Opera Glasses and Popcorn
we’ll know it was love…….
That sure looked like a negotiated, agreed-upon-in-advance moment.
Air kiss air kiss whisper whisper…..
Sorry, just the barest smidge to hold up a thread.
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- Real independent observations on current events with a particular fondness for the follies of the Big Box Blahgers.
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"... hardened professionals and their primary strength lies in their being completely unconflicted."
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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
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.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
OH DEAR GOD!!!!! Make the images stop!!!!!!!!
Good timing. I’d just read this headline at E&P: The Debate: Few Sparks, Clinton and Obama Nearly Hug
Just saw this at Harper’s… the latest from Mr Fish.
think it was Madman last thread who mentioned STop Me Before I Vote Again is on a rolll………..
and they are…[tho not on the debate, yet]
http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/
LOL catnip..(from before, way before with the Mastadon 3000)
I missed the debate… I’m seeing here on the coverage reruns that I missed nothing…about the only thing that raised an eyebrow was what is normally a little standard pander line about trash and slasher films on TV…. I saw it as an opener for his surrogates, I bet they make a play over the weekend on THAT slop… That guy Giustra behind the Bill Brokered uranium Deal in Kazhakstan made a ton of dough on Lions Gate, maker of shitty chainsaw movies and such….
What a weak line of attack if they do it…. But not surprising at all…
NONE of these fuckers are going to touch the corrupt to the core Funny Money Shit funneled through , going on in Foundations, “Blind Trusts” , “Non-Profits”, Consultancies, etc..let alone the campaigns themselves where , Christ, even LOSERS like Shrumm have made personal fortunes on them…I bet Trippi is another hail fellow well met whose comfortable retirement is already assured.
He who lives in Glass houses and all that… …
the latest from Mr Fish.
lol…ouch.
Kenya: U.S. Govt Sends Mixed Messages on Crisis
Right. Wait until the ethnic cleansing is all done and then you can call it ethnic cleansing. What universe does McCormack inhabit?
More evidence of how well the so-called surge is working: Bomb Kills 5 at Pet Market in Baghdad (2 dozen wounded)
isn’t Samantha Powers weeping that Obama is not in office and therefore could invade to save his family?
or some such scheisse.
And the wars will go on.
A follow-up link for the story I posted in the last thread: Pakistan tests nuclear-capable missile
Alrighty, I was wondering why Pakistan was testing missiles. Maybe this Asia Times article has the answer.
Holy Joe’s been busy.
And what does this mean?
Is that code…or what?
Then there’s India…and Russia…and the US…
I wonder if McCain is looking at his buddy Joe for Secretary of State. He seems to be practicing for the role.
Tom Englehardt: Bombs away over Iraq: Who cares?
And tell me that story again about “no permanent bases in Iraq” when this is the reality there:
Now, why do I find it hard to believe that either Hillary or Obama could even begin to fulfill their campaign promises of “bringing the troops home” in the timetables they’ve laid out? Hmmm…I wonder.
There’s much more to that article (that will depress you too).
god i love it when this asshole has egg all over his face.
nice try rick, but no vice-presidency for you! might think about signing up for that refresher on reading the tea leaves.
moran
Gov. Rick Perry
He’s the one with the hair nickname?
He’s the one with the hair nickname?
the very one! gov. goodhair. so named, iirc, by the late molly ivans.
i just can’t resist!
MB writes about oil company profits. Noticeably absent: Chevron.
gov. goodhair. so named, iirc, by the late molly ivans.
Good to know I still have some functioning brain cells.
Good article too.
Speaking of Chevron (and all of the outrage spewed at the Big Orange Satan over that NYT article about Bill and Kazakhstan): Chevron venture boosts Kazakhstan oil production.
But that Chevron ad on dkos that’s been there for years now? Nothing to see hear folks…move along…
The word “myopic” comes to mind. Not to mention “hypocrisy”. of course.
And this is so ironic considering that kos lives in Berkeley: City of Berkeley Votes to Boycott Chevron
Resolution Cites Controversial Human Rights Record and “Severe Ecological Destruction” in Amazon Rainforest
100 more years of this shit?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violence
Well at least women are getting into the act.
