Yet another… 18 September 2007
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"a remarkable collection of angels
on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Democrats…
Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
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Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Only at Daily Kos do the petit bourgeoisie bow before a twenty-something staffer of a Senator.
mattes has been psuedo banned at docudharma
pseudo banned? On moderation, never let thru? Or what ?? (admit, I have nto been back since the Armando sludge throw)…
#2. What a bunch of bull:
That last sentence is pure Turkana.
And yes, I guess “truth” is inflammatory. mattes has the same diary up at pff.
And check out Jay Elias enforcing a dkos rule at DocuDrama:
Wouldn’t surprise me if these wankers were in favour of that student’s tasering too. ENFORCEMENT gone wild.
oh pardon me for laughing, really hard. I dropped in at Docudonot… and not even opening more than the FP saw this in the OPOL diary:
funny how they willingly infantilise themselves and love and support “daddy”, from Kerry to kos.
4
LOL Is jay elias DHinMI? Or his acolyte?
Dh said the same of Anti war. And Counterpunch… and a few others. Agence France Presse, as well.
Some of the so-called “dishonest” sources mattes used: WaPo, BBC, JTA.org, Information Clearinghouse, ipsnews,net, uruknet, and some columnist at antiwar.com who said this (that so offends Jay Elias, apparently):
So, you support Fleischer’s propaganda campaign, do you Elias? Good to know.
Dh said the same of Anti war.
Yup. I remember that. Funny how they bash that site which is full of libertarians when kos calls himself a “libertarian” democrat. Although, not exactly being the sharpest knives in the drawer, I doubt they made that connection.
Of course, he/she doesn’t offer any “proof” that mattes diary is shergald’s work. What an asshole. Why don’t you try debating using actual facts, Turkana, instead of hiding from the truth? Or is that just too much for you and the other censors at DocuDrama (MiniKos) to handle? Jackbooted cyber thugs.
melvin has left the building.
Quite a shame for some of the hard-working hopefuls who built the place. I feel for ek (the stoic), too, though it’s a wonder all of this was not more clearly foreseen.
Welcome to the ArmandoDrome.
Same old shit, different servers.
HC #134 prior thread. You inspired me to do a little survey on dKos hypocrisy. Unless 60+ choose #1, then they are hypocrites.
POLL
Shergald, banned before Docudrama began.
hrh, “banned on site”.
LOL.
I’ve got some more messages from that raving loon Buddybuddhaboy in my inbox, demanding “answers” from me about something. The man is truly sociopathic underneath that thin veneer of joviality.
Docudrama was never “born” but rather “stillborn”. It should have been aborted. It is a Kos Klone full of Kos Klone Kids, importing the worst of the old crew, its old grudges, prejudices, and preconceptions. Utter waste of time and electrons.
AP.
US diplomatic lockdown (in Iraq) gone to spam.
Iraq is doing better!
10. didn’t know melvin left. great writer on topics not frequently covered.
Yeah. He took off in the aftermath of the (first) Aravian “civility” twist-up/sitewide coronation/slashfest.
Minor fiefdoms are being parceled now.
#2 Rev – mattes has been given a time out and told to sit in a chair in the corner and be quiet. If he’s good, the “adults” might give him a second chance.
Looks as if the dKos hypocrites are staying away from my poll. Or particpating and lying their asses off.
LOL think peeder thought the better of his old plan, that I/P needed to wait for a more “balanced” comment group.
On his promote of the latest mattes…
so still laughing here, Turkana is now the i/P thug in residence.
i did a search this afternoon and aside from several referencse on mcat, the armando/mcjoan thing didnt happen. the net has been wiped clean.
Go peeder!
Ok guys, you were right.
The Zionists operatives combing the blogs, continue to hide the War Machine from view.
Open Letter to ABC’s John Stossel … from Julie Pierce, American SiCKO
Marie, there’s no option for “I trashed everything and still don’t know why.” If I have to be a klone, lemme be an honest klone. Oh well.
buhdy’s got “international relations people” to handle I/P for him.
Uh oh, Revisionist has gone P-Shop on his dharma buns.
The roffularity gets deeper by the day.
kos in particular must be laughing his ass off.
i like the second one better… http://www.flickr.com/photos/election2008/1404079439/
If Buddhism is about anything, it’s about compassion for all living things. Obviously, buddy is more interested in the dollar. Bad karma….War Machine Enabler.
AIPAC, move over….dharmabubby’s in town.
