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Intent To Deceive
Once is a mistake. Twice is a pattern.
It seems to me congressional candidate Howard Kaloogian is either on the Doug Feith level of stupid, or his intent to deceive, lie, manipulate and distort the facts, knows no bounds.
The story of his trying to pass off a picture of a Turkish suburb as downtown Baghdad is now widely known, the truth having been uncovered and verified in less than a day by independent bloggers, AnthonyLA, and jem6x over at Daily Kos.
The new picture Kaloogian has submitted to demonstrate his absurd caption from the first picture, is just as ridiculous.
The new picture, shown here was taken from where?
Likely, it was taken from a balcony at the Rashid Hotel. The Al-Rashid Hotel is perhaps the most fortified and protected square footage of real estate in all of Iraq, let alone Baghdad. Baghdad is safe and peaceful, but the only picture supplied was taken from the balcony of the safest place in all of Iraq?
Oh my, what would Laura Ingraham say?
But why is that fact important? It's important because the caption process is being used to tell you what to think and what to believe about what you are seeing. Namely, that this is what downtown Baghdad looks like today, since Kaloogian has on his website, that he "just returned from Iraq".
Well, candidate Kaloogian fails the honesty test on a couple of levels. First, he didn't just return from Iraq. He "returned from Iraq" in July 2005. Talking about your experiences and posting pictures from a trip to Iraq in July 2005, is a like talking about your experiences and posting pictures from a trip to New Orleans in July 2005. It bears no relationship to the current reality whatsoever, and we all know it.
Moreover, when Kaloogian was there last July, things were hardly jolly, as reported by Martha Zoeller, fellow member of his "delegation" (as he refers to his group) and uber patriotic supporter of the war in Iraq:
The sand storm kicked up and stayed around two days. We spent 18 hours in the temporary terminal at the Baghdad Airport. This was also a great opportunity because random military and civilian contactors came in and out on their way to other places and leave and other bases or home and provided an opportunity to continue to expand the number of people and the viewpoints. The most radical viewpoint came from a UN worker, who didn’t want to have her name used. The day before a heinous homicide car bomb exploded in a crowd of children and families that had gathered around Americans giving out candy. The cowardly bomber waited until the children had gathered and then detonated the bomb, killing 27 children.
So when Kaloogian makes the claim in the caption of the Baghdad picture that, "the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it", let me tell you, they don't have far to look to find it.
They didn't in July 2005, and they don't today.
So, let's review the claims of candidate Kaloogian:
Twenty-seven children are murdered in a suicide bombing during Kaloogian's trip and he reports all quiet and happy on the Iraq front.
He makes the trip to Iraq in July 2005, and reports on his website that he "just returned" from there.
He posts a picture purporting to be downtown Baghdad, but is actually a picture of a suburb of Istanbul.
As I said, once is a mistake. Twice is a pattern. And three times is what, pathological?
That Google search feature is going to be nice (the satellite photos).
Remember the toppling of the Saddam statue? Then the aeriel shot posted on IndyMedia showed that it was in a tiny cordoned off area near the hotel where most of the reporters stay? & completely an engineered photo op.
Then there was the Republican office seeker who PhotoShopped himself in front of an enthusiastic crowd of Dean supporters.
& the British paper that sandwiched multiples of the same crowd shot of angry Muslims - you could see the same guy several places in the photo if you looked closely.
The worst fraud is sitting in the White House.
Still more lying and fraud:
Here's the pic of Scalia (allegedly made obscene gesture to reporter) and the rebuttal from the journalist who took the pic.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=132848
Despite Scalia's insistence that the Sicilian gesture was not offensive and had been incorrectly characterized by the Herald as obscene, the photographer said the newspaper “got the story right.
Smith said the jurist immediately knew he'd made a mistake, and said, ˜You're not going to print that, are you?"
clip
Smith was working as a freelance photographer for the Boston archdiocese's weekly newspaper at a special Mass for lawyers Sunday when a Herald reporter asked the justice how he responds to critics who might question his impartiality as a judge given his public worship.
The judge paused for a second, then looked directly into my lens and said, ˜To my critics, I say, ˜Vaffanculo," punctuating the comment by flicking his right hand out from under his chin, Smith said.
The Italian phrase means (expletive) you.
Here's a site on how to cuss in Italian:
http://www.gambino.com/curse
Another moralist, like Dick Cheney, or the Taleban.
