I got the funniest damned email from the Repugs last night. Now, to get the joke, you have to know that Bobby Casey is famous for… well, being boring as hell.
IT’S OFFICIAL! CASEY JR. MOVES IN WITH MOVEON
“If there was any doubt that Casey Jr. is aligned with the ultra-liberal left he put it […]

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The man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want.
- Willie Loman, “Death of a Salesman”
Digby was right, and then some. It was the oddest sense of deja vu, because so many of the lines were […]

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I just want you guys to know, the computer isn’t exactly behaving right now. For one thing, it’s only starting in safe mode, which can’t be a good thing. For another, every time I rebooted, it reinstalled everything.
So if it goes down, you’ll know why. Arghhh….

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As Digby predicted, looks like Bush is going with the Richard Nixon “peace with honor” speech. We’ll see whether it works; Digby has some solid reasons for believing it won’t. (For one thing, Bush can’t blame his predecessor for the war, the way Nixon did.)
Lots of other wonderful quotes from Flounder “Fat, drunk and stupid […]

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Digby opines on why playing the Richard Nixon “Vietnamization/peace with honor” card won’t work for Bush tonight.

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And more excuses:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. troops allegedly killed an Iraqi television director Tuesday when he drove near a U.S. convoy, colleagues and a hospital official said. The U.S. military said it had no reports of the incident.
Ahmed Wael Bakri, a program director for al-Sharqiya television, was the third Iraqi journalist allegedly killed […]

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Fight to take your country back. The Freeway Blogger announces the Summer of Truth, and we’re all invited to take part:
Don’t limit yourself to overpasses: Anything you can see while driving is a place you can post a sign and it will be seen. Trees, fencing, sign backs and infrastructure, everything is fair game. The […]

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Jesus. You pay with your child’s life and you’re treated like a traitor:
SACRAMENTO - Three decades after aggressive military spying on Americans created a national furor, California’s National Guard has quietly set up a special intelligence unit that has been given ”broad authority” to monitor, analyze and distribute information on potential terrorist threats, the Mercury […]

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Pretty funny:
Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter’s […]

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That “liberal” Hillary will be shilling for the DLC (subscription only, no link):
Sen. Evan Bayh (Ind.) will step down as chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council next month, paving the way for Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack to take the reins of the party’s premier centrist policy organization.
The passing of the torch will occur at […]

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Good:
Former Minneapolis FBI agent Coleen Rowley, whose public criticism of the bureau set off an uproar over the FBI’s pre-Sept. 11 counterterrorism lapses, said Monday that she will run as a Democrat for the U.S. House.
Rowley plans to challenge second-term Republican Rep. John Kline in Minnesota’s Second District, which stretches across the Twin Cities’ […]

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I don’t know how I missed this yesterday at Daily Kos:
Recent reports in the Valerie Plame case have revolved around informed speculation that the investigation has expanded from the original leaker to a probe of the larger administration effort to disseminate the information — specifically, that Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is pursuing perjury and/or obstruction […]

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The only changes: I got a new mouse, I cleaned out my temp file and I defragged my hard drive. None of this should have presented a problem, but now my sound card has stopped working.
Any suggestions? I have Win2ooo, by the way.

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It seems clear that despite the best efforts of the Rove machine and the corporate media, the American public has made up its own mind about the war in Iraq.
They’re not buying it.
It’s like that moment when you’re buying a car and you’ve caught the salesman in one lie too many. You say to yourself, […]

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I was just wondering what Jimmy Breslin’s up to:
Some people say they got into the newspaper business because of Woodward and Bernstein. I’m in it because of Breslin.
Which is why, eight months after he stopped writing a regular column in Newsday, I still cared what he had to say.
***
He ripped newspapers for losing “their backbone […]

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Amanda reminds us that SCOTUS also made a ruling regarding protection from abuse orders:
Reading the decision, it’s clear from Justice Scalia’s opinion that the right to police discretion was a big factor. I agree that the police should have a lot of discretion in theory and it’s too bad that in practice they fuck it […]

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha…
SEATTLE - The Washington state Republican Party paid Democrats $15,000 to cover court costs in the GOP’s unsuccessful challenge to the election of Gov. Christine O. Gregoire.

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Will says Cheney did get his heart checked out in Vail this weekend, and wonders why the media slept through the whole thing. Considering, after all, that the man is (at least on paper) second in line to the presidency…

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Great piece on pitcher Dock Ellis, “baseball’s Muhammed Ali,” courtesy of Norwegianity:
Thirty-five years ago, on June 12, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirate and future Texas Rangers pitcher Dock Ellis found himself in the Los Angeles home of a childhood friend named Al Rambo. Two days earlier, he’d flown with the Pirates to San Diego for a four-game […]

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Via Raw Story:
THE American general who commanded allied air forces during the Iraq war appears to have admitted in a briefing to American and British officers that coalition aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq from the middle of 2002, nine months before the invasion began.
Addressing a briefing on lessons learnt from the […]

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Thanks to those of you who sent your hard-earned $$. I’m still a little short, so if you meant to donate and forgot, I’d certainly appreciate your help.

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WashPo dissects the Downing Street memos - declining to interpret their meaning, of course:
Critics of the Bush administration contend the documents — including the now-famous Downing Street Memo of July 23, 2002 — constitute proof that Bush made the decision to go to war at least eight months before it began, and that the […]

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Good news:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan’s Supreme Court overturned the acquittals of 13 suspects and ordered them re-arrested in connection with the gang rape of a village woman whose case drew international attention, court officials and a lawyer in the case said.
The ruling came a day after the victim, Mukhtar Mai, appealed the lower court […]

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France will be the site of a multi-national nuclear fusion plant. As the technology improves, it could be good news for all of us.

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Kos and Duncan go to Washington:
WASHINGTON Bloggers built their Internet followings with anti-establishment writings. Now they’re lobbying the establishment to keep their pastime from federal regulation.
As the man behind the Web log, DailyKos-dot-com puts it, one sign that you’ve arrived is that government regulators start wanting to poke their fingers into what you do. He’s […]

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