[coming up for air]
Carry on, mattes, hrh, and the rest in the latest Village of the Banned scandal.
Fuck the AIPAC gatekeepers. They don’t speak for this Jew. No way. No how.
It’s always a thrill to watch a single mega-narcissist roam from blog to blog trashing one after the other after the other, always with the approval of some little cadre of sycophants to explain why this time, contrary to promises given, is turning out exactly like last time. I never feel sorry for the sycophants, but I do feel sorry for people who get taken in and then run over by this sort of person. Sometimes more than once before they get wise.
Been there. Done that. Such a thrill. In fact the Armando-like roving wrecker I remember from days of yore still lives around here somewhere. She seems to have forgotten all about me, for which I am profoundly grateful. Then again, I steer clear of any space which I suspect she might frequent.
Oh, and I sold a picture today, looks like.
[deep breath, diving down again]
I am jsut catching up at PFF… I see the Great Banning at docudonot is covered in the open thread.
Gosh, is buhdy slimey or what.
When Armando came over to BMT (where quite a lot moved to in the wake of PIE) the die ws cast when Martin let him lecture the evacuees, from the FP. Sure, let him post, comment, of course. But make him live in diaries. Don’t elevate him over your own commenters.
No, the sludge (Martin, Windsock, buhdy, etc) will always work for the idiots they think will help them, fund them, connect them to god knows what or who…
I doubt Armando will do more for buhdyboy than he did for that slouch Martin… or the skin ripper.
Oh, and I sold a picture today, looks like.
——- ms xeno
BRAVA!!
I have a new one up:
Sedition, and yes, it’s about the kid being tased, and more.
way to go ms. x!
Oh this just makes me chuckle:
Probably at the cash register.
msxeno….thumbs up.
Thanks, Madman and Mcat. Of course, the money is going straight into Popecare’s coffers, but pretend you don’t know that– because I wouldn’t want John Stossel to think that I have a rocky relationship with The Greatest Healthcare System on Earth or anything.
[salute]
Best.
You, too, mattes.
More like a bubble, I think, mattes.
Rev – DianeL had a few remarks about OPOL’s banner, too.
I mean, it’s a pseudomystical, 60s hippiesque alternative to DK’s pseudomilitaristic, flag-and-army-stenciled graphical inyerface . . . I guess people were content enough with the former, given the latter, where most of them met.
But will it be the same bloody, approved-and-monitored content too?
Minus DHinMI and (most) pals, sure. But enhanced with the noted sociopath Ar-fucking-mando.
It all makes me want to spit. Again.
I’m an Intermittent now.
Go ms x!
PS: The Pope sleeps in pay toilets.
Marble pay toilets, of course. (The Vatican also has one of the biggest – and certainly the priciest – porn collections in the world, supposedly.)
MCat -
Probably at the cash register.
Zingo.
Anybody remember the Little Feat song Willing?
Willin’
Little Feat (1971)
I been warped by the rain, driven by the snow
I’m drunk and dirty don’t ya know, and I’m still, oh I’m still
Out on the road late at night, I seen my pretty Alice in every head light
Alice, Dallas Alice
I’ve been from Tuscon to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that’s ever been made
Now I driven the back roads so I wouldn’t get weighed
And if you give me: weed, whites, and wine
and you show me a sign
I’ll be willin’, to be movin’
Now I smuggled some smokes and folks from Mexico
baked by the sun, every time I go to Mexico, and I’m still
And I’ve been kicked be the wind, robbed by the sleet
Had my head stoved in and I’m still on my feet and I’m willin’, oh I’m willin’
And I been from Tuscon to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that’s ever been made
Driven the back roads so I wouldn’t get weighed
And if you give me: weed, whites, and wine
and then you show me a sign
I’ll be willin’, to be movin’
Congratulations, ms X!!!
I hoist a glass of Prosecco to you.
The Impenetrable Density of DC Elites
it’s a pseudomystical, 60s hippiesque alternative — Int Bystander…
mind if I update taht a bit…? I had a real laugh when I saw in his letter to Bill O’R (or to an advertiser, I forget, the letter that D Throat posted) that he is 47 and a San Franciscan..
cuz that banner is pure commercial product, era 70s, West coast…. very tired reduction work.. gah.
