1. Thanks so much to David Parish for the Requiem for a Heavyweight DVD. Been meaning to watch this one for years but had forgotten about it until my recent “Twilight Zone” and “Night Gallery” marathons reminded me Serling had written other things, as well.
2. Stalwart conservative Andrew Sullivan finds “persuasive” (and, remarkably, new!) the Alex Jones video purporting to discredit the official version of events surrounding the Cheney hunting “accident.”
And, when told who Jones is—a 911 conspiracy theorist who believes “Globalists” attacked the WTC and blamed it on bin Laden (who, conveniently, admitted to it)— Sullivan, never content to cut his losses, writes:
It’s unfortunate that the guy is a crazed nut, but I’d still like to know why he’s wrong in this case. One reader argued that different shotguns, even of identical manufacture, can have different dispersement, a fact that would undermine Jones’ case. Maybe other readers can help debunk this theory – or not.
Well, see, here’s the thing: other people have debunked that ridiculous “scientific experiment.” But Sullivan—seeker of Truth, and the one REAL conservative remaining (well, except, say, Glenn Greenwald)—couldn’t be bothered to Google the filmmaker, or examine any of the myriad debunkings, before linking to a piece by a guy who thinks the Pentagon was attacked by a missile (the passengers on the plane “purported” to have hit the Pentagon were all spirited off to Cheney’s undisclosed location, evidently, where they no doubt enjoy free premium cable, unlimited hookers, and their choice of microbrews), that the 2004 elections were an orchestrated bit of political theater, and that the Skull and Bones are (like the Jews of yore) controlling the US economy through usurpation of government and banking.
Now, why doesn’t he bother to check up on this long-discredited bit of crazed conspiracy-mongering before running with it, you ask? Beats me. But if I had to guess, I’d say it’s because Andrew Sullivan cares more than you and I do about this nation. Which is why the current administration’s penchant for secrecy has forced him — HE HAS NO CHOICE, CAN’T YOU SEE?—to expect that behind every accident or misstep lies a dark conspiracy led by powerful men who can control time and space and gravity and dispersal patterns for birdshot (but who, ironically, cannot seem to keep the truth away from one Alex Jones, who of all men can pierce the grand facade).
So you see, it’s not his fault.
Bushco made him do it!
(h/t Allah and Karl; more from Soxblog, guest posting for Hugh Hewitt)
3. Tom Elia writes that UT academics (including Robert Jensen) are worried that US support for Israel is actually hurting Israelis. Which is why they are calling for the US “to suspend arms shipments to Israel, to call for an immediate cease-fire and to participate in an internationally brokered settlement arrived at by all parties at the negotiating table that is not pre-determined by the greater military strength of one party over another.”
The professors made their demands in an open letter to Secretary of State Condi Rice.
Interestingly, the letter doesn’t specify whether or not Hezbollah is allowed to fire rockets indiscriminately at Israeli civilians from the site of the peace talks. But I suppose that point, too, would be “negotiable.”
4. Ned Lamont—champion of the people powered movement!™ (used by permission of Townhouse / Jupiter ascendent) and scourge of big corporate villain Wal-Mart—is having a bad week, first with the Hamsher / blog thing, and now with the revelations that his family owns quite a bit of stock in Wal-Mart.
Oops!
Or, as they say in “progressives” circles, “quick, somebody scrub that and bury the evidence. Airbrush! WE NEED THE AIRBRUSH IN HERE, STAT!”
5. I’m tired. And worn down. And filled with rum. But on the bright side, its almost time for Happy Hour!
Wouldn’t surprise me if that is this week’s excuse for the non-perfomance of the dancing armadillo.
Two daquiris for the price of one? 151 for the price of 86? Whatever, you certainly deserve a happy week!
Cheers! [clink]
It’s Friday, so we’re all tired and worn down. Many of us aren’t yet filled with rum, though. So you may want to fish for sympathy elsewhere, bub.
(Glad to have you back, btw.)
Uhm…”Progressives” are the type of people that created ‘Loose Change’ right?
