ThinkFast AM: July 12, 2006
ThinkFast AM: July 12, 2006
The federal antiterrorism database includes potential “targets” like Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, and an unspecified “Beach at End of a Street,” a new inspector general report shows. Indiana is listed as the most target-rich state in the U.S., with “50 percent more listed sites than New York.”
House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) promised yesterday to crackdown on intelligence leaks to the media, suggesting “some unauthorized leaks could have been deliberate attempts to help al Qaeda.†To back up his claim, Hoekstra said: “I don’t have any evidence.â€
$98.40: Next year’s monthly premium for Medicare Part B outpatient coverage, an 11 percent increase over this year and a 68 percent increase since 2003.
The defense industry, with White House backing, is bitterly fighting an amendment to the Senate’s 2007 defense spending bill that requires fixed-price contracts that set a firm limit on the cost of weapons systems. The Pentagon’s contracting system is currently plagued by waste and cost overruns.
The U.S. government “is discontinuing a controversial multibillion-dollar deal with oil services giant Halliburton Co. to provide logistical support to U.S. troops worldwide.”
Putin fires at Cheney. During an interview with NBC, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Vice President Cheney’s recent criticisms of Russia “an unsuccessful hunting shot.”
Meanwhile, a Russian pro-democracy conference was interrupted yesterday when “Russian security officers, in plain clothes” entered the hotel and “swiftly seized four members of a political movement opposed to [Putin], handcuffed them and rushed them away.”
“Hackers in China broke into the State Department’s computer system in Washington and overseas in search of information, passwords and other data.†Officials say the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs “lost its Internet connectivity for several days†preceding North Korea’s missile tests.
And finally: Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco vetoed a bill making “I Love My Louisiana†the official state poem because it “lacked sufficient literary merit.†An excerpt: “I love my Louisiana/I propose this toast toward her/With my meager pen in hand/I somehow feel so primitive/To her majesty so grand.â€
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House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) promised yesterday to crackdown on intelligence leaks to the media, suggesting “some unauthorized leaks could have been deliberate attempts to help al Qaeda”.
Apparently, Hoekstra feels that with his objection to the administration keeping surveillance programs secret from Congress, he’s performed his pennance, and is free to return to his usual ashattery.
To back up his claim, Hoekstra said: “I don’t have any evidence.â€
You, know, I heard that Hoekstra was actually just a vapid cheerleader of this administration’s continued efforts to strip us of our privacy and our civil rights, but I don’t have any evidence. Oh, wait…
July 12th, 2006 at 9:22 amMissed the GAO report yesterday that said “the Bush administration’s Iraq strategy is inadequate and was poorly planned.”
Shocker.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:23 amIndiana doesn’t actually have the most targets, Indiana just happens to have Evan Bayh.
The GOP must consider him a contender.
Fear generated by the GOP machine should be able to efectively nuetralize his threat.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:24 am“some unauthorized leaks could have been deliberate attempts to help al Qaeda.†To back up his claim, Hoekstra said: “I don’t have any evidence.â€
Later Hoekstra said, “I do indeed have a brain in my skull”. Unfortunately he could not provide any evidence to prove his claim.
$98.40: Next year’s monthly premium for Medicare Part B outpatient coverage, an 11 percent increase over this year and a 68 percent increase since 2003.
Well that fits real nice with Congress refusing to raise the minimum wage. Glad the Republicans fixed Medicare. Whew, I thought there were problems with it but now its running like a well oiled machine. Nice job.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:26 am–50% more than nyc! ok if the dems dont make hay out of this they arent any better than the repubs.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:27 amThe federal antiterrorism database includes potential “targets†like Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, and an unspecified “Beach at End of a Street,†a new inspector general report shows. Indiana is listed as the most target-rich state in the U.S., with “50 percent more listed sites than New York.â€
Makes sense. New York, a lot of skyscrappers in a single city, a single target. Indiana, two skyscrappers in the whole state, in separate towns, two targets.
/Sarcasm off.
