At least the urban art has spunk… ;) 21 April 2007
Posted by marisacat in Abortion Rights, Culture of Death, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, SCOTUS, Sex / Reproductive Health, WAR!.trackback
Wooster Collective: Gato Gigante by Sam3 in Madrid, in district Murcia de Castillejo
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I noticed this graf in a contemplation Nur al-Cubicle has up on the rather too fulsome convocation at VTech this week with Flag, Star Spangled Banner and, of course, Bush…:
I am particularly struck by this display because during my graduation ceremony (a second degree earned late in life), the entire first half hour was completely patrio-militarized (marching, color guard, pledge of allegiance, national anthem, honoring the troops, blah, blah). This was not the case when I earned my first degree. We sang the school song and the band played “Pomp and Circumstance” as we marched out.
Hard to miss that it is war, hung from our necks like a heavy stone and meant to force our drowning…
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This via the email… Family Research Council on Reid… who really and truly is a friend of theirs. But, imo, occasionally pops off a comment meant to grease the skids for the hapless rank and file, the so called “base”…
Yesterday, we reported that the self-proclaimed “pro-lifer,” Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), a seven-time supporter of the partial-birth abortion ban, made disparaging comments about the Court–and specifically Justice Samuel Alito–after the ruling.
While his office is desperately trying to clarify the statements, the full transcript of Reid’s remarks makes his disapproval quite clear. “I would say… this isn’t the only decision a lot of us wish Alito weren’t there and O’Connor was.” CBN reporter David Brody writes that Reid’s spokesman sent a statement to justify the comment.
“Senator Reid opposes abortion except in the cases of rape, incest, and when the life of the mother is at risk. Consistent with this position, Senator Reid supported the Partial-Birth Abortion (PBA) Ban and supports the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday. However, Senator Reid continues to disagree with Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito on many issues and that is why he opposed their confirmation.”
In other words, Reid’s office is saying that Alito may be wrong on some issues, but not this one. [snip]
Reid: The mouth that runs. The lips that move, the lies that travel. So beloved by the Blahgs. And notice, no exception for health of the mother, supports the ruling. Which we all knew…
If only the “base” would get it.
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Is that a marisacat?
I am so pissed off at photobucket, or myself. whoever is responsible for my failure to upload images today.
Patti Smith covers “Smells Like Teen Spirit”.
MissDevore, I can really recommend Flickr.com. Either the free version (200 uploads, which they offer to you in several sizes) or the premium version…
At least down load from your hard drive whatever is failing at photobucket today, to flickr and see if you like it…
Just a thought.
Not to brag, but I got 100% on this Pew quiz, which only put me in the 96th percentile. Seriously, I’m worried about the state of affairs in the nation if the quiz results published are truly representative of general knowledge.
Elsewhere on the site is a report that liberals represent 17% of the population and 19% of voters. Conservative Democrats are 14% of the population and 15% of voters. Now why is it again that liberals are treated as the red-headed stepchildren?
WARNING, respectful dissent re Dk is now “cyber stalking”. They’ve adopted all the plays from the Republican game book, including exploitation of current events for hysterical self-serving purposes. Either you’re with us or you’re a mad gunman.
Bush to visit Poland in June… and I say can’t they keep him?
Seriously the article is a mix of camp and high anxiety. All about missile shields and IRan and protecting Europe and Poland with the MIssile Shield (what does the Vatican say? Doesn’t that sound … prophylactic? a t the least… ???)
He also goes to the czech Republic and Rome. PLEASE someone, keep him.
Oops, that whole thing should have been blockquoted. It’s all a quote from the piece linked in the first sentence.
thanks mcat-I might as well have a flickr acct, too.
this too, shall password.
Speaking of the Culture of Death
i just finished that a few minutes ago.
here lies the body of baby rose.
her needless death due to the politican’s pledge of “no new taxes”
my favorite version of “smells like teen spirit” is still tori amos’ cover.
Yeah, Harry “WetNoodle” Reid personally opposed Alito and Roberts but couldn’t be bothered to enforce party discipline and didn’t have the spine for a filibuster. Hell, Roberts was confirmed 78-22. What a bad fucking joke Reid is.