Dear Tony "The Bullsh*t Artist" Scalia... here's how it's done...
http://www.change-links.org/bush-gives-the-finger.jpg
http://encoretheatremagazine.blogspot.com/Bush-gives-the-finger2.jpg
http://towleroad.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/bushfinger.jpg
... and as for photo-fraud, who can forget this gem from the 2004 campaign...
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/images/clips/faketroops1.jpg
Sabahun Hayir Olsun!
Someone needs to discretely also get the word out in that CA district that Kaloogian sees Turkey as a great model for the region (which it is, and which I think is admirable of him).
I saw those pics on Josh Marshall's website and it was so obvious that that was Turkey! Made me a bit nostalgic, even.
Anyway, that always cracks me up when anyone in a position of power says "now, I've been to Iraq,and I can tell you...." My sense of it from people who have worked there is that it is almost suicidal for anyone like that to venture outside of US-miltary-controlled zones cordoned off with layers of blast walls and barb-wire and multiple check-points (fly-overs in Helicoptor or controlled events excepted).
Now, I believe that going to Iraq for these folks and getting face-time with the players and with our military folks is valuable. As far as gaining insight into the life of the average Iraqi, however, it is probably an incredibly skewed viewpoint filtered through several competeing agendas.
Chuck in Houston
Read about Paul Hackett from Cincinatti
http://www.citybeat.com/current/news.shtml
Good work, Casey.
On a ssside note, but related to hope, MKH has a birthday today and you can wish her a happy hopeful year in the DCP Family Forum:
http://www.democracycellproject.net/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=134&t=1049&st=0#entry4130
Jon Talton, Az Republic Business writer on the immigration problem
http://www.azcentral.com/business/columns/articles/0330biz-talton0330.html
Confronting our addiction to cheap immigrant labor
[snip]
The reality is a labor market that takes little account of geographic or political borders. Those workers are already here in the millions, propping up huge segments of the economy, especially in construction, hospitality and increasingly services.
This is part of what capitalism has become over the past 30 years, all enabled by Washington. The race to the bottom is run on a track of low-wage labor.
Privet, Bob!
I ne znal, chto vy govorite po-russki!
S uvazheniem,
Chak iz Khiustona
Posted by: chuck at March 30, 2006 12:12 PM
I think I just failed my eye test.
chuck...
no speekedirusski anymore..except for Slivovitz...
Bob:
That's too bad in a way. I bet your ear can pick up a lot of spoken phrases though. Language acquisition and retention is funny. Also, thank's for the Hackett link -- read it with interest.
Chuck in Houston
PS: Monkey, slam down 200-400 grams of vodka and try the eye test again! After 6:00 pm of course!
Speaking of FRAUDS and intent to DECEIVE...
Elections officials to query GOP pundit
This time, claiming she doesn't even live here — as GOP pundit Ann Coulter has been doing on this spring's college speaking tour when she's questioned about her February election meltdown on Palm Beach — isn't going to cut it.
Palm Beach County's elections supervisor has given the right wing's unofficial mouthpiece 30 days to explain why she voted in the wrong precinct.
In a registered letter scheduled to be sent to her this week, Coulter is asked to "clarify certain information as to her legal residence," elections boss Arthur Anderson said.
"We want to give her a chance," Anderson said. "She needs to tell us where she really lives."
Or else? He could refer the case to State Attorney Barry Krischer for criminal charges, Anderson said.
-snip-
Coulter, a constitutional lawyer who relentlessly made fun of Palm Beach County voters after the botched 2000 presidential election, couldn't be reached for comment.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/celebrities/content/local_news/epaper/2006/03/29/m2a_jose_col_0329.html
Chuck
The couple in secular dress should have been a dead giveaway. Even I have been to Turkey. Istanbul seemed pretty cool but not sure the EU is ready to absorb them! It could happen eventually though. I'm halfway through Rifkin's "European Dream," the chapter about immigration. It's a fascinating book, very timely.
DiAnne:
The Turkish letters and words kind of help too. What kills me is that these guys are so incompetent and at the same time so certain that we are to ignorant to see through it. It's perfectly uderstandable that some San Diego pol wouldn't be able to tell downtown Dehli from downtown Doha -- but a guy flouting his regional expertise and credentials???
Chuck in Houston
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has introduced a Privileged Resolution requiring an ethics investigation of Members of Congress allegedly involved in improper conduct related to lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
While reading the resolution, the House Clerk was interrupted while the House was called back into order.
