should have it’s own version of Pravda, and here in the US, it’s the FOx network: LATimes
“If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any god -” she said when the sound went dead and the camera suddenly turned away from the stage so viewers would be distracted. Chopped off were the words “god-damned wars in the first place.” (The phrase was not censored in the Canadian telecast.)
“This belongs to all the mothers of the world – may they be seen and valued,” she added when she won best actress in a drama series for her work as matriarch Nora Walker on “Brothers & Sisters.” While the two-time Oscar winner already has two Emmys, this was her first nomination for series work, and she bested a field that included favorite Edie Falco of “The Sopranos.”
Backstage, in the press room later, Field told reporters, “I would have liked to have said more four-letter words up there!
Because of course, Fox doesn’t want it’s viewers to realize there’s a war on…
The estranged wife of billionaire and newspaper owner Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh banking heir turned media mogul, was awarded $725,000 a month in temporary support during their acrimonious divorce, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Sunday…
…A judge may also have to decide whether the $20 million to $30 million a year she claims he spends to support the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review constitutes a business loss, as he contends, or spending on a hobby, as she sees it.
Yep, that’s $20 to 30 million a year on a “hobby” that is part of the mighty GOP wurlitzer.
Comment of Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt, Chairman Senate Judiciary Committee, on Bush’s Selection of Michael Mukasey
“The Judiciary Committee will approach consideration of the nomination of an Attorney General in a serious and deliberate fashion. The Administration took months determining that a change in leadership was needed at the Department of Justice and then the President spent several weeks before making a nomination. Our focus now will be on securing the relevant information we need so we can proceed to schedule fair and thorough hearings. Cooperation from the White House will be essential in determining that schedule.
“The next Attorney General needs to be someone who can begin the process of restoring the Department of Justice to its proper mission. I am hopeful that once we obtain the information we need and we have had the opportunity to consider the nomination, we will be able to make progress in this regard.”
apparently they already figured Leahy would do that: TPM
Bush threw an unexpected change-up in his announcement this morning. Towards the end of his remarks about his nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, he also said that outgoing Justice Department official Peter Keisler would serve as the acting attorney general until Mukasey is confirmed.
The administration had said that Solicitor General Paul Clement would serve as the acting attorney general. But Keisler, who announced his retirement from the Department two weeks ago, will apparently stick around in his stead.
That’s a move likely to provoke Democrats, who had been signaling that they’d block Keisler’s pending nomination to the D.C. Court of Appeals. Keisler was first nominated in last year and was renominated this year. Only this May, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) warned that Keisler’s nomination was “controversial.” As a result, Keisler will now be in the odd position as acting attorney general of having to deal with the Democrats who are holding up his still-pending nomination.
Does not change the hymnal….Imho, the issue of Acting AG seems to be that Solicitor General Paul Clement thought he had a good faith promise from Bush to act as AG until confirmation of nominee. Looks like Clement got snookered.
from day one, WH knew, they’d encounter a delay by Dems to confirm unless docs were forthcoming. The Dems, including Leahy, made that abundantly clear.
Today The Hill reports Schumer as stating “There are concerns about those documents”..We’re not dropping those concerns but hopefully they can be a sit down where an agreement is reached maybe as part and parcel of a Mukasey confirmation”
Who acts as AG was always part of the picture…and since Bush intends to run out the clock on All things that matters, we may have an Acting AG into Jan.’09.
We’ll soon see if there’s gelatin or bone meal in Dems spine.
A week ago today, Gen. David H. Petraeus started his rounds on Capitol Hill, reporting that security in Iraq was improving to the point that a small number of troops could begin coming home by year’s end.
But 10 days ago, his commanders in Baghdad began advertising for private contractors to work in combat-supply warehouses on U.S. bases throughout Iraq because half the soldiers who had been working in the warehouses were needed for patrols, combat and protection of U.S. forces.
“With the increased insurgent activity, unit supply personnel must continue to pull force protection along with convoy escort and patrol duties,” according to a statement of work that accompanied the Sept. 7 request for bidders from Multi-National Force-Iraq.
