ThinkFast PM: July 12, 2006
ThinkFast PM: July 12, 2006
Ann Coulter dumped. The first newspaper “to officially drop Coulter’s column since the latest uproar began seems to be The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she had appeared for about 14 months.” The Shreveport Times is still considering the decision.
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA): “The President should transfer Secretary Rumsfeld to Iraq.”
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) kicked off the Kick the Oil Habit road trip today. Go along for the ride.
Alberto Gonzales reportedly “won’t be responding” to Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) letter requesting criminal charges against the New York Times.
Gristmill is blogging live from Wal-Mart’s Arkansas headquarters, where various enviros have been invited to a quarterly meeting of company executives.
Bill Frist announced he is scheduling a vote next week on the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act (HR 810), the “best chance for our country to vigorously pursue research” into embryonic stem cells. Has your Senator taken a position? Find out here, then take action.
And finally: Welcome to Madurodam, “a miniature city located in Scheveningen, The Hague in the Netherlands. It is a model of a Dutch town on a 1:25 scale” — meaning it looks particularly strange on Google Maps.
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Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) kicked off would make more sense as Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) kicks off lol
July 12th, 2006 at 7:33 pma think fast on the israeli pretextual use of a misplaced soldier to bomb palestinian, lebanese, and soon, syrian lands, no?
July 12th, 2006 at 7:36 pmSen. Barack Obama (D-IL) kicked off would make more sense as Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) kicks off lol – - Good thing you added that “lol” at the end so we all knew you were being “funny.”
July 12th, 2006 at 7:39 pmOh yeah, Like Ann Coulter has never been dumped before…
Never date a woman with an adams apple.
50 Ways to Dump the Dubya
July 12th, 2006 at 7:41 pmGood spot for Rummy. As long as he is outside the Green Zone.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:47 pmjames risser,
George Bush and friends need to learn a lesson from the Isrealis. You don’t need to blow up three buildings in downtown New York to invade another country. Just say that Saddam kidnapped one of our soldiers next time. Much easier and Bush wouldn’t have had to kill a bunch of Americans to do it.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:49 pmBill Frist announced he is scheduling a vote…Has your Senator taken a position? Find out here
i wonder if dr.bill knows his name is on that list of
July 12th, 2006 at 7:53 pmSENATORS WHO HAVE NOT YET SHOWN SUPPORT OF HR 810
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA): “The President should transfer Secretary Rumsfeld to Iraq.â€
I like him, he’s curmudgeon-like, but in a good way.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:56 pmPoor Annie!
July 12th, 2006 at 7:57 pmThe wicked witch with the vile tongue, the black heart and a poison pen.
Shakespeare must have foreseen her coming when he wrote:
“…Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble….”
#7
well, i think they will do exactly what you suggest the first week of october when they claim that iran sent a missle into israel. they will have cnn and fox find part of the missle that say ‘made in iran’ in english. [i remember when during the first bush war, an iraqi scud landed in israel and the only part of it that remained were some 'iraqi and soviet markings']..israel will then retaliate with a hit against a nuke facility in iran, iran will retaliate by making basra a blood-rest mist of british soldiers….
so, they will get a ‘free-ride’ into a war with iran without having to plan another 9/11…
July 12th, 2006 at 7:57 pmYes, I rather like the idea of Rumsfeld living out his retirement in Baghdad. He would be free to enjoy all the freedoms of the Iraqi citizens.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:58 pmwehell…
July 12th, 2006 at 7:58 pmDonny Deutsch Shatters the Coulter Myth
By: John Amato @ 3:19 PM – PDT
Donny really did a number on Coulter last night…
#7 – Ricky Sanitorium will vote NO and Arlan Spector will vote YES on stem cell research.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:00 pm#11 – I heard things are really nice there now, I’m thinking of vacationing there…as soon as my armored Hummer arrives.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:02 pm#3 Don’t you know that righties have to tip off their jokes (which all include death and/or genocide)?
