Month: October 2005

Oy. It was discouraging to read “The Lies Peddled On Sunday Shows And How Democrats & Liberals Play Into Them” at Pre$$titutes, via the Daou Report:

Chuck Schumer on Meet The Press: “Bush, say whatever you want about him, does not back away from a fight.” Thanks Chuck, keep inflating your own opponent.

Howard Dean, bless his heart, appeared on This Week and continued to fumble and stumble on the Iraq question, playing into the narrative that Democrats are incoherent on Iraq. Can’t he just flat out say it was illegal and immoral and the sooner we end this catastrophic misadventure the better? Why legitimize the so-called “political process,” a process by which Iran is gradually tightening its grip on Iraq? Dean rambled on about how our position should be contingent on the success (or lack thereof) of the Iraqi electoral process. Isn’t that Bush’s line?

My favorite line from today’s Meet the Press: “The politics of the war were taken more seriously by this administration than the war itself.” (George Packer) … OPEN THREAD:

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I am talking about the post-earthquake horror in Pakistan.

I can’t say which is worse: embarrassment and shame that I haven’t blogged this yet? Or embarrassment and shame that virtually nobody in the blogosphere has written a single thing about this.

But worse than embarrassment or shame is the horrible situation in Pakistan, where tens of thousands have died, and tens of thousands more, including children, still have not received any aid.

Let’s look at the facts:

50,000 dead, maybe more, many of whom were children, who were in school at the moment the quake hit.

10,000 more children are facing imminent death due to injury, infection, disease, starvation, dehydration, exposure to the sub-zero temperatures at night. 120,000 children are at risk.

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Some comments today in the FBC and recently in other diaries about where we live and how we feel about it have prompted me to write this diary.
Are you happy about where you live right now or do you have nostalgia about a previous place of residence and feel your life would be perfect if you could only live there.. Do you wish you lived where some of our members do and have shared with us in their gorgeous pics.  I admit it’s hard not to wish to live in some of these beautiful locations.
Anyway that got me to thinking about how I feel about where I live, which to be specific is Santa Ana, Ca. in Orange Co. south of Los Angeles.

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Right-wing bloggers Michelle Malkin and Little Green Footballs have launched vicious attacks by claiming that we on the left, who they refer to as “ghouls”, are planning “parties” when the US casualty rate from the war in Iraq reaches 2000.

Via LGF:

The American Friends Service Committee is planning to hold a series of parties all across the country when the 2000th US soldier is killed in Iraq: Not One More Death. Not One More Dollar.

Malkin:

They support the troops…by partying over their deaths.

Sick.

But it’s par for the course.

I’ll tell you what’s sick and ghoulish, you ignorant fucking right-wing liars: linking to the American Friends Service Committee site which is calling for people to hold candlelight vigils and protests the day after the death toll reaches 2000 in order to show support for the troops and calling those events “parties”.

We shouldn’t be surprised by these slimy right-wing bloggers though. They’ll obviously do anything to support their dear leader and his warmongering – including disrespecting the soldiers who have died and the friends and families who mourn them.

You want a fucking party? Just wait until your beloved administration goes down in flames, and it is going down – make no mistake about that. Then we’ll show you what a real party is and you and your kind can go slithering back to the swamp from whence you came.

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Thank you all for your wonderful participation yesterday. (LINK: to yesterday’s discussion of BAYOU FAREWELL by Mike Tidwell)
Now we know how we got here, to a place where Katrina could devastate the coast. Let’s use this diary to continue our discussion of the book and especially to talk about what happened to the coast during Katrina and what happens, or doesn’t, next.

Please bring any info you have found about post-Katrina and share your thoughts about the solutions.

And now, here’s Mike Tidwell writing after Katrina:

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