BAGHDAD – A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the main pet market in central Baghdad, killing at least 46 people and wounding dozens in the deadliest bombing to strike the capital since 30,000 more American troops began flooding into central Iraq last spring, police said.
Technology giant Microsoft offers to buy search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares, the company announces.
For more details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news
(sigh.) There He Goes Again.
3rd Parties are nice and all but if you don’t vote Democrat the Africans will die. Americans dead from half-assed healthcare and a regressive aproach to reproductive rights ? Foreigners dead from our endless succession of wars ? La la la. Not listening. Can’t hear you.
LMAO
I just retreated from the news…
Sometimes the connections are painfully obvious:
Culture Ghost sneers at an Americablog poster for basically calling 3rd Party candidates en masse the victims of mental illness.
James notices this tendency as well, linking it explicitly to our overall tendency of treating discontent itself as something to be expunged with the proper pill.
Reuters reporting death toll at 72 now.
As for women getting into the act, CNN has this:
Meanwhile, Exxon posts record profits, payrolls dropped for the first time since 2003, and the morning shows are abuzz with . . . what?
Natalie Holloway.
Reuters reporting death toll at 72 now.
As for women getting into the act, CNN has this:
In both bombings, the attackers were wearing suicide vests, according to Qasim Atta, a spokesman for the Baghdad security plan.
Atta told state TV that both women were mentally disabled and their explosives were remotely detonated.
Meanwhile, Exxon posted record profits, payrolls dropped for the first time since 2003, and the morning shows are abuzz with . . . what?
Natalie Holloway.
told to seek psychiatric help over some minor blog-related disagreement, as well as the tendency for quite a number of folks on these same blogs to pathologize dissident politicians
There’ s a book to be written about the failure (or the unwillingness to confront) of psychologists the political implecations of their field.
The wreckage is all around us, from the petty (the blog disagreements above) to the tragic (the participation of psychologists in waterboarding).
I was very aware of this when I was spending a lot of money for psychoanalysis a number of years ago.
An author I’d recommend is James Hillman, who wrote a number of critiques of American psychoanalsyis from a Jungian perspective. Alice Miller’s interesting too (if cruder).
politicians and activists such as Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney
A lot of this is simple misogyny reframing itself in psychological categories. And it applies to attempts to put men like Nader down too. It’s an attempt to feminize them.
Every once in awhile on the internet when I’m in a flame war with someone I get this picture of my opponent as an Archie Bunker type imagining me as a small women and imagining himself as grabbing my wrists. Or a similar Archie Bunker type trying to imagine me as a child and he’s grabbing my wrists or pinching my cheeks and having some sort of abusive dominance over me.
There are a lot of weak, abusive men on the internet. You can feel it coming through the monitor sometimes.
Collateral damage story in the WaPo:
Speaking of unpreparedness, I saw a headline on MSNBC’s website last night or this AM for a story about a report that says the US is completely unprepared for nuclear warfare, and that the Army and Marines have none of the equipment necessary for operating in a combat zone in which there’s been atomic attack. Eisenhower once said that plans were useless, but planning was essential, i.e., you can’t know what’s going to happen, but the process of preparing for any eventuality will help you deal with the unforseen problems that inevitably arise. I guess BushCo. read only the first half of Ike’s statement, and figured there was no point in even thinking about what might happen after launching their wars.
Yesterday, I mentioned my hum-ho reaction to the Clinton Scandal Story the NYT headlined and then buried, and stated that I’d find the paper more credible and less selective on this subject if they’d devoted the same attention to the doings of both Bush pere and Henry Kissinger. Chris Floyd seems to have had a similar reaction:
[W]e don’t mean to heap scorn on the Times’ story. It was indeed interesting to get this detailed glimpse into the way the world works behind the endless preening of mugs and murderers who pass as leaders on the global stage. And it demonstrates — yet again — that there is no discernible moral difference between the two ruling houses that have dominated the gutted Republic for nearly 30 years now. (A Bush or Clinton in the White House, as president or vice president, from 1981 to 2008 — with a good chance of at least four more years in the offing.) No wonder the two families get along so famously — and no wonder B. Clinton moved so swiftly and strenuously to quash investigations into the crimes of his Bush predecessor, as the incomparable Robert Parry points out. No doubt H. Clinton will do same for her Bush if she gets the chance.