(emphasis added)
we keep overlooking the role of the private-contractor-army in Iraq. Last I read, the figure was over 100,000.
Just goes to show we have a broken government running a broken army. We’re freaking doomed!
· ElBaradei calls for need to heed lessons from Iraq
· French foreign minister says world must brace for war
· Iranian president talks of peace with US
The head of the UN’s nuclear agency today warned against increasing “hype” towards war with Iran, saying countries should heed the lessons of the build-up to the Iraq conflict.
The strongly worded comments by Mohamed ElBaradei, who leads the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), follow a warning by the French foreign minister that the world should brace itself for a possible war with Iran.
“We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war,” Bernard Kouchner told French TV and radio.
The Minneapolis airport toilet where US senator Larry Craig was arrested for allegedly soliciting gay sex is now attracting tourists, say airport staff.
“People are taking pictures,” Karen Evans, an information officer at Minneapolis-St Paul international airport, told Associated Press.
Mr Craig, a Republican from Idaho, pleaded guilty in August to disorderly conduct over the toilet incident.
He now says the plea was a mistake and is trying to have it withdrawn.
I should add that I saw a reference to this story on a Norwegian news site this morning. The headline was “Larry Craig vurderer å bli sittende” – that literally translates to “Larry Craig considers to remain sitting” (it is a deliberate pun; the sentence would normally simply be understood as “that he would remain in his (congressional) seat”.
Jim Webb’s bill that would give the troops more time at home, not a good idea according to the SecDef:
On Fox News Sunday this morning, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he would recommend that the President veto the bill should it pass. “Yes, I would,” said Gates when asked by host Chris Wallace, calling it a “well-intentioned idea” that would “pose greater risk to our troops”:
GATES: I think that it’s a well-intentioned idea. I think it’s really, pretty much, a back door effort to get the President to accelerate the drawdown, so that it’s an automatic kind of thing rather than based on the conditions in Iraq, with all the consequences that I talked about earlier. I think, if as I believe, the President would never approve such a bill. It would mean, if it were enacted, we would have force management problems that would be extremely difficult and in fact create, I think affect combat effectiveness, and perhaps pose greater risk to our troops.
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Baghdad, Iraq : Iraqis fill a container with filthy water from the Diyala river. According to the WHO the cholera outbreak in northern Iraq has infected some 16,000 people since late August, of whom at least 10 have died.
Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rujaye/AFP via Guardian UK
Of course, this has been an ongoing threat since shortly after the initial invasion: WHO warns of Iraq cholera outbreak via Guardian UK, 8 may 2003.
shock and awe: the gift that keeps on giving. after 4 1/2 years very little of the water and sewage facilities that were destroyed in the initial phases of “the war”…considered a war crime, btw…are seriously jeapardizing the health of the population:
WHO: Cholera Cases in Iraq Keep Rising
The Associated Press
Friday, September 14, 2007
BAGHDAD — The number of suspected cholera cases in northern Iraq continues to rise, with 16,000 people now showing symptoms, the World Health Organization said Friday.
As of Sept. 10, 6,000 have been reported with symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting in the province of Sulaimaniyah, another 7,000 in Tamim province, and 3,000 in Irbil province, the WHO said in a statement.
As of 12th of September 2007, twenty-three districts of Northern Iraq have reported laboratory-confirmed cases of cholera. All the sixteen districts of Sulaymaniyah governorate, all five districts of Kirkuk governorate and two out of seven districts of Erbil governorate are now affected by this cholera outbreak.
This outbreak, first unfolded in Kirkuk province on 14 August spread to Sulaymaniyah governorate on 23 August and then to Erbil governorate on 6th of September. The outbreak has so far caused 10 deaths and continues to be a major threat to public health in the region. Over 3.4 million people living in these areas are presumed to be exposed to this epidemic risk.