In case you haven’t seen this answer to the Moonbats…you really should.
http://hotair.com/archives/top-picks/2006/08/02/video-loose-change-director-chuckles-over-flight-93/
You know what would be a super cool feature a post such as this?
well I do, it would be a small inset window that could be opened to readers comments on Firedoglake.blog. MAN thats some funny stuff ya’ll.Jane Hamster apparantly has a case of the ‘Vapors’ or some such thing, after Michelle P’unkd her Moonbat ass with Photo/Video evidence of her involvement with the Nedermeir campaign and her Firedogs are trying to look the other way with hundreds and Hundreds of <KooKooo> post concerning Everything and Anything NOT pertaining to the BUSTATION their precious Hamster has suffered…
Anyways…That would be a cool feature, Time to slam a Sixer of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and enjoy all the puurty words.
Glad you’re back, too, and safe, and, umm, ascendent
TW: and not shut down by small creatures. except for, you know, it being Friday and all…
Can you please remove the image https://www.proteinwisdom.com/images/jeff2.jpg from your web page?
I don’t like it.
Thankyou.
I’m serious – it gives me a negative feeling about your website, kind of like the smell of enchiladas, or the taste of beets, or the feel of licking a paper napkin, or the sound of a mosquito buzzing.
I left a snail in the enthusiam punch bowl over at FDL:
“Soooooo butterfly’s in your stomach, should I go with the WalMart stock?. I mean if Ned swears by it who am I to question him?”
– See if I get any flame-belching. The butterfly reference is due to Hampsher being all atwitter. I’m assuming they’ve put up plenty of wall padding over at Lamont headquarters, in case things don’t go so well.
The only problem with your link idea is this -head in the sand, fingers in the ears, I can’t hear you – phenomenon is nothing new at the people-power-townhouse comment stream central. They dump their regulars if they don’t lick Hamshers ass, or you know, stray off TownHouse.
Big Bang…do your comment make it? I bet not. If it did it was zapped within seconds. She lets nothing disrupt the children in her playground.
If you are watching Jane Hamster squirm, it is happy hour. What do they put in the water in Hollywierd anyway? It puts the stuff lurking in Jeff’s couch to shame.
Left work early and sitting in a Mexican food restaurant while drinking beer/finishing up a little work/goofing off. Is this a great country, or what?
DID, not do
Yes…I think she’s off masterbating to Ned’s dreamy pic….
Topsecret9, the net Gestapo at FDL is impenetrable. I was over there giving the Hamster a bad time this morning and the stuff that wasn’t zapped was rewritten. I bashed Jesse Jerkson and my comment was transformed into, “Jesse Jackson certainly speaks for me” And under MY NAME. That means war.
FUCK JANE HAMSTER AT MUSTANG RANCH FOR $20.
Paper bags $5 ea. Or just have that ex-presidential satyr Bill Clinton do it.
I caught Alex Jones on the shortwave, a time or two. I recall one show where he had a very serious conversation with a caller about the conspiracy to numb our minds via the introduction of flouride into water supplies. Both concluded the conspiracy was real.
Sullivan will never live this one down, especially since Jones is not just a nut, he’s a famous nut.
HEH!
Yeah, makes her little WAPO comment jihad look more stupid than she actually is, doesn’t it?
It’s the fluoride that’s doing it? Great news, I’ll stop drinking water.
Honey, bring me a beer?
TW: perform. I hope to live long enough to see the lanky turtle imposter perform…
Mark,
What do you take me for?
I’ll do it for $40 and not a penny less, but you throw in the bag for free.
She’s paying right? Right?
Anyone who has ever shot a small-bore shotgun could tell Sullivan that Jones is full of crap. If I can put enough lead in a rabbit at 30 yards with a .410 to kill it, Cheney can certainly put the amount of lead in a lawyer that he did with a .28 gauge at roughly the same distance.
Maybe Hamsher will link to Sully and start up her “Cheney was drunk” nonsense again to attempt to deflect attention from her Photoshop debacle.
If that friggin’ panzer rat is off dancing for Cheney’s guests again, instead of entertaining us, I’m going to tell St. Cindy that one can eat a ‘dillo without breaking a fast….and then tell her where she can find one, all marinated and ready for dinner.
go balloons….go balloons…where the fuck are the balloons? GO WITH THE GODDAMNED BALLOONS!
TW: it ain’t a progressive party till Joe shows in blackface!
