Switch Bitch * 29 March 2008
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, Abortion Rights, Culture of Death, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Italy, Sex / Reproductive Health.trackback
*snitched the title from one of Roald Dahl’s books… 
AND I snitched this from a diary at PFF….
[D]id he support the distribution of taxpayer-subsidized condoms in Africa to fight the transmission of H.I.V.?
What followed was a long series of awkward pauses, glances up to the ceiling and the image of one of Mr. McCain’s aides, standing off to the back, urgently motioning his press secretary to come to Mr. McCain’s side.
The upshot was that Mr. McCain said he did not know this subject well, did not know his position on it, and relied on the advice of Senator Tom Coburn, a physician and Republican from Oklahoma.
His press secretary, Brian Jones, later reported that Mr. McCain had a record of voting against using government money to finance the distribution of condoms. ::snipsnappy::
sure he is a little old, a tad fuddled, but like most pols he just wants a position crafted for him, a few saleable reasons to give for it, if asked… whammo!, good enough for a government job! and home to whatever is the indulgence of the evening.
So often a partisan angel in the crowd:
This went on for a few more moments until a reporter from the Chicago Tribune broke in and asked Mr. McCain about the weight of a pig that he saw at the Iowa State Fair last year.
A pig rescue, so appropriate… Let ‘em hang, I say.
… just a slight bit of nothing for an overnight thread……
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BTW, I ran across this the other day.
From Wikipedia re: The Conversation
oh thanks for that rif… I don’t off hand know anything about the screnwriter, nor the director.
The original is a stunning movie. And set in an in-between time for SF, the big building had begun here by the time it was made, but still lots of open space…
See this is where you rise above the crowd, in noticing the crucial detail of the prize-winning hog.
the prize-winning hog
Was it wearing lipstick? Inquiring herbs need to know.
Merkel says she will not attend opening of Beijing Olympics
We had competing protests in Calgary on Saturday. Chinese v Tibetan. The cops stepped in to change the Chinese parade route because the Tibetans were protesting in front of the Chinese embassy.
Stuart Beattie
Mikael Håfström
Coppola wrote, directed and produced the original apparently. I was ten when it came out. I’m glad I wasn’t interested in things like this at that age. LOL. My parents were into westerns and football so my political education was fairly pathetic. I’ll have to add it to my netflix lineup. Love Hackman.
How many remakes are ever worth the trouble, really?
I heard some idiot was even going to do a remake of Casablanca. Like that is going to work.
I mean from an artistic point of view. I get the part about not having to pay for any writers. We see how well that has worked on American tv.
It never ends:
Meanwhile:
Saturday: 2 US Soldiers, 171 Iraqis Killed, 289 Wounded
I hate remakes.
With this one I would only bother out of curiosity. It would be impossible to top the original.
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Thanks…
I was glad the reporter put it in, seemed to be whole point…
The end of the road
I could be wrong, but I think this is not commonly understood. This is true of many sharks, the saiga antelope in Siberia and Mongolia, many of the great African herd animals, pronghorn antelope, lynx, bear, and wolverines in the western US, frogs in South Africa, butterflies everywhere. And also at a micro level in some cases. The marbled murrelet comes to mind, exposed to terrors at sea – gill nets, oil spills, chemical contamination, food shortages – and to a whole different set during its breeding inland – loss of habitat, increased predation. It is not a migration but the same arithmetic of multiple habitat, each one crucial individually, applies.
Um, looking at that post I guess I might be a bit of a bore. Sorry, but I thought there was a point. Some things interest me; others, like politics, really do not.
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you mean the post on long distance migration?
How could it be boring? Its a wonderful comment.
13 ok thanks m, just don’t want to be an annoyance, that’s all. Reading Maria Mudd Ruth’s Rare Bird – Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet tonight. Four stars. She had me at
and is gettin’ me all wound up.
nobody is an annoyance…
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Katrina Victims May Have to Repay Money
Just how much more insult added to their injuries can they take?
