Did you watch the Clinton-Obama debate tonight? Did you watch their references to Israel? I will summarize. Hillary said that if elected, she would urge Israel to occupy two more of its neighbors. Not to be outdone, Obama pledged to urge Israel to occupy four Arab countries. I watched the debate and learned about US Middle East policy what I knew not before.
Ratzy again! [UPDATED, Ratzy baby! no really!] 18 April 2008
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, California / Pacific Coast, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Lie Down Fall Down Dems, San Francisco, U.S. Senate.trackback
Why screw with a good thing………. left i on the news noted that Ratzy was greeted at the WH with a 21 gun salute.
and while i was there I gleaned this:
“I often get questions about impeachment at town hall meetings and I’ve said that is not something I think would be fruitful to pursue because I think that impeachment is something that should be reserved for exceptional circumstances.“
… and this
“It’s an atrocity what is being perpetrated as punishment on the people in Gaza. It’s a crime… I think it is an abomination that this continues to go on.”
- Jimmy Carter, speaking in Cairo about the Israeli blockade of Gaza
Carter also noted that the people of Gaza “receive fewer calories a day than people in the poorest parts of Africa.”
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I realise Bilal Hussein has been covered here (in comments, that is) but I scammed this from Angry Arab… of course the LAST graf of the MSNBC/AP report. I mean, why put the consummate reality at the top?
“He now joins a growing list of journalists detained in conflict zones by the U.S. military for prolonged periods and eventually released without any charges or crimes ever substantiated against them,” said Simon. “This deplorable practice should be of concern to all journalists. It basically allows the U.S. military to remove journalists from the field, lock them up and never be compelled to say why.”
While at Angry A, I scammed this summation of the debate…
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I maintain that the Democrats, finally, are running smack! into every brick wall, oil spill, slow bump and smoke filled room (fake and otherwise) they EVER constructed. And I am much amused.
April 18, 2008
Delegates to Dean: Make Us
Howard Dean was on Wolf Blitzer’s show yesterday, and Drudge picked up his admonition to the superdelegates with the splashy headline: “Dean To Delegates: Decide Now.” In the interview, Dean says that he wants the superdelegates to begin “voting” now.
“We cannot give up two or three months of active campaigning and healing time,” he said. “We’ve got to know who our nominee is.”
Unfortunately for the party, Dean is in no position to tell the superdelegates when to decide. The reason? The chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee carries with it very little political power – certainly not enough to sway superdelegates.
It has been this way for a very long time. Fifty years ago, political scientists thought of the political parties as “truncated pyramids.” The idea behind this metaphor is that it was the state parties that were really in charge. The national parties were powerless organization that few paid attention to. [...] They were there to be used by the president for his electoral purposes and, when the President was of a different party, to host the national conventions. That’s it.
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Flash forward to the 1970s. There’s a convergence of two trends in electoral politics. First is the rise of television and the mass media campaign. This induced a great need for campaign cash. Second is the imposition of the Federal Elections Campaign Act (FECA) of 1972, and the 1974 amendments that limited the amount of money that candidates could collect from individuals. This gave the national parties a new task – legal money laundering. [BINGO ---Mcat]
This is their essential function today. All six national party organizations (the two national committees plus the four Hill committees) collect large sums of cash by waving the party banner, and then distribute this money to candidates. [...]
… and the close:
This is why the “Democratic Party” cannot stop this nomination race. There is no party entity with the power to say, “OK, you two. Enough is enough.” In keeping with the “candidate control” model of electoral politics, the only two who can stop it are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. That’s the modern party system for you. 20th century reformers thought the parties were meddling institutions that corrupted the political process. So, they stripped them of their power. Accordingly, the Democrats are at the mercy of their candidates.
Footnote: if you listen to Dean’s interview, he says that some superdelegates have already “voted,” and that he wants the rest to “vote” soon. This is not how the superdelegate system works. Dean knows that, and I think what he is trying to do is spin things a little bit. The fact is that the superdelegates have only endorsed candidates so far. They vote in Denver. Not before. What they say today does not necessarily constrain their votes in Denver. So, we should expect that, if the race remains close through the summer, both Obama and Clinton will work to “flip” superdelegates.
Tally Ho ho ho ho then! I am fine with High Noon in Denver. Fine if it sputters to some queasy, odd, quivering crack-up before then… fine if the thing de-constructs, combusts, in what the Dems foolishly thought was a gilded, glowing, ordained by GAWD winning year for them.
Good luck!
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This is from Arcturus, near the end of the last thread:
- via Angry Indian:
An outspoken Canadian native leader [Terrance Nelson, chief of the Roseau First Nation in Manitoba], is urging Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to throw his weight behind an attempt to block two multibillion-dollar pipelines that will transport oil from Alberta to the United States.
