.
Could’ve been…
"I'm glad that Al Gore didn't stop talking about climate change. I'm glad John Kerry went to the Senate and became secretary of State. I'm glad John McCain kept speaking out and standing up. And for heavens sakes, Mitt Romney is running for Senate.” https://t.co/TIrwkOAZGI
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 30, 2018
.
But nooooooo…
During his speech today, Trump bragged about pictures from yesterday showing construction of his border wall.
Only problem? BuzzFeed says the pictures Trump tweeted yesterday were from work that began in 2009. https://t.co/8gK7EbFFOq
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 29, 2018
I’ll say it again:
At least some of Trump’s lies likely stem from the fact that his staff is lying to him.
I bet Trump truly thought these pictures were real and new… https://t.co/Vl0IWcnuwn
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) March 29, 2018
This was why Saddam Hussein thought he actually had WMDs as well as other things: his underlings kept telling him fake things just to placate him. https://t.co/Rmbq1qoKz3
— Timothy Burke (@swarthmoreburke) March 29, 2018
Even the cheerleaders are losing interest:
About time. https://t.co/4XEqHuL9PR
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) March 30, 2018
OzarkHillbilly
I’m supposed to see the sun today. I wouldn’t put any money on it.
satby
Boy, Fox noise cutting away will really piss the Tangerine Twitler off.
???
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: oh, if you do, share a picture in Alain’s morning thread tomorrow. May be the only way I see it for another week.
Jeffro
@satby: at this point, even Fox realizes that airing his speeches is a net negative in terms of votes this November
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
NotMax
Power went out for around 90 minutes. Getting to be like back when first moved here – outages 2 or 3 times per week were the norm then.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: If it does make an appearance I need to make the most of it. My next chance to make it’s acquaintance is next Wednesday.
satby
@Jeffro: yes, I’m sure it was done to maintain the plausible deniability that they cover for an extremely demented old fool. Show him too much and even their brainwashed viewers will start to realize Drumpf is senile.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?!
OzarkHillbilly
I tawt I taw a puddy tat.
NotMax
Le sigh.
satby
@NotMax: no worries, he’ll forget that and move on to the next shiny thing.
MomSense
Heading out to the gym. Yesterday fox was on one of the TVs so I changed it to HGTV. There are a couple of meatheads there every morning who shouldn’t be exposed to that mess. Also Tomi whats her name is the dumbest person I’ve ever heard. She makes Gohmert look like a genius.
NotMax
Barbarism R Us. It’s that time of the year again.
Montanareddog
@NotMax: “We’re coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now.…”
“Vlad, there all over me over this Skripal thing. I have got to throw out some Russians”
“OK, then but I have to throw some Americans out to save face. And I need free rein in Syria now”
“yes, boss”
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: He had to say something to let daddy know how sorry he was after being such a bad boy and throwing daddy’s favorite play things out of the house.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Obligatory Monty Python.
NotMax
In much less grim news –
Whistle while you work, indeed.
raven
@NotMax: I was shocked to learn the bulk of power there was oil fired.
NotMax
@raven
On Maui? Primarily diesel (from Indonesia), supplemented with bagasse (cane processing leftovers) prior to implementation of wind generation and the recent ending of sugar cane agriculture.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Interesting.
opiejeanne
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s Chester!
The article said that this was one of three brothers they were observing and that the guide helped keep the tourists calm. He told them: don’t move, don’t talk, don’t make eye contact.
I have seen several different videos of cheetahs doing this and wonder if the guides take them to this spot knowing that there’s a chance of a very close encounter. Thrilling, I’m sure, until someone gets ripped up for sneezing. I mean, the videos have been interesting and almost comical but that’s a wild animal with big claws and teeth.
opiejeanne
@OzarkHillbilly: Wow. 30 k is about 18 1/2 miles. I would never have guessed it could carry that far.
