tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post3120654856080018236..comments2024-03-29T00:25:24.008-04:00Comments on the daily howler: We're off on a mission of national import!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-43624038928261015632019-08-30T18:53:14.232-04:002019-08-30T18:53:14.232-04:005 years ago I had warts, I was treated with some l...5 years ago I had warts, I was treated with some liquid applied to the warts they continued to grow and spread... The next 2 doctors did laser surgery to remove them. 1 year after the surgery, they grew back close to where the 1st ones were' so I was finally told it was hpv. I have had it for very long time, I contract it from my cheated boyfriend and I found out he was also infected and I end up the relationship between us. the warts was so embarrasses because it started spreading all over I have be dealing with this things for very long time the last treatment I take was About 2 years ago I applied natural treatment from Dr onokun herbal cure, a week after applying the treatment all the warts was gone. it's now 2 years and some months I don't have single wart or any symptoms of hpv. wow"" it's great, Dr onokun has finally cured me. Anyone living with hpv contact Dr onokun for natural treatment.<br />His email address: dronokunherbalcure@gmail.comben ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02536930602986316714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-14164766359274630192015-11-05T16:32:40.821-05:002015-11-05T16:32:40.821-05:00@Loudmilk
Is that the best David Brock has to off...@Loudmilk<br /><br />Is that the best David Brock has to offer you? Next time get some facts to back up your left wing agenda before attempting to marginalize Sharyl Attkisson's reporting. cicerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12472612909567425204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-9342610584115142812015-11-03T20:54:20.222-05:002015-11-03T20:54:20.222-05:00cicero, you lost.cicero, you lost.Mike Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08253707993488159674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-33553904377295670412015-11-03T13:36:58.624-05:002015-11-03T13:36:58.624-05:00AC/MA
Where did I characterize Reagan's servi...AC/MA<br /><br />Where did I characterize Reagan's service as "bravely'? Do you know how idiotic it is for Howler libs to deny HRC concocted a story about Benghazi for a political agenda. <br /><br />If you would take the time to notice the quotations, It is from Edmund Morris' article "Five myths about Ronald Reagan" printed in WaPo. You must have a problem with WaPo's Orwellian World. <br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/04/AR2011020403106.html<br />cicerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12472612909567425204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-47577093189635635752015-11-02T21:56:23.207-05:002015-11-02T21:56:23.207-05:00Cicero, you are outdoing yourself, that Reagan, br...Cicero, you are outdoing yourself, that Reagan, bravely serving during WWII in Hollywood, saw some films about the concentration camps, and understandably concluded that he was an eye witness. Do you realize how idiotic you sound?And she has a "history of pathological lying???" I don't like the look of your Orwellian world AC/MAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-72820242499340764532015-11-02T17:13:42.379-05:002015-11-02T17:13:42.379-05:00@2:27
In a July 7, 1967 segment of "Firing L...@2:27<br /><br />In a July 7, 1967 segment of "Firing Line," Groucho Marx told William F. Buckley, "The whole political left is the Garden of Eden for incompetence."<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV8516duLVM<br /><br />Now all you have to do is prove Bush 43 was AWOL from the NG. Perhaps you could employ Mary Mapes as your researcher? cicerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12472612909567425204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-54052478993255197872015-11-02T17:00:06.055-05:002015-11-02T17:00:06.055-05:00@ Loudmilk
"Sharyl Attkisson cannot be trust...@ Loudmilk<br /><br />"Sharyl Attkisson cannot be trusted to give a fair and balanced account of politically charged topics (especially Benghazi):" LM<br /><br />Emmy nominated Atkinson's liberal media creds:<br />Capitol Hill correspondent for CBS<br />News anchor for CNN<br /><br />Now all you have to do is dispute her reporting on Benghazi with actual facts. Relying on B.S. Howler blogging for anything other than his opinion is folly at best. You might as well link to your own posts on the YouTube video. How much time will you require to now check with HRC propaganda machine Media Matters to get your talking points? B.S. already used them as his source in the second blog post. Pathetic. <br /><br /> <br />cicerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12472612909567425204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62144671794692378842015-11-02T11:53:50.287-05:002015-11-02T11:53:50.287-05:0011:58,