Well we don’t sell, like Madonna,
Buy our album, we’re Nirvana
Somebody had to post it.
I got further thru the DVD tonight. it’s quite a good movie, but since I slept thru a few portions I’ll have to start from the beginning again.
It’s raining like heaven here now. thank goddess I made sure all my plants were throroughly watered earlier today.
I’m going to try watching Requiem for a Dream. It’s in English, so maybe reading the subtitles won’t wear me out.
But first, gotta czech to see what hell has broken loose in the world.
That first photo in the nytimes article was amazing; looked like some variety of realist painting.
Clarksdale. A blues song city.
Yeah, Harry “WetNoodle” Reid personally opposed Alito and Roberts but couldn’t be bothered to enforce party discipline and didn’t have the spine for a filibuster.
I don’t believe it’s a matter of lack of spine, it’s quite possible that Harry Reid has more in common with the Casey Jr., Scalia and Thomas than the women whose money he takes. That’s where the actual evidence leads.
I don’t mean to say that I believe Reid is a courageous man or an honest one. Just that he’s example number 5 on a long, long list of why I don’t vote or volunteer for Democrats anymore.
can’t remember precisely how Mitm articulated it, but with respect to Reid, it has something to do with pulling up his pink satin Everlasts to ancient man-nipples.
Gato Gigante on Sabado Gigante!
Harry Reid makes my flesh crawl.
AlanSmithee # 13, in response
“Come dance to muck served in bleach, as I want you to be
As a friend, as a trend, as I’ve no memory
Well I swear that I don’t have a gun”
Kurt Cobain, RIP
Can’t say that MO is much better outside the Lou and KC metro areas. So much of the state is rural and ultraconservative, they don’t much care what happens to people poorer than themselves. Unless they’re kin or fellow churchgoers, of course. Saint Louis, 1/4 of Missouri’s population and 1/3 of Missouri’s tax base. We need to become our own state, damnit!
Tap dancing off the soap box
Kevin
a lovely lovely review up at Lucid Culture…
got thru Requiem for a Dream, but am sure I’ve heard parts of the musical score in another movie.
but, rather than research, I think I’ll go over to lucid’s site.
kevin-”tap dancing on a soap box” St. Louis is interesting and barely known as quite a unique American city.
Buenas Nachos, VAGs y vabosos.
Well I failed miserably. Gabby “Line in the Sand” Giffords, my congressional”representative”, was at the Folklorico benefit tonight and I didn’t get to give her a piece of my mind. She even used my PA to spew a few platitudes about the “good work” of Folklorico, a Mexican traditonal dance/music company among the well heeled crowd (150$ US a plate, open bar of course). I had my moment, but I just said, “use this mike.” Despite my heavy indulgence in the Don Julio anejo (aaaay, que bondad!) I didn’t want to make a scene. I said to myself, “weel, I’ll approach her in private…I’m just a guest here and my friend would be embarassed.” Somehow after the grass feed organic steaks were served (eschewing dead flesh, I drank more instead), perhaps because of the tequila distracted me, she disappeared. The irony of it all is that the Border Patrol Checkpoint rail against so often, and which she is about to help make permanent, is literaly at the gates to the ranch that hosted the barbacoa.
I swear if I had my way Ms. Giffords would have had to listen to me for a few minutes at least and I would ask her how dare she.
How dare she come say she supports the Mexican heritage of our land?
How dare she proclaim her allegiance to her deep roots here, and then betray them for the D.C. version of the “Jet Set”?
How dare she show her face on this ranch that is over run with pinche migra?
Maybe next time…this is a tiny county and for some reason our paths keep crossing; believe it or not last week she landed in a big helo at the reten last week as I was driving thru. She’s gonna here what this Arizona boy has got to say, and I ain’t about to play country club like all the brahmins there tonight.
Can she honestly say she still LIVES there? I suppose has a condo or a familial residence she uses… but iirc she married some other freshman rep, from a you know NORTHERN EASTERN state. Antother damned Bloooooooooooo Dog, iirc.
Little sell out. Frankly the US Chamber of Commerce is calling the shots. They channel thru Di Fi and all the rest.