Really, it is post the hippie era, all the mystical borrowing. It is all the Eastern mysticism and Chinese and Japanese symbology that was incorporated into so many commerical lines (much jewelry, for one, ti is very Laurel Burch… a big EST cult / ROn Mann follower here in SF)… on the West Coast in the 70s. Variations for location, SW, Indian symbology, etc…
And yes of course the 70s commerical product rose from the elemnts of the 60s. not saying they are disconnected at all…
You get the point.
Oh I did laugh..
the liquidation of all social movements into a commodity. what a joke.
He’s 49 now. A disabled carpenter, broke, and just moved (like last week) to Mexico, in a hurricane, to a rent-free abode. Born in 58, grew up in the Haight. Dad was a Gurjieff (sp?) guru, split early.
Like MSOC, he has offered a lot of bio detail online.
But yeah, maybe I should have said pseudo60s too.
blow job queen elise claims she knows what is innovative:
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2007/9/18/10948/5173/114#c114
too bad she and all the minions she manages are connected to one another by various instant message technologies. how else does one explain her involvement in the banning of so many different users?
similar to brklyngrl and all the others who support elise, they sit before their computer with their excess makeup dripping down their faces, hoping one day their boss will notice them.
what a joke.
IB
not denying what the 60s were. Just saw and handled a lot of commercial product in the 70s. And the banner stank, minute one.
And I love all that the product is drawn from. Did not grwo up in the west for nothing.
Well poor buhdy. Sounds like he needs a job. Seems to be a classic for what I call the “box car sites”.
Appreciate the SF home-grown graphical insights just the same, MC.
let our thugs kill with impunity or we won’t leave.
Those Who Assaulted Carlos Arredondo
think any of these thugs were tased?
See what Diane L had to say. I thought her point about the white fingers was very cogent.
Kerry Fears for Safety of Police Who Tasered Student to Protect Kerry from Inconvenient Questions
In 1969 We Already Knew What 2007 Would Look Like
I’m going to bed … I feel wrung dry. Night everyone.
IB
I checked the DianeL comment.. I remember it, spot-on.
I really think the place was to be the pseudo counter culture [whiff of] multi cultural dkos.
gah.
Thanks for all the links Madman.
A Kerry’s gotta fear what a Kerry’s gotta fear.
I’m out too.
FYI to late night tivoers: Samantha Bee.
And Sarandon’s on Colbert, as we speak.
See y’all.
The choices being the charge that he cut in line, his question was too confrontational and/or too long, he didn’t shut up when the guards approached, he didn’t shut up when the guards pursued him and/or he didn’t present himself in a submissive manner for being cuffed and arrested.
Meyer’s big sin seems to be that he considered himself the equal of Kerry. “You spoke for two hours now give me five minutes”. He tried to take the floor and hold it and give his own speech.
We’ve been trained to put politicians and military officers on a pedestal most of us don’t even think about saying something like that.
How dare that awkward obnoxious 21 year old consider himself the equal of the “war hero”.
Are these people for real?
Within close range, I have to say that I didn’t feel it was the safest situation. I did not feel like they had him under control at all- and was scared that if he did manage to get up- he would have started getting riled up again. I personally was in a location that if he had started flailing around again- I would have been at risk.
At risk? At fucking risk? OMFG. No. A Sunni who drives into the wrong neighborhood in Baghdad is “at risk” you twit. You might have gotten your foot stepped on. Jeez.
That is an idiot who wrote that comment. Probably the scion of Michelle Malkin or McJoan.
This looks interesting.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2007/09/90939.html
(New Brunswick, NJ) – On the weekend of October 5-7, 2007, Rutgers Against the War (RAW) and the Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War will host a conference on the issue of veterans returning from the Iraq War, “Marching Home.” Rutgers Against the War is a group consisting mainly of students with a tradition of hosting panels on issues related to war and military recruitment that include nationally renowned figures. The three day free conference will feature veterans and experts from around the country presenting their experiences to each other and the community at large. Featured speakers will include Iraq War veteran and former military recruiter and Marine Staff Sgt., Jimmy Massey; Award-winning journalist of “Democracy Now,” Amy Goodman; former Brigadier General Janis Karpinski; National Coordinator for Vietnam Veterans for Peace, Bill Perry; Iraq war veteran and Co-founder of the Appeal for Redress, Liam Madden; Iraqi-American doctor Dahlia Wasfi, who testified before Congress on conditions inside Iraq; and Ret. Col. Ann Wright, who resigned her position in protest to the invasion of Iraq.
Let’s just hope Kerry doesn’t send goons in to start tasering people.
