Cheers and Jeers - Jello Shots Friday!

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Friday February 27, 2009 · 4:28 PM PST

2009/02/27 · 16:28

Welcome to the C 'n J test kitchen. Bill and Michael are sunning themselves in Key West, so I'll be your hostess this evening. Just hang your coat over there. Drinks coming right up...

Hey! Who's been in the liquor cabinet? Sheesh, Bill's gone for one stinkin' day and the booze disappears.

Well, the mark of a good hostess is to gracefully improvise. Appetizers are served over the jump.

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My favorite kind of jello is:

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My favorite kind of jello is:

Jello cocktails

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Jello appetizers

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Jello-vegetable salads

13 votes

Jello entrees

2 votes

Jello desserts

37 votes

I need to drink myself into oblivion - where are the jello shots?

58 votes

Rebuilding New Orleans: Whites Only

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Thursday September 08, 2005 · 9:37 AM PDT

2005/09/08 · 09:37

Two pieces today make the case that Republicans will do all they can to create a rebuilt "whites only" city.

While catastrophe was unfolding in New Orleans, Dennis Hastert said out loud what many Republicans were undoubtedly thinking: why rebuild at all? John Nichols makes a persuasive case that Hastert was not talking about the city's location at all, but about the political power of African-American voters there:

(More after the jump.) Read More

Drown Government...and Whoever's In the Way

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Sunday September 04, 2005 · 8:38 AM PDT

2005/09/04 · 08:38

Nick Coleman of the Star Tribune wrote a great column today comparing the flood in Grand Forks, ND in 1997 with this week's tragedy in New Orleans.

He aptly notes that the reason no one died in Grand Forks was not that it's smaller or whiter or more middle class (though he acknowledges these factors). The reason why the residents of Grand Forks escaped relatively unscathed is simple: Read More

Bush: Bloodshed in Iraq Is 'Worth It'

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Tuesday June 28, 2005 · 4:18 PM PDT

2005/06/28 · 16:18

Yes indeed, that's the title on the story that some pyschic at the AP has written about the speech that Bush will give tonight.

How very special of an AWOL National Guardsman to tell our soldiers, Iraqi citizens and their families that their deaths and severe injuries are "worth it" to carry out his neocon delusions.

Sorry for the short diary, but I must go take lots of aspirin now in an attempt to stop my head from exploding. Read More

Iraq and Vietnam: "There Isn't Any Comparison"

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Sunday June 26, 2005 · 4:52 PM PDT

2005/06/26 · 16:52

Those are the not-so-wise words of Michael Deaver, former aide to St. Ronnie Reagan. Deaver, speaking from the Republicans' home base on Pluto, opined to the LA Times:

There aren't student demonstrators all over the country. There aren't National Guardsmen tear-gassing people.... We're a long way from that.

Ah, now I get it! The fact that more Americans now oppose the Iraq war than probably ever opposed Vietnam is irrelevant. The fact that more people now blame George Bush than Saddam Hussein for starting the war is immaterial.

Iraq isn't like Vietnam because there aren't rioting students in the street (which is lucky because all the National Guard are in Iraq and unavailable to quell traitorous liberals).

My actual, fact-free point after the jump. Read More

Rev Up Our Noise Machine - No Bush Mandate

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 7:17 AM PST

2004/11/04 · 07:17

Forget the values (or morals, or bigotry or whatever it is) for a day or so and write a letter to the editor pointing out that Bush's victory was not "sweeping" -- it was about 2% to 5% of a record turnout based on various estimates.

He does not not have a "mandate," especially for radical proposals such as privatizing Social Security or appointing Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade.

If the Rethuglicans had lost a record turnout by 2-5%, they would be screeching that the new Dem president had no mandate or legitimacy.

Tell everyone in a LTE that the 49% of us living in the reality-based world are passionate, committed and vocal, and we aren't going to sit down and shut up.

Go to it! Read More

Funnier than Stewart: Hannity the Comedian

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Tuesday October 26, 2004 · 1:46 PM PDT

2004/10/26 · 13:46

For everyone who needs a good laugh today, John Nichols dissects Sean Hannity's comedy technique:

No, Hannity does not fashion himself a comic. He doesn't even know he's funny.

