SPQR 25 March 2008
Posted by marisacat in Afghanistan War, Culture of Death, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Iraq War, WAR!.trackback
I stumbled across this interesting article in Texas Observer on the modern era of military tattoos… and found this snip worth noting:
The second type of military tattoo is for soldiers who want to make their uniform permanent. Some do this for practical reasons, tattooing dog tags complete with military ID and Social Security numbers onto their torsos in case they become separated from their heads during combat. These tattoos, called “meat tags,” can be elaborate: One Killeen variation shows the dog tags in an open wound, wrapped around an exposed rib.
From articles I hve read in the past, the Iraqis are doing the same, in case they are dismembered, perhaps a shard of their former selves can be indentified by a tattoo…
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The wit and wisdom of Pat Buchanan:
Just imagine what the winger 527s are going to go with this summer and fall …
yes no doubt… I find I am unsympathetic to anyone here. At lest of the named players. For millions of unnamed and forgotten poor and or working class blacks.. yes for them.
The righties just raise Cosby with his “Cosbyisms” and Toussaint at hsi side… and Oprah (how convenient! and topical!) with her so comfy for whitie stories of why S Africa and not S side of Chicago.
On and on it goes. Where it ends…
Ugh, Hillary is just making me hurl now on a daily basis. I love that Keith O. started with her using “The Tonya Harding Option” by trying to kneecap her opponent with the Wright harping again today. Now Bill on pandering to beat the band as well, he is just beyond tired.
from the last thread, I’m not so worried about Clinton and Billy Graham, This pastor is far scarier than Graham.
Interesting post, links and pics M-cat.
Wisdom straight from the southern end of a northbound horse:
Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for “deserving” white kids.
Dear Dunghead: Ivy League recruiters don’t hand out scholarships to “deserving” white kids because THE IVY LEAGUE DOESN’T GIVE ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS TO ANYBODY, BLACK OR WHITE!!!!!!!
I would also point out that that bit of ignorant race baiting was written by someone who went to the Columbia School of Journalism on a fellowship no doubt set aside for thick skulled bigots of mixed Kraut/Scots ancestry who pretend their Irish.
well I think Michelle O’s brother received a scholarship (partial I suspect, not sure how much) to Princeton. He is now coach (think head coach) at Brown.
She as it happens went to Princeton as a legacy student, based on her brother.
Lots of whtie children are selected for scholarships. It usually happens, for poor black and white, thru the culling system in the public schools and teachers making names available to the right foundations and schools looking for scholarshop students. And thru the application process, too.
At least what I hear of it…
I thought that Pat Buchanan piece was meant to be satire … but it’s not!
No, white racism was when the white looters, Cheney, Barbara and Neil Bush and all their cronies, profited from letting NO drown for five days, when busy as bees, while not only doing nothing at all to save a single life, actually preventing anyone else from doing so, they were handing out big contracts to their friends …. blood money, profiting from both natural disasters and ones they themselves made, ie their various wars, and it’s never enough … these looters will never be satisfied ….
Remember Safavian? He did his job, making sure to get those contracts to the right people ….
Corpwatch: The Road From K Street to Yusufiya
Funny how the word ‘looters’ is never used where it actually applies by the likes of Pat Buchanan ….
Ugh, Hillary spouting such shit “You can’t choose your relatives but you CAN choose your pastor and he would never by mine”.
Yeah Hillpac, and your pastor no doubt is a homophobe who thinks i’m a 2nd class citizen in heaven. She’s just as reprehensible as any Republican.
Sorry, just soooooo tired of the bullshit.
A ton of Democrats let No drown as well.
i sure do wish it was good v bad.
It would be easier.
LOL
Some tortured logic in there.
A Conscientious Objection
I got two of Madman’s out os spam but I only see one…
Will give it a min or two. See if it arrives.
It’s there, up at comment 4…
globalization from below
I’d like to see him try & use that phrase in Chiapas
LOL The manifesto for Obamamamama is from Hayden, Ehrenreich, Danny Glover… and Bill Flecther of Black Commentator.