“Um Othman, 45, a teacher, said residents in Adhamiya regarded the concrete barriers as an “isolating wall.”
“It will be like Palestine. The people of Adhamiya and neighboring districts have mutual historical relations, like religious festivals and marriage,” she said.”
(nytimes)
I wonder too.
I hope crock-’o-shit condi is exempt from gratitude:
“What’s more, Congress appears poised to vote on a resolution urging the president to say the words “Armenian genocide” when observing the awkwardly named “National Day of Remembrance of Man’s Inhumanity to Man” on April 24 — the date in 1915 when the Ottoman predecessors of modern Turkey launched the genocide by rounding up 250 Armenian intellectuals for eventual execution.
The resolution won’t take effect on Tuesday. The Bush administration, ever mindful of its delicate relationship with Turkey (especially with a war in Iraq next door), takes the bill so seriously that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned in a joint letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) that it could “harm American troops in the field.” The lobbying has been successful enough that the House has delayed its vote until after this year’s April 24 commemoration. But passage later this year would still be an enormous blow to the White House.”
(but thanks Mitm & Chris Clarke)
Hey Gabby, what good is your “line in the sand” if we can’t trust the ‘migra? (nevermind she’s drawing it 26 miles north of the international border)
Link
“It’s not guns, it’s liberals and pop culture!” … so sayeth the wise Newt Gingrich on This Week.
this country is run by cerftifiable morons.
“It’s not guns, it’s liberals and pop culture!”
If he started red baiting he would sound a lot like Meteor Blades.
I wonder, would a public admission that women make considerably less money than men make Martin a subject of ridicule within his social sphere or is he just massively clueless?
The men who buy studio apartments in Manhattan are just the same sort of man Martin is except that the NYC men make a good deal more money because they have jobs.
Gore
“It’s not guns, it’s liberals and pop culture!”
Good ole Newt, Spine o’ iron’s soul mate with Big Bill on speed dial. The stereotype of the politician with his hand in the till and his dick flapping in the breeze.
BTW, Cho was one of those warriors for Jesus (or stomp those Ho’s back in their place) They are a type. Seen too many of ‘em to be bedazzled by the smoke and mirrors.
A Jigsaw of School Shootings:
An interesting, (warning: long) piece about school violence and how to address it. Some really intriguing ideas.
I read in the NYT that his parents avoided the big mainline Korean Christian churches in the areas of VA they lived in… and went to a small church. Which could be anything.
There was a tidbit or two in the 4 (online) page NYT piece but a lot of holes as well.
my theory: too much e.coli. we’re eating too much shit in all its forms, especially that which is eliminated by politician’s oral anuses.
I’ll be back to elaborate–got run and put the laundry in the dryer.
read the article at NION–one thing I noted that many of the school killers, including Cho, had in common was successful sisters.
I’m in no way knowledegable about Korean culture, but have known several Asian women who have been affected by the phenomena of the greater “value” of the male child.
IIRC-didn’t his parents send Cho back to Korea in the summers so he could retain his language skills–and that he was with strict relatives who would not allow him to watch video games, etc.I thought about that when I read that play of his that displayed the son’s hostility to a stepfather.
On my way to the laundromat I noticed a sign posted about a weekend gunshow at the local fairgrounds. if I had a working car I’d like to drive out to see the tenor of the event in light of the school killings this week. come to think of it, Denver hosted a gun show? NRA convention? after Columbine that was protested, but was still held. Is April “worship the gun” month?
#29: People really do have shitty memories, don’t they ?
Put some more pics up at the bin, if anyone wants to look.
oh jesette they are again hawking stuff for whyk2 at dk.
most riduculous item under professional services: a press release written by a “professional writer”
if it doesn’t go, perhaps the VAGs can get it at a discount and insist they write a press release about an upcoming dk satire.
Oh, and given the Oprah talk from last week, some of you might enjoy reading this.
