speeches and in congressional votes. Little surprise that he could live a second double life, in which he sold those unprincipled votes to the highest bidder.

~snip~

The haters are facing each other in a circular firing squad of their own creation.

Clusterfuck indeed.

Posted at May 6, 2006 3:17 PM in response to Why Did Goss Resign?