Good luck to all.
Quick, Line up!
George McGovern is a racist. Countdown to which pundit says it first.
I will say it again, this is one to sit out in terms of endorsements. This is not going to go well.
Purge!
Although some are arguing that kneecapping will suffice.
I wonder if they would be interested in my (rather lengthy) list?
17.
Well, at least the diarist admits that The Party is a religion.
Part 2 of Bush’s War is on Frontline tonite.
I’ve never read it:
Arcturus out of spam…
sorry! for the delay…
8)
Melvin #17 – that diary is gone!
that diary is gone!
Probably because (odd for dkos) so many commenters attacked the diarist for attacking Clinton by suggesting she be “purged”. When one of the commenters linked to her personal blog, she immediately deleted that too. Weird.
I had fallen asleep… and I see now I had the Purge Hillary diary open.
If anyone wants the text I will copy paste and send.
Let me know.
What a hoot!
Mark Steel: So Tibetans have been brainwashed by a rogue…
So many deletions …
Opol had a good diary on the Siegelman case in Alabama last week. Apparently he knew him a long time ago and has corresponded with him in jail …
This is a travesty of justice if ever there was one …. I saw Opol’s diary on DU or else I would not have seen it ….
Now, it seems, the Rupublican thugs are after a blogger in Alabama who has been writing about the Siegelman case ….
Found this info on DU tonight and followed the links to the blog – is there anyone in the state of Alabama who is not totally corrupt?
Paying the price for looking too closely at the Siegelman case
His blog is here Legalschnauzer
Lots of interesting articles in the archives about the GOP operatives in Alabama and the Siegelman case …. it sure looks like he is being targeted for his writing on the case although he seems to think it’s also because of some of what he wrote about another case involving Exxon there ….
Congress should be looking at this case, especially after the information revealed on the 60 Minutes program regarding the pressure placed on witnesses by the prosecution, in one case a witness who refused to lie, was prosecuted himself … Karl Rove, according to Siegelman himself, is the key to everything there …
Siegelman publicly spoke out about election fraud, and it was after that that they went after him. Lots of people do not want this topic discussed at all – including btw, ‘progressive’ blogs like Daily Kos …
My latest: Update: Afghanistan
The Challenge of the 21st Century: Setting the Real Bottom Line, 2008 Commonwealth Lecture by David Suzuki
And as usual with Suzuki, much more.
Police: US Capitol Gunman Had Bomb
Escobar: Shocked, awed and left to rot
hmmm I just caught Hofmeister, the CEO of Shell on with Charlie Rose.
Along the way he mentioned a couple of interesting things. One, that the nation has to subsidise fuel costs. The consumer can no longer pick up the whole cost.
And two, that he made a tour of Big City mayors and 20 governors… and one thing he talked about is that ordinary people can longer support the pressure from rising costs for gas, heating, food and other basics.
And he says the politicans won’t face that there is growing frustration out in the country. And that it will surface.
He said he asked Villaraigosa of LA how the tension was holding in poorer areas from so much cost pressure and Villaraigosa said, on the threshold.
Hofmeister said he is retiring soon and intends to talk more, be more outspoken.
hmmm.
Oh brother
the nation has to subsidise fuel costs
I suppose without ever addressing silly little things like fuel efficiency or building neighborhoods for people instead of cars.
Mention subsidizing rail though and watch them all faint.
