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AJC/DNC Management
February 14th, 2009
6:45 pm
Everyday is Valentines Day for Mrs. Management.
bwa
DB, Gwinnettian
February 14th, 2009
7:10 pm
Elvis Costello did a nice cover of this tune too.
No youtube link to a performance… it was buried on a b-sides collection from ~1981, so who knows if he ever did it live.
From downstairs, RW gave us:
I can’t recall the name right now, but at least the guy with the pornstar mustache went after Barry in the dugout once.
Second baseman Jeff Kent, I think you mean. His mustache certainly qualifies, and I remember the two Giants exchanging blows in the dugout some years back.
TnGelding
February 14th, 2009
7:50 pm
AJC/DNC Management
February 14th, 2009
6:45 pm
She has our sympathy.
Just kidding! Have a great one!
For Iraqophiles:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/07/AR2009020702153.html?nav=emailpage
Or Iraqophobes.
Chad Harris
February 14th, 2009
8:04 pm
For people who know Iraq was a clusterfook from day one:
How Bush, Ordierno and Patraeus Continued the Fiasco, Killed Thousands, Exploded hundreds a week, and hemorraged the US during a Depression Insuring it will continue for years>/a<
As Ricks said last night on Charlie Rose: WTF took these morons the length of WWII and more years to begin adjusting and why haven’t they adjusted to this day? Can these idiots get any more pathetic?
DB, Gwinnettian
February 14th, 2009
8:23 pm
Jay, neglected to say this, but here’s hoping you and yours are as happy as me ‘n mine.
And for the Dept. of Nit-Picking: your Blogroll has two links going to the same place. Looks like “Tondee” got short-changed there.
(Got burned out on Atrios, did you? I still like that place quite a lot.)
Later, all. (Smoooch!)
AJC/DNC Management
February 14th, 2009
8:58 pm
As Ricks said last night on Charlie Rose: WTF took these morons the length of WWII and more years to begin adjusting and why haven’t they adjusted to this day? Can these idiots get any more pathetic?
Chadley: I’m sure that Bush and Patreous could have carpet and fire bombed Iraqi cities, killing citizens and terrorists alike, by the millions, like your boy ☠ Roosevelt did in WW2, just so they could get the war over quicker and not test your patience, but I, for one, am glad they didn’t.
You are a POS and our brave troops are heroes, heroes who fought a hard, challenging war FOR the Iraqi people instead of AGAINST the Iraqi people.
God bless them.
Now it is your war to lose, and knowing the way you libs think………..
I pray for you Iraq.
AJC/DNC Management
February 14th, 2009
10:09 pm
“If you like government dependence, you will love the plan they are jamming through Congress,” declared Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Even Mickey Kaus, a prominent liberal blogger, has denounced what he describes as the “get more people on welfare” provisions of Obama’s bill. Writing at Slate, the political website, Kaus said: “Lack of jobs isn’t a reason to loosen work requirements . . . Have the Dems never heard of ‘workfare’?
Examples like that fuel American suspicion that so-called “big government” invariably turns out to be inefficient, expensive and easily exploitable. And there has been no bigger government action in the US than the stimulus package presented by Obama.
Paul Krugman, the 2008 Nobel prize-winning economist, declared that Obama’s stimulus victory “feels more than a bit like defeat”.
Krugman added: “I’ve got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach – a feeling that America just isn’t rising to the greatest economic challenge in 70 years.”
Rising to the “challenge?”
hehehehehehe, challenge.
“I challenge you to be sorry and collect Other People’s Money.”
Buh bye America.
See ya.
Chad Harris
February 14th, 2009
10:15 pm
You’re as nuts as ever.
We never should have gone to Iraq; we should have focused on Iran. Our “brave troops” are cannon fodder and put at extreme risk like fish in a barrel in a poorly planned fiasco. There is an exponential increase in female suicide bombers killing mostly Iraqis and some troops. One blew up 40 women and children the other day.
