ThinkFast: August 1, 2006
ThinkFast: August 1, 2006
Less than a year after the conservative-controlled Kansas State Board of Education adopted new rules challenging the teaching of evolution in classrooms, “moderate Republicans and Democrats are mounting a fierce counterattack” and are hoping to “retake power” in an election today.
Hurricane experts and insurance industry reps met for the first time last month to plan for “a long overdue northeast hurricane which the latest computer models now predict could devastate the region and cripple the U.S. economy.”
The Wall Street Journal reports that the “U.S. and Israel are diverging some on how much longer Israel should continue its offensive against Hezbollah,” while the Washington Post “sees ‘fissures’ between the U.S. and its European allies” over the make-up of a potential cease-fire.
A renovation of the White House press briefing room will include a video wall that could display everything from “flags waving in the breeze [to] detailed charts and graphs,” part of a “subtle but sweeping effort by administration officials to deliver their message directly to the public, particularly through video.â€
“Disney’s ABC television network has dropped plans to produce a Holocaust-themed miniseries” overseen by Mel Gibson, who reportedly went on an anti-Semitic tirade after he was arrested for DUI last week.
$100 billion: The amount in taxes lost each year due to “sham companies hiding the assets of super-wealthy Americans and corporations offshore.”
Violence in Iraq left at least 55 people dead on Tuesday, including at least 23 soldiers. One Iraqi man said, “The government is useless. Only days ago we suffered from a huge blast here. The interior minister has to admit they lost the war against the terrorists.”
“[A]fter months of disillusionment, America’s neoconservatives have fallen in love again with the Bush administration” over its tacit support for the ongoing Mideast violence, the Financial Times reports.
Former Vice President chief of staff Scooter Libby “asked a federal judge on Monday to allow a memory expert to testify in their bid to show Libby may have been confused or had a faulty memory in recalling conversations in the CIA leak case.â€
And finally: Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) knows cool. Remarking on primary challenger Ned Lamont’s appearance last night on the Colbert Report, Lieberman said, “I think you can try too hard to be cool and the coolness can come back to hit you in the face.”
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Mel Gibson was acting just like he did when he guest starred on South Park.
What a kooky guy…
August 1st, 2006 at 9:15 amA renovation of the White House press briefing room will include a video wall that could display everything from “flags waving in the breeze [to] detailed charts and graphs,†part of a “subtle but sweeping effort by administration officials to deliver their message directly to the public, particularly through video.â€
Wow, with cool video graphics like that it’ll be just like watching Fox News!
August 1st, 2006 at 9:19 am“a long overdue northeast hurricane…”
Terrific. And I’m ~2 miles away from the Ocean. And with just a two lane hwy to the Sagamore Bridge, evacuation would be pretty damned impossible.
“Disney’s ABC television network has dropped plans to produce a Holocaust-themed miniseries†overseen by Mel Gibson,
August 1st, 2006 at 9:23 amOMG! Mel, how do you like that, “Sugar T*ts!”
Looks like Sen. Burns isn’t just one of the “13 most corrupt members of congress” (According to CREW), he’s got a major case of foot-in-mouth disease!
Based on how he’s losing steam in his re-election compaign, Sen. Burns will not be asked by his constituents to return in 2007. John Tester (his Democratic opponent) is leading the polls: 50% to 43%. Based on Pres. Bush’s definition, this is a major mandate!
August 1st, 2006 at 9:25 amNed Lamont appeared on the Colbert Report last night. Video is posted at YouTube.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:26 am#5 – Dr. Sinker, as “YouTube” is blocked at my work, how would you rate the show? Good/bad?
August 1st, 2006 at 9:31 amHas anyone else heard about Fidel Castro transferring power (temporarily) to his brother?
August 1st, 2006 at 9:32 ama video camera rolling after the call ended caught Burns exclaiming, “That’s the way to shut that down.â€
Maybe Burns was just pointing out where the off button was on the video camera….yeah that’s it….uh-huh.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:33 amEU Pushes For Ceasefire
Updated: 14:22, Tuesday August 01, 2006
The European Union is set to demand an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon after Israel stepped up ground attacks against Hizbollah forces.