Well, I have been amazed that no politician (other than Chavez who provided cheaper fuel to poor Americans) has even mentioned the hardship caused to many working class families by the high cost of heating oil …
Last winter there were articles in Newsday about people on LI who could not buy one hundred gallons of heating oil, at a cost of over $300.00 so they were buying it in oil cans, trying not to run out and cause their pipes to freeze. Also, many formerly ‘comfortable’ home-owners were shutting down half of their homes in the winter to try to save fuel … iow, it has already had a huge effect on ordinary people as salaries have not gone up along with everything else …
But neither Hillary nor Obama, to my knowledge have addressed this problem at all. I personally know people who were freezing for the past few winters and although local newspapers covered, what really is a crisis (old people espeically are affected) not one politician that I know of, used it even against a Republican opponent …
Only Chavez …
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I agree on rail. This is the big issue and has been for ONE HUNDRED YEARS. While in some areas we were legislated to rubber tired transit.
oh no question, he hits on some stuff and not on others. he is what he is.
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Year after year congress yawns and barely cares when the thought comes up, as it usually does in summer, for additional funds for Liheap, offsets for winter heating costs.
In several states over the past couple of years, rules for turning off electricity have been eased. I know PA is one state and Rendell was key to passing it. The very first year, two years ago, a little family burned to death as a result.
I so wish it was only the Republicans.
Hofmeister said in Feb (I assume this year) he had a Energy forum for the presidential candidates in Houston. Only HIllary came and spoke.
hate to be rude, but they gotta show up.
And last the stupid liberal mantra for years has been
oh we should pay more for gas, like Europe, then we’d understand
(In fact charlie said that, who else, Friedman has a book coming out that makes that old tired point, LOL)
without a drop of sense to know that much of Europe has redundancies of transportation.
Not the US, people are reliant on cars, some by choice many because they have no choice.
One of the reasons I will bother to vote in November is to vote for the proposed high speed rail from SF/No CA to LA. 2.5 hours. Take a load off 1-5
LOL
Did KO say that Hillary called for a massive walk out of the Trinity church?
I have been thru the full day of Sully on Hillary, and Josh on Hillary (on the Wright issue) and no mention of that….
I think I have it:
The party is the Catholic church. Hillary is scaling the walls at Avignon… and as long as she is doing that, the Real Pope in Rome cannot manage to exude the white smoke.
Yes I think that fits.
One more church.
How pathetic it all is.
Here it is, from a diary of kid oakland at Dkos. My emailer said “ko” and I took it to be a rant of Keith O.:
MCat, no. 6,
Ivy League schools (and a lot of schools of similar caliber like Colgate, Bucknell, Lafayette that form the Patriot League) will give financial assistance to athletes with grades marginally good enough to get into their schools, but they do not give the sort of full tuition plus room and board packages (that are explicitly athletic scholarships) handed out by Ohio State, Notre Dame, USC, etc. However, most everyone who goes to these schools gets some kind of financial aid, and a couple of years ago, Princeton started a policy of not requiring repayment of the loans they give to students, a course that a couple of other Ivies (Harvard and Penn, IIRC) are about to start. In other words, they aren’t scholarships, but they might as well be. Incidentally, in the past couple of years I’ve toured a few of these campuses (my son is about to finish his junior year of high school), and if the Puke Cannon is upset that Ivy campuses are being overrun by African-Americans, I can set his mind at rest. Neither Princeton nor Penn are in danger of turning into Howard or Morehouse any time soon, though I will say that Penn is as ethnically diverse a university as I’ve ever seen, both in terms of the student body and the prospective students and their families who did the campus tour the day we were there last month (Presidents Day, there were a lot of people there and classes were in session). Princeton has also come a long way since the days when it resembled a Wonder Bread factory. I doubt the presence of so many students of Asian descent would please him either, though.
I honestly can’t remember if I posted this somewhere already; if I have, forgive the repetition.
Most of the news about David Paterson lately is about political and not about leadership matters, but it seems that few people noticed something pretty radical he did/said last week, which speaks directly to the schism afflicting the Democratic Party at the moment. He has only been a week in office and he has already managed to do in New York what the national Democrats know they must do, but can’t or won’t, which is to make a sincere effort to put traditional Democratic groups — urban blacks and working-class whites — back in the same party together.
