The only thing I want to hear from Iraq war architects is an apology. http://t.co/vPeGmOyP2W
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Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) June 18, 2025Harry Reid tells me and @samsteinhp: "I'm sorry that I was misled" on Iraq, calls his vote a "big mistake" huff.to/1kOp04f
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Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) June 18, 2025****
Email shows Gov. Scott Walker and Karl Rove illegally discussing coordination of outside campaign spending
politicalwire.com/archives/2014/…
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Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) June 19, 2025The racist sports mascot issue shows GOP is again decades late in embracing positive social change.
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Sherman Alexie (@Sherman_Alexie) June 19, 2025****
There has to be an easier way to make sure your descendants never mention you than being at a march against same-sex marriage in 2014.
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(@LOLGOP) June 19, 2025Of all the problems in the world, consenting adults wanting to making a loving, state-sanctioned commitment isn't one of them.
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(@LOLGOP) June 19, 2025****
#ThatAwkwardMoment when GOP Sen. candidate Thom Tillis says blacks & Hispanics not the “traditional population” of NC nationalmemo.com/thom-tillis-r-…
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The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) June 19, 2025Gay marriage has already ruined so many marriages-- I count at least 7, and that's just Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh. #March4Marriage
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Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) June 19, 2025****
The Koch summit’s concealment and deception sounds like a cult. The Kochs are hiding because Americans oppose the purchase of our democracy.
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Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) June 19, 2025Instead of pitting one side's billionaires against the other side's, we need a constitutional amendment to get all this shady money out.
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Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) June 19, 2025****
#ThatAwkwardMoment when Dick Cheney goes on Fox News to blame Obama for #Iraq & @megynkelly says this to him instead: http://t.co/is5rpCpzOW
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Richard Hine (@richardhine) June 19, 2025Reporter asks if president "regrets not leaving a residual force in Iraq." SOFA negotiated by President Bush didn't allow one.
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Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 19, 2025****
What Dick Cheney is lacking is shame. That and any inkling of self-awareness.
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Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 19, 2025Is there any stronger proof of the non-existence of a Deity than that Dick Cheney isn't struck by lightning every time he opens his mouth?
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kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) June 19, 2025****
Blair ‘liberates’ himself, GWB does paintings of his toes. Really expensive self-realization process.
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tbyfield (@tbfld) June 15, 2025There must be SOMEONE in John McCain's family who cares enough to call in the people in the white jackets with the butterfly nets.
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kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) June 19, 2025
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Bob!!!!!
Thank you soooOOOooOOOooOOoooOOoooo much Nerdy!
Hi there Chips!! :)
NW - another winner!!!
Thanks, Bob.
Thanks, Chips.
You’re a Grade A treasure Nerdy, thanks again.
Hello again.
Who put the liberal koolaid in Megyn Kelly’s cup?
I’m just waiting for her to apologize or get fired or both ….
And that evil bastard and his demon spawn just refuse to accept any responsibility for the misery they caused in two countries.
They truly define Evil. Period.
I think she’s been body-snatched LL, it’s the only explanation.
Kara Vallow’s first tweet is my favorite. I always wonder how Cheney who has a heart condition is so healthy that he can disparage our President all the dang time!
He had a heart transplant. Now he needs a brain transplant…
“The most important first-order consequence of the Iraq invasion, envisioned by many of those I spoke to is the possibility of a regional conflict between Sunnis and Shiites for theological and political supremacy in the Middle East. This is a war that could be fought by proxies of Saudi Arabia, the Sunni flag-bearer, against Iran—or perhaps by Iran and Saudi Arabia themselves—on battlefields across Iraq, in Lebanon and Syria, and in Saudi Arabia’s largely Shiite Eastern Province, under which most of the kingdom’s oil lies.”
In October 2011, Barack Obama and his national security committee sat down for the most important conference call they had held on Iraq. On the videolink from Baghdad was Nouri al-Maliki, a man whom the US had backed as a second-term leader a year earlier.