Like Cheney McHitlerburton didn’t use the shotgun on ‘em…
APOLOGIST!!!
tw: The passengers are as late as Sully’s brain.
Actually, I’m not so much tired as frustrated; I’ve got a project in the works on my truck and can’t do anything more on it until Monday at the earliest.
That makes this kind of a Bizarro truck project, y’know? Weird.
Also, in Hamsher’s case, it makes more sense to keep her away from the airbrush.
That may not be your truck McGehee. Could be my ex-MIL. She never did anything on weekends either except annoy me.
But wait, there’s more! This bit of Sully’s non-apology just leapt out at me:
Why is it unfortunate? Who thinks it unfortunate that Cheney may not be guilty of some sort of wrongdoing?
The sort who decides not to check on the debunking of the video, even after learning who Jones is.
The sort who wants to believe more than he wants to learn.
Sully might want to reread his own credo:
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”—George Orwell.
The Dancing ‘Dillo!
tw: increase …. hmmm … nope! Not in a million years.
tw: feet …. NO FAIR!
What a terrible dilemma Andy showed himself in . . .
either
a) He’s a hip, happenin’, plugged-in-to-the-’Net-kind-of-guy, or
b) He’s never heard of Alex Jones.
I mean, OOPSIE!!!
TW: Think (and Google) before you act, mon frere!
Yeh. they started chopping my posts with the second one:
“Dayum. 31K of WalMart stock. Ned. Say it isn’t true.”
After that dissapeared I posted:
“Any political cult that supress’s free speech is doomed. No way around it.”
That’s still up, if it even shows on other posters screens. The left is such a pile of fucking screaming phonies. I guess when you lose your ass so many times in a row you are desperate to resort to anything.
Alex Jones and his ilk are of a species I call skepticus ululus. They have replaced the human duty to be skeptical with a duty to howl with derision at every fact they don’t like, and offer their own completely made-up facts in their place.
where they no doubt enjoy free premium cable, unlimited hookers, and their choice of microbrews
Could I get in on that deal? I promise not to go to the press.
Ahh “Globalists†this year’s jew, isn’t that kinda like calling African Americans, Canadians to avoid being called racist whilst in public?
Do you think his crusty old debunked U-Tube posting (and Ooops! postings after) are just convenient distractions so he doesn’t have to comment on images like this? It’s kinda ironic this is happening under his nose, yet he’s dredging up old crackpots instead.
LiarDogFake…I liked it courtesy of Dr. Weevil on JOM.
Kinda OT, but this is great, via Ace.
A personalized message from Samuel L. Jackson, about
SNAKES ONA A PLANE!!!!!!!
http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/
Sent one to my oldest son who swears up and down that he has 40 people going to see it on opening day.
Alex Jones and his ilk are of a species I call skepticus ululus.
There are days when you really gotta hate physics.
That’s the problem of ‘speaking truth to stupidity’ When you hang with people like Jones the stupidity comes out. Stupidity is contagious.
TWmoronic
Glossing someone with “ Globalist” is likely going to become far more dangerous than any racial slur, shortly….. or so I think.
Sullivan and Terry Lane from Australia should start a news hour type show or something.
They can get Dan Rather to host.
BECUASE OF THE FAKE BUT ACCURATENESS!!!!
Gob-smackingly vile. I’m not the easiest person to offend, but I’m filled with heart-ache.
I’ve heard Rove apparently purchased Wal-mart stock and mystically teleported them into Lamont’s portfolio.
Fear the power of the dark lord.
Check out this post from on of Firedoglakes wedbetters…
freepatriot says:
August 4th, 2006 at 3:17 pm *
loserman is on the ground ???
then it’s time to start kicking him in the balls (you thought I’d stop just because I’m winning ???)
when loserman looks dead, we start kicking him in the head (gotta work out some of those lingering issues, don’t we)
when loserman is 100% politically dead, we start spitting on the body (worked on Mussolini, didn’t it ???)
we’re the ANGRY LEFT, not the “kinda angry leftâ€Â, or the “Ready To Forgive And Forget†left
we’re sticking on loserman’s case intil they toss his body over the side (in a political sense)
just because loserman’s sorry ass in unconcious and bleeding from the mouth doesn’t mean this fight is over
what part of “FIGHT TO THE DEATH†does loserman have a problem understanding ???