This probably was not noticed because the message was actually delivered in obscure places and to obscure audiences that the mainstream media never notices; the message was also framed in ways that mean a lot to certain New Yorkers but would not mean much to the national media or even the established New York media.
Paterson first went up to Rochester (arguably the Upstate metro area with the biggest gap between rich and poor, and the one place in Upstate that has the most Midwestern-like exurban culture) and presented himself and acknowledged openly that Upstaters do not trust politicians from NYC (a breakthrough in itself, to have someone actually mention that fact aloud), but also reminded them that he wasn’t from the centers of power in NYC and that he knew what it felt like to be left out of power. His immediate audience was Rochester’s urban community (and Democrats), but after 40 years of economic decline, it’s pretty safe to say that the mistrust of the NYC-based Democratic Party runs to some degree through all quarters. Even Upstate Democrats are unhappy.
Standing ovation.
Then he went down to his home constituency in Harlem, where of course he received a rapturous reception, but then before they were done cheering he spoke about Upstate cities and how they needed attention too. Not a message that people in Harlem are used to hearing, probably. His words about this were, “Our faith that has guided us to seek justice is not going to abandon us when we have decision-making capacity. Just as it is always important not to forget where you came from, which I will not do, it is also important not to exclude anyone else in the way we were excluded for so many years by others.”
It wasn’t that he went to Rochester and said that, that was the real news. It was that he went back home and said what he said. That hasn’t been done before in New York. Ever.
He sees the big picture and can make the case to the entire natural constituency that Democrats can claim; in short, he wants the Democratic Party in New York to include more people than just the usual suspects with the usual donors. That may not include the exurbians just yet, but you can bet they were in the room and he was making a fair attempt to unite them against a common perceived enemy.
Believe me, there are good reasons why the downstate media establishment, which serves Wall Street and both the Democratic and GOP establishments in New York, wants this guy gone. He is, after all, a real liberal, and they only come to power via accident these days. However, he seems interested in doing as much “damage” to the status quo as possible before he gets the hook (however it may come – death by media, or death by election).
With Obama (who is “progressive” but not “liberal,” perish the thought), I don’t quite sense the same urgency, on the national stage.
Two stories on the so-called Iraqi government’s US-enabled offensive against Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia:
NY Times:
And McClatchy:
As the latter story notes, for al-Maliki to involve himself so personally in this offensive is curious. If it fails, he will be seen as the fradulent leader of a sham government. It it succeeds, he will have alienated massive numbers of Shiites, who will probably see him as being no better than Saddam, and will in short order be taking up arms against him. There’s a lot of stuff going on here that isn’t immediately apparent, and which the MSM isn’t going to work to illuminate for us, busy as they are investigating whether Billary actually came under sniper fire in Kosovo a dozen years ago (obviously she didn’t, but does anyone really care?), and whether or not the Reverend Wright . . . well, just what is the supposed controversy with him? I can’t even be bothered to care.
Long comment stuck in Moderation, I think.
Did KO say that Hillary called for a massive walk out of the Trinity church?
I haven’t been inside a church since Bush I but I would like to get a list from Hillary which church’s the royal family approves of just in case.
I guess I’d also like to get a list of which parts of the Bible the Clintons approve of so, you know, I don’t read the wrong ones, like the Books of Amos or Jeremiah (you know those prophets who dam their own country for its immorality).
Of course 90% of American churches make it easy. Throw out the whole Bible except for the Gospel of John, the Book of Revelations and a few parts of the Old Testament and you’re fine.
As far as the all the racist stuff about Wright, until we can talk on equal footing about examining all the candidates pastors (lol,Romneys!) homophobia, it’s bullshit.
They are either both valid and fair game, or not.
Too late for KO et al to be outraged over anything anyone says about the Rev. Wright now. Unless they are outraged over Obama rejecting what he said …. which was mostly true … but everyone jumped on the bandwagon, more concerned with this election than whether or not the pastor was telling the truth.
Now they are outraged when someone else criticizes him. Obama says he probably would have left the church if he had heard those remarks. What’s different, then, about Hillary saying the same thing?