House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) promised yesterday to crackdown on intelligence leaks to the media, suggesting “some unauthorized leaks could have been deliberate attempts to help al Qaeda.†To back up his claim, Hoekstra said: “I don’t have any evidence.â€
You mean, like Bush saying that he doesn’t think on Bin Laden nowadays, and dissolving the department in charge of findim him?
$98.40: Next year’s monthly premium for Medicare Part B outpatient coverage, an 11 percent increase over this year and a 68 percent increase since 2003.
But hey, European social nets are way too expensive. America does it on the cheap.
/Sarcasm off
The defense industry, with White House backing, is bitterly fighting an amendment to the Senate’s 2007 defense spending bill that requires fixed-price contracts that set a firm limit on the cost of weapons systems. The Pentagon’s contracting system is currently plagued by waste and cost overruns.
Less PR laws and more of enforcing the accountability.
The U.S. government “is discontinuing a controversial multibillion-dollar deal with oil services giant Halliburton Co. to provide logistical support to U.S. troops worldwide.â€
Not before Haliburton and Cheney cashed a mountain of benefits.
Meanwhile, a Russian pro-democracy conference was interrupted yesterday when “Russian security officers, in plain clothes†entered the hotel and “swiftly seized four members of a political movement opposed to [Putin], handcuffed them and rushed them away.â€
You mean, like Cindy Sheehan?
“Hackers in China broke into the State Department’s computer system in Washington and overseas in search of information, passwords and other data.†Officials say the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs “lost its Internet connectivity for several days†preceding North Korea’s missile tests.
Homeland Security is also outsourced to China?
July 12th, 2006 at 9:28 amAre you scared yet Indiana???? You should be…apparently terraists don’t take kindly to corn fields and Dome stadiums.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:30 am- Evil Spaniard:
Makes sense. New York, a lot of skyscrappers in a single city, a single target. Indiana, two skyscrappers in the whole state, in separate towns, two targets.
I think AnAmerican nailed it here:
Apparently, Indiana is not rich in target as much as it is poor on fear.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:32 amMy friends and I get together and play roller hockey once a week. We call it the “Weekly Roller Hockey Game”. We attract a crowd sometimes of our wives, girlfriends and even sometimes a few others. I wonder if there is some Homeland Security Funding with my name on it.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:37 am#9 My friends and I get together and play roller hockey once a week. We call it the “Weekly Roller Hockey Gameâ€. We attract a crowd sometimes of our wives, girlfriends and even sometimes a few others. I wonder if there is some Homeland Security Funding with my name on it.
Comment by dlet — July 12, 2006 @ 9:37 am
No doubt about it. Roller hockey is a manly men’s sport, no doubt that you’re Republican, dear citizen. Let’s say… a check amounting to milion per player and half a milion per spectator and a permanent entourage of 100 FBI agents is OK? Best, let’s make it 150 agents and an Apache ‘copter.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:43 am- diet:
We attract a crowd sometimes of our wives, girlfriends and even sometimes a few others.
Women watching sporting events??? Infidels!!!
I wonder if there is some Homeland Security Funding with my name on it.
Yup…in addition to a dossier and a database of all people you’ve ever contacted in any way.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:44 amJust another day in bull shit bush world…..Sure just when I am going to have to pay for the medical they raise it..The booklet sent out to inform me of the coverage is vague at best and confusing at most with no listings of costs and actual coverage, just propaganda to encourage me to sign up to all the junk……Geeeeeeees will it get better soon?…When will these wars, killings and draining of all our assets and civil rights end ?……. I’m gonna go hug some trees……..Blessings, we need them
July 12th, 2006 at 9:46 am#10
July 12th, 2006 at 9:55 amEvil Spaniard,
That sounds about right. Last week an ice cream truck parked near us and was playing some kind of unpermitted subversive music. It really scared us and caused a commotion among the youth.
Excuse me, but how did we miss this one from yesterday’s ThinkFast AM?
