OT – but has anyone noticed the FCC now says they will not renew the Fairness Doctrine. AND a republican named Pence has introduced legislation to have the law invalidated, so it can no be reinitiated by a later FCC chair.

Nothing like fair and balanced news – A move like this is very telling about who truly has the upper hand with today’s new organizations.

Yahoo has a story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..doctrine_1

The whole affair just sceams for a post.

I figured that Tenet’s book was so full of lies and self-justification that I would not buy it twice.

Aww, poor guy. His catbird seat is all covered in catbird poop.

I am not so sure there are such places, but if there are, I doubt Gilliard will be in the same location as Novakula.

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Oh, the implication is that they wouldn’t be.

Born to a Jewish family, Novak will be remembered for converting to Catholicism relatively late in life and for joining Opus Dei (which also claims Sam Brownback and Louis Freeh as members). Did Novak write about his faith in his new autobiography?

tekel – No, I don’t think so. The Court would have to have jurisdiction of the controversy before their power under Rule 42 could be exercised. The phrase â€prosecute out of court contempt†gives me pause however. My guess is that said phrase contemplates out of court contempt (as opposed to actually in the courtroom during a proceeding) on a case before the court. I will try to remember to look at this later; maybe someone else knows the true answer, that is the best guess I have for now. At any rate, I know of no similar power for Congress.

I suspect Mr. Novak is in for a surprise at the Final Judgment:

’Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
They also will answer, ’Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
He will reply, ’I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

Then they will go away to eternal punishment…

OfT Link to 11 customer reviews of Novack’s book on Amazon

IIRC, ten of the eleven reviews are positive. For those who might be interested in trying to injure sales of Novack’s book, Amazon allows us to rate those eleven reviews as helpful or not.

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IIRC, ten of the eleven reviews are positive. For those who might be interested in trying to injure sales of Novack’s book, Amazon allows us to rate those eleven reviews as helpful or not.

That’s pretty appalling, especially considering Marcy and Jeff have books to sell on Amazon. To have her readers downrating the competition when they haven’t read it is abusing the system Marcy and Jeff are relying on,

Crikey, and I REALLY hate doing this, but I am inclined to agree with MayBee that we shouldn’t be setting a bad precedent by spamming a book we haven’t read. That could flow both ways and we certainly don’t want to start that pissing war.

MayBee, as I suspect you are well aware, that wasn’t what I was suggesting. Planting a fake book review, with zero stars would be consistent with what MayBee mistakenly accuses me of advocating. MayBee, if you have a link where Amazon requires people to have read the book, before rating the customer reviews, please by all means link to it. I’ll be more than happy to stand corrected. AFAIK, the rating of the customer reviews is Amazon’s check on those who write bogus reviews, either positive or negative. My guess is that a lot of those four and five star reviews are bogus.

Also MayBee, I’m interested in how Novack’s got ranked 98th so quickly. Any chance the conservative think tanks, such as the Hudson Institute, lined up bulk purchases long before it was published?

Boo – Thanks for the clarification, I now withdraw my objection. Sorry, I should have known you weren’t advocating something inappropriate.

No one should ever write or speak of Novak without giving him the title he has worked so hard to earn.

He is â€The Traitor Bob Novak.†This is his full name and title.

His entire family should know and understand that they are the family of a traitor to America. He chose the title, and worked hard to earn it. No one shoud ever deprive him of it.

The Traitor Bob Novak.

All.

I have to say it.

There is a general fear of any opposing opinion on this blog. The fear seems to be that a different opinion will convert the people on the blog and have them go vote Republican. (That fear alone would be laughable.)
Then there comes the unbridled anger at those giving those opinions plus even worse for a large group of people:
Novak, Judy, Cheney, Bush, Armitage, Woodward, Gonzales, etc.

And finally it is obvious from this thread and the posts above that all this fear and anger has led to much hate.

So very much hate that it is very unsettling for a person like myself who tries to think on a calm and logical plane.

I recall

Yoda:
â€Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.â€

That is something to consider!

fuck off, jodi. we do not fear you, you miserable troll. we despise you and your stupid bad faith moronic crap. you add absolutely nothing to the comment threads on this blog. you just spew drivel and idiotic bold faced bullshit. we wish you would just shut the fuck up and go away.

The above in honor of Freepatriot and with best wishes for his mother.

Jodi,

Your opinions often duplicate the republican talking points. When I read your responses I feel hurt below the anger. I do not feel hate. My hurt comes from the plain fact that this administration and it’s policies have hurt me and hurt people I love. Not just hurt me, but killed people I love.

