but of course he does...

After all, what would he say?

re: #2 Thanos

Seriously. I guess the truth is asking too much.

He will wait until he is out of the army, and then say he was pressured, etc. He will write a book, it will sell to moonbats like hotcakes. He will speak on campus' across the country, and do interviews with "the dan" on HDNET

TNR is digging themselves into a deeper and deeper hole.

First AND second Thanos?!

wow

He's probably realized how badly he messed up.

Answering for what you've done is tough, huh scotty?

Who cares?

Hey wait, is Paris still in jail? Yawnn.

re: #6 ornery elephant

First AND second Thanos?!

wow

Hey, Charles, I didn't say it! :)

re: #4 Thanos

PrisonPlanet is running a story that the military is gagging all servicemembers.

He will speak when he's free of the naziBushClones.. like sKerry.. OMG what kinda politics trumps national defense cult has the democrats became when they send people into military to give bad reports.

I cannot stop mispronouncing the guys name when I read the stories.. Is it like Beecham just spelled funnily?

The left loves our millitary like OJ loved Nicole.

re: #11 MandyManners

re: #4 Thanos

PrisonPlanet is running a story that the military is gagging all servicemembers.

That's to be expected -- they will all be writing angles on this for two months until they get the mythos built, then it will be made into an Oliver Stone movie and Scott will become enshrined in the Liberal Mythos temple somewhere between Hanoi Jane and Karen Silkwood.

okay this may be the record for a premature " OT "...

but many of us may wonder from time to time why we come here and why we fight the jihadists. For me...

This is the Reason

re: #5 DesertSage

TNR is digging themselves into a deeper and deeper hole.

The do seem to be and it causes me to wonder why the heck they don't see it. Perhaps they have had so many years of getting away with this sort of lie that they truly think they will pull it off again?

I don't know. It's insane.

re: #11 MandyManners

Hell Kathy Griffin toured Iraq (which I thought was quite cool of her) then ignored all the good things the guys said right to her face. She had a smartass comment like "they'd go to jail for telling the truth".

I was FURIOUS!

They put their lives on the line for us to GUARANTEE our freedom of speech but they'd be put in jail for critisizing Bush?

I don't fucking think so.

re: #15 Thanos

Yep. There's nothing too loony for the left.

Buttchump should be viewed as sort of a j Fng Kerry in training. Merely, another toadstool getting in line for a role in the dem party, say in 20 years, say, 2028?
He's reading right put of the Jane fondle, 60's instruction book. Maybe, J fing kerry can give him some real good pointers.

re: #18 m

Don't hold back. How do you really feel?

re: #16 ornery elephant

okay this may be the record for a premature " OT "...

but many of us may wonder from time to time why we come here and why we fight the jihadists. For me...

This is the Reason

That's an overdose of cute, you should have posted it for Sick last thread. :)

Criticizing. ^ ^ Shoot. See how mad it made me?! lol

re: #16 ornery elephant

And this is offensive to Allah? Sheesh!

Charles:

I've almost reported five friends trying to hit the "quote" button so far, any chance you could move it more to right?

re: #8 Sharmuta

Answering for what you've done is tough, huh scotty?

The left wouldn't know personal responsibility if it bit them on the rear.

Of course- if I'd completely blown sunshine bullsh*t up tnr's *ss, I wouldn't take their phone calls either.

Is the "fake but accurate" theme embedded into liberal thought nowadays (always?)? Interview a "random" man on the street to support a journalist's story. Although this is not the MSM they are certainly playing with a similar playbook and share a leftist bias. Kudos to the army for learning how to deal with issues like this so well.

wonder how his marriage is holding up

I like it that Bill follows up on these things -- would that more reporters did. From the same article:

We will not nor can we force a Soldier to talk to the media or his family or anyone really for that matter in these types of issues.

We fully understand the issues on this. What everyone must understand is that we will not breach the rights of the Soldier and this is where this is at this point.

No doubt young Scott simply subscribes to the rule his mother taught him, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all"...no wait...guess not.

Scott studied under his mentor...you know...the one that said,

" I did NOT have sexual relations with THAT woman!"

He has at least learned "The first rule of holes."

--When you are in too deep, STOP DIGGING!

Murtha, Kerry, Beauchump. The Democrats army.

re: #25 Thanos

I've done that a few times, too.

You have to wonder what it's like for him over there now, can't be easy -- everyone there probably knows this whole sordid mess front to back now, including his mess-mates. (not that I have any pity for him mind you.)

Evidently, YearlyKos has gotten Beauchamp's commanding officers to silence him.

For his own good, of course.

/

Is anyone else having trouble replying or quoting at the moment?

#34 pat (did that the old fashioned way)

you forgot Wesley Clark!

re: #21 MandyManners

re: #18 m

Don't hold back. How do you really feel?

Pull up a chair... it could take awhile... ;-)

Now think how the left treated this guy versus that Sgt. That asked if the surge was working at the Kos Mil, open speech, workshop.

Scott's counting the dust bunnies under his bed.

OE, Thanks

re: #38 ornery elephant

Is anyone else having trouble replying or quoting at the moment?

#34 pat (did that the old fashioned way)

you forgot Wesley Clark!

Replying? I thought replying was reporting?

Silly me!

They already know the truth, its just a matter of finding the facts/story/ that fits. Even if this weaselly little shite admits that everything he wrote is a lie, the Progressives will believe that the military does what he describes.

Never forget. the Left is held together and motivated by what they hate.

That is, you, me and the classically liberal mode of modern Western civilization.

And oh yea, he will wait until he is out of the military then claim that he was threatened with death and prison by the army if he didn't keep his yap shut. The Left will love him forever. He can spend the rest of his life attending Kos like conventions, living of telling the same stories (lies) to a hungry audience. Kinda like the old Star Trek cast schlepping from sci-fi convention to sci-fi convention, living off of a long past moment of fame.

re: #38 ornery elephant

What browser are you using.

More importantly, when's the last time you cleaned up your temporary files: cache, cookies, that kind of shit.

Run a clean with your security software, then reboot your browser. I bet it will pick up after that.

lolol

#43 Ginn

I still can't reply! I think i have the 1949 version of Internet Explorer!

No DF show tonight : (

re: #39 m

re: #21 MandyManners

re: #18 mDon't hold back. How do you really feel?

Pull up a chair... it could take awhile... ;-)

Let me tell you a story bout a man named Scott
a poor Private in the Military
that just got caught..

Lyin, that is...

Damned shame that he's missing his 15 minutes.
/

re: #47 ornery elephant

#43 Ginn

I still can't reply! I think i have the 1949 version of Internet Explorer!

No DF show tonight : (

oh no! I love that show!

OT, but just breaking (at AoS):

Muslims arrested in SC for explosives in truck have tangential connections to Sami al-Arian (terrorist financier and "educator")

I think TNR knows they are toast, and they are stalling their admission for two main reasons:

1. Hoping for something... anything... to break in their favor to save a little face.

2. A really big news event may happen, and they can release their admission in the midst of the chaos... most of the public won't notice it.

If neither of those things happen, they can get away with stalling a while by citing the three week preplanned vacation... they'll play the "What, you want the janitor to make a statement? We were on vacation!" card, and their so-called competition in the MSM will accept that excuse.

They have little to lose by waiting, and may get lucky and regain a little bit of their dignity.

re: #39 m

I bet!

All these buttons.. reminds me of a slot machine!

re: #51 FQ Kafir

OT, but just breaking (at AoS):

Muslims arrested in SC for explosives in truck have tangential connections to Sami al-Arian (terrorist financier and "educator")

They all bought their "fireworks" at Al Sami's Fireworks and Persian Carpet Outlet?