So hypocritical of them …. they should have slammed Obama too for this to mean anything now …. it just doesn’t.
It’s interesting that one of the few people to defend Obama and Wright has been the Squirrel killer.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/03/25/the_black_mans_burden/
“Obama has handled this about as well as anybody could, and I agree, it’s a very historic speech . . .” Huckabee said on MSNBC. “He made the point and I think it’s a valid one. That you can’t hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do. You just can’t. Whether it’s me, whether it’s Obama, anybody else. But he did distance himself from the very vitriolic statements.”
Huckabee went much further. “I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack . . . I’m probably the only conservative in America who’s going to say something like this, but I’m just telling you. We’ve got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie; you have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant and you can’t sit out there with everyone else; there’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office; here’s where you sit on the bus.
And I haven’t heard much from evangelicals in general.
Another one was David Gergen, again a Republican. Democrats were in a such a rush to appear ‘patriotic’ they couldn’t wait to denounce Rev. Wright, without even thinking.
My first reaction was that if this was Obama’s pastor, I might have been wrong about him after all and just maybe he might be more aware of the civil rights struggle he so dismissed publicly, than it appeared.
Rev. Wright’s not that wrongs
yeah, that high speed rail line will be a godsend, if it isn’t strangled in its crib. schwarzeneggar has been pulling everything he can to underfund the initial work on the project and delay it getting on the ballot until he ran up a bunch of debt.
california needs to be getting seriously into rail. the state-run capitol corridor and surfliner lines (formerly of amtrak) work pretty well, and have been filled to capacity from the beginning, no matter how much capacity they add. a lot of the old right of way from the early 20th century interurban lines is still out there, and in some cases the old tracks as well, in both LA and the sacramento metro area. it could be done, were the will there.
the timing of this housing bubble collapse isn’t going to help.
I wonder if this is an early sign of what will eventually happen to the Democratic Party …
Democrat Gravel Switches to Libertarian
The truth is he was driven from the party, as was Cynthia McKinney even though both are correct on US foreign policy, or because they are.
A mass exodus of those who have not supported this war and US Imperialism could lay a foundation for a new party …
You cannot argue with his position on US FP and if the polls are true, he is far more representative of the base of the party than the two top candidates.
The silencing of Gravel and Kucinich was reprehensible in the debates, and in the end, look what happened anyway. At least when they did have a voice, the focus was on issues, not on the personal religious practices of candidates …..
LOL Stuff’s not what it’s cracked up to be (from the Mike Allen Politico email):
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yes I agree, I can vote on it, but I may never see it. And anyone with half a brain knows the Dems and big Dme fundraisers (Spielberg and confreres for one) worked to put Arnold back in as they preferred he make the hard choices and they just look like they fought the good fight but lost to the big baddie. It gets so old.
Amtrak which is wildly popular here is always under threat of cuts. When it should be expanded.
Good for him for taking a stand. I doubt he was forced out. It seems to me he’s the type of person who would have made that clear in public if the Dem power structure had pressured him. He wouldn’t have had anything to lose if he’d spilled the beans.
Heh™
Fight amongst yourselves. The popcorn cupboard is well-stocked.
Just saw this remarkable post over at Chris Floyd’s site, and thought I’d share:
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by these displays of astonishing ignorance by Americans, but you would think that an ordained minister (I presume he was ordained) who rose to the rank of major would know something about the history of his own religion, and be aware of the reality of the country in which he was posted, if only from having learned the facts after his arrival.
52. Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to kill.
Here’s how pathetic Canadian Conservatives are. Why think for yourself when someone else can do it for you?
LC #50 – I meant he was forced out by the way he was treated, not officially. He was mocked by the so-called progressive blogs and driven out of the debates, as was Kucinich … those who attempted to diminish him, ie, kos et al, are not fit to wipe his shoes in terms of accomplishing anything btw. As he said himself, the party no longer represents his views (nor those of so many democrats) on important issues such as Foreign Policy and Imperialism ….