Folders and briefing pads were piled in front of the Americans. In Baghdad, Maliki sat with only a translator. He wanted no discussion about an extension of the US presence in Iraq, not even a token contribution for training or mentoring. Maliki’s stance was welcomed by many in the room, who viewed Iraq as a politically consuming misadventure. But they were just as surprised as the hawks at the Iraqi leader’s defiance. After eight long years, most of them as partners of sorts, it had come to this; there was no longer anything to negotiate. Maliki’s Iraq would go it alone; the US could turn the lights off when it left……
….More ominously for a government that urgently seeks US military aid, Dempsey and the defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, told a Senate panel already champing at the bit for the Iraqi prime minister’s downfall that military intervention would be futile without concerted action from Maliki to embrace Sunnis. The reversal is as thorough as it is sudden. Zalmay Khalilzad, the Bush-era US ambassador who assiduously helped install the then-obscure Maliki as leader in 2006, told reporters that Iran could help the US persuade Shia politicians to “make a change” by replacing Maliki. This may yield yet further common ground for the arch foes who, not long ago, fought a vicious proxy war in Iraq, and now seem increasingly drawn together by a common threat…..continued
Ok, you do realize I’m a map geek, no? The map of the new Middle East has me rolling off on tangents.
I thought I was reliving an “imagined acid trip” during a Pink Floyd concert…..while playing the board game ‘Risk’ which I did do as a kid!
Whoops…….wrong one
Food deprivation……..time for dinner!
Anyone else hear Elizabeth Warren manage to “talk over” and interrupt Tweety and tell him “Stop it.” He actually shut up-briefly-and let her talk and make her points. Good for her!
On another topic: My knee issue is not my knee. It is my back. Had x-ray and to quote my doctor: It’s a train-wreck. MRI next week………..
Sigh………don’t like this one bit!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh no tnmtngirl, I hope all goes well and it can be fixed. Keep us apprised.
I saw it—-Tweety is either dumb or was playing dumb, seemed completely unaware of how Congress operates, seemed unaware of Repub obstruction to every single piece of legislation for jobs etc. Wanted PBO to wave a magic wand again and launch a multi-billion dollar nationwide infrastructure construction project by merely announcing it.
And sorry about your pain issues—I dealt with low back pain and sciatica nerve pain in my leg about 20 yrs. ago—-after a long, excruciating period—-many drs. and even a chiropractor (don’t go), I finally got to the right dr who gave me 3 cortisone shots in spine—and voila!—no pain and haven’t had one problem since.
doster, thank you SO very much for sharing that. Our doc also uses a fabulous PT who has a reputation here in town for helping many people either delay or not have surgery at all. That is definitely LAST choice!
One of these days I’m going to arrange a math tutorial (Amk, you tutor material?) to help BTs improve their twitter counting. ;)
:D :D :D :D
;)
My math is always found ‘wanting’.
What do you do - make up your own numbers for the plans you offer clients?
Or are you suggesting people want your math?
Have to say I like the ‘found’ and ‘wanting’ juxtaposition, you wordsmith, you. :grin:
Donna Dem, are you listening?!
Great News!!
Indeed! We cannot afford a coronation!
Hmmm…..well, well..well..
I know HRC’s people are in Iowa so I’m glad he’s not waiting any longer to get going. Now if only Deval Patrick would give it some more thought…..
