Killer Kowalski, R.I.P.

I remember watching this guy on our small black & white teevee. Obit here.

Two Reasons To Remember This Day

Via Scout Prime at the really good First Draft.

&, the great & wonderful addition to my life two years ago, The Twins. Yay, Yay.

Sisters, Identical, No Less

Lucy

Marigny

Yep, That's The Tickets

McSame has himself some real smart advisers, alright.

"The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American -- even illegal aliens -- as uninsured... So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved."

-- John Goodman, a health care adviser to Sen. John McCain, quoted by the Dallas Morning News.

My Pitiful More Please Request Was Answered

Harry Reid grew a pair, maybe more.

"I've served with the man 26 years," Reid said. "Do I have the ability to speak with experience about someone who has abused everyone he's dealt with? Someone who does not have the temperament to be president, who's wrong on the war, wrong on the economy, wrong on nuclear waste. What am I supposed to do? Walk around talking about what a great guy he is? I don't believe that.

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When Ralston asked if Reid thought it would be "dangerous" to let McCain be president, Reid answered: "Well, if you said it, I wouldn't correct you."

"Is that right?" Ralston asked. "You really think that?"

"That's right," said Reid,

More Of This, Please

Extremely good for John Kerry, the second Democrat in this decade to have been robbed of the presidency.

Sen. John Kerry, the one-time presidential nominee whose campaign crumbled under attacks on his military service and consistency, told fellow Democrats on Wednesday that he doesn't recognize Republican John McCain, a man he once considered as a runningmate.

Organized Much?

Despite Bu$hCo's claim of having a freedom agenda, that would be freedom for everyone but his own citizen, & despite his claims to be heading a government of efficiency, I find the two page note to be extraordinarily arrogant & counterproductive.

Although President Bush pledged in a 2005 declaration signed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to "develop appropriate arrangements and agreements" formally spelling out the terms of the U.S. troop presence and other bilateral ties, no such agreements were drawn up.

Respect

Great & honorable move by Sen. Clinton. We must defeat the extremist John McCain. & let me paraphrase Wes Clark's analysis, being a prisoner of war is not a training ground for being the president of the United States. McLiar's constant use of his POW status, from everything from his many, many houses, to his lies about Sen. Obama's views on Iran, has really cheapened every prisoner of war from all wars & all countries. I didn't make any links in the last sentence because, frankly, I'm too goddamned tired tonight. If you don't believe me, check it out & you'll need to send me an apology, 50 bucks is the going rate for my accepting said apology. Here's Sen. Clinton tonight, via Talking Points Memo.

Preschoolers?

How unsurprising. Particularly with the crowd that been wrecking America for the last eight years. & after all the lies & the liars, at the direction of Bu$hCo & Dick "Dick" Cheney, who can believe anything this government says?

"Several kids and babies died in the fields because parents were fearful of sending them to Head Start," she said in an interview.

"Since early 2007 many of our programs started to notice that Border Patrol of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles were parked outside their centers and some were following buses picking up children," she said.

I suppose it's easier for these cowards to intimidate children.

Jeez Louise

Things are looking up.

Economic News For Today

This.

Cordoba, 28, rented a three-bedroom home in Riverside for six months with the help of so-called Section 8 funds, money provided by the federal government through local housing agencies. In June, when her landlord could no longer make the mortgage payments on the house Cordoba was renting, she and her three children had to move to a hotel.

Is.

The number of institutions on the FDIC's "problem list" rose to 117 at the end of June from 90 at the end of March, a 30% increase. More worrisome for the FDIC, assets of the problem banks rose to $78.3 billion from $26.3 billion, a 200% jump. The data include IndyMac Bancorp, which had $32 billion in assets when it failed in July.

Not.

The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller U.S. national home price index fell 15.4% in the second quarter, compared with the same period a year earlier. The decline was the largest in 20 years for the index, which covers the entire U.S.

Good.

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver denounced a kosher meatpacking plant accused of child labor violations, echoing Upton Sinclair’s disdain of cruelty toward immigrants.

The governor wrote a guest column in the Des Moines Sunday Register that criticized Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville for allegedly employing dozens of underage workers and taking advantage of a failed federal immigration system.

Horrible

This is why war in never the answer. I wonder how the asshole Bu$hCo will respond to the horror - the usual we are deeply sorry but those damn children were hiding bin Laden & I can't be responsible for what happens since I am the decider & commander guy. Fucker.

Video

Just play this video, many, many times. Embed it at your blog. Copy the URL & send it to your friends. It's a good reminder of what the ReThugs are offering America in 2008.

So What?

Sen. Obama chose fellow senator Joe Biden to be his running mate. About all I can say is for all of us to watch our credit cards, since Sen. Biden to vote for that awful bankrupcy bill.

The credit industry, ever relentless, kept coming back, confidant they had the number of elected officials necessary to do their bidding. They did, and Joe Biden was always one of them.

My emphasis. Still, now we have a team & it's time make sure McSame & his wealthy wife retire to one of the many home they own, if McSame can remember which one his likes best.

My Friend Al

Has recently pulled ahead of that bozo Coleman (ReThug-Asshat) Anyhoo, loyal four readers, my friend Al needs our help. Please help, if you can. Otherwise, just talk the boy up, he is my friend, after all.

Well. Well, Well

Susan Eisenhower leaves the ReThug Party for good. That's OK because McLame was a POW.

...I will be in trying to reinvigorate a political organization that has already consumed nearly all of its moderate “seed corn.” And now, as the party threatens to trivialize what promised to be a serious debate on our future direction, it will alienate many young people who might have come into party ranks.

Via Crooks & Liars.