Foreign ministers have drafted a statement calling for a cessation of hostilities. It also warned of breaches of international law during three weeks of fighting.
But Sky’s Foreign Affairs Editor Tim Marshall said: “On one hand you can argue the EU has a voice in the world, people sometimes listen to the EU’s voice and it’s taking the humanitarian line.
“On the other hand, you can say, ‘How many divisions has the EU got? What difference does it make, this ground-breaking, historic agreement – the latest in a long line?’”
YOUR EITHER WITH US OR AGAINST US AMERICA
August 1st, 2006 at 9:35 amLess than a year after the conservative-controlled Kansas State Board of Education adopted new rules challenging the teaching of evolution in classrooms, “moderate Republicans and Democrats are mounting a fierce counterattack†and are hoping to “retake power†in an election today.
Inconceivable in the rest of the world.
Hurricane experts and insurance industry reps met for the first time last month to plan for “a long overdue northeast hurricane which the latest computer models now predict could devastate the region and cripple the U.S. economy.â€
Hey, the private insurance industry is now aware of the changes of Global Warming. That means that Republicans would begin to believe in it?
Violence in Iraq left at least 55 people dead on Tuesday, including at least 23 soldiers. One Iraqi man said, “The government is useless. Only days ago we suffered from a huge blast here. The interior minister has to admit they lost the war against the terrorists.â€
Bubblehead answer: uh?
$100 billion: The amount in taxes lost each year due to “sham companies hiding the assets of super-wealthy Americans and corporations offshore.â€
But hey, they need the tax breaks to invest it in the USA, right?
A renovation of the White House press briefing room will include a video wall that could display everything from “flags waving in the breeze [to] detailed charts and graphs,†part of a “subtle but sweeping effort by administration officials to deliver their message directly to the public, particularly through video.â€
Brain washing, noting else. Every “disloyal” clerck would be obliged to sit there for a number of hours, until they become docile Bushbots. Clockwork Orange style
“Disney’s ABC television network has dropped plans to produce a Holocaust-themed miniseries†overseen by Mel Gibson, who reportedly went on an anti-Semitic tirade after he was arrested for DUI last week.
I guess the religious capital that he earned with the “Passion” is blown… Too bad he isn’t from the USA, he could have become a good USA President… at least as good as Bush…
Former Vice President chief of staff Scooter Libby “asked a federal judge on Monday to allow a memory expert to testify in their bid to show Libby may have been confused or had a faulty memory in recalling conversations in the CIA leak case.â€
I am. He’s an outright liar, trying to obfuscate the Cheney and Bush participation on the CIA leak.
“[A]fter months of disillusionment, America’s neoconservatives have fallen in love again with the Bush administration†over its tacit support for the ongoing Mideast violence, the Financial Times reports.
The clearest case of bang for the buck. Their moral with increase every “bang” they hear, no matter where it comes from.
And finally: “As part of his digging expedition to get out of the deep hole he created when he chewed out local firefighters,†Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) held a telephone conference call with Montana reporters on Friday. But the controversy may continue — a video camera rolling after the call ended caught Burns laughing and exclaiming, “That’s the way to shut that down.â€
Yeah, shutting down firefighter teams, the most wise decission in a Global Warming world of scorching summers.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:35 amA CNN’s article who conducts a poll about the current war between Israel and Lebanon. You can find the poll in the lower right side of the article:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/13/mideast/index.html
August 1st, 2006 at 9:44 am“flags waving in the breeze
Isn’t that Faux News’ theme? First Tony Snow, then his graphics…(they’ve already brought the lies).
August 1st, 2006 at 9:47 amViolence in Iraq left at least 55 people dead on Tuesday, including at least 23 soldiers. One Iraqi man said, “The government is useless.
Welcome to the club, buddy. It’s the New Democracy.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:47 am#6 – Democratic Soldier,
It was an interesting show with Lamont on Colbert. I didn’t think Colbert was his usual self actually. He ran the interview a lot like Stewart normally does. Some boilerplate questions like:
Is there more to your platform than the war in Iraq?
You’re a Democrat and so is Lieberman. You must agree on a lot of issues, right? What are they?
