I’m off to a bbq at a friend’s house, so you all behave.
BTW- I heard about this story on PRI’s the World this afternoon, and the story fascinated me. How Radovan Karadzic was able to hide in plain sight is pretty amazing to me.
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I’m off to a bbq at a friend’s house, so you all behave.
BTW- I heard about this story on PRI’s the World this afternoon, and the story fascinated me. How Radovan Karadzic was able to hide in plain sight is pretty amazing to me.
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TX Expat
I love that name Dragan. We used to have a regular at the bar named Dragan (an emigre from Yugoslavia). Wait…putting 2 and 2 together, could that have been Karadzic?
Ok, on to more important things:
Rick Perry “Federal tit more like sucking donkey dick, but can I get a few bucks before we go and maybe some more after we leave???”
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-does-rick-perry-think-health-care.html
Ugh
Any winger complain that Obama is promoting excessive drinking with his comments about having a beer with Gates and Crowley yet?
SGEW
I’ve always suspected that new-age practices had ties to crimes against humanity.
Magnets and dowsing are first steps on the slippery slope to the Hague!
lotus
For all who crowded onto the fainting couch yesterday, N.B. (warning: WaPo link):
We vote Plan A, Nance.
gbear
How will we notice you’re not here?
;)
Linkmeister
How Radovan Karadzic was able to hide in plain sight is pretty amazing to me.
It shouldn’t. Think of Eric Rudolph in this country.
gbear
Al Franken’s first bill got passed. Go, Al!
http://minnesotaindependent.com/40260/franken-veteran-dog-bill-defense
(sorry I don’t know how to imbed the link without the shortcut)
lamh31
I think ya’ll should read the transcript of Obama’s remarks in totality. It reads much differently than the reports, and the media as usual is completely cutting an pasting to make it seem like more of a “mea culpa” than it is. It’s pretty long, so I ain’t gonna post it in the comments, but Ambinder has the full transcript:
President Obama Speaks in Briefing Room about Gates/Crowley (The Article headline is different, but I think it was not quite a “mea culp”)
AND BUT…
The Grand Panjandrum
@TX Expat: I saw Perry’s comments over at TPM and got a laugh out of them.How long before the GOP’s official platform is to abolish the “unconstitutional” Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs? It seems like a logical conclusion to all of the craziness I’ve seen over the past couple of years. Besides, I would encourage the GOP to purify itself and run on that very platform. I would be more than happy to help them get that message out. What could possibly go wrong with a true and pure conservative message?
PeakVT
Waxman might be playing hardball with the Blue Dunces on his committee. MOAR PLZ.
TX Expat
@The Grand Panjandrum:
Nothing of course because that’s what all the “real ‘mericans believe!”
Perry just cracks me up. Who wouldn’t want their governor personally interpreting the Constitution? Isn’t that what we elect them to do? (dissolving in laughter….)
And his “Secession bitches” talk just makes me howl especially when he asks for more federal money…heeheee
The Grand Panjandrum
@gbear: Kudos to Franken. I wonder how it will effect the program Cole linked to a couple weeks ago?
The Grand Panjandrum
@TX Expat: This has got to be making Kay Bailey Hutchison just gleeful. I know Texas is conservative but isn’t Perry just playing into her hands with all this stupid stuff?
someguy
How Radovan Karadzic was able to hide in plain sight is pretty amazing to me.
The cops would have found him sooner but they all thought Karadzic was black.
Johnny Pez
Start your journey down my cleavage now, my lord.
Johnny Pez
@The Grand Panjandrum:
Two words: closed primary.
The Grand Panjandrum
@Johnny Pez: Yep. And Hutchison is candidate for the Republican nomination. So I’m just wondering how this plays to the voters in TX.
TX Expat
@The Grand Panjandrum:
Well, it would be making me gleeful if I were her. Funny thing, though about TX, is that many parts of the state you might think would be Krazee Republican are actually fairly moderate such as the Panhandle, where I’m from and where several of those counties went for Obama even though most of the voters are registered as republicans or independents.