JBB #52 – I posted a link to that Chris Floyd article on Pff earlier, it is a great post ….
Marisacat #49 – remember how kos supported Arnold also. The Party is so far to the right now that to be an acceptable candidate seems to mean being a Reagan Republican …. which Obama demonstrated in his remarks about Reagan -
The New Yorker has a 4 pager on the Dalai Lama.
I meant he was forced out by the way he was treated, not officially.
Ooops. Okay. I need more tea, obviously!
those who attempted to diminish him, ie, kos et al, are not fit to wipe his shoes in terms of accomplishing anything btw.
No doubt. But buy kos’ books and send money to the Dems now.
politco links to a current Josh Green Atlantic article on The Family, and has links to the earlier LA times, Harpers and earlier Atlantic articles.
I’d link directly to the current Atlantic, but I cannot get it to open. sigh.
Much sturm and drang in the Dem party River City today. First Read seems to have meaty posts on the high points (as do others), for anyone interested.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
Here is the link to the current Atlantic article on Hillary and The Family, the Fellowship.
hmm I think the race is about to turn much much nastier. It feels like a massive pustule is about to burst.
think i will have a cool drink and take a turn in the ever browning little garden.
61 lol, Dem party as giant suppurating pustule. The diversity, all the different colors of pus.
Liberalcatnip, wow. That poll has got to be sending Kossacks into fits.
63. I was just watching David Gregory’s show and found it interesting that they only mentioned the Clinton voters who would vote for McCain – not a peep about Obama voters who would do the same. Of course, they’re on the “Hillary is destroying The Party” bandwagon at MSNBC anyway, so I guess that’s not surprising – but it’s damn disingenuous.
HA! if anyone is “destroying” the party, it is the party itself. And it convoluted rules, lies, and sell-outs.
Geesh.
Plus it really seems it is doing a bowel vivisection rather than full on destruction.
But! One can hope! Bottom line is hope is different for different people.
65. You’re coming up with some quite vivid analogies today.
(ummm…ewww?!)
– Governor Crist, as Fl moved to formally apologise for slavery.
Honey! We are drowning in religion and quite by design. Just suck it up and call it a SIN!
Never underestimate the Republicans. Or go ahead and do just that, what the hell:
of course the R have no intention of a fully realised reparations scheme, in any form. Much less to, or related to, direct descendants of slaves. And can you imagine the orchestrated screaming of even broaching the legal reparations due from companies like Aetna that profited from slavery?
Which is fine, as that is not a conversation, not even from a legal, scholarly standpoint, that Obama wants to have. Ever.
Evidently the Wright outrage is a media invention. Tweety reporting new polls revealing that Obama now even with Clinton nationally and in match-ups Obama beats McCain while she loses. Her negatives are up by 5% in just the past week alone.
Sounds like it will just get nastier.
Catnip #57 – okay, sending money to kos and the Dems right now … lol! You need more than tea I think ….
Well, some people are taking to the streets ….
Protestors enter Bear Stearns building in New York
No provisions were made for home-owners in the big bailout …..
51. I think the polled are lying. as soon as any light is shined on McCain, he is nothing.
-embraces the surge
-his “vision” to carry us forward is embodied in….
-b-day cake with bush on the tarmac during Katrina
-joe liebermann
-wife does not have irises
You need more than tea I think ….
You’re telling me! lol
I’d be delighted to see McCain self combust along the way. The problem is that America likes to elect bumblers.
LOL I notice commentary around that Obama “will be a lot more creative running against McCain” than the past few months against Hillary.
Any time now. Rev the engines.
If the superdelegates get together in some sort of “conclave”, will they signal their decision with a puff of white smoke?
oh this is too easy:
Red White and Blue smoke.
Which iwll form a depiction of the Flag as it rises.