12 & 13
Yes, I thought so too. I love science and nature and it cuts me deeply to see what is happening.
Bats are in trouble too. They eat an incredible amount of insects, pollinate quite a few plants and they migrate as well. They are particularly vulnerable when hibernating in their (surprising few) winter caves. Any disturbance can have really bad effects. Not to mention their sensitivity to noise. They simply cannot tolerate modern noise pollution.
And all of those habitats and all of those species interlock like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Competing, cooperating, evolving together. The more pieces of the puzzle the stronger and more flexible it is. Our biodiversity safety net is disintegrating.
16 Hey times are tough. We can’t afford any more losses – in the newly melded corporate/government sector anyway.
Perhaps you don’t understand how it works.
$230 billion to bail out corporations that pushed their rape of the public a little too far, well that’s just one of life’s little necessities. They must be insured against any loss, no matter how reckless their behaviour. We must insure them against any loss at all, and allow them to keep every nickel of profit. That is what we now call capitalism, praised be its holy name.
But those home buyers and flood victims and such, it’s their own fault, they don’t deserve a nickel. Bunch a welfare queens. You wouldn’t want to creat a culture of dependency.
I caught a good segment on the bats somewehre this week. It was frightening. They seem to be dying at a fast rate… there was a report from a woman who has been to winter cave of theirs in the NE, an abandoned mine… again, they are just dying. Some clues, some things to observe but the scale is mystifying.
At least from teh report I caught.
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Yellowstone’s Rabbits Have Vanished
Britain’s disappearing butterflies
smelt are disappearing
Britain’s most common wild flowers are latest species to disappear
they just observed that the salmon in a certain location out here, are gone completely.
Bad years for the fishermen for several years now, but now simply gone.
Has anyone seen the BBC’s Planet Earth TV Series?
I have. Simply stunning. Highly recommended.
Try to see it in HD or Blu-Ray. Widescreen. Was almost a religious experience for this atheist.
Wikipedia
BBC Website
Just thought I’d throw something kinda positive out there.
We are probably going to see a perfect storm of the Himalayan glaciers melting and most of the marine fisheries collapsing at the same time.
To update Stain, a billion dead is just a statistic.
But half a billion boat people, fence jumpers and tunnelers, not just on the tv with Sally Struthers but making noise down at the end of the street?
22 Yes, fantastic
For those confused, that would be Joe Stalin, not Bill Staines.
What a scream!! I think Obama shoulda thought before he gave her permission to go to June.
Ahem.
Josh seems shocked. So so shocked.
link to the Wapo report on the interview
And it rides right above the report titled “Obama: Go until June”…
It’s hilarious
Chaos Reigns! LOL
Apparently we had our County/Senate District conventions tonight.
Yahoo AP
Clinton, Obama press for Texas delegates
Houston 11 News
Large crowds, frayed nerves for Dem party conventions
Burnt Orange Report
A pissed off Obama supporter
spam, i think
hope i got my code right
I’m sick and tired of these black congress people taking blacks votes for granted.
Obama’s coattails will propel plenty more candidates into office, at the expense of dinosaurs like (Sheila Jackson) Lee and Lewis.
Speaking of Sheila Jackson Lee:
“She needs to be booed.”
“she has chosen to help destroy her own party”
“Another machine politician that needs to be served notice”
“more than enough reasons to vote her out.”
This is the way those assholes treat Sheila Jackson Lee.
Out of spam!
Format looks good tome…
I apologise, no preview with WP… One horse cart…
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BAR soemtimes runs a post from a contributor who runs the Monitor, a publication that observes and grades the CBC
A recent report (last year) said the women were marginally less corrupted than the men.
I assume the Obama run has sharpened splits in the caucus. Of all sorts.
31 thanks
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Maybe it’s just me, but I think that white people are the one’s that need to wake the fuck up.
The real story is more interesting, frankly. If less politically slap happy. From Dobbs/Wapo/fact Checker
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I don’t think I said that… must be a quote from a diary?
Not me.