~~~
Well…it looks like yellow toothed ragheads aren’t the only creeps to lust over attacking dead bodies…..<Koooo-Kooooo>
Man I hope Lieberman wins his election over Nedermeir…and then does a little Vaudeville routine afterwards…..
What a bunch of retarded a-holes. No class.
LiarDogFake, yes.
tw: brought. This political assassination was brought to you by the letter A and the number zero.
I’m confused. The reason these moonbats are upset is because of Leibermans pro-war stance, right? They are for “peace”?
Kinda violent, “fight to the death” kinda talk under the circumstances, don’t ya think?
Hey, is this that irony I’ve heard about?
The irony is dripping again. Anyone have a rag?
Look, I haven’t read the posts for Jeff’s post. I don’t care. I went to the local pub, where the air conditioning is weak, and had crab-corn chowder and a fish sandwich. My wife had a salad, and one of the cops I work with asked me if I was going to ride the bicycle tonight, and I didn’t grasp at the time what he was talking about.
Now, after four Kentucky Taverns at my neighbor’s following the three Knob Creeks at the local pub, and in the middle of a Jim Beam nat home, can anyone tell me whar this thread is about?
Thanks.
I think.
geezer,
It’s about forty comments, maybe more, so far, plus the original post. About 3000 words, plus or minus.
Beam & Branch water. Mud!
Regards,
Ric
Thanks, Ric.
Now, as a result of all of this, am I ahead of whatever is going on, or behind?
Does it matter?
You know, Dog Whisperer is really cool.
Sure, everybody just have a grand time. Some of us have to go to our Guard units tomorrow, AND have a PT Test on Sunday morning. Now why would they do this to a 40 year old O-4?!
So, if anyone happens to be enjoying either a decent German white (halb-trocken or even more dry) or maybe a good single malt Scotch…Have an extra sip for me, OK?
Oh, and is anyone else surprised that Sullivan is sinking so low so fast? I expected him to coast to the bottom, not race.
Oooh, wait a minute… That is an unfortunate choice of terms, isn’t it?
All who serve are heroes.
God bless them.
All.
Major John, may your life be blessed with prosperity and happiness.
Thank you.
Well now, that’s nice of you geezer. But we are not all heroes. However, I happen to know a couple of soldiers that fit that description, and they have the Bronze Stars to prove it.
I may have heard or read this dipshit’s rants, but really had no idea who he is. Yesterday, however, I was arguing at another forum with someone who insisted that the “9/11 was an Inside Job” conspiracies were a right-wing phenomenon that never got any traction on the Left until Loose Change… and he held up this Alex Jones freak as proof.
An online poll at the UTex School of Journalism asks,
Should The New York Times be held liable for treason for disclosing a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists?
Currently: Y-42% N-58% 131 votes
Done!!! had more alcohol than usual…. family wedding.
TW: who knew accountants could be so social? okay, akwardly so, but still.
Major John  Did you ever hear the Guard version of the Old King Cole jody? E-me if interested.
Now Y: 63%, N: 37% w/ 210 votes
TW: Call it in the air…
In Re: #4
It isn’t time for airbrush, it is time to close ranks with the precision of a Roman Cohort and step on the tube so as to starve the story of oxygen.
So says AoS.
Really, in those circles such a photoshop is merely a social faux pas, like using the wrong fork.
As of now:
Yes-65%
No-35%
221 votes
TW:I don’t think the Times are going to like the final talley.
Major John, Sullivan is going to augur into the bottom at warp 8 and create a whole new definition for crash-and-burn.
To ‘sullivan’ is going to be a new internet word.
Patton,
Heh heh – yes indeedy, I have heard it. One advantage to having enlisted in early ‘85 was that I got to see both worlds – the old and the new. Ahhh, interesting days.
“Old King Cole was a merry old soul and a merry old soul was he…”
The first question one should ask about a conspiracy theory is “why should I believe this” not “how can you debunk it.” People need to ask that first question more often, because the less likely, more complex, and more absurd always has the burden of proof.
No matter how much you so desperately want it to be true, like Mr Lane.