After Republicans voted by voice to table the resolution, Pelosi requested a recorded vote. With just 6 Republicans breaking an otherwise party-line vote, House GOP successfully tabled the resolution, 216-193.
more...
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Pelosi_introduces_privilege_resolution_calling_for_0330.html
We don't need no stinkin' accountability!
G.O.Pee
While discussing recent protests in Los Angeles against recently proposed immigration restrictions, radio host Neal Boortz suggested the U.S. government should "store 11 million Hispanics," who entered the country illegally, in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans before deporting them to their home countries. During and after Hurricane Katrina, the Superdome housed thousands of New Orleans residents displaced by the storm, under wretched conditions. Boortz made his remarks during the March 27 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show.
more...
http://mediamatters.org/items/200603290004
Yet another fine example of compassionate conservativism.
aka HATE MONGER
More Intent to Deceive.
Remember when we had Le Guernica shown on this site as part of our Saturday art series. I mentioned that a couple of different people had displayed it at our local peace rally? It's such an incredible and important piece.
Now look what Bert tells me:
Ironic that a mural depicting civil war was covered up by the Bush administration!
Anti-war art doesn't fly at U.N.
Toronto Star
Guernica cloaked for Powell's visit Depicts 1937 raid
If there is a war with Iraq, there's already been the first casualty - art.
A tapestry reproduction of "Guernica," Pablo Picasso's powerful anti-war painting, was concealed behind a blue cloth and a row of flags yesterday at the U.N. Security Council offices as White House envoy Colin Powell was making the United States' case for war.
The mural's tormented images of writhing, twisted shapes reflects the Spanish painter's outraged reaction to the April 27, 1937, bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by German warplanes sent by Hitler to aid the fascist side in the Spanish civil war.
The bombing mission on behalf of the right-wing Spanish nationalists was an indication of the world war - and many other wars - to come. Guernica had no military significance. It was only bombing practice for Nazi pilots.
U.N. spokespeople yesterday claimed it was the needs of the media, not censorship, that prompted the cover-up.
"Because there was so much press, we had to move the cameras to accommodate them," U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told The Star yesterday. "We needed the right background that would work on television and would say 'U.N.'
"If we'd left the tapestry, you would have only seen one-tenth of it."
U.N. innocence aside, the coverup may have been prompted by U.N. realization that images of the mural's vivid anti-war message were televised world-wide when it appeared as a backdrop to the Jan. 27 interim report by chief weapons inspector Hans Blix.
Nevertheless, yesterday's coverup attracted New York City protesters who held up copies of the Picasso painting, which was described early on in its history as "a cry of outrage and horror amplified by a great genius" by critic Herbert Read.
The U.N's "Guernica" is a tapestry reproduction donated by former New York state governor Nelson Rockefeller. The Picasso original hangs in Spain's Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it has attracted long lineups.
U.N. sensitivity to "Guernica" may stem from the painting's well-known historical origins. While the undefended town with its 7,000 inhabitants was bombed, killing hundreds, military barracks nearby were ignored by the approaching pilots. A neighbouring factory making munitions was also left unscathed.
Taken together, these 1937 events may carry meaning for those anti-war nations at the U.N. that fear the so-called "collateral" damage in an Iraq war. (While the American military made much of the accuracy of the "precision" bombing during the Gulf War, most of the bombs landed in civilian areas. Basra, a city of 800,000 people, was carpet-bombed.)
Picasso, a self-proclaimed Communist whose politics were slippery at the best of times, was outraged at the devastation to Guernica and began the first of his 45 or so sketches of the atrocity about five days after the bombing.
"Guernica" was banned from Spain until it was returned to the country in 1981, six years after Franco's death. It is housed at the Renia Sofia, a massive bunker of a museum providing protection from anyone wishing to attack the work - or its message.
--& didn't Ashcroft have a habit of covering art with curtains also?!! Wasn't it a Statue depicting Justice?
Chuck
They probably remember how many people in this country were harassing Sikhs after 9/11. They know how many people can't discern one middle eastern country from another. Even the President doesn't know the difference bewteen Arabic and Farsi or between Middle East and South Asia. Geography isn't our strong suit in our education.