But here’s a look back at that earlier hook-up between an ex-prez, a mining company and a big donor. This is an excerpt from an article I wrote for the Moscow Times in May 2004:
Thanks to a 5-5 split upon full-panel review by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Court Won’t Reconsider Guantanamo Ruling
Speaking of Gitmo, Aussie former detaini David Hicks is fielding lucrative offers for his story as his key advisers harden their resolve to defy Australian law and sell the white-hot interview rights.
That photo at the top makes me want to read that Matt Taibbi piece again.
Does anybody here read German? I’d like to know what this post says about my post on Afghanistan.
Sorry, Catnip, the only two words I can make out are ‘a Canadian’, lol!
I haven’t figured out this computer yet so have limited my blogging to inane responses to obvious kossacks and rightwingers. It takes so little thought or links etc. but I’ve been reading.
Re the NYT story, well, this government’s policy on dealing with dictators allows for this kind of alliance between those on the inside.
I’d be more impressed with an article that tells the whole story, Bush’s (Rumsfeld again being the messenger as he was in 1983 for Reagan) backing for Karamov in Uzbekistan complete with millions of dollars of financial backing, which can hardly have happened without Congressional approval.
They could have written about the Bush/Nazi business connections, the Bush/Bin Laden and Bush/Rev Moon business connections, and so much more.
True the Clinton deal is topical being that Hillary is running for President, but Bush 11 also ran just three years ago and I don’t recall any such articles about the Bush family business.
So, imho, it’s hypocritical of the NYT to talk about this which really is pretty much business as usual for all them. Let someone have the courage to expose the whole filthy system and rid this country of all of them. We need to start all over again.
Ugh:
lc – If you plug in the URL to babelfish, you’ll get the gist.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
Title gets translated “Western Fairy Tale Hours,” and the writer appears to share your dismay. Appreciated your links, too.
Disclaimer: I don’t read German, just took an intensive course once and still have some scattered remnants embedded in the gnarly gray sponge.
Suspect the title would probably be better tagged as “Western Storytime” or “Western Story Hour.”
Hi Sabrina – Nice job kicking various deserving pffter butts, as of late!
“Western Story.” I see we’re back to musicals again. Well, I always did like Leonard Bernstein.
When you’re Canuck
You’re Canuck all the way…
Sorry.
sabrina ! Welcome back to Insulationland !! :p
From your first hockey puck
to your very last “eh?”
… you’re a Jet all the way………….
Ratdog board rumors of a Monday night Grateful Dead show in SF – for Obama – have just arrived at DK, courtesy of diary by Varmint Cong.
Jeez, put a Dead endorsement out there on Monday, hint a little more about decriminalization, and watch those Super Tuesday rural and suburban votes swell!
Title gets translated “Western Fairy Tale Hours,” and the writer appears to share your dismay. Appreciated your links, too.
Thanks! I was going to try babelfish first but sometimes the stuff that it spews out is seriously screwed up.
Let someone have the courage to expose the whole filthy system and rid this country of all of them. We need to start all over again.
Amen to that. As I wrote here before I thought it was ridiculous that the NYT piece accused Bill of hurting US foreign policy when Bush had Kazakhstan’s president at the White House for an official visit. All of this concern about human rights is just a front.
Thanks, IB and ms x. I’ve been trying to keep up but this laptop is a mystery to me still, re all the functions I was used to on my other computer. I have to get a mouse! Can’t ‘copy and paste’ eg, without totally messing up everything. And on the Mac desktop, which I love, it’s like learning a whole new language. Eg, just saw a message ‘your keyboard needs new batteries’ on the Mac, but I can’t find out where they are. Lol, and no one here knows anything about it. And I am too impatient with following the directions.
Anyway, as far as theme songs, I like ‘Send in the Clowns’ for Bill and Hillary. At least from memory the words seem to fit:
That’s all I remember ….. lol!
No, no, I’m sorry. We can’t dismantle the system until I’ve got my book deal sewn up. Maybe after that. Oh, and after we’ve saved Africa.