NotMax
@NotMax
Will add that solar is moving up along the rail and there is at least one pilot project for tidal power generation as well. For while there was enthusiasm regarding geothermal but it is not only very expensive and difficult to harness with any degree of success but also so caustic that it eats through equipment quickly.
rikyrah
A real life Disney Prince transformation
http://www.lovewhatmatters.com/a-real-life-disney-prince-mans-incredible-weight-loss-transformation-after-mom-was-in-a-coma/
OzarkHillbilly
@opiejeanne: My first reaction was “Exit! Stage left!”
When my boys were still boys we went to the STL Zoo every winter. One time at the Cheetah Rescue Center this male became fixated on my eldest. Every move Bob made the cheetah followed with a predatory intensity. Even with the fence between us it was more than a little scary knowing with certainty that it wanted to eat him and given half a chance it would.
satby
@opiejeanne: I read somewhere that cheetahs are the only big cat that doesn’t see humans as prey. At the same time, any big wild animal should be left alone, so how it keeps happening makes you wonder.
satby
@rikyrah: damn! Watch out Fabio!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
The Kentucky General Assembly attached a gigantic pension change to a sewage bill late last night and locked out teachers. It was a 300 page ALEC-drafted piece of shit.
It’s bad. The people who showed up were in a rage, GOP reps and senators had to get a police escort out. Today, there were so many sick calls compared to the number of available subs that most schools across the state are closed. I have some doubts that schools will open after spring break in Louisville – I’m betting illegal strike, which should spread.
NotMax
@satby
Humans are the three bean salad at the cheetah salad bar. Always there should everything else run out.
;)
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@opiejeanne:
I’m going to Zambia, Botswana and South Africa in October. Maybe something cool like that vid will happen!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
To which the cheetah brain says “Oh cool! A really slow two legged deer that I won’t have to work real hard to get! Easy meal!”
satby
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: how is local news covering it? Good luck to the strikers, hope it becomes an overwhelming success.
OzarkHillbilly
Inuit oral historian who pointed way to Franklin shipwrecks dies aged 58
RIP.
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Yep, but I don’t have to be faster than the cheetah, just faster than the slowest of everybody else.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@satby:
They’re covering it tepidly – they don’t know which way to go, and are terrified of being called “libruls”. Fingers are in the air and they’re checking the wind.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
Trip the person next to you, you’ll do fine.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
NotMax
The weird vagaries of lazy subtitle writers. Just now, on a British program –
Actual dialogue: I’m glad to have caught you at home.
Subtitle: I’m glad to have brought you a poem.
HeartlandLiberal
So, the networks cut away, rather than just let it run, so the American people can see what a dotard of a bumbling, rambling, senile, demented narcissist this man is, clearly incompetent, and in fact a clear and present danger to the existential future of the nation.
By the same token, I would like for the networks to at least 15 minutes of nothing but raw footage of what the bodies of young people and adults look like after they have been blown apart like ripe melons by military assault rifles.
Instead, our news media shield us from the truth very effectively.
Orange is the new Red
Off topic, but has me really worried that more evil is afoot — saw on Twitter that some horrible folks were discussing finding a high school girl who could claim that David Hogg sexually assaulted her. I do not put it past someone to try this, since there don’t seem to be limits on what folks will do to shut the Parkland kids up. My apologies in advance, I don’t know how to put the tweet into this comment. I saw it on Josh Marshall’s feed, retweeted by Brian Beutler. Perhaps I don’t have a stomach strong enough for Twitter.
NotMax
@Orange is the new Red
Repugnant doesn’t begin to scratch the surface when describing these putrid examples of humans.
Maggots recoil in disgust from them.
opiejeanne
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: That’s great. I would like to visit Botswana, and my niece has been working in Entebbe, Uganda for the past three years and she’d REALLY like us to come visit. I just can’t handle the extremely long flights that it would take to get there. I’ve played around with various air routes, trying to break it into several smaller pieces but Africa is huge and I haven’t figured it out yet. I have trouble with the 7 hours it takes to get from Seattle to Reykjavik, anything more than that and I’m really a bad mess.
WereBear
Cheetahs in captivity are also known for the intensity… of their crushes.
