Meet Your Equal, Mr. President Maliki looks like he feels the same way as James Webb. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA George Will is upset. Mr. Bush got blasted. Manners are more important to Mr. Will than a senator speaking truth to power. Evidently, he never heard of the co-equal rule. Bush may be president, but that [...]
Archive | November, 2006
Maliki’s Death Warrant
Maliki\’s Death Warrant guest post by Mash The Bush Administration has effectively signed Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki\’s Death Warrant. The memo from National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley that undermined the Bush-Maliki summit in Jordan has now made Nouri al-Maliki a marked man in Iraq. Whether that was the intention of the leaked memo is unclear, [...]
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Oh Come, All Ye Faithful
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day. But “Christians” would rather complain about choice, condoms and cause a commotion than do the work that needs to be done to make a difference. Evidently, being a Democrat matters more than the millions who are dying from AIDS, with abstinence more important than effectiveness. Now you know why I [...]
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Iraq Study Group Punts
Iraq Study Group Punts –updated below– cross-posted on Huffington Post This is what happens when you get a bunch of prominent people together, none of whom have any Middle East or military experience, and set them loose on recommendations for something as complex as the Iraq war. You don't get jack back. They've reach a [...]
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The Way Forward in Iraq
The Way Forward in Iraq guest post by Mash The talk of Washington is the Iraq Study Group. Everyone, including the Democrats, is waiting for the two beltway sages, James Baker and Lee Hamilton, to rescue them from the chaos in Iraq. You will recall that some time ago Washington was eagerly awaiting a similar sounding group, [...]
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Leaked Memo Backfires
Join me today on Taylor Marsh LIVE! 6-7 p.m. eastern – 3-4 p.m. pacific Podcasts of today's show below… Show Opener: Today's lighter news and even Madonna Danny Devito, Barack Obama, and other news That Leaked Memo just Made Things Worse (with news clips) That Leaked Memo and the Mess in Iraq (with news clips) [...]
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Bush is a Punk
Bush is a Punk –updated below– James Webb is my kind of Democrat. Webb, a decorated former Marine officer, hammered Allen and Bush over the unpopular war in Iraq while wearing his son’s old combat boots on the campaign trail. It seems the president may have some lingering resentment. At a private reception held at [...]
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That Uppity Democratic Muslim!
That Uppity Democratic Muslim! cross-posted on Huffington Post First we had Glenn Beck, now it's Dennis Prager. Rep. Ellison wants to take his oath of office with his hand on the Koran. Now all hell has broken loose among the wingnuts. Multiculturalism is coming! Multiculturalism is coming! This has nothing to do with multiculturalism. It [...]
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Pick One: Sadr or…
Pick One: Sadr or… cross-posted on Huffington Post Join me today on Taylor Marsh LIVE! 6-7 p.m. eastern – 3-4 p.m. pacific Fundraiser: Spend $5 to invest in progressive radio. Is it time to pick a team? Shiites and Sunni are on the menu, pick your poison. Or would you prefer a permanent occupation? If [...]
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Don’t Look Now
Don't Look Now Christmas greetings, suckers. This does not come as news to me. Why wouldn't Hezbollah help the militias in Iraq? Why wouldn't Iran want them to? Syria's role, though not clear, isn't at all shocking if they'd want in, too. But what do we really know? You can't trust Mr. Bush to tell [...]
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Bush to World: ‘I love me!’
Bush to World: “I love me!” If at first you don't succeed, get a bunch of GOP suckers to pony up $10-$20 MILLION a pop so you can rewrite the history of your failures into successes. And people call Clinton arrogant. I covered this at the end of my radio show today, but it's unfathomably [...]
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Toot the Corporate Horns
Join me today on Taylor Marsh LIVE! 6-7 p.m. eastern – 3-4 p.m. pacific CALL IT WHAT IT IS. Hey, did you know there's a civil war in Iraq? Well, I'll be damned. I could have sworn we were creating a democracy, 4-6 months at a time. This just plain snuck up on me. Okay, [...]
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Saving Face
It's up to the Iraqis. Soon it may be up to the Lebanese as well. Welcome to hell. Yesterday, talking to Congressmen Duncan Hunter and Ike Skelton, General Wayne Downing let fly the nutshell of our current dilemma in Iraq. News flash, it has nothing to do with the Iraqis. … But what we don’t [...]
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Rock The Casbah
Rock The Casbah guest post by Mash   \”Rock The Casbah\” is probably the most misunderstood political song of modern times, but like this post it has nothing to do with rock and roll and everything to do with politics and religion… I don\’t often write about Islam directly. The last time I wrote [...]
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What 80 Looks Like Today
What 80 Looks Like Today YouTube clip is gone – Check out NBC\’s Tony Bennett video. Perfection. Tony Bennett. Happy Birthday, man. If you didn't see the recent special on NBC, never fear. Tony Bennett is on YouTube. That says it all for this remarkable chirp. For those of you who don't know, \”chirp\” is [...]
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TM Must Reads
THE 21st century world offers ways to tweak your appearance, or alter it altogether, with women finally able to combat directly the comparison that’s always been around. Men look distinguished as they age, while women look old, unattractive, or to use Rush Limbaugh’s favorite comment, who wants to look at a woman with wrinkles? The 2012 plastic surgery statistics are out and the American Society of Plastic Surgery tells the story.
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been going on.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
“Norma Rae is a survivor and for the first time in her life she’s got a chance to become something more… a winner.” – Promo for “Norma Rae” CRITICS like Anne-Marie Slaughter, but especially Maureen I-Love-My-Pearls Dowd, and others [most of whom didn't read the book or do their homework] who are blaming Sheryl Sandberg for being a billionaire Ivy League graduate, while accusing her of letting corporations and government off the hook, are missing a major point.
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle or two, and queue up a sexy playlist on your iPod.
“You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song.
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the times.
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what nobody in Congress or either political party has shown in decades. Leadership without regard to anything but his own duty to the people, which included the cops in the eye of volcanic carnage.
“Rick Doblin has done a lot for the field, but he is more of a populist,” Grob says. “We need careful and controlled scientific studies showing the efficacy of these drugs so funding can continue.” Broader awareness of these sorts of end-of-life psychedelic studies could be good for everyone, the researchers say.
*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature.
**UPDATED** Would we be any worse off with Stephen Colbert as president? I doubt it. Politifact has watched the video “(repeatedly!
Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%). – Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits This is starting early, so it’s time to revisit the facts.
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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