John McCain loves to remind us that he was a POW and was tortured...

I'm sorry I missed it...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

After posting the video trailer for Oliver Stone's new film W., Huffington Post had to shut down and lock the comments section after they had published only 12 (with 8 still pending, presumably never to see the light of day).

It was late July back in 2006, back when gas cost around $3.00 a gallon, that a miracle happened! Suddenly, the price of gas dropped precipitously. From around $3.00 to $2.50 and stayed there for months... until just after Christmas in fact.

I wonder why that happened? Hmmmmmm. There has to be a reason. This is capitalism after all. What happened in that period?

That's it. Not much of diary, but so what? She's never going to be VP and she shouldn't be, it's not the job for someone of her temperament. But the court? She's perfect. An attack dog with a stellar career as an attorney (unlike most Republican nominees, who can barely spell 'Law,' much less understand it).

Of of course this can't be seen as a quid pro quo. Just arrange it in private and get Hillary out stumping for the winner ASAP.

'nuf said...

If the Democrats can't bring themsleves to impeach Bush & Cheney, how will they, once a new Democratic AG is confirmed, avoid arresting and prosecuting them after January '09?

(Edited to change title.)

Chris Dodd stood up for America and the constitution today, something Obama and Hillary have failed to do.

Oh, what a surprise! First NBC tries to jack up its fees on iTunes to 5.00 a show. Then they decide to dump iTunes altogether. THEN NBC decides to GIVE AWAY its programs FREE -- pre-broadcast! -- on Amazon.com only... wait fot it... They're WINDOWS ONLY. What a shock! What a surprise! What bullshit!

CBS and FOX (what a shock) are going along for the ride as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/...

Clinton Healthcare plan revealed! Insurance companies and IRS to merge.

In a stunning move today Hillary Clinton has revealed a plan that would ensure the profitability of all American insurance companies by mandating that every American give thousands of dollars a year in direct taxation to said insurance companies. In return Americans would receive a vague indication that, should they ever become ill or injured, the insurance company might do something or other...or not. It kind of depends.

In his Times column today, Paul Krugman finally reveals the truth of the bush* plan. Sure, everyone knows that bush* plans to dump his toy war on the next president's doorstep, covered in poop and burning gasoline.

But that's only half the plan. The other half is that, as soon as the war begins to draw down, the mighty Wurlitzer will ramp up about how THE DEMOC-RATZ LOST THE WAR!!!!!!!! They SURRENDERED to OSAMA!!!!!! America is doomed unless we impeach Clinton/Obama/Edwards!!!! Impeach! Impeach! Impeach!!! Arrrggghhhhh!!!

Of course Krugman doesn't quite put it that way and the article is behind the firewall, but you get the drift.

This diary may be a form of mission creep, but I got a few requests for this specific content.

Here are links to the first three diaries:

#1: http://www.dailykos.com/...

#2: http://www.dailykos.com/...

#3: http://www.dailykos.com/...

This third diary will cover crisis management basics, affording the cost of preparing and how to prepare a Bug-Out Bag for times when staying at home just isn’t an option.

This is the second in a series of crisis diaries. It deals with the subjects of stocking food for a long-term emergency, dealing with human waste and other trash and finding places to store water, food and other supplies when you live in a small space like an apartment or condo.

Floods, fires, tornadoes and hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, not to mention man-made disasters from bridge collapses to nuclear accidents to terrorist attacks. We cannot know when the next “Big One” will happen; where it will be; whether we will be a part of it.

Thanks to Bush, the only thing we can be certain of is that it will be worse than it needs to be.

The safest thing to assume is that, if a crisis occurs, you will be on your own for an unspecified period of time.

This is the first of a series of diaries on contingency and crisis planning. They will describe the kinds of things you should consider doing NOW, before the worst happens. At the end of the diaries there will be a list of useful links to emergency planning information and resources.

There you are, in school (work, on the street, the grocery, at the beach, whatever) and someone pulls a gun and starts shooting. What do you do?

Well that didn't take long. Just a few weeks after the right wing and the MSM were driven into a fan-fluttering, hysterical tizzy over a handful of anonymous comments on Huffington Post suggesting that the un-identified posters were dissapointed Cheney was not killed in the so-called assassination attempt in Afghanistan, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has supposedly "confessed" to multiple plots to assassinate Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. And what is the response from the responsible, level-headded Amurkin patriots at Little Green Footballs?

See the flip for more.

Well, it's official: we have become the Soviet Union. Premier for Life Bushlenko today signed an order requiring officially appointed Zampolits (poltical commissars) to ensure all government agencies follow party directives as to the nature of propoganda provded to the proletariat.

Got into a discussion about modern working attitudes the other day and tried to quote an old John Wayne line I remember, but I don't know the movie it comes from...

There's a fascinating article in today's Times (the Saturday paper, of course, the least-read edition of the week -- that way the Times can claim they covered the story while ensuring that as few people as possible actually read it). The story describes the utter failure of the Bush administration to overhaul the Coast Guard's ships in a time of war. Add to this the failure of Bushco to build a working police academy in Iraq (how many of us see that rain of feces as a strikingly elegant metaphor for the entire six years of Dumbya's misrule), to Haliburton/Blackwater's profit shenanigans, and on and on and on.