#51 FQ Kafir
Good one. And they were also in same Dept at school.

re: #45 Noam Sayin'

Noam, you're a life saver! Thanks...I think I had cookies from back when Bill Clinton was still seeing Paula Jones!

All good now

Give the guy a break. He may have forgotten how to tell the truth. He might be practicing right now. Give him a couple day.

re: #38 ornery elephant

Yes, LGF seems to be having whispering strokes

Maybe Scott was to busy running over stray dogs to talk to the media.

re: #51 FQ Kafir

OT, but just breaking (at AoS):

Muslims arrested in SC for explosives in truck have tangential connections to Sami al-Arian (terrorist financier and "educator")

That's an interesting find, something we've all been wondering about.

I wonder if 24y.o. S.M. Beauchamp has finally realized that he’s already in the process of taking a major fall, and that keeping his mouth shut until he has time to read all blogs, and cook up a new strategy, is his best chance for survival.

Problem is, he, at best a 24y.o. wunderkind, is not even remotely in the same league as the 3 or 4 (or possibly more) editors at TNR who’s jobs, and probably multi-million dollar business, are on the line.

I wonder just how much documentation he has.

Hiding until all of this blows over (particularly once he’s back in the US) seems to be a very good strategy.

I wonder what the original STB-TNR conditions were:

1. Why did STB, formerly a chief editor of a college newspaper, enlist?
2. What was the original relationship between STB and TNR?
. . . . was STB’s true identity known or unknown to TNR (and who)?
3. Is / was there some sort of written agreement between STB & TNR?
4. In all intellectual honesty, did the mature, seasoned, experienced, hard-boiled, hard-bitten, two-fisted, adult editors of TNR really not smell the stink emanating from STB’s writings and blog?

Did they not at least have the sense to delete the stuff obviously in need of being flushed, and tone down most of the words?

Would they have then had nothing left?

They would still have their reputations, and that of TNR, left.

re: #48 Ginn

We need a song that mocks him.

re: #57 ornery elephant

The scary thing is, dude? I haven't the slightest f*cking idea what I'm talking about. I just see that kind of $#!+ posted here once in a while and thought I'd sound like an expert. Glad I didn't f*ck up your computer.

And ironically, I programmed computers in the early 80s; RPG II on an IBM System 34. Boy was I jealous of my friends who got to work with the System 36. Now that was state of the art in 1983.

/geek

OT

I didn't want anyone to miss it tomorrow morning - Tim "IAmADemocrat" Russert has Markos "MyBlogis4Whiners" Moulitsas as a guest on Meet The Press tomorrow.

You suppose Tim will allow call in questions like: "So Kos, baby...how about you run footage of that question the young soldier asked your panel?"

MoD bans UK soldiers from blogging, posting on bulletin boards, and participating in surveys.

re: #51 FQ Kafir

OT, but just breaking (at AoS):

Muslims arrested in SC for explosives in truck have tangential connections to Sami al-Arian (terrorist financier and "educator")

Interesting.

USA warns Muslim loving Brits that the Brithish Gitmo Boys are not reciprocating the love.
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

re: #63 MandyManners

re: #48 Ginn

We need a song that mocks him.

I'm Sick Of It All!

I can't, I can't.

/pretends to be Lefty Troll

The koslings would say the military is lying and they have scott in a tiny cell.

/And they're playing loud music all night...

re: #65 ornery elephant

OT

I didn't want anyone to miss it tomorrow morning - Tim "IAmADemocrat" Russert has Markos "MyBlogis4Whiners" Moulitsas as a guest on Meet The Press tomorrow.

You suppose Tim will allow call in questions like: "So Kos, baby...how about you run footage of that question the young soldier asked your panel?"

Can you tape it for me. I'll be up in the mountains.

re: #66 rappmandu

MoD bans UK soldiers from blogging, posting on bulletin boards, and participating in surveys.

Another one that I thought would thread.

re: #64 Noam Sayin'

LOL Noam!

Don't underestimate yourself...you're a genius! My computer is running faster and when I try to go to The Huffington Post, my browser pops up a question, "Are you sure you want to visit that hag's site?" !

re: #70 Sharmuta

The koslings would say the military is lying and they have scott in a tiny cell.

/And they're playing loud music all night...

With granny panties on his head!

Found the missing Paki soldiers

[Link: dawn.com...]

TANK, Aug 11: Militants in the South Waziristan Agency have demanded release of 10 of their colleagues, taken prisoner by security forces, in exchange for 15 paramilitary personnel said to have been kidnapped on Thursday, according to a tribal elder.

The elder, who held talks with the militants to persuade them to release 15 personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC), confided to Dawn that they had handed over to the authorities a list of 10 prisoners who were arrested on charges of militancy. However, he did not disclose the names of the prisoners.

It is learnt that the administration had given three days to the Mehsud tribesmen to recover the kidnapped personnel, failing which they would be fined Rs500,000 per day under the territorial responsibility clause of the Frontier Crimes Regulation.

The paramilitary men had gone missing when they were proceeding from Frontier Region Jandola to Sararogha in a private vehicle in South Waziristan Agency. However, none of the militant groups claimed responsibility for their kidnapping.

Sararogha and its surrounding areas of the agency are considered to be a stronghold of the slain militant commander Abdullah Mehsud who was killed recently during an encounter in the Zhob district of Balochistan.

Sources said the militants had handed over the list of militants to senior officials of the Frontier Corps in Jandola. It is suspected that the said list includes names of some militants who were arrested in the adjacent Dera Ismail Khan and Tank districts on charges of planning to carry out suicide bombings.

Laddah subdivision’s Assistant Political Agent Yahya Khan told Dawn that they had indeed received information about the militants’ demands, but these were yet to be made through a proper forum. Mr Khan confirmed that the administration had set a three-day deadline to the Mehsud tribe and fine would be imposed against them if they failed to comply with the order.

Y'all know that TNR doesn't need Pvt Beauchamp now. Nope, not even a little bit!
After all, they have 5 different soldiers who backed up "Scotty's" story. All the way. All TNR has to do now, is to get these soldiers to agree to be named by TNR, instead of remaining anonymous and - bingo we'd actually have something to talk about and TNR could at least try to retrieve some of it's journalistic integrity.
Unless, of course a) those 5 anonymous soldiers never existed or b) those 5 anonymous soldiers lied to the Army, under Oath and that's why they won't give up their anonymity.

re: #54 Ginn

All these buttons.. reminds me of a slot machine!

hmm ... do fascists get 'reported' now?

Fascionable Fred

Now that I think of it, even his name is a lie. Spelled Beauchamp but pronounced Beecham.

Wonder if Scott is pronouced Snot?

So he's negotiating for a book deal, he should give it away now that he's famous?

Beauchump crapped his nest, now he has to live in it.

re: #74 Ginn

And they won't tell him what direction mecca is in!

re: #71 Ginn

re: #65 ornery elephant

OT

I didn't want anyone to miss it tomorrow morning - Tim "IAmADemocrat" Russert has Markos "MyBlogis4Whiners" Moulitsas as a guest on Meet The Press tomorrow.

You suppose Tim will allow call in questions like: "So Kos, baby...how about you run footage of that question the young soldier asked your panel?"

Can you tape it for me. I'll be up in the mountains.

My dear Ginn...you think a guy like me who didn't know how to clean his cookies or cache is gonna figure out how to tape that show?! hahahaha

I'll see what I can do...and be safe up in the altitudes!

re: #78 meMarc

Now that I think of it, even his name is a lie. Spelled Beauchamp but pronounced Beecham Be-a-sham.

Fixed if for ya.

re: #76 realwest

Yep! They still want to claim it's all true because of 5 un-named sources.

Also, the deal between Musharraf and Bhutto is sealed
Here's what I predict:
Musharraf elected by current assembly in uniform
Musharraf standing in front of new assembly after elections sans uniform for re-election - sans uniform that will happen
Bhutto returns in October, will become PM

re: #81 Sharmuta

re: #74 Ginn

And they won't tell him what direction mecca is in!

LOL.. or TNR!

Those bastards!

re: #70 Sharmuta

The koslings would say the military is lying and they have scott in a tiny cell.

/And they're playing loud music all night...

and the panties on his head ... horrors above!

re: #51 FQ Kafir

OT, but just breaking (at AoS):

Muslims arrested in SC for explosives in truck have tangential connections to Sami al-Arian (terrorist financier and "educator")

And we should not forget, that in the world of mathematics, "tangential" means "touching."

Kind of strains credulity to believe that this relationship is nothing more than coincidence.

Two Korean Hostages to be freed?

re: #86 Ginn

What's worse- they feed him.

/Three times a day, even!

re: #84 Sharmuta Yep. You know, I'm really, truly sick to death of the media running truly sensational stories from someone they don't know (well, excluding his wife who is, IIRC, an editor at TNR) and relying on anonymous sources to buttress their publishing of such sensational crap.
I really think, perhaps with the exception of the true "whistle blower", the Media ought not to be allowed to use anonymous sources, at all. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

re: #91 realwest

Is it irony that to prove their veracity tnr asks us to just trust them?

re: #89 Thanos

Any thoughts on where the denizens of those AQ camps skeedaddled? And do you reckon that the US gave Islamabad intel on the camps hoping that ISI islamists would tattle? Buying Pervez and Benazir time, perhaps.

re: #92 Sharmuta Nope, stupidity, not irony.

BTW, does anyone know what's happened to Throbert McGee - the one guy who had the balls to tell the shabby truth of this, for which he gets fired!
Has anyone heard from or about him? I sure hope things work out well for him.

Simple newbie question-the New Republic has been around since my Grandfather was a kid (they set up shop in 1914 as I recall).

Yet they never to my knowledge had any whiff of scandal until the past decade or so. Why is that?

re: #93 rappmandu

re: #89 Thanos

Any thoughts on where the denizens of those AQ camps skeedaddled? And do you reckon that the US gave Islamabad intel on the camps hoping that ISI islamists would tattle? Buying Pervez and Benazir time, perhaps.

My thoughts are here, I started to add a comment to the camps thread, but ran out of characters :)

I wouldn't be surprised if an article 15 appears on this soldiers service record shortly.

For those who have had so very much to say and now...

*crickets*

re: #93 rappmandu I know you asked Thanos this question, and he's more qualified than I am to answer it, but my guess would be back to Afghanistan. Methinks Al-Q sorta screwed themselves with Iran and I surely don't expect them to show up in Iraq while the "surge" is going on; the last thing these cowardly scumbags want to do is face the US Military in a fight.

This is either real good ... or real real bad...

These are "Pak or Local" Taliban, might or might not be aligned with Zawahiri, they are obviously on a mission in Darra to win hearts and minds...

The NWFP gov't is talking with them, looks like another jirga.

The jirga bit is frustrating as hell -- you never know whether the Taliban they are talking to are the highly conservative local sorts, or the hard-core Jihadis just itching to get across the border. It's the way the frontiers are set up, and under the laws they have to go through this tribal rigamarole. The tribal regions are like the Territories of the US were before the west was fully won and the territories were made into states.

re: #93 rappmandu

I would guess the AQ campers from the Pakistani hinterland are heading to the most radical big city mosques they can find. With the Red Mosque under new management, they need some new bases of operations and more fresh young minds to twist. I'm sure there are plenty of willing congregations eager for a guaranteed all-access pass to heaven.

re: #101 stevieray

re: #93 rappmandu

I would guess the AQ campers from the Pakistani hinterland are heading to the most radical big city mosques they can find. With the Red Mosque under new management, they need some new bases of operations and more fresh young minds to twist. I'm sure there are plenty of willing congregations eager for a guaranteed all-access pass to heaven.

You are partially right -- the camps always become a lot more deserted this time of year because school has started.

Scott Beauchamp Declines to Speak to Media

I often decline to speak to the media myself.

RoP strikes in India

11 dead in Assam shooting

GUWAHATI, Aug 11: Suspected separatists in Assam shot dead 11 people in the latest ethnic attack ahead of India’s Independence Day celebrations, police said on Saturday. In separate incidents, a child was killed and 18 people were injured in two explosions as rebel groups stepped up attacks to protest New Delhi’s rule over the oil, tea and timber-rich state.

Late on Friday, around a dozen heavily-armed militants entered the homes of two families of Hindi-speaking migrant workers and shot them as they slept, police said.

The attack took place in a village around 250 kilometres east of Assam's main city Guwahati, where many of the dead were working as farm labourers.

In a shooting in the same district on Wednesday, eight Hindi-speaking migrants were killed, raising fears that a new wave of attacks could be under way similar to events in January when over 60 labourers were killed.

The police blamed the attacks on two separatist groups, the United Liberation Front of Asom, which has been fighting for an independent homeland since 1979, and the lesser-known Karbi Longri National Liberation Front.—AFP

His name reminds me of "Rochambeau." Which is when you kick someone in the nuts.

re: #104 Thanos

RoP strikes in India

11 dead in Assam shooting

GUWAHATI, Aug 11: Suspected separatists in Assam shot dead 11 people in the latest ethnic attack ahead of India’s Independence Day celebrations, police said on Saturday. In separate incidents, a child was killed and 18 people were injured in two explosions as rebel groups stepped up attacks to protest New Delhi’s rule over the oil, tea and timber-rich state.

Late on Friday, around a dozen heavily-armed militants entered the homes of two families of Hindi-speaking migrant workers and shot them as they slept, police said.

The attack took place in a village around 250 kilometres east of Assam's main city Guwahati, where many of the dead were working as farm labourers.

In a shooting in the same district on Wednesday, eight Hindi-speaking migrants were killed, raising fears that a new wave of attacks could be under way similar to events in January when over 60 labourers were killed.

The police blamed the attacks on two separatist groups, the United Liberation Front of Asom, which has been fighting for an independent homeland since 1979, and the lesser-known Karbi Longri National Liberation Front.—AFP

There are about 30 of those groups in India.. from the Tamil Tigers, to even the Maoists. It's bizzaire.

re: #95 Del Dolemonte Hey, welcome aboard LGF!
I can't give you a definitive answer, but my hunch is that the TNR has, as has virtually ALL of the MSM, forgotten all about journalistic integrity (yeah, they were always left leaning, but they used to be HONEST in their reporting.
Sorta like the NYT, WaPo et.al.
As to the TNR in particular, I think the changes in editors is responsible for their incredible and sad fall from an honest media outlet to the garbage can that they now are.

Raiders Win! Tee Hee

re: #65 ornery elephant

OT

I didn't want anyone to miss it tomorrow morning - Tim "IAmADemocrat" Russert has Markos "MyBlogis4Whiners" Moulitsas as a guest on Meet The Press tomorrow.

I used to watch Russert occasionally until the day after President Bush was reelected. I remember seeing him along with Katie Couric and whoever the NBC anchor was at the time on the morning news. It looked like they were at a funeral, just short of openly weeping. It was the most blatantly partisan thing that I think I've ever seen on a network news broadcast. I haven't watched MtP since.

re: #106 astronmr20

Yeah, you are right, Might not be RoP, getting this mixed up with a similar incident from Kashmir area last night that I read it in the Paki papers too, Hindu migrant workers slain headed to the Kashmir.

This is Assam, over below Bhutan:

GAUHATI, India: A week of violence in India's insurgency-wracked northeast has left 23 people dead, police said, as suspected separatist rebels gunned down a group of migrant workers as they slept and bombed two markets.

A group of gunmen armed with assault rifles entered a village inhabited by mostly Hindi-speaking migrants from other parts of India late Friday and opened fire, killing 11 people, said L.R. Bishnoi, a senior police officer in Assam state.

"They barged into two houses and opened fire at random," he said Saturday. The attack occurred in Dolamora village, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) east of Gauhati, Assam's capital.

Militants often target migrants, who are resented as outsiders representing the federal government far away in New Delhi. The militants say New Delhi, 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to the west, exploits the northeast's rich natural resources while doing little for the indigenous people, most of them ethnically closer to Burma and China than to the rest of India.

Late Friday, militants threw a hand grenade from a moving car into a crowded market, killing a 2-year-old girl and wounding seven others, including the girl's mother, Bishnoi said. Also Friday, a bomb exploded in a market wounding 13 people, including two policemen, he said.

OT
Sorry, I haven't read upthread, but does anyone know whats going on with Air Tahiti at LAX?

HAMAs news

Hamas plans coast guard

GAZA CITY, Aug 11: Hamas’ militia policing Gaza, the Executive Force, on Saturday announced the formation of its new coast guard unit, the Marine Police. Meanwhile, at least 20 demonstrators were injured in clashes with Hamas militants in the northern Gaza Strip sparked by the arrest of around 10 members of the Fatah party, relatives said.

Saber Khalifeh, a spokesman for the Executive Force, said the new body would consist of 150 members and soon begin its operations off the coast of the Gaza Strip.

He said the new force’s main functions would include preventing the smuggling of drugs into Gaza, protecting its fishermen and maintaining security for the residents on the beach.

Hamas had already introduced a new traffic police unit and it would soon open a new internal security agency, officials said.

In Beit Hanun, members of the Executive Force waded in with batons and fired shots in the air when some 150 relatives — mostly women and children — of those rounded up staged protests outside Hamas offices, witnesses said.

The arrests occurred during overnight marriage celebrations, during which some people began singing Fatah nationalistic songs, the witnesses said.

Members of the Executive Force were attacked with stones when they began to intervene.

“Those arrested are accused of disturbing the public order,” said Mr Khalifeh without elaborating.

In the West Bank village of Halhul, police chief Driss Jabari was wounded overnight when unknown gunmen shot him in the legs, according to Palestinian security sources.

The attack took place shortly after Palestinian police arrested about 10 Hamas activists at Halhul and nearby Hebron, the sources said.—Agencies

You want to bet that some of those boats will be armed with Syrian and Iranian missiles?

re: #69 Ginn

re: #48 Ginn

I'm Sick Of It All!

I can't, I can't.

/pretends to be Lefty Troll

Oh the thread down under is real rich tonight. I think the diggers we got down there posting...could get anyone out of a disaster before they lost air. They a huffin and a puffin lol.

Thanos and realwest,

We'll just have to wait and see. Having brought the heat down on their current hosts, they'll either have to take stock of allied/sympathic warlords or else impose on a new bunch of suckers to take them in. Climate may play a big role, too. They don't have a whole lot of time left for securing places to hibernate before passes are closed.

Interesting read over at N.O., Thanos.

re: #112 Thanos

HAMAs news

Hamas plans coast guard

GAZA CITY, Aug 11: Hamas’ militia policing Gaza, the Executive Force, on Saturday announced the formation of its new coast guard unit, the Marine Police. Meanwhile, at least 20 demonstrators were injured in clashes with Hamas militants in the northern Gaza Strip sparked by the arrest of around 10 members of the Fatah party, relatives said.

Saber Khalifeh, a spokesman for the Executive Force, said the new body would consist of 150 members and soon begin its operations off the coast of the Gaza Strip.

He said the new force’s main functions would include preventing the smuggling of drugs into Gaza, protecting its fishermen and maintaining security for the residents on the beach.

Hamas had already introduced a new traffic police unit and it would soon open a new internal security agency, officials said.

In Beit Hanun, members of the Executive Force waded in with batons and fired shots in the air when some 150 relatives — mostly women and children — of those rounded up staged protests outside Hamas offices, witnesses said.

The arrests occurred during overnight marriage celebrations, during which some people began singing Fatah nationalistic songs, the witnesses said.

Members of the Executive Force were attacked with stones when they began to intervene.

“Those arrested are accused of disturbing the public order,” said Mr Khalifeh without elaborating.

In the West Bank village of Halhul, police chief Driss Jabari was wounded overnight when unknown gunmen shot him in the legs, according to Palestinian security sources.

The attack took place shortly after Palestinian police arrested about 10 Hamas activists at Halhul and nearby Hebron, the sources said.—Agencies

You want to bet that some of those boats will be armed with Syrian and Iranian missiles?

There won't be any boats. A Hamas "spokeseman" actually was quoted as saying so in a previous story.

I guess they'll just fire rockets at vessels from the beach.

So what are they guarding their coast from? Nothing.. just another "agency" of theirs to ask for money for. "We have a coast guard, but no boats. Is that not sad? Please give us poor Palis more cash so we can buy some boats and guard our coast." And undoubtely, the US or some bitch-stupid european wankers will give it to them.

re: #95 Del Dolemonte

Simple newbie question-the New Republic has been around since my Grandfather was a kid (they set up shop in 1914 as I recall).

Yet they never to my knowledge had any whiff of scandal until the past decade or so. Why is that?

Until about twenty years ago, magazines like TNR were engaged in a war of ideas on the offensive side... they were in the business of selling the new to a public that was, in many circles, eager customers.

Now that modern day liberalism is a spent force and they are stuck with recycling already discredited ideas to a cynical and wary public, they have been forced into a new role... dirt diggers. Their main weapon has changed from ideas to facts.

Ideas are argued about, but facts are checked... a reality that they have not fully appreciated yet.

With their waning influence, a certain desperation has settled over them, and con artists can smell their need... and quickly move in to exploit it. They simply cannot resist the "too good to be true" fairy tales the Beauchamps of the world are selling, and they are too needy to turn them away.

This whole debacle brings something to mind:

The New Republic is the cur dog run over by the Bradley Fighting Vehicle while the dog was wearing the piece of the child's skull for adornment, yet its face was melted away from an IED...or something like that.

It lies yelping in the ditch, yet no one comes to help.

I used to pay for a TNR subscription for many years, until their "exclusive report" on the Mob in Youngstown, Ohio referred to:

"He attached a speed loader to his revolver so he could shoot faster."

I demanded my money back and got it.

#13 kahall 8/11/2007 9:18:40 pm PDT reply quote report

I cannot stop mispronouncing the guys name when I read the stories.. Is it like Beecham just spelled funnily?

If it's like others with that name, it's really pronounced Bo-shay

/he's still a scum-sucking pinhead, no matter how you pronounce it

re: #95 Del Dolemonte

Simple newbie question-the New Republic has been around since my Grandfather was a kid (they set up shop in 1914 as I recall).

Yet they never to my knowledge had any whiff of scandal until the past decade or so. Why is that?

The "whiffs" of scandal began back under Andy Sullivan's reign beginning in 1990.

I'm not sure if it had to do with sheer laziness, cronyism, or idiocy.

re: #116 stevieray

That should read "... dirt diggers on their opponents." in the middle.

I should go to bed... I'm too tired to post... but I must continue to follow the previous thread!

Arabic-themed school principal quits over "Intifada NYC" T-shirts:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/892164.html

Quote from the article:

"The word [intifada] basically means 'shaking off.' That is the root word if you look it up in Arabic," she said.

Liar

I won't ever leave while you want me to stay
Nothing you could do that would turn me away
Hanging on every word
Believing the things I heard
Being a fool
You've taken my life, so take my soul
That's what you said and I believed it all
I want to be with you as long
As you want me to
I won't move away
Ain't that what you said?
Ain't that what you said?
Ain't that what you said?
Liar, liar, liar
May I see no night
May I see no day
If I ever leave while you want me to stay
You can believe in me
I won't be leaving
I won't let you go
Ain't that what you said?
Ain't that what you said?
Ain't that what you said?
Liar, liar, liar

Never mind, LAX computer malfunction.

re: #121 gabn

I'm so glad there are people that are fighting that school and it's ex principal. Next step is to not allow it to open :) .

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re: #117 Kaintuck

"He attached a speed loader to his revolver so he could shoot faster."

ROFLMAO!

Scott is glad he's in the Army now, where TNR can't get him.

re: #109 SeattleSE

re: #65 ornery elephant

OT

I didn't want anyone to miss it tomorrow morning - Tim "IAmADemocrat" Russert has Markos "MyBlogis4Whiners" Moulitsas as a guest on Meet The Press tomorrow.

I used to watch Russert occasionally until the day after President Bush was reelected. I remember seeing him along with Katie Couric and whoever the NBC anchor was at the time on the morning news. It looked like they were at a funeral, just short of openly weeping. It was the most blatantly partisan thing that I think I've ever seen on a network news broadcast. I haven't watched MtP since.

It was worst than that. It looked like he drank until 3 AM and then cried. It was bizarre. I am glad it was not only I that missed that.

PIMF, Got that.

Is this about as close as we're going to get to an open thread tonight? I needed to hear this, and I'm hoping some of y'all might like it.

Spitting in the wind

In Forst, Germany, in May, as a 43-year-old man and a 12-year-old boy vied in a spitting-for-distance contest from a second-story balcony, the grown-up, trying for extra momentum, thrust himself forcefully up to the railing, launched his saliva, and accidentally fell to his death. [Der Spiegel, 6-1-07]

Of course he's not going to speak. He's a tremendous pussy.

re: #129 Noam Sayin'

Is this about as close as we're going to get to an open thread tonight? I needed to hear this, and I'm hoping some of y'all might like it.

Listening now..

Slit in the wind

A burglar was killed trying to sneak into the Maranatha Used Clothing store in Miami on May 31; police said the man had crawled between the blades of a large, idle ventilation fan but that before getting all the way through, he accidentally tripped the "on" switch. [WKMG-TV (Orlando), 6-1-07]

re: #129 Noam Sayin'

Nice.

noam, playing now.

re: #12 BingoBunny
It's an old way to infiltrate the army and decay it from within. The commies did it during WWI and helped bring on the revolution.

The guitar players in the room might want to actually watch.

Pbhbph! What am I saying? The guitar players will naturally watch the video.

*smacks forehead*

DesertSage, are you there?

If so, is it really true that you're usually right? You made a political prediction one thread back that I'd love to believe in. I think I concur with it, but I've been listening to some very gloomy Republicans lately and I feel I'm slipping...

re: #133 cbinflux

So the next newsstory we'll hear is..Burglar sues business that he broke into ?

hehe

"The New Republic’s claim that he’s being prevented from communicating"

"We are not preventing him from speaking to TNR or anyone."

Two men say their Jesus, one of them must be wrong..

The waring lights are flashing down at [TNR's] quality control...

re: #137 Noam Sayin'

The guitar players in the room might want to actually watch.

Pbhbph! What am I saying? The guitar players will naturally watch the video.

*smacks forehead*

I haven't this in a long time. I'm playing it again.

Thanks

re: #140 Yankee Division Son

Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons!

re: #139 Highrise

Fine Points of the Law
The New Zealand Herald reported in June that a prostitute may be eligible for worker's compensation based on her having been injured when the car in which she was riding plunged down a hillside. Because the driver was a john who was taking her to a site he had chosen for their encounter, the Prostitutes Collective trade union said hers were "workplace" injuries. [New Zealand Herald, 6-25-07]

Former Brooklyn Center, Minn., car-washer Douglas Williams, 56, was fired last year when, in response to the sales manager's requiring him to clean up litter, he refused, colorfully, by telling the manager to perform an anatomically impossible act. However, the state court of appeals ruled in June that Williams was nonetheless owed unemployment benefits. [Star Tribune (Minneapolis), 6-19-07]

Some new guitar players will be interested in knowing that Stevie played a unique set of strings. For the 6 and 5 strings, he used the 2 and 1 strings from a bass set, then used the 6, 5, 4, & 3 strings for positions 4, 3, 2, & 1. Although this set up made the guitar much more difficult to play, Stevie liked the tone better than a typical set of guitar strings.

Now, if you consider the vibrato Mr. Vaughan employed, and the incredibly deep bends on some of his guitar solos - particularly in his live work - one gains more appreciation for the effort he put into creating his music.

For the casual listener, it's why you like Stevie Ray, even though you might not be able to explain it.

/music geek

re: #143 Caliredst8r

re: #140 Yankee Division Son

Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons!

First Jesus says, 'I'll cure it soon'...

re: #145 Noam Sayin'

Thanks! Lots of people like me, and they don't know why!~:^)

re: #144 cbinflux

We have gone insane.

I used to think that people who wanted to live off the grid..so to speak..were insane..I now see why.

Sometimes we are just too crazy..I almost don't believe it.

re: #41 Ginn

Scott's counting the dust bunnies under his bed.

More likely counting grains of sand outside his quarters, no dust Bunny's are allowed under Army beds...:)

re: #145 Noam Sayin'

Some new guitar players will be interested in knowing that Stevie played a unique set of strings. For the 6 and 5 strings, he used the 2 and 1 strings from a bass set, then used the 6, 5, 4, & 3 strings for positions 4, 3, 2, & 1. Although this set up made the guitar much more difficult to play, Stevie liked the tone better than a typical set of guitar strings.

Now, if you consider the vibrato Mr. Vaughan employed, and the incredibly deep bends on some of his guitar solos - particularly in his live work - one gains more appreciation for the effort he put into creating his music.

For the casual listener, it's why you like Stevie Ray, even though you might not be able to explain it.

/music geek

Someone once said that when you are up there on the stage and it's your turn to play... you play for the other musicians... for the really good ones.

re: #147 stevieray

Hah!

re: #149 Dustyvet

re: #41 Ginn

Scott's counting the dust bunnies under his bed.

More likely counting grains of sand outside his quarters, no dust Bunny's are allowed under Army beds...:)

But then on the other hand, he's likely doing every dirty detail his first shirt can find for him to do...wonder if they still have sh** burning detail?

re: #111 UFO TOFU

OT
Sorry, I haven't read upthread, but does anyone know whats going on with Air Tahiti at LAX?

Local TV said LAX had problems with the immigration computers and all flights are halted.

re: #127 pat

re: #109 SeattleSE

re: #65 ornery elephant

OT

I didn't want anyone to miss it tomorrow morning - Tim "IAmADemocrat" Russert has Markos "MyBlogis4Whiners" Moulitsas as a guest on Meet The Press tomorrow.

I love Mark Levin's nickname for him: Tim "Russet", Mr. Potatohead.

I used to watch Russert occasionally until the day after President Bush was reelected. I remember seeing him along with Katie Couric and whoever the NBC anchor was at the time on the morning news. It looked like they were at a funeral, just short of openly weeping. It was the most blatantly partisan thing that I think I've ever seen on a network news broadcast. I haven't watched MtP since.

It was worst than that. It looked like he drank until 3 AM and then cried. It was bizarre. I am glad it was not only I that missed that.

Scott Beauchamp Declines to Speak to Media Commit Suicide.

Okay, I've had too much wine. PIMF on that last one, I typed right in the middle of the quote.

The Reeves' tale
The Scoop Beauchamp Story
is now in slideshow version
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re: #117 Kaintuck

I used to pay for a TNR subscription for many years, until their "exclusive report" on the Mob in Youngstown, Ohio referred to:

"He attached a speed loader to his revolver so he could shoot faster."

I demanded my money back and got it.

ROTFLMAO!

re: #152 Dustyvet

re: #149 Dustyvet

re: #41 Ginn

Scott's counting the dust bunnies under his bed.

More likely counting grains of sand outside his quarters, no dust Bunny's are allowed under Army beds...:)

But then on the other hand, he's likely doing every dirty detail his first shirt can find for him to do...wonder if they still have sh** burning detail?

I have no idea. According to the TNR.. Beauchamp is being held in confined quarters with duct tape around his mouth and false confessions to sign.

re: #150 Ginn

Someone once said that when you are up there on the stage and it's your turn to play... you play for the other musicians... for the really good ones.

Particularly true when technique is part of the expression, so notably jazz and blues, also hard rock/metal and other genres. Spandau Ballet wouldn't exactly be included in that group. That being said, musicians do feed off the audience's enthusiasm for their performance, no matter the genre. But when you've played the same song night after night for weeks, even years, on end, you have to bring something to the table that will keep your bandmates involved in the performance. One performer tries to keep it interesting by raising the bar on his/her performance. The Gene Krupa/Buddy Rich drum battle someone linked to late last night is a great example.

re: #160 Noam Sayin'

re: #150 Ginn

Someone once said that when you are up there on the stage and it's your turn to play... you play for the other musicians... for the really good ones.

Particularly true when technique is part of the expression, so notably jazz and blues, also hard rock/metal and other genres. Spandau Ballet wouldn't exactly be included in that group. That being said, musicians do feed off the audience's enthusiasm for their performance, no matter the genre. But when you've played the same song night after night for weeks, even years, on end, you have to bring something to the table that will keep your bandmates involved in the performance. One performer tries to keep it interesting by raising the bar on his/her performance. The Gene Krupa/Buddy Rich drum battle someone linked to late last night is a great example.

Very true, Noam. I was thinking of jazz/blues where someone mentioned that when it's your turn to "perform" in your group you have to fill an empty space with your music.

I used to date a musician in a very well known rock band. The cool part was when each one would take a turn and show their true talent or "raise the bar" as you say. It was electrifying.

I love music. I love all kinds of music. Without music is without humor or without love.

Ginn, hope you got the painting done. Sheeesh. Nite.

re: #161 Ginn

re: #160 Noam Sayin'

re: #150 Ginn

I love music. I love all kinds of music.

Glad to hear you say that. Here's one of my favorite African artists, Ayub Ogada. I'm sure you'll like it. You seem pretty groovy.

Get the ear buds ready, folks. It's a very mellow tune.

re: #163 Noam Sayin'

Of course. It might help if I actually linked the tune.

Kothbiro

Damn will these quakes never end?

That felt small, like a 2.0 or something, but it's getting annoying. That's like the tenth one this year.

Here it is:

A 2.7 in the East Bay.

So where's this clown's wife?

She hasn't communicated with him? Or she has communicated with him and this is a new TNR exclusive, Hostage in Uniform? This whole damned thing stinks worse than Rather, Mapes, abu's Gunagrabu and how Bush Stole Ramadan.

For the wonderful publicity, albeit mostly under the radar at present, the Army is getting they should have this igit in front of a camera ever damned day.

re: #164 Noam Sayin'

re: #163 Noam Sayin'

Of course. It might help if I actually linked the tune.

Kothbiro

I can use mellow. The lower thread has... done what I needed. Wore me down so now I can sleep.

I broke Charles' rule. Never argue with an idiot.

Night everyone!

My heart is still pounding ten minutes later.

It's impossible to get "used to" earthquakes. Every one is just as surprising and scary as the the one before.

i can only hope that the fault is just having a "slow-motion" quake over a period of several months, and it's letting off all the pressure.

The Ballad of Scoop Bochamp is now on youtube as well

zombie - I didn't feel it.

Lots happening though

Okay folks. Here's another one by Ayub Ogada: Wa Winjigo Ero. The instrument you see him playing here is called a nyatiti. This version, live, is not as soulful as the studio recording on the album, En Mana Kyuoyo, on which you'll also find Kothbiro.

I have no monetary interest in the artist or his recordings. Just thought if you liked it, you'd want to know where to get some more.

Kelly does her first striptease

re: #169 zombie

I'm not a Californian, but I was in the Navy stationed at Mare Island in 1989, and got to feel the power 'round about October

I was on a barge in the Sacramento River. I felt a large wake, and looked out the window to see what had gone by. There was nothing there.
Then one of the guys said it was an earthquake. Yeah, right.
At first I didn't believe it, but then, duh, put two and two together.

I'm curious to know his parents' background. I would die if my kid grew up to do this. I can't imagine.

re: #165 zombie

Damn will these quakes never end?

That felt small, like a 2.0 or something, but it's getting annoying. That's like the tenth one this year.

That's how you can tell you're a true Californian...you can guess if it's a 2.0 or in the general vicinity.

Or you know the varieties...a roller, a jerky one, etc.

re: #171 RTLM

zombie - I didn't feel it.

I'm like "the princess and the pea" -- I sense every little tremor.

If i could have chosen any supernatural ability, this would definitely have not been it. Invisibility would have been nice.

Excerpt from the first draft of

"Heaving Hot Hype!"
...
'The Baghdad Bum, Beauchamp'

"... except that the terms of his Article 15 required him to pick up cigarette butts and dry dog doo-doo another -he checked his wristwatch- 73 minutes!

"Zeesh! This sun is murder, even if it IS behind clouds and about to set! I wonder what ol' "Fantastic Freakin' Frankie" Foer is doing about this?"

The self-styled 'Titan of Truth' and infamous 'Baghdad Bum' knelt to pick up yet another... yukky thing... and dropped it in his black plastic bag.

"He's sure to be cranking out the vitriol, embellishing embers until they burst into flaccid, frantic flame... waitaminnit... uhm..."

There before him as he raised his head and stood up, was First Sergeant, a true America-loving idiot, dyed olive-drab and with Army-issue brains!

"Beauch'mp!" he shouted, making it sound ALMOST like BeauchUmp, but just hazy enough that he couldn't be caught for harassing The Titan of Truthiness.

"Yes, First Sergeant?" I said, meekly he answered clearly.

"Beauchamp, how'd you like to sing castrato the rest of your life?"

He was about to put the lifer-beggar-POS in his place when Major Mel Phenction came around the corner, straight for The Titan of Trooth -dang!- TRUTH!

re: #173 cbinflux

Nearly over the line.

/But I laughed my ass off.

Fried my air conditioner today.

Good thing it's August - when it almost never gets hot in Minnesota.

re: #177 zombie

If i could have chosen any supernatural ability, this would definitely have not been it. Invisibility would have been nice.

Oh, zombie, be careful what you wish for!

I developed that superpower in my old age. Problem is, I have very little control over it. It really kicks in when I'm trying to get the attention of a department store salesperson or when I'm shopping in the market.

"OUCH! That was my TOE you just ran over with your cart!"

"Sorry! I didn't see you..."

/I AM STANDING UP!

littleoldlady (#181),

You're up early.

Geepers! :-)

Becoming my "normal" time, unfortunately. :-(

How are you?

G'mornin'

Where's the Cranky Flakes?

re: #177 zombie

if I were invisible...

I'd fight crime.

re: #184 cbinflux

Veh iz mir. Too early, cbinflux!

/first cuppa; eyes, hands and brain haven't engaged yet...

'Morning. :-)

Air Sex - the sex version of air guitar

Japanese marriages and birthrates are falling

re: #185 RTLM

re: #177 zombie

if I were invisible... I'D BEAT SOME SENSE INTO MOOBATS!

I'd fight crime.

Well, at least he got busted down for this crap. Again. Hello PVT (E-1) Beauchamp!

Moo!

re: #146 Yankee Division Son

Yeah, great song, great band!

re: #184 cbinflux

G'mornin'

Where's the Cranky Flakes?

On the last thread.

re: #192 Noam Sayin'

I don't know how some people truly feed themselves at their meals...being that stupid.

re: #192 Noam Sayin'

re: #184 cbinflux

G'mornin'

Where's the Cranky Flakes?

On the last thread.

Ruh roh. Was there misbehavin', Noam?

zombie,

I was perusing the LGF dictionary and want to make a correction/update on "Balestinian". Mr Pol popularized that. It simply comes from the lack of the palestinians using a spoken "p" sound such that when uttered it comes out sounding like "balestine".

re: #194 littleoldlady

there is someone there that thought it prudent to come out with both guns blazing that we are hypocrits..and they hate christians. Oh and they are a ron paul supporter lol.

Sums it up pretty much, truly. Anything else the idiot has come up with is trying to act like they actually wanted to converse...I think you have seen the type.

I wonder, do the other soldiers in his unit have a cause of action for libel against him? Losing a couple hundred grand in court might serve as a warning to any future John Kerrys who are considering enlisting to jump-start a political career.

-jcr

re: #194 littleoldlady

re: #192 Noam Sayin'

re: #184 cbinflux

G'mornin'Where's the Cranky Flakes?

On the last thread.

Ruh roh. Was there misbehavin', Noam?

Shit. Last I checked, there still is.

Couple of know-it-all assholes trying to school the lizard consortium on the real answers for the world's problems. You know the drill.

littleoldlady (#183),

Pretty crappy, but then I think about how much worse things could be.

Now I'm off to find some sack time.

'Night all. :-)

re: #197 jcr

Huh? What?

Oh!

Way to bring us back on topic, newbie.

For that, you can have my fruitcup.

re: #196 Highrise

I have seen [shudder!] every type. Thanks for the summary. :-)

re: #199 Geepers

Geepers! :-( I'm sorry to hear that.

On the other hand, if THAT'S your "sack time"...

Mick Hucknall

re: #198 Noam Sayin'

/averts eyes.

Not in the mood for omniscient World Problem Solvers™ at the moment...

I can't believe Rick Moran fell for the AP headline.

This line came directly from the AP after their headline:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush's new war adviser said Friday.

Notice the Editorial? No quotes.

Bush War Adviser Says Draft Worth a Look

Now we have some quotes...

"I think it makes sense to certainly consider it," Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said in an interview with National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

"And I can tell you, this has always been an option on the table. But ultimately, this is a policy matter between meeting the demands for the nation's security by one means or another," Lute added in his first interview since he was confirmed by the Senate in June.

Obviously The AP left out the question that was asked of Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute.

The AP could have asked one of a thousand (what-if) questions before Lute's response. (The AP did not publish the question).

Example: AP reporter... Would you ever consider a draft?

Rick Moran, this post is to help you understand how the MSM works.

re: #197 jcr

I wonder, do the other soldiers in his unit have a cause of action for libel against him? Losing a couple hundred grand in court might serve as a warning to any future John Kerrys who are considering enlisting to jump-start a political career.

-jcr

does it count as libel if nobody believed him?

re: #198 Noam Sayin'

the real answers for the world's problems

The brilliant and multi-talented Hugh Laurie came the closest to THE answers.

re: #204 littleoldlady

re: #198 Noam Sayin'

/averts eyes.

Not in the mood for omniscient World Problem Solvers™ at the moment...

It's nearly fruitcup time, anyway.

The omniscient world problem solvers are being dealt with...

by an ever-refreshing string of waking lizards.

I bid you good night, lizards.

What just amazes me about this whole thing is that the left isn't learning the lesson that EVERY ONE of these scandals teaches.

"Implausible lies don't work any more."

You'd think by now they'd realize that if you're gonna make something up, it can't be something easily disproved.

Remember, if Rather had used good forgeries, or even mediocre ones, his career would be intact. Similarly, we can catch stupid photoshop jobs -- really good ones might work. Also, you can't report a scene from Titanic as news. (The last one is really funny.)

There should be a special Darwin Award for people who stupidly kill their careers with lame lies.

'Night Noam :-)

All We Gotta Do

His SNL version was much better, a masters version.

New Orleans politician faces graft charges: report

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A prominent New Orleans city councilman who had said he would run for mayor in 2010 is expected to plead guilty on Monday to federal corruption charges, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

Councilman Oliver Thomas reached a plea bargain agreement with U.S. prosecutors investigating corruption in the city's government, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, citing unnamed sources, said in its online edition.

//No way!

Good Morning Dead Threaders!

Littleoldlady - I am going to the Raanana - Beit Shemesh baseball game tomorrow night. Who is your 'son' and how do I find him? (You can email me privately about this if you want). IBL games are very casual and it is possible to go up to the players' bench and to ask to speak with someone.

And for all of you, how about this: Al-Aqsa terrorist caught with ammunition and released

Stench of corpses hampers Lebanon soldiers in grisly camp battle

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (AFP) - Lebanese soldiers are being hampered in their fight against holed-up Islamist militants by the stench of putrefying corpses, army and medical sources said on Saturday.

An officer on the ground who requested anonymity told AFP that the rotting corpses littering the devastated Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp had made the air there unbreathable.

A hospital source said several soldiers had been admitted due to severe vomiting.

re: #213 Carl in Jerusalem

Permanent Amnesty?

re: #209 Pythagoras

What's even worse is that they have no clue about the scope of damage they have wrought unto to themselves.

My "son" (a bright boy, just graduated college) told me a year or so ago that he has ceased believing anything he hears or reads in the "news".

Somebody my age who has read newspapers and watched newscasts for decades is likely to have a hard time giving it all up. But the kids? No reason for them to form those habits if there's no credibility.

They've killed their own market.

/Prophet of Doom

Speaking of my "son"... :-)

Hi Carl! How do I email?

US declares Lebanese group terrorists

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has blacklisted as a "foreign terrorist organization" a Lebanese Islamist group blamed for major fighting at a refugee camp, the Associated Press has learned.

The State Department is expected to announce the designation against al-Qaida-inspired Fatah al-Islam, which is suspected of having links with Syria, on Monday.

The designation imposes financial and travel restrictions on the group and its members, officials said Saturday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the designation is not yet public.

/No worries, Mohammed, Blacklistees get 30% from the US and UN.

Carl,

"Nevermind!" © Emily Litella

/found it. it would help if I would read, eh?

re: #217 littleoldlady

[Link: israelmatzav.blogspot.com...]

You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com

pimf

30% MORE

G'nite

'Night cbinflux! :-)

Carl,

email sent!

/I love the internut

The inner-nut?

Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't.

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup and baseball cards are on the buffet --->
(Don't eat the cards.)
Help yourselves!

Hello dead thread

US aid to Israel cut

Good morning, Lizards.

Congratulations to Mitt Romney...the only front runner who is pro-life.

re: #215 cbinflux

re: #213 Carl in Jerusalem

Permanent Amnesty?

That sure seems to be the case unfortunately. At least until the next 'significant' terror attack.

re: #225 littleoldlady

Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't.

Haven't seen that commercial in a while...

Carl,

But how come we are bearing two thirds of the cost of this? I know that we receive considerably less than two thirds of the foreign aid the US hands out every year...

If "we" took it out of Egypt's 2 billion you'd get a new defintion of "squeaky wheel".

Fly me to the moon: space hotel sees 2012 opening

Sinatra version

Beauchimp is as quiet as Ron Dellums.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me

620/35

17.71?

re: #237 littleoldlady

17.71?

Hi littleoldlady :)
Just a shout to the 30 some folks with ability
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Should I have taken out the calculator?

All I have is a pen that's not working very well.

/plus I'm caffeine deficient - still.

re: #214 cbinflux

A hospital source said several soldiers had been admitted due to severe vomiting.

CB, a little-discussed aspect of my 12-day stint as volunteer after the Christmas Tsunami...

The dead in the sun decompose rapidly...

I know this thread is about that Beauchump guy but I could'nt help but chime in with something about this Ron Paul guy.

Is it me or does it seem like this guy should be selling pocket fishermen reels on late night T.V.?

"Heaving Hot Hype!" ...OR... 'Beauchamp, The Baghdad Bum'

First Draft, cont'd.-

The self-styled 'Titan of Truth' and infamous 'Baghdad Bum' knelt to pick up yet another... yukky thing... and dropped it in his black plastic bag, vaguely aware that BOTH ends were filthy, but not conscious of the IMPORTANCE of that observation...

"Freakin Frankie Foer's sure to be cranking out the vitriol, embellishing embers of taut, titillating truth until they burst into flaccid, frantic flame... waitaminnit... that's not... uhm..."

There before him as he raised his head and stood up, was First Sergeant, a true America-loving idiot, dyed olive-drab and with Army-issue brains! God, how I He loathed him a lot.

"Beauch'mp!" he shouted, making it sound ALMOST like BeauchUmp, but just hazy enough that he couldn't be caught for harassing The Titan of Truthiness.

"Yes, First Sergeant?" I said, meekly he answered clearly.

"Beauchamp, how'd you like to sing castrato the rest of your life?"

He was about to put the lifer-beggar-POS in his place when Major Mel Phunction came around the corner, straight for The Titan of Trooth -dang!- TRUTH!

"Soldier," he said in his low, obviously closet-homo voice, "I asked the First Sergeant to remind you that you MAY use the Morale Phone, in your turn, as normal. Any questions?"

A hundred wild, crazy thoughts ran through my mind as I pictured 'using' the phone... there... in the Day Room... (pant-pant!)...

"Sir, no sir!"

He turned after I saluted his ass him, then turned back as I raised my voice, "Sir, do I HAFTA call The National Review?"

-to be continued-

Hello everyone!

Fruitcup with baseball cards? Wow! How come I don't see any cards of our illustrous Tampa Bay Devil Rays?

/who would want one? ;)
//who came up with such a horrible team name?

Update from the Tampa Tribune on the USF "firecracker" students. I live very near Temple Terrace...

FBI Search Linked to Jailed Students

Toward the end of the article...

The Megaheds said in a statement that they have faith in the justice system and continue to cooperate with law enforcement. The family is originally from Egypt, but they said they love the United States and consider it home.

/a little taqqiya with your morning coffee?

re: #242 Carridine

Screw up the punchline much?

"Sir, do I HAFTA call The New Republic?"

/wondering if IowaHawk ever has daze like this?

re: #245 ploome hineni

Damn!

Does anyone at our State Dept. or the WH see or read any of this?

My emails to them are obviously NOT working. :(

Uh, oh. Did I kill it?

re: #247 gettinby

Uh, oh. Did I kill it?

We're all speechless over your "Hope Springs Eternal" emails to the State Department.

/don't worry. only one or two of us are giggling...

;-)

And for all you Intelligent Insouciant Insomniacs, the MP3 version!

/Morning, Lil Olde Ladye!

Karridine! :-)

"...Hizb'ullah ...rebuilds its defences..."

It wouldn't NEED defences if it WOULDN'T ATTACK!

re: #248 littleoldlady

*whew*

Giggling can be good for the soul?

My mother once said she figured out her purpose in life...to set a bad example.

Looks as though I may be following in her footsteps! LOL

re: #252 gettinby

re: #248 littleoldlady

*whew*

Giggling can be good for the soul?

My mother once said she figured out her purpose in life...to set a bad example.

Looks as though I may be following in her footsteps! LOL

I think my mother thinks that setting a bad example is MY purpose in life. Gives HER something to do.

;-)

Could I possibly interest either of the late-night readers here to critique my "Heaving Hot Hype"? (upthread a few comments or in the MP3 linked)

/thanks in advance

re: #253 littleoldlady

LOL

Moms can be challenging at times.

She always threatened and wished out loud to me that I would end up with children who are just like me...that that would be her revenge.

Amazingly, for no apparent reason, I never could get pregnant.

Guess she scared me enough! LOL

Smile! You're on Candid Camera!

re: #255 gettinby

She always threatened and wished out loud to me that I would end up with children who are just like me...that that would be her revenge.

Naturally. The standard M.O.M. threat. Scared me too until I had meannastyteenager and realized I had a kid just like my MOTHER!

/bad karma..bad, BAD karma! ;-)

Karridine,

Cracked me up!

/as you always do... :-)

re: #257 littleoldlady

Oh that one was good, real good!

re: #258 little blessing

See what you have to look forward to? ;-)

re: #254 Carridine

Will have to listen to it later...Mr.GBy, as usual, has all 3 tvs on with the news which limits my listening to anything.

Your brief written bits are hysterically funny...sometimes it's good to have someone like beachaump around...whatever decisions they make, you know to do the opposite! LOL

re: #257 littleoldlady

You are sooo funny!

/giggling may be good for the soul, but outloud laughter is part of the cure. Thanks for that!

Mourning, uh mean, morning.

Christianity Sucks and Islam is Awesome?

Yes, the postmodern reality stylists are working their butts off trying to convince us TV-addled cattle of two primary things: 1) violent jihad is not based on the Koran and 2) All conservative Christians are theocrats ready to burn Sully Erna at the stake, stone Jay Alexander in a nearby gravel pit and governmentally ramrod Christianity down everyone’s pie hole.

The Yangtze River Dolphin extinct?

The Yangtze River dolphin is now almost certainly extinct, making it the first dolphin that humans drove to extinction, scientists have now concluded after an intense search for the endangered species.

/I wonder how long before President Bush and his not signing the Kyoto is blamed.