Today's workers will see those benefits...11:58,<br />Today's workers will see those benefits if we can figure out a way to stop business from stiffing them for their labor.<br />Any ideas on how to do it? Or will they get away with it because victory goes to " the groups most politically powerful, not the most deserving or needy"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-586408298230139352015-11-01T23:58:28.414-05:002015-11-01T23:58:28.414-05:00Anon 4:33, my forecast is that costs of SS, Medica...Anon 4:33, my forecast is that costs of SS, Medicare, Medicaid, ObamaCare, and interest on the National Debt will continue to rise sharply. They will crowd out other government programs, including defense and social programs. The political battles will be brutal, with victory going to the groups most politically powerful, not the most deserving or needy. <br /><br />E.g., retirees like me have gotten more generous SS benefits than today's workers will receive when they retire (I predict). It's unfair to cut benefits for current workers, but not for retirees. If anything, it should be the reverse, since we retirees got several years worth of benefits at levels that today's workers won't get. But, the various proposals to cut SS do just that. The reason is that we seniors have AARP as an enromously powerful lobby, so we will come out on top. The workers paying our SS benefits aren't are rich as we retirees are, and their benefits won't be as generous as ours, but they'll continue to pay assessments to keep our benefits without reduction.David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-72652141978733396872015-11-01T16:33:02.282-05:002015-11-01T16:33:02.282-05:00Unlike SS, the Department of Defense is insolvent ...Unlike SS, the Department of Defense is insolvent today.<br />Oops. Can't defend the nation without some more tax revenue coming in. <br />So, DinC, what'll it be? <br />Are you willing to chip-in more of your hard-earned dollars to protect the nation, or should we just kill the DoD altogether?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-80435721059233567942015-11-01T14:37:37.705-05:002015-11-01T14:37:37.705-05:00cicero, just admit it, you'll never show that ...cicero, just admit it, you'll never show that Clinton lied about Benghazi. you've wasted yours and other people's time over a big fat nothing. <br /><br />1. even if the right-wing propagandists you quoted above gave a fair and balanced description of Morell's testimony (which they didn't), it wouldn't prove anything about whether Clinton lied.<br /><br />2. "Obama advisor Ben Rhodes advised officials to blame the video, in part, 'to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.'" But this is perfectly accurate! Notice it says "protests." The protests WERE due to the internet video, not policy. So why wouldn't the administration be justified in saying so?<br /><br />3. Sharyl Attkisson cannot be trusted to give a fair and balanced account of politically charged topics (especially Benghazi):<br /><br />a. http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2013/05/who-is-sharyl-attkisson-crazy.html<br /><br />b. http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2013/05/who-is-sharyl-attkisson-she-may-want.html<br /><br />c. she had to add the following addendum to the very article you quote:<br /><br />Bill Harlow, Morell’s co-author on the book, “The Great War of Our Time” replies to the above article with the following:<br /><br />“You cite Michael Morell’s previous testimony that mistakes made regarding Benghazi were not due to politics and contrast that with his statement aired by Fox News where he said that a statement in a White House document ‘is crossing the line between national security and politics.’<br /><br />“But the first statement, made in testimony before Congress, on April 2, 2014, referred to talking points drafted by the CIA at the request of Congress. The second statement is about internal White House talking points which were released under FOIA on April 18, 2014 and which had never been shared with the CIA or Morell until they were publicly released. Morell makes clear in his book that he believes THOSE talking points did cross the line.<br /><br />“As far as who changed what in the CIA-drafted talking points and why – Morell goes into that in great detail in his book. I would urge you and others to make your judgment from that rather than from snippets of edited interviews.”Mike Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08253707993488159674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-71657677057234464762015-11-01T14:27:46.777-05:002015-11-01T14:27:46.777-05:00"The Far Side" was far superior to Trude..."The Far Side" was far superior to Trudeau's benighted far left scribbles."<br /><br />The 3 Stooges economic ideology was far superior to those of the current GOP candidates.<br />That fact, also, doesn't excuse W's shirking his National Guard duties.