Thuglicans have opposed every bill to take care of the troops when they get back home, either wounded or discharged and although you never see it, I do. There are 60,000 paralyzed troops shoved into a VA system that is antiquated and poorly equiped to care for them. The instruments at the VA in Augusta haven’t even been sterilized properly.
I wasn’t advocating carpet bombing. That’s your fantasy. I was advocating never going there in the first place and putting the criminals Bush and Cheney in prison who lied to get there.
And as to the white crackers like you Andy, you’re cheering like some fat tub who never exercises does when he tunes into Pro football on Sunday. For the vast majority of thuglicans, what’s going on on the ground in Iraq has nothing to do with their lives. The only trauma they have is from putting that bumper sticker on the back of their gashog Saudi Arabia slave SUV.
And for the record if you read Ricks’ book which is out of the question for you to read anything longer than a few paragraphs of wingnut fantasy, Petraeus was totally against going into Iraq in the first place a fact that apparently escapes the wingnuts. He was clear with Ricks there and has always maintained that.
Ryan Crocker was totally against going into Iraq militarily in the first place and Crocker made that clear to Ricks. If you read more Ricks columns in WAPO or read the book, you’d understand that as well.
But of course you don’t read and you don’t understand those two facts.
Chad Harris
February 14th, 2009
10:17 pm
Why is it that the vast majority of our brave troups aren’t white thuglican “darlings” but instead the offspring of poor families of color?
I don’t know any thuglican who lives in Buckhead or off Mt. Paren or anywhere on the Northside of Hotlanta who would think for a nanosecond of having their kids enlist.
And they get indignant when asked why not! It’s one of my favorite questions to ask as the little darlings head off safe into the folds of Toga parties and dorms.
TnGelding
February 14th, 2009
10:27 pm
AJC/DNC Management
February 14th, 2009
8:58 pm
Since when was it the job of our military to fight for the Iraqis? If Clinton had pulled the capers Bush did you would have choked on your vitriol. Risky schemes and fuzzy math, indeed. Catch that Charlie Rose interview Monday afternoon if you have a chance. It was fascinating. Or watch the video when it is posted on his Web site. And Saddam could have been removed without the death and destruction.
TnGelding
February 14th, 2009
10:31 pm
Chad Harris
February 14th, 2009
10:17 pm
Yeah, my son and his two oldest sons supported Bush, but would walk across the street to keep from passing a recruiting station.
TnGelding
February 14th, 2009
10:33 pm
Please, let’s be civil toward one another. We’re in some deep doodoo and it’s going to take everyone pulling together and sacrificing to get out of it. If we can.
AJC/DNC Management
February 14th, 2009
10:35 pm
This is what people like Chadley hate-
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Romance is in the air in Baghdad as war-weary Iraqis celebrate Valentine’s Day after a sharp drop in violence, allowing lovers to cautiously hold hands in parks and to buy gifts for their sweethearts. Public courtship and more daring clothing for women are increasing after years of growing intolerance, perhaps signaling the Islamic dogma and conservatism that accompanied Iraq’s slide into sectarian slaughter may be losing their grip.
God bless you, George Bush, for staying committed to your principles and beliefs that America would never fail in it’s just and righteous cause.
We won’t be seeing that again for a long time to come.
TnGelding
February 14th, 2009
10:35 pm
Please, let’s be civil toward one another. We’re in deep trouble and it’s going to take everyone pulling together and sacrificing to get out of it. If we can.
Chad Harris
February 14th, 2009
11:18 pm
Andy–
I didn’t have a vote. I’m not responsible for previous mistakes of Dems. I know the votes infinitely better than you do because I follow Congress on an infinitely more sophisticated level than you do including the law.
That’s why I know that over 200 of the Bush administration are in prison as the result of pansying out with Rule 11 pleas. You pretend not to know anything about all the thugs in prison.
We never should have gone in. We wouldn’t if I’d had the say so and we should get the flying fook out of there now. But we won’t.
And the number of paralyzed will grow from 60,000 to 100,000 soon. The VAH’s will continue to deteriorate. Rethugs will scream with mock vitriol as long as they don’t have to get anywhere near the war that all the Iraq Group who secured deferments and Bush who ran away from the National Guard pushed on Americans who are not anywhere near their families.