Oh, and a bit more bossa nova goodness for Madman when he shows up:
Rosa Passos at YouTube.
marisa-c
here is my e mail
kapshow@hotmail.com
could you send me an e mail
so i can respond with a non public question
fans
nothing big here just
a question……
very nice, ms_x. Thanks.
miss d
is runnin wilder and wilder these days
i leave for a week or so
come back
she’s artfully jheedlessly
flingin sacred shit like …like ….jungle jim’s tamba
ms xeno
I read the Saul WIlliams originally at Counterpunch. Myabe Friday, I remember sending it to Madman.
Frankly the braggadocio section is Bush to a tee. USA USA!! to a tee.
I caught a gut wrenching repeat middle of the night last night, the second half of Oprah, don’t know what day it aired post Imus… at Spelman college. Gagworthy.
Crouch, Bruce Gordon, Sharpton, Whitfield … and … some other “leader” played the dames but good. And they never noticed they were being led. They want contracts broken, jobs ended.
but no mention of Geffen and that level. No effective discussion of who buys what in the USAUSA!! stadium sports – war dominated world we live in.
Start prohibitng speech and Dixie Chicks will move onto the radar and words will be banned, thoughts will be even more suspect, more than they are today.
America loves prohibition and we are headed into decades that will make the tedious self righteous PC era look permissive.
High camp and low horror ws reached as Crouch exhorted the ladies to be Tubman and Parks.
All I can do is laugh. Really. Freedom goes, the words go, art goes. Gone in a nono second.
“modest progress”:
“Police: Gunmen line up, execute 23 Kurds in Mosul
Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus filled with Christians and members of a tiny Kurdish religious sect, separating out the groups and taking 23 of the passengers away to be shot. The executions came on the same day that two suicide car bombers hit a police station in western Baghdad, killing 13. ”
was it Petraeus who also said that the Iraqis will likely have to learn to live with Northern Ireland(of old)like situations?
Or like Palestinians.
george bush: finishing what the 9/11 hijackers started.
in brief overview of california news, arnold schwartzgrabber is painting himself a deep sap green–apparently appeared on Pimp My Ride show with some vehicle powered by steroids and Kennedy nostalgia. ok-so I’m not so clear on the details.
ms_xeno–I bet you love Bruce Goff architecture. And Gehry. I have a friend who I wish would collaborate with an architect.
the paine–I have been roaming around the vagosphere looking for you. you keep your andrewcards close to the chest.
forgot my “plaintive wail” for BHHM.
outofwater–I fucked up on the minimum-wage questions on the Pew, and landed in 77% percentile. a high D, I think.
I am a disgrace to the vagosphere.
Arnold has spent weeks portraying himself as a green Socialist. More than gag worthy.
Frightening.
You know hwen the man who was part and parcel of the big roll on CA in ’00 and ’01, in an effort to shut our energy down, from Cheney and Rove… is mouthing, lipsynching to the cause of conservation that the whole thing has blown up to just being money making.
Still screwed… LOL.
As Bush knows, 77% is a high C.
I guessed at that question, so my grade is a fraud.
here is the link to the Saul WIlliams on Counterpunch. Liked reading the comments on Live Journal…
the best laid plans:
“By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA
The Associated Press
April 22, 2007
An American religious leader who calls himself the ‘Antichrist’ canceled a visit to Guatemala after the Central American country barred him as a security risk, saying he provokes conflict with Roman Catholics and evangelicals.
Puerto-Rican born Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda wears the number 666 tattooed on his arm and claims a following of 2 million people, most in Miami, where he lives, and Colombia. His Growing in Grace church holds a congress every year in different locations in the Americas.”
What kind of world is this when The Antichrist ‘cancels’? Sly and the Family Stone got into lots of trouble for that stuff years back. Would Jesus take a 3-day weekend?
Oh-and, according to most recent research-it’s 661, not 666. The number you have reached is not in service. Please try your call again.
wassup peoples
just checking in
haven’t read the last few threads
been on a bit of a rampage out on the town
summer has arrived in nyc/nj
an old pervert’s heart turns to romance
been thrown out of three bars in the last week or so
I’m gonna link to photos of some badass graffitti I shot in amsterdam and costa rica later on.
arr ee ess pee ee cee tee
colleen…
Just read the RE effort at an entry at BMT. He is so out of date and ill informed.
i am wiping tears of laughter from my face. A few months ago NYT profiled how certain buildings in Manhattan are having a renaissance of women, single women buying units. Friends buying in the same building, etc… There iirc they mentioned amounts of about 650K and above. Going higher from there….
