Recent ArticlesBy Pat Racimora on December 5, 2008 at 7:00 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Energy Policy, Environment, Nuclear Power, Nuclear weapons | 2 Comments
Do you know what the Energy Department Does with most of its $24 billion annual budget?
Guess ….
1. Research on and development of renewable energy supplies
2. Research on building new nuclear power plants
3. Research on ways to achieve energy independence
4. Energy conservation measures
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By Galt Pizza Parlor on December 5, 2008 at 1:55 AM in Current Affairs | 12 Comments
OK fellow night owls, here’s your chance for the finest chat and cuisine I can dish out!
On tonight’s menu is:
“Two Weeks”
…a work of fiction
I had given up on the dreadful what masquerades as “news” on television. I laughed to myself and often thought I would miss the end of the world when the talking heads on CNN announced it was time to bend over and kiss my own butt goodbye because some malevolent misanthropic moronic asshat pressed the button.
I was very happy to have stopped watching the propaganda that the major news networks spewed endlessly as shills for corporations and politicians, therefor the risk of missing the announcement did not phase me one iota of a scintilla of a rat’s ass.
I’ve always been very intuitive and around 5PM I had the irresistible urge to turn on the aforementioned dreaded spews channel CNN. To my shock what I had been laughing about had come true, albeit not exactly as I had jocularly prophesied! After I heard the report I immediately called my spouse Anna on her cellphone.
I was obviously in a panic but suddenly and surprisingly, a calmness came over me, as if a ball-and-chain burden I was schlepping around like Jesus himself carrying his own cross was relieved! I was lucky to get through to Anna since everyone and their sister or brother surely were calling their loved ones. Anna was in her car driving and on her way home from work.
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on December 4, 2008 at 11:53 PM in Current Affairs | 73 Comments
he wrote this note to a few friends — i’ve deleted some names just in case:
SUBJECT: Only the good die young. Not true.
Well, Ceasar proved that old saw wrong. He started his downhill slide couple of weeks ago (we suspect cancer). There are not too many 12 year old Rottweiler’s running around. Over the last week he started rapid weight loss and no longer wanted to eat. Fortunately for me, I was in P—— on business (ok, I admit it, I was a coward). This left S– and J— with the sad task of carrying Ceasar to the vet for the long sleep. We think the raw food diet (B.A.R.F.) actually prolonged his life over the last year.
By Larry Johnson on December 4, 2008 at 8:21 PM in Current Affairs | 77 Comments
There was a time that Bob Novak was a responsible, muckraking journalist. But those days are long gone. The turn to the dark side started when Novak willingly exposed the classified identity of Valerie Plame Wilson. Novak knew better. He had been around Washington long enough to know the vital importance of protecting the identities of intelligence officers but in a fit of partisan rage or pandering he played along with the White House and circulated the bullshit story that Valerie sent her unqualified husband on an African boondoggle.
So here is Novak today, proving that he is making little progress in his battle against brain cancer. He was asked if he would out Valerie if he had it to do all over again. Novak said:
I’d go full speed ahead because of the hateful and beastly way in which my left-wing critics in the press and Congress tried to make a political affair out of it and tried to ruin me. My response now is this: The hell with you. They didn’t ruin me. I have my faith, my family, and a good life. A lot of people love me — or like me. So they failed. I would do the same thing over again because I don’t think I hurt Valerie Plame whatsoever.
So Bob, with respect to your brain tumor. I have a phrase for you. Read the rest
By NoQuarter on December 4, 2008 at 7:55 PM in NoQuarter Radio | 7 Comments
Patsy and Sugar will be on the air in FIVE MINUTES (or less)!
Listen to the livestream broadcast right now on NQR, from 9pm to 10pm ET.
The call-in line for questions is (347) 677-0792, and the chat room is open (and the chatroom is a lot of fun!). Register at http://www.blogtalkradio.com to join in the chat — and be sure to log in first before you go to the show’s page.
By Philip Giraldi on December 4, 2008 at 6:30 PM in Current Affairs | 16 Comments
Author: Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, is a contributing editor to The American Conservative and a fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance. Philip Giraldi and Larry Johnson are longtime friends and associates.
Either way, we’ll be leaving. Thanksgiving week was remarkable because it may have witnessed the last nails being driven into the coffin of America’s ongoing colonial enterprise. On Tuesday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai angrily denounced the creation of a parallel carpetbagger government to be run by the United States and NATO in his country. He demanded a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign soldiers, noting that his countrymen no longer understand what the fighting is all about, particularly as they hear of wedding parties and school outings being blasted by the helicopters and warplanes of their ostensible allies.
