Sat, 13 May 2006 10:00:01 -0700
hey what if your installed goverment planted false intelligence about supposed Nigerian yellowcake uranium to justify starting a war of aggression against a country that didn't attack us, then rewarded some of those Italian operatives who planted the intelligence with an incredibly lucrative defense contract for Marine One--- Why, that's be simply Pimpcopterlicious...
Oh Look who now says "energy is a national security issue." The trouble with their plan is they are looking for fuel made from natural gas and coal, as Chevron is proposing for the "oil of this century." The trouble with that is Russia and Iran sit on a huge part of the natural gas, so it's also a fossil fuel that impacts our national security. Rummy has to stop making nice with Chevron, etc...and get busy on real alternative energy sources to fly those jets. Meanwhile, can tanks run on E85? We have that in Kansas. Maybe they could try it at Ft. Riley.
I suspect they (Tanks) are diesel fueled . Bio-diesel blends have a nomenclature that is similar to ethanol blends. For example: B50 is a 50-50 blend of diesel and bio-diesel. 100% biodiesel will run just fine in a diesel engine except that straight biodiesl thickens with low temps where as a diesel/biodiesel blend doesn't. That problem can probably be solved as well.
Faux tried to spin the decline in the stock market to the USA Today story about the NSA spying. Now, from everything I've read, the market was hit by a rush to put money into commodities, the price and jitters about oil and rising interest rates. Nobody said anything about the NSA story.
Yesterday at one of those water-cooler talks, we were exulting in *'s freefalling numbers, and someone asked the frequent question, "but who are the Democrats going to put up in '08?". As I always do, I told them the right answer. However, a good Democrat who I believe could be brought around to the General said no, he's disappeared. She even mentioned Biden as a possible choice for her (I guess his constant presence on the Sunday morning talk shows is worth something!)
Anyway, you and I know that General Clark is oh-so-far from disappearing, but I'd like to hit my colleague with not just a few recent good works off the top of my head... could you post a list of many of his highest profile and best works of the past several months, so I can start bringing her aboard? Thanks!
Tell her to go to www.securingamerica.com and have her listen to the ClarkCasts. She only thinks he's gone, because she no doubt never watches FOX. Tell her what really matters now is to take back the house and senate in November. That is our mission:)
Before I get her to the ClarkCasts, though, I want to inundate her with how productively busy he is, without her having to make even that much effort. Speaking of ClarkCasts, that was you I heard on there, wasn't it?
Note: This is only 2006. Also, recently the DCCC rated Kerry, Gore and Clark as have been the most active in $$$ and on the trail for current Dem. Nov. candidates.
January 5th: Fundraiser for Eric Massa, candidate for US Congress NY-29, Honorary Chair, Barroom NYC, New York
January 10th: DNC Statement on Bush failure to provide body armor for troops
January 10th: Liberal Supper Club, Washington DC
January 11th: DNC Press Conference Call with Lt Col Andrew Horne, candidate for U.S. Congress in KY-3; Democratic pre-buttal to Bush WOT speech in Louisville KY
January 11th: Letter-writing campaign to demand body armor for troops
January 17th: 7:30PM, Sears Lecture Series, "Do We Really Care about Human Rights?" - Purdue University, Loeb Playhouse, West Lafayette, Indiana - "The Balkans: A Strategic Vision"
January 19th: Securing America: "Where is the leadership and the rule of law?"
January 24th: Press conference with Senator Schumer introducing "Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006"
January 25th: Release of "The US Military: Under Strain and at Risk" for US Senate National Security Advisory Group; aka Albright/Perry Report
January 26th: Paul Begala's Radio Show, WOR-AM NY
January 26th: 1PM, Fundraising Reception for Bob Gammage for Governor, Hotel Derek, Houston TX
January 26th: Rally with Representative Hubert Vo in TX House District 149, Houston TX
January 26th: 6PM, Kickoff of Juan Garcia's race for Texas House District 32, Selena Auditorium, Corpus Christi TX
January 27th: "Take Back Your Privacy" E-Mail Campaign in support of S. 2178, "The Consumer Telephone Records Act of 2006"
January 27th: Mississippi Delta Grassroots Caucus Third Annual Conference, Little Rock AR
January 30th: "Real State of the Union" speech before New America Foundation, Washington DC
February 1st: WesPac Reception and Fundraiser, Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables FL
February 2nd: WesPac Reception and Fundraiser, "Evening in San Francisco with General Wesley K. Clark" at Hotel Monaco, San Francisco CA
February 4th: Bloggers' Roundtable, Los Angeles CA
February 4th: "Take Back the House with General Wesley Clark" in support of Democrat Francine Busby for CA-50, Hollywood CA
February 4th: WesPac fundraiser sponsored by 4-Star Democratic Club, Los Angeles CA
February 6th: ABC World News Tonight
February 8th: Veterans for a Secure America fundraiser, Washington DC
February 9th: Stephanie Miller radio show on AAR
February 10th: "Iraq: The Way Forward—A Conversation with General Wesley Clark," Council on Foreign Relations, Washington DC
February 11th & 12th: Hosting C-Span Book-TV program "After Words"; Guest David Rieff, author of "At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention"
February 11th: Speech at National Student Leadership Conference, Washington DC
March: Fundraiser for Mike Weaver in KY-02, Owensboro KY
March 5th: "This Week" interview by George Stephanopoulos
March 10th: Ed Schultz Radio Show
March 10th: WesPac fundraising luncheon, Cambridge MA
March 11th: Congressman Marty Meehan's St. Patrick's Day Breakfast, Dracut, MA
March 11th: Vietnam and the Presidency Conference, JFK Library, Boston MA
March 13th: Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, "A Petty Hitler" - death of Slobodan Milosevic'
March 14th: Diane Rehm Show on the situation in Iraq
March 14th: Fundraiser for Eric Massa NY-29, Washington DC
March 15th: ClarkCasts introduced on Securing America
March 17th: Email Fundraiser for Lt Col Andrew Horne, Democratic candidate in KY-03
March 17th: Chicago Public Radio "The Future of Kosovo"
March 18th-20th: New Hampshire House Democratic Caucus
March 18th: Town Hall Meeting, New England College, Henniker NH
March 18th: New Hampshire Veterans Home visit, Tilton NH
March 18th: Salem/Windham Democrats host General Clark, Windham NH
March 19th: Upper Valley Democrats and Young Democrats of Dartmouth College host General Clark, Hanover, NH
March 21st: Ohio Democratic Party fundraiser, Cincinnatian Hotel, Cincinnati OH
March 23rd: "Evening with General Wesley Clark" Reception and Dinner, The Houstonian, Houston TX
March 24th: CSPAN - "Vietnam and the Presidency: Lessons Learned" - JFK Library, Boston MA 3/11/06
April 1st: North Dakota Democratic-NPL Convention, Fargo Civic Center, Fargo ND, Keynote Speaker
April 10th: Emory University Presidential Distinguished Lecture Series, Atlanta GA
April 22nd: Arkansas Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, Guest Speaker, Little Rock AR
April 26th: 7PM, "Take a Meeting With the World" Public Lecture Series, Interview by George Stephanopoulos, University of Judaism Gibson Amphitheatre, Bel-Air CA
May 5th: Boys and Girls Club of America Centennial Celebration, Guest Speaker. Boston MA
May 13th: Hawkeye Labor Council fundrasier, Cedar Rapids IA
May 19th: Wagner College Commencement Address, Staten Island NY
May20th: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Commencement Speech and Honorary Degree, Troy NY
June 8th: Texas Democratic State Convention, Opening Speaker, Ft. Worth TX
June 24th: Tennessee Democratic Party Jackson Day, Guest Speaker, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville TN
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.--J. V. Marley
It's waning in S.E. Asia. Now maybe our governments at all levels can devise a real plan for a catastrophe, manmade or otherwise.
Hi - this is posted on Kos - please go help if you can:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/13/134823/857
Hey folks! Reporter Thomas Edsall of the Washington Post -- who is nationally known, rather neoliberal, and well-respected by the journalistic establishment -- posted a diary today asking for Kosines to respond to Rahm Emanuel's challenges to Gov. Dean's 50-state strategy. He's writing a story and wants our analysis and quotes.
Because his title is sort of innocuous and his handle is unknown here, it has scrolled almost all the way down at this point and has only 24 comments, the brunt of them from just a few of us. Please don't go there to abuse or yell at him, but if you've wanted to talk to a significant national political reporter and make our views known, one just knocked on our door and I don't want people to miss it. Please check out this diary now. Again, we don't get chances like this every day, so please don't projectile vomit on him.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/13/112238/025
From edsall:
I posed this same question on MYDD.
Could proponents of the 50 state strategy answer Rahm Emanuel's question: Is the rate of spending at the DNC and the investment of money and resources in states without competitive 2006 races worth the possible failure to win back the House and Senate? He argues that Democrats running in 2006 need to have as much get-out-the-vote and television support as possible, and that the DNC under Howard Dean does not appear equipped to provide that support. I would welcome, and like to be able to quote, serious answers to this question. Tom Edsall, Washington Post.
Loved your remarks there. And I see by the ratings you received that many others also agree with you.
Wes is tied for first. It's not an official poll, but does have data from other polls. Nobody every calls me about those polls.
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'A majority of Americans initially support a controversial National Security Agency program to collect information on telephone calls made in the United States in an effort to identify and investigate potential terrorist threats, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. . .
A total of 502 randomly selected adults were interviewed Thursday night for this survey. Margin of sampling error is five percentage points for the overall results. The practical difficulties of doing a survey in a single night represents another potential source of error.'
[bolding mine.]
Clinton WH Alumni: WTF?
by Matt Stoller, Sat May 13, 2006 at 02:11:46 PM EST
Ok, so Donna Brazile and Mike McCurry are working for the telcos in the net neutrality fight, Donna Shalala is screwing workers at her new perch at the University of Miami, David Brooks is praising Hillary Clinton's centrism as she holds fundraisers with Rupert Murdoch, Paul Begala is calling organizers nose-pickers, George Stephanopoulos is making millions in a boring establishment show at ABC News, and I've heard rumors that Joe Lockhart is sending around corporate-funded memos to the media saying that Democrats shouldn't tackle the Medicare RX fiasco.
What's going on here?
This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.....Molly Ivins
The 4 stages of Washington careers:
1 Idealism
2 Pragmatism
3 Ambition
4 Corruption
This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.....Molly Ivins
Greedy, power hungry blundering BS and I have to say, the supporters of all these doofuses need to get real, too. Right now I feel we are stuck with the blind leading the blind.
Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | ReportSaturday 13 May 2006
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.
During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.
Details at TruthOut: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051306W.shtml
that is a happy dance!!!!!!!
gotta find someone to drink champagne with when it's official!!!!
THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE GRIND SLOW BUT THEY GRIND FINE
WOOHOO! How Sweet It Is!
NOW, does KKKarl "take on for the team" and spend time in DA BIG HOUSE or does he spill his beans on everybody?
SAVE OHIO - Jennifer Brunner for Ohio Secretary of State
but not obstructing justice for going the the GJ 5 times? This is the deal Luskin worked out for him that day when Scooter was indicted? Sure seems like it to me. If Rove were to plead guilty and take his lumps, what would they be?
Sources close to the case said Friday that it appeared very likely that an obstruction charge against Rove would be included with charges of perjury and lying to investigators.
Blue State of Mind
The guy strung it out for as long as he could while ruining the nation for dubya. There should be special charges just for that.
I agree. There will be plenty of time to celebrate when its official.
Barry
Are you safer today than you were five years ago?
to celebrate, BlueMoon will become Clarkzilla when the announcement of Rove's resignation & impending indictment come.
From Newsweek - "May 13, 2006 - The role of Vice President Dick Cheney in the criminal case stemming from the outing of White House critic Joseph Wilson's CIA wife is likely to get fresh attention as a result of newly disclosed notes showing that Cheney personally asked whether Wilson had been sent by his wife on a "junket" to Africa.
Cheney's notes, written on the margins of a July 6, 2003 New York Times op-ed column by former ambassador Joseph Wilson, were included as part of a filing Friday night by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the perjury and obstruction case against ex-Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
The notes, Fitzgerald said in his filing, show that Cheney and Libby were "acutely focused" on the Wilson column and on rebutting his criticisms of the White House's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12774274/site/newsweek/
Blue State of Mind
15 hours yesterday with Luskin explaining the charges against Rove? How often does that happen? No wonder Bush is talking to the nation about "immigration" Monday night. Poll numbers are going down below 29% and all the kings horses and men can't fix it for Dubya. He is the Humpty Dumpty President presiding over the big mess he made of the nation.
and his humpty dumpty mom can't save him this time. Listen, 15 hours with Luskin? Imagine if he tried to explain it to Dubya! haha! Man! Seriously that is a long time... I can't imagine why it would take so long.
the 15 hrs is a mis-print 1 1/2 is more like it
*and that conjures up all of w's horses and all of w's men!!!!!
but not the men that rode in on 'em!
Thanks. 15 hours sounds awfully long to me. Of course the GAC case I worked on could have taken years to explain, and still only the attorneys would get it, and even they had to discuss it over and over to be sure! hahaha! (Oh, GAC = General Atomic Corp. ... huge suit in 80s)
Keep dancin'.....!!!
(W would fall off the horse anyhow---set them free)
which canned phrase is dopey-in-chief going to use when rove announcement made?
can't say faithful service to nation!!!! NO NO NO, not when he compromised national security and allegedly violated the law to cover it up!!!
KO will have a great time.
Bush and Cheney and Rove........ the Worst Persons In The World!
WAIT......... What WILL Bush say? I bet he doesn't say anything "Because he can't while there is an investigation going on.... yada yada."
Times' Frank Rich: Any 'witch hunt' for traitors should begin in the White House
RAW STORY
5/13/2006
Defending journalists who have been castigated as traitors for exposing government blunders, New York Times columnist Frank Rich writes that any "witch hunt" for traitors should begin in the White House, RAW STORY has found.
"What really angers the White House and its defenders about both the Post and Times scoops are not the legal questions the stories raise about unregulated gulags and unconstitutional domestic snooping, but the unmasking of yet more administration failures in a war effort riddled with ineptitude," Rich writes.