When you say the things you do it is painful. It’s like being locked in a closet by an abusive parent, then going to the other abusive parent who says â€you deserved it and let me explain why it was logical that we had to lock you in the closet.â€

You don’t see the abuse. To you, the administration’s behavior is just fine. You are completely unable to relate to the damage done by this administration and it’s policies. You minimize deny and blame, just like a perpetrator.

When people feel blocked they get angry. That is the purpose of anger to attack anything that might be blocking a goal. It, in my opinion, is not always the best way to handle a blockage and seems more akin to â€the republican way of war†but it’s what humans do when they get blocked from a goal.

We american’s feel we have been blocked by people like you. We have been blocked from our rights to vote and have our votes accurately counted. We have been blocked from life saving help in Katrina and from helping those who were dying. We have been blocked from stopping a war that will have consquences for many years to come. We have been blocked from expressing our opinions about this in the media and from seeing them expressed by corporate media. We have been blocked from healthcare. (I have 4000$ deductible and a hsa that I cannot afford). We have been blocked from fair mortgages. (I have a predatory lender who I am told can do what it wants because I don’t have the money or lawyer to fight it-which includes not counting my payments accurately and putting fees that were not disclosed in the initial agreement-all illegal but no way to fight or punish them-not a ARM and not me being stupid-I was steered because I was a female buying for the first time with a credit rating of 750). We have been blocked from having safe foods. As the global market has been a reality, Bush has decreased the FDA budget. We are not inspecting the food that comes into the country. (I lost my beloved boxer of 9 years to the poisonings.) We have lost our soverienty as my neighborhood (the house down the street is trafficing illegal aliens at 20 or so at a time- I have no problem with allowing people into our country but we need to know who they are and they need fair wages). We have been blocked from feeling safe. (our children may go to war, our homes and buildings may be attacked, and bush is literally growing more terrorism per every official report available).

We are being blocked from having a quality of life that we experienced under democratic rule. WE miss what we have lost. We are hurting. I can’t speak for everyone on this board…but I am hurting from this administration. If you see my anger it is because your words block the truth. Your words dismiss my reality and my pain.

Jodi, if this blog and its commenters unsettle you, please feel free to go someplace else. If you had the ability to debate, perhaps your comments would provide the rest of us with an insight into how an intelligent convservative is able to rationalize and accept what Bush and the Republicans are doing to this country. But you do not know how to debate and, as Katie said, you duplicate Republican talking point without providing any value of your own, so your comments are irritating and hijack the comments.

No one fears anything you have to say.

But enough about me, let’s talk about Jodi.

Katie,

you don’t seem to hear half of what I say.

I too dislike Bush. I have expressed that many times.

I just point out where people are venting and biting against granite and iron with a lot of these tangents that liberal bloggers go off on, and how that pushes the Democratic Politicians into doing the same. I do the same with a lot of conservative Republicans, but you don’t see that here.
Wasted effort serves no one and distracts the people from the real issues of honest politics and the way big money twists both parties.
Personally I don’t like Politicians of any kind. I listen to all of them though and pick the one whom I think best at the time.

I am sorry about your dog. I know how that loss can affect someone. When I was just 8, 9 and 10, I had a darling little half mix of Collie and Shepherd from a puppy. When I got up in the morning she was there. When I got home from school she was there. When I went to bed, I first checked to see if she was ok. When I got a bike, no matter how fast I went, she could keep up easily. Then one day after school, she wasn’t there. They found her bones in the woods several weeks later. No one ever knew what happened, or maybe they didn’t tell me, not to this day, and I watch carefuly when she is spoken of.
I have never had a pet since. Yes I do feed a lot of neighbor cats, and pet a lot of dogs, but I can’t have a pet yet myself.
I tell myself that when I have children they will have pets, but so far that hasn’t happened.

Anyway to say â€people like you†are causing all this grief in the world is too simplistic and also just plain wrong.

Further I don’t expect a Republican controlled country to be great for me. Nor do I expect a Democratic controlled country to be anathema to me.

As I said, the first time I could vote for a President was in 2000 and I picked Bush because he seemed very straightforward and practical. In 2004 I picked anyone but Bush which happened to be Kerry.

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Felix was packing winds of up to 165 mph as it headed west, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It was projected to skirt Honduras’ coastline on Tuesday before slamming into Belize on Wednesday.
“As it stands, we’re still thinking that it will be a potentially catastrophic system in the early portions of this week, Tuesday evening, possibly affecting Honduras and then toward the coast of Belize,†said Dave Roberts, a hurricane specialist at the center in Miami.

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