Be nice if people figured out if you give them your vote anyway, they will never deliver anything.
But that applies to all people.
35 Oops. So sorry. Typo. It’s from melvin’s 30, first link.
True. In general, though, minorities, as a group, are much less asleep than the dominant group. In this case whites. Who also benefit more from the status quo whether they want to or not. Come to think of it, whites are probably more propagandized than anyone else. Again, as a group. Hm.
Also, just to be clear. I do not support any of them. Candidates that is.
Face the Nation: Richardson, Philadelphia Mayor Mike Nutter, Joe Trippi, Slate’s Dickerson.
This Week: Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, Sens. Kerry, Lieberman
Fox News Sunday: Sens. Lindsey Graham, Jack Reed
Late Edition: Sen. Bill Nelson, Carville, Ex-State Dept. adviser Aaron Miller
Meet the Press: CIA Director Hayden, Columnists Brooks, Beinart
Noses are ruddy
Eyes, azure blue,
Sugar’s for birthday cake,
And condoms? Balloons!
#22 Planet Earth was just amazing in every way. It still airs sometimes on Discovery i think.
Melvin– your comments are wonderful, don’t worry.
Marisa, that news about the bats is really disturbing, akin to canaries in a coal mine. This is the first I’ve heard of that and very bad news indeed. First the bees and now the bats, the whole ecosystem of Earth is ill and these are all symptoms.
(From Interview with Author John Gorenfeld at Naranjastan.)
Speaking of bloggy matters . . . Philly convention Eschacon winds up today. (Live-blogging and photo links from yesterday’s panels.)
Sadr rebuffs Iraq government envoy as offensive sputters
It’s about Florida and Michigan. Period.
You know, good. If there is one thing good that may come out of the Clinton’s crash-and-burn run, it’s that the idiotic enslavement to New Hampshire and Iowa is bad for the country, bad for that party, bad for all of us.
I hope she and Obama tear each other apart, and that President McBush finishes off the Republican party over the next four years.
Eschacon
Emphasis on the CON.
Iraqi cleric calls off militias (BBC).
Other Keystone kronicles this weekend: Bowling for Altoona and an Utterance for Allentown.
‘Killing Fields’ survivor Dith Pran dies
From the previous thread:
Marisacat opined that people’s long commutes and lack of vacations may have made it impossible for them to focus on their civic duties or anything else, really.
I agree. America has become Zombie Nation: many of us (not me) are sleep-deprived, over-timed, under-vacationed, over-commuted walking dead.
How did we come to this pass? The future was supposed to be brighter, with more leisure time and a higher standard of living.
A lot of people say Americans are dumb and lazy. I think that answer is far too easy and far too simplistic. Americans are hard workers (witness all the overtime Americans log, and the majority of American workers put in more than 40 hours a week), and so for the dumb part: well, it’s hard to think straight when you’re exhausted day in and day out. It’s like being strapped into a roller coaster and the carny refuses to pull the lever to bring it to a stop.
How do we get off this ride? The Populist Party had the 40 hour work week as one of its key platform planks. Maybe it’s time we brought that back. But who can organize a political party that can raise the $1 billion+ it would take to run candidates for Congress and for the Presidency?
My prediction for the next President (probably McCain, but insert Clinton or Obama’s name in there if you wish):
Social Security will once again be in “crisis” and need to be “reformed”. By “reformed” I mean the trillions poured into Social Security need to be opened up to batshit crazy investments by the same geniuses who brought you the international mortgage meltdown fiasco. And in four or five years in the hand of those financial whiz kids, Social Security really WILL be in crisis.
Why will the next President focus on this? My logic:
Social Security is the last remaining pot of money in this bankrupt nation. It’s the coffee can full of twenties we buried in the backyard and now our ne’er-do-well alcoholic relatives want to dig it up to buy three magic beans. The Wall Street “investment bankers” have burned through all other sources of cash and credit, but don’t kid yourself: they dream of getting their hands on Social Security trust funds, and they will be unrelenting in the next Administration in doing so.
