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Look who is coming for a roundtable discussion with Mr. Fitzgerald:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is likely to face questions about the allegedly mediocre status of U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald when he arrives here Tuesday for a scheduled round table discussion and press conference.Gonzales is supposed to be at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse to discuss the "Project Safe Childhood" campaign designed to protect kids from online predators. But he's likely to be asked to field inquiries about Fitzgerald being ranked as undistinguished on a chart sent to the White House from the Justice Department in 2005, as well as the controversial fall firings of a group of U.S. attorneys.
Gonzales is to appear for a round table discussion of the project with Fitzgerald and Ernie Allen, President and CEO of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
The mediocre rating has been the subject of much joking among prosecutors, federal agents, defense lawyers and the press in the city, and especially at the building where Fitzgerald has earned accolades for sweeping public corruption investigations....
Gonzales's trip will come as he faces mounting pressure over the firings last fall of eight federal prosecutors. He has received support from President Bush, but a growing group in Congress has called for him to step down.
Questions about Gonzales's credibility have grown sharper since March 13, when he denied taking part in discussions about the firings which some allege were politically motivated. Documents later showed Gonzales was in meetings on the topic and approved the moves. (emphasis mine)
Well, that should make for quite the comfortable roundtable discussion and presser, eh? Especially with the conservative Chicago Tribune lauding Fitzgerald's performance as a prosecutor, and calling Gonzales' credibility into question before he ever gets to town. Funny how a little thing like integrity can stand out -- especially when people are questioning whether or not you have any, eh, Mr. Attorney General? Quite the contrast between the AG and Fitzgerald. One wonders how their discussions will go. I know I'll be keeping an eye on that.
(H/T to Effwit for spotting this one. Nice.)
PS -- Nothing but best wishes to Tony Snow and his family.
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Madness…..Madnesss……MADNESSSS
We are on the brink of attacking Iran.
Alberto isn’t fit to shine Fitz’ shoes.
Berto’s not even fit to have one of those shoes implanted in his backside.
Oklahoma Kiddo, linkage on Iran please?
Don’t know if toast itself will be on the table, but roasted gonzo probably will…
Oh…for once I wish my spouse would make some of his high-carbon toast just for this event.
Mmm-mmm.
Christy!
Won’t someone think of the children?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 3
EPU’d from previous:
The UK wants its soldiers back.
Please come in for a nice little chat, Gonzo.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17810017/
Dirksen is right around the corner from me… I’m thinking about staking out the office just to get a glimpse and an autograph from Abu (could be a collector’s item shortly).
Oh, the irony!
Abu could take some lessons from Fitz.
Who am I kidding?Abu isn’t fit to shine Fitz’s shoes.
brendancalling @ 4
U.S. launches show of force in Persian Gulf
Aircraft carriers, warplanes feature in
maneuvers off the coast of Iran
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17810017/
Can Ms. Goodling assert her 5th amendment right against self-incrimination and refuse to testify about her role, and the role of others at the White House and at the Department of Justice, regarding the US Attorney firings?
First, it doesn’t allow you to refuse to testify about matters which involve the commission of possible crimes by others. Put another way, to the extent you are being asked questions regarding the actions of others, and not about your own actions, your 5th Amendment privilege to refuse to testify does not apply.
The one exception to this rule is where your testimony about another person would also invariably incriminate yourself, as well. For example, consider a criminal conspiracy where the actions of each participant in the conspiracy are imputed to the other conspirators. In that case, one could arguably assert the right against self-incrimination with respect to testimony about any of the other alleged conspirators, particularly if that testimony would allow the government to identify you as a member of the conspiracy.
continued
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/27/7153/12598
Last night Joe Scarborough sounded positively giddy when talking about the possibility of a US attack against Iran.
Someone mentioned Gulf of Tonkin.
Let’s all remember the 80’s. The US shot down an Iranian passenger jet because they mistook it for a fighter plane.
A few weeks later the Iraqis took out the Vincennes with an exocet missile.
More traffic, more games, more risk.
Upping the ante is the name of the game.
-GSD
And Good morning Mrs. Redd Hedd, I hope all is well in your neck of the woods.
kdh22 @ 9
And the U.S. and the British want to attack Iran.
I can hear it now: It depends on what the meaning of ‘mediocre’ is.
freedom toast, right ?
OT: But again, best wishes to Tony Snow and his family. I’m just heartsick at the news. Cancer really sucks.