>:
Lol, ‘when you’re a jet’ another one to have fun with …
Catnip, yes you did point that out …. like always, we get little bits of info on the mis-deeds of various politicians, but it is always personal, aimed at one or the other personally, so it has taken, even those of us who HAVE been paying attention over the past several years, a long time to put it all together.
Sigh … imagine how fast all this could happen if we actually had a real free press …..
But then, what I used to think was just stupidity on Clinton’s part re de-regulation – of the media eg, now I see as self-serving, there are rules and in the US one of them is that we have a ruling class, and for them the laws do not apply.
It’s up to the people now … and I am at a loss, how can we, the people actually do anything about it?
Re the media and the ruling class – cozy is as cozy does. Interesting comment in the thread augmenting a list of superdelegate endorsements at a Denver blog (by dk poster Oreo) called 2008 Democratic Convention Watch.
If The best we can hope for is that the question of fairness will be raised before the super-delegates are selected for the 2012 election, well, you know the rest of that Storyhour.
I don’t know, Sabrina. I’m beginning to think that Culture Ghost’s blog has the right idea. Screw politics. Art for art’s sake. Entertainment while we wait to die. >:
Eh, I may try and volunteer for McKinney anyway. With any luck I can subdue my bad temper better than, say, Luscious V. and his hordes of clones/imitators. :p
BTW, I think the battery is usually underneath the computer. And if they didn’t give you a recharge pack call up Steve Jobs and chew his ass out !!
hint a little more about decriminalization — IB at # 45
I dunno… ordinary people and activists want decriminalisation… but a wide stripe of the illegal drug trade want it pretty much the way it is …
cash business…
Darn! obama may have just lost Humboldt co.
LOL
MB left out Exxon because you know, Chevron is going broke buying up ad space on Daily Kos. Way to stick it to the oil man, Markos, you pathetic Republican whore. And nobody in the thread can find it in their heart to bring up Chevron.
We’ll see if Kos posts anything about Berkeley banning Chevron.
I can read it now: “Ugh. Stupid condom people. You can’t stop Chevron. Just take their money and fight it. Hippie morons.”
Reckon you’ve got a bigger grower-to-buyer lobbying ratio out there in sunny CA.
Even tiny little self-sufficiency pot-farming efforts get busted by the collar-happy infrared-plane jockeys around here, every fall. Wide stripes of ordinary people are mighty fed up with having to navigate peer-to-peer import access channels (with all the risk and organized crime implications that might, at higher levels, entail) because they can’t just grow a couple of plants in their yard. Quite the postpartisan alliance on that point, hereabouts.
Oprah Alert – LA Rally on Superbowl Sunday.
LA Times endorsements: Obama and McCain.
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post partisan alliance here too… for instance George Shultz always puts some money behind pro MJ or med MJ initiatives… not the only conservative that does so. But also not a new alliance here. That is part of CA libertarianism. (and respect for biz, what ever it might be) LOL SHultz just loves it…
As for pot growers, they strike deals with local enforcement. Sheriffs put down a cap on yearly cash crop What they can live with. One deal I heard recently, a friends cousin was on site for a day cash job, “keep it to a million”.
HOWEVER, the recent appellate court finding that federal laws override state allowed med MJ possibly being in an employee’s urine… not to make a joke but I see where the anti-pot legal strategy game is going. Trickle down.
LOVE how when it might matter, “states rights” is ephemera.
Have to get MJ off the same classification as heroin at the Federal level. Nothing much can happen til that does.
LOVE how when it might matter, “states rights” is ephemera.
Yep. Not to mention “personal responsibility.”
Left I on the news – Chafee’s Blockbuster, with link to projo.com story, Chafee’s new book is tough on pro-war Democrats, Republicans, President Bush.
Apparently the book is called Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President, and it comes out on April 1. From the Providence Journal:
I see in the last line of The Caucus / Oprah piece that obama says it is a delegate game, or words to that effect.
LAT has a piece on delegates.
From that LA Times story:
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It all starts to sound like a cross between Magister Ludi and Three-Card Monte, whenever this shit gets explained.
spam
It all starts to sound like a cross between Magister Ludi and Three-Card Monte, whenever this shit gets explained.