July 12th, 2006 at 8:02 pmGood thing you added that “lol†at the end so we all knew you were being “funny.â€
Good thing I was laughing at the misleading grammar.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:03 pmhere is another think fast for youoops….the guy wasn’t even in aspen! oh well, i am sure it is just a coincidence…no bush black shirts involved…nothing to see here.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
#16 – Yes, poor grammar, I thought Obama had been kicked off the road trip, until I clicked on the link. ;)
July 12th, 2006 at 8:13 pmOlbermann vs. O’Reilly. It’s a classic cable news feud, full of bad blood and playground-style jabs…
July 12th, 2006 at 8:19 pmVOTE
#2 and #6 – Are you really saying Hamas didn’t kidnap an Isreali soldier? This is just a ruse?
How about Hezbollah, did they not kidnap the 2 yesterday?
BTW – Your responses will reveal a lot about your credibility and sanity.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:23 pm#21
are you saying the israeli army has not been patrolling southern lebanon for a decade? are you saying that you know that, for a fact, this soldier was not on lebanese soil when he was captured? are you saying that israel hasn’t just bombed the palestinian headquarters?
as for comment #6, that isn’t me.
oh, and, by the way, chase, i could give two-shits what you think of my ‘credibility and my sanity’ you are a silly quasi-norwegian silly troll. ohhhh, he is anti-israeli occupation and murder…he must be a not credible insane anti-semite’ that is mature…go away!
July 12th, 2006 at 8:30 pm#14 zooey
July 12th, 2006 at 8:31 pmDid you hear Rummy, the senile moron who thinks he’s a comedian, today? He was speaking to a group of soldiers in Iraq and took questions. One soldier asked him why – in his mission of discovering and dismantling IEDs – he was forced to use the oldest equipment in the army. And by the way, in New York, there is a brand new one?
Rummy gave a lame excuse about how much money the pentagon spends vis a vis New York, and then he said Gen. Casey would know the answer to his question – heh, heh, heh. chuckle, chuckle.
BTW – Casey didn’t know either.
unteresting commentary…
Bill Clinton: Dems Shouldn’t Be Divided By Differences Over Iraq
July 12th, 2006 at 8:35 pmhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/bill-clinton-dems-should_b_24848.html
alleged kidnapping———–vs———————the invasion of another country
in reichwingland the two balance,of course
… and who really believes anything the Israeli Govt. says anayway>They are consistant liars just like their Bushboys in Amerika
July 12th, 2006 at 8:41 pm#21
if you can read at all, check the definitions of ‘ruse’ and ‘pretext’.
and, as far as the accusation of today’s ‘kidnapping’: i would hope that the story is real, and rather surprised that they did not kidnap more than two of the forces that have killed hundreds of their citizens, dozens in the past two days!
so, your israeli army has essentially decided that they were attacked by lebanon, syria, and the pa, because one of their dolts stumbled into lebanon, armed, and dangerous. i see… to you pro-isreali folks i must wonder what israel CANNOT do and have you people protect their version of reality????
July 12th, 2006 at 8:43 pmI love the Obama link. Thanks.
Can anyone say Gore Obama in ‘08?
July 12th, 2006 at 9:19 pmModerated by Admin.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:23 pm#20 Even if Hezbollah is a government apparatus are two soldiers worth an invasion? Oh, and by the way, didn’t Lebanon have an election? I did hear the Bushies brag about something like that.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:26 pmGoodness. Ann Coulter is being silenced because the left-wing hatemongers don’t like what she’s saying. That’s funny – you only believe in free speech if you like what it says. So when you defend Ward Churchill you must agree with him.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:36 pmyea… i keep trying to get through the whole coulter/deutsch clip that i posted… sigh… never mind… sorry about that… ugh…
July 12th, 2006 at 9:40 pmAnn Coulter is being silenced
ah ha hahahahahaha… riiiiiiiiiiight…
July 12th, 2006 at 9:41 pm#29 Goodness, Ann Coulter lies like a dog and you are STILL in love with her. So you have mommy issues?
July 12th, 2006 at 9:42 pm#31 – katy, I was just listening to that! I only got to the part they cut to a clip of Jay Leno, and I couldn’t take any more. Deutsch is doing a great job working her over, and she’s trying to flirt. Ick.