I also heard on NPR this morning that there was a big protest in United Arab Emirates (where world's tallest building is being put up) - it was by migrant workers. When I was in France I saw a documentary about how some of those "artificial islands" were made by essentially slave labor. I have met several people who travelled to rich middle eastern countries to work - from Indonesia, from Phillipines. There are some in Iraq too. Know any stories about such things?
More intent to deceive... only BIGGER!
PREWAR INTELLIGENCE
Insulating Bush
By Murray Waas, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration. Rove expressed his concerns shortly after an informal review of classified government records by then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley determined that Bush had been specifically advised that claims he later made in his 2003 State of the Union address -- that Iraq was procuring high-strength aluminum tubes to build a nuclear weapon -- might not be true, according to government records and interviews.
As the 2004 election loomed, the White House was determined to keep the wraps on a potentially damaging memo about Iraq.
more...
http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/0330nj1.htm
WHY IS CONGRESS PUSHING FOR HEARINGS ON BASEBALL'S STEROID USE AND NOT ON JACK ABRAMOFF?
WHY IS CONGRESS MORE CONCERNED WITH BARRY BONDS AND NOT ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING OF PRIVATE CITIZENS?
Steroids: The Terri Schiavo of the 109th Congress.
Posted by: Fe at March 30, 2006 04:16 PM
America's Past Time vs. America's Ass Time
Roids R' Us
OK, it looks as though I MAY be able to get into this hearing tomorrow morning and LIVEBLOG it. Of course, you will all be able to watch it on C-SPAN, no doubt, but if you come HERE, you might just get some local color and commentary. Nonpartisan, of course. I plan to report any and all under-the-breath mutterings I hear.
It's not 100% sure I can get in, but I am waiting to hear more..
Meanwhile:
MARCH 31, 2006
""An Examination of the Call to Censure the President" "
Senate Judiciary Committee
Full Committee
DATE: March 31, 2006
TIME: 09:30 AM
ROOM: Senate Dirksen 226
OFFICIAL HEARING NOTICE / WITNESS LIST:
March 24, 2006
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE HEARING
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on "An Examination of the Call to Censure the President" for Friday, March 31, 2006 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Tentative Witness List
Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee
on "An Examination of the Call to Censure the President"
Friday, March 31, 2006
9:30 a.m., Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226
PANEL I
Robert F. Turner
Associate Director
Center for National Security Law
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Bruce Fein
Partner, Fein & Fein
Washington, D.C.
Lee Casey
Partner, Baker & Hostetler
Washington, D.C.
John Dean
White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon
Author, Worse than Watergate
John Schmidt
Partner, Mayer Brown Rowe Maw LLP
Chicago, Illinois
By order of the Chairman
well that would be cool...
ok, word is I will be in the room tomorrow morning, for all censure junkies--
Please join me here and at AfterDowningStreet for the story behind the story; the body langauge, the mutterings, the in-the-room perspective...
And let's talk in the irc too.
Posted by: karen at March 30, 2006 05:58 PM
Hmmm...maybe I'll have to be sick in the morning.
click,click go the cameras..love it..
"At the Cincinnati Reds' home opener, DeWine is slated to leave his family's seats in the second deck along the third-base line to sit with President Bush for the first few innings. This very public appearance with Bush is a change for DeWine, who had been conspicuously absent when the president visited the state three times earlier this year.
"I'm always glad to be with the president and always glad when he's in Ohio," DeWine said in an interview after receiving an invitation from Bush on Thursday. "I spent an awful lot of time with him in the last presidential campaign. Virtually every time he was in Ohio, I was with him."
DeWine did make it back from California to join Bush at a private fundraiser in Cincinnati, which raised more than $1 million for the senator's campaign. Photographs of Bush and DeWine hugging and waving were available on a commercial photography Web site earlier this week but have since been blocked by password-only access.
DeWine released a new advertising slogan last week highlighting his independence and has broken with Bush and the GOP leadership on several key votes in recent months."
..let them be joined at the hip just like Virginia. Gubenatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore.
U.S. To Test 700-Ton Explosive
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
The U.S. military plans to detonate a 700 ton explosive charge in a test called “Divine Strake” that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas, a senior defense official said March 30.
”I don’t want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you’ll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons,” said James Tegnelia, head of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
more...
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1654792&C=america
"Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." -GWB, 2002
Little did we know the peril... and the mushroom cloud... would come from within.