That’s a very interesting development and a very welcome one, if it means what I think/hope it does. :)
What ho TOD peeps! So today my Mom (Mama Shoes) forwards me a link to an article with the screaming headline George Clooney to run for Governor of CA! Woohooo!!! she sez. I had to burst her bubble and tell her: 1) that unless she saw pigs flying outside her window, it was HIGHLY UNLIKELY that George is running for political office. He’s only said that oh like in every interview he’s ever done that the political life is not for him; and 2) since the news article she forwarded was from “NewsMax” it’s HIGHLY LIKELY this “news” is not even true or factual; just reporting made up ca ca from those “unnamed sources” And now I find out that NewsMax is getting their own news channel on Direct TV and Dish and it starts Monday. WTF??? It’s no coincidence that another Fox like “news” channel is coming online in the run up to Nov midterms. These Repugs are determined to blanket the airwaves with crap and depress mid term election turnout as much as possible and by any and all means necessary. We must GOTV NOV2014 Enough!
It’s coming on Dish as well? Frack. Hopefully you have to actually order it a la carte, and it won’t be included on everyone’s plan. Bad enough I have The Blaze.
http://broadcastingcable.com/news/currency/newsmax-tv-reaches-dish-deal/131753
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/06/14/newsmax-tv-network/10491429/
Apparently they’re going to provide “independent news with a mainstream conservative tilt”. Oh goody. If that sentence isn’t oxymoronic (sp?) , I don’t know what is. I have Direct TV and its part of of my channel lineup/plan. I’m beyond perturbed…and seriously thinking about giving them the boot. The recent announcement that AT&T was going acquire Direct TV was the first punch (Hullo do we not have any anti-trust laws anymore????!!) and this fake news channel getting a platform on cable TV is the second
I have an XBMC set top box on both TVs, and I *rarely* watch the TV box any more. Missus has been using it as well, but just can’t bring herself to cut the cord.
If you don’t mind my asking what is an “XMBC set top box” and what can or can’t you watch with it? I seriously want to explore all possible avenues. Some one here at work recently got rid of Direct TV and went with the Amazon Fire TV box and an HD antenna and says he’s not missing much and is no longer paying upwards of $150 a month to Direct TV and not watching 90% of the channels in his lineup anyway.
Basically, it’s an Android mini computer. XBMC is a software package which lets you grab TV from all over the world. As it’s open source, people write addons for it. It’s allowed me to wallow in UK tv for the past six months, including BBC World News.
You hook it up to your internet and the TV, and voila, a world of entertainment at your fingertips. If you have a service like Netflix, you can also watch that on it.
Do you still continue to pay both internet and TV fees with the XBMC? And is there a XBMC fee as well?
XBMC is a free software package. You can pay for some of the addons to get better quality, but you don’t have to. You have to have internet, but you don’t pay anything extra. (Unless, of course, your ISP has data caps.)
Does one download this or can it be bought at a computer store? I don’t like using downloads myself - I feel more comfortable paying for service or buying package outright.
It’s open source, so it’s free.
Okay. I’ll look for XBMC online one of these days and see what I see. Do appreciate your patient answers, Lib_L.
I’m a spreader of information, joy, and cocktail recipes.
:grin:
Hmm… very interesting. Thanks LL I’ll check it out…
Oh, man. That is truly depressing. Just judging from their insane ads, it’s a constant hatefest. From wiki - notice all the “mainstream” types associated with it:
Newsmax Media, commonly called Newsmax, is a conservative [1] American news media organization founded by Christopher W. Ruddy and based in West Palm Beach, Florida. It operates the news website Newsmax.com and publishes Newsmax magazine.