Now people at Daily Kos claim the man who was tasered simply did it for YouTube publicity:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/18/23364/9770
This is a truly pathetic comment.
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2007/9/18/23364/9770/12#c12
The cops beating people sensless with night sticks. Would you rather those campus police did that? All that Meyer had to do is stop resisting and nothing would have happened.
No. I’d rather my own fist do it to your head wanker.
These people are fools. They enjoy social submission. No, they eroticize it. To them a public beating is a spectacle to behold, not one to deplore.
They are sick.
This doesn’t look insincere to me.
http://www.theandrewmeyer.com/columns/iraq_the_media_and_shannons_dad.asp
Catching up from last thread. Bullshit on Kerry’s aide saying JK was busy re: the tasering.. The Dems are circling the wagons as their own Abramoff Scandal is about to blow. That’s not the lead now, but after a quick check of “”William Lerach” on the FEC its coming.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/business/19legal.html
My take, now, is it’s going to be even stephen come election night, as scandal fatigue sets in. The talk, talk, squalk / no walk is one hell of a field leveling liability if you ask me. Any ways I have a piece over at peeders that rolled a few Golden Oldies into the lot..
Congratulations ms xeno!
Just read the Kerry staffer’s diary. These people are disgusting:
1. Feigns a casual tone
2. Claims Meyer disturbed his fellow students
3. Sanctimonious
4. Trust fund baby hired by another trust fund baby
5. “y’all” – Give me a break
6. Knows the Daily Kos structure, and he was paid to learn it
These people disgust me. And they think they are convincing. Even worse, people at Daily Kos bought it, hook, line and sinker.
IDIOTS
Ms. Xeno, you sold a picture? Good on you!
Erm…I had to impose on our brief acquaintance, but seeing as how I’m a bit short this month, and you’ve recently come into some money…could you possibly float me a fiver until payday?
Marisacat, you should read the continuing email saga from Buddybuddhaboy–he’s collapsed into coherency and is practically screeching at me. I’m not answering him, of course, because I know it drives him mad(der)
57. Hair Club for Men – 18 September 2007
The choices being the charge that he cut in line, his question was too confrontational and/or too long, he didn’t shut up when the guards approached, he didn’t shut up when the guards pursued him and/or he didn’t present himself in a submissive manner for being cuffed and arrested.
Meyer’s big sin seems to be that he considered himself the equal of Kerry. “You spoke for two hours now give me five minutes”. He tried to take the floor and hold it and give his own speech.
We’ve been trained to put politicians and military officers on a pedestal most of us don’t even think about saying something like that.
How dare that awkward obnoxious 21 year old consider himself the equal of the “war hero”.
Best analysis of the situation I’ve read thus far. How dare a peasant speak in that way to one of the nobility? Taser the oaf and show him his place.
It’s cops like that who remind me why I’d be no good in non-violent protests. That guy was just a young man untrained in self-defence, but one of these days, the bullies are going to pick on the wrong person or group of persons: pissed-off vets from the Iraqi and Afghani theatres who aren’t quite so easy to push to the ground.
It doesn’t have to be this way, of course. If the ruling elite of the United States had any brains at all, they’d find a peaceful way to accommodate dissent and learn from it–but they’ve decided, in their arrogance and their ignorance of human history, that they can rule absolutely and stomp their boots in people’s faces without fear of reprisal or resistance.
Ah, some people never learn. Next time it won’t be one lone dissenter but ten of them, fifty of them, a hundred of them–and then what will they do?
Just read the Kerry staffer’s diary. These people are disgusting:
Plus. By saying that he/she was speaking for Kerry because Kerry was busy, he/she implied that the other diaries from Kerry had actually been posted by Kerry.
How many people really believe Kerry posts his own diaries at the Daily Kos?
Come on. You have Kerry’s interns saying (sometimes) they’re Kerry himself and (other times) that Kerry is busy.
This is a Trent Lott/George Allen/My Pet Goat moment.
Kerry won’t lose his seat. But he should step down. Anybody who watched an American citizen being tortured in front of him and did nothing doesn’t deserve to be in office.
Even Rumsfeld told the cops who were about to drag Ray McGovern out to let him stay.
Best analysis of the situation I’ve read thus far. How dare a peasant speak in that way to one of the nobility? Taser the oaf and show him his place.
Well this has been going on for awhile.