The next President, whomever he or she may be, will be all too happy to be the first one in the yard with a shovel, which I call: one tool wielding another.
And, of course, Social Security is the last surviving vestige of FDR’s New Deal, which Clinton, Obama, and McCain all despise. While they’re at it, why don’t they just take a dump on the head of FDR’s memorial statue? And on his little dog, Fala, as well?
But who can organize a political party that can raise the $1 billion+ it would take to run candidates for Congress and for the Presidency?
The bigger question is: why are people donating that amount to a Dem party that doesn’t recognize their interests and needs?
Democracy in action:
(from CNN):
Clinton this weekend shot down calls by Obama backers to drop out of the race, and Obama said Clinton should remain in race “as long as she wants.”
Obama leads Clinton in total delegates 1,625 to 1,486, but it’s likely neither candidate will get the necessary 2,024 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the Democratic National Convention in August.
Two of Obama’s leading supporters, Sens. Christopher Dodd and Patrick Leahy, said Friday that Clinton should rethink her chances of overcoming that deficit and consider folding her campaign.
Leahy, of Vermont, said Clinton “has every right, but not a very good reason, to remain a candidate for as long as she wants to.”
Speaking in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Obama said he did not discuss Leahy’s call for Clinton to drop out with the Vermont senator, who serves as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“My attitude is that Senator Clinton can run as long as she wants,” the Illinois senator said. VideoWatch what Obama says about Clinton’s campaign »
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen on Sunday said he thinks the prolonged Democratic race is hurting his party “tremendously.”
“At the end of August, come Labor Day, we’re going to have a nominee, but if it’s the nominee of a divided party and an emotionally exhausted party, there’s just not time to conduct the kind of campaign we need to have,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“We can win this election, but we’re making it — that way a lot steeper and rockier road than it needs to be.”
The race could come down to the superdelegates, a group of about 800 Democratic party leaders who cast their vote at the convention and are free to pick the candidate of their choice.
Bredesen has been calling for a superdelegate convention before the national convention.
Pass out the popcorn and the cigars (can’t have a smoke-filled back room without smelly cigars). A brokered convention?
I know a lot of people scoff at it as “impossible”, but I think there will be a huge push for a unity ticket. However, the cure is worse than the illness, because Obama supporters won’t be happy if their man gets second chair, and Clinton supporters, same thing. A “unity” ticket would just make things worse for the Democrats.
And you didn’t think it was possible. But the Democratic Party brain trust is out there every day, 7 days a week, proving you wrong by reaching new nadirs of incompetence.
Rot them all. It’s on to McCain’s senile presidency. Pay close attention to his vice-presidential selection: that will be the Lord Chancellor, McCain’s Cheney, and the one who’s really in charge.
#50 liberalcatnip:
Hope is killing us. The Democratic Party that represented working people died a long time ago. This is the reanimated corpse.
I haven’t done the research, but if memory serves, it’s actually the Republican Party that gets more small money donations, while the Democrats are heavily reliant on big money.
My conspiracy theory, which is not a far stretch, is that the big money props up the Democrats to divert progressives into a dead end alley, wasting their time and resources there instead of organizing a truly effective resistance against capitalistic predation.
50. it’s actually the Republican Party that gets more small money donations, while the Democrats are heavily reliant on big money.
That trend seems to be changing. Just look at how much Obama has raised from small donors. I don’t know what the figures are for Hillary. Yet, neither one of them promises anything more than a slight feeble limp away from centrist policies.
We’ve had this discussion before here and the point was made that change begins at home ie. electing non-status quo reps locally. That’s fine but local reps don’t make the big policies that could have a major impact on the electorate. There needs to be a change of mindset away from the “two-party” system. I don’t know how to overcome that considering how your system works. At least in Canada, minority parties have a voice and a vote at the federal level. That does help when it comes to having a broader discussion about important issues.