Karzai asked rhetorically how the insurgency can keep getting stronger when most of the world is united in an attempt to defeat it, and he reiterated his intention to negotiate with the Taliban leaders to bring peace.
On Thanksgiving Day itself, by a narrow margin, the Iraqi parliament voted for a new status of forces agreement (SOFA) with the United States that will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2009. The neoconservatives have predictably declared that the SOFA represents victory, even though they have not read the document itself, which no one outside of the administration has seen in its English version.
By NoQuarter on December 4, 2008 at 5:00 PM in Current Affairs, Open Thread, Supreme Court | 26 Comments
I love watching The McLaughlin Group (transcripts | podcasts). I often watch it two or three times, thanks to my DVR, because I want to catch everything, and I often miss important remarks the first time ’round. ( Say, I’ve heard — via some grapevines — that Mssr. McLaughlin loves the ladies. Maybe that’s why he left the priesthood so long ago. (I’m so silly sometimes.))
Actually, I learn a great deal from that program, and do wish it were an hour long. I hang on to every word that Pat Buchanan and John McLaughlin utter. Eleanor Clift, sadly, has become my least favorite panelist ever since she drank the KoolAid last year, and her critical thinking has suffered — she just mouths the typical talking points we’ve all heard all week long on every cable news channel. She has nothing NEW to add, or rarely.
And, even when I was a Daily-Kos-lovin’ regular Kossack diarist (@ 2005), I loved TMG (The McLaughlin Group). And I never understood why it was verboten to say that I liked the show, or why there was a regular FRENZY about getting PBS to cancel the show. Whatever for? Because PBS was bowing to the wishes of the rightwingers in Congress who control their purse strings? Call me STUPID, but I have to ask this: Shouldn’t the elected “rightwingers” have as much say about funding PBS as the leftwingers? Ditto NPR?
Ideally, I suppose, no elected officials should mess with PBS’s and NPR’s programming. But obliterating all supposedly “rightwing” programming? That’s anti-democratic, and it proves why the leftwing can never be allowed to RULE our nation because their level of censorship will be more extreme than that of the rightwingers, I fear.
And why do the lefties ASS-u-ME that if anyone, like me, watches TMG, his or her thinking will be irrevocably damaged? That viewers can’t discern for themselves which POVs they prefer? Read the rest
By RobWarrior on December 4, 2008 at 3:00 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nocturnal Warrior, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy | 119 Comments
An extra added bonus to the naming of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State is that John Kerry is sad, really sad. Both the Boston Globe and Herald are reporting that the man who managed to lose to George W. Bush in 2004 is not comfortable with his new seat under the Obama bus. 
[photo above: ET and Lurch together at Fright Night at Universal Studios]
He was apparently measuring drapes for the office over in Foggy Bottom (trimmed with French lace, I’m sure) and now will have to try and have them installed in his cramped Senate Office back on Capitol Hill. In the Globe, Joan Vennochi reminds us, just what a good little Obot, Kerry was:
The Massachusetts senator helped to launch Obama on the national stage. As his party’s presidential nominee, Kerry chose Obama as the keynote speaker for the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Ever since then, Kerry did everything right by Obama.
He walked away from his own presidential dreams and embraced Obama’s. He helped with fund-raising and organized a Web-based fight against the kind of negative campaigning that helped derail his own presidential bid. He also delivered a powerful speech when Democrats gathered in Denver to nominate Obama. …
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on December 4, 2008 at 12:45 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Cult-Aide, Cultist Thugs, Cults, David Axelrod, George Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Sexism | 125 Comments
Sometime ago, I wrote a post on how the followers of Obama and cults. I thought I had seen it all then regarding the adulation of this man, but oh, was I wrong!! Now, we have the new coins being created in his image, the push for a national holiday, schools changing their name because of Obama’s “achievement” of being half-African, and even more. Add that to the previous statement in which Nancy Pelosi claimed that:
“(T)his is the moment that the world is waiting for.”
“I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”
Wowie zowie. So, since it is pertinent, and I am sick as a dog, as we say down here in the South, I am reprinting the majority of that piece from back in July with a few slight changes. It is below.
So, YEAH, Obama is “what the world has been waiting for,” and what represents America returning to its “best Traditions” if that means an arrogant, narcissistic, sexist, thuggish, unethical, pandering, coercing, power-hungry Messiah-wannabe, then, yes - Obama is our guy!!! I must be some kind of heathen, though, because I just don’t buy it. Obama has made the classic mistake - he now believes his own Axelrovian hype. He really DOES think he is The One For Whom We Have Been Waiting!
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By NoQuarter on December 4, 2008 at 11:50 AM in NoQuarter Radio | 8 Comments
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