the misery breaks

let slip the halyards of defeatism

The Color of Odious Lucre

or take no bribe before its time.
Sit through the ad.

Quote du jour

Postcard from D.C.

The desperation will be ferocious. Imagine everything from the last six years rolled into one toxic week. An electoral gauntlet of hacking knives and fire. But, then, where did one party rule ever end serenely?

-- Josh Marshall

Tired of uncertainty

Be sure.

But seriously.

[via]

It can't happen here

Because of this rubberstamp Congress, these provisions of this conference report add up to the worst of all worlds. We fail the National Guard, which expects great things from us as much as we expect great things from them. And we fail our Constitution, neglecting the rights of the States, when we make it easier for the President to declare martial law and trample on local and state sovereignty.

or this, this and read this

It's a family affair

not just Dick.

Meet the new Franz Biberkopf

without the possibility of empathy
The stupid fat fuck is going to be eaten by his hatreds and he doesn't even know it. Sort of like this.

Atten-hut!

or over and out?

Future warning signs

One for every occasion

For historical purposes only

Get yourself a copy.

For the record

Waltz across Texas w/Google

Another broken record

Said another way in another time

They Live

and won't be stopped.

Images du jour

Not cauliflower

Bury the story

before you bury the dead.
The New American Way.

The Next War

Not just mine alone. Any one of a hundred officials—some of whom foresaw the whole catastrophe—could have told the hidden truth to Congress, with documents. Instead, our silence made us all accomplices in the ensuing slaughter.

Vote early and vote often

And after you mutter- Fuck the GOP, watch this.

Cartoon

Color

Signage

Salute

"The elected government commits forces only after due consideration and in compliance with our national laws and values," the manual says. "Understanding this process gives our Army moral strength and unwavering confidence when committed to war."

It has happened here

Not for sale

Interview here

Image du jour

Truly amazing. Click the image to blow it up.

Land of opportunity

or 3 hots and a cot.

Baaaaaaa

How else could you describe it?

Imagine there are no people. It isn't hard to do

No hell below us, above us only sky......

[P.S.]

This is the difference between them and us

and my sympathies are with them and not the whiners, the keeners and wailers that pass for residents of the land of the free and the home of the brave.

''They do not want to make it a tourist attraction,'' said the 27-year-old brother of two of the 15 boys sent out of the schoolhouse by the gunman before the shooting.

It can't happen here

but it has.
Page 61, halfway down.

Strong stomach?

Hey, you never know..

And while in the fullness of time..

.... patience and dogged persistence can breed success, it is the kind of success that does not necessarily reward the victor but, rather, the player best able to take advantage of the new situation. It is far too early to tell who ultimately will benefit from a stable and prosperous Mesopotamia, if one should ever emerge. But in the case of Korea, it looks like it will be the Chinese.

How do you spell 'Imperialism' ?

I spell it...

Bush’s Nuclear Apocalypse

Chris Hedges, the former Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times and author of the bestseller “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” reports on Bush’s plan for Iran, and how a callous war, conceived by zealots, will lead to a disaster of biblical proportions.

Quote du jour

Not a major planet

The weekend tests of an apparent nuclear weapon by North Korea bring the fourth horseman to the apocalyptic party that the world has now become. There is now a kind of "atomic crescent" of states whose motives for possessing - and possibly using - nuclear weapons differ from those of the old order. The good news is that there are plenty of other planets in the universe.

Too much, too little, too late....

to try again with you.

Or- when will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?

FYI

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim quickly he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed and getting to the patient within 3 hours, which is tough. Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. But doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
1. Ask the individual to SMILE.
2. Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
3. Ask the person to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently, ie: It is sunny out today)

If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call 9-1-1 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

-- Passed along by Michael Hawley

[Via]

Cold Day in Hell

Found

Triumph of the nil

or say can't you see?

Henry

Kissinger

Nasrallah a Beirut

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Once Upon a Time..

Read it.

And you coulda been a contender...

if you knew what that was.

I feel Karl Rove's slimy finger....

No link here. I thought I'ld let you wonder.