Lamont handled it pretty well. He was a little nervous, but some of his answers were spot on. It was a solid showing from him, but not what I’d call a home run.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:49 amSham companies hiding the assets of super-wealthy Americans and corporations offshore are costing the U.S. Treasury as much as $100 billion a year in lost taxes…
Facilitated by willing lawyers and banks, elaborate semi-legal scams are used to hide cash overseas…
is that like being “kinda pregnant”?
August 1st, 2006 at 10:10 amThe Wall Street Journal reports that the “U.S. and Israel are diverging some on how much longer Israel should continue its offensive against Hezbollah,†while the Washington Post “sees ‘fissures’ between the U.S. and its European allies†over the make-up of a potential cease-fire.
The names of the fissures are Geneva Convention and UN rulings.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:10 amis that like being “kinda pregnant�
Comment by katy
*snort*
August 1st, 2006 at 10:11 amYou cut right to the heart of the matter, as usual!
Violence in Iraq left at least 55 people dead on Tuesday, including at least 23 soldiers. One Iraqi man said, “The government is useless. Only days ago we suffered from a huge blast here. The interior minister has to admit they lost the war against the terrorists.â€
Iraq? Are we still there? All I see on the news is Mel Gibson.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:13 am“[A]fter months of disillusionment, America’s neoconservatives have fallen in love again with the Bush administration†over its tacit support for the ongoing Mideast violence, the Financial Times reports.
The scent of blood draws them in…
August 1st, 2006 at 10:14 amGood Morning all,………Montana has been a conservative state for a long time, note I said conservative…..Not neocons….Having lived there and loving the state and her people I can only hope they will rid themselves of burn it down burns….BTW they have a great smoke jumper training program right in Missoula, I think they may be the state that started it, not sure…….The few of us that were Dem’s living in Montana were embrased as all ideas are. I am hopeful, since I plan to move back there in the near future.
Am disapointed with Gibson, recanting his words does not get it for me. The old saying I was drunk and didn’t mean to do it, say it, whatever is a sad excuse indeed….In my youth I was drunk a few times myself, to the point of passing out and alway’s remembered what I said and I did..Never did I say something I didn’t mean drunk or sober……I’m sober at the moment and I agree with what he said when he claimed to be drunk….Israel and all it’s backers are terrorests, killers and invaders….
Big question for all here……Is Paula Zahn on CNN an Israel sympathizer.? Sure seems that way to me…Any comments……In fact many on CNN seem to be heading toward the fox type media to me…….Jay you were right on as usual……Appreciate your posts…..
Well it’s another bloody Tuesday in bush world…..Must get busy watering the trees and hugging as many as possible……Blessings to All……Peace, do something to promote it….
August 1st, 2006 at 10:14 amFormer Vice President chief of staff Scooter Libby “asked a federal judge on Monday to allow a memory expert to testify in their bid to show Libby may have been confused or had a faulty memory in recalling conversations in the CIA leak case.â€
Still beating that dead horse, I see.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:15 am“I think you can try too hard to be cool and the coolness can come back to hit you in the face.†– holy joe
and as he’s really UNcool, that is good advice he’s given himself…
lamont was excellent on colbert last night… yes, i think colbert was less acerbic but still in character, a more genial character, let’s say…
August 1st, 2006 at 10:15 amlamont was on franken earlier in the day and al gave him some advice – “just be yourself” – must’ve worked… i thought he did fine…
Sorry I missed your question last night Zooey. Chase got me worked up so I left.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:19 amA renovation of the White House press briefing room will include a video wall…
an obvious rip off of the DAILY SHOW set… hhmph!
August 1st, 2006 at 10:21 am#23 – trueblue
I still don’t know what “Hell’s Kitchen” is. I saw that dixie blood provided a link to the actual Hell’s Kitchen in New York, but I’m wondering about the television program.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:24 amI’m watching MSNBC, and people in “Little Havana” in South Florida are dancing in the streets at the prospect of Castro’s illness and possible impending death. I find this disgusting. Weren’t we all up in arms when people in Arab countries were dancing in the streets after 9/11?