— IB
yeah I feel so special as a single voter. Like shaving minute snips of invisible nanoseconds off the clock in the Olympics.
One reason I have adjusted my voting. And feel a lot more peaceful.
According to Halperin’s The Page, Oprah will be joined by Caroline K.
ON THE SUNDAY SHOWS
Fox News Sunday: McCain, Clinton
This Week: Clinton, Romney
Face the Nation: Obama, McCain
Late Edition: Romney, Ralph Nader
Meet the Press: James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mike Murphy, Bob Shrum
The Page, 3:44 PM
Romney and Nader! Wolf takes revenge on Dem hecklers!
DT – It’s always the ones obsessed with the dirty bits, right?
IB #60 – I always liked Chaffee – and was sorry he lost.
He says he was ‘surprised at how quickly’ the Dems caved! Back then I was too and really hoped there was something we didn’t know, although I doubted it. He confirms, as did Graham, that they were either just cowards or complicit and in some cases, both.
DT #63 – another rightwing hypocrite – disgusting, evil people. How anyone can ever again listen to these preaching Conservative after all this, I don’t know.
Ms x, re ‘Ghost’, I see the point of just opting out, but then I think of the dying Iraqis and I know that’s what the criminals in office countedk on, that we would become so burned from all they intended to fling at us, we would just become cynical and/or too exhausted to even try to stop them.
It’s hard to retain the level of outrage that the first casualty from their criminal war aroused in decent people. For me it was the little boy, Ali, who lost his arms and legs, and his entire family. Innocent people violently slaughtered while here the warmongers cheered with flags waving and Dems, the only hope to stop them, instead scrambled to be even tougher than the Repubs. I do not want to lose that sense of outrage, not that it has done any good so far.
Reading Chaffee’s account of how they not only caved, but wait to do so, reminds of how stunned I was back then, each time the Dems went along with it all.
Oh, btw, re Wolf Blitzer – I remember reading that he started out with Pat Robertson years ago … never verified that, but airc, it was from a good source.
gah. If anyone finds Natalee, please kill her, so this can begin all over again.
Conversely if you find her dead remains, stay mum! So the game goes on!
What a spectre this has been.
Careful, sabrina. You may keep me engaged despite my best efforts.
It would be great to talk about this more but not today. I am sleep-deprived and hungry and don’t want to have an MSOC episode. :/
I will say that I wish I could respond in some coherent to the post I linked to way up. The one from Amp. This whole idea of forgoing any attempt at positive change in your own backyard because somebody a continent away might miss a chance at rare free medicine instead of the customary free bullets… it doesn’t sit right with me. At all. >:
Sabrina – Wolf’s Wikipedia bio says he started out at Reuters, in Tel Aviv, and I posted a snippet before the Dem debate about his writing for Israeli papers under Hebrew pseudonyms. But Google does bring up a Yurica Report asserting that Wolf was a Mid-East correspondent for Robertson’s CBN 700 Club, back in the day.
It’s a small world, after all . . . it’s a small world after all. . . .
“Ugh. Stupid condom people. You can’t stop Chevron. Just take their money and fight it. Hippie morons.”
That sums up kos’ existence.
Dolores Huerta (Clinton), Frederico Pena (Obama) and Gilbert Cedillo (state senator for obama) on Democracy Now!
Robert K Jr is up with an ad out here for Clinton, with grandson of Cesar…
The Battle for the Latino Vote!
gah. If anyone finds Natalee, please kill her, so this can begin all over again
Ironically the people of Aruba have killed more Americans than Saddam did before the invasion of Iraq.
Just saw a Caroline Kennedy commercial for Obama.
Oprah will be joined by Caroline K.
Oh, here we go. Bow now and avert your eyes in the presence of greatness.
I saw a hinty-winty about Ethel somewhere today. How big do these piles have to get?
Cesar nephew for Obama!
From The Trail at Wapo:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/
Of course we are inundated wtih the Battle For California out here… it really eclipses the story for the other Big States on Tsunami Tues.