Romance is in the air in Bagdad as an increasing number of women in staggering heat forced to wear layers of clothes they don’t want on and kept from educations blow themselves up in the middle of women and children.
Be my Valentime KABOOM. How many sucide bombers on Management’s street this week?
Chad Harris
February 14th, 2009
11:36 pm
Iraq is the epitome of American stupiity and its horrible failure is the result of the people who voted for Bush and the Supreme court that rigged the election to put the moron in. We are now trying to dig out of the massive failures and the only positive thing is that the imbecilic base will never live to see their candidates in office.
Chad Harris
February 15th, 2009
12:30 am
From Ditzy Management “our brave troops are heroes, heroes who fought a hard, challenging war FOR the Iraqi people instead of AGAINST the Iraqi people.”
Uh not exactly.
Inquiry on Graft in Iraq Focuses on U.S. Officers
Yee Haw:
“Federal authorities examining the early, chaotic days of the $125 billion American-led effort to rebuild Iraq have significantly broadened their inquiry to include senior American military officers who oversaw the program, according to interviews with senior government officials and court documents.
Court records show that last month investigators subpoenaed the personal bank records of Col. Anthony B. Bell, who is now retired from the Army but who was in charge of reconstruction contracting in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 when the small operation grew into a frenzied attempt to remake the country’s broken infrastructure. In addition, investigators are examining the activities of Lt. Col. Ronald W. Hirtle of the Air Force, who was a senior contracting officer in Baghdad in 2004, according to two federal officials involved in the inquiry.”
Chad Harris
February 15th, 2009
12:45 am
A Year in Iraq and Afghanistan-Death, Death, and More Death>/a<
Thuglicans don’t like facts and stats. The facts and stats here underscore that Iraq was an ego trip for delusional thuglicans that has real costs–death and destruction of the lives of Americans who are used as dirt and cannon foder the way the Romans fed slaves to fight lions.
Pay special attention to the chart that is linked mapping every death.
Dave R
February 15th, 2009
5:42 am
OK, Chad. Don’t know where you’re getting your numbers on “paralyzed”, but if you’re talking Americans, you’re inflating figures you have, or just don’t know what you’re talking about. And while I have always agreed that Iraq was a fiasco from day one and never needed invading, you lost all credibility in your argument about Bush when you proclaimed that the “Supreme Court rigged the election” that put Bush in office.
The reality on that one is that every possible recount scenario of hanging chads, partial chads and lumps and bumps on chads was vetted years ago by an independent group, and they found that under no scenario would Al Gore have won Florida. Independent group, Chad. Get over it.
AJC/DNC Management
February 15th, 2009
6:58 am
Dave R: I’m sure that once Chad finishes chewing through the straps of his straight jacket, he’ll rush right out and locate the proof for all the nonsense he’s been spouting.
We’re talking Level 5 BDS here, jack.
AJC/DNC Management
February 15th, 2009
7:07 am
So how many of you dimwit liberals forget to buy your Sunday booze on Saturday, fess up-
Now, in the middle of the worst economic downturn the state has seen in decades, they are touting the possibility that Sunday sales could bring in extra money to a cash-strapped state.-Urinal/ kult of barry
Oh yeah, a bonanza I’ll bet.
And who do you think we are, those who disapprove of Sunday sales, money grubbing, tax cheating democrats?
duh
Chad Harris
February 15th, 2009
9:26 am
Dave R–I’m getting my numbers from the medical literature and I should have included blind and orthopedically severely crippled. I know as usual for a thug you have no numbers whatsoever to site because that would require reading and research–2 R’s that are kryptonite to a thug.
And I’m getting my comments on the VAH from experience covering them and seeing them woefully out of everything over the years. How ’bout you?
The Supreme Court information comes from the law clerks who were there at the time. Let me define law clerk for you. Attorneys hand picked by the Justices who do the brief writing and research for them are their law clerks. They published in law reviews and in Vanity Fair about what happened with the 5-4. Unlike you Dave R I can site sources not just grab whatever delusion is in my head and whack away because I don’t like the sound of the facts.
