Monday’s Mini-Report

I didn’t read it, admittedly, but isn’t hot bottled water a recipe for massive BPA intake?

Why does John McCain believe we should “deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies“? Wouldn’t cold water be better?

I can’t (won’t) speak for McCain, but IIRC the human body absorbs water easier the closer it is to body temperature. Admittedly, it feels good to drink cold water, but if we are talking about dehydration, warm water is preferable.

Sullivan has video of Obama shoveling into sandbags in Iowa. pretty cool.

Congrats to Phyllis & Del for sticking together six times longer than the average ReThuglican.

May the TalEvangicals of California all suffer nervous breakdowns trying to make them into the poster children for rampant sexual depravity.

For what it’s worth, I actually like Jonah Goldberg’s idea of “Meet the Press” returning to an old-school format, in which multiple journalists question a prominent policy maker. By biggest complaint about “MTP,” aside from Russert’s inordinate fondness for “gotcha” questions, has always been the “journalist roundtable” discussions. Who wants to watch reporters talk to each other for an hour? The idea was never for us to meet the press, but for the guest to meet the press.

Hear hear.

Coke is a copyrighted name of a cola.
And if the full term is “soda pop” then “soda” is the adjective, not the noun (“pop”)
Only communists drink “tonic”

It’s sad, though, that Obama doesn’t think they should be able to get married.

* This may not end well: “Lawmakers are hoping for a breakthrough this week on changes to national security legislation that has divided Congress for months: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”

Where is Obama on this? As the nominee-to-be, he’s now the de facto Democratic Party leader, isn’t he? I know he doesn’t support it, but why isn’t he throwing his weight around to tell Democrats to put a stop to it? It’s this kind of weak-kneed capitulation that gets us tarnished as weak-kneed capitulators.

Also, http://dehydratedbabies.ytmnd.com/

Rian Mueller @ 6

OH MY GOD, that video is going to give me nightmares. That is seriously creepy.

This may not end well: “Lawmakers are hoping for a breakthrough this week on changes to national security legislation that has divided Congress for months: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”

Just stop. We’ve gone six months and the world hasn’t come to an end. We can wait seven more months till we have an actual human being in the White House and the Republican Party in DC is meeting in the men’s room in the Capitol basement, and then take care of things right. There is no need to do this now, the Republicans can shriek and scream all they want – the American people don’t want this done.

A House committee moved Monday to compel Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over documents related to FBI interviews of President Bush and Vice President Cheney in the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer’s name.

What I want is to see Dickhead Cheney in an orange jumpsuit shackled to a concrete floor in a cell at Gitmo, where he gets exactly the same treatment he though was appropriate for “enemy combatants”, since that’s what he is. Let him have his final fatal heart attack alone in the dark in the cold.

The White House Office of Administration is not required to turn over records about a trove of possibly missing e-mails, a federal judge ruled Monday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found the agency does not have ’substantial independent authority’ so it is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

WTF? This is the judge who made the goverment do things right in the Zacharias case – she can’t see through this bullshit???

Bush singled out his brother…. ‘Well, we’ve got another one out there who did a fabulous job as governor of Florida, and that’s Jeb,’ he said. ‘But you know, you better ask him whether or not he’s thinking of running. But he’d be a great president.’”

It’s time to pass a constitutional amendment that no one with a blood tie to a previous President can run for the office or serve if elected.

” I get Southerners using “Coke” as a generic term for soft-drinks. I also understand “soda” on the coasts and “pop” in the Midwest. But what’s with east Missouri? Why is there that little pocket of “soda” there?”

My St Louis relatives spell it “soda” but say it “sodee” — as in “You don’t need to worsch them sodee bottles, I done wrenched them in the zink”

I am badly out of practice writing poems, but this is for Phyllis and Del (and yes, for my own parents — my fight for gay rights has always been, first because it is right, third for my own bisexual self, but second — closer to the first than the third in importance — because I wish they had survived long enough to march down Fifth Avenue hand in hand, and now to march as well down ‘the aisle’).

It started with
Your love, but then it was
The ‘love that dared not
Speak its name’ — until you dared
And spoke and gave the courage
To the others whose love
Was silent before you.

Bilitis first — then Mattachine
Two groups so silly as to
Believe their courage made
A difference, made a seed
To grow beneath the wall
Of the white-shirted Time of Ike.

You went on, ignored, unheard,
As others began to win their
Civil rights — you held a hope
And always held your love.

And then those drag queens
Hookers and their johns inside a
Bar saw police at the door
So many raids before they sat through
Silent — this time “No more!”
They fought back, we saw the
Uniforms behind the leaves
Of trees they sought — this time
The fear was theirs. And maybe
In their fight no rebel thought
Of you, whose seed at last began to grow
But grow it did, the cracks began to show.

And then the marches came — we all
Announced our pride and anger as
We shared the courage they had
Shown and you had begun.

Your love and ours, no longer silent,
Dared and spoke aloud, and yes,
Fifteen, twenty years it had survived.
You saw each other with that love,
And as we saw it in your eyes and
Echoed it in our steps we knew
You had led the way as you led the march.

Time went on and even cities heard your cry
And answered — even cops that once had
Shuddered in the trees, could share a GOAL.

Anita rose and fell — orange fell to
Lavender and rainbows. Still you loved.
And Newt-led lizards lashed their
Tails and tried to use this love
To make their triumph safe.
Again they failed, and for so many
Struggle stripped away their
Fear to dare, to speak,
To say — away from lights
Their own love was like yours
(In kind, of course, but not
In strength, in courage.)

But still there was that final
Step you could not take,
That final word beyond your grasp,
That final ceremony blocked to you.
(In fact the ceremony was still
There, but empty if not
echoed by the state.)

Then Massachusets’ judges
Spoke aloud that just as
Loving’s loving could not be stopped
From being ratified, the same was
True for you. But that was miles
Away, you waited
For your home to follow suit.

It did — despite the protests of
The ones who asked why
A simple word could matter.
You knew that speaking
Words aloud could banish fear.

Today your march was
Down the aisle and
All of us were there —
No matter who we were
Born to love.

Five decades and a half
Of love and struggle had
Gone on. Now you’re wed.
We raise a glass and toast
A love that SHOUTS its name.

[one minor footnote. GOAL = the Gay Officers Action League, the first organization of gay policemen, that was, officially, recruiting in the NYC gay community over two decades ago.]

Feel free to reprint this anywhere. Credit would be nice, but not really that important.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found the [White House Office of Administration] does not have ’substantial independent authority’ so it is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The decision means the White House does not have to disclose documents relating to its troubled e-mail system.

Only means that they don’t have to disclose this information in response to an FOIA request.

A subpoena is a completely different thing, and if a grand jury or Congress subpoenas this information, WHOA is still required by law to disgorge. Of course, the White House is already ignoring several subpoenas, so apparently it doesn’t make any difference what the law says.

In response to my own comment above, I’ve e-mailed Derek Jeter to ask him about this.

Let you know what/if I find out.

* I get Southerners using “Coke” as a generic term for soft-drinks. I also understand “soda” on the coasts and “pop” in the Midwest. But what’s with east Missouri? Why is there that little pocket of “soda” there?

If I had to guess (which I don’t, but will anyway), I’d say that’s it’s probably due to immigration to the area by people from the East Coast shortly after the word “soda” came into fashion. Or possibly when soda was initially introduced, it was marketed in different ways in different areas, and the coasts and East Missouri got the same marketing push.

The Media is out of control in this Judge Jury court stuff so I offer an argument about it and make claim that the media is abusing first amendment right in simple daily news casting.

One could reflect for serious reasons that Mainstream Media as we know it today is and has grown to be a powerful weapon against Democracy. With little shame, this cultural policy has been expressed by a major news medium, MSNBC, specifically Tim Russert, who really is simply a Squeeze Anchor. But, every Sunday with a dedication to surprise, and with a gift to social civics, Russert was diligent to deliver elegant smear or dubious political entropy.

As Dan Abrams said Russert used the Public Domain as his court
Here, Russert was prosecutor, judge, and jury, illustrating perjury, civic inconsistencies true or not belted out with a smile from Russert all the while guests giving thanks for having the opportunity to be there. Here, to me whats funny, guests giving thanks as they might likely get their heads chopped off. The best in corporate cultural exchange, the tyrannical disregard for first amendment rights of the Constitution. America you see it is not just Bush and Company that have violated the basic in civil rights; it is the Mainstream Media across the board first line Journalist knowingly carry out their marching orders.

Yes all this is hard work targeting grievances by citizens for debate in the public domain takes skill and energy to develop unfair judgments. All, using the Public Electromagnetic Domain likely with the same IMUS type contracts that deliver controversy.

But the color is Slime Greenspan, or flavored by Andrea Mitchell elegantly woven Champaign toasted while slipping on with a talented delicate tease and over an open zipper begging the question when is next Federal Reserve Interest hike going to happen. LOL. Along with David Gregory types, Limbaugh/ Hannity media monsters where one can not tell were the head or tail is. All with, O’Reilly/ Olbermann Spin and Count Down that squirrel American minds. Luscious Barbara Walters now telling America how she spreads holding in eye contact with hot Monroe salacious private action filling your wildest dreams.

Tim Russert recently pasted away but his work and deeds needs some reflection that really sorts through the closely held trade secrets that first line Journalist acclaims Russert as an historical asset to society. When in fact, others like myself who have a first amendment right to make a direct point back, a clear feeling that Russert was an agent of the corporate bias and Americas failed way in modern media. Russert embraced this with an elegance coupled with superior coaching to deliver with the perfect tone to steer politic many times cleverer than Rush Limbaugh who is in the same league but not as good.

Russert with associates and well connected “Corporate Ministers” aided with legions of teams all experts that can take the ordinary and generous hope of the home grown citizen, the citizen with an open heart that are basic to the American dreams, likely happiness but with direction and intent turn that dream into hell because the money is good and easy.

Here, America we need to understand the huge problem we have in the Public Domain the reason for my rant. Government Documents – documents and publications authored by the Federal government are public domain. You may copy or distribute government documents, such as a law, statute, agency circular, federal report, or any other document published or generated by the federal government. It’s important to understand that this means work authored by the Federal Government. If a private contractor authors the work for the Government, then the work is copyrighted. Government documents may be distributed with a copyright claim in value added such as formatting. All these agents have the facility yet knows Americans do not have the time to look at all the stuff out there. However they all spend full time energy weaving through what could be right and what could wrong know very well what options are but consistently tells America in daily news “what should we do when they already know.

Basically with that said just about every argument delivered in politics should be referenced to a government document. But never is. First line Journalist have to be paraded through media news to indictments then celebrated by a Grand Jury that watches the masquerade ball of political corruption unfold. Here America has the Valerie Plame Opera now fortified with Scott McCullum which now appears to have an endless supply of plot devices. Please America, if you don’t think the pressure of the book released by Scott McCullum may very well reveal the tight connections in the best of America’s worst did happen. Tim Russert, couldn’t take it, center stage in Mainstream Media largest corruption ring ever existed in modern recorded history is about to become transparent. Tim Russert highly and likely the key player knowingly with intent to defraud America will like be exposed.