Sen. George Allen (R-VA) “snuffs†his spitting habit. “Allen has been spotted in hearings and even on the Senate floor dipping and, yes, dear heavens, spitting into a plastic foam cup,†Heard on the Hill reports. “But lately…Allen has been enjoying Camel Snus and Stonewall Hard Snuff, both of which get Allen around that unbecoming spitting problem.â€
NASTY! DISGUSTING! ICKY. ICKY. GROSS!
July 12th, 2006 at 10:05 amThis might lift spirits a bit.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:07 amThe Christian Left just showed up, or so says WaPo.
Saw this on crooksandliars.com:
Was talking to my brother-in-law last night about gas prices. He works for a local oil company. He was saying that the major oil companies have oil in storage that was purchased as long as 5 years ago…at lower prices, obviously…but are refining what they are purchasing now…thus the higher prices.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:10 amyour brother in law does not know what he’s talking about
July 12th, 2006 at 10:13 am- Station Agent:
Thanks for the link. It’s refreshing to see Christians actually talking about following the teachings of Christ, rather than their own selfih interests.
Quote from the Reverend Tony Campolo, one of the leaders of the Religious Left:
Campolo, you might consider politics (if you can stand the stench…)
July 12th, 2006 at 10:14 amLouisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco vetoed a bill making “I Love My Louisiana†the official state poem because it “lacked sufficient literary merit.†An excerpt: “I love my Louisiana/I propose this toast toward her/With my meager pen in hand/I somehow feel so primitive/To her majesty so grand.â€
If it’s not Zydeco, it’s crap.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:14 am“Lacked sufficient literary merit.” OMG, that’s funny…
MEXICAN ELECTION
In Mexico city yesterday I talked with a television reporter. I asked if Obrador had any real evidence and he told me he had tons of it and told me to watch Azteca TV that night. I did, what a revelation.
Obradors campaign had people at numerous polling sites armed with camers. At one polling place in Mexico City they found hundreds of ballots pre-marked for Calderon lying on a chair in plain view. They watched those ballots and later on a young man started folding them and putting them into the ballot box marked PRESIDENT. IFE refuses to investigate to find out where these ballots came from and how they came into the possession of the Calderon forces.
Obrador filed suit in Mexicos highest court and cited over 100,000 casillas, or polling places, that had more votes cast than the register showed. It is the theory of the Obrador campaign that Calderon knew he could not win the election by holding down the Obrador vote so all efforts were made to produce more Calderon votes than were really cast.
On election night IFE was continually giving out voting figures that showed Calderon ahead by 3 percentage points. That was never the case. Obrador lead all the way until all of the phony ballots were counted and then he took a slim lead, less that 150 thousand votes. When Obrador, later that night, claimed victory he said that he and his people knew where the votes would come from and that he would win by half a million votes.
The Obrador campaign also has film taken at several polling places showing two and three people in a voting booth marking numerous ballots and folding them, then placing them in the ballot box marked PRESIDENT.
I came away convinced that the election had been stolen from Obrador, and that he had the proof. But of course, its up to the courts now. And oh, by the way, the print and television media are not calling Calderon “president”, they are referring to him as a “candidate”.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:15 amPutin fires at Cheney. During an interview with NBC, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Vice President Cheney’s recent criticisms of Russia “an unsuccessful hunting shot.â€
Uh-oh, “Dick” is going to have to prove his manhood now. Kiss your sweet asses good-bye…
July 12th, 2006 at 10:16 amPeter Hoekstra (R-MI) announced today he will be re-elected in the upcoming election in November. To back up his claim, Hoekstra said: “I don’t have any evidence.â€
July 12th, 2006 at 10:22 amIf one was visiting the Amish Country Popcorn factory, one would not know they were under attack — until it was much too late. POP!
July 12th, 2006 at 10:25 am#16 – I don’t know about the refining practices of specific oil companies, but to say ’speculation’ is a major cause of the oil price is spot on.
How do you suppose we regulate a commodity market?
Because oil tends to come from unstable parts of the world, where access could be cut or limited overnight (places like the Middle East, Venezuela, Nigeria, etc) oil companies are constantly nervous about their ability to buy enough oil to refine and bring to market. When news comes out Iran that they are not going to discuss nuclear material refinement, the oil companies say “Oh crap, Iran as a source for future oil is being threatened, we need to buy more today, so we can be secure in the future” and they start bidding up.
The same happens with oranges in Florida. Things rock along, all fine and dandy, but when the National Weather Services comes out with a report predicting a heavy Florida hurricane season, orange speculators say “Oh crap, we are gonna lose a source of organges, we better buy now” and the price for oranges is bid up.
That’s how open commidities markets work. Speculation is just a inescapable part of it.
The best thing we can do is explore and develop resources in stable areas (like the off-shore continental shelf, the Alberta Oil Sands, ANWR) to offset some of the fear that drives speculators.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:27 amLooks like Indiana & Wisconsin are big targets.
Why Indiana? Newport, Indiana, about 50 miles west of the state’s capital and 30 miles north of Terre Haute, is home to one of the world’s largest stockpiles of VX nerve gas. The stockpile holds more than 2.5 million pounds of the substance, which is rated by Guinness World Book of Records as being the deadliest substance known to mankind. The smoke from a burning stockpile of 2.5 million pounds is enough to kill the population of the entire planet several times over.
Why Wisconsin? My guess is that Madison is the main target in Wisconsin. One of our countries largest universities is located there and is downtown. Making it a target for sheer numbers of kill.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:59 am$98 a month is cheap! Man, I wish that is all my health insurance cost. Most working people have health care that cost around $500-$700 per person. Luckily, business pays a good part of it. I still am paying around $150 for each of my family members every month though. In conclusion, they are getting a steal on coverage.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:00 amGary,
Mine is $355 per month, for me only, with a $2000 deductible. I don’t make a lot of money, but I get by. For a lot of people who have to pay the $98 per month, it may be more of a hardship simply because their income is so little. If they’re retired or disabled, they may not be able to go out and make more money if they need it.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:08 amComment by Rebel With A Cause — July 12, 2006 @ 10:15 am
i thought about you yesterday – randi rhodes devoted a segment of her AirAmericaRadio show to this… Greg Palast was on too, reporting from mexico…
Mexico’s presidential election smacks of Florida in 2000. Why would Bush/Cheney care so much about Mexico? The same reason he’s worked up over Venezuela…oil.
go to her website for links
July 12th, 2006 at 11:11 amhere is the link to the speculators/gas prices story
and many others – torture, missile defense…:
NiemanWatchdog: Questions the press should ask:
(via crooks and liars)
July 12th, 2006 at 11:17 am# 14.Zooey:
Just a pinch between the cheek and gum.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:18 amlots of stories on google news that ROVE is the source for novaks leaks…
and this from crooksandliars:
Novak and Rove: “Friends ’til the Endâ€
By: John Amato @ 3:00 AM – PDT
Why Novak is finally only now talking? Murray Waas had the story long ago:
Novak writes in his column for tomorrow: “Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has informed my attorneys that after two and one-half years, his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to me has been concluded. That frees me to reveal my role in the federal inquiry…”
July 12th, 2006 at 11:24 am…
Gotta waqtch those dangerous Petting Zoos. This government is out of control, just got a visit from the Pentagon snooping around my blog. These guys really know how to waste money.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:32 amrandi rhodes has been connecting the dots… a very intense show yesterday…
DEVELOPING: A strange and bloody week for India and Pakistan…
Today, at least 145 are dead after bombs tear through Bombay’s commuter rail network. No claims of responsibility yet but attention is focused on Kashmiri militants out of Pakistan, namely Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Monday, a Pakistani plane went down. 2 high court judges, 2 military officers and a government run university vice-chancellor were among the 45 killed.
And Sunday, India test launched a nuclear-capable missile (it failed).
go to her web site for those links
the picture alone is worth it – HEIL BUSHCO!
July 12th, 2006 at 11:33 am63% increase in medicare part B in three years – that’s about the right ratio with the COLA increases received by staffers at BushCo, don’t you think?
July 12th, 2006 at 11:33 amThat 63% increase over three years is on people whose income is pretty static. They have no way to increase their incomes, but their costs to stay alive rise disporportionately. Tell me more about compassionate conservatives.
wouldn’t it be nice if you we able to have an ala carte health care plan? hmm… to pick what you need in coverage… what a concept.. i could save money for my future health concerns… after all i don’t need eye care coverage in my twenties.. or chiropactor coverage at the office… or maternity as a single male…
maybe a health savings account might work… where it can never be taxed… where it can collect interest in a trust… hmmm….
July 12th, 2006 at 11:46 amAs usual gary the lights are on, but no one is home.
Most of the people paying for medicare are on a fixed income. this means an increase in the cost of health insurance, requires a decrease in other spending, say food, or electricity, or other services. Think before you open your mouth.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:46 amJust to set thhings straight, it is New York State, not just the city.
The Medicare fee is hitting many people with less than $10,000 in SS income. That is why you see so many of the elderly retrieving shopping carts and greeting people at Walmart.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:46 amWhy do you suppose the US has been so unfriendly to Mexico’s economy for the past 75 years? Could it be that they nationalized their oil industry?
July 12th, 2006 at 11:50 amJust a pinch between the cheek and gum.
Comment by Billy Bob
Yeah, thanks, I needed that. The worst part is the endless spitting, spitting, spitting…and the teeth…and the breath…did I mention the spitting? :P
July 12th, 2006 at 11:56 amAlso that $98/month isn’t their only medical expense. On top of all the prescriptions they take, medicare pays for just 80% of outpatient services. For inpatient services (when the patient is admitted), medicare leaves the patient a $952 deductible, for each visit, not each year. So for someone to pay upwards of $400/month in drugs, $600/month in rent, and then has maybe $200 left over for all other bills, things can be extremely tight. Working in medical collections, I’m happy if a retired person pays more than $25/month for their outstanding bills.
July 12th, 2006 at 12:01 pmOh, and the deductible is up from $912 last year and $872 in 2004.
July 12th, 2006 at 12:08 pm# 39. Zooey:
I’ve known for years that G.Allen was a ‘dipper’.
I always wondered how he kept it hidden,or why it wasn’t more widely known.
Is this the first you’ve heard about it?
July 12th, 2006 at 12:28 pmWell let this old woman add her thoughts…First off I retired early with no insurance coverage for the past 3 years..It has been a strugel, like the other 48 million without medical coverage…..I got a $24.00 a month increase the last 2 years and now it appears it will cost me $74.00 a month with out prescription coverage. Compared to the $102.00 a month I paid when working and had med, dental, priscription and vision care. Yes my employer also paid…Our co pay was cheap untill the last year when bull shit bush went into office and our little company went corprate and reich winged……
It is not possible on a fixed income with tiny cost of living increases to manage any better. The poster that mentioned many seniors are going back to work, and that is true and the health care issue seems to be the main reason..As I stated months ago I have spoken to many of them in the stores I shop at…..Going back to work is not something I can do. Volenteering at the food bank and here are all I can manage……..A universal health care with med, dental, priscription and vision coverage would be a good thing providing we the tax payers had not given the HMO’S and pharmacudicals $68 billion dollars to screw the public first…..1500 pages of snuck in at the last minute graft for the politicians and lobbiests is not the answer…Giving huge raises to all the congress $3,000.00 plus for the last 5 years and they now only work 97 day’s this years is also not the answer but the problem…..Untill we vote out all these greedy politicians and like Jay Randell said in one of his posts awhile back, term limets for all of them we are in a terrible mess…..It is a good thing my needs are small and my expectations are for a better america not personal gain…..Blessings, demand them…..
July 12th, 2006 at 12:34 pmIs this the first you’ve heard about it?
Comment by Billy Bob
Yes, and hopefully, it’s the last. :P
July 12th, 2006 at 12:42 pmPost 20 Rebel > It’s becoming obvious that Felipe Calderon stole the election in Mexico by fraud! I hope that Andres Obrador is able to force a recount of all the ballots, and/or if he can prove an organized effort to swindle him out of the presidency, then I hope a NEW election occurs!
July 12th, 2006 at 12:49 pm# 44.Zooey:
One last question,then I gotta go;(my tractor is id’lin’).
What does[:P] mean?
July 12th, 2006 at 12:52 pmIt means she is sticking her tounge out at you. but you better spit out the chew if you want a kiss.
;)
July 12th, 2006 at 12:54 pm# 43-Sharon Cox;
Very well said.
July 12th, 2006 at 1:00 pmBilly Bob,
Drop your head to your left shoulder, and look at it from that angle. It’s a cute little face with it’s tongue sticking out — like Krazny said. Now git, gas is expensive these days!
July 12th, 2006 at 1:03 pmElection Next November In Doubt?
Wednesday 12th of July 2006
by Jay Randal
The basic premise of democracy is FAIR elections, so if dishonesty or fraud takes place in voting, then the entire foundation of the democratic system collapses!
Elections are not won by how many turn out to vote, but by how honest the counting of the ballots for any election, so any fraud undermines the entire process!
It’s not good enough to say the system is OK, if 90% of the ballots are counted honestly, because almost all elections are determined within the 10% vote margin!
In extremely hotly contested elections, such as in Mexico, 1% of the votes can determine the winner, so any vote fraud can change the outcome in a dramatic fashion!
In the 2000 U.S. presidential election: Florida’s votes alone determined the winner, so when cheating came into play it threw the election into the Supreme Court!
The November Congressional elections are in doubt, because the voting equipment in some ststes have not been upgraded to prevent fraud, so where is honesty?
( Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Stone Mountain, Georgia.)
July 12th, 2006 at 1:09 pmOff topic’s. sorry…..My friend in New Hampshire sent me a new button….” of course it hurts, you’re getting screwed by an elephant.”……..May I add were also getting kicked by a few donkeys……..Blessings
July 12th, 2006 at 1:14 pmoh my !!! that’s a great one, sharon! thanks!
another homemade bumper sticker for my car!
on another subject:
July 12th, 2006 at 1:18 pmDifferent Name, Same Game: Phone Jamming Company Still Alive and Well
from crooksandliars – Mike’s Blog Round Up
A plea to America’s news directors and editors: Cancel Bush’s “Fear Factor”
…But news outlets have another. more important role: To be responsible. Terror fears have warped the American political debate, from clearing the way for an unjust war in Iraq to papering over White House scandals. That type of influence is something that goes well beyond ratings. CNN would also get lots more viewers if Carol Costello or Anderson Cooper read the news in the buff, but that wouldn’t be very appropriate. Scaring the American public needlessly, we’d argue, is a much greater sin.
In fact, although they seem not to realize it, but TV execs and top editors have the power to cancel the version of “The Fear Factor” that’s broadcast out of Washington, with a few easy moves. Here’s how:
July 12th, 2006 at 1:34 pm…
About the DoD switching to fixed-price contracts to control costs. There are two problems with this. The first is that programs that develop new technology, like pretty much all weapons systems, involve risk. With cost-plus contracts, the government assumes the risk. With fixed price, the contractor assumes the risk, and you can bet that they will charge for assuming that risk. Effectively, you’re making the contractor both develop the system and act as insurance company. Not clear that this will reduce costs — I would expect it to increase them. The second is that programs with new technology have inherent unpredictability, and in the course of every program the customer will find things about the original requirements that they want to change — things they decide they don’t need, additional things they want, things that should be changed. The “things they don’t need” also can work as a way to control costs. But it’s not clear how you could handle this with fixed-price contracts. I’d think they’d do better to stick with cost-plus and improve the structuring of incentive fees.
July 12th, 2006 at 1:59 pm….†of course it hurts, you’re getting screwed by an elephant.â€â€¦â€¦..May I add were also getting kicked by a few donkeys……..Blessings
Comment by Sharon Cox
That’s a great one, Sharon!