Seattle, Prague, DC, Genoa, Quebec City, the RNC protests, every time the elite get together for a little private conference the peasants always line up to try to disrupt it and get pounced on by the police.
And the Vichy liberals always, always defend the state.
I also did not miss lunatics Gilroy and Holland agreeing (think it was in the Gilroy thread, but not sure) that Hilarius would never have stood for what happened.
No sir! She’d have stopped it!!!!
Fools. Born every minute.
BTW, anybody see this?
Iowa Democrats Exclude Kucinich & Gravel From Events
Meanwhile Congressman Dennis Kucinich has accused Democratic Party leaders in Iowa of excluding him from two presidential events this week. On Sunday six of the Democratic candidates were invited to speak to over 12,000 Democratic voters at Senator Tom Harkin’s Steak Fry. But Kucinich and former Senator Mike Gravel were not invited. They also weren’t invited to a recent Democratic presidential forum in Davenport Iowa. Kucinich said: “When Party leaders and their allies pre-select which candidates they will allow the voters to hear, it’s a disservice to the voters. Iowans deserve better than a rigged game.”
Are you surprised? And notice how all the big boy bloggers at Daily Kos and Swing State have been pushing a primary challenger for Kucinich’s House seat. Paul Hackett, they gushed, endorsed the challenger.
Welcome to the Open Left, where machine politicians undermine those outside of the club through under the table exchanges that occur in backrooms. And bloggers just do their bidding. But even worse, those steamrolled by that apparatus will do it to. Just look at Paul Hackett.
68 – Shadowthief, may all of us see the exchange? Post it at Political Flesh if you want full exposure.
Fascism.
Does anybody really think Chile and Argentina were backward countries?
That this can’t happen here?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=en8yqVxuT-U
Why not just use a cigarette?
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2007/9/19/04515/8733/18#c18
they tried to throw him out (0 / 0) he fought back. When you physically mess with cops, you’re going to get arrested. He first refused to be thrown out, then resisted arrest. Grounds for tasering. I wish they’d stuffed the taser in his eye.
HCfM —
I cant wade thru that crap anymore… but maybe you should collect some of the more colorful ones
MitM — Nice piece. You should think about X-posting it.
>Daily Kos and Swing State have been pushing a primary challenger for Kucinich’s House seat<
that would make a far better diary than elise’s foibles….
i just want to put elise on notice. but yes, the bbbs are pushing a primary challenger for kucinich’s house seat.
imho, kerry had a perfect opportunity to take a stand for liberty and a citizens right to dissent.
he, of all those in the hall could have intervened, but didn’t. instead we get Genovese syndrome.
americans have the right to resist unlawful arrest. there’s case law reflecting that. and tasers are only to be used in self defence. a college kid on the floor with multiple cops on top of him is hardly a danger requiring the use of potentially deadly force.
and the whacks? many in the threads resemble nothing other than sheep singing the praises of judas goats.
what about tyranny don’t they get?
Sorry to be Elise like… My band just did a really kick-ass video shoot tonight, where we actually had the entire staff being called in to check us out – it’s for a new ‘unsigned band’ site that is launching around Oct. 1 which has some serious NY money behind it.
I’m jaded enough to know that this is stupid, but I’m also fucking ecstatic with what happened tonight.
Just a little barnacle of joy…
In this day and age, parasites are some of the few pleasures left.
They’re counting on ye aulde ancient Greek form of classical tyranny. Benevolent dictatorships as opposed to maniacally violent ones.
Oh wait…
lucid- that’s awesome!! I have to make my own shitty videos for the band. Once I killed a whole summer learning to make DVDs and edit video. I’ll never get that one back now, and editing is still a pain in the ass. Oh well.
Congrats ms x!
Poor pony boy is now alleging that people are trying to “out” him (a la DD “I outed myself and now you’re doing it too! Waaah!). What a fool.
He’s appears to be some conglomeration of DD, MSOC and that overdramatic Britney Spears fan. Oh how I wish I could make my own little waaahbumlance video. Some day, I too shall catch up with 90s technology.
He uses a buddha image in his banner, has a nicknamed with buhdy and dharma but isn’t a buddhist and if he knew anything about buddhism, he would know that buddhists are not “compelled to share the suffering of every living creature, thank ‘god.”
IOW, he’s just a poseur.
Yeah… and what is not true?
haha. classic. the BBB boyos always put on the noble mask and pleada bout how they’re trying to “build something” when invoking the tiny violins of self-pity.
all he’s attempting to build is his bank account.