I should add as well that throwing people like Jackson Lee off the bus just because she supports Clinton is a sign of just how some Dems are willing to force useful people out of congress (from what I know of her record, she’s been a fairly strong progressive voice, n’est-ce pas?). Some people can’t see the forest for the trees.
2 of Victor Laszlo’s out of Moderation…
sorry! for the delay…
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an emotionally exhausted party
A lot of people would do themselves and The Party a huge favour if they’d put their emotions aside and start thinking rationally. Too much to ask, I guess.
City Subpoenas Creator of Text Messaging Code
#49 – I’ve posted longer snips before from this 2003 interview w/ Michael Hudson (one of Kucinich’s econ advisors) by SF poet Standard Schaefer, & highly rec as well the Jan 2008 Debtor Nation: The Hijacking of America’s Economy [pdf]. This bit, on SS, is from the 2003 piece:
& I’ll repeat that BO’s econ adisor (the one w/ the silly-sounding name I can never remember) has been one of the Chicago skool’s major cheerleaders for privatizing (err, ‘fixing’) SS.
voice from the Sundarbans:
IMO all the Federal government plans to do now, is gut any social program, drain the SS trust fund and in any way they can, bleed the nation.
Very quietly the other day, Hillary updated her own position on SS (which had been marginally firmer than Obama, but, essentially, meaninglessly) by saying that what she wished to see protected were ‘people already receiving SS’.
That is very broad. Open for destruction.
Think it was a few weeks ago at Danny Schechter’s I read that for SS disability applications there is a back log of 750,000 cases, some (of course) very dire and all just hanging.
The same gutting of Medicare (off loading elderly to privatisation, even as company after company neatly takes clients and -then- $650.00 per month from the feds and then goes BANKRUPT) that began under BushCo One continued under Clinton. It sure never stopped.
All we hear/d from the three slobberers Obama Hillary and Edwards was bullshite. As the government sits back to see whose propaganda will pull us in. So we can be filleted.
Austen Goolsbee is the econ advisor to Obama that has well documented policies for ruining SS.
Another U of Chicago special.
#58 Arcturus:
That’s Jeffrey Liebman of Harvard U. who advises Obama. The advice? Loot…erm, I mean “privatize”…Social Security.
Or were you thinking of Austan Goolsbee? He’s a rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth “globalization/free trader”. Goolsbee had harsh criticism for Michael Moore’s “Sicko”
And then there’s Obama’s adviser David Cutler, who thinks that high health care costs are GOOD because it discourages people from popping in to see the doctor every time they get a sniffle.
Bastards, all of them.
There will be privatization of any President, including Obama, and there will NEVER be single-payer under any of the Terrible Trio.
Here’s a good source that rounds up their views:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/obamas-economic-advisers/
Thanks VL
I get all three of them mixed up.
“For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us,” Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican’s yearbook.
He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population – a stable percentage – while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.
“It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer,” the monsignor said.
Formenti said that the data refer to 2006. The figures on Muslims were put together by Muslim countries and then provided to the United Nations, he said, adding that the Vatican could only vouch for its own data.
When considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the world population, Formenti said.
Spokesmen for the Vatican and the United Nations did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment Sunday.
If yours is the one true religion, shouldn’t you be able to win converts in some way other than baptizing a helpless infant?
No problem, Marisacat.
I suspect Obama has the same problem.
64 – Rockabye baby, Vatican. The revenge of the cradle swings back.
Bunny rabbits are funny
And pontiff crowns, too
But for March hare hilarity
Try combining the two.
IB
Pontiff Bunny is hilarious… thanks for that…
Easter was all about the giant rabbits, for me.
Remember this one?
Hare’s some more from the Google image hutch:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03282007/photos/rabbit.jpg
http://blog.rifftrax.com/wp-content/photos/Bodmin.jpg
http://gfx.dagbladet.no/magasinet/1904/07/28/kanin.jpg
Big-ass rabbits with canine pals:
http://fuzzywuzzyblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/bn-bunny7.jpg
http://www.bunnyblab.com/podcasts/FGnDog.jpg
Conceptual art rabbit in Italy. Maybe the Pope should have endorsed?