On topic: Apparently they will be covering the news conference with Alberto and Fitz live on Chicago TV. Boy, would I love to watch THAT.
OK and angie -
iran situation does seem to be heating up.
i am now kicking myself for not asking my rep WHEN we would have the iran stand alone bill on iran.
cbl at 21 — You have no idea how I dithered this morning about using a lovely photo of some french toast, for just that reason.
mwahahahaha…
Will he show?
Project Safe Childhood was getting publicity on the local ABC affiliate last Friday evening, including interview with the local USA. This is doubtless a well orchestrated campaign around the radar nationwide. Unfortunately for Gone-zo and Co, it’s not getting the diversionary traction they were aiming for.
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Sending caring thoughts to Tony Snow and his fmaily. Tough times cancer survivors live with. May he find serenity and marvelous healers to sustain him. And stay away from the bad stress–not a good mix with cancer.
annx - do you know which channel ? I have WGN News @ Noon tivo’d but would hate to miss it in real time on line somewhere
This whole thing is gonna get worse before it gets better: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/n.....E_ID=54861
EPU’d from last thread:
What a beautiful place is Firedoglake. One day we’re calling Tony Snow a complete lapdog and a tool (when he more than deserves the verbal abuse), but when real life intrudes with devastating news we could not be more compassionate.
Strength and hope flowing to Mr. Snow and his family.
Ditto, add my best wishes for Tony Snow and his family.
I wish the very best for Tony Snow and his family, along with the respect due to anyone who is his situation.
French toast and freedom fries. Yum yum. And some of Christy’s coffee.
“pops” or “props”?
Or littleprops? [lhp]
selise @ 23
Not to worry. Secretary of State Rice has everything under control.
AP - Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to meet every two weeks to discuss day-to-day issues, in a quickening diplomatic pace that eventually could spur talks on a final peace settlement, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Tuesday.
I am curious as to how gonzo reacts when he sees a real prosecutor who actually knows and understands the law and the role of gov’t…
This news of Tony Snow’s cancer is so sad. I hope the outlook for him is positive. Cancer is just so nasty. I know first-hand, second-hand, too.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 19
Oh yeah, they’ve had that hard-on for some time now.
[Mod Note: zig alert]
Last night I started to write up some of what Tanya Erzen said at the presentation she gave at my church the other night, which was about the two years she spent studying the “ex-gay” movement and how it fits into the agenda of the “Christian right”. But, man, was some of that stuff depressing and anger-inducing. So I decided to share some other things first, which fit in with the notion of churches (and individuals) practicing “radical welcome“.
I’ve written more about that here.
Click here to read Now *that’s what I call “good news”!
With little kids as props, I’m sure that the Preznit would feel a real pull to dress like SpongeBob.
OT– Feinstein tying FBI to the personnel decisions at DOJ…says she may have to bring the special agents in. Mueller says they were told not to talk with the media…Grants that Congress has authority to call them in.
epu’d– Oh and Nancy?? Where’s the promised stand alone legislation wrt Iran?
Oh, how far we’ve come from the day that Attorneys General had integrity. I keep thinking back to how Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus resigned in protest instead of firing Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. I have come to one conclusion: that whoever testified that dismissals of the eight USAs was for performance reasons was absolutely telling the truth. They wouldn’t perform as puppets in the scenarios designed for them. So, of course, Repug doctrine dictates that the strings had to be cut. Only the doctrinaire should be allowed to serve at the pleasure of the President. Goes to show that the old adage is true: power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. If this isn’t a case of Abuse of Power, I don’t know what is.
I have a cancer question. A small growth was discovered last year in Snow’s lower right pelvic area, and it was removed on Monday. With his history, why wasn’t it removed much sooner?
Re; the ‘exercise’ in the Persian Gulf.
To;
Our Generals, Commanders, Officers and Enlisted, PLEASE, PLEASE don’t allow Bush/Israel to push ‘us’ into War again. This one we won’t win and it will destroy everything we hold dear..
The only thing that will solve the oppression of Palestinian people will be to give them a homeland and for the U.S. and the rest of the world to treat these people with the same dignity and respect with which we treat the Jewish people.
Sorry to hear that about Tony Snow, and having small children at that - both my parents had died of pancreatic cancer by the time I was 35 years old. Trust me, its heart-wrenching. My best thoughts to people like the Snows and the Edwardses.