Compassionate Conservatism at it’s finest. l guess that’s why the Oil Law is the number 1 priority…and l’m sure Halliburton/KBR, etal, have the contract for bottled water.
should have it’s own version of Pravda, and here in the US, it’s the FOx network: LATimes
Because of course, Fox doesn’t want it’s viewers to realize there’s a war on…
Richard Scaife would get a new hobby: E&P
Yep, that’s $20 to 30 million a year on a “hobby” that is part of the mighty GOP wurlitzer.
Bush ‘picks new US legal chief’
no rush to confirm, says Senator Patrick Leahy, we need to receive….those subpoenaed documents?
Hmmmmm. Bush, you gotta play ball.
Pull up a chair. Grab some popcorn.
apparently they already figured Leahy would do that: TPM
Snookered again.
Does not change the hymnal….Imho, the issue of Acting AG seems to be that Solicitor General Paul Clement thought he had a good faith promise from Bush to act as AG until confirmation of nominee. Looks like Clement got snookered.
from day one, WH knew, they’d encounter a delay by Dems to confirm unless docs were forthcoming. The Dems, including Leahy, made that abundantly clear.
Today The Hill reports Schumer as stating “There are concerns about those documents”..We’re not dropping those concerns but hopefully they can be a sit down where an agreement is reached maybe as part and parcel of a Mukasey confirmation”
Who acts as AG was always part of the picture…and since Bush intends to run out the clock on All things that matters, we may have an Acting AG into Jan.’09.
We’ll soon see if there’s gelatin or bone meal in Dems spine.
I am SO not looking forward to the next 15 months or so of running-out-the-clock-so this-mess-gets-inherited-by-the-next-guy gehavior from BushCo.
Iraq shootout firm loses licence
The cynic in me asks; how long before the Iraqi authorities are forced to re-issue this license.
The cynic in me wondered what government would enforce the revocation of the license…
True dat.
Agree, it’s highly unlikely and a recind will come because of this:
Via TPM – Walter Pincus highlights
we keep overlooking the role of the private-contractor-army in Iraq. Last I read, the figure was over 100,000.
Just goes to show we have a broken government running a broken army. We’re freaking doomed!
UN nuclear boss warns warmongers over Iran
May enough people listen this time, but I’m not feeling very hopeful today.
Larry Craig toilet ‘tourist site’
I should add that I saw a reference to this story on a Norwegian news site this morning. The headline was “Larry Craig vurderer å bli sittende” – that literally translates to “Larry Craig considers to remain sitting” (it is a deliberate pun; the sentence would normally simply be understood as “that he would remain in his (congressional) seat”.
Jim Webb’s bill that would give the troops more time at home, not a good idea according to the SecDef:
So the BushCo™ position’s really quite clear, if the military’s broken, it must be the congress’ fault…
lTMF’sA
Iranian state television airs their version of Schindler’s List. Will the wingnuts’ heads explode?
Baghdad, Iraq : Iraqis fill a container with filthy water from the Diyala river. According to the WHO the cholera outbreak in northern Iraq has infected some 16,000 people since late August, of whom at least 10 have died.
Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rujaye/AFP via Guardian UK
Of course, this has been an ongoing threat since shortly after the initial invasion: WHO warns of Iraq cholera outbreak via Guardian UK, 8 may 2003.
shock and awe: the gift that keeps on giving. after 4 1/2 years very little of the water and sewage facilities that were destroyed in the initial phases of “the war”…considered a war crime, btw…are seriously jeapardizing the health of the population:
and from WHO, 16 sep 2007 report:
Compassionate Conservatism at it’s finest. l guess that’s why the Oil Law is the number 1 priority…and l’m sure Halliburton/KBR, etal, have the contract for bottled water.
lTMF’sA
Gingrich advises: [Republicans need “clean break” from Bushh.ttp://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1446262920070914]
Not just Republicans!
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/sep2007/gb20070914_343931.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily
So it starts in England.
Even more
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Business/2007/9/17/britons_withdraw_billions_in_bank_run.html