A miracle they will say!
test test
I still think that it will be Hillary AND Obama as there is no way that one or the other can beat McCain, which goes to show what a bad job Democrats have done in demonstrating that they are any different from the Repubs. They should be able to run anyone at all who isn’t Bush and win after the past eight years of this administration ….
So, yes, I think the smoke will be red, white and blue and everyone will kiss and make up …. while the Repubs get their smear machine into gear and such questions as ‘Sen. Clinton, you said that if the Rev. Wright had been your pastor, you would have left the Church. Since your running mate, Sen. Obama did not do so, does this, in your opinion, call into question his PATRIOTISM!
I just can’t believe that McCain is polling so well against either of them …
Catnip, coffee maybe? Lol, with a little whiskey and whipped cream on top … mmm, maybe I’ll go see if I can get someone to make one of those for me. ‘Whiskey makes you sick when you’re well, whiskey when you’re sick makes you well’ …..
‘A depiction of the flag as it rises’ – lol! A miracle, yes, which could only mean one thing …
Just spent a good deal of time reading the Coe links.
Think I’m gonna be sick.
Interesting how his name even escaped Jeremy Scahill’s radar in “Blackwater….”
On a related note, Dean’s Murky News is preparing a valley near you (or at least testing the waters) for “Titan” state governship by one of those most responsible Big Daddy/Mommy, responsible shoes, (good “genes” and “birth”) adult robber barons: Steve (ebay), Carly (HP), Meg (ebay) or Steve (GPS) Poizner (curious resemblence to Langella in “Dracula”)…
no pretense of any humility anymore,
no remorse in obscene wealth,
no shame in murderous intent
and a frightening capacity to paint hellish descent a
path to righteousness.
Meg Whitman for Ebay.
Yessssss it does look like she is def thinking about a run for Governor.. after a stint as a national fundraiser for McCain.
We are so blessed. Hosanna!
no worries…..
Cali is a wonderous Golden state!
just ask Dorothy!
Grapes of Wrath indeed
Cali is a wonderous Golden state!
—- Diane
Yes… we can always eat beach sand and drink ocean water. No worries!
jeez Marisa, isn’t there some kind of botox treatment I might get to minimize the effects of drinking all that saltwater?
Isn’t there some sort of spa on “Maiden Lane,” or in the Los altos hills?
Which one do Meg and Carly (and the Steves) go to?
oh! I want to use what Arnold and Maria use! They look so great!
8)
Hmmmmm I prefer the matte finish to the waxen effect
Ahnold looks like an escapee from a wax museum…
perhaps he is
In my vast repetoire of conspiracy theories he’s the “savior” bot which “high testosterone” desiring males (and females) were provided by Orange County with the “Terminator” movies in order to prepare them for a ‘redeemably’ evil, misogynist, nazi governer when the time arose.
Can’t we roll Carly out – in place of Hillary for a couple of days?
No one will notice, not really and we get a break.
LOL.
They are all so interchangeable. And they all lie.
I think you should submit that idea to the Fellowship Marisa!
You’re right, one highly patronizing responsible shoes, of royal connections, for another, no one will notice
and the Dynasty can stay intact.
On another related note, Grisham (I’m intrigued by Attorneys who became writers) seems to be striking an interesting parallel note to obscenely powerful and perverse “Family/Fellowship” type groups in his recent book titled “The Appeal”
It’s a bit slow going of a read, but much appreciated.
Tibet, the ‘great game’ and the CIA
In the end, any CIA backing of the current Tibetan opposition really isn’t there but he weaves together a possible Bushco v China conspiracy.