Badwater at 41 — I was under the impression that teh growth was a more recent discovery at a routine follow-up appointment for him. I didn’t think much time had elapsed between the discovery and the surgery, based on his statement at the briefing the other day.
As MSNBC explains it:
The transcript for Monday’s Hardball is not up yet but if you go here:
click on:
HARDBALL VIDEO
• Vilsack supports Clinton;
sit through a thirty second commercial; and then go to 1:52 you’ll hear Chris Matthews cut off Mrs. Vilsack as she was praising Hillary Clinton’s experience.
I guess all that MSNBC stuff about the meaning of “off the record” and “on background” only applies to Republican sources.
[Mod Note: please take care to close your blockquotes, thanks]
The late Richardson and Rukelelshaus. Two who give lawyers a good name.
jackie @ 29
Agreed. I wouldn’t wish cancer on anybody. (But understand, Tony, that my contempt for the job you do and the way you do it remains unsubsided.)
Christy@45 - On Yahoo, the AP story says that it was discovered last year.
I remember reading a discussion yesterday about Monica Goodling (maybe at kos?) - the poster could not find any information about her ever having passed the bar - at least under the name “Goodling.”
Anybody know if she’s been married or divorced since she got her position at DOJ?
Wouldn’t she have had to pass the bar for her DOJ position?
Some were wondering about that “Messiah” religious right college and its ability to prepare any of its students to go out in the world and actually practice law - maybe its only purpose is producing ideal candidates for republican political appointments.
Anybody know anything about this Monica Goodling’s credentials?
fyi - Chicago Broadcast Networks links
ABC News Affiliate
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CBS News Affiliate
Get well, Tony! Best wishes. Hope everything comes out all right.
You are so much more entertaining than Scotty.
My typos are terrible this am. Sorry Mr. Ruckelshaus
Lou Costello @27:
This was covered a few threads ago, Corsi is the Swift Boat author, so beware, also see emptywheel’s take at Last Hurrah website.
Seems Corsi is trying to tip the perception of gonzales as he tours the country on his “protect the children” theme.
Consensus here seems to be that Bush Co is throwing him under the bus, along with McNulty,(by selectively leaking email to ABC) and Libby, who has already been caught under the wheel.
IMHO, best not to propogate the Corsi story.
Please pass the syrup.
I always hope that when someone aweful gets a life threatening disease, that that person will “see the light” so to speak and realize what’s really important in life is truthfulness, honesty, and love and living one’s life by those measures.
Unfortunatly, it didn’t happen to Arlen Specter.
McClatchy on Goodling
doesn’t mention where, if anywhere, she passed the bar
leslie @ 16
pastor john hagee’s heart is expanding at the thought of burning iranians like a cantelope injected with cyanide
okay this will probably be deleted. and i run the risk of being labelled a small person.
but if leni reifenstahl had been diagnosed with a severe illness just prior to completing the ‘brilliant but evil’ Triumph of the Will how appropriate would it have been for Hitler’s political opponents to wish her ‘healing and godspeed?’
Maybe Bush can “convert” all of his current problems:
Taking a page from the Big Dawg: compartmentalizing.
leslie @ 16
It was Rosie O’Donnell who mentioned the Gulf of Tonkin, in a clip from the View. Scarborough derided her comments. Paraphrase: “Since when is she an expert on foreign policy?”
We do not have enough woman and man power to fight in Iraq, let alone Iran. So the only option is bombs. Ah… but what kind of bombs and missiles?
Here’s the latest from Waxman:
On Wednesday, March 28 at 10:00 a.m., the Oversight Committee will hold a hearing to inquire about allegations that GSA Administrator Lurita Doan failed to follow proper procedures for awarding federal contracts, attempted to intervene in contract negotiations, and engaged in partisan political activities on federal property.
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1224
Oklahoma kiddo @
3
Are you refering to this? http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....131442/082 with particular regard to this http://www.inteldaily.com/… ?
There seems a high probability of intel fingerprints there. Someone is worried and wants intel made public. All the best…….
Christy Hardin Smith @ 45
The latest news I heard was that it had spread to his liver. I think that means it has metasticized. This does not look like a good prognosis. So sorry he has to go thru all that. We make fun of the Snow job a lot, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t have true sympathy for him and his family, or that we don’t wish him well, which I think we all do.
I’m thinking Fitz would really like to tell Abu what he thinks but he’s smart enough to let his record speak for itself.