July 12th, 2006 at 2:38 pmThey don’t even bother to drop in a few messy kisses. :(
Comment by liberal idiot — July 12, 2006 @ 10:13 am
Sorry, I don’t believe I was speaking to you.
July 12th, 2006 at 2:59 pmthis is interesting / weird…
Today’s Hate Email: Bartha Edition http://www.ofrankenfactor.com/
Earlier this week, you may have seen that a Dr. Nicholas Bartha (allegedly) blew-up his Upper East Side Manhattan townhouse to a) kill himself; b) accentuate his despair over a bad divorce and c) prevent his ex-wife from getting the building.
But here’s the twist: an hour before he did the nasty deed, Bartha sent a long and rambling email to Fox News and other media entities about Air America and Al Franken, among others. Here’s that part of the long email and yes, our prestigious ‘Hate E-Mail of the Day’
July 12th, 2006 at 3:01 pm…
This is way off-topic, I know and I’m sorry, but should I be worried that Ned Lamont is saying stuff like this?
He seems to be saying that he’s distancing himself from bloggers because he doesn’t want to be perceived as a (gasp) netroots candidate.
I don’t recall Ned being as big as he is now before Markos Moulitsas took up his cause and spread the word about him. Now he appears to be turning his back on us in an attempt to avoid being flamed by these right wing nutcases and their ridiculous charges that Ned’s in the grip of crazy liberal bloggers.
So, am I overreacting to this or is this just politics as usual?
July 12th, 2006 at 3:14 pmSmart ass Bitch.
It’s on now.
July 12th, 2006 at 3:21 pmIn my post 50 > last sentence has a typo mistake > ststes means States, if anyone has not figured it out!
July 12th, 2006 at 3:22 pmi read nothing to be worried about, jurassicpork…
July 12th, 2006 at 3:23 pmsam seder, a big lamont supporter, may have another take on that tonight on MajorityReport on AirAmericaRadio… i’ll be listening…
i’m sure they will rejoyce know ahead of time that they will have a listener
July 12th, 2006 at 3:31 pmSo, if the President tells this man to jump off the tallest building in town, he will do it. Talk about brainwashed.
July 12th, 2006 at 4:24 pmMichigan Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra also suggested some unauthorized leaks could have been deliberate attempts to help al Qaeda.
Whoa, guys and gals, I think you’re jumping the gun here. Hoekstra said leaks could have been deliberate attempts to help….
July 12th, 2006 at 4:45 pmIt’s hypothetical, because there is no proof. It’s a classic Roveian sentence; Make a strong statement, followed by a soft disclaimer
Here is another example
PRESIDENT BUSH COULD BE WEARING WOMEN’S LINGERIE TO PRESS CONFERENCES, though I have no evidence.
So, am I overreacting to this or is this just politics as usual?
Comment by jurassicpork
He’s forgetting who put him where he is, and he’s too new in the political arena to be weaseling out on his supporters. I think it’s a mistake on his part. Just my opinion, of course.
July 12th, 2006 at 4:57 pm[...] Think Progress [...]
July 12th, 2006 at 5:03 pm[...] Next up: Pete Hoekstra; or as I’m beginning to call him, Capt. Stupid. I know that seems a harsh personal attack, but I think it’s becoming justified. Only a complete idiot worthy of military rank would use his post as a US Representative to publicly insinuate that the New York Times is knowingly and willfully aiding Al Qaeda. Michigan Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra also suggested some unauthorized leaks could have been deliberate attempts to help al Qaeda. [...]
July 12th, 2006 at 5:24 pmBilly Bob, I hope your tractor got stuck in 6 feet of mud. :P
July 12th, 2006 at 7:07 pmBilly Bob:
It’s come to the Boards attention that you may be using smoke-less tobacco.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:35 pmThis is against club etiquette,and is not allowed.
Get your act together,or my next counseling session will not be enjoyable.
Billy Bob—You should,for your own good,listen to Shamika.
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