Posted by: Fe at March 30, 2006 04:16 PM
Excellent questions. Have you asked your legislators why they're on detours into non-issues? (My bias is showing, but I personally don't give a bloody rat's @$$ if jocks hurt themselves using steroids. It's their choice to use or not, and the only ones hurt is themselves. I never watch sports.)
Yes, I'm keeping up with reminding my legislators about what I believe is important: CENSURE in the Senate, and IMPEACHMENT in the House - altho my Rep has already signed on to Conyers' bill, I wrote to his local secretary and said if my rep has any contact with the new group of Dems running for office, they might not want to sit on the fence on the issue of impeachment or they may not get elected, 'cuz there's so many of us out here who are so overwhelmingly disgusted with the administration. An in-state show featuring Dem political candidates running for the seat of one of the Reps retiring in another district prompted that email.
I suspect that pestering the staffs of the legislators, just one step short of harrassment, is the only thing that might get them to ACT on what people out here in the dingtoolies are talking about and want to happen.
Lamestream Media needs pestering, too.
But, your point is more than valid and well-taken. Why aren't legislators and the media focusing on more important (and genuine!) Abramoff and his connections, illegally wiretapping citizens of this nation - and other things that need to be talked about like the LIES on the part of the administration, torture, concentration camps, the increasing deficit... and on and on and on....
We don't need congressional members acting like they are in the alternate world of reality TV....
Posted by: karen at March 30, 2006 05:58 PM
:-) GO, KAREN!!! :-) THANK YOU!!!
Posted by: monkey at March 30, 2006 07:19 PM
Big bombs go boom....
So the point of testing phallic symbols is ... what???
To play a phallic symbol game called "Look! My wee-wee is bigger than your wee-wee...?"
Posted by: NonnyO at March 30, 2006 07:40 PM
So you think Dick is behind this?
Posted by: NonnyO at March 30, 2006 07:33 PM
Errrr... I meant to write "more important (and genuine!) issues like Abramoff...."
http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/0330nj1.htm
Posted by: monkey at March 30, 2006 04:09 PM
Very good article Monkey. Thanks.
According to this article, Monkey, it looks like the aluminum tube statements were more damaging to the President than the yellow cake ones were, because several in the CIA and other agencies told Pres. Bush, and Condi Rice that the aluminum tubes were no substantial proof that Hussein was planning to make nuclear weapons before they went to war with Iraq, and yet they presented them as evidence knowing the information was not pure in form. And some documents were possibly forged.
Does anybody here at the DCP analyze voice inflections? Karen? DiAnne? Because when President Bush told the American people in his 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq was procuring high-strength aluminum tubes to build a nuclear weapon his voice quivered when he said that. I remember it and how phoney it sounded. He did not sound strong and convinced that he was telling the truth. Anybody know how to analyze voice inflections?
That is a wonderful article because it lays out the facts and shows the time lines of who knew what when and who lied.
If this research is true, Bush knew the truth, Condi knew the truth, Karl Rove knew the truth, Colin Powell knew the truth. And they covered the lie in order to get another four years to continue to spread more of their freedom and democracy around the world. It is hard work, ya know. Covering your butt is hard work too, obviously, because they even FUBAR that.
I really wonder about all they have done that we don't even know about yet. Deceit is their name, and already up from the cauldron comes the ooze. I am sure before it is all over (if they don't blow us all up first) we will find out things as history tells this tale. And no, history is not when you are dead. Always. Mr. President.
Got a kick out of this line in the article:
Bartlett said, "The president of the United States is not a fact-checker."
Posted by: monkey at March 30, 2006 07:45 PM
Yep. Dead-Eye, One-Eye, Go Cheney yourself, Dick quite likely has something to do with it.
Or, since he-who-shall-not-be-named has such small hands, it likley portends other small parts of his body (besides the pea-sized brain), and his gigantic ego just has to have big things go boom to prove to himself what a big tough boy he is....
Posted by: NonnyO at March 30, 2006 07:40 PM
So you think Dick is behind this?
Posted by: monkey at March 30, 2006 07:45 PM
Ha ha ha haha!!! Monkey you funny!!!!
Truth Shall Prevail
There is a guy at UW (Dr. Reich) who analyzes voice inflections etc. for court cases. I'll look in the literature - think this over. There are also studies on body language patterns when lying.
So you think Dick is behind this?
Posted by: monkey at March 30, 2006 07:45 PM
I think we should ask Polly Sigh. She knows about things like this. She has had several clandestine meetings with men that wear large overcoats.