I’m also thinking he is really going to enjoy watching the dismantleing of a complete tool.
I’m afraid the news is not good for Tony Snow. His cancer has spread to his liver. See the recommended diary at DKos.
We are very moved, Tony. We wish only the best for you and your family.
To the Mods: my bad! I’ll clean it up.
Lou Costello and others . . .
bwaahaaahaaa ! Corsi is on Abu on behalf of the Tancredo and Sensenbrenner factions - they’re po’d about the 2 Border Guards in jail - a lot like when conservates banged on Nixon about Watergate when in fact they were actually pissed about him going to China
a source of no small personal amusement for me in this unfolding story - the usual suspects (Lowry, et al) are coming out against Abu as they have in the past O’Neil, Clarke, eventually Rummy - the whole time thinking they are carrying WH water - whereas in this case the WH does not want him receiving the usual slime - their own Frankenstein hurting their case - mwaaahaahaaa!
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 60
As someone aptly noted at DailyKos, cancer is bi-partisan. No one deserves it, it is part of the human condition. As progressives we care for the human, even if we do not care for their actions.
Besides, there is both room and a need to appreciate the “loyal opposition”; would that the opposition actually grok that point.
Early morning check-in, because I find this news so stupifying.
Good to know that Abu Gonzales is busy hiding-behind-the-children on a day when many teachers across America make less than some bank tellers.
At what point in his sanctimonious comments about The Importance of Protecting Children can I expect Abu Gonzales be Photo Op’d holding that dead celebrity’s daughter? Cause hey, I wouldn’t want to miss it!
it is heartening to see Abu Gonzales preparing for a future Law School teaching career — perhaps he’ll be qualified to offer a seminar on The Fundamentals of Photo Op Opportunism?
Constitutional Law… not so much.
While they’re at it, maybe they can ask Gonzalez about the progress of the Mark Foley and the Congressional pages investigation.
cbl @ 56
hmmm…I looked on the ABA site and didn’t see anything - I would assume if she was performing any sort of legal work for DOJ she’d have to have passed the DC bar, or at least SOME state bar- but if she was merely an advisor or spokesperson, maybe not? I mean, you’d hope there’d be some standards, but do any of our lawyer folk (Christy) know for sure?
EPU’ed from prev thread:
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GSD @ 94
From Free Republic.
“We are getting dangerously near the point where the Democrats might attempt a military coup and take over the White House and Congress.
Mercenary troops from Pakistan or Norway or some other Blue-helmet soldiers would have to be imported, but it is a very real possibility.
I am perfectly serious.”
If you see a battalion of blonde haired, blue eyed soldiers wearing blue helmuts coming your way, batten down the hatches, the coup has begun.
-GSD
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My first reaction is to recall that the normal modus operandi of wingnuts is projection — i.e., the imputation of one’s own perceptions and motivations to others, particularly (in political contexts) one’s enemies. In that light, imho wingnuts are in the process of preparing and then declaring a fascist monarchy.
To enforce this, they appear to have been marshaling deputized Blackwater mercenaries as a sort of brown-shirted praetorian guard, whose helmets are (presumably) not blue.
And they hate it that (because of the incompetence and corruption of this “Administration” that will explode before dictatorship can be consummated) that this vision is dissolving before their eyes. So they twist it around and project it out on us.
1,467 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen oklahoma kiddo and the Firepup Patriots:
If the USA bombs Iran before Great Britan gets her sailors back, we will lose the Brits completely and Tony Blair will be toast and Brown will be hard pressed to survive also…I don’t think the Bush administration survives 1 month after bombing Iran in this case.
KEEP THE FAITH, NO FEAR AND NO COMPROMISE!!!
S.O.S. from MA @
73
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My first reaction is to recall that the normal modus operandi of wingnuts is projection — i.e., the imputation of one’s own perceptions and motivations to others, particularly (in political contexts) one’s enemies. In that light, imho wingnuts are in the process of preparing and then declaring a fascist monarchy.
To enforce this, they appear to have been marshaling deputized Blackwater mercenaries as a sort of brown-shirted praetorian guard, whose helmets are (presumably) not blue.
And they hate it that (because of the incompetence and corruption of this “Administration” that will explode before dictatorship can be consummated) that this vision is dissolving before their eyes. So they twist it around and project it out on us.