That’s what you’ve done in your little diatribe.
From the S. Ct. clerks who were there:
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision to Appoint a President by the Law Clerks Who Were There
This article prompted the livid S. Ct. to impose a secrecy contract on incoming clerks. I doubt it’s enforceable with a scintilla of consequnces. They ain’t the CIA.
And speaking of getting over it how ’bout the Bookman Wingnuts like you and Management that have been the subject of Frank Rich’s column this morning?
Chad Harris
February 15th, 2009
9:30 am
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision to Appoint a President by the Law Clerks Who Were There
Chad Harris
February 15th, 2009
9:34 am
They Sure Showed that Obama Didn’t They by Frank Rich
Dave R
February 15th, 2009
8:29 pm
You’ve GOT to be joking, Chad. You base your belief that Bush was appointed in 2000 by the Supreme Court using an OPINION PIECE written by a co-founder of Air America radio? Is THAT the best you’ve got?
Even when the INDEPENDENT (and surely you don’t think a co-founder of Air America radio can be considered independent) organization (BDO Siedman) made recounts with four, count ‘em, four different methodologies, including the most generous methodology possible towards Gore, and ALL came up with a Bush victory in Florida in 2000?
Just what planet do you come from, Chad?
Now onto your numbers of “paralyzed” being in the 60,000 range today, and moving upward to 100,000: You do realize, of course, that the number of wounded IN TOTAL during the occupation of Iraq has not yet exceeded 32,000, don’t you? And that the number of wounded not returned to duty within 72 hours has not yet exceeded 14,000? That is from the actual Pentagon casualty list dated 2/12/2009. What have YOU got, Chad? Kinda hard to have 60,000 paralyzed whan you haven’t even reached 14,000 seriously wounded, now isn’t it?
So what mysterious “medical literature” are you getting your “facts” about the number of “paralyzed”? And I will remind you once again that I have never agreed with Bush’s decision on invading Iraq, so don’t you dare even think about dumping me into any category you think I should occupy with the Bush-lovers out there.
Oh, and an OPINION piece by Frank Rich has about as much value as an OPINION piece by Jay Bookman or Ann Coulter. Neither has ever produced a thing of value in their lives – they just complain about those who actually do.
TnGelding
February 16th, 2009
3:16 am
Dave R
February 15th, 2009
8:29 pm
If Democrats had been in control of Congress, would Gore have become president? Could they have disallowed the Florida vote? I think there had been precedent.
Dave R
February 16th, 2009
6:34 am
I’m sure that in true politician fashion, Democrats (like Republicans) could have tried to intervene in that election (see Minnesota Senate race – 2008), but since ALL the votes WERE finally counted using both existing Florida standards and Gore’s requested relaxed standards, the result would have been the same. Bush won Florida. Gore lost Florida. Bush was not “appointed” President of the U.S., regardless of what Chad and others may believe.
As a result, we got Bush’s stellar leadership immediately following the attacks on 9/11, which I do not believe Al Gore had in him. Unfortunately, we also got the war in Iraq and the worst thing of all – compassionate conservatism. All that meant was appeasement to liberals on government programs that don’t work, then getting hammered by those same Democrats in the next election for not appeasing them enough. All you have to do is read all these fiscal geniuses crying about the deficit expanding under “Bush”. Both Democrat and Republican-controlled Congresses could have simply rejected the President’s budget if either of them thought it was out of line in SPENDING. Neither did. Tax revenues continued to increase (yes, due to those evil tax CUTS for those who actually create jobs), but no one on either side called a halt to spending when both sides had the power to do so under our Constitutionally-designed system of checks and balances. A pox on BOTH their houses.
And the budget deficit keeps going up, and up, and up . . .
TnGelding
February 16th, 2009
8:58 am
Dave R
February 16th, 2009
6:34 am
Was it the tax cuts or the deficit spending that increased revenue? $3 trillion in deficit government spending produced at least $540 billion in revenue.