Giant PINK rabbit gone (quite logically) to spam.
What a stenographer Leslie Stahl is. On this stupid 60 Minutes piece she actually says “Our Vice-President doesn’t believe these things (global warming) and he’s not alone” and Gore just looks at her and says “Do you mean Dick Cheney?” and she says “Yes” and he gives her a look that says it all. What a tool she is.
IB
a friend of mine got a rabbit years ago, a white Lop ear… I went to visit right after they got Buddie… she was under a bed so I peeked under the bed to see her. She bared her teeth.
LOL Beatrix Potter died instantly.
Bar and Bob
i wonder who showed whom how to milk?
BAR bowls… photo from The Caucus
important bowling-related diary at PFF:
http://tinyurl.com/2yq6o4
Mcat–I know you despise him, but you always make Obama look so good, visually. C’mon, if you a re capable of scaring a bunny…..
–I know you despise him
I dislike everyone out to screw us over. Period.
gawd, do I have to list everyone you dislike to make a comment on one person? you act as if I don’t notice .
From halperin’s The Page:
Can it Devore.
It’s boring.
pardon me for not scintillating.
don’t go the jeralyn route:
http://tinyurl.com/3douoy
Planet Earth was utterly brilliant, both beautiful and achingly sad. they did a really good job in showing how whole systems of ecosystems/climates work, and thus how they are all collapsing.
these days, i’m cheered when i see bees at all. i haven’t seen more than a couple butterflies in years. such a sad world we’re walking towards, we don’t even know how amazing the masterpieces we’re destroying even were.
Geekesque is having a breakdown
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/30/23959/0993/706/487448
Marisacat at #73 – My sister was given a black-and-white rabbit (ordinary size, not a giant breed) when we were kids, and because of the dropping-while-hopping issue, it lived in a cage when not communing with humans. Much to everyone’s guilt and dismay.
One day, we heard an ear-splitting, blood-curdling SCREAM from the room where the rabbit’s cage was parked. Ran downstairs, assuming death throes, and there was Sleepy, quivering quite a bit, but otherwise unmolested. A primal cry for freedom, everyone concluded.
We set him loose in the woods soon thereafter. Within a year, we spied one or two black-and-white bunnies scampering (along with the brown ones) in the wild.
(BTW – I think Potter’s best moments were more Dürer than Disney.)
A companion for Pope Bunadict – Our Lady of the Freshly Laundered Fur?
Screaming rabbit and Bundonna in moderation?
Have a good Monday, y’all.
Madman, no. 43,
What’s ironic about the whole Michigan/Florida mess is that they were tired of their primaries counting for nothing in the choice of the nominee, so they moved them up and lost their delegates. As things have worked out though, they would have been extremely important if they’d scheduled them in April. Funny how that worked out.
BTW, Bush took time out from his busy schedule to throw out the first pitch at DC’s brand new ballpark last night, and was lustily booed. The announcers (Jon Miller and Joe Morgan) ignored the negative fan reaction and gushed over how well he made the ceremonial toss. The NBC affiliate this AM ran video without sound, and made no mention of the booing.
#88 do you have a link for that JJB, would love to see it!
Here’s the link, Wilfred
Click on it quick before it’s pulled down.
The American media are now officially Super Pravda.
I wonder when Cheney will catch cold?
I saved the video (downloaded it) for posterity.
If anybody wants to learn how to do that, Google “download youtube video”. If a technophobe like me can learn how to do it, anybody can.
RE: discussion at beginning of thread… I never really thought of Soylent Green as science fiction when I first saw it. It has always seemed like the natural outcome of capitalism to me.
With the bats & bees disappearing, what exactly will pollinate our crops?
This is of course why I’ve been steadily getting over politics. At this point 4 years of one candidate or another really doesn’t matter. We’ve already screwed ourselves & unless we completely dismantle the system, we’ll be in Soylent Green territory before I’ve lived out my natural lifespan [if I live out my natural lifespan].