The best story is in the book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" by Olliver Sachs, the neurologist who collected interesting clinical cases into books.
He is talking about how some stroke patients are watching Reagan give a speech. Those with left hemisphere CVAs have lost alot of language and can't even maybe understand all Reagan is saying but they know he is lying. Those with right hemisphere CVAs have fairly intact language but have lost the ability to recognize facial expressions and body language well. They think the President is mangling the language. Come to think of it, can't remember if they were watching Reagan or Bush I.
On body language, voice, and deception:
"Cues discriminating true vs. false comprised word/phrase repeats, speech disfluency spikes, nonverbal overdone, and protracted headshaking. Non-lexical sounds discriminated true vs. false in the reverse direction."
Martha Davis, Keith A. Markus, Stan B. Walters, Neal Vorus and Brenda Connors
Law and Human Behavior 29(6), pp 683 - 704, December 2005
quoted here:
http://deception.crimepsychblog.com/?cat=8
Posted by: DiAnne at March 30, 2006 07:58 PM
Thanks. I would like someone to listen to him say that on the tape of his 2003 SOTU address.
I think there may be some voice inflection that some people sense when a person lies.
Either that or I had my tin foil hat on too tight that day.
If you find something good on it, forward it on to my secret email address.
Leaving now.....gone for the evening......scouting out tall men with large overcoats so that we can compare phallic symbols for governmental purposes. It is a secret project because it has something to do with Homeland Security. I'll let you know when the Eagle Has Landed.
(I actually had a husband who said that when.....well, you get the picture!!! Have had quite a few laughs over that one!!)
Don't x-rate this work. It is for the government, and it's hard work. Ta ta, and listen for the eagle......
Posted by: karen at March 30, 2006 08:09 PM
Karen, thank you for that. Any time you get something good on voice inflection and body language if you think of it please send it on to me at my secret email address.
I have quite a few subjects lined up for research tonight, so for now, I must say goodbye.
What do you call a sick eagle?
TSP -
There are books that have been written on body language. I read them, they're stuck in a box somewhere. Likely a Google search could turn up something.
Body language, facial expression, which way eyes are turned when someone speaks, and word tenses (combined) tell when someone is lying. People in law enforcement use body language observations, and yes, they do know when people are lying. Doesn't take a polygraph expert to be a walking lie detector.
Posted by: monkey at March 30, 2006 08:20 PM
What?
Thanks for the info NonnyO.
Posted by: Truth Shall Prevail at March 30, 2006 08:52 PM
Ill Eagle
Dobbs: President, Congress defying people's will
By Lou Dobbs
-snip-
For that matter, in the United States, this president and Congress seem hell bent on defying the popular will. The American people, in poll after poll and survey after survey, are revealed to be opposed to the direction of the war in Iraq, illegal immigration, amnesty, a guest-worker program, the outsourcing of jobs and certainly the outsourcing of our security. It has become increasingly clear over the last several years that the least represented constituency in either Congress or the White House is the middle class, working men and women who are the foundation of our country.
One of the things that frustrates many of us who care about our country and the truth is the rampant barrage of misinformation, disseminated by such vociferous special interests, whether they are ethnocentric social activists, labor unions, the Catholic Church or Corporate America. The truth is advocates of amnesty, guest-worker programs and open borders are unconcerned about the 280 million American citizens, the men and women of this country who work for a living and their families.
more...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/30/dobbs.cancun/index.html
Speaking of Eagles, and deception, we've seen this one before, but I think it bears repeating:
Walking Eagle
President Bush was invited to address a major gathering of the American
Indian Nation last weekend in Arizona. He spoke for almost an hour on his
future plans for increasing every Native American's present standard of
living. He referred to his career as Governor of Texas, how he had signed
"YES" 1,237 times - for every Indian issue that came to his desk for
approval.
Although the President was vague on the details of his plan, he seemed
most
enthusiastic about his future ideas for helping his "red brothers".
At the conclusion of his speech, the Tribes presented the President with
a
plaque inscribed with his new Indian name - Walking Eagle. The proud
President then departed in his motorcade, waving to the crowds.
A news reporter later inquired to the group of chiefs of how they come to
select the new name given to the President.
They explained that Walking Eagle is the name given to a bird so full of
*crap* it can no longer fly.
WASHINGTON - A one-two punch of bleaching from record hot water followed by disease has killed ancient and delicate coral in the biggest loss of reefs scientists have ever seen in Caribbean waters.
