9/12/2006

matthew rothschild joins the cast of fashion house

ask me what i'm watching? fashion house. it is just as hideous as ava and c.i. said. but that mike begovich, what a hottie. fly boy thought their review was hilarious and had set up the tivo so we'd get the show while we were gone. (we stayed with mike, trina, et al last night after their party.) i fell asleep on the way home and woke up as we were pulling up to the house. i told fly boy i didn't think i had the energy to take off my make up let alone blog tonight and he told me to wait a 2nd until we were inside. we got inside and he said, 'sit on the couch.' i said 'i'm not in the mood for sports.' but that wasn't what he wanted me to see.

so i opened up the laptop after about 20 minutes of non-stop laughing. bo derek is hideous. she really does recline (not sit) and throw her legs everywhere. maria gianna? does that sound like a character the oh-so-blonde bo could play (presuming she could act)?

she is so awful proving, yet again, that republicans who can act and/or be creative are the exception not the rule. i get the barbara eden comparison ava and c.i. made as well. with bo's hair, you really do tend to think of barbara eden. (i think it's the bangs.)

she says every line the same. she poses uncomfortably (probably because she's not used to posing in clothes). she is the year's worst actress.

but, on the up, check it out for the hottie mike begoich. how hot is he? so hot that fly boy said 'he's not all that.' well, he's not fly boy but for those who can't have fly boy, he's something to get excited about.

if you missed it, matthew rothschild felt the need to weigh in on the 9-11 truth movement because, he assumes, the whole world has been waiting for his two cents. (we're still waiting for thoughts worth even two cents.) kat's written about it in 'Enough of the Mindless Blather, Already' which i strongly recommend you read. i actually heard about that this afternoon when i went to visit t. she'd read it and was furious. t's beliefs are that terrorists hijacked the airplanes so when she was talking to me and so angry, i had to stop her and ask her what had her so bothered? it was his 'pompous' attitude. later, ty called me and read it to me over the phone and i saw just what she meant. he does sound very pompous.

since it's not a topic he's ever written on before, why he feels the need to commemorate 9-11 with his hate speech is beyond me. that's what it is, hate speech. why do i say that? because he's just so hateful in that.

in his position (and with the magazine always in need of money) he really can't afford to offend people by being so nasty. maybe he has other funding lined up? i think he sounded like a kook who was off his meds. and what a way to commemorate 9-11, no? by having a hissy fit at the truth movement. yeah, that's where to target your 'progressive' anger.

about that term, i identify as 'the left' - i don't use the term 'progressive' which always sounded to me like a laxitive. it's the new coke of lables, i know, but i never drank new coke either.

it's a sort of watered down word that really means nothing. had to stop writing because fly boy asked me what was going on with the left side of bo derek's face? i have no idea but she's got this bulge under her left cheeck at certain angles. it's like someone hurled a piece of chicken fat at her and it stuck.

fly boy just reminded me to check to see if i had any links to the progressive? i don't. i was pretty sure i didn't. if i had them on my blogroll i'd pull them.

you know what i think? i think matthew rothschild's been watching fashion house and wanted to pretend he was bo derek!

it's the only thing that makes any sense. why else would an otherwise menschy guy go decided he wanted to come off sounding like a nut job? (ruth will let me know if i've used the wrong yiddish word.) but it's good to know that with everything going on in the world, matthew rothschild will always go after the 'real' enemies, isn't it?

isn't that good to know. because surely it's the 9-11 truth movement that is at the heart of all today's problems. they have resorted to warrantless wiretapping and started an illegal war on iraq and ... what's that? oh, you're right, they did none of that. so why he felt the need to show his ass is anyone's guess. but there it is and, surprisingly, it's not cute.

it's just another chubby, middle aged ass, got a little more hair on it than i would have expected, jiggles quite a bit more (with rage, mind you) then i would have guessed.

it's kind of sad and depressing. which reminds me, he never wrote about the fact that the u.s. military was keeping a bodycount on iraqis who died. i spoke to my grandmother on the phone for a 1/2 hour today and she asked if i noticed how many people who refused to cover that (when it was news back in june) now try to slip it in and act like they've covered it before? my grams said people must hear it and think, 'what? what are they talking about? why didn't i hear about this? did i sleep through this summer?' no. independent media slept through the summer. so maybe matthew rothschild should be the last 1 slamming anyone who's dedicated to a cause?