If Bush thinks he has an insurgency on his hands in Iraq, try martial law in America enforced by mercs.
It’ll never work.
-GSD
The question is: Will Gonzo survive until next week?
I hope Fitz gets the last laugh in this USA firings scandal.
More good news for us:
White House prods justices into retail arena
By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer
3:06 PM PDT, March 26, 2007
WASHINGTON — Bush administration lawyers urged the Supreme Court today to repeal a nearly 100-year-old rule that bars manufacturers from fixing the retail prices of their products.
They argued that the rigid rule makes it harder for companies to market their products with special displays in retail stores.
But several justices said a repeal would hurt consumers and lead to higher prices. It could mean that “every American will pay far more for the goods they buy,” said Justice Stephen G. Breyer, citing examples ranging from jeans to drugs. Why, he asked, should the court run that risk?
So manufacturers should be allowed to set prices to whatever they want, and the consumer gets scr*wed again. Way to go, guys. (Read that second paragraph a couple of times. Does that make sense? When was the last time you were in a store that didn’t have special product displays?)
Kinda reminds me of the song from the 70’s, Won’t You please come to Chicago.
I don’t know a lot about medical matters, but perhaps stem cell research, if begun in earnest about seven years ago would help cancer victims today.
personally, I think US statements about the British Sailors being solely “a British problem” is the usual catty, petty payback for the Brits announcing their withdrawal from Iraq, just as the Chimp was introducing his shiny new surge
SOS_MA ~ Talkin’ about projection: Tom Delay
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gm....._like.html
EPU’d from thread below:
Again, I think it’s a maneuver to buy some time for behind-the-scenes negotiations.
Yes, BUT. . .if you are Pat Leahy, before you give anybody any immunity, wouldn’t you have to weigh which is better realpolitiks–actually getting Moncia Goodling’s truthful testimony that, we assume, she was instructed by (1)Harriet Miers (?); (2) Abu Gonzo(?); (3) Karl Rove(?)to “misinform” Paul McNulty so as to cause him to purposefully mislead Congess and frustrate their oversight responsibilities, OR having Goodling and others at DOJ all claim their 5th privilege when subpoenaed to Congress to talk about the circumstances of the firings? Now you’ve got the world talking about how the highest levels of the Bush Adminsitration US DOJ-charged with the responsibilities of prosecuting and enforcing federal criminal laws– are all claiming they realistically believe themselves to be criminals!!! I think if I’m Pat Leahy I’m going to enjoy all those claims of 5th A privilege for awhile before anybody gets immunity.
I have some immediate experience re: the metastasis of colon cancer to the liver.
Sometimes the barium scan does not show the kind of “heat” that comes from cancer. They may have some suspicions that the cancer is growing based on blood readings and such, but the mass may not clearly come up as cancer. So they watch it.
Sometimes exploratory surgery, as Snow had, is what determines that the cancer is active again.
The cancer in the liver can be cut out, and the liver will re-generate.
Chemo and radiation should follow. Particularly if one is young.
It is a battle. Cancer sucks, as they say at M.D. Anderson.
Maybe Katie can interview him.
Ach, it was such fun dissing Tony Snow (with good cause). And now . . . 180 degrees of separation. Best wishes for health and healing, Mr. S.
Maybe the WH will appoint Katie Couric to stand in for him. You see? I can’t help myself.
Even Nancy Reagan, mega conservative, has a distaste for those who work and propagandize on behalf of anti-stem cell research zealots.
So instead of Swiftboating, perhaps a new term is needed.
Perhaps “Pulled a Katie” in honor of her accession to to the top of crap heap.
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Citizen oklahoma kiddo and the Firepup Patriots:
With everything comin’ down domestically, with the Iraq surge apparently runnin’ outta steam and the saber-rattling over Iran, it would seem a good time to ask where our military lines up if the Chimpenfeurer tries ta invoke the Patriot Act martial law clause. I think we’re lookin’ at a Nixon situation here…the military would refuse.
KEEP THE FAITH AND KEEP THE CHILDREN INDOORS, THIS THING IS MOVIN’ PRETTY FAST!!
We know all too well that cancer is not political.
I wish him and his family all the best.
I don’t understand why the cigarette case isn’t being given a lot more traction. According to several interviews with Sharon Eubanks, the lead prosecutor, the DOJ micromanaged her case and cost the taxpayers hundreds of billions of bucks, in favor of their corporate masters. Is this not illegal? It’s almost like throwing a fight would be to a fighter. They let her win, but not by much comparatively. Leahy said he has never heard of a prosecutor who was given a script for a closing statement and told to read it verbatim. Isn’t this where the beef is?