"It's the recklessness at the top of our government, not the press' exposure of it, that has truly aided the enemy, put American lives at risk and potentially sabotaged national security," Rich continues. "That's where the buck stops, and if there's to be a witch hunt for traitors, that's where it should begin."
Ex-CIA Director Porter Goss should not be allowed to "escape into retirement unexamined," Rich argues, calling him "so inept that an overzealous witch hunter might mistake him for a Qaida double agent."
"His mission was not to protect our country but to prevent the airing of administration dirty laundry, including leaks detailing how the White House ignored accurate CIA intelligence on Iraq before the war," Rich writes.
READ ON......
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Frank_Rich_Any_witch_hunt_for_0513.html
to do the happy dance.
Happydancehappydancehappydance.
Me looking forward to the next coupla weeks and watching rats scurry about. Oh my, indeed. Yes. Not to mention how much I'm looking forward to seeing that shiny new Clarkzilla monniker on my screen. (Excellent choice BlueMoon.)
I'm really starting to believe that we have an excellent chance to grab back the house this fall. Point me towards some phone banking or door knocking! Time to GOTV! Oooh. I'm so ready!
Oh- Dorma- we are all so deeply ready to embrace & manifest change!!! So much good work to be done. I can just feel the stress level lifting at the thought of a Rovian indictment.
on a lighter note, Clarkzilla wouldn't mind spending 15 hours with Fitz!
I have been all over the blogs and they are jumping with joy. Champagne is flowing everywhere. "ROVE" is going down and taking the whole cabal with him. I just knew when Bush scheduled his speech this story was going to break. The Chimp will try to spin his way out of this and NO one will believe a word he says....OMG.
Plus, CHENEY, going with ROVE...Love Pat Fitzgerald..He knows how to bring um down...
I have e-mailed this to all my friends and family...I am so excited...
The PIC really gets me, msbe!
PS, I can't bear to look at the pic of young man, dark eyed Wes; don't ask me why.
Party at donjo's blog
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bring dancin' shoes
and champagne
smells like Fitzmas!
The prosecutor informs the court he will introduce Cheney's hand-written notes as evidence:
'If provoking the anger of a conservative's conservative like Luttig wasn't enough, another development out of the Justice Department was nearly as stunning. On Wednesday, the Justice Department's point man on government accountability, H. Marshall Jarrett, wrote to Congress saying that he was shutting down his review of the NSA spying probe because his staff was denied access to the agency's files and personnel.
So to review the bidding: Bush's Justice Department is blocked from investigating its own controversial spy program; a leading conservative jurist resigns, reportedly in part over the government's handling of civil liberties; and a big NSA program of eavesdropping on Americans' phone-calling patterns is revealed. Will this be enough to turn public opinion against Bush on civil liberties and terrorism? Given the collapse in public support for the President on so many issues, it wouldn't be surprising.'
"...if it saves one life the NSA program is okay because 911 changed everything."
Don't laugh! Many of those people being surveyed actually look to her for legal advice.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.--J. V. Marley
that the Katie Couric story is the biggest thing going.
Oh Caterpillar... why are you smiling? What are you smoking?
Did she loose a front tooth or something? I mean what have I missed this time by not being a celebrity watcher?
When our elected representatives are sworn in, they place their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution, they do NOT put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible!
I just wish they all WOULD snooze, the deep sleep of Rumplestiltskin, .... or better yet.............
who we really need is............> 
<.......... to infiltrate that MSM and force them to tell the truth! Ok, Ok, I know ... it's only a movie. :(
the cat decades ago sees Katie's sparkling teeth changing stations as the biggest news story around??
Jeebus! Just how far up B*sh's a$$ is that blond head anyway?
When our elected representatives are sworn in, they place their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution, they do NOT put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible!
I keep seeing and reading that the majority of Americans don't mind the phone monitoring. I think this is major bs. You can tell because every single right wing media type is selling this like they havn't sold anything in months. Even the staunch republicans I know are against this. Appointing Hayden was a Rovian premptive strike manuever. These guys revealed the identity of a CIA agent. Who in their right mind thinks they won't use illegally obtained phone records for political purposes?
...are taken for granted until they are lost. I can't remember who it was, but he said he was not at all surprised that so many Americans seemed to support the new domestic spying. He was surprised that one-third were concerned! He thought that was incredibly significant.
Leadership means lifting people up. --Wes Clark
'Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez arrives in London today with an extraordinary promise to offer cut-rate heating oil for needy families in Europe, modelled on a similar campaign in the US which has been seen partly as a bid to embarrass President George Bush.'
Oh Boy--
and another on base!!
There's hope.
That stupid chop and chanting.... Giles up.
Wes Clark: All Patriot, No Act