Chris Floyd
January 3rd, 2009
Finding Chris Floyd reminds me of when I first read Digby. It’s so fun to find great writers armed with facts. His blog’s called, “Empire Burlesque” - the high crimes and low comedy of the American imperium. Great post today on hatred, check it out.
Cheney: highlight of the Bush Presidency was 9/11, which achieved PNAC goals of transformative “change”
December 21st, 2008Dick Cheney is one sick war criminal. Listen to this:
WALLACE: Highest moment the last eight years?
CHENEY: Hmmm. Highest moment in the last eight years? Well, I think the most important, the most compelling, was 9/11 itself, and what that entailed, what we had to deal with. The way in which that changed the nation, and set the agenda for what we had to deal with as an administration.
Funny, the Project for a New American Century document that Cheney signed said that, “the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”
What a coincidence, we did have a “catalyzing event”, an attack on the US, like a “new Pearl Harbor”! And, it was the “highest moment” for Dick Cheney, in that it “changed the nation” and “set the agenda”! Crazy coincidence, nothing to see here. Move along, let’s “look forward” everyone.
h/t Jed Report
Update: you really can’t overstate what Cheney said there about 9/11, especially considering it’s part of Cheney’s “the president is king in ‘wartime’ ” tour. (See Glenn and Andrew Sullivan)
Jon Stewart skewers Mike Huckabee on gay marriage — comedians better than so-called “journalists”
December 10th, 2008It’s a great interview/skewering by Jon Stewart when he talks about gay marriage with Mike Huckabee.
Sad that a comedian is so much better at interviewing and exposing the contradictions in Mike Huckabee’s than so-called “journalists”.
Fake NYTimes is totally achievable
November 14th, 2008This is one of the greatest pranks by the Yes Men, at least for its visibility and scale. If you haven’t seen the Yes-Men, watch their movie. Visit their site. Read their paper.
An excerpt, from New York Bike Path System Expanded Dramatically
NEW YORK — Officials from the Department of Transportation today opened the 9th Avenue bike lane, which now extends the entire length of Manhattan. The festivities were then moved to 2nd Avenue, where ground was broken on a similar path to extend the full length of the island.
With the completion of the 9th Avenue bike lane and groundbreaking on other avenues, New York is on the (bike) path to becoming as livable as other world cities.
With the completion of the 9th Avenue bike lane and groundbreaking on other avenues, New York is on the (bike) path to becoming as livable as other world cities.
Over the next two years, every other avenue will also receive a full bike lane, blocked off from traffic, while every fifth crosstown street will be opened exclusively to bicyclists and pedestrians beginning next month.Mark Blair, a transit worker from Queens, was busy re-timing traffic lights for bicycle speed. “Riding your bike up or down the avenue, the traffic lights are going to change in sync,” explained Blair. “You ride 10-15 miles per hour, and you’ll be hitting all greens.”
“Now that our country is taking its rightful place among the world’s developed nations,” said Mayor Bloomberg, “it is time for our greatest city to take its place among the world’s great cities.”
Change… Has Arrived!
November 5th, 2008Wow. It’s finally real. America elected Barack Obama, and smashed the Republicans and Conservatism with an epic defeat. No hanging chads. No Supreme Court justices. No Ohio election machine questions (well, at least not enough to matter).
A resounding victory has brightened spirits across America and around the world. Where I usually vote, in the last elections there were 2 or 3 people in line or voting. Yesterday, there were at least 30. Constantly. All day (said the poll workers).
YES WE CAN!
McCain is just out of it.
October 30th, 2008Yeah, this is a couple days old. But it’s still pretty sad. McCain should go into hiding.
tip of the iceberg
October 9th, 2008Who wants to predict that this evidence that the NSA was recording and transcribing totally innocent Americans phone calls is just the tip of the iceberg?
We get these reports because they had translators and linguists transcribing calls. Gee, I wonder if there is a group of NSA employees with “special clearances” who handle more “sensitive” calls. You know, the kind that Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are interested in…
Ruled by morons
September 19th, 2008Thanks again to the Supreme Court for foisting these authoritarian morons on us. They’ve really done a heck of a job. Isn’t it funny how the “market conservatives” turn all anti-market as soon as their business cronies are about to go bankrupt? Never seen ‘em say “Hey, we need emergency measures to help Americans out of their credit card debt, wipe out their student loans… (in fact, they passed a bankruptcy bill so you can’t get out of debt.) But now that their deregulation is wreaking havoc — time for the taxpayer to step in and bail everyone out. Classic.
The Big Picture, via digby
This is nothing short of a total panic by people who have no clue what they are doing. And to think, I mocked Russia for being a nation run by market commies.
This is the ultimate bailout attempt, which will have repercussions far far beyond our imaginations:
1) We suffer a loss of Market Integrity; The US is now a Banana Republic
2) Blatant market manipulation: this is nothing more than an attempt to force markets higher;
3) 60 days prior to a presidential election? This is a none-too-subtle attempt to influence the elections — especially coming on top of the Fannie/Freddie bailout;
4) The coming pop will create a huge air pocket, ultimately leading to us crashing much lower;
5) Expect a huge increase in volatility — upwards first, then down;
We Are A Nation of Morons, led by complete Idiots, making us complicit in our own self destruction.
Hey, at least we have our Constitution, the Rule of Law. Or not…
“To the extent that the Constitution and laws are read narrowly, as Jefferson wished, the Chief Executive will on occasion feel duty bound to assert monarchical notions of the prerogative that will permit him to exceed the law.”
– Dick Cheney
Americans and torture
September 16th, 2008Via Andrew Sullivan:
A new survey of global public opinion [PDF] reveals the appalling truth. Americans are now among the people on earth most supportive of government’s torturing prisoners. The United States is in the same public opinion ballpark as some of the most disgusting regimes on the planet:
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This is the Bush-Cheney legacy - to be continued under McCain-Palin. McCain was once a torture victim, but since 2006 has supported the torture of prisoners by the CIA. In fact, prisoners across the world who have been tortured by the CIA in the last two years can, in the terror of their cells, know that John McCain made it possible, by caving into the war criminals in the White House in 2006.
How can the country that pioneered the Geneva Conventions now be a nation more supportive of torture than any other developed nation on earth? Of course, it matters that we have had a president and vice-president actively endorsing and campaigning for the use of torture, and torturing prisoners routinely in jails where there is no escape and no due process.
How can that happen? Having a VP who will lie to members of his own party about Saddam having a “mini-nuke” is a clue..
lying liars
September 13th, 2008John McCain’s ads are LIES. Here’s the video proof.
Republican called out “shame on you” on national TV for defending obvious lie in McCain ad