― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
"Your Secretary of Transportation, Norman Mineta!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
I CANNOT BELIEVE I MISSED THIS.
― Joules Antenna (Andy K), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd settle for cattily negative.
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― still bevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link
This reminds me of a joke: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are riding in an elevator. Dick Cheney goes sniff, sniff and says, "Did you fart?" Dubya looks startled and says, "No. Was I supposed to?"
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
like one who will do anything he says because she thinks she's married to him?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost: sorry emily that was unwarranted and I kind of regretted it as soon as I wrote it.)
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
MSNBC headline: "Bush Picks Rice"
― jody b. kerosene (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
"The decision was made to keep Rumsfeld and drop Powell because if they would have kept Powell and let [the Rumsfeld team] go, that would have been tantamount to an acknowledgment of failure in Iraq and our policies there," one government official said, requesting anonymity to speak more candidly. "Powell is the expendable one."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
This would be an x-post.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
There is a grain of sexism there which (I think) is mitigated by the fact that Yanc3y points out, namely that Rice has referred to Bush as her husband. To my knowledge, Rumsfeld has not.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm kinda dismayed by the appointment, mostly because Rice has pretty much said in the past that she's not particularly interested in the position, and its diplomatic side in particular. She'd clearly rather be in Rumsfeld's seat, no?
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Was there a grain of sexism in that?
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Er, is this is in the Constitution?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link
When the office of Vice President becomes vacant for any reason, the President nominates a successor, who must be confirmed by a majority vote of both houses of Congress.
This presumably is what happened after Spiro Agnew stepped down.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Hastert's next. Then, um, Ted Stevens? Is that even a real person?
― Krissy Duncan (kdruinscsayn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Hooray Ted Stevens! The man who could yet be President!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 03:51 (nineteen years ago) link
-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...), November 16th, 2004 5:33 PM. (Dan Perry) (later) (link)
(Also, I would like to think that people realize that when I do actualy make statements like that, they based on more than "WELL HE IS A BOY AND SHE IS A GURL, DUH DUH DUH" but apparently that's hoping for too much.)
-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...), November 16th, 2004 5:36 PM. (Dan Perry) (later) (link)
OTM 10000000000x over and that's all I'm going to contribute here.
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link
http://stevens.senate.gov/bio.htm
― Krissy Duncan (kdruinscsayn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes. I was talking to a friend about this yesterday, and I said I used to want to have a little respect for Condi, but I have just gotten so tired of listening to her lie. And lie and lie and lie. She'll say the most ridiculous things, and be mildly condescending while she's saying them, like you're a little bit of an idiot for not understanding the very simple things she's telling you -- except that what she's telling you isn't simple at all, it's convoluted and self-contradictory and riddled with obscene lapses in logic and moral coherence. And she lacks either the will or the skill -- mostly likely both -- to make any of it remotely convincing. Sometimes after listening to her I have to go look out my window to make sure I'm still somewhere on Earth. (just one sun, no floating buildings, no giant robot overlords...ok) But a lot of people in this administration have that effect on me.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 06:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 07:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Krissy Duncan (kdruinscsayn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― fcussen (Burger), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.usea.org/secABRAHAM12.jpg
― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Monday, 29 November 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Monday, 29 November 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
he lied
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/06/lie-after-lie-what-colin-powell-knew-about-iraq-fifteen-years-ago-and-what-he-told-the-un/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/130/590x/secondary/Macaulay-Culkin-Home-Alone-1157124.jpg
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
WILKERSON: Powell had walked into my office musing and he said words to the effect of, ‘I wonder how we’ll all feel if we put half a million troops in Iraq and march from one end of the country to the other and find nothing.’
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link