Researchers from around the globe are scrambling to figure out the extent of the loss. Early conservative estimates from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands find that about one-third of the coral in official monitoring sites has recently died.
“It’s an unprecedented die-off,” said National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Miller, who last week checked 40 stations in the Virgin Islands. “The mortality that we’re seeing now is of the extremely slow-growing reef-building corals. These are corals that are the foundation of the reef ... We’re talking colonies that were here when Columbus came by have died in the past three to four months.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12082349/
Yet another item that has been killed off while under the Bush regime.
Posted by: Truth Shall Prevail at March 30, 2006 09:19 PM
Truth,
Is that true or did you just tell a whopper?
Posted by: sparrow at March 30, 2006 09:41 PM
Well, I read that one months ago, and the President had just been to Arizona to meet with the Indians, but I couldn't find any links to substantiate it, so....uh....I guess it is a whopper.
;-)
Yes that "running eagle" story is an urban legend per snopes.com and according to them, the Kerry version came out before the Bush version.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/Kerry/eagle.asp
Posted by: dwahzon at March 30, 2006 10:00 PM
Thanks DW,
It's an accurate urban legend even if it's a legend.
monkey I was pretty disappointed to hear Lou Dobbs make statements like Americans reject amnisty and guest workers (that I am truly conflicted about) based upon polling and therefore
politicans taking those positions are morally bankrupt. Its like saying polling/public opinion opposed integration in the 1950s and therefore politicians supporting integration were wrong. That false logic seems beneath someone of Dobbs stature and integrity.
Truth Shall Prevail
Beware of Walking Eagles.
Was looking for a song to celebrate Jill Carroll's release, and found also this one, and it is on topic:
FREEDOM TIME - Lauryn Hill
[Singing Chorus]
Everybody knows that they're guilty
Everybody knows that they've lied
Everybody knows that they're guilty
Resting on their conscience eating their inside
It's freedom, said it's freedom time now
It's freedom, said it's freedom time now
Time to get free, oh give us (?)
It's freedom, said it's freedom time
[First and only verse]
Yo, there's a war in the mind, over territory
For the dominion
Who will dominate the opinion
Skisms and isms, keepin' us in forms of religion
Conformin' our vision
To the world churches decision
Trapped in a section
Submitted to commiting election
Moral infection
Epedemic lies and deception
Insurrection
Of the highest possible order
Destortin' our tape recorders
From here and like under water
Beyond the borders
Fond of sin and disorder
Bound by the strategy
It's systematic deprivaty
Heavy as gravity
Head first in the cavity
Without a bottom
A faith, worse than Saddam
Once got him
Drunk of the spirits
Truth comes, we can't hear it
When you've been, programmed to fear it
I had a vision
I was fallin' in indecision
Apollin', callin' religion
Some program on television
How can, dime and the wisdom
Be recognized in the system
Of Anti-Christ, the majority rules
Intelligent fools
PhD's in illusion
Masters of massconfusion
Bachelors in past illusion
Now who you choosin'
The head, the tail
The bloodshed of male
More confidence in the tale
Conference is in Yale
Discussin' Docum and Bale
Causin' people to fail
Keepin' the third in jail
His word is nale
Everything to the tree
Severing all of me from all that I used to be
(?) and void
Totally paranoid
Enjoy darkness as the Lord
Keepin' me from the sword
Block for mercy
Bitter than (?)