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-429031980530458322015-11-01T13:47:45.361-05:002015-11-01T13:47:45.361-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mike Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08253707993488159674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-60327612001972887162015-11-01T11:07:09.623-05:002015-11-01T11:07:09.623-05:00"Mike Morell admits he ignored guidance from ..."Mike Morell admits he ignored guidance from the top CIA officer on the ground in Libya when putting together the flawed talking points, in favor of reporting from analysts thousands of miles away and not there."<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPrFeO-xI9I<br /><br />" Morell told members of Congress that the FBI was to blame for talking points that removed mention of terrorism and pointed the finger at the YouTube video. The FBI denied it and Morell changed his story but did not, at the time, acknowledge his own role in the revisions. When documents surfaced revealing more information, he was called to testify to Congress and admitted that he had, in fact, made significant changes that he had not disclosed when asked."<br /><br />"One example is the series of internal “talking points” drafts circulated among administration officials. Documents belatedly produced to Congress revealed that Obama advisor Ben Rhodes advised officials to blame the video, in part, “to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”<br /><br />“I think that is crossing the line between national security and politics,” Morell said to Baier in an interview this week."<br /><br />"(It is worth noting that Morell was repeatedly asked by members of Congress to provide details of the talking points and their drafts but, for reasons he may explain in his book, he did not at the time provide a full or accurate accounting and, in some instances, provided incorrect information.)"<br /><br />https://sharylattkisson.com/the-evolving-revolving-benghazi-story-from-mike-morell-and-white-house/cicerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12472612909567425204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-71936417836254882492015-11-01T10:44:57.223-05:002015-11-01T10:44:57.223-05:00@1:12
What were these occasions where HRC ever ca...@1:12<br /><br />What were these occasions where HRC ever came under sniper fire that she confused with landing at Bosnia airport? For that matter, where has HRC ever even heard a shot fired in anger? <br /><br />HRC has a history of pathological lying. <br /><br />Reagan was a Captain in the U.S. Army., not a civilian. Many Americans who enlisted or were drafted never served overseas during WWII. cicerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12472612909567425204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-67306483663708550072015-11-01T01:17:21.384-04:002015-11-01T01:17:21.384-04:00Say, @ 1:18 exactly how does a comment made afte...Say, @ 1:18 exactly how does a comment made after most others, and which actually addresses one of the media figures who is the subject of the blogger's discourse, disrupt anything?.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-82974822327288405822015-10-31T18:34:25.211-04:002015-10-31T18:34:25.211-04:00mm The trust funds at the end of 2014 held nearly ...mm <i>The trust funds at the end of 2014 held nearly $2.8 trillion in Treasury bonds.</i><br /><br />Yes, $2.8 trillion is a lot of money, but it's small compared with the unfunded liability.The unfunded liability of SS, Medicare and Medicaid is well over $100 trillion. This is the amount a private insurance company would have to hold in reserves if it had sold policies providing the same coverage as these three programs. <br /><br />Looked at another way, in 2015, SS will pay total benefits of $870 billion. Only a small portion of that money will have come from the Trust Fund. The great bulk of it is money paid into SS by workers and their employers during 2015.David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-63168255445500494142015-10-31T15:04:52.057-04:002015-10-31T15:04:52.057-04:00Davy is so full of shit, when he pees turds come o...Davy is so full of shit, when he pees turds come out. Regarding the Harwood/Rubio exchange, he engages in misdirection. Read carefully, Davy: "Rubio claimed CNBC’s John Harwood was wrong..." Got it? And here is more analysis of Rubio's dishonesty: http://www.vox.com/2015/10/30/9642850/marco-rubio-john-harwood<br /><br />It would take a small book to fully sort through your bullshit about S.S. But just to hit a couple of highlights . . . regarding "insolvent" -- this is semantics and sophistry. "Insolvent" means different things to different people. Ask a hundred people at random what they think "S.S. will be insolvent in 7 or 8 years" means, and I promise you most people won't know that the meaning of it is compatible with the fact that "the program can still pay out 73 percent of benefits for several decades." How can you read Somerby's blog consistently and still take the side of people who use misleading scare words like "insolvent," "bankrupt," "flat broke," etc. to advance an agenda? You said of someone's analogy above, "Not an apt analogy." If that ain't the master of bad analogies calling someone else's analogy bad . . . . You think someone seconds away from death is an apt analogy for the following: "S.S. will be able to pay full benefits for 14 to 19 years, and after that 73% of full benefits." That's so dumb it hurts. But it's nowhere near as excruciatingly dumb as your analogy about Bernie Madoff. If fact, that's so dumb, I think I'm done giving you the satisfaction of a reply.