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The letter asks Mr. Chavez to turn the international spotlight to human-rights violations against indigenous people in Canada and to champion their cause. It says Mr. Nelson and other native leaders plan to expose the damage done to Canada’s indigenous people in the runup to the 2010 Olympics in B.C., in a campaign similar to the protests marring China’s preparations for the Beijing Games.
Roseau River First Nation has just started a video campaign to raise awareness about the issue of oil, poverty, land theft, and violence against indigenous People in Canada – compared to that of what happened to Iraqis when economic sanctions were imposed on them some ten years ago.
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This from catnip, from the last thread, fits in as well……….
65. There’s an annual Day of Action coming up for first nations’ people here on Mat 29th. Phil Fontaine (Assembly of Fist Nations) confirmed that even though they support the Olympics coming to BC, they will use the spotlight on Canada to stage protests to get international attention.
Thanks for those links, Arcturus. Our gov’t can’t continue to speak out about human rights abuses in places like China without taking a long, hard look at what’s going on here. Fontaine is working with the government on the wording of their official apology but that’s such a minor step considering the abuses first nations’ people have endured here.
I have to tell you that, after listening to the media pushing the fact that the sexual abuse scandal has cost the Catholic church a measly $2 billion to sweep under the rug, I was reminded of how hard that same church has fought against aboriginals here when it came to settling the residential schools abuse claims that decimated the people who were so severely affected by those actions. The longer they waited, the more claimants who died, never having received any kind of compensation, much less an apology. Oh, and they did the “healing” thing here too – as if that could ever make up for the effects of what was done. That chapter in our history is far from being closed.
From Love that wispy Nazi Ratzy voice…, 2008/04/18 at 3:18 PM
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Other than that, I cannot say how quiet is a house without a cat. Dead quiet. An ever falling, somber, bottomless quiet.
When I was a child I used to visit in a house in what is (or was) Deep Marin, Laguanitas. An old clap board house with a big rangy living room and a fireplace, at the back of the house. Out the back door, off a sort of semi-connected sort of “mud room” was a rolling, soft green meadow. At the back of the meadow were trees, to the south, a creek. The back door was usually left open, and at times a Nanny Goat, sometimes with a kid, would walk in. Not just a neighborly nose-in at the mud room, but a full walk-in, to where the upholstered furniture was grouped near the fire… It was the happiest of scenes.
In contrast to a house with cats, dogs, rabbits and a visiting goat contingent, one would think a city house with cats often in full sleep mode would not be deathly still when an elderly cat moves on. But it is.
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Mein lieber Gott!…
So, I was hunting for a photo of il papa with his broadtail capelet… and what do I find, The Holy Baby:
OK! I am taking a flying leap here…. Ratzy wears the diapers in the family and Ganswein and he have a manger set up somewhere.
BTW, that is Ganswein, over Ratzy’s right shoulder.
I think I will head for the Campari early.
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I gather the call (and no doubt the response) at St Patty’s this am was for … get ready! … UNITY. Hey, it means exactly as much for pols as for the pious (doubt me? WAIT!)
As for “unity” these guys got the memo (the trail behind of bishops):
Don Emmert/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Bishops attended Mass with the pope at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral.
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Wonder what’s on the papal menu?
Baby back ribs?
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toasted sweet cheeks.
flambee’d baby fingers
crispy baby wings
[I could go on........]
Hugs Marisa….
Sometimes when I’m feeling really bad, I turn on a sizzling Puerto Rican salsa tape given to me quite a few years ago by someone who had copied it from someone else’s tape but didn’t remember the name of the artist; consequently, I don’t know the name of the artist or I’d share it.
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I’m playing it now in your honor…I do hope you enjoy Salsa…..
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Let him just eat the fuckin cake and go to bed hungry.
For people who’re foolish enough to believe Obama is a “peace” candidate, he got two endorsements from pols who personify militarism:
Boren and Nunn Endorse Obama
3. I used to do the same thing with my calypso music tapes – great to clean a house by.
On the flipside, I remember staying overnite at my daughter’s and having a really good sleep because my cats weren’t there. They’re contstantly after me to get up in the morning. Cue the drooling in my ears. Yuck.
There’s no doubt that having pets is liking having kids around though. They do end up owning your schedule and the silence without them can be deafening.
Here’s my PA prediction courtesy of my spidey senses: Clinton by 7%.
What’s this “healing time” Dean is talking about? He seems blissfully ignorant of the Hillary/Obama supporter wars.
