Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
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I need help. I need instructins on how to remove internet explorer. I have some virus/spyware which is notdetected by Norton, McAfee, or Spybot, yet it is on my IE. One of the problems is that it inserts hyperlinks into my web posts- most notably, words like jobs or flowers, etc.
Help. I am using Mozilla Firebird, but for some reason not all the buttons in MT show up when I use that.
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I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a Deaniac, a Dean supporter, or a Dean fan. I do, however, find this latest spate of anti-Dean hit pieces in the media disgusting. It started with the Dean draft nonsense, and then the unflattering piece about his wife, and now this spousal abuse nonsense, which just takes the cake.
There are enough reasons to be against Dean- but Clinton and Kerry and their goons need to cool it.
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Don’t these people have jobs?
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Someone explain this boondoggle to me:
Administration officials say they are planning an extensive election-year initiative to promote marriage, especially among low-income couples, and they are weighing whether President Bush should promote the plan next week in his State of the Union address.
For months, administration officials have worked with conservative groups on the proposal, which would provide at least $1.5 billion for training to help couples develop interpersonal skills that sustain “healthy marriages.”
If marriage is so good the far right is fighting to keep it from the gays, why do we have to spend 1.5 BILLION to promote it?
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Al Franken was just on Charlie Rose, and as he always is when discussing the loathesome Bill O’Reilly, he was pretty damn funny. When discussing his new radio show that he just agreed to in the past few days, he stated that his first goal was to “get sued by some right-wing jerk to get media exposure for my new show- The O’Franken Factor.”
I almost choked I was laughing so hard.
by John Cole| 15 Comments
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Really- they just hate his policies:
MARGARET CHO (Comedian) —
* “Despite all of this stupid bullsh– that the Republican National Committee, or whatever the f— they call them, that they were saying that they’re all angry about how two of these ads were comparing Bush to Hitler? I mean, out of thousands of submissions, they find two. They’re like fu–ing looking for Hitler in a hawstack. You now? I mean, George Bush is not Hitler. He would be if he fu–ing applied himself.” big, extended applause) “I mean he just isn’t.”
Yawn. Charming people. And remember- it is only January.
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Our intrepid internet sleuths, Atrios and Jesse, think they are on to something. States Jesse:
When you’re in the middle of spin control, and furiously trying to discredit the guy who just criticized the way you run your administration, don’t admit that you did exactly what your critic is accusing you of.
States Atrios:
Spinning Heads
Well, it looks like Bush just undercut all of his lackeys who have been were busy denying that they were planning war in Iraq from the beginning:
Bush admits he targeted Saddam from the start
Comments could boost criticism of president’s case for war against Iraq…”The stated policy of my administration toward Saddam Hussein was very clear — like the previous administration, we were for regime change,” Bush told a joint news conference in Monterrey, Mexico, with Mexican President Vicente Fox. “And in the initial stages of the administration, as you might remember, we were dealing with (enforcing a no-fly zone over Iraq) and so we were fashioning policy along those lines.”
NO one, and I repeat, no one, has stated that there was no planning regarding Saddam Hussein. They were planning from day one, and as the quote that Jesse and Atrios are too dim to comprehend states, they were looking at containment (‘enforcing a no-fly zone’) and all options, including regime change. As I have noted below, this was mentioned consistently throughout the campaign, in the debates, and was merely a continuation of the existing policy towards Iraq.
No one has stated otherwise, and I would ask Jesse and Atrios to come up with this spin that states otherwise. It simply does not exist. To date, the only thing I have seen even remotely close to spin would be the Inspector General examining whether O’Neill disclosed classified documents (O’Neill had this to say about the IG investigation: “If I were secretary of the Treasury and these circumstances occurred, I would have asked the inspector general to take a look at this.) and this rather unflattering comment (“”We didn’t listen to [O’Neill’s] wacky ideas when he was in the White House, why should we start listening to him now?”).
No one, however, has suggested, spun, stated- you choose the word, that there were not always plans for regime change in Iraq. Period.
These guys have gone beyond stupid to stoopid with two o’s. Straightjackets and rubber rooms are right around the corner. In O’Neill’s own words:
“I’m amazed that anyone would think that our government, on a continuing basis across political administrations, doesn’t do contingency planning and look at circumstances. Saddam Hussein has been this forever. And so, I was surprised, as I’ve said in the book, that Iraq was given such a high priority. But I was not surprised that we were doing a continuation of planning that had been going on and looking at contingency options during the Clinton administration. “
Hear that Jesse and Atrios- Your new hero, Paul O’Neill, thinks you are amazing. Me too. Boy is the you-know-what going to hit the fan when Atrios and JEsse learn the Pentagon has battle plans, complete with ROE and Battle Order for North Korea, Cuba, the Kashmir region, Russia- well, you name it. That revelation will probably knock their socks off.
*** Update ***
OMG- It keeps getting better. Atrios, our intrepid phys. ed teacher/internet sleuth is just the gift that keeps on giving:
Jan. 13