Would 9/11 have even happened if Gore had been president? Bush had been forewarned in August and several of the perps were flagged by the computer reservation systems but were allowed to board anyway.
The Supreme Court had never intervened in an election before (unconstitutional?), but Congress had.
“The election of 1876 was indisputably an instance in which the winner of the popular vote did not also win the vote in the Electoral College. Samuel Tilden won the popular vote by more than 3 percent nationwide over Rutherford B. Hayes and seemed for a time to have won the vote of the Electoral College as well. There were several oddities at play in this election.
There were several disputed slates of electors. Officials in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina certified opposing slates of electors and sent them to Congress. Additionally, an elector for Hayes in Oregon was disqualified because he was “person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States” and had to be replaced. The vice presi-dent, a Republican, was to preside over the counting of the votes of the Electoral Col-lege, but the Democrats claimed that it would be unfair. The Democrats argued that the concurrence of both houses of Congress was needed to adjudicate any disputed Electoral College votes. Since the House of Representatives was Democratic, withholding the concurrence would most likely result in not counting the electoral votes from any states in dispute. That would mean a victory for Tilden over Hayes.
In January 1877, only five weeks before Inauguration Day, Congress passed legislation establishing a 15-member Electoral Commission composed of five members from each house of Congress and five Supreme Court Justices. From the Congress, there were five Democrats and five Republicans. Of the Supreme Court Justices, two were from each party. The final member of the commission was to be Justice David Davis, an In-dependent. However, the Democrats in the state legislature of Illinois, some argue in an act of political intrigue, selected Justice Davis to be a Democratic senator for the state. They may have expected him to stay on the commission until the president was se-lected, but he immediately resigned to take his post in the Senate. There were only Re-publicans left on the Supreme Court to replace him, and though the one thought most independent, Justice Joseph Bradley, was selected to take his place, all of the votes of the commission split along partisan lines 8-7 in favor of the Republicans. Hayes won the Electoral College by a one-vote margin, 185-184.
Many historians call this deal the Compromise of 1877. While the Republican Ruther-ford B. Hayes was elected president, there was an informal understanding that he would remove all federal troops from the South. This action effectively ended Reconstruction. The election resulted in the Electoral Count Act of 1887, creating the safe harbor dead-line for states. Today, each state is guaranteed that Congress will accept its election re-sults if the state meets the safe harbor deadline to decide any intrastate election disputes.”
http://www.eac.gov/about/docs/the-electoral-college-final.doc/attachment_download/file
Dave R
February 16th, 2009
9:27 am
Unless you can show me that either Bush or Gore were at the security checkpoints on 9/11, I suspect you cannot prove that either of them could have stopped the attacks. The point here is that the RULES were the same as under the Clinton administration in September of 2001. Those rules kept intelligence services (as in the CIA) from sharing information with the FBI or other law enforcement entities. Could information have been acted on in time? We’ll never know that.
Tax cuts have ALWAYS produced more revenue. Even JFK knew that. Deficit spending is ALWAYS a losing proposition. Spending $3 trillion to get $500 billion is a sucker’s game.
On the 2000 election, remember that a lawsuit was filed in Florida, which went to the Court of Appeals, which went to the Supremes when they refused to hear the case. When both sides choose the legal route, they get the legal solution, not the Congressional one.
bdatlanta
February 16th, 2009
12:15 pm
Jay, there’s a hard to find bio film about Chet Baker called Let’s Get Lost by Bruce Weber from 1985.
It’s on DVD in the European PAL format only but I’m sure some video shops around ATL will still have VHS versions..
Really good film with lots of interviews with Chet. I believe the film wrapped within weeks of him falling/jumping out of the window in Amsterdam.
I don’t know why he is in there but the opening sequence includes Anothony Kaedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers shortly before the Chili Peppers made it on their own.
Anyway, this film really got my wife and I into his music and “Let’s Get Lost: The Best of Chet Baker Sings” CD has always been close at hand in our house.