Ruddy started Newsmax.com on September 16, 1998, supported by a group of investors, including the family of the late Central Intelligence Agency Director William J. Casey. Later, Richard Mellon Scaife, Ruddy’s former employer at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review invested in the fledging company.[2] One of the initial board members was author James Dale Davidson who edited a financial newsletter. Davidson’s co-editor, Lord Rees-Mogg, former editor of The Times and Vice Chair of the BBC, later became chairman of Newsmax.[3]
Other news figures who later joined the Newsmax board included Arnaud de Borchgrave, the longtime Newsweek chief correspondent who also serves as editor-at-large of UPI and Jeff Cunningham, former publisher of Forbes. Admiral Thomas Moorer, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Naval Operations during the Vietnam War, also served as one of the company’s founding board members. Former US Secretary of State and Nixon and Ford administration Chief of Staff, General Alexander M. Haig Jr. served as special adviser to NewsMax.[4]
Ruddy aimed at creating an Internet news company by building a team of reporters. In August 2001, talk radio host Michael Reagan merged his monthly newsletter The Reagan Monitor with Newsmax Magazine and began writing a regular column for the publication.[5]
In 2008, a profile in The Palm Beach Post on Newsmax and founder Ruddy indicated the company generated revenues of approximately $25 million per year, and, according to the company, has been profitable for the past five years. However, profiles of the website indicate an annual profit closer to $20 million.[6] In a 2009 Forbes.com interview, Internet expert Nathan Richardson was asked to identify the “smartest thing on the web” today. Richardson identified Newsmax, among several websites, citing its success “monetizing the web.”[7]
In March 2009, Forbes ran a feature on Newsmax describing it as a “media empire” and the “great right hope” of the Republican Party. Forbes noted that after just a decade of operations it had become a “media powerhouse” - and had surpassed such well known websites as the Drudgereport in web visitors. According to the magazine, Newsmax draws 3.8 million unique visitors monthly. Political analyst Dick Morris was quoted as saying that Newsmax had become the “most influential Republican-leaning media outlet” in the nation.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsmax_Media
Mainstream my behind! “Internet expert Nathan Richardson was asked to identify the “smartest thing on the web” today. Richardson identified Newsmax, among several websites, citing its success “monetizing the web.” Yeah its always about the ducats; the further dumbing down of America is the bonus “The Great Right Hope”???? Seriously??? Criminey!
Media has become a bottomless pit. I blame Clinton’s signing of the Telecommunications Act, Title 3, which allowed for media consolidation and cross-ownership, monopolizing the airwaves with pure garbage.
Too right. Yet another reason I don’t want HRC and Bubba back in the White House ever! They said their goodbyes on Jan 20, 2001; let’s leave it at that!
The truth is that in 40 yrs, the right has Used the Visual and Talk Media to dominate the political debate…..winning elections and holding USA backwards and stale. The Dems, Unions and Lefties of all stripes are still delusional that MSM is still objective and would report the TRUTH. Absolutely Not. Fox has changed the essence of News reporting while getting tops 3M plus viewers by O’Reilly once or twice a week.
The ABC, CBS and NBC are still getting 20M plus daily. PBS gets 3M. Yet Fox is the one driving the right wing agenda and Dems in DC are doing NOTHING to make a fundamental Change.
Last night Sen Warren while being disrespected and shouted down by Matthews………All she had to say was: Did YOU Hardball cover the Debate while the Senate was debating it? That would have shut the fool up. Dems can’t allow the likes of so called left leaning hosts cater to the GOP whims and 2016 endlessly while criticizing Dems for lack of trying. Fox covers ONLY GOP driven agenda. Why is MSNBC…….the left Leaning Hosts talking endlessly about the GOP and their agenda. Do they NOT know that Cantor lost for mentioning his opponent in ads…..thereby, boosting his name recognition. These MSNBC type are not GOOD for Dems when their ONLY ability is to talk about rightwing issues. The reason…..I still Like Dr Maddow and Kieth Olbermann when he had a show at MSNBC.
Wealthy and politically savvy Dems need to build a factually based informative Medium. Make it successful and watch the MSM quickly go back to real Journalism.