Yes, but what about the global south?
Millineryman @ 86
Couric always struck me as the “perky,” hyena-laughing, back-stabbing member of the high-school cheerleader entourage.
Oklahoma kiddo @
14
U.S. launches show of force in Persian Gulf
Aircraft carriers, warplanes feature in
maneuvers off the coast of Iran
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17810017/
I can see it all now…
“Well if they fire one, we’ll fire one.
Fire one. Aye…”
tommy yum @ 89
Well that certainly sounds reasonable. I would never have thought of that.
tommy yum @ 92
That about sums it up.
tommy yum @ 93
Heather.
Lou Costello @ 81
Give that man $100, he said the secret woid!! :) Got that one right, bro :) What a loathsome bugman he still is. Why he gets media time (like Coulter, Goldberg, D’Souza… …) while we DFHippies get dribs and drabs is beyond me.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:51 am
cbl at #68 says:
To tell you the truth, I’m not tickled about the two border guards in prison either. Can’t remember if that was ever covered here. Don’t know which of the USAs is responsible for putting them in prison, but it sure appeared like a miscarriage of justice to me. If I were the other border guards, I’d be looking for other employment.
Anyone hear the comment last night about Gonzo from the guy on Hardball (can’t remember his name) that he’s not the kinda lawyer you’d even hire to do your real estate closing?! COL.
Ann in AZ @ 90
It’s all part of the same story, I think - the purchase of the government by big business (oil, tobacco, defense contractors, etc.) and the alignment of all departments of government, including DOJ, to the service of same. And part of the mission of government, in the Bush ideology, is to perpetuate its hold on power by any means necessary, both legal and scummy (questioning Dem’s patriotism), unethical and scummy (the tobacco case), and downright illegal (interfering with the decisions of USA’s based on an agenda to criminalize your opposition or using the threat of prosectuion to depress voter turnout.
In Watergate, everything was about protecting the covert ops. Here, everything is about perpetuating power with every tool available.
Geez, now I need a tinfoil hat.
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 59
I would like to visit Iran, but it will remain a dream. Such beautiful photos here:
http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
Re: cancer.
Elizabeth said it best. From the “famous” 60 Minutes interview, with Katie cutie pressing:
OT..But this is not good.
“Two US carriers in Gulf war games for first time since 2003
AFP
Published: Tuesday March 27, 2007
The US Navy said on Tuesday it is staging major war games in the Gulf with two aircraft carriers for the first time since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, at a time of heightened tension with Iran.”
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/T.....72007.html
I have read on several sites that the Iran war window opens in the third week in April. I guess this war game fits that prediction.
tommy yum @
8
I’d rather not.
NorskeFlamethrower @ 86
We have a winnah! Love it, will use it, with thanks (if not outright attribution) 2 U :)
portia.vz @ 67
Oh wow, I hate to hear that. I really do. Are we facing an epidemic, here? Is it just my imagination? I just can’t help but believe toxins in our environment are responsible for this. So many people I know who are not high-profile people, like Snow and Elizabeth Edwards, have also been affected. It really seems the rates are going up, but that’s just anecdotal of course. I have no stats on that.
The impression here, and ‘impression’ is all it is, is that if Bush orders an attack on Iran the military will do it. I don’t really think Bush gives a whatever about Blair. But I could be wrong on this. ;0)
OT - A proposal to share FDL with a broader audience.
Small and medium-sized city newspapers are often starved for content and will publish just about every letter to the editor they get.
I think it would be very effective if FDL readers in small and medium-sized towns across the country wrote their local newspapers a letter to the editor specifically mentioning and endorsing Fire Dog Lake, maybe by tying FDL to a specific current event that is of popular interest.
What an incredible and powerful way for FDL to gain new readers across the country, and thereby build its voice and influence!
There is nothing like one local citizen telling another about something important. Word of mouth is perhaps the single greatest persuader of all. And, through the FDL readership, we have that in abundance. Letters to the editors would be a highly effective way of leveraging this fact.
So, I humbly propose a Fire Dog Lake local letter to the editor introduction project.
Thoughts?
From the famous 60 Minutes interview. Katie teaches Edwards a thing or two about politics: