tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78273182012-01-29T07:47:06.226-06:00<u>the</u> doss peace and justice center blog - rtddpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.comBlogger5101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-8021249141825053462012-01-29T07:46:00.001-06:002012-01-29T07:47:06.239-06:00Natchez outlines what the wingers don't like about Obama.<br /><br />He is wrong.<br />He is evil.<br />I don't like him.<br />He isn't like me.<br />He isn't doing what I want him to do.<br />I hate him.<br />Michelle has a big ass, and I don't like her clothes.<br />He takes vacations.<br />I didn't vote for him.<br />He thinks he's right about the issues, but he's not.<br />I wish he wasn't president.<br />I wish someone else was president.<br />I wish he would resign.<br />He isn't a white person. <a href="" target="blank"></a><blockquote>""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-802124914182505346?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-37297055188051375792012-01-28T13:34:00.003-06:002012-01-28T13:34:33.614-06:00Dig this by Gumballjim.<br /><br /><B>First, he DOES have a problem....</B><br /><br />9195 PM: Gumballjim [Quote] -- 11:25am -- Sat, Jan 28, 12 PST<br />Gumballjim<br />i have a problem with the copy and pasted word, doss. <br /><br /><B>Then he does NOT have a problem.</B><br /><br />9213 PM: Gumballjim [Quote] -- 11:30am -- Sat, Jan 28, 12 PST<br />Gumballjim<br />i don't have any problem with that cut and paste . . . <h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-3729705518805137579?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-11324419675131301172012-01-26T22:45:00.002-06:002012-01-26T22:46:12.912-06:00This is a market place of ideas. You expressed your notion that MSNBC is biased. I challenged you to show this bias because I suspect you don't really know what you're talking about.<br /><br />It's how ideas are scrutinized in the free market. When people offer up ideas, and then REFUSE to engage in a discussion of them, including SCRUTINY of them, then those ideas are suspect.<br /><br />(Note to Cinders)<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-1132441967513130117?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-29651942430369487052012-01-26T22:39:00.001-06:002012-01-26T22:39:24.630-06:00Damn, this one's going to Imzadi's Stupid Chat Tricks.<br /><br />7185 PM: Harrison [Quote] -- 8:36pm -- Thu, Jan 26, 12 PST<br />Harrison<br />Dutchie- Newt Gingrich is the definer, the teacher, and (possibly) the leader of Civilization. <br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-2965194243036948705?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-90290778905064943982012-01-26T13:47:00.014-06:002012-01-27T15:27:42.307-06:001991 PM: Christians [Quote] --8:01am --Fri, Oct 24, 08 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Evasive chatters make for boring chatters <br /><br />3599 PM: Christians [Quote] --8:20am --Thu, May 8, 08 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />There is no excuse for not answering a question. <br /><br /><br />5062 PM: Christians --Mon, Jun 12 12:06pm pst <br />Christians Are Good <br />. . . , Why should I think Jesus opposed money if he didn't say so? Why would I think he opposed anything unless he clearly stated it? <br /><br /><br />9781 PM: Christians [Quote] --1:14pm --Fri, Oct 3, 08 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />. . . I'm not interested ever in 'backing my claims.' . . . <br /><br />842 PM: Christians [Quote] --11:02am --Fri, Jun 20, 08 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />You are the liar. <br /><br />8317 PM: Christians --8:11am --Mon, Feb 12, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Attacking another chatter's honesty is itself a dishonest tactic. <br /><br /><br />6477 PM: Christians --Thu, Dec 7 8:36pm pst <br />Christians are Good <br />I don't have to prove anything to you. <br /><br /><br />6113 PM: Christians [Quote] --8:35am --Thu, Mar 20, 08 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Natchez I don't have to answer your questions. <br /><br />3976 PM: Christians [Quote] --9:15am --Mon, Mar 17, 08 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Do you have any evidence the above merits greater consideration beyond speculation? I would need to see some evidence to buy into it. <br /><br />6916 PM: Christians --12:31pm --Wed, Aug 8, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />As you are well aware, denials are easy enough to make, but liars soon become trapped in the web of deceit they weave. You should have been able to answer my simple question posed earlier, had you a rational reason to base your view. Instead you hesitated, and that tiny mistake coupled with your current tactics tells more than you intend to reveal. It isn't mind reading on the part of others that gives you away, it is your actions expressed in words -or in this case, lack thereof <br /><br />6675 PM: Christians --11:54am --Wed, Aug 8, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Doss, I'm not going to provide you with an escape route. You'll have to do that on your own by proving you aren't biased against Obama based on race. <br /><br /><B>I posted: </B> <br /><br />7602 PM: Doss --2:01pm --Wed, Aug 8, 07 pst <br />doss <br />CaG won't deny that his bias toward Clinton is based on sexism. <br /><br /><b>CaG replied:</B> <br /><br />7607 PM: Christians --2:01pm --Wed, Aug 8, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Denied. <br /><br /><B>Then I reminded him. </B> <br /><br />6717 PM: Christians --11:59am --Wed, Aug 8, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Simple denials may be sufficient to ease your guilt , under the present circumstance, they aren't very convincing. I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. -Margaret <br />Thatcher <br /><br />7365 PM: Christians --12:10pm --Mon, Jul 30, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Elpincheviejo: Dosset claims npr has gone to the 'dark side.'// He didn't merely CLAIM it...he <br />SUPPORTED it. <br /><br />98 PM: Christians --12:37pm --Wed, Jul 25, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />If you feel you need to control the discussion, fire away. Whatever your subject though, let's start with your most perceptive comment and go from there. <U>Skip the one-line unprovable assertions</U>. <br /><br />1917 PM: Christians --12:17pm --Sat, Jul 21, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />[to Nam Vet] . . . It scarcely matters whether you come into the room dressed in a clown's <br />suit or a business suit. A fool resides inside both. <br /><br />5653 PM: Christians --Fri, Jun 9 11:35am pst <br />Christians Are Good <br />Name calling is much easier to do than having to think and clearly express oneself. <br /><br />2830 PM: Christians [Quote] --7:57am --Sun, Nov 9, 08 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Back to name calling again. Nothing much changes with you, does it. <br /><br /><br />1971 PM: Christians --7:12pm --Fri, Jun 29, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. <br />~ Admiral Hyman G. Rickover <br /><br /><br />9933 PM: Christians --9:55pm --Mon, Jun 18, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Pellow, It isn't a difficult question, but it's a question you aren't getting an answer to without <br />doing some heavy lifting of your own. As I said, you need to answer questions if you want to ask them. <br /><br />2176 PM: Christians --9:54pm --Thu, May 31, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />That's correct -or at least that's what you hope. And now I'll tell you why you and Dosset accuse everyone in here who you disagree with of being liars. You hope by doing so you can undercut their credibility, given that you can't argue with them on the merits of the facts. It's tantamount to calling someone 'stupid' when you can't think of anything intelligent to say to rebut their point. <br /><HR><br /><br />9835 PM: Christians --9:02pm --Sun, Apr 22, 07 pst <br />Natchez: What in Genesis has science proven wrong?<br /><br /><br />What in the tooth fairy story has science proven wrong? <br /><br /><I>Prediction: CaG will dodge this question. </I><br /><br /><HR><br />7015 PM: Christians --10:40am --Mon, Apr 16, 07 pst <br />Christians are Good <br />Hillary will keep thousands of US combat troops in Iraq forever . . . <br /><br /><B> CaG cannot help but lie. It's pathological with him. CaG -turn off Matthews now. <br />Now for the truth. </B><br /><br />On his March 19 Hardball, Matthews stated, ''Hillary Clinton said this weekend that she wants a permanent base over there. ... She made a very clear statement this weekend we cannot take our troops out of Iraq.'' Matthews is simply lying, of course. She never said any such thing. <br /><br />The good folks at Media Matters looked into it, and this is what they report: ''Matthews appeared to be referring to the Iraq position Clinton outlined in a lengthy March 13 interview with The New York Times in which she explained that she would, according to a March 15 Times article on the interview, ''keep a reduced military force there [in Iraq] to fight Al Qaeda, deter Iranian aggression, protect the Kurds and possibly support the Iraqi military'' as part of her troop-withdrawal plan. Clinton did not, in the Times interview or elsewhere, say she wanted to keep U.S. troops in Iraq ''permanently'' or that she supported a ''permanent base'' in Iraq. A Media Matters for America search of the Nexis database did not turn up any instances of Clinton stating support for ''permanent'' U.S. troops in Iraq (search string Hillary w/2 Clinton and permanent!).'' <br /><br />There is no lie so bold these media whores will not tell in their effort to destroy Senator Clinton. <br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-9029077890506494398?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-78046689385526635202012-01-26T08:19:00.002-06:002012-01-28T09:44:05.097-06:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uHj6vEo02Xg/TyIcs6LJ1jI/AAAAAAAAB9o/V4rETm4KONs/s1600/Toy-Busted.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uHj6vEo02Xg/TyIcs6LJ1jI/AAAAAAAAB9o/V4rETm4KONs/s400/Toy-Busted.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702151636060329522" /></a><br /><br />Think about it, right wingers. Toy can't show that I lied; so he MADE UP a post and falsely attributed it to me.<br /><br />8121 PM: Toy911 [Quote] -- 7:38am -- Sat, Jan 28, 12 PST<br />Toy 911<br />im sure now doss will post a post <B><U>i made up . . . </U></B><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-7804668938552663520?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-55685651796892667732012-01-26T07:52:00.001-06:002012-01-26T09:37:04.937-06:00<a href='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xu8c3ucIo3U/TyFajsYcx0I/AAAAAAAAB84/zRt8ey6an-o/s1600/Always-Artist.JPG'><img src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xu8c3ucIo3U/TyFajsYcx0I/AAAAAAAAB84/zRt8ey6an-o/s400/Always-Artist.JPG' border='0' alt='' /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-5568565179689266773?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-8992465713634367372012-01-26T07:38:00.002-06:002012-01-27T07:45:11.660-06:00<a href='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fhDEbA-bruc/TyFXWEncD_I/AAAAAAAAB8s/cXdlIfCr6JY/s1600/toy-lies.JPG'><img src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fhDEbA-bruc/TyFXWEncD_I/AAAAAAAAB8s/cXdlIfCr6JY/s400/toy-lies.JPG' border='0' alt='' /></a>&nbsp;<br /><br />Toy Lies<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-899246571363436737?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-48254869260736955152012-01-25T15:31:00.001-06:002012-01-25T15:33:46.910-06:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GJrB7BoHPv8/TyB1MILRosI/AAAAAAAAB78/KwB3gKpzBqQ/s1600/blotter-cropx.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 166px; height: 188px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GJrB7BoHPv8/TyB1MILRosI/AAAAAAAAB78/KwB3gKpzBqQ/s400/blotter-cropx.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701685979464704706" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-4825486926073695515?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-84633736614952696002012-01-25T08:58:00.002-06:002012-01-27T07:44:49.118-06:00<a href='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GfDSEeDR_vM/TyAYoTcVjPI/AAAAAAAAB7k/HSkk4l24lUY/s1600/newt-fined.bmp.jpg'><img src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GfDSEeDR_vM/TyAYoTcVjPI/AAAAAAAAB7k/HSkk4l24lUY/s400/newt-fined.bmp.jpg' border='0' alt='' /></a>&nbsp;<br /><br />Fox News says Newt was fined.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-8463373661495269600?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-34301873700122615892012-01-25T08:51:00.004-06:002012-01-25T09:00:41.550-06:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KxXcGy6P6CE/TyAYdSGAAsI/AAAAAAAAB7Y/NB0RvWD8qo4/s1600/newt-fined.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 191px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KxXcGy6P6CE/TyAYdSGAAsI/AAAAAAAAB7Y/NB0RvWD8qo4/s400/newt-fined.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701584019603325634" /></a><br /><br /><a href='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GfDSEeDR_vM/TyAYoTcVjPI/AAAAAAAAB7k/HSkk4l24lUY/s1600/newt-fined.bmp.jpg'><img src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GfDSEeDR_vM/TyAYoTcVjPI/AAAAAAAAB7k/HSkk4l24lUY/s400/newt-fined.bmp.jpg' border='0' alt='' /></a>&nbsp;<br /><br />Yep, Newt was fined.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-3430187370012261589?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-36899554986728754712012-01-25T08:37:00.001-06:002012-01-27T07:44:27.966-06:00<a href='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b-8HM0pML5k/TyATxEZLv9I/AAAAAAAAB6o/eBri_Hn6pG4/s1600/dosshasdoneitall.jpg'><img src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b-8HM0pML5k/TyATxEZLv9I/AAAAAAAAB6o/eBri_Hn6pG4/s400/dosshasdoneitall.jpg' border='0' alt='' /></a>&nbsp;<br /><br />Doss as done it all.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-3689955498672875471?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-16680052972987149652012-01-25T08:20:00.001-06:002012-01-27T07:44:04.806-06:00<a href='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-djnTwpG5NjQ/TyAPmjhwnmI/AAAAAAAAB6c/jZ83TEmf36U/s1600/remember-bush_me.jpg'><img src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-djnTwpG5NjQ/TyAPmjhwnmI/AAAAAAAAB6c/jZ83TEmf36U/s400/remember-bush_me.jpg' border='0' alt='' /></a>&nbsp;<br /><br />Bush screwed up things big time.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-1668005297298714965?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-10801805300423684932012-01-24T12:35:00.009-06:002012-01-27T07:43:39.001-06:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2IOpuFlGsVE/Tx9lUDamjLI/AAAAAAAAB6Q/svtcKgydnEo/s1600/red-state-socialism-crop-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2IOpuFlGsVE/Tx9lUDamjLI/AAAAAAAAB6Q/svtcKgydnEo/s400/red-state-socialism-crop-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701387048463010994" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O8O-AZZk34k/Tx75-6x8n9I/AAAAAAAAB5I/G_FVJnRps6E/s1600/red-state-socialism.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O8O-AZZk34k/Tx75-6x8n9I/AAAAAAAAB5I/G_FVJnRps6E/s400/red-state-socialism.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701269037623582674" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O5cKSDP1s90/Tx8DGNezcDI/AAAAAAAAB5g/84ZK7hhXELM/s1600/red-state-socialism-crop-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 388px; height: 252px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O5cKSDP1s90/Tx8DGNezcDI/AAAAAAAAB5g/84ZK7hhXELM/s400/red-state-socialism-crop-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701279058507296818" /></a><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-1080180530042368493?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal 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Thanks to his policies, it is now easy to see America losing out to its competitors in any number of area: China is rapidly becoming the manufacturing powerhouse of the next century, India the high tech and services leader, and Europe the region with the best quality of life.”'' - http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html <br /><br />“No individual president can compare to the second Bush,” wrote one. “Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill. In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large.” <br /><br />http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html<br /><br />''Nouriel Roubini, a New York University professor nicknamed ''Dr. Doom'' for his dour views on the economy, says in this video that when President Obama came to power, he inherited a budget deficit of $1.2 trillion. When Bush came to power, the country had a surplus of $300 billion.<br /><br />''We destroyed our fiscal sustainability before [President Obama] came to power,'' Roubini said. ''We had guns and butter and low taxes. It doesn't work. iI you want guns and butter, you should have high taxes during wars.''<br /><br />Obama ''inherited a mess,'' Roubini added. ''We're lucky that this Great Recession is not turning into another Great Depression.''''<br /><br /><br />http://money.msn.com/mutual-fund/article.aspx?post=09d90714-2402-4772-a6c5-86d2af7ccaed<br /><br /><br />____________________<br /><br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-525806469517016044?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-60059772608445240352011-11-24T19:56:00.006-06:002012-01-04T11:13:02.418-06:007068 PM: Jake985 [Quote] -- 6:06am -- Sat, Sep 3, 11 pst<br />Jake985_54 <br />Naw, I don't even try for a <B>reasoned conversation</B> here anymore. Just quipping.<HR><br /><br />9147 PM: Jake985_54 [Quote] -- 8:48am -- Wed, Jan 4, 12 PST<br />Jake985_54<br />Probably working on getting their stories straight before the police arrive.<br /><br /><B>You mean like when Cheney got liquored up and shot that lawyer over in Texas? Yes, he needed a day to sober up and get his story straight.</B> <Blockquote>McClellan attributed the delay, in part, to the fact the vice president was traveling without the press corps.<br /><br />After Armstrong notified the <a href="http://www.johntedesco.net/blog/shoot-first-answer-questions-a-day-later-white-house-says-cheneys-focus-was-on-treatment-for-lawyer/">Caller-Times</a>, the newspaper received confirmation of the account from the vice president’s office in Washington and posted the story on the paper’s Web site Sunday afternoon.<br /><br />The Caller-Times, in Monday’s editions, reported that Kenedy County sheriff’s deputies said they <B>were not allowed to take statements about the incident until the day after</B> the shooting.</BLOCKquote><br /><HR><br />Here's one Jake will see again. *S*<HR>9259 PM: Jake985_54 [Quote] -- 9:02am -- Wed, Jan 4, 12 PST<br />Jake985_54<br />Can you prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt??? <br /><br /><br /> <h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-6005977260844524035?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-24198380604219024012011-11-23T23:17:00.002-06:002012-01-02T06:50:36.056-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-__5dj9hhKi4/Ts3Tk8DS5UI/AAAAAAAABvw/wBBJi4-w3Y0/s1600/U6.JPG"><img style="float:right; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 343px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nSJVQSoWpaA/TrrHfGwTFbI/AAAAAAAABuc/M0cEIVRl3Y8/s400/hangover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673066017829623218" /></a><br />Hangover<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-6863884724834508124?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-19992550065495442782011-11-07T16:11:00.002-06:002011-11-07T16:13:08.757-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JNERvkwHMRQ/TrhX5gtSddI/AAAAAAAABtc/dhz28VbVS3A/s1600/race-card.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JNERvkwHMRQ/TrhX5gtSddI/AAAAAAAABtc/dhz28VbVS3A/s400/race-card.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672380376217187794" /></a><br /><a href="" target="blank"></a><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-1999255006549544278?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-43861509184666889412011-11-07T15:10:00.002-06:002011-11-07T15:11:50.749-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SdxJ2hp_RkY/TrhJgl7icZI/AAAAAAAABtE/2u_HQm-Ejzs/s1600/cain-accuser.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 168px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SdxJ2hp_RkY/TrhJgl7icZI/AAAAAAAABtE/2u_HQm-Ejzs/s320/cain-accuser.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672364554959614354" /></a><br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-4386150918466688941?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-81675440819407979442011-10-29T03:42:00.000-05:002011-10-29T03:43:17.961-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eCsWnOokS9E/Tqu8ovHXvuI/AAAAAAAABss/M-O1gTp3BFg/s1600/babe-faked-a-post.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 138px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eCsWnOokS9E/Tqu8ovHXvuI/AAAAAAAABss/M-O1gTp3BFg/s320/babe-faked-a-post.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668831964004073186" /></a><br /><a href="" target="blank"></a><blockquote>""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-8167544081940797944?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-1188115502930130742011-10-05T16:49:00.002-05:002011-10-05T16:57:57.614-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eG-KRm8z33A/TozS4mjuhOI/AAAAAAAABqs/ZpP7HXhW20Y/s1600/unemployment-August-2011.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 115px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eG-KRm8z33A/TozS4mjuhOI/AAAAAAAABqs/ZpP7HXhW20Y/s320/unemployment-August-2011.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660130701562774754" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PBCqdVAL-5o/TozRtqMpL2I/AAAAAAAABqk/A3ioeKgeYAQ/s1600/Employment%2B-%2BAug%2B2011.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 125px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PBCqdVAL-5o/TozRtqMpL2I/AAAAAAAABqk/A3ioeKgeYAQ/s320/Employment%2B-%2BAug%2B2011.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660129414049509218" /></a><br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-118811550293013074?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-53161611844374286232011-10-04T11:13:00.002-05:002011-10-04T11:14:42.244-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6KWs5PcKdDY/Tosw2VVbXaI/AAAAAAAABqU/RY3QOkXqygI/s1600/Palin-Jewish-Holy-Day.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 232px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6KWs5PcKdDY/Tosw2VVbXaI/AAAAAAAABqU/RY3QOkXqygI/s320/Palin-Jewish-Holy-Day.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659671066719247778" /></a><br /><br />I can't help it. It's just too much fun!<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-5316161184437428623?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-80480103764300355092011-09-02T10:30:00.002-05:002011-09-02T10:31:19.539-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nkKLrA7yywQ/TmD2sy5IxqI/AAAAAAAABow/QqGieZb_rfU/s1600/august2011.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 117px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nkKLrA7yywQ/TmD2sy5IxqI/AAAAAAAABow/QqGieZb_rfU/s400/august2011.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647785182158702242" /></a> <br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-8048010376430035509?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-49242863167450310412011-08-30T12:20:00.003-05:002011-08-30T12:20:53.976-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dNZPoeH1I84/Tl0b6H8G2MI/AAAAAAAABoA/dVcaW7AMHYI/s1600/job-growth.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dNZPoeH1I84/Tl0b6H8G2MI/AAAAAAAABoA/dVcaW7AMHYI/s400/job-growth.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646700193169987778" /></a> <br />Compare jobs growth under Bush to jobs growth under Obama.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-4924286316745031041?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-8709347974646858192011-08-30T10:22:00.003-05:002011-08-30T10:23:46.784-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JNuKipw6SxE/Tl0AXYxEkuI/AAAAAAAABn4/16QT_sxuSok/s1600/spendingbushvsobama.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JNuKipw6SxE/Tl0AXYxEkuI/AAAAAAAABn4/16QT_sxuSok/s400/spendingbushvsobama.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646669909577732834" /></a> <br />Next time some nit-wit claims Obama is spending like crazy, show him this.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-870934797464685819?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-2564213742069053212011-08-28T20:26:00.001-05:002011-08-28T23:44:22.181-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vVYP45ceHSk/TlsZIiacsNI/AAAAAAAABnw/AWhXPJU4VZM/s1600/bachmannperrycorndog.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 281px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vVYP45ceHSk/TlsZIiacsNI/AAAAAAAABnw/AWhXPJU4VZM/s400/bachmannperrycorndog.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646134192306434258" /></a> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AqvpOIceDCQ/Tlrq2wYZT3I/AAAAAAAABno/OfYh-wx5u6M/s1600/perry-bites.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 92px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AqvpOIceDCQ/Tlrq2wYZT3I/AAAAAAAABno/OfYh-wx5u6M/s400/perry-bites.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646083309283397490" /></a>Perry bites a big one.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-256421374206905321?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-86299219020056960772011-08-26T20:40:00.002-05:002011-08-26T20:42:15.854-05:00Bush admits to <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/Bush-admits-he-approved-torture-1272163.php" target="blank">committing</a> war crimes.<blockquote>"WASHINGTON -- The American people have heard President Bush and his spokespeople say many times that the U.S. government does not engage in torture. <br /> <br />Whether Bush was believed or not is another story -- especially in light of the photographic evidence of the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. It's understood that many of the photos are too sadistically graphic to be made public. <br /> <br />Still, the official U.S. denials of torture continued until earlier this month when Bush acknowledged in an interview with ABC-TV that he knew about and approved "enhanced interrogation" of detainees, including "waterboarding" or simulated drowning. <br /> <br />"As a matter of fact," Bush added, "I told the country we did that. And I told them it was legal. We had legal opinions that enabled us to do it.""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-8629921902005696077?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-40795823339465985702011-08-26T02:15:00.003-05:002011-08-26T09:21:06.660-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z17VDbXH5ec/Tlery98vv8I/AAAAAAAABng/pCmKUWFn4Ik/s1600/dossfordummies2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z17VDbXH5ec/Tlery98vv8I/AAAAAAAABng/pCmKUWFn4Ik/s400/dossfordummies2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645169550043365314" /></a> <br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-4079582333946598570?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-52953663146027346092011-08-26T02:02:00.003-05:002011-08-26T09:18:52.457-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QcBEjE1eP7c/TldGFub9oMI/AAAAAAAABnQ/ivibSREi2ec/s1600/newspaper2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QcBEjE1eP7c/TldGFub9oMI/AAAAAAAABnQ/ivibSREi2ec/s400/newspaper2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645057722110812354" /></a><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-5295366314602734609?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-58851665340787340332011-08-22T12:08:00.001-05:002011-08-22T12:09:07.004-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/334118/RICK-PERRY-BUMPER-STICKER.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 465px; height: 341px;" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/334118/RICK-PERRY-BUMPER-STICKER.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> <br /> <br />I read somewhere that Perry isn't in this race to win; that he's in it to act so damned crazy that he makes Romney look sane.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-5885166534078734033?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-82124299976564907622011-08-02T20:35:00.000-05:002011-08-02T20:37:53.380-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8uqTbEoLuY/TjilOcgGo0I/AAAAAAAABi8/Lt7kel8-kTE/s1600/daisy-pistol.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1600px; height: 1013px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8uqTbEoLuY/TjilOcgGo0I/AAAAAAAABi8/Lt7kel8-kTE/s1600/daisy-pistol.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a href="" target="blank"></a><blockquote>""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-8212429997656490762?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-58167941510584469312011-08-02T20:27:00.000-05:002011-08-02T20:29:37.552-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0C9xTTZh8XQ/TjikWUWTxAI/AAAAAAAABig/KOZDduS7qQA/s1600/daisy-pistol.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 253px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0C9xTTZh8XQ/TjikWUWTxAI/AAAAAAAABig/KOZDduS7qQA/s400/daisy-pistol.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636435636980532226" /></a><br /><a href="" target="blank"></a><blockquote>""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-5816794151058446931?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-55994568127801280862011-08-01T12:38:00.002-05:002011-08-01T12:39:18.553-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0YAb1CcJqH8/Tjbks_0qK0I/AAAAAAAABhw/7fvYXFfM_A8/s1600/knuckles.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0YAb1CcJqH8/Tjbks_0qK0I/AAAAAAAABhw/7fvYXFfM_A8/s400/knuckles.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635943445398432578" /></a><br /><a href="" target="blank"></a><blockquote>""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-5599456812780128086?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-3378839101365659652011-07-21T09:18:00.000-05:002011-07-21T09:19:19.677-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3L9r_9_17wI/Tig1T_FhgOI/AAAAAAAABhY/0VZsmcQNLZw/s1600/reagan-rate.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3L9r_9_17wI/Tig1T_FhgOI/AAAAAAAABhY/0VZsmcQNLZw/s400/reagan-rate.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631809951495192802" /></a><br /><br />Reagan indeed DID hit double digits.<br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-337883910136565965?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-20055048621978897132011-07-21T08:59:00.003-05:002011-07-21T09:12:14.847-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AHAQzwUGnR8/TigxGblR3PI/AAAAAAAABhQ/He6_BX0HpZo/s1600/carter-rate.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AHAQzwUGnR8/TigxGblR3PI/AAAAAAAABhQ/He6_BX0HpZo/s400/carter-rate.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631805320579898610" /></a><br />Someone claimed unemployment hit double digits under Carter, so I did a bit of snooping around to see for myself.<br /><br />Click on the image to see the chart full-size.<br /><br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-2005504862197889713?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-37105640175398904192011-07-14T15:50:00.002-05:002011-07-14T15:54:32.563-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P-vC9bJeWlg/Th9XhPeErnI/AAAAAAAABgo/Wm8XRrAdYtA/s1600/bush-graph2.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 128px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P-vC9bJeWlg/Th9XhPeErnI/AAAAAAAABgo/Wm8XRrAdYtA/s320/bush-graph2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629314287836376690" /></a><br /><br /><a href="" target="blank"></a><blockquote>""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-3710564017539890419?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-81101110771465140172011-07-08T16:00:00.001-05:002011-07-08T16:00:50.504-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yHKUtuJ-ysU/Thdv_3UB1xI/AAAAAAAABgA/gDJ--7HpXjg/s1600/reagan-unemploy.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 203px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yHKUtuJ-ysU/Thdv_3UB1xI/AAAAAAAABgA/gDJ--7HpXjg/s400/reagan-unemploy.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627089402393122578" /></a><br /><a href="" target="blank"></a><blockquote>""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-8110111077146514017?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-82980800708317730322011-04-26T11:36:00.002-05:002011-04-26T11:37:18.480-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GDqp0jo22Tg/Tbb0rlqQZkI/AAAAAAAABao/K7HhKtB9D8o/s1600/gas-prices.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 228px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GDqp0jo22Tg/Tbb0rlqQZkI/AAAAAAAABao/K7HhKtB9D8o/s400/gas-prices.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599932216362690114" /></a><br /><a href="" target="blank"></a><blockquote>""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-8298080070831773032?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-52052660320813932832011-03-04T14:00:00.002-06:002011-03-04T14:01:03.177-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FCm6eDfww9U/TXFE-SldSLI/AAAAAAAAGLw/lLFc_CYO4Wg/s1600/unemployment-feb.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FCm6eDfww9U/TXFE-SldSLI/AAAAAAAAGLw/lLFc_CYO4Wg/s400/unemployment-feb.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580317250220279986" /></a><br /><a href="" target="blank"></a><blockquote>""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-5205266032081393283?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-70991658840518675792011-03-02T19:44:00.003-06:002011-03-02T20:54:26.360-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-caMApivjGvw/TW71JRhSGtI/AAAAAAAABXo/P1oJ9q2UAMw/s1600/textile.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 232px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-caMApivjGvw/TW71JRhSGtI/AAAAAAAABXo/P1oJ9q2UAMw/s400/textile.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579666528029252306" /></a><br /><br />This is what happens when union busting governors get carried away.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-7099165884051867579?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-42664440528647414482011-02-28T09:56:00.003-06:002011-02-28T09:58:30.851-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nkeqGovaNQo/TWvF3eKcdrI/AAAAAAAABXY/ewbUaNHyH-k/s1600/moderat-liberal.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 161px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nkeqGovaNQo/TWvF3eKcdrI/AAAAAAAABXY/ewbUaNHyH-k/s400/moderat-liberal.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578770120208840370" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/twice_as_many_americans_conservative_over_liberal/" target="blank">Poll shows a majority is moderate or liberal.</a><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-4266444052864741448?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-19032769709291422832011-02-15T08:56:00.006-06:002011-02-15T09:00:19.840-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZA9QvpJXRv4/TVqU17BNQiI/AAAAAAAABXQ/I1VNdCPfLxI/s1600/negatives.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 380px; height: 223px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZA9QvpJXRv4/TVqU17BNQiI/AAAAAAAABXQ/I1VNdCPfLxI/s400/negatives.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573931142921142818" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/assessing-the-republican-presidential-field/" target="blank">Nate Silver</a> takes a look at the republican field for the 2012 presidential race. It doesn't look good. In most cases their negatives out weigh their positives.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-1903276970929142283?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-22811071229894648102011-02-14T12:14:00.003-06:002011-02-14T12:19:01.334-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_dZAdS4ySIY/TVlyEO0i5ZI/AAAAAAAABXA/O0M4JOl533A/s1600/Unemployment-Jan-2011.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 341px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_dZAdS4ySIY/TVlyEO0i5ZI/AAAAAAAABXA/O0M4JOl533A/s400/Unemployment-Jan-2011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573611430871229842" /></a><br /><br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-2281107122989464810?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-90647150957593706882011-01-08T10:27:00.000-06:002011-01-08T10:27:56.060-06:00<a href='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sDAuqRNh0D8/TSiQilg6zTI/AAAAAAAAGLk/i5FyACxRnpE/s1600/fitsz-slease.JPG'><img src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sDAuqRNh0D8/TSiQilg6zTI/AAAAAAAAGLk/i5FyACxRnpE/s320/fitsz-slease.JPG' border='0' alt=''style='clear:both;float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0;' /></a>&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><a href="" target="blank"></a><blockquote>""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-9064715095759370688?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-14462873744693264022010-12-26T02:50:00.007-06:002010-12-26T03:00:27.758-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/TRcCBswA6dI/AAAAAAAABVk/TmeQzjpdpWo/s1600/Poor%2Bgetting%2Bpoorer.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 251px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/TRcCBswA6dI/AAAAAAAABVk/TmeQzjpdpWo/s320/Poor%2Bgetting%2Bpoorer.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554910893600467410" /></a> <FONT COLOR=RED>Click on image to enlarge chart.</FONT><br />According to <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3294" target="blank">Census data</a>, we saw a HUGE increase in poverty in the US in 2009.<br /><br />Here's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/states-rich-getting-richer-inequality-increasing-2010-9#">more.</a><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-1446287374469326402?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-7767703261540935092010-10-07T13:54:00.002-05:002010-10-07T13:58:26.214-05:00Catfood Commission <a href="http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/07/27/catfood-commissions-social-security-alice-rivlin-makes-a-huge-blunder/" target="blank">screws up</a> the numbers on Social Security. Jane Hamsher discusses it here. Specifically she addresses the commission's failure to understand how limits on taxable social security wages are figured. It's worth a read.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-776770326154093509?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-52610910648348018322010-08-14T12:07:00.009-05:002010-08-14T12:46:18.635-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/TGa735p6n0I/AAAAAAAABOI/UYDKQqaKyg0/s912/bush-obama-unemploy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 533px; height: 310px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/TGa735p6n0I/AAAAAAAABOI/UYDKQqaKyg0/s912/bush-obama-unemploy.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Much has been made of the unemployment rate continuing to go up after Obama took office in late January, 2009. So, I thought it would be a good idea to have a look at Bush's record and compare it to Obama's. Guess what.<br /><br />It went up MORE during Bush's first 18 months than it did during Obama's! The right wingers don't want to talk about this fact.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-5261091064834801832?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-19736475804300231442010-08-05T12:38:00.002-05:002011-08-05T12:44:31.098-05:00112 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 4:41am -- Wed, Feb 17, 10 pst<br />Mary<br />must be nice for your wife to take a shower with you while you masturbate.<br /><br />5804 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 2:11pm -- Sun, Feb 14, 10 pst<br />Mary<br />morbius, when you admittedly experimented with homosexual relationships, did you take it in the ass, or did you just suck a lot of dick?<br /><br />7381 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 8:24pm -- Wed, Jan 27, 10 pst<br />Mary<br />only losers with no life drag chatters family members into it.<br /><br />8335 PM: Mrsdeluxe -- 8:36am -- Tue, Aug 28, 07 pst <br />Mrs Deluxe <br />Oh, so your wife is a woman you've been with who goes both ways, Natchez? I wonder if she knows. <br /><br />2549 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 7:29am -- Wed, Apr 15, 09 pst<br />Mary ( feeling wicked? )<br />If I were a man pretending to be a woman, sinpusher would be sucking my dick. Is sinpusher sucking my dick? <br /><br />810 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 0:46am -- Sat, May 8, 10 pst<br />Mary<br />If I was a ''dude,'' vanax would be on his knees sucking my dick. Is vanax on his knees sucking my dick?<br /><br />3020 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 9:40pm -- Tue, May 20, 08 pst<br />Mary<br />A chicken is a bird, and you are a chicken, so birds are mammals.<br /><br />8879 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 3:36pm -- Thu, Oct 9, 08 pst <br />Mary <br />Funny how they call us racist when they lose the argument. <br /><br />1927 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 7:50pm -- Sun, Oct 5, 08 pst <br />Mary <br />Obama will lose . Natchez will lie. These things are predictable. <br /><br />1910 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 7:44pm -- Sun, Oct 5, 08 pst <br />Mary <br />Obama will not be president. The liberals will whine that the republicans stole the election again. <br /><br />3371 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 3:02pm -- Fri, Jul 25, 08 pst <br />Mary <br />Yeah. . . I'm a gay man in a woman's body. <br /><br />8527 PM: Crosseyedmary -- Sat, Jul 1 7:22am pst <br />Sally, I'm a bitch...I know it. <br /><br />4823 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 8:15pm -- Wed, Jun 25, 08 pst <br />Mary <br />I'm not a dude . . . <br /><br />5424 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 5:17am -- Mon, May 19, 08 pst <br />Mary <br />It's true. I'm a man. <br /><br />5434 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 5:18am -- Mon, May 19, 08 pst <br />Mary <br />No...no need to prove anything. I'm a man.<HR>mrsdeluxe: Which is it? Are you a man, or are you a liar? <br /><br />9035 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 3:05pm -- Mon, May 19, 08 pst <br />Mary <br />. . . I'm a man. I admit it. Now what? <br /><br /><br />3868 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 3:40am -- Thu, Oct 29, 09 pst<br />Mary<br />fuck off natchez. prapius has my permission to increase his rhetoric towards you. In fact, I'm considering paying him to do it. If he does it good enough, I might even sleep with him.<br /><br /><br />5666 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 2:44am -- Wed, Dec 24, 08 pst<br />Mary<br />cum is better than egg nog. Honest. <br /><br />7869 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 7:54am -- Sat, Oct 4, 08 pst <br />Mary <br />I'm a bigger man than doss. . . <br /> <br />8482 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 8:07pm -- Sun, May 25, 08 pst <br />Mary <br />I'm only a little bit drunk <br /> <br />9555 PM: MrsDeluxe -- Mon, Jul 10 6:02am pst <br />Mary <br />Natchez, I never lie. <br /><br />5424 PM: Mrsdeluxe [Quote] -- 5:17am -- Mon, May 19, 08 pst <br />Mary <br />It's true. I'm a man. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-1973647580430023144?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-46222330134282291732010-05-30T05:05:00.005-05:002010-06-03T19:20:33.045-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/TAI47ORiSNI/AAAAAAAAA-U/Qx7S_YMLOYo/s1600/gurjar.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 250px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/TAI47ORiSNI/AAAAAAAAA-U/Qx7S_YMLOYo/s400/gurjar.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477002686931028178" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/TAI4soL7LqI/AAAAAAAAA-M/zk_2NYnCxJU/s1600/punchy.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 168px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/TAI4soL7LqI/AAAAAAAAA-M/zk_2NYnCxJU/s400/punchy.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477002436188778146" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="" target="blank"></a><blockquote>""</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-4622233013428229173?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-66212807168421446662010-05-20T09:04:00.001-05:002010-05-20T09:05:41.783-05:00Here's an intersting <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2010/05/does-immigration-cost-jobs/" target="blank">piece</a> that makes the case the immigration is GOOD for our economy.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-6621280716842144666?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-8509429046672938382010-05-20T08:43:00.002-05:002010-05-20T08:45:29.942-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/S_U7iXkxEEI/AAAAAAAAA9M/gdPQut7aas8/dpw.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 393px; height: 245px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/S_U7iXkxEEI/AAAAAAAAA9M/gdPQut7aas8/dpw.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Rightwingers wring their hands and complain that the DOW is down during the day. Yet they ignore that when compared to what it was when Obama took over, it's <B>MUCH</B> better.<H5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-850942904667293838?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-71857257047474084452010-04-22T06:12:00.001-05:002011-04-22T06:16:29.615-05:002426 PM: Babe [Quote] -- 3:26am -- Fri, Apr 22, 11 pst<br />babe<br />What ever happened to just disagreeing with someone, and a real ADULT discussion? <HR>You mean like this? <br /><br />5583 PM: Babe [Quote] --2:20am --Wed, Aug 13, 08 pst<br />babe<br />Doss: oh shut the fuck up you arrogant hypocritical son of a bitch<br /><br />7971 PM: Babe --2:41am --Thu, Oct 18, 07 pst<br />babe<br />Doss: so your wife is a wimp?<br /><br />3683 PM: Babe --1:49am --Wed, Aug 8, 07 pst<br />babe<br />Doss: I don't believe in logic...<br /><br />3340 PM: Babe --11:01pm --Thu, Apr 12, 07 pst<br />babe<br />Doss: I can't stand her [Clinton]. She's a bitch.<br /><br />2708 PM: Babe --Wed, May 24 2:55am pst<br />babe<br />forming my opinion about anything is my right..I formed my opinion...so fuck off<br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-7185725704747408445?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-17700845420121566122010-03-30T11:13:00.001-05:002010-03-30T11:14:39.510-05:00New survey shows that 99 percent of journalists vote republican.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-1770084542012156612?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-29634668741364349012009-11-02T00:02:00.001-06:002009-11-02T00:03:25.867-06:00I wasn't the only one to notice Lieberman's hollow <a href="http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/11/01/why-is-lieberman-scared-of-big-bad-rachel-maddow/" target="blank">claim</a> that he wishes his opponents would debate him.<br /><br />I also noticed Bob Scheiffer lacked the cajones to call Lieberman on his lie.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-2963466874136434901?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-62670709937289477952009-10-01T12:52:00.002-05:002009-10-01T12:54:40.183-05:00Here's an interesting <a href="http://www.impactlab.com/2007/01/09/political-personality-traits/" target="blank">study</a> on the differences in personality types between liberals and conservatives.<blockquote>"Multiple studies find that liberals are more optimistic. Conservatives are more likely to be religious. Liberals are more likely to like classical music and jazz, conservatives, country music. Liberals are more likely to enjoy abstract art. Conservative men are more likely than liberal men to prefer conventional forms of entertainment like TV and talk radio. Liberal men like romantic comedies more than conservative men. Liberal women are more likely than conservative women to enjoy books, poetry, writing in a diary, acting, and playing musical instruments. "</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-6267070993728947795?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-8362480424399337322009-09-25T14:52:00.001-05:002009-09-25T14:54:12.211-05:00According to this <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Business/Story?id=6977202&page=1" target="blank">ABC NEWS report</a>, most on line porn consumption is in the states that went for John McCain in 2008.<blockquote>"Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year's presidential election – Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama. "</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-836248042439933732?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-9184002003230308632009-09-09T17:08:00.006-05:002009-09-09T18:28:48.323-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/Sqg5pBjoSdI/AAAAAAAAAC4/wAVp3A1SqlA/s1600-h/revenue+shrinkage.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4-jqvxROPVA/Sqg5pBjoSdI/AAAAAAAAAC4/wAVp3A1SqlA/s400/revenue+shrinkage.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379613131849353682" /></a><br />We often hear the republicans claim that tax cuts result in revenue growth. To support their claim they've offered up a graphic from Bush's Treasury Department. One can't blame Bush's people for highlighting his tax cut of 2003 and suggest that this somehow caused the curve to begin its upward climb.<br /><br />It's interesting to note, though, that the Bush people didn't highlight what happened to revenues after his 2001 tax cut. So, I helped them with the grapic by adding the black arrow. As you can see, after the Bush tax cut of 2001, revenues fell. Their theory doesn't hold up to scrutiny - according to their own evidence.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-918400200323030863?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-78511936750905317082009-09-05T07:27:00.001-05:002009-09-05T07:30:14.351-05:00The right wingers who are complaining about President Obama addressing our nation's students didn't complain when it was <a href="http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/51386d.htm" target="blank">Reagan doing it.</a><br /><br /><blockquote>"Thank you all, and welcome to the White House, and thank you for coming. I want to congratulate all of you from John A. Holmes High School in Edenton, North Carolina, on your great achievements this year and on your upcoming graduation. And a special greeting to Rob Boyce, the principal of this fine school.<br /><br />As you know, my remarks are being broadcast live over radio and television to high school students throughout the country. While I was in Tokyo at the economic summit, I found myself thinking about all of you, and I decided that when I got back it'd be good to report to you -- share some thoughts that I've been having about the future."</blockquote>Not one word of complaint from the wingers.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-7851193675090531708?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-91171120673427676682009-08-07T10:37:00.002-05:002009-08-07T10:39:34.861-05:00What can I say? Two fabulous artists having a blast.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/L-magrm3Voo&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/L-magrm3Voo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-9117112067342767668?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-2290627828994512812009-08-06T21:23:00.003-05:002009-08-06T21:25:53.313-05:00Welcome to the Supreme Court. Seems you don't have a lot of friends on the GOP side. <br /><br />Oh well.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-229062782899451281?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-22327886933494027772009-08-02T19:26:00.004-05:002011-02-15T07:43:16.643-06:00Browsing the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/2000debates/3rdebate6.html">transcript</a> of the October 17, 2000 debate between Vice-President Gore and Gov. George Bush, I stumbled across this interesting exchange:<blockquote>VICE PRESIDENT GORE: -- how are the checks going to be -- how are you going to keep faith with the seniors? Now let me come -- let me come directly to your question --<br /><br />MR. LEHRER: No, I think we're -- we have to go to the closing statements, and --<br /><br />GOV. BUSH: Well, can I answer that?<br /><br />MR. LEHRER: Sure. </blockquote>Interesting, eh? Gore asks liberal moderator Jim Lehrer for time to answer a question, and liberal moderator Jim Lehrer turns him down cold. Sorry, out of time.<br /><br />Conservative, George Bush, then asks for time to answer the question, and "liberal" Lehrer responds, "Sure."<br /><br />Somehow this picture isn't adding up. If PBS and Jim Lehrer are liberal, why does Gore get stiffed while Bush is accommodated? Someone help me out here.<br /><br /><br /><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-2232788693349402777?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-44395006197968332852009-07-17T16:45:00.003-05:002009-12-16T22:06:21.592-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sDAuqRNh0D8/SymuNz63M-I/AAAAAAAAF0U/oAYS5vZ0-yU/s1600-h/stockticker.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 182px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sDAuqRNh0D8/SymuNz63M-I/AAAAAAAAF0U/oAYS5vZ0-yU/s320/stockticker.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416051579188360162" /></a><br />I heard a couple of talking heads on MSNBC today say that if the Democrats pass a health care bill that's "all Democratic" with no republican support, then it will be "all theirs."<br /><br />Fine by me. But then they added that there was considerable political risk in that as it could turn out to be a mess, and then the Democrats would get the blame. Okay fine by me still. Fair enough. But wait.<br /><br />What if it turns out great, and the people love it? Wouldn't that be a risk the republicans are running? That they are saying "no" to something the people want and that the Democrats are willing to give to the people?<br /><br />Wouldn't that be REALLY REALLY bad for the republicans if health care reform happens, it turns out great, and the people LOVE the Democrats for delivering like they did on Social Security and Medicare? What about that? <br /><br />Why do our media ONLY focus on political risks they attach to Democrats and NEVER seem to look at the flip side of the coin? <br /><br />Right wing media bias; you suppose? <h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-4439500619796833285?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Randal Byrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962449107343599637noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-35914990667684282222009-07-06T15:04:00.002-05:002009-07-06T15:06:22.150-05:00Right wingers will try to tell you that Reagan didn't raise taxes. Sorry, but the facts don't agree. Thanks to the <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett200310290853.asp"><I>National Review</I></a> for this bit of myth-busting:<Blockquote>''Reagan may have resisted calls for tax increases, but he ultimately supported them. In 1982 alone, he signed into law not one but two major tax increases. The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) raised taxes by $37.5 billion per year and the Highway Revenue Act raised the gasoline tax by another $3.3 billion.<br /><br />According to a recent Treasury Department study, TEFRA alone raised taxes by almost 1 percent of the gross domestic product, making it the largest peacetime tax increase in American history. An increase of similar magnitude today would raise more than $100 billion per year.<br /><br />In 1983, Reagan signed legislation raising the Social Security tax rate. This is a tax increase that lives with us still, since it initiated automatic increases in the taxable wage base. As a consequence, those with moderately high earnings see their payroll taxes rise every single year.<br /><br />In 1984, Reagan signed another big tax increase in the Deficit Reduction Act. This raised taxes by $18 billion per year or 0.4 percent of GDP. A similar-slzed tax increase today would be about $44 billion.<br /><br />The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 raised taxes yet again. Even the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which was designed to be revenue-neutral, contained a net tax increase in its first 2 years. And the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 raised taxes still more.''</BLOCKquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-3591499066768428222?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-19720748925214261152009-06-25T04:13:00.009-05:002009-06-26T09:19:29.887-05:00<I>Fox News</I> is up to its old tricks again. This time trying to con viewers into thinking scandal-plagued Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina is a Democrat. (Notice the "D" after his name in the screen shot below.)<br /><br /><img src="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/fnc-20090624-sanford.jpg" width="420"><br /><br />They pulled the same thing with Florida republican, <A href="http://drillingcompany.blogspot.com/2007/07/faux-news.html">Mark Foley</a>, when he was dragged down by a sex scandal.<br /><br /><I>Fox News</I> also once told us that <a href="http://drillingcompany.blogspot.com/2008/02/mccain-is-democrat.html">John McCain</a> is a Democrat. Do they think we're stupid?<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-1972074892521426115?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-49139511572438073362009-06-15T02:00:00.003-05:002009-06-26T04:39:29.186-05:00<I>Media Matters'</I> Jamison Posers did an excellent <a href="http://mediamatters.com/columns/200906120010">piece</a> on a recent <I>New York Times</I> article on the American Medical Association. This is an eye-opener.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-4913951157243807336?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-31779420823098443092009-05-25T10:37:00.004-05:002009-08-07T07:52:52.539-05:00Absolutely amazing. Yes, I know it's not Memphis "Soul." And I know it's not Stax. But it's a great song delivered up with style all the same. And if that trumpet ain't sexy, I don't know what is.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YvBXKCFiZnI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YvBXKCFiZnI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-3177942082309844309?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-33428119865408723332009-05-21T05:58:00.002-05:002009-05-21T06:01:00.659-05:00I'd never heard of Welton Gaddy, a Baptist minister from Louisiana, but I caught this bit on MSNBC's <I>Hardball</I> Monday night. The guy impressed me.<br /><br /><div><iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/30815275#30815275" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><p style="font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;">Visit msnbc.com for <a style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com">Breaking News</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">World News</a>, and <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">News about the Economy</a></p></div><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-3342811986540872333?