Other Post-Election Reports

Oops. Didn’t mean to confuse my optimist nom-de-post with that last line of thought.

Oh please! More liberal hand-wringing!

As long as you’re a patriotic law-abiding American, you have nothing to fear from the Administration, provided you do not pay for petroleum, breathe, have skin or organs, or plan to be alive any time after December 2008 or so, or have children or know anyone who has children, or pets, or house plants, any of whom you hope will be alive after December 2008 or so.

I have two questions:

(1) Do The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse actually all have to be men?
(2) Must they always remain upon their steeds?

If, “No”, shake within thine boots, O’ brothers and sisters -
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=978030 7346810&z=y

Cooper, is the unspoken message of that cover supposed to be that Condi is taking the high road?

The only thing that is going well is the Twins surge. The Kitties will fall!

Uh, whatever Siobhan said after she made her first post, that goes for me too.
“Objects in your mirror are closer than they appear”.
By the way, I was in Nebraska last weekend (Mr. DICK Cheney is a native of that reddest of states). I was amazed at the vitrolic attitudes towards DICK and the administration in general. I do believe the “you can’t fool them all the time” scales are starting to drop from the eyes and brains of even the most insulated of us. The drop in gas prices was viewed as a conspiracy even there.

It’s so hard to keep laughing.
Oh well, very soon I will be plucked off the street and legal detained for the rest of my life. Why? maybe I look like someone who once ate a falafel at the wrong place in Dearborn.

What kind of person decides that human rights, civil liberties, the environment, health care, the Constitution, and economic justice are all no longer important the second the price of gas drops $.15?

(thought I changed that back)

Jim,

As far as I know, cooper is alive and well, and possibly a very good speller. He’s certainly a gifted writer. I was referring to a former colleague at Lake-Sumter Community College, and English instructor with a Mensa iq and wonderfully extensive knowledge of literature and composition who was spell-challenged. Who knows why.

The picture of the Apocalyptic 4 is close to being accurate. It has 3 in the ditch and only Condi is on the road, but she is just as derailled as the others.

BTW, I know it looks great to walk abreast, they do it all the time on Law and Order, and I think it was first used in the movie “The Right Stuff”. but when was the last time you were with 3 or more people and you all walked that way? (Although you would probably want to always be able to keep an eye on Dick).

cooper here, alive and kicking.

W was busy today haraunging the press again about how he cannot release the entire National Intelligence Estimate about official American stupidity in Iraq fueling terriorism because it would compromise “sources and methods” and thereby endanger operatives in the field. I guess they realized that from outing covert CIA agent Valerie Plame and then watching as all her contacts and operatives in Iraq and Syria got rolled up and executed. Not to mention revealing all her sources and methods. I wonder if that staff member who gets paid $103,000/year for keeping track of “lessons learned” (True! What do you think of that Mr. wf?) got to give W a dope slap and made him read the page one more time about not revealing NIE secrets before going out in front of the reporters.

I know if I were walking (Lobster forbid) with Dick Cheney, I wouldn’t want him behind me…

I don’t know why we’re all so surprised that the administration plays havoc with any kind of research. It’s been clear for 6 years now that these people are convinced they already know the truth, and they don’t want to be confused with facts. On any subject.

I’m convinced that the NIE leak, plus a number of other leaks, are the result of lower level insiders desperately trying to alert the public to the real situation in the hope that someone, somewhere, will DO something about it. I’m also convinced that is why we don’t have, and probably won’t get any time soon, a federal shield law for journalists. Cheney wants to be able to nail any journalist who publishes leaks against him.

Sharon, true. I should have noted that I was responding to the tangent, not the original statement. Have to admit that it was more about the military taking leadership on this issue, since the leaders won’t.

Have to figure it’s at least partly healthy self-preservation - end the dependency on foreign oil and you don’t have to get into neverending battles to keep the stuff coming. But if you’ve got a new neverending battle on the horizon, then you sure better start with a full tank.

For those of you waiting for the patented “Karl Rove Election Year October Surprise!” (registered trademark) your patience has been rewarded - http://www.grimmy.com/editorials.php

Love the holiday gift. And once I started scrolling back, I had a hell of a time stopping. Wicked stuff.

Cooper - love the cartoons. I agree with David: definitely an addicting site. I’ll have to book mark it.

In another example of free speech and other rights being eroded by folks with no sense of perspective: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/28/idiot.baggie/index.html
(I do understand that you can’t joke about bombs, etc. (or yell “fire” in a crowded theater), but the statement of “you can’t express opinions once you’re inside security” just stinks.

In (un)related news…there’s a wonderful house on the market in Minneapolis.

Becca (and B)…(who are afraid that they’re going to be spending the winter in the MN snow instead of the OR rain…..)

For those looking for more info or photos:

http://www.tuolsleng.com/

http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/khmeryears/s21.html

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

Sorry, Siobhan, didn’t mean to get testy. WF seems to think that if we all just close our eyes, clap our hands, and say aloud, “I do believe in limitless easy-to-tap petroleum reserves,” then it will be so.

(”Kunstler kool-aid” indeed.)

Cooper,

Thanks for the link in comment #32. Things are seriously depressing and I needed the laugh.

Yes, thanks for the link, cooper - our local paper quit carrying Mother Goose and Grimm, and I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed them.

The Repugnicans flaunt their position as the party that brought morality back to the White House, but somehow all the congress persons who’ve had to resign for various forms of moral turpitude have been R’s - bribery was bad enough, but trolling for underage boys on the Internet? For shame.

The San Francisco Chronicle regularly prints Tom Toles’ cartoons, and I agree they are first rate. They also have their own resident political cartoonist, Tom Meyer, also first rate and well worth a look; there’s a link on the cited page to his archive.

Good stuff by Tom Meyer. Off to check out Luckovich. FA is a treasure trove of links, especially for a cyberinfant down on the edge of the Green Swamp. Muchas gracias, all you linkers (are we still allowed to use Spanish in Amerikkka?)

Seattle Tammy,

I couldn’t get the link to come up (possibly one more indication of my cyberincompetence) but I can get Luckovich to come up, but I need the date of the cartoon. I incorrectly guessed the 0930 meant September 30. What I did find was good stuff.

Kunstler, like any prophet, gets hung on the timing as much as the accuracy. In general, I think many of his commentaries are well reasoned and prophetic (many, not all). That said, the bitch is, he’s already predicting the final annihilation next month and it doesn’t seem to come…quite yet, much to the consternation of the bush administration who seem to be reading his posts and trying to act out the “what not to do” parts.

That jeebus gu had some prophets who couldn’t get the timing down either. When was that apocalypse again?

Whatever.

The truly thing about Adam’s very funny post is we don’t really know what reports there are that have not even seen the light of day, much altered and released on a convenient Friday at 4:57 p.m. And since the chimperor has made every document his administration vomited up secret until just after the Mickey Mouse copyright expires, we’ll likely never know.

Oh well, more good ol’ tejas conservative principles at work.