Heh heh, I said working her over, heh heh.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:02 pmOk, I’m going home. 3 extra hours at work is enough. Later…
July 12th, 2006 at 10:03 pmhahhh! one paper–big deal! i can lose them all, and still be filthy rich, hateful, conservative, and pretty!
i own you all! get used to it, godless horde! mmm, and i live to taste the blood of the infidels that do not believe in the church betwixt my legs…
kisses,
ann
July 12th, 2006 at 10:06 pm#26
sure, i can say gore/obama, but, i think you will likely here clinton/warner, and you will have to beat mccain/lieberman.
if so, i pray for a feingold/anyone[gore?] as a third-party. let the establishment candidates fight over the middle…. if it is clinton/warner against mccain/leiberman with no third choice to capture the true leftists, then, it will not matter which side wins…
just a guess….
July 12th, 2006 at 10:13 pm#26
sure, people can say gore/obama, but, i think you will likely hear clinton/warner, and you will have to beat mccain/lieberman.
if so, i pray for a feingold/anyone[gore?] as a third-party. let the establishment candidates fight over the filth in the middle…. if it is clinton/warner against mccain/leiberman with no third choice to capture the true leftists, then, it will not matter which side wins…
just a guess….
July 12th, 2006 at 10:15 pmI usually have the highest respect for The Center For American Progress and Think Progress. But, this silence on isreals recent activities disapoints me. I have no idea what isreals plan is. But, I have some vague notion that they are trying to embroil the whole region in war, while they still have their bushite lapdogs firmly under control. It saddens me to see my (US) tax dollars used to cause so much death and destruction.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:26 pmcondi rice wins the bat-shit crazy remark of the day award: on the day israel decides to kill dozens of people and bomb the p.a. headquarters, and invade another soveriegn country because one of its armed soldiers went missing while patrolling the southern border of lebananon, has the gall to say that hezbollah, and not israel, “undermines regional stability”.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:26 pm#39
get used to it….there are sacred cows, and then there is THE sacred cow.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:29 pm#39
kim jong il farts in the general direction of japan and the world is outraged!
how dare they! evil! we need resolutions! sanctions! the fart was an act of war!
umm, israel, on the other hand, bombs, kills, and invades it neighbors almost on a daily basis. we’ll see how far a resolution against israel gets on this one… i haven’t even seen an article expressing outrage or concern regarding their behaviour…
so tp is no different than 99.97% of the media, where this is concerned.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:37 pmKind of funny too, how my firewall goes nuts when I type in the name of certain countries. Not that I think the firewall will do any good when this country goes straight fascist.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:42 pmi did find one article out of the 1200 or so on google that was critical of israel; not surprising: it is quoting the lebanese prime minister!
July 12th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
Cannot anyone set up a class for bloggers that explains the differences between their, there and they’re? I can almost understand the misuse of than and then as I sometimes have to catch myself. I am going up the wall reading some of these posts!
July 12th, 2006 at 10:57 pmSorry mom.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:00 pmPlus, I think we are commenters. Faiz and Judd are the bloggers son.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:09 pmWhats going on in Gaza, its simply ehtnical genocide. Israel is the greatest disgrace since Nazis.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:11 pmhow dare they! evil! we need resolutions! sanctions! the fart was an act of war!
umm, israel, on the other hand, bombs, kills, and invades it neighbors almost on a daily basis. we’ll see how far a resolution against israel gets on this one… i haven’t even seen an article expressing outrage or concern regarding their behaviour…
so tp is no different than 99.97% of the media, where this is concerned.
Comment by james risser — July 12, 2006 @ 10:37 pm
I wish you could hear my applauses. Way to go, pal, way to go.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:19 pmModerated by Admin.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:20 pmChase…for you, Steven Speilberg lover.
During Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s recent visit to Washington, President Bush declared Olmert’s “convergence” plan “bold.” For Palestinians, however, it is disastrous, because it will annex much of the West Bank’s water and fertile land to Israel.
Under Olmert’s plan, Israel aims to keep the two main Palestinian West Bank aquifers: the lower Jordan River basin in the east, and the eastern mountain aquifer, trapped behind Israel’s wall in the west. This will force Palestinians to depend on Israel for water, preserving the status quo, a dramatically unjust division of water resources.
