The New York Times Best Sellers' list has had a horror show of books topping their list over the course of time. An absolute horror show.
The likes of Peggy Noonan (aka Brooklyn’s embarrassing Reagan representative), good ol’ Patty Buchanan and, of course, the one and only Billie-O to name a few have sullied an accomplishment that used to be worth a little something. But the latest book to atop the list doesn’t even do proper justice to "absolute horror show." It is worse than that.
Jerome Corsi rears his ugly, curmudgeon face head again, and some Americans (i.e. the entire conservative nation) have made his -"No Shame on Smearing Democrats Because I Can Part 2"- "Obama Nation" number one on the list.
Thankfully, great people are slapping it down hard and expediently.
Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.
HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.
Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level of stuff we’re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.
I read on net in two places, Kos was one of them, that they were purging voters from the voter registration list in Nevada, I went on the net and checked, and my name was not there. So I started calling about being purged, after a lot of talking here is what they told me. I am still on the register to vote list I was just inactive so they didn’t send me any election material and early voting started to day.
However the Nevada law states that if you voted in the last Primary election you would remain registered, after I told them the law and asked when it was changed, they said I was just a inactive voter and said it would be corrected. I still think it is a Republican scam keep to Democrats from voting.
Nevada democrats need to start checking remember, Republicans are all liars and crooks
Well what a surprise! Our favorite Hillary Clinton surrogate, Lanny Davis, the man who scintillated us with his wit and charm, is now a political analyst for Faux News.
Well, not such a surprise.
The new/not-so-new opportunity for Mr. Davis was announced today. Now we can all receive wisdom on a regular basis from Mr. Straighttalk-who-calls-himself-a-democrat (?).
One of the more telling revelations about Bush from that weasel McClellan's book:
'You know, the truth is I honestly don't remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don't remember.'
In his just published memoirs, ‘Not as Dumb as I Seem’, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan admits that he was parroting the administration’s lies. "Yes, Iraq really didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor or cause the cancellation of ‘Hee Haw.’ But I thought everyone knew that. How gullible could the media be? Was I supposed to say, ‘Today, the President wants you to believe these whoppers?’ I had to say whatever they told me. Lynn Cheney threatened to hurt me."
I'm not a distance runner, but I know a few things about endurance. And, I'm pretty sure everyone knows the first rule of competing in a long race: Pace Yourself! You might have a lot of energy in the beginning, you might think that adrenaline can carry you, but when you get halfway there and the novelty has worn off, what is going to make you push on? Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), I did not pace myself for this race. And I know I'm not the only one.
A stumbling point for me in the practice of Buddhism is optimism. I do not do optimism. My thoughts on optimism parallel Ambrose Bierce.
Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
I am particularly prone to pessimism (realism) when it comes to the response of our species to climate change. In reading the parable of the Burning House from the Lotus Sutra, I am tempted to wonder (which is as close as I come to hope).
I had just read a great-catch diary this morning by NWTerriD where she nailed John McCain on a rather large misinterpretation of the Constitution during a speech at Wake Forest and his campaigns attempts to cover it up.
Less than an hour later while watching MSNBC, I found myself in a laughably similar situation.
Lie to me and tell me everything is all right
Lie to me and tell me that you’ll stay here tonight
Tell me that you’ll never leave,
oh and I’ll just try to make believe
that everything, everything you're telling me is true
Lie to me.
-Jonny Lang
The Lie That Launched the 21st Century
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
********Bear with me. This is my first time blogging at the Daily Kos, although I've been reading it religiously through this primary. Props to this site!
Hillary Clinton's Campaign requests openly for others to "Share Your Comments, Thoughts, And Ideas"... well as a former resident of Chappaqua, NY (and the greater Westchester County area), I felt I should share my sage thoughts on "the state of the race, our campaign strategy or your ideas for doing things differently" as they so graciously solicit.
Really, after such a long and eventful primary season, who could resist this black-tie invitation into my mental inner sanctum? Not I!
The Clintons cannot stop lying, this is just incredible. Bill Clinton is now lying about Hillary Clinton Bosnia lie and fabrication claiming that Hillary Clinton told the Bosnia trip story at 11:00 PM at night and she was tired.
First of all Hillary Clinton told the Bosnia lies in plain day light. Second if Bill Clinton is saying that Hillary Clinton is too tired at 11:00 PM therefore by his argument she cannot handle the crisis phone call at 3:00 AM in the morning.
What are your plans for Saturday, April 12th, 2008? Lazy day watching hockey? Going out to enjoy the Spring weather? Perhaps working the second job you need to afford food and fuel in Bush's America?
Well, whatever you do, take a few moments to ridicule Mark Steyn. In case you are blissfully unaware of this internationally-famous wanker, he's a Canadian, living in Britain who writes godawful neo-conservative opinion columns that make Ann Coulter look like the Oracle at Delphi.
Five years ago, Saturday, Steyn's column was entitled, "Movers and shakers have moved on to the next 'disaster'." It contained 10 cautionary predictions made by various knowledgeable anti-war analysts and addressed each one with a breezy, "That's not going to happen" contradiction. Here's an example:
"Iraqis Now Waiting for Americans to Leave" (AP, April 10). MBITRW: There will be terrible acts of suicide-bomber depravity in the months ahead, but no widespread resentment at or resistance of the Western military presence.
I love Cliff Schecter. When he appears on my teevee to "debate" some empty-headed GOoPer strategist it is always a slaughter, with Cliff leaving the set unharmed but his shirt ruined from RightWinger bloodstains. He's the kind of fella I'd want on my side of an argument.
Break on thru to the other side to see a truly despicable example of McCain's temper and why this would doom the presidential hopes of any other candidate (especially if their name ended with a (D).