Anybody who puts a religious icon on a “political” website is a poseur–trying to choke off debate.
Hm, so what do we have so far?
Booman Tribune and MyLeftWing = Kos Lite
Street Prophets = Fake Christian Kos
Docudharma = Fake Hippie Kos
Think Kos will spin off a Fake Feminist blog soon, with Elise as the “blog owner”?
Yeah, me too.
Maybe I should change my name to Jeebus catnip. I’m not Christian and I don’t believe in “God” but I bet I could sure fool lots of people into thinking otherwise. Of course, my banner would include the crucifixion and a pic of Linda Blair from The Exorcist spewing pea soup along with a trendy pope hat. That wouldn’t be over the top, would it?
Some things need to be torn down, burnt to ashes, and then the earth salted so that nothing will ever grow there again.
And I am all too happy to do the deed.
Catnip, nobody’s suffered as much as I have, nor is anyone holier
Thad – get a fucking life. You started this blog to make money by sitting on your ass [at other people's expense]. You shat on a lot of people offering you help in that regard. Grow the fuck up. Did you use my sketch of a busniness plan I wonder? Did you enlist someone else who flatterd you more?
Yes, I registered my blogname on your sight, but I’ll be damned if I ever post there, unless severely inebriated to the point that I want to tell folks like Armando & NPK that they are assholes of the first order.
I honestly can’t believe that I considered going into business with you for a couple of weeks back there in Feb/March.
And I know you read this fucking site – so don’t expect me to make mention of it elsewhere.
ciao
Sorry to hear you got mixed up with this character, Lucid. Sounds like you dodged a bucket of shit by not getting further involved.
Good on you for the music video. Any chance we can have a look?
I have no musical talent whatsoever but I greatly admire those who do.
Who’s Thad?
ST @ 89- you forgot the flushfest, monsieur.
PFF=Kos for the banned and the slummers.
95 – pff is also for those who are antihegemonic and radically antiinstitutionalist.
by the way, did armando ever penetrate mcjoan? and if so, should we discuss this?
Again, who did they think they were kidding????
I can’t believe that I actually felt sorry for Buhdy when he was being bullied at DK…. now he has turned around and allied himself with the Bullies. They really are trying to mole themselves into the “far left”…. did you see the pics of Kestrel and DemLuntz at the fair… they were as convincing as the undercover cops in Canada.
AntiH- I think you’re taking the PFF too seriously. You can’t get a date with Elise that way, bubs.
Catnip, nobody’s suffered as much as I have, nor is anyone holier
I know that, ST. There, there big hug. You, George and Laura have all suffered the most. It’s so terribly sad. Really it is.
Alrighty then. Back in the real world…
Thad, I gather, is buhdy.
Apparently (and D Throat linked to it yesterday( he used his real name in a diary about Bill O’R at Dkos last year (or this year… god it is such a swirl)
you know im about sick of your content-free sexualized comments.
if you have something to contribute, do so. if you want to play potty mouth
take it back to aol
jerk.
i do not want a date with her. i just think she should be humiliated and exposed. by the way, i am a woman.
PFF=Kos for the banned and the slummers.
So, it’s like the tent city for homeless “progressives”?
i remember an email armando’s ex-wife submitted to over three hundred people about armando’s relationship with mcjoan. i mention it, as i think it is relevant.
I have noticed two MOs being used to cover their right wing agenda (is stifle dissent”:
1. “Fuck Bush!!!”…. who the fuck cares the guy is leaving in a few months. The real motto should be “Fuck the Appeasers”. This goes back to Simon Rosenberg’s NDN “think tank” based meme that “The Left just wants to be Rowdy”… and no issues or ideology needed. Buhdy and OPOL have changed their MOs to “Let’s get Rowdy”…. no more mention of Impeachment, issues and ideologies.
2. Emerging MO is “Let’s be Green”... environmentally speaking only not politically of course… even the Pope has tried to masked his misogyny and bigotry in a cloak of Green…. I guess that is the “safest” way to connect to the young…. far be it for the Pope to actually join the Anti War movement…. millions of lives killed after birth are of no consequence. So I laughed my head of when I see Turkana and Jay Elias trying to infiltrate the left under the cover of green….
“Yell louder in Green and shut the hell up about everything else….”