Meet the Press: James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mike Murphy, Bob Shrum
OH
MY
GAWD
That’s like a day in the hospital where they take you from a colonoscopy tom stomach pumping to fully-awake brain surgery to four root canals, all without any anesthetic.
fortunately the Matalin Carville spawn are too old to be dragged along anymore.
the Matalin Carville spawn
They reproduced? Now that is scary.
ms x – The Culture Ghost is worth a bookmark for the banner alone! Thanks for the link, and sorry it took me so long to click it.
I was afraid it led to another complicated interblog battle; but no! Admirably pithy.
Local news is covering HIllary live from San Jose Convention Center… big crowd. FWIW. A unity speech, from what I heard of it. Huerta was on stage with her, Villaraigosa and Nunez seated togeher behind her.
She heads up to SF next to the Orpheum Theatre for a “low dollar” event.
Obama vs. Clinton, A Second Thought
I think I’m in much the same place.
found this link via Culture Ghost:
The Aftermath
and the Molly piece he links to:
waaaaaaa… why can’t we split one more family!
Where is Maria Shriver (where are the pesky Shrivers and Lawfords?)? Surely she can decide for a Democrat… and balance all these bloated pics of Arnold, Guiliani and Mac. (they really are awful pictures… ugh)
a winter’s tale
Something Stinks in Lima
Berkeley Finds a New Way to Make War Politics Local
Way to go, damned dirty hippies!
Very cool.
Can you imagine how the military recruiter who gets assigned to Berkeley must feel?
Please. Send me to Iraq now.
Then again, I guess there are poor inner city parts of Berkeley where a military recruiter might just meet his quota.
Because I couldn’t let this one go: I’ve crossposted a Mo Betta META diary about ” Daily Kos, Chevron, Bill Clinton, and Kazahkstan” to pff.
Can’t Pay Your Mortgage? Trash Your House and Leave
It’s okay when a company uses something up and leaves for economic reasons, but little tiny actual human beings?!?! Oh, Adam Smith forfend!
Fuck ‘em, shysters and loan sharks and usurers, all of them.
With a “Brutha” Like This …
Have I mentioned lately how glad I am to live in a state where the primary means even less than shit ?
Just thought I mention that again. And now I need to catch some winks. Catnip’s tirade looks promising so I promise to give it a more thorough look-see tomorrow.
IB, I think it was Madman who first linked to CG’s place last month. I was just pleased to find another Crank who also collages.
Ms xeno, sorry! Lol but I have to keep reminding myself that while we have the luxury of opting out of all this mess, the Iraqis don’t and especially those in our torture chambers. And the Dems are a disgrace, the only ones who could have done something ….
I wonder what drives people, like Hillary, to make them so immune to the dreadful consequences of their votes? Or the operatives, who think it makes them tough to be able to ignore the horrible human suffering their candidates either deliberately caused or chose to ignore, just for their own political ambitions? I can’t even begin to understand them. And when I see Hillary lie about her vote, still, I have to agree with Molly. No way could I support her.
IB #78 – thanks for that link. I knew I read somewhere abouty Wolf and Pat Robertson. Wonder why he was so persistent with Hillary over her war vote last night though? Does he have a conscience or was he told to go after her? Sad not to be able to trust any of them.
Kos and Chevron …. ‘let’s take their money and use it against them’! How are they using Chevron’s money against them? Chevron is still helping the junta in Burma and Kos is supporting them and that’s all there is to it. All his weak excuses are pure BS!
factcheck.org fact checks the “L.A. Lovefest”.
Obama made mistakes during the debate that I didn’t catch at all. Bad Barack!!
Chevron is still helping the junta in Burma and Kos is supporting them and that’s all there is to it.
I could have sworn I caught a glimpse of MB in a robe over there protesting with the monks.
I am still waiting to see the NAMBLA ad on dk. By what logic could kos turn them down?
Excellent catch Madman:
This is in contrast to the new NYT article that tries to magnify Hilary sparse “civil rights activities“…
I see that the Clintons are demanding services to be rendered for payments received.
test
OK 5th try – Wp is refusing my comments…
Of the three, Lani Guinier, Jocelyn Elders and Dick Morris, it was only Dick who got a sympathy call from the Clintons…
I laughed when I read that… it ws clear Bill had greater feeling for toe sucking – caught on camera – than for principles and courageous ideas and stated political thoughts.