Hungry and thirsty
For good meat we would eat
And still, dined at the table of deceit
How incomplete
From confrontation to retreat
We prolong the true enemies defeat
Death to the ascendancy
Causin' desperation to get the best of me
Punishment 'til there was nothing left of me
Realizin' the unescapable death of me
No options in the valley of decision
The only doctrine, supernatural circumcision
Inwardly, only war that can purge the heart
From words that fire redarts
Thrown by the workers of the arts
Iniquity, shapen in
There's no escapin' when
You're whole philosophy is paper thin
In vanity
The wide road is insanity
Could it be all of humanity
Picture that
Scripture that
The origin of a man's heart is black
How can we show up for
An invisible war
Preoccupied with a shadow, makin' love with a wh*re
Achin' in sores
Babylon, the great mystery
Mother of human history
System of social sorcery
Our present condition
Needs serious recognition
Where there's no repentance there can be no remission
And that sentence, more serious than Vietnam
The atom bomb is Saddam and Minister Farakkhan
What's goin' on, what's the priority to you
What authority do we do
When the majority hasn't a clue
We majored in curses
Search the chapters, check the verses
Recapture the land
Remove the mark from off of our hands
So we can stand
In agreement with his command
Everything else is damned
Let them what is understand
Everything else is damned, let them what is understand
[Singing Chorus]
It's freedom, said it's freedom time now
It's freedom, said it's freedom time now
It's freedom, I'ma be who I am
It's freedom time, said it's freedom time
Everybody knows that they've lied
Everybody knows that they've perpetrated inside
Everybody knows that they're guilty, yes
Resting on their conscience eating their insides
Get free, be who you're suppost to be
Freedom, said it's freedom time now
Freedom, said it's freedom time
Freedom, freedom time now
http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/L/Lauryn-Hill/Freedom-Time.html
Posted by: dwahzon at March 30, 2006 10:00 PM
Thanks, Dwahzon, our ever trusty researcher. I hadn't thought of looking at Snopes, but that was a good find!!
Posted by: not my president at March 30, 2006 10:46 PM
Yes, I'll be sure to do that. I can't mention the word Eagle or I start laughing. Seriously. I'll tell ya all about it sometime when we have a ladies pajama hadeen party. (Is that what they call us bloggers?)
Mods,
I'm sorry that song was so long. Go ahead and edit it for length if you wish.
Posted by: monkey at March 30, 2006 09:25 PM
That is a tragedy!!
It took so long to form those reefs because that coral is very slow growing, and they existed all those years and have just been killed off in the last few months. Couple that with the melting glaciers in the Artic, and the crazy weather patterns with tornados, hurricanes, people up here in North Dakota having record mild winters and mild summers and people in Nevada where it used to be warmer having a colder and wetter winter this year than usual.
What is striking to me is that it seems like this global warming has accelerated at a pace no one thought probable. It is accelerating fast. They say just one degree temperature change in the seas and all kinds of things go haywire.
Well, enjoy your kids. And your wife. They are the best things you have. Make your memories now, cuz there's no telling what will happen to the future.
Sad but true.
The 23rd Qualm-( I think it was written by my old minister.)
Bush is my shepherd; I dwell in want.
He maketh logs to be cut down in national forests.
He leadeth trucks into the still wilderness.
He restoreth my fears.
He leadeth me in the paths of international disgrace for his ego's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of pollution and war, I will find no exit, for thou art in office.
Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy media control, they discomfort me.
Thou preparest an agenda of deception in the presence of thy religion.
Thou annointest my head with foreign oil.
My health insurance runneth out.
Surely megalomania and false patriotism shall follow me all the days of thy term.
And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever.
Watch the news carefully for something about
Clinton, Mayor Bloomberg, African heads of state
& influential NY CEOs (tomorrow).
I have it on good authority.
Success is the Best Revenge?
or
Big Sellout?
GERHARD SCHRÖDER, the former German Chancellor, courted controversy over his lucrative life after politics yesterday when he revealed that he would earn €250,000 (£174,000) a year as head of a Russian-German consortium building a gas pipeline.
The Meltdown We Can't Even Enjoy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033001334_pf.html
A very sensible article about schisms among the conservatives and check the ending comments about Democrats.
contributed to local house race and to Conn for Lamont and listed them in my electronic checkbook under the expense "regime change".
felt good too!!
Tom DeLay is at it again trying to bend our state concealed handgun laws so he can pack heat. That law was the first state legislation that Governor Bush signed, provides that criminal defendants charged with an A or B misdemeanor or under indictment for a felony, have their permits lifted until their criminal charges are resolved. Well crybaby DeLay had his handgun permit lifted when he was indicted in Travis County and now he wants to have our state legislature carve out an exception for him so he can carry heat while awaiting trial. I believe in the presumption of innocense even for Tom DeLay but our state legislature felt that indicted Texans include not only Tom DeLay but indicted murder and agg robbery defendants who we don't think need to be carrying 45s while awaiting trial. Apparently our own safety needs to be compromised to accomodate Tom DeLay. He not only thinks he is above the law but that our state legislature needs to write legislation to insulate him from criminal liability along with his lobbyist cronies.
By the way Paul Hackett is hosting Air America this morning sitting in for Jerry Springer right now.
new thread --- karen's liveblogging at the censure hearing