if the whole thing has left you depressed and you need a pick me up, i suggest a joint post, cedric [Alberto Gonzales' big night (humor)'] and wally ('THIS JUST IN! ALBERTO GONZALES DOESN'T THINK CHRISTMAS IS SO HOT!') have teamed up again for another 1 of their hilarious posts.

after your chuckles, when you're ready to sink yourself into some commentary about iraq, don't go looking for matthew rothschild (who probably hasn't recovered yet from his tantrum), just check out c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 chaos and violence continue in Iraq with AFP estimating that at least 27 Iraqis were reported dead today, in the United States the divider shows his ugly/only face again, CODEPINK asks that you Give Peace a Vote,


In the United States, Bully Boy is coming under fire for a speech given Monday night in front of photos of his twin daughters who were apparently supposed to represent Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Speaking to the nation in a nineteen minute pitch during the second night of ABC's VOTE GOP! infomercial, Bully Boy attempted to sell his illegal war on the shaky grounds that "I know I said it would make things worse not to invade and I was wrong, but it will make things worse to leave, forget that I was wrong before."

Using his circular illogic in his seventeen minute pitch, as the
AP notes, "most of his 17-minute speech was devoted to justifying his foreign policy since that day. With his party’s control of Congress at stake in elections less than two months away, Bush suggested that political opponents who are calling for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq would be giving victory to the terrorists."



Sounding like Ike Turner (or any other abusive husband), Bully Boy looked a nation of soul-surviving Tina Turners in the face and dared to offer, "
Whatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be" to leave.

Leave it to
David Stout (New Yokr Times) to play Ben Fong-Torres, embrace the tawdry and notice nothing while concluding, "Democrats have long accused Mr. Bush and his top aides of disingenuously implying a link between the Iraq of Saddam Huessien and the 9/11 attacks."

To clarify for Stout and other would be Fong-Torreses, the two latest sections of the
Senate Intel Report (released Friday) once again found no link, none, between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda -- no links, none, between Saddam Hussein and 9-11.
On the fifth anniversary of 9-11, in the midst of a myth-series, Bully Boy elects to address the nation in some sort of effort to offer Frito Pie for the Soul and he is yet again spending "most of his time," talking about? Iraq.

It's not reporting. It's saying that Democrats called heads in the coin toss and now Democrats charge that they won the coin toss without ever noting the fact that, yes, heads won. [
David Corn (The Nation) addresses Dick Cheney's only loose grasp of reality regarding the fact that there is no link.]

Among those Democrats rightly calling the Bully Boy out on his continued and false linkage of 9-11 and Iraq are US Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Reid spoke of 9-11 on Monday at the Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas and nowhere in the nineteen lines did he seek to slam Americans or cite Iraq. Pelosi's sixteen line statement on Monday also failed to politicize the anniversary. By contrast, the Bully Boy offered 31 lines that directly brought Iraq, which, again, has nothing to do with 9-11, into the anniversary.

Even a he-said/she-said press could point out that obvious fact. Possibly all the time spent on Iraq prevented the Bully Boy from noting the obvious, which
Greg Palast has,
"It's been five years and the Bush regime has not done that. Instead, the War on Terror is reduced to taking off our shoes in airports, hoping we can bomb Muslims into loving America and chasing journalists around the bayou. Meanwhile, King Abdullah, the Gambino of oil, whose princelings funded the murderers, gets a free ride in the President's golf cart at the Crawford ranch." No word on what's preventing the so-called mainstream press for noting that reality on the fifth anniversary of 9-11. An earlier BBC News Night report by Palast on the Bully Boy's blocking bin Laden probes can be viewed
here.

Bully Boy did get one thing right in his Monday speech: "
America did not ask for this war". No, but the administration did and resorted to lies, then and now, to have their request granted and continued.




In other "I can't believe it's not butter moment"s,
Reuters reports that Richard Zilmer (Marine Major General in Iraq) declared from Baghdad, outside the al Anbar Province, that the Marines have not lost the province. Citing unspecified "areas," citing them from Baghdad, outside the al Anbar Province, Zilmer stated all was going swimmingly in some "areas" -- unspecified areas. Reuters notes: "The statement did not indicate which parts of the province he believed had effective local government." Prepare for tomorrow's audio-visual presentation where Zilmer, using a projection screen and pointer demonstrates that he can find the province on a map so, therefore, it has not been lost.

Zilmer was attempting to spin
Thomas E. Rick's (Washington Post) Monday report of Marine Col. Pete Devlin's assesment that "that the prospects for securing that country's western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with its contents."