But for more evidence I usually ping my Dad and my brother, neither of them (who are both HARD CORE repubs) can even muster the energy to defend Perry anymore. My brother just says, well this guy isn’t really one of ours. (Ha!)
This gives me hope and should give Kaybee a LOT of hope.
Vegjean
Can we have some dog blogging, please? Some Lily and Tunch? I’m so tired of disingenuous Republicans and lazy, inflammatory journalists. It would be nice to dwell on small furry creatures for a few moments.
RedKitten
YAY! I am now officially done work for an entire year!
(More than that, actually, as the next two weeks are actually my vacation time, and then after that, I start my year-long maternity leave.)
I got all of my loose ends tied up today, and closed up my laptop with a real sense of accomplishment and relief. So now, until the baby arrives, I can relax, take it easy, and have plenty of time to myself.
lotus
If Little Rickie wants to rely on the 10th Amendment, mebbe he should read the sucker.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
One of the powers prohibited to the States is the regulation of interstate commerce — including commerce in health insurance.
C’mon, Rickie, catch up.
lotus
A toast to RedKitten!
freelancer
*Blogwhore Alert*
How about a Balko and Ed Brayton Assisted round-up of evil fucking cops from the last 4 months or so…
http://forgetthisnoise.blogspot.com/2009/07/americas-finest.html
Linkmeister
@lotus: In non-alcoholic beer, of course.
Calouste
“How Radovan Karadzic was able to hide in plain sight is pretty amazing to me.”
You mean you think it is difficult for war criminals to hide in plain sight? I’d think the US has shown over the last few years that that isn’t difficult at all. Some of them were even sighted in Washington D.C.
Fulcanelli
@RedKitten: “I am now officially done work for an entire year!”
Your first child, eh? I wish nothing but the best for all of you, really! But you are not done with work my dear, you haven’t even started. Nope. ;)
/raised 3 girls
Svensker
@RedKitten:
I got all of my loose ends tied up today
Insert obvious zinger here.
Congrats on your maternity leave! Keep us posted on your progress. And have a great time.
gnomedad
@lotus:
[clink!]
ellaesther
@RedKitten: Congratulations, and good luck! I hope the rest of your pregnancy is smooth, and the birth as well. My youngest just turned 6 and on the night before her birthday, I was telling her all about the day before she was born…. Man alive!
It’s right what they say, you know: The hours and days are sometimes slow with your babies, but the months and years just fly by. Enjoy! (And please, as you said you might, post pictures when the baby is here among us!)
A Mom Anon
@RedKitten:
Congratulations and Happy Baby Stuff. It’s fun and scary,exhausting,frustrating,lovely and everything.
And then they turn 15 and end up at the Mayhem Festival(with my husband,the perpetual teenager,lol) leaving you to wonder what the hell is that god awful smell(my guess is feet and ass) coming from their room and how fast the time went.
RedKitten
Heh — you’re right, but it’ll be a different kind of work, and I am definitely looking forward to being away from my office for a year. After spending years trying to get bureaucrats, board members, and nuclear disarmament experts in line, it’ll be a relief to only have to wipe ONE person’s ass, even if it’ll be literally instead of proverbially.
The next-to-last samurai
Hello, feds? This is Governor Perry in Texas. Could yall send us some money? We need it to secede. Kthxbai.
HRA
Congratulations, Krista/Red Kitten.
It will be work with many awesome rewards as I can surely attest to after 6 children.
freelancer
Heh, Maddow leads with Jon Stewart’s “White House, M.D.” segment from last night
SiubhanDuinne
@ Vegjean/19
Um, ‘scuse me? Tunch? Small furry creature?
freelancer
Holy. Living. Fuck!
NYT: Cheney demanded to send US Army into Buffalo NY to arrest people on terrorism charges in 2002 to “test the constitution”. Posse Commitatus be damned.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/25detain.html?_r=1&hp
This aides fight between Bush and Cheney is going to put more sunshine on the previous administration than the current DOJ has so far.