#87 – He doesn’t provide much proof – it’s all speculation really, like some of Judith Miller’s reports on Iraq. But it does give the impression that the CIA hasn’t had much success at anything having failed so many times before. The Chinese don’t have much to worry about if they really are behind a movement for Independence …
Republican Crossovers Fuel Record Democratic Voter Registration in PA
That is voter fraud, imo and should be illegal … they are doing it to manipulate the outcome of the election. Rush Limbaugh is encouraging them to do this ….
the earlier history is sound, but you’ll notice that he stops citing dates after the early 70s. this is because the CIA basically realized that it wasn’t worth their time and investment, and cut the tibetan rebel groups off.
for all the great game BS (and i would argue that iraq has everything to do with china), the fact of the matter is that the people that pull the strings in the US are heavily invested in the chinese economy. since 9/11, we’ve been working with, not against, the chinese government. while the human rights stuff is manipulated and promoted to wrongfoot china, more often than not we’ve worked with them to rein in the uighurs in xinjiang under the auspices of “fighting terrorism.”
diane – don’t forget newsom (d-getty) in that list.
state’s looking more and more like the 1880s. we’re about due for another round of exclusion acts.
more often than not we’ve worked with them to rein in the uighurs in xinjiang under the auspices of “fighting terrorism.” — wu ming
well I think this is the real point of the WoT, and GWoT. To put down any insurgency agaisnt the state. Any state that is an ally. Or whatever we call our partners.
A thousand terrible partnerships. Thousands of wars and conflicts. And who will stop us?
the thing that most people haven’t realized is that the pattern of the world – save the odd “hermit kingdom” holdouts – is no longer aligned along 1st and 2nd and 3rd worlds, but rather one global system with globalized ruling and working classes (although national sentiment is useful for dividing that global working class in its own m,ind to prevent any effective organization across borders). it is one world, for better or worse, but only one side has organized.
while there is some residual state rivalry, and while i expect our state to go down in as messy a manner as possible once the house of cards fiction is finally over, the fundamental pattern is transnational. when reagan sent the neoliberal economic advisors over for deng xiaoping, a decision was made that defines our world. the ruling class (and their hangers-on in the professional classes) in beijing vacations and educates their kids all over the globe, just as ours do.
once that new pattern is acknowledged, the WoT, as you said, makes a whole lot more sense as a global alliance against anyone rocking the boat. should be interesting to see how well it works, the tibetans are not the only group of cranky people willing to make trouble in china (americans have proven much more herdable).
89. Well, first of all, it struck me as being implausible because Bushco fucks up everything it touches and, secondly, because if the US was caught behind a plot like that, China could just bankrupt the country.
and i would argue that iraq has everything to do with china
The Global War on Oil Supplies.
Richard Widmark has died at 93.
They’ll spin anything: Pentagon Calls Iraq Fighting Good Sign, Analysts Not Convinced
More rockets in the Green Zone (which doesn’t appear to be very ‘green’ anymore)
Fuzzy math on the rec list:
i don’t get the fuzzy math quip, catnip. a 19 year old in 1992 would be 35 in 2008. it’s 16 years later.
i know this because i was 17 in 92, and couldn’t vote.
97. You’re right! It’s my math that’s fuzzy. I saw Gore and thought 2000.
And besides, surely the great, great, great granddaughter of John Adams wouldn’t lie — especially when replying to a thank you from Keith Olbermann.
Monkeyshines … shiny monkeys … hard to tell the difference these days.
99. It seems to be genealogy day.
There were stories in the fall about Obama rejecting Brad Pitt’s offer to help his campaign. Was was it Obama said about not being able to choose your family members?
Here’s my report from a fundraising dinner I attended last night for Cindy Sheehan’s campaign to unseat Pelosi: http://www.politicalfleshfeast.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2598
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Thanks for that… I had seen your diary earlier that you wtre going.
sigh… I have on Liberal Talk Radio, local SF with Peter B Collins. What a fucking wasteland!
2:22 am and if this party cannot run against Hillary or Bush (which they barely bothered to do in either 00 or 04, so really it is Hillary at bat for them) they are lost.
PATHETIC!
And last night I caught Ray Talliafero. Who was worn out fake liberal radio/media/PR flesh 30 years ago. He was so bad last night I actually wrote down his lines.
PATHETIC!
nu thred…
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