I guess that should read ‘We’ve already screwed ourselves and every other living being on the planet’.
#90 Is it me or could anyone else not hear booing on that youtube video? i just heard cheers, there may have been something underneath it but i couldn’t really identify it as ‘boo’s’.
The ESPN guys were certainly plying on the propaganda as thick as possible though, no wonder i’m turned off by sports on tv.
I’m sure the RNC bought a huge amount of tickets and trucked in the wingers by the busload for the game as soon as they were alerted W would attend just to make sure it wasn’t an average American crowd.
wilfred,
wilfred,
If you can’t hear that booing, it’s time for some hearing tests. Catch the expression on Dim Son’s face as he makes his way to the mound, he heard them just fine.
Incidentally, it’s now possible for the networks to do the kind of audio editing that would diminish booing as it’s happening rather than in the editing room afterwards, so it’s possible that the crowd response after his pitch was not as positive as you hear.
More necrophilia:
Wilfred, I viewed several YouTube uploaded versions of the video and quite clearly heard booing that was so loud it muted the cheers that were also coming from the crowd. I’ve no idea whether or not the live or recorded audio has been tampered with, as I didn’t see the original, but JJB is right: look at Bush’s face and you see that HE heard the boos.
Bush won’t be making any more unscripted appearances after this.
surprised to read this from Geekesque (0 / 0)
The blogger who told us all that it was fine for Obama to be associated with Donnie McClurkin, because there’s a lot of homophobia in the black community, and we need the Democratic Party to be a big tent.
From Geek’s diary Your problem is with black people in South Carolina:
Let’s stop dancing around the fringes of what’s going on with the Donnie McClurkin story.
He’s said some really offensive, really ignorant, really appalling, and totally unacceptable things about LGBT folks.
So, the theory goes, this guy should be publicly repudiated by the Obama campaign.
This, quite frankly, is nuts. If you believe in a big tent.
The cold splash of reality below the fold.
* Geekesque’s diary :: ::
*
If this is the test, that Barack Obama–or any other Democrat who really cares about gay rights–needs to publicly denounce and personally repudiate anyone with Donnie McClurkin’s views about homosexuality, then you are essentially calling for a purge of African-American voters in the South from the party.
Obama fans put 150 tips in the tip jar of that diary, by the way.
Pepe Escobar talks to Sabah al Nasseri about Basra and the prevention of an outbreak of democracy in Iraq: Iraq ruling elite needs US troops to stay in power
If this comment doesn\’t work, it\’s because I\’m trapped in my proxy server yet again.
I hate the simple knee jerk stuff…. but with McClurkin, replacing “gay” wiht “Jew” works.
And one reason I left the damned party was I ws sick to death of hearing how conservative, whether, white black or Asian or whatever, had to be pandered to.
The party is a whole bunch of conservatives and cntrists fighting with each other for power.
lol guys, just listened to the clip again and only could hear the applause. I had the volume turned up to max, can’t figure out why i can’t detect it, my hearing is not that bad!
I would like wilfred to be guest judge for my American Idol appearance. I will be performing a medley of Sainkho Namtchylak\’s greatest hits.
Hmm. sorry about links. The Escobar/Nasseri is at Real News.
Iraq ruling elite needs US troops to stay in power
AGAIN just the cops for the local thugs. Surely our Army Corps f Engineers can work out some solid gold toilets for the elite, like for the Kuwaitis. God knows they are nt troubling themselves too mcuh with LEVEES over here.
#102 But first Melvin you’d have to make me watch American Idol and that will happen on the 12th of Never!
so weird, i had my hearing checked about 2 years ago and it was normal. What a bummer, there’s nothing i’d like to listen to more than Bush getting roundly booed (too bad no tomatoes were thrown but i’m sure Special Ops would have swooped down on them and the perpetrators flown to Gitmo).
hey melvin, yr Sainkho link doesn’t work – but she’s certainly one of the most amazing vocalists in the world today
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