I think the articles in NYT are just an effort in a sluggish market. Try to get something going…
Or Martin could look at London. Units overlooking Hyde Park are being offered for 170 + million. Per unit.
All fo this reminds me of a couple years ago when The Guardian brought wee Kos to London for a week. And he died at the prices of everything. Even tho he paid for nothing.
Welcome to Plantation America. Where wages [for those who depend from day to day on their wages] are kept low, job security is nil, etc. Often no benefits.
I noticed in the NYT piece that the Cho family had no medical insurance, tho the father worked as a presser from 8 am to 10 pm, until the mother took a job at a school cafeteria in order to have the medical coverage.
It all adds up.
been thrown out of three bars in the last week or so – jam.fuse
Bravo! Must be spring.
jam.fuse, please tell me you are female.
I wish I could miss devore
I’m trying to think if I was ever thrown out of a bar. nah. just banned from blogs. I’ll have to try harder.
persona au gratin c’est moi
persona est gato c’est moi…
I hope I fractured three languages there…
“andrewcards close to the chest.”
u lost me there
flash gal
recall this paine ..the paine ….
may have a dignified baring
an arched back
but still a very narrow purrrrrrrview
speaking of the paine, another reason I say all three running are DLC…
Tom Dispatch has picked up on a Dahr Jamail report…
also in the Tom preamble there is a longish quote from Hersh about Jamail with a link to an Al Jazeera interview with Sy Hersh (I think, have nto made it to AJ yet… )
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I emailed the paine… and he has some sparkling ideas for SMBIVA… but since they are nascent and involve technology (and I am just black thumbs at that) will let him say something when it is more than a conversation cartoon bubble..
{MissD slithers away when Mcat mentions Obama ties to Geffen and DLC–can’t I pretend I’m 13 and he’s Bobby? Guess not}
Going over to the Unity Church today for a showing of Beltway Al’s inconvenient movie. If I’m not back in five hours, contact my fellow Greens.
I linked to a MyDD … think it was yesterday, of course Stoller was full of apologia but Obama has also glomed onto a big Dem fundraiser, who is in the nursing home biz.. and h is game is to keep (and he has been very successful for years) regulation out of the extremely profitabley nursing home industry.
So cute.
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LINK and I love watching the Edwards v Obama thread. LOL with Adam B in the mix.
all you can do is laugh.
Sorry I missed that Williams piece when you posted it, Mcat. I’ve been kind of distracted. Today, f’rinstance, has been mostly spent gulping coffee and kicking the scanner.
Smitheeeee, call hooooooommmme !!
Crouch should stick to music. Like whatsisface, the other Big Name jazz critic who spends his free time putting the kinder, gentler face on Fetus Worship.
I still think replacing the term “pro life” with the term “FETUS WORSHIPPER” would be a great new trend in blog discourse.
oh ms xeno soRRY! I was unclear:
I did not post it (Saul WIlliams) here…
nothing to miss. I emailed the link to Madman..
ms_xeno-nat henthoff.
My new rant.
nat Hentoff is on the advisory council at Democrats for Life.
MitM, thank you for that rant. You have many times put into words the feelings and thoughts I’ve had but am unable to express.
thanks meg … much of it has to come out just to quiet down the screaming inside my head.
poodle begone: (via raw story)
“British Prime Minister Tony Blair will step down on May 9th, reports the Sunday Mail.
The decision, according to the paper, was made to preempt any charges in the “cash for honors” scandal.
“That will trigger a seven-week leadership election process in the Labour Party and a new PM – probably Gordon Brown – will move into 10 Downing Street at the end of June,” writes Rob Gibson.”
Expect the Blair Christian Foundation for the Incurably Poor Children Of the Non Christian Rest of the World soon to follow.
I just read he will likely follow the “Clinton Plan” to wealth and happiness via global Speechification and Fundraising Known As Charity.
A well trod path.