The violence and chaos continues throughout Iraq.

Bombings?

CNN reports six dead in Baghdad when "a car bomb exploded at a busy shopping district" and that fifteen were left wounded. AFP notes that a police officer and a civilian were killed by a roadside bomb "near Baghdad's University of Technology" and left seven more wounded, while, in Abu Sayda, a bomb took the life of "Brigadier General Ali Hassan Jubur, head of operations in Muqdadiyah's police headquarters" and the deaths from roadside bombings of a police officer (in Samarra) and an Iraqi soldier (in Kirkuk). CBS and AP report a bombing in Middadiyah resulted in at least 4 dead and 24 wounded (and that the same location resulted in gunfire Monday night leaving seven dead). Reuters reports that, in Kirkuk, a roadside bomb wounded Kassem al-Bayati and that three other roadside bombs in Baghdad left at least eight Iraqis wounded.


Shootings?

KUNA reports that, in Mosul, Iraqi police captain Ziad Ramzi was shot dead and, in a separate attack, four other people were shot dead. Reuters reports that they were four family members and that a fifth was wounded. CNN reports that a police officer was shot dead in Baghdad ("outside his house"). Reuters reports: "Dolonel Abbas al-Nuaimi was gunned down Monday outside a jail in Hindiya" while "in police custody" to stand "trial for crimes committed during Saddam Hussein's rule."


Corpses?

CNN reports that 60 corpses were discovered around Iraq and one severed head carried the message: "This is the fate of those who deal with the U.S. forces." AFP reports three corpses were discovered in the Diyala province. Remember that discovered corpses never make the media's daily tabulation of the death toll.

On the issue of corpses,
CNN reports: "Of the bodies taken to the morgue last month, 90 percent had been shot, the official said. The other 10 percent were killed by other means, such as torture, beheading and stabbing, the official said. The official noted that the morgue figures do not include most bombing victims, as that number is calculated separately."
CBS and AP report that Sunnis in the parliament are attempting "to work together to prevent" a bill that would turn the occupied nation into a federation "from being implemented without changes." This as puppet of the occupation is once again out of the country. CNN notes that Nouri al-Maliki is in Tehran establishing relations with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran. As the BBC notes, al-Maliki "lived in Iran during the 1980s" and he will be meeting "Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, on Wednesday."



In peace news,
Camp Democracy continues in Washington, DC. Today's events focus on the environmental crisis caused by global warming and this evening Mark Karlin (the editor and publisher of BuzzFlash) will be presenting. Tomorrow is verdict day and Ann Wright and Ray McGovern are among the scheduled participants of the Bush Crimes Commission and World Can't Wait sponsored events. While on Thursday, Danny Schechter is scheduled to be among the participants with a screening of his documentary WMD: Weapons of Mass Deceptions. On Sunday, Camp Democracy will host a number of events and the theme will be Impeachment Day. Among those participating: Elizabeth Holtzman, Michael Avery, Ray McGovern, David Green, John Nichols, Marcus Raskin, Elizabeth De La Vega, Dave Lindorff, David Swanson, Jennifer Van Bergen, Geoff King, David Waldman, Dan DeWalt, Steve Cobble, Anthony St. Martin, Cindy Bogard, Mubarak Awad, Susan Crane, Frank Anderson. The camp has daily activities and admission is free. A complete schedule can be found here.

Events are scheduled through September 21st, the same day that
CODEPINK's Troops Home Fast concludes. Troops Home Fast is currently on day 69 with at least 5023 people participating. CODEPINK is also promoting Give Peace a Vote (Medea Benjamin: "Part of a coalition effort of Voters for Peace designed to create a strong anti-war voting bloc, the petition asks people to pledge that they will only vote for candidates who support a speedy withdrawal from Iraq and no future wars of aggression.") which over 14,000 people have currently pledged to support.

Writing in The Nation, John Nichols reminds Americans to watch the results of the primaries today and zooms in on the Maryland Congressional race John Sarbanes is running in. (He also notes other races.)

Meanwhile, in Australia,
Dan Box (The Australian) reports that the government wants to up the army from 2,600 to 30,000 ("its biggest intake since the Vietnam war") and that this comes while there seems to be no accountability for officers as evidenced by the abuse of Charles Williams and the hearing into the April 21st Baghdad death of Jake Kovco ("Last week, the family of Private Jake Kovco accused a military board of inquiry into his death of being a 'face-saving exercise' to protect officers.").