<br /><br />To anyone else who might happen upon this discussion, please know that no matter what scare words and line of "reasoning" people like David utter, when all is said and done, the following remains true: as long as Republicans don't fuck with it, with no changes to it Social Security will be able to pay the vast majority of its scheduled benefits indefinitely into the future. And Social Security can never go "broke" in the sense of being unable to pay benefits, because the money for Social Security comes from a dedicated tax on everyone who earns a paycheck. So as long as there is an American workforce, there will be Social Security (unless, once again, the Republicans scare everyone into destroying it with bullshit arguments). Mike Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08253707993488159674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-88825069799333419242015-10-31T14:08:49.883-04:002015-10-31T14:08:49.883-04:00cicero thinks he can dismiss the facts Kessler lay...cicero thinks he can dismiss the facts Kessler lays out about Benghazi by merely linking to (ironically) a powerline blog entry about Kessler's (alleged) credibility issues. but for anyone who's actually interested in the pertinent facts about the question at hand, here they are:<br /><br />'The House Intelligence Committee, in its 2014 report on the incident, said “there was a stream of contradictory and conflicting intelligence that came in after the attacks.”<br /><br />The CIA’s deputy director, Michael Morell, testified that the first time he learned there had not been a protest at the diplomatic facility was after receiving an e-mail from the Libya station chief on Sept. 15, three days after the attack. (An intelligence report from the Tripoli station making a similar observation arrived on Sept. 14.) Morell said the assessment “jumped out” at him because it contradicted the views of CIA analysts in Washington that the attacks were inspired by the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo (which had been spurred by the video).<br /><br />(Morell’s testimony contradicts Rubio’s claim on CNN on Oct. 29, the morning after the debate, that “there was never a shred of evidence presented to anyone that this was spontaneous. And the CIA understood that.” On CBS, Rubio also claimed that it was “not accurate” that the CIA changed its assessment, which is also wrong.)<br /><br />Ironically, the CIA’s initial Sept. 12 executive update stated that “this was an intentional assault and not the escalation of a peaceful protest.” But because the report had no intelligence to support it, that language was dropped as analysts developed a theory about a protest, the House panel report said.<br /><br />In all, CIA analysts received 21 reports that a protest occurred in Benghazi, both from the media and inside the intelligence community. The Washington Post even had a front page story on Sept. 12 about a protest preceding the attack, quoting among others, the Libyan deputy interior minister.<br /><br />Amazingly, the CIA analysts did not gain access to eyewitness accounts until Sept. 22, when the FBI first published an intelligence report on its interviews.<br /><br />The intelligence community “only changed its initial assessment about a protest on September 24, 2012, when closed caption television footage became available on September 18, 2012 (two days after Ambassador Susan Rice spoke), and after the FBI began publishing its interviews with U.S. officials on the ground on September 22, 2012,” the House report said.<br /><br />A similar conclusion was reached by the Senate Intelligence Committee (of which Rubio is a member) in its report on Benghazi: “Intelligence analysts inaccurately referred to the presence of a protest at the Mission facility before the attack based on open source information and limited intelligence, without sufficient intelligence or eyewitness statements to corroborate that assertion. The IC took too long to correct these erroneous reports, which caused confusion and influenced the public statements.”