The news bimbo doesn’t seem to have a problem with the celebrating. Contessa something is her name. Dumb as a bag of hammers.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:27 amby the way – i should add that franken has talked to lieberman personally, and called, and joe said he would be on al’s show, but, as of yesterday, al said joe hadn’t returned any of their calls…
August 1st, 2006 at 10:27 amthat says alot right there…
Hell’s Kitchen is a show about a bunch chefs who are vying for their own restaurant. Gordon Ramsey is the surly head of Hell’s kitchen.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:29 amHe berates the chefs, but also rewards chefs who perform well. And there’s the back-stabbing the chefs routinely pull on each other.
Stuff like that. I just like to watch Gordon Ramsey rip them a new one!
gotta pick up mini-blue. be back soon…..
August 1st, 2006 at 10:30 amzooey – another UNreality show, from fox, no less
August 1st, 2006 at 10:31 amhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell’s_Kitchen_(television)
Iraq? Are we still there? All I see on the news is Mel Gibson. Comment by Zooey
How about a Gibson/Iraq connection? Did you see the picture of Gibson with his full, graying beard? When I saw it, I swear he looked like Saddam. Maybe Gibson will make a comeback in a sequence of Iraq War movies.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:33 amThanks trueblue & katy. I really don’t see the attraction of “reality” shows. Zoo Jr and I watched Survivor once, and by the end of the show we were hoping none of them survived.
PLC, you’re right about Mel Gibson looking like Saddam with that beard. I just heard the MSNBC gal say they were going to talk about Gibson again. It’s not as if there’s anything new, I don’t know why they keep going on about it.
Off to work, ya’ll. Have fun and play nicely!
August 1st, 2006 at 10:43 am#26 – Celebrating the death of anyone has a certain baseness to it. Recall the silliness by many on TP after Ken Lay died.
I’m a little more inclined to be forgiving of Cuban ex-pats who fled Castro’s regime, facing death, than I am to accept people who are just angered by Lay’s crimes.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:44 amit’s been my experience – and i thought it was common knowledge – that alcohol “loosens the tongue”, allowing the truth to more easly come out… a big reason why i seldom drink alcohol any more (besides the fact that the a.m. hurts worse with each year)… i am predisposed to speak my mind anyway; add alcohol and it’s not always pretty…
gibson just got caught – and liars always do… eventually…
August 1st, 2006 at 10:57 amWhat happened to the Conrad Burns story? It doesn’t seem very upfront to remove a story without an explanation.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:58 amSo Kansas will be voting if they want to teach science in their classrooms. Good luck to them. Maybe in fifty years we can start telling them that the reason why its getting hot is due to global warming not because god is baking a cake.
August 1st, 2006 at 11:03 amrenovation of the White House press briefing room
It’s the White House’s Oval Office that REALLY needs to be renovated.
Creationists: “I guess we’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto”
Libby is toast – he’s really searching for an out in desperate places.
August 1st, 2006 at 11:04 amThe offshore accounts that are costing the treasury billions was, in effect, set up by Bushco.
By allowing the outing of millions of jobs the corporations saw the opportunity to put their profits offshore also.
By the way, Bush personally has at least 1 billion dollars in an offshore account. I’ll let your know more details when my investigation is completed. Hopefully prior to the mid-term elections. One billion of the 9 billion missing from Iraq turned up in the Caymans earmarked for Bush.
August 1st, 2006 at 11:22 amOne billion of the 9 billion missing from Iraq turned up in the Caymans earmarked for Bush.
Comment by Rebel With A Cause — August 1, 2006 @ 11:22 am
imagine that…
guess who the other 8 are…
August 1st, 2006 at 11:46 amRebel,
What do you mean by “earmarked”? Do you mean the money was in an account under Pres Bush’s name?
Either way, that is a serious accusation. I hope you can substantiate it.
Not that I put the Bush family past that, I just don’t think they would be so crass and obvious.
August 1st, 2006 at 12:04 pmForget about Mel Gibson > his drunken driving arrest is just a stupid Bush Regime diversion!
August 1st, 2006 at 12:24 pmBIG BROTHER BUSH THE DULLARD
Tuesday 1st of August 2006
by Jay Randal
George Orwell predicted a totalitarian empire named Oceania, which comprised the United States, Canada & rest of America, and the United Kingdom/England.