Who do they think they are kidding?????
mcat @ cien: I think I should start using a pseudonym myself. I always shrugged them off as the vanities of the ashamed, or the shields of the paranoid, but no longer. No, they’re tickets to the BBB sweepstakes. You may already be a winner!
Turkana – fucking why? You know better. We spent so much time in each others company at Dkos. You hated the dynamics as much as I. I think we congregated because we saw in each other something that bucked the ‘common wisdom’. Yet over the issue of Israel, you become so rigid as to see anti-semitism in anyone that suggests that the Palestinians have and are getting a fucking raw deal.
I don’t fucking understand this. You are a better person than this. I ask again, WHY?
AntiH @ 102- being a woman should not be a hinderance. This is 2007 after all, and we are all sensitive people. For all the rest of it I’m just pulling your leg. Didn’t you feel that, or did I get someone else by mistake?
catnip @ 103- what, haven’t you received your tent yet? Markosvilles are the new Hoovervilles. Everything auld is new again.
rofl
If Delaware Dem never passed a bar exam, how is he an attorney?
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2007/9/18/19496/9353/1#c1
Delaware Dem
31
Wilmington, DE
The George Washington University
Attorney
Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Eagles
Either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, depending on the day of the week.
Pumpkin
Jig
Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox
That is his cattle call entry at Daily Kos today.
105 D Throat:
“fuck bush” !!!”…. who the fuck cares the guy is leaving in a few months. The real motto should be “Fuck the Appeasers”. This goes back to Simon Rosenberg’s NDN “think tank” based meme that “The Left just wants to be Rowdy”… and no issues or ideology needed. Buhdy and OPOL have changed their MOs to “Let’s get Rowdy”…. no more mention of Impeachment, issues and ideologies.
yeah I have to agree…. And I almost passed out voting in ‘00. They saw I was listed for an absentee ballot.. so they asked that I bring it in if I wanted to vote. I went home, got it (hell managed to find it), still sealed never opened, and went back UP THE HILL to vote.
LOL I learned fast, within 60 days how little that vote mattered.
AND I made a tour today of some blogs that … well I have to wonder. Small unincorporated blogs that are still gumming their way thru the Bush nightmares.
Sorry, the problem now and for the foreseeable future is the Democrats.
110
apparently he passed the PA bar. it is the DE bar he failed 3 x
Kier – btw Thad is Buydywhatever the fuck.
And ‘whateverhthefuck’ he is.
I won’t air serious laundry on the public intertoobs… but suffice it to say, from personal experience, he is an asshole of the first order.
When the site started, I made note here that I wished him well, as things have unfolded in the last few days – fuck ‘em.
catnip @ 103- what, haven’t you received your tent yet? Markosvilles are the new Hoovervilles. Everything auld is new again.
Well damn. Maybe the Powers That Be™ thought I’d just crochet myself one? Either that or go to work for Mr Potter.
This is a DHinMI blog… that is who is pulling the strings and banning. This is the jist of what Dh said during the bombing of Lebanon…. “Why can’t these people just get it thru their thick head and accept the fact that they have lost… instead of provoking us to kill their children”
Only DH has the power to tell Armando to hide in the shadows these past days… cuz we all know Buhdy is just a “Librul Lefty Front”.
and, yes- there is fighting. but it is too inflammatory, and it is too hateful. it becomes a reflective microcosm of the real conflict. it is not helpful.
Channeling MSOC, as mcat has pointed out: it’s just too “painful” to discuss.
You, Turkana are an example of exactly what’s wrong with The Avoiders. You want to pretend that you’re all concerned about the so-called peace process but you don’t want to discuss REALITY. How the fuck can you talk about peace when you refuse to talk about the fighting and what’s causing it?
No doubt you don’t have a problem going on and on about the Iraq war or the GWOT without forcing yourself to inject a compulsory “peace” message into each post, right? Because, and pay attention here Turkana, if you don’t, you’re nothing but a hypocrite for demanding that when someone posts about the I/P issues. You’re scared of them. Period.
new thread
LINK
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buhdy arrived after I was banned at Kos (end of August 2005) and within about 3 months I hardly went there…
so I only know what people posted here from comments… frankly I thought I saw both buhdy and OPOL show their neck, indicate they wanted to be “brought inside” (believe me, we noticed Armando and MyDD and a few others tell us – at LSF – to give up and “come inside”) but I did nto read him, but in limited fashion.
Was he fostered at all by DH? Why would DH provide yet another cave for Armando to molt in and hang upside down and so on…
tho I agree the AIPAC etc smell is very DH.