If they become fond of a caretaker, they will follow them around, mourn for them at gates until they come back, and otherwise become overwhelmed with the intensity of their affectionate feelings.
Kind of like my Tristan cat. :)
Lapassionara
@OzarkHillbilly: This is a fascinating story. Thanks for posting.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
No no no.
Lawd have mercy
Steve in the ATL
@OzarkHillbilly: how is your son’s recovery coming?
Steve in the ATL
@NotMax: we do similarly barbaric things in the episcopal church. Later today, I will attempt to drink a glass of blended whiskey [shudder].
rikyrah
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Sounds like a fabulous trip
OzarkHillbilly
@Steve in the ATL: Slowly but surely improving. He is now able to move about his apartment free of encumbrances but he pays for it the next day if he overdoes it.
@Steve in the ATL: Blended whiskey? The horror!
rikyrah
@Orange is the new Red:
Dude,
Of course, more evil is afoot. No doubt with these people.
Patricia Kayden
@NotMax: I can’t whistle at all so I find it fascinating that there’s a whole language based on whistling. Too bad it’s dying out.
Patricia Kayden
@OzarkHillbilly: The temptation to pet that Cheetah would be overwhelming. So cute!
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
We’re going to Iowa City to see a specialist about that growth on Mr DAW’s pancreas. My hope is he’ll do another scan and say it’s shrunk and just like we thought, it was a harmless cyst. We’ll see.
Woodrowfan
@NotMax: which is exactly what Jesus would NOT want! Spend that energy and effort feeding, clothing, or comforting someone!!!!
OzarkHillbilly
@Patricia Kayden: Almost as tempting as the urge to run my hand thru my tablesaw.
Woodrowfan
when trying to outrun a Cheetah just remember,
1. you only have to be faster than the slowest human in your group.
2. try NOT to be the slowest human in the area
3. If you ARE the slowest, trip the second slowest
Patricia Kayden
@Woodrowfan: Lol!! You said it like a true Trump. Well done!
Cheryl from Maryland
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh, that’s too young. I’m glad Canada recognized his contributions to the nation and to scholarship before Mr. Kamookak’s death. The cable channel AMC just started a series on the Franklin expedition with a top notch cast ( Ciaran Hinds, Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies). While it has supernatural elements and is based on a 2007 book, the show has a historical basis and incorporates the recent findings of the ship. I plan to watch it once it gets warmer and sunnier.
SFAW
It’s probably already been noted and commented on in another thread, but I just saw that Philip Kerr, author of the “Berlin Noir” trilogy, died last Friday.
Mentioning it because this was the first place I ever saw a mention of the trilogy. [Which I still have not read.]
debbie
Was I the only one who didn’t understand how holding South Korea hostage over the trade deal would give the U.S. a stronger hand in dealing with North Korea? And yet, there were no shouts of, “You lie!”
Chyron HR
@HeartlandLiberal:
Well, okay, but if the networks just air his shitty speeches in their entirety then we complain that they’re giving him free advertising.
debbie
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Sending good thoughts for a good scan.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): Good luck.
MJS
@Chyron HR: Exactly. It takes 5 minutes, tops, to see how demented, narcissistic, and clueless Trump is. Anything beyond that is free advertising for the idiot.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: It’s about letting the S Koreans know they better not making any deals with NK without little lord smallhands’ approval.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Gah, that’s absurd. Almost as absurd as his statement that his infrastructure plan would create 40,000 jobs that paid 32% more than current infrastructure jobs.
SFAW
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Best of luck, best wishes to you and MrDAW for excellent results.
debbie
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Surely Brilliant Bevin will craft a compromise?
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: With trump, absurdity is the new normal.
Steeplejack
@SFAW:
The Bernie Gunther “trilogy” got up to 13 books with the recent publication of Greeks Bearing Gifts. Supposedly there is a final one in the can for release next year. A good series.
SFAW
@Steeplejack:
I don’t recall which jackal was the first to mention it — i.e., that I recall seeing, of course — but the praise got it added to my “Gotta Read” list. The only problem is that my list is reaching the point where I better live to 150, sans dementia, so I can get through all of it/them.