He foresaw a ruler of that empire called Big Brother, who would wage wars of aggression against two other empires called Eurasia comprised of Europe/Russia, and Eastasia an alliance of China and most of Asia.
The three world powers constantly fighting each other over Africa’s resources, and scarce commodities such as OIL and PETROL, which is rationed to the proles.
Shifting alliances between the three powers occurs at obscure intervals, so nobody is supposed to know that friendships change, nor that enemies change as well.
The citizens of Oceania are kept in total ignorance, so they have no knowledge about anything, and are fed insidious propaganda daily, as wars drag on forever.
Orwell’s “!984″ seems to have arrived , 20 years later, but he never told us BIG BROTHER would be a dullard?!
( Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Stone Mountain, Georgia.)
August 1st, 2006 at 12:40 pm#24 – Katy,
August 1st, 2006 at 1:31 pmAnd just about as humorous (but not funny).
“It is known to sources inside and outside Washington D.C. that Mel Gibson has previously expressed interest in subject matter positively confirming the identiy of Jeff Gannon. Jeff Gannon did infiltrate the White House for two years and did compromise the presidency of George W. Bush. The story of Gannon’s unbridled Whitehouse access was effectively surpressed by the mainstream media.
It has been leaked to the FBI that an individual (a female) with a personal relationship to Jeff Gannon and Noreen Gosch can positively ID Gannon as Johnny Gosch and wants to go public with her story. It is also known that she is a traditional Roman Catholic who would most likely want to give the story to Mel Gibson.”
August 1st, 2006 at 2:15 pmMassachusetts Governor and ‘08 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney showed his true colors in Iowa this weekend. Effortlessly using the racial slur “tar baby” to describe the Boston Big Dig project, Romney joined White House press secretary Tony Snow on the long list of Republicans who by design or by blunder traffic in the language and symbols of race baiting.
For the full story, see:
August 1st, 2006 at 2:33 pm“The Unbearable Whiteness of Mitt Romney.”
So Kansas will be voting if they want to teach science in their classrooms. Good luck to them. Maybe in fifty years we can start telling them that the reason why its getting hot is due to global warming not because god is baking a cake.
Comment by dlet
August 1st, 2006 at 2:36 pm———
Lol!
When some farms with girlies within fly to Oz due to an increased tornado season, maybe Kansans will know that they’re not in Kansas anymore, but in oceanfront condos…
August 1st, 2006 at 3:31 pmThe Mel Gibson diversion story is moot. Hollywood is hardly liberal. It is a place where the bottom line is god. Gibson will only be snubbed, dissed or ignored if someone can make a buck off his drunken misstep.
August 1st, 2006 at 3:32 pmHis actions are repulsive but are they as repulsive as Bush giving German Chancellor “Zucker Tits” Merkel a neck rub or Condie playing Brahms while the vital organs of innocent children are splattered about the the streets of the Middle East?
Bush promised to be a “uniter” and not a “divider.” He has succeeded.
He has united the entire Arab world and many countries against us.
He has divided the nation between red and blue.
The Iraq war has proven to be the worst of all choices made by the “decider”-in-chief.
BTW, d’ya think he had a bit too much of the demon whiskey on the plane yesterday?
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August 1st, 2006 at 5:01 pmScooter Libby wants a ‘Memory Expert’ to testify for him? What, is he afraid the jury won’t believe him? But why?
August 1st, 2006 at 5:08 pmKansas student:I know for a fact that the world is flat and that the sun revolves around the earth. I know these things are true, my teacher told me so.sarcasm off.
August 1st, 2006 at 7:26 pmKansas student:“I know for a fact that the world is flat and that the sun revolves around the earth. I know these things are true, my teacher told me so”.sarcasm off.
August 1st, 2006 at 7:34 pmsorry about the double entry. #$@&%! computer acting veerrrrrrrry slow today.
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August 2nd, 2006 at 1:14 amI don’t find anything on the recent laws in Las Vegas and Orlando, banning the feeding of the homeless. Talk about helping poverty spread. Maybe it’s time we step away from ‘fighting poverty’ and start fighting wealth in order to remove the gap wealthy-poor.
August 2nd, 2006 at 5:22 amWhat happened to the Conrad Burns story? It doesn’t seem very upfront to remove a story without an explanation.
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