It is that unintended quality that makes Hannity's "interviews" so remarkably ridiculous that it is impossible not to laugh...

There will be those who suggest that it is unfair to pick on Hannity because, as a Fox host, he is not supposed to be concerned about his credibility as a television interviewer. But Hannity's "interviews" are not Fox bad, they are William Shatner singing "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" bad.

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Thursday October 21, 2004 · 10:17 AM PDT

2004/10/21 · 10:17

Sidney Blumenthal has a great column in the Guardian that covers a lot of ground, from the The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration which (surprise!) has been suppressed, to several reasons for optimism that with a good GOTV effort Kerry will prevail.

Worth a read for anyone who watches the polls too closely and is feeling anxious or who needs even more motivation to get out there and hit the streets.

Choice excerpt:

...Bush whined that Kerry was practising "the politics of fear". The next day Dick Cheney projected terrorists exploding nuclear weapons within the US, and offered Bush as saviour from looming apocalypse.

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as terror," wrote Edmund Burke. But not even the eve of destruction will stifle turnout.

Full article here.

WI GOP Lied to Get Nader on Ballot

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Sunday October 17, 2004 · 9:22 AM PDT

2004/10/17 · 09:22

We're all shocked, shocked that happened, right? The Wisconsin State Journal, the conservative newspaper in Madison, laid out the dirty tricks:

At least 16 Republican Party officers and volunteers from across Wisconsin were involved in a secretive signature drive to get presidential candidate Ralph Nader on the ballot by claiming to be supporters and keeping quiet about their GOP affiliations.

Organizers of the covert drive gathered an estimated 3,228 signatures - far more than the 2,000 required to put Nader, an independent, on the Nov. 2 ballot.

But their work, submitted to Nader's campaign by a GOP activist, ultimately didn't count. Nader got on the ballot with no help from the Republicans.

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Tuesday October 12, 2004 · 6:41 PM PDT

2004/10/12 · 18:41

Former Minnesota governor Elmer Andersen, self described as a "liberal" Republican, has harsh words for George Bush:

This imperialistic, stubborn adherence to wrongful policies and known untruths by the Cheney-Bush administration -- and that's the accurate order -- has simply become more than I can stand.

That sums up a scathing review by Andersen of Cheney/Bush's lies and fiascoes and the cost to (gasp!) children and working folk.

The entire editorial is well worth a read.

Guardian: How Edwards Dissected Cheney

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Thursday October 07, 2004 · 10:45 AM PDT

2004/10/07 · 10:45

Sidney Blumenthal writes another great column, this time on the vice presidential debate.

He points out what most Kossacks know by now--that Cheney lied about everything under the sun, from never meeting Edwards before to the justification for going to Iraq.

But the column also has a great analysis of something I haven't seen discussed too much on Kos (though it's tough to keep up with 400+ diaries a day, so apologies if someone has already written on this): the political seismic waves created among the wingnuts when Edwards praised Cheney's support for his gay daughter.
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Bush in Iraq: "Whistling in the Dark"

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Thursday September 09, 2004 · 10:17 AM PDT

2004/09/09 · 10:17

While channel surfing during commercials on The Daily Show, I came upon a fascinating segment on PBS' Newshour. It featured a retired Colonel and General who agreed that things in Iraq are bad and getting worse.

It was a good example of what happens when the press goes after the truth by interviewing experts instead of refereeing a he said/she said argument in which the Bush lies are presented as just another viewpoint. We need to push as hard as we can to insist that other TV outlets start practicing real journalism like this again.

Full transcript here.
Essential, though scary, reading for anyone who wants military insight on what's really happening in Iraq. Read More

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Cheers and Jeers - Jello Shots Friday!

Rebuilding New Orleans: Whites Only

Drown Government...and Whoever's In the Way

Bush: Bloodshed in Iraq Is 'Worth It'

Iraq and Vietnam: "There Isn't Any Comparison"

Rev Up Our Noise Machine - No Bush Mandate

Funnier than Stewart: Hannity the Comedian

A new Dem Party has been summoned into existence

WI GOP Lied to Get Nader on Ballot

Repub Former Governor Slams Bush, Endorses Kerry

Guardian: How Edwards Dissected Cheney

Bush in Iraq: "Whistling in the Dark"