JGabriel
To be fair, I say it all the time to Trump and Bush II.
SFAW
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Don’t forget to visit Nambia.
Steeplejack
@SFAW:
The problem will solve itself when your memory gets so bad that you can just endlessly cycle through your three favorite books.
sherparick1
@HeartlandLiberal: Well, I think the second thing would probably help some, but as for cutting away from President* Orange, I think the ratings are finally crashing. The act is starting to wear thin.
SFAW
@Steeplejack:
What are you talking about? Books? I thought we were talking about …. um … never mind.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
I’m not sure if this practice should be described as barbaric. The guys who undergo the flagellation and crucifixion are volunteers; you couldn’t say they were being forced into it. I would call it misguided, rather, given the Catholic church’s position that Lenten sacrifices are supposed to benefit the poor and suffering rather than to call attention to one’s own devotion (which, as I understand, is the sin of vanity).
Elizabelle
Good morning, jackals. Happy Good Friday. Bunny day weekend upon us.
Dave
@Steeplejack: Now that’s the sort of sunny optimism I can get behind. Especially since rereading books is great.
MomSense
@SFAW:
I signed up for audible so that I can listen to books while I’m walking, driving, making dinner, at the gym, etc. I’m so glad I did. Before audible I would try to read, usually at the end of the day, and fall asleep about a page and a half later.
My next book will be The Last Wild Men of Borneo by Carl Hoffman. Some friends of mine went to a talk given by the author at LL Bean a few weeks ago and said it was fascinating.
Steve in the ATL
@Elizabelle: where do you live in those rare times you’re not gallivanting around the Continent?
Kay
Never forget how rich these people are. How much they are paid for decades of mean-spirited, lazy mediocrity. Whole careers spitting out venom and spreading their own internal nastiness and emptiness.
This is what we reward. The private sector showers them with money. They live crazily opulent lifestyles and they do this “work” for decades. They go on into their 70’s, 80’s- whole 50 year careers doing nothing else. No particular talent or skill, just professional nasty assholes. Nastiest and most mean-spirited “wins”.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: Welcome back! You were missed.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Morning Kay.
Have you seen how he and his sister responded to her phony non-apology?
rikyrah
Parkland student appeals to Melania Trump: We’re being cyberbullied by Laura Ingraham https://t.co/GKjpA6U7o5 pic.twitter.com/ELvBveRlMi
— The Hill (@thehill) March 29, 2018
Betty Cracker
I’ve got a busy couple of days coming up. Have to sculpt a butter lamb, put together Easter baskets for kiddo and roommates and make two side dishes (asparagus and carrots) for Easter feast at the in-laws.
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah: I propose one weekend we have he Parkland students replace the TV gasbag hosts on the Sunday Shows. They can call who they want and they can ask whatever questions they want.
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense: I can NOT do audiobooks. My mind wanders and the next thing I know the protagonist is dead and I have no idea of who what where when or how. Reading focuses my mind.
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker:Recipes?
SFAW
@MomSense:
Mrs. SFAW loves Audible. I find that my retention is much better from reading, rather than hearing, so I don’t use it.
Elizabelle
@Steve in the ATL: In Richmond, VA (RVA) now. We will have to do a central VA meetup one of these days. Or just another DC one.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
How about the appropriating of barbaric practices, then?
schrodingers_cat
@Amir Khalid: So you don’t probably approve of the bloody rituals of Muhurrum? I have seen self flagellating Hindu worshipers too. The devout will always remain a mystery to me (of any religion).
bemused
@Kay:
Oh the howls of outrage would be epic if their own children were slimed this way.
Betty Cracker
@schrodingers_cat: I haven’t really settled on how I’m going to make those two sides yet. I’m thinking of just roasting the asparagus and bringing béarnaise sauce to go with it. Will probably saute the carrots in butter and herbs.
MomSense
@Betty Cracker:
Carrots with butter and tarragon are delicious.
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: How do you cut the carrots? Slice or dice or do you leave them in big chunks?