???
So does that include a recognition of Zionist [European] barbarity in the region since the ’40’s? Does that include reparations? Does that include recognizing Jerusalem as an international city again? Does that include recognizing water rights in the region? Does that include not slaughtering Palestinian men, women and children on a daily basis regardless of whether or not they might be fighting an occupying power?
Or is ‘peace’ simply a code word for ‘get the fuck out of ‘Greater Israel’, or we’ll show you the fucking door with a cap in your ass.’
People like Turkana and Jay Elias were operatives from the get go. The only way to “con” people is to get their “confidence”… you can not con a person who doesn’t trust you.
That is why people are feeling betrayed…. and rightly so… but it also must be said…. that this is their JOB…. so they really had to work hard at conning you.
Israel’s position, on ALL points is indefensible. It really is.
That is one reason they need to avoid any conversation at all.
well i don’t.
something about the way you speak is familiar though.
signing in from chicago?
DH will use anyone and anything to get what he wants. He has obviously FINALLY tamed Armando …. I guess a year left out in the outhouse has made him “come to his senses”. Kos could not control Armando… but someone has been able to tell him to shut up these last days and go low profile…. that is NOT Armando… he would have been on a rip roaring tear thru those threads.
Armando was NEVER kicked off the reservation… DHinMI took over the “Slave Master’s house” and Armando was left to oversee the “field niggers”.
I also think we are looking in the wrong place… perhaps Armando really power comes from the GOP… and he just restated… he is the only “Dem” in his family…. yunno…. “BIPARTISANSHIP”…. and all.
D. Throat – you can go back through my diaries there – Turkana & I were good friends [as far as blog definitions go]. We never discussed I/P issues.
When that issue came up – poles.
I find it sad that those I have things in common with, and that I think stand with me on human rights issues can be so blind.
I do not doubt you…. but you would be surprised how long operatives will wait to set you up. Like I said it is a confidence game… and perhaps you were “picked” because of your “profile”…. as someone they would like to “know”…
DT
Armando has said, his family is rabid (iirc that washis word) Republicans. Hey, So Fl Cubans.
What else is new. In 72, again iirc, he said he was at both conventions… as LOL both were in Miami.
I don’t think any of these guys from peeder to Kos is much other than conservative Democrat… very party line from the Support the State, Deny the People side of the broken bed.
hmm I did not go back to docudonot after the bannings and in fact missed it in real time. I caught up late taht night.
Did not realise Armando was lying low. Well he scuttled off from WIndsock last time as well.
Dogs.
Look at the maths that have gone into setting up DocuDhrama… Rove would be very pleased at his protege.
Get two “Rowdy” Lefty Libruls … stick them in the forefront… YELL LOUDER…. then shuffle in right wing trolls behind them… don’t tell me that this was not calculated from the beginning.
If you look closely MLW is set up the same way… as is BMT.
#116. What a joke that discussion is. Turkana accuses mattes of plagiarism and then finally admits it wasn’t plagiarism, it was her “style”. Right, because everybody knows that ONLY shergald posts blockquotes from news sources. And Jay Elias saying he wants to “hurt” antiwar.com? Give me a fucking break. Pathetic – the lot of them.
Trust should be given in very short supply when dealing with the BBBs. DK is now 90% operatives…. isn’t funny that after all of the publicity following YK… that there was NOT an influx of newbies…
Any Potter fan out there???
129- I’m a fan, and as yet unashamed to admit it. Will I have new reasons to question my own and others’ sanity? Oh joy!
They have banned 6 people in the first week of launching….
Who do they think they are kidding?????
Turkana and group should quit hating and criticizing Dick Cheney and George Bush….and all will be well….there will be peace in the world.
He is a liar…he has no proof, because there isn’t any.
i do not want a date with her. i just think she should be humiliated and exposed. by the way, i am a woman.
I suppose it is barely possible that you’re female. Nevertheless I completely agree with Bay about your comments here. You seem obsessive and deeply creepy and have managed to make Elise a sympathetic figure. (a feat in itself)
May I suggest that you post at My Left Wing? Emsock’s very accepting of posters who sexually insult women she dislikes. Figure out who she dislikes and you’ll be in like Flynn.
TURKANA…take the fucKing RED PILL for once.
Marisacat…indefensible is right.
D. Throat….I really thought that site would deal in realities, I was wrong the fake buddha did me in.