One example of this vastly unequal division of water resources is my West Bank village of Qira. Every summer the Israeli company that supplies water to our village and that provides about 53 percent of the total Palestinian domestic water supply deliberately cuts off our water, thus generating a crisis. Last year Qira, a village of 1,000 residents, had no water for more than three continuous weeks, despite the summer heat.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:21 pmhttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20060626/taamallah
There’s an interesting piece in Suskind’s recent book (The One Percent Doctrine) regarding Israel and Bush. Apparently Bush was calling Sharon a “man of peace” on the same day Israeli tanks were combating Palestinian children (not really, but hold on). Someone on the other side (either Palestinian or Saudi, I don’t recall) noted “we have children throwing rocks on one side, and Israeli tanks on the other, and Sharon is a man of peace?”
Sacred cow indeed.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:21 pmFor a good laugh read this. For those who don’t know, the onion is a parody site.
http://marchtogether.blogspot.com/2006/07/murder-without-conscience.html
July 12th, 2006 at 11:24 pmPost 23 katy > Bill Clinton hangs out with the Bush family too much, so it has made him stupid! No wonder Hillary is so clueless about the war and everything else now > lol.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:29 pmWell, everyone knows bush’s diction is a little rough. He probably just confused war criminal with man of peace.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:31 pmwell, i am sure the war-mongers in the whitehouse are proud to see civiliams killed by at least one of the bombs that israel purchased from the usa with money supplied by…you guessed it, the usa:
they have a bunch more!
July 12th, 2006 at 11:39 pm
#29 stop the witch hunt
July 12th, 2006 at 11:54 pmWe are not and never have called for Coulter to be silenced; liberals believe in free speech. We would be hypocrites, however, (republican, if you will) if we did not feel a sense of happiness to see a hatefilled commentator get her wrist slapped for crossing the line of decency.
Actually, I think she should be allowed to speak her bilious words and make an ass of herself because she demonstrates the low mentality of many in the republican party.
marie,
thanks?
kisses,
ann
July 12th, 2006 at 11:58 pm#45 & #46 – Bowdler,
July 13th, 2006 at 12:01 amMy father is dead. So is my mom. I was taught writing by my grandmother who was born in Germany – at six (my age, not hers). I have a granddaughter with better language comprehension and writing skills than most of the posters on the conservative side of this aisle. She’s five!
i can’t remember where, but i listened to “someone who knows” these things recommend this article to help understand the israel/palestine situation… i’ve not been able to finish reading it though… whoever does, let me, and others, know what you’ve learned…
Ferment Over ‘The Israel Lobby’
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060515/weiss
g’nite…
July 13th, 2006 at 12:04 am#22 – Marie, thanks for the heads-up.
On Countdown, I just watched Rummy disrespecting that soldier. That makes me furious! That poor soldier was so nervous, his voice was disappearing, and Rummy MAKES A JOKE AND LAUGHS. It’s not his life at risk, so who gives a shit, right? I could tell Keith Olbermann was pissed about it, too.
July 13th, 2006 at 12:06 amIsrael is starting a war in the region because one of their soldiers was captured – and it has deteriorated from there.
July 13th, 2006 at 12:09 amI know there are two sides to the dilemma in the region, but I see Israel with its massive army killing civilians who throw rocks at their tanks.
I have not been made to understand why we, almost without question, support Israel 100%.
(And I still haven’t had my doubts about the Liberty incident of 40 years ago resolved either.)
There are growing threats of potential war in various regions of the world and I hold the Bush administration, as the strongest power in the world today, guilty of failure to exercise sufficient diplomacy and statesmanship to keep the threats controlled. Instead our cowboy, who likes to shoot first and ask questions later, has made tenuous conditions in the world much worse. Nero fiddled while Rome burned: People are dying while Bush fiddles.
this is a blog that editor & publisher highlighted today…
July 13th, 2006 at 12:14 amhey zooey – almost missed you…
July 13th, 2006 at 12:16 amyea – it was just too hard getting through that clip…
i’m not sure which of the 2 big-headed bloviaters repulsed me more…
since i found it on C&L, i was willing to give deutsch a chance – ick…
i remember now why i’ve never liked him, pompous ass…
“have your way with me”… ew… i’m sure he wishes… ew.
but, yea, he didn’t get down and kiss her ass either… points…
right on, as usual, marie…
July 13th, 2006 at 12:17 amIt’s getting worse:
July 13th, 2006 at 12:26 amMSNBC Breaking News: Israeli warplanes strike runways of Beirut’s international airport
#66
it will get especially so when damascus gets hit… this is pnac all the way. from american conservative, january 2006
July 13th, 2006 at 12:39 am
US and Israel just keeps making more friends. Who wins? War and armament companies. Big surprise.