GregB
Twitter is telling me that Mueller is sweeping up characters with ties to Nigel Farage, Alex Jones and Roger Stone and St. Jules of the Broom Closet.
germy
Off topic, but didn’t Roseanne basically steal her whole schtick from Judy Tenuta?
The persona, the voice, the whole thing?
bemused
@OzarkHillbilly:
Same here. For retention, reading vs listening has always worked better for me and lately more re-reading. My mind does wander a lot anyway but there is an overload of information to process.
condorcet runner-up
@MomSense: I change the gym tv channels all the time, when they are blaring Fox, especially in the locker rooms. It’s mostly CNN and ESPN now, but there was a time when they were all Fox all the time. Drove me nuts.
That is one of the more pernicious ways for talking points to go mainstream, because people just kind of hear it in the background, and it’s dressed up as news and sounds “newsy” enough, and these little buts of slanted info stick in people’s minds.
No Drought No More
“Hillary Clinton is striking back at critics telling her to “shut up” following her 2016 loss, saying, “They never said that to any man who was not elected.”.
Rubbish. Plenty of democrats were disappointed and vocal about it when Adlai Stevenson ran a second time (and was thrashed by Ike).
Gin & Tonic
@Betty Cracker: Have to go buy a Thermomix, don’t you?
Amir Khalid
@schrodingers_cat:
No, I don’t. I don’t agree with the Shiite practice of self-flagellation on Al-Shura, either, or with any practice in any faith that involves this kind of physical injury.
Gin & Tonic
@No Drought No More: Good work, going back over six decades to find one counterexample.
schrodingers_cat
@Amir Khalid: Same here. I have no idea what prompts people to do it. I have seen a man sitting on a bed of nails outside a temple in Karnataka.
rikyrah
@GregB:
oh please oh please oh please be true
germy
@Gin & Tonic:
Being upset because someone ran a second time for president is not the same as insisting someone shut up and take up knitting every time they give an interview.
I mean, they don’t even want her to TALK.
The Thin Black Duke
@Gin & Tonic: Drought needs to ask his therapist why he hates his mother so much.
tobie
@rikyrah: I hope Conserva-Dems are taking note of how the Parkland students respond to right-wing critics. Heidi Heitkamp continues to agree with every right-wing smear against Dems in the hopes that this will endear her to her constituents. Is she really the best the party can offer in North Dakota? I love the fearlessness of these kids. Unlike so many Dems, they don’t crouch in a defensive posture from the get-go.
rikyrah
Mueller reportedly eyeing Sessions as Sessions cheats on recusal
Rachel Maddow shares new reporting that Robert Mueller’s investigation includes looking at Jeff Sessions contacts with Russians, while at the same time, Sessions is sending investigators to look at the conduct of the Trump Russia investigation.
rikyrah
Trump makes White House aides tiptoe around Russia, Putin policy
Carol Lee, NBC News national political reporter, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that while White House aides encourage Donald Trump to get tough on Russia, Trump tells his staff to keep quiet on Russia policy.
rikyrah
Meet Trump’s New, Homophobic Public Health Quack
The Centers for Disease Control will soon be run by a military doctor with a long history of pushing discriminatory AIDS policies.
BY LAURIE GARRETT | MARCH 23, 2018, 4:37 PM
The extraordinarily disruptive turnover in the Trump administration’s senior staff has officially reached the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The White House, having already cycled through one CDC director, has named its second: Robert Redfield, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former University of Maryland opioids and AIDS researcher.
He is exactly the wrong person for the job. Amid an exploding influenza epidemic across the United States, an opioids crisis that has decreased the statistical life expectancy of Americans, and a budget crisis that twice compelled closure of critical laboratory and disease-fighting services, the CDC desperately needs a leader who can promise stability and expertise. Redfield represents the opposite; he is someone whose track record in HIV research and public health policy has been a scientific and moral failure.
rikyrah
The Hawaii State Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously voted to approve that a Statue of Former President Barack Obama be erected in the state. WELL DESERVED! That’s one more statue then Donald Trump will ever have erected.