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-68612737425433911712009-05-20T21:58:00.005-05:002009-06-02T11:51:39.585-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sDAuqRNh0D8/SiVYkFS3NII/AAAAAAAABMA/DQMs_iJ1o04/s1600-h/integrity.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 219px; height: 215px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sDAuqRNh0D8/SiVYkFS3NII/AAAAAAAABMA/DQMs_iJ1o04/s320/integrity.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342773909864789122" /></a><br />Does the CIA mislead congress? According the CIA's internal Inspector General, yes. This is from the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112002011.html?hpid=topnews"><i>Washington Post</I></a>:<blockquote>"An internal CIA probe has concluded that agency officials deliberately misled Congress, the White House and federal prosecutors about key details of the 2001 downing of an airplane carrying U.S. missionaries in Peru, according to a senior lawmaker who called yesterday for a new criminal inquiry into the case."</blockquote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-6861273742543391171?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-66532503182630226432009-05-20T21:24:00.005-05:002009-05-20T21:28:33.234-05:00Long-time republican, now turned Democrat, Senator Arlen Specter has joined the chorus of congressmen and legislators questioning the "honesty" of the CIA. This is from <a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/new-dem-specter-defends-pelosi-questions-cias-honesty-2009-05-20.html"><I>The Hill</I></a>:<blockquote>"The CIA has a very bad record when it comes to -- I was about to say candid, that's too mild -- to honesty."</blockquote>After a while, it can't be denied any longer that the CIA has a reputation for being less than truthful.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-6653250318263022643?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-21174019788357797902009-05-20T10:34:00.004-05:002009-05-20T10:41:35.595-05:00Pelosi isn't the only one in the House who suspects the CIA of lying. According to this report in <a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2008/11/hoekstra_cia_lied_about_air_at.html"><I>Muskegon News</I></A>, then ranking republican on the House Intelligence Committee, Peter Hoekstra, suggested that the CIA may be covering up and even lying to Congress: <Blockquote>"We need to follow up as aggressively as we can," Hoekstra said. <font color="red"><B>"We cannot have an intelligence community that covers up what it does and then lies to Congress."</B></FONT> [- then Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R)]</blockquote><a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/lawmaker_cia_already_being_probed_for_misleading_c.php"><I>Talking Points Memo's</I></a> Zachary Roth has more on the story.<Blockquote>As they go after Nancy Pelosi over those CIA briefings, Republicans have been putting the burden of proof on the Speaker, suggesting that it's all but unheard of for the CIA to mislead others in government. But in fact, the agency is currently being probed for doing exactly that on a different issue -- and the effort was initiated by one of Pelosi's fiercest critics on the torture briefings kerfuffle.</BLOCKQUOTE><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-2117401978835779790?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-79462083002261309702009-05-16T18:48:00.001-05:002009-05-16T18:50:44.284-05:00Porter Goss backs Peslosi's claim. <br /><br />"Today, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed <B>were to actually be employed</B>; or that specific techniques such as "waterboarding" were never mentioned….” [my emphasis added] "<br /><br />In other words, Goss says Pelosi should have understood <B>NOT</B> that "specific techniques" <B>HAD</B> been employed, but that these techniques were to be employed in the future. This supports Pelosi's version of events.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-7946208300226130970?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-28745371562861627162009-05-16T16:55:00.005-05:002009-05-20T10:42:16.447-05:00In a <I>Washington Post</I> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042403339.html">Op-Ed</a> piece, Porter Goss expresses amazement that Pelosi would claim waterboarding was not mentioned in the 2002 briefing the two of them received from the CIA regarding interrogation of detainees. This bears some examination.<blockquote>"Today, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as "waterboarding" were never mentioned."</blockquote>I've yet to see where Speaker Pelosi made such a claim.<br /><br />Furthermore, the CIA has released a table which summarizes the dates of briefings, subject of the briefings, and the names of those in attendance. The table shows that Pelosi was briefed in 2002, but the subject-entry for that briefing makes no mention of waterboarding. The subject-entry for a February, 2003 briefing <B>NOT</b> attended by Pelosi, <B>does</b> specifically mention "the waterboard." If waterboarding was discussed in the 2002, briefing, why was it not mentioned in the table summarizing the briefing subjects as it was for the February 2003 briefing? So far, the evidence favors Pelosi. See the CIA document <a href="http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/enhanced-interrogation-briefings-to-congress.pdf">here</a>.<h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-2874537156286162716?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-2974168963856085752009-05-15T12:56:00.003-05:002009-05-19T13:20:39.129-05:00Thanks to <a href="http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/pelosis-claims-getting-much-more-media-scrutiny-than-cias-assertions/">Greg Sargent</a> for this bit on the Pelsosi bashing.<blockquote>"Let’s briefly recap. Three senior Democrats — Pelosi, Bob Graham, and Jay Rockefeller — have all publicly claimed that the CIA didn’t brief them about the use of torture in the manner the agency has claimed. Meanwhile, the CIA itself has conceded that its own accounting may not be accurate.<br /><br />Yet key facts that cast doubt on the CIA’s claims have been buried or completely omitted from multiple news reports. The Times’s first mention of Graham’s claims came today, five days after he first made them, and they were buried in the 22nd paragraph of the paper’s write-up. Neither The Time nor The Post have even mentioned Rockefeller’s claims once. The networks have refused across the board to mention the CIA’s own unwillingness to vouch for the accuracy of its information."</blockquote>Then there is this from <a href="http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=2529356"><I>Talking Points Memo</I></A>.<BLOCKQUOTE>Graham: "Well, [my] notebooks played another role in this. The CIA when I asked them, what were the dates these briefings took place, gave me four dates. And I went back to my spiral notebooks and a daily schedule that I keep and found, and the CIA concurred, that in three of those four dates, there was no briefing held. That raises some questions about the bookkeeping of the CIA."</BLOCKQuote><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-297416896385608575?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827318.post-21744716635760407202009-05-15T10:51:00.001-05:002009-05-15T10:53:01.779-05:00Howard Fineman calls it a "nightmare for the republican party.<br /><br /><object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/mediaplayer316.swf"></param><param name="flashvars" value="config=http://mediamatters.org/embed/cfg?flv=http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/video/2009/05/13/cntdwn-20090512-fine.flv"></param><embed src="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/mediaplayer316.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="config=http://mediamatters.org/embed/cfg?flv=http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/video/2009/05/13/cntdwn-20090512-fine.flv" width="320" height="260"></embed></object><h5><a href="#top"><font face="Arial">Back to Top</font></a></h5><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7827318-2174471663576040720?l=drillingcompany.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dpjchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03539753022524870752noreply@blogger.com0