It was all clear so long ago.
yeah there is something funky going on…
I keep getting a strange message that says i need to refresh or contact Word press
I finally got it to accept the comment by holding down Control while ckicking on “say it”
FWIW.
It has hiccuped for two days, three by now. I wish they’d take it down and fix it.
I got the same message as D. Throat. Now, I tried holding the ‘control’ button and got a message saying ‘your are posting messages too quickly, slow down’. So, I’ll try to type a little slower and to hold the ‘control’ button a little longer, and see what happens! Lol! What fun ….
Holding the control button worked on the second try ….. in case anyone is wondering …. thanks for the tip, marisacat.
test 2
I just refreshed and waited… that seems to work too.
gah
one more try…
It seems, from past instances, that whent he comment soft ware fucks up, it will just throw any number of error screens out. sigh.
Its been a mess for three days… but in every instance took my comment, despite the error screen.
Not tonight.
I wish they’d take it down.
same here. i tried contacting wordpress. they’re out so don’t bother. the service told me they’re all over at ampersand’s place singing blowin’ in the wind.
I see all the news feeds are down but for Democracy NOW! That many it might be a WP problme.
I had jsut found a new news source – nothing groudnshaking but new…(think it is called Wahington Independent) and decided NOT to try to post the feed tonight…
gah.
Hillary is on with Tavis… quite nervous. Or, that is my take.
I think not only did Bill bow her chances with Black voters… the MAJORITY of whom were more favorable to Hil than Obama for months now… but the real problem is that Bill let the “Black Genie” out of the box.
All the dEMOCRATIC White Boyz have been pontificating for DECADES that the Southern Strategy is enshrined in gold and can never be undone. What we are seeing now is that is has been the dems all along that have been propping up this facade. Just look at the numbers in South Carolina… Obama beat the top three Republicans combined. That is a hell of a big difference than in 2004… in which the NYT ran a seminal article about race, democrats and the southern strategy. I HIGHLY suggest reading the whole article.
So, where is the Southern Strategy today??? South Carolina is in play for the general… and by the looks of the polls coming so too are Alabama, Georgia.
That is what happens when the DLC Clintonites are NOT in controll of the DNC for the first time in 20 years.
Oh and that “hope thang…” works:
when that NYT article appeared in 2004, it was well into STFU SYFPIEHOLE at Dkos and I used that report a lot, to make my own points.
They’d shut us up – or try to, but if I quoted blacks in the South, I was allowed to speak.
So cute.
Oh BTW I got a real chuckle out of the White Boi posting “Black Kos”… he couldn’t bring himself to mention Bill’s race oriented attacks on Obama.
Looking over headlines at Huff Po… I see that Democrats in Congress raised “record cash for 2008″…
alll you can do si laugh. Peoeple liked the 110th a lot better than they told pollster.
Open wide and swalllllllllllllllllllow.
Mcat at 89 – I almost posted a flip remark about scavenging for Rockefellers, Roosevelts, or Martin Van Buren descendants (which included Nelson Eddy and Glenn Ford, supposedly), but reality has now outstripped whimsy yet again: Susan Eisenhower endorsement appears at WaPo today.
In other news, the (Grateful, remaining) Dead show has been confirmed.
And SF Bay has taken another hit – this time it’s sewage.
Photos from Russia
A Day At The Beach In South Korea
a bit of a post…
LINK
yes they seem quite perplexed about the sewage… signs have gone up at several beaches…
There was alos an International group of Zoo directors and other professionals and specialists at the SF Zoo.
What a shock, it is a mess. Their assessment.
All it has been for years is a land grab and a PR point… it was sad 40+ years ago and is still sad…
Maybe Ob could run in a red and blue Superman suit. Or purple if that fits the post-partisan game.
Considering that the small d democratic hopes for change always lose out, as the Big D game is to be subsumed by conservatives, and now add in faith based to authoritarian conservatives… this will not be any different.
Bang up party inauguration night, at the Nixon Center, I am sure… LOL. And the Eisenhouwer Center as well……………….
Sorry melvin…
you were lost in spam for an hour…
122 – Love the Russian doors and windows to nowhere.
But for beach entertainments, Lima looks like more fun!
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