— Ed Krassenstein ? (@EdKrassen) March 30, 2018
Frankensteinbeck
@MomSense: and @SFAW:
My books are on audible! I’ve never heard them. I hear the voice actress, Emily Woo Zeller, does really well.
@No Drought No More:
That was deliberate satire, right?
rikyrah
Fight over V.A. privatization overshadows Shulkin dismissal
Leo Shane, deputy editor of Military Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about the circumstances of David Shulkin’s dismissal as secretary of the V.A. and the forces at work trying to privatize the V.A.’s services.
rikyrah
American once touted as possible ambassador to EU tells of being detained at Boston airport and subpoenaed by Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia inquiry: FBI questions Ted Malloch, Trump campaign figure and Farage ally https://t.co/Ej5k8qIAMf
— meta (@metaquest) March 30, 2018
rikyrah
The Trump administration will require immigrants to submit five years of social media history https://t.co/i8HJgnvpIF
— CNN (@CNN) March 30, 2018
GregB
@Amir Khalid:
I have seen the places where Christian extremists actually crucify people in reenactments.
I’ll have none of any of that, no matter the faith.
eric
@rikyrah: so, now we have to leave up for foreign countries to honor our presidents. shameful
rikyrah
Pruitt scandal dwarfs Shulkin’s, giving lie to firing excuse
Rachel Maddow points out that the explanation that David Shulkin was fired over his travel scandal doesn’t make sense in light of the administration’s other travel scandals, particularly that of EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, who not only used more taxpayer money but is literally staying in a lobbyist’s house.
laura
@Betty Cracker: I like carrots cooked in gingerale with a big slice of fresh ginger and when just about tender, drained of excess liquid, sprinkling of Chile powder or smoked paprika and a glaze of butter.
Asparagus with bernaise -yes please!
There’s anticipation building to see that butter lamb…..
Yarrow
@rikyrah: Who would want to come here, given all this invasive investigation of personal lives? Wonder what the latest numbers on foreign travel to the US are? I”m guessing still down.
Also from the article:
Does everyone remember previous telephone numbers and email addresses? I don’t.
Tarragon
@MomSense:
I agree completely!
Wait, what. Hang on…
Yarrow
@laura:
Yes! Betty Cracker’s butter lamb has become a tradition! Can’t wait to see this year’s incarnation.
SiubhanDuinne
@No Drought No More:
You mean the Adlai Stevenson who served as US Ambassador to the UN under two Democratic presidents? That Adlai Stevenson?
Your a moran and a looser.
SiubhanDuinne
@eric:
Internet-of-the-Week Award!!
?????
MomSense
@Tarragon:
Ha!!
MomSense
@Frankensteinbeck:
My son read your books to me. It was a very happy experience.
Tarragon
@MomSense:
At one point I went and searched for some comment I had made… Enough recipes get posted that it was an interesting experience.
Gelfling 545
@satby: I suspect that was the best thing they could do for him. Even their befuddled viewers might have begun to get a clue if it continued.
Gelfling 545
@Betty Cracker: My nephew made a butter lamb last year. It looked like a toad. Fortunatel he does not depent on the arts for a living.
SFAW
@Gelfling 545:
That’s not too bad. Mine usually looks like an ashtray.
Procopius
Timothy Burke’s tweet is at variance with the official story we were given in 2005 or 5. Saddam Hussein knew very well he didn’t have WMD, but he was hoping to bluff Iran into thinking he still did, because he had used poison gas he got from the United States against them. Of course I should be skeptical of any government issued statement, so maybe Timothy Burke is correct and the Cheney government followed by the Obama government have just been lying to us all along.
Procopius
@sherparick1:
I dunno, last I saw his positive rating was up to 42%, a rise of 7% but they didn’t say over what time period. Given that they are endorsing only Blue Dogs and are actively working to defeat progressive Dems, I think the DCCC is going to pull defeat from the jaws of victory again. Hoping I’m wrong, because there are so many progressive candidates this year and the word of what the DCCC is doing is spreading better this year than it usually does.