July 13th, 2006 at 12:51 amBush’s 2006 base-baiting, red meat strategy could well backfire when it comes to stem cell research. Unlike other aspects of the “fags, flags and fetuses” program contained in the Republicans’ so called “American Values Agenda,” stem cell research bans don’t enjoy much support among either the conservative chattering classes or Americans overall.
For more on why Bush’s veto could be just what the doctor ordered for Democrats, see:
July 13th, 2006 at 1:32 am“Bush Stem Cell Veto Threat is Dems’ Opportunity.”
Too little, too late on oil. US and Israel think that they can procure oil in far away lands for themselves at a time when demand keeps on rising and oil extraction is falling behind. This whole GWOT is a stupid fabrication by those in office that think that the military and intelligence agencies can secure oil routes. What a bunch of criminal marooooons.
July 13th, 2006 at 10:21 amWow. Has TP been down? I thought it was my server…
July 13th, 2006 at 10:23 amYeah, it’s either that or an effort to extend the promise of democracy to the world. Or maybe in Israel’s case it’s about protecting their soverign territory.
One of those, yeah.
July 13th, 2006 at 10:23 amAs the Washington Post reports today, the already bitter Virginia Senate race between incumbent George Allen and Democrat Jim Webb is getting downright nasty. Watching his lead dwindle and his 2008 presidential hopes put in peril, the Vietnam-era freeloader Allen is attacking the patriotism of the Vietnam war hero Webb over the former Navy Secretary’s refusal to join Allen in backing a constitutional amendment banning flag desecration. Too bad it’s the Confederate Flag George Allen seems most concerned about it.
For the details, see:
July 13th, 2006 at 1:23 pm“George Allen’s Flag Desecration.”
Anne is suffering from Asperger sydrome.
Folks, today one of our own has fallen.
The fact is the Liberals hacked into Annes computer and pasted that text, driving her into this illness, thats the Facts Folks, so we pundits we feel sorry for people who can only communicate thru bias and opinon, “assbergers” is the Lush Code word of the day….We, Us You, not me, we must these assbergers…maybe she can use her wealth to get cured, or maybe we can just get a firing squad from blackwater usa.
Folks, we should, no we must stop this Assberger illnes. Its a fact. Proven. We must help the little professors!
Folks, I Lush, am setting up an account, so you, dear listeners, can help Anne see the light.
July 13th, 2006 at 1:28 pmYes Folks, Anne needs a Plexotomy insert operation this is a plea from the society of the elimination of pedantry..Thanks and make your check out to me. -Lush Dimbulb.
Alberto Gonzales reportedly “won’t be responding†to Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) letter requesting criminal charges against the New York Times.
The NYT needed only to adopt the same excuse as Novak…”The CIA didn’t object strongly enough….”
July 13th, 2006 at 1:37 pm#70;Zooey:
I thought Shamika had finally lowered the boom on me. :P
July 13th, 2006 at 1:37 pmSome off topic..The good, bad and the ugly…..The good, Coulter is on her lousy way out. The bad, Israel is rearing it’s ugly head against Palestine, again…..The truly ugly, Rummy is a fool, ugly and totaly inept and uncaring towards our troops…..Just another sad day in america under the bull shit bush dictatorship……Where are the Dem’s or independents>? Why isnt our country up in arms about all the treason that is being perpetrated against our people by this administration.?……Billy Bob went out to cut hay, i”m going out to plant and hug trees. While I still can…..Good day all..Blessings
July 13th, 2006 at 1:59 pmWell said, Sharon — WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS!
July 13th, 2006 at 3:17 pmNitpicking for fun and profit….Not important but just so you know, Madurodam is not a model of a Dutch town per se but is a conglomeration of scale models of famous landmarks or buildings from around the country. It’s pretty fun if you’re familiar with the country.
July 13th, 2006 at 4:31 pmretirement countdown
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