Truth!
http://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-defends-schools-lunch-standards-181603438; html;
news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-defends-schools-lunch-standards-181603438;html;
This is HUGE news. I heard it in the car today on my way to tutoring……..
http://kff.org/private-insurance/report/survey-of-non-group-health-insurance-enrollees/
The ACA motivated many non-group enrollees to get coverage, and nearly six in ten Exchange enrollees were previously uninsured
The survey finds that roughly two-thirds of those with non-group coverage are now in ACA-compliant plans, while three in ten have coverage they purchased before the ACA rules went into effect (referred to as “non-compliant plans” throughout this report). About half of all non-group enrollees now have coverage purchased from a Health Insurance Exchange, and nearly six in ten (57 percent) of those with Exchange coverage were uninsured prior to purchasing their current plan. Most of this previously uninsured group reports having gone without coverage for two years or more, and for many the ACA was a motivator in seeking coverage; seven in ten of those who were uninsured prior to purchasing a Marketplace plan say they decided to buy insurance because of the law, while just over a quarter say they would have gotten it anyway.
60% of those that now HAVE insurance, we previously UNINSURED! THIS IS HUGE.
http://news.yahoo.com/plotos/first-lady-michelle-obama-hugs-graduate-isiah-guinyard-photo-231740955,html;_ylt
I stay away from Vox but this map is of major importance:
Excellent piece with FACTS for anyone that has a congressperson (like I do!) that is exploiting the humanitarian crisis of children coming across the border w/o an adult. WRITE OR CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSON and call them out on this! Mine will hear from me tomorrow. He swears that PBO is a law breaker and the worst President ever! This from a 7%er…fuck head.
http://americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2014/06/18/92056/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-unaccompanied-minors-crisis/
CBS Radio News just said that PBO called the President of Mexico today to discuss this crisis. They also said that VP Joe Biden will be in Guatemala tomorrow to discuss with Central American leaders.
They went on to say that PBO said that these children do not and will not qualify for American citizenship.
This is literally front page news in my area (Ventura County CA) because hundreds of these parentless children arrived from Texas last week and are now being housed in Port Hueneme (pronounced Yneemee).
Port Hueneme is an interesting area, home of the Navy SeaBees (construction division of the US Navy). When you drive along the shore area it sometimes feels like you’re in a timewarp, circa the 1960s Jetsons, when the rage was anything atomic or astro.
This pic is so cute - don’t recall seeing this one before today :)
I remember this and the trip in 2006.
Why did the chicken go to the seance?
To get to the other side.
Locke, that is UNFORGIVABLE! :lol:
It’s the sort of thing you’re not proud of chuckling at.
My son just said that he wants to live in a world where a chicken could cross the road without having his motives questioned:)
:D :D :D Absolutely agree w/ ur son. Chicken has constitutional right to conduct its affairs in total freedom
LOL! Indeed…I’m with your son on this one. LOL
Hahaha!
LMAO - Steve King has a bad case of ODS!
LOL!! One of the comments:”for some people, 140 characters are just too many. Twitter, please cut this guy to, oh, say,15″
LMAO - I totally agree.
The rhetoric scares me - such people are truly authorizing the hate into their base - with consequences seen in the attacks on LE and government employees. Can they not be charged with inciting violence - because that is what they do.
DesertFlower I just had to tweet your son’s profound comment. Truly funny
:) Thanks, zizi:) He’s that kind of thinker:)
Profound thinker. Beats all the theorists of yore who’ve never realized the chicken has fundamental rights not to have it’s freedom of movement questioned. It’s Nobody’s business
Amen:)
LOL..I’m hoping our President can evolve quickly on this matter…equality for chickens in road-crossing. It’s a civil rights issue!
:D :D :D
Related to LP’s tweet above about how the map of the Middle East might change with the current crisis in Iraq, CBS Radio (Major Garrett) said that PBO’s goal is for the Iraqi government to be as inclusive as possible. Sound familiar? PBO and FLOTUS mention this quite often when discussing domestic and health issues, but the media pretty much ignores.
So many things to love about both of them, but one of the true wonders is their consistency which remains the same when people are involved — fairness and inclusiveness.
ICYMI, an article written prior to today’s events:
Pls read the article, friggin Bloomberg!
Chat on!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/06/19/chat-on-20/