<br /><br />In an article published in Politico in 2015, Morell wrote:<br /><br />“We believe that in Benghazi—over six hundred miles away—extremists heard about the successful assault on our embassy in Egypt and decided to make some trouble of their own, although we still do not know their motivations with certainty. Most likely they were inspired by the prospect of doing in Benghazi what their ‘brothers’ had done in Cairo…Still others might have been motivated by the video—although I should note that our analysts never said the video was a factor in the Benghazi attacks. Abu Khattala, a terrorist leader and possibly one of the ring leaders of the attacks, said that he was in fact motivated by the video.”' https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/10/30/is-hillary-clinton-a-liar-on-benghazi/<br /><br /> Mike Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08253707993488159674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-82401899859402219132015-10-31T13:18:17.694-04:002015-10-31T13:18:17.694-04:00If Russians are pretending to be liberals or conse...If Russians are pretending to be liberals or conservatives in blog comments, might they not also pretend to be idiots and obsessive trolls like 1:01? I think it is possible because the intent to disrupt is the same regardless of the excuse for doing so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-12313949122354736962015-10-31T13:15:31.021-04:002015-10-31T13:15:31.021-04:00@ 12:44pm - Independent Russian news media estimat...@ 12:44pm - Independent Russian news media estimate the Internet Research Agency employs 400 trolls. A former staffer, Ludmila Savchuk, told Mr. Chen that over two 12-hour shifts she was expected to produce propaganda amounting to five political posts, 10 nonpolitical posts and at least 150 comments on posts created by co-workers, often criticizing the American or Ukrainian government. Russian trolls sometimes pose as American liberals or conservatives on U.S. news sites, giving a false impression of public opinion.<br /><br />Mr. Putin has focused on undermining the Internet since 2011, after political opponents used Twitter and other social media to organize protests against a rigged parliamentary election. Last year he called the Internet a “CIA project.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-11854035715001791902015-10-31T13:14:24.142-04:002015-10-31T13:14:24.142-04:00@ 12:34pm - Independent Russian news media estimat...@ 12:34pm - Independent Russian news media estimate the Internet Research Agency employs 400 trolls. A former staffer, Ludmila Savchuk, told Mr. Chen that over two 12-hour shifts she was expected to produce propaganda amounting to five political posts, 10 nonpolitical posts and at least 150 comments on posts created by co-workers, often criticizing the American or Ukrainian government. Russian trolls sometimes pose as American liberals or conservatives on U.S. news sites, giving a false impression of public opinion.<br /><br />Mr. Putin has focused on undermining the Internet since 2011, after political opponents used Twitter and other social media to organize protests against a rigged parliamentary election. Last year he called the Internet a “CIA project.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-12219854751911500552015-10-31T13:12:23.171-04:002015-10-31T13:12:23.171-04:00Reagan critics said such memory lapses were sympto...Reagan critics said such memory lapses were symptomatic of his stupidity. Psychologists say that such lapses are more frequently in those with memory problems like those that occur in early stage Alzheimer's but are also found in people with normal memory, including Hillary Clinton, when she confused landing at Sarajevo with similar experiences elsewhere and seen in video (called a source monitoring error by memory researchers). Anyone can make such a mistake, but when Clinton does it, it is called lying. When Reagan does it, it is called beating up on a poor old man with incipient Alzheimer's without acknowledging the heroism involved in sitting out the war in Hollywood. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-55566728189483197282015-10-31T13:08:53.696-04:002015-10-31T13:08:53.696-04:00@ 12:21pm - Independent Russian news media estimat...@ 12:21pm - Independent Russian news media estimate the Internet Research Agency employs 400 trolls. A former staffer, Ludmila Savchuk, told Mr. Chen that over two 12-hour shifts she was expected to produce propaganda amounting to five political posts, 10 nonpolitical posts and at least 150 comments on posts created by co-workers, often criticizing the American or Ukrainian government. Russian trolls sometimes pose as American liberals or conservatives on U.S. news sites, giving a false impression of public opinion.<br /><br />Mr. Putin has focused on undermining the Internet since 2011, after political opponents used Twitter and other social media to organize protests against a rigged parliamentary election. Last year he called the Internet a “CIA project.”<br /><br />The clue is that Cicero cannot seem to spell names and words properly and thinks that Americans call their past president "Willie". Only a Russian operatchik would make such mistakes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69770675449298463942015-10-31T13:01:35.712-04:002015-10-31T13:01:35.712-04:00Regardless of whether Rampell is right or wrong, s...Regardless of whether Rampell is right or wrong, she is very young and Ivy educated. It is a shame Somerby neglected to point this out to his readers, who have every reason to expect to be better infomed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com