Wake Up Call for Democrats
from TPM:
Oh face it, esp ED KILGORE of DLC or NDN or which ever… Lieberman most certainly is a Demcrat. Very much so. I posted in 2004 after “The Great Loss” that he had campaigned in So Florida, on stump stages and in TEMPLES for Bush (he did). His motto. I said, was BIB, Bush is better for the security of Israel and America.
Think of all the appeasing ObamaRama has done, NOT of American Jews, but of Israel. See anything new there?
He won’t even have the wiggle room that GHWBush and Baker had, nor that BClinton had (not that he wanted any)… he will NEVER be able to reach out to anyone. Other than Israel.
Not like Hillary ever gave Suha an air kiss again, either. Among other things.
Some more info on the flag pin woman from the “debate”.
What are the chances of the Dems losing control (such as it is) of the senate in this year’s election? (I’m writing something and was wondering about that.)
LOL Oh truly we must stand down out here… The quake on the New Madrid Fault was felt thru SIXTEEN states. From WI to MS.
Apparently the lack of multiple faults, means it travels farther.
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My gut on it, after I read the McClatchy piece, race definately had something to do with her ire, the blacks get leg ups whites don’t is perpetrated in that landscape and every landscape where everyone is pitted against the OTHER, as they all try to survive.
This is obscured by her tradgedy, probably deliberately by those who chose to highlight the incident.
hmm I think they add a few seats in the senate and however many in the house. Might be hard to avoid that.
here, this rhymes:
moonie bushies aren’t gonna like it
Marisa–do the other cats notice the absence? I have heard that pets in same household mourn also.
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moonie bushies aren’t gonna like it
I hope he’s wearing body armor, not that that will prevent murderous thugs from carrying out agendas, but it’s better than nothing.
I seem to be having an ESP moment. I think some international story of importance is going to break tonite at around 2 am (my time). Then again, maybe it’s just indigestion…
gah probably some nasty rumble out of Israel, to force the three on view to comment.
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last cat in residence.
Well imo animals mourn.
16. Hmm..well I wonder what’s going to happen if a Dem wins the WH and the Repubs win back the senate. I also wonder if the Dems are just going to end up electing more blue dogs if they manage to get a majority. My thought is that if either of those scenarios happen, it’ll be another 2 or 4 more years of Dems floating in the wilderness (rather willingly) while all of this “change” that’s being promised will just rot in the gutter (not that I expect any “change” anyway…)
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“turning his back on god”
well, THERE is the real sin.
well, THERE is the real sin.
In Paraguay and the US.
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Oh I am sure the Dems are running Blue Dogs… that is all they really cared about in 06, no one else got any media attention, at all. Not Loebsack certainly… a first term who managed to topple Leach, after 30 years (think in Iowa, obviouslsy from a red district). And Loebsack was/is for single payer and abortion rights and so on. No attention for Cohen an actual white liberal who ran agsint the machine hack black run by the Fprd family for Harold jrs old seat… and so on. Cohen for gay rights, abortion, and so on. Admittedly from a city, Memphis but one the party wished to keep wtih conservative hack blacks.
I am sure they wish they never heard of Ellison, the muslim from MN who struggled to take his oath on the Quran… but who now parrots Obama sludge. “Endling the war” is “redeploying to Kuwait”… and has some compromised sludge going on abortion.
The Dems championed their “fighting Dems” not too many of whom won, championed their ex military, like Patrick Murphy an Irish chinless wonder (an Obama supporter)… championed their Blue Dogs.. etc. To me the real story is about the bi partisan Conservative Coalition holding back what little progressives there are. And they are all WEAK.
Emanual and Bill Clinton pulled out the stops and over a half million to get a bona fide memeber of the Ohio Right to life elected as a Dem. Democrats fro Life an anti abortion group of Dems counted 6 new members of congress in their ranks… Bob Casey’s brother serves on the board.
And so on.
It would be hard for the Dems to avoid adding to their majorities. There is an unprecedented (well it is described as “historical”) number of House retirements on the R. Well over 20. They could add another 30 seats. Think they won 31 new seats in 06…
seems they are likely to add several seats in the senate.
I still say they are scared to death of having all three arms of government. H, S and WH.
27. That helps. Thanks.
I still say they are scared to death of having all three arms of government. H, S and WH.
Dog forbid they might actually have to come through on some of those promises – which will no doubt be watered down anyway in the ole “spirit of bipartisanship/heal the country” movement. If the Dems actually had a spine, they’d plough ahead and tell the Repubs to fuck right off.
Just watching Larry King. Texas is keeping all of the cult children and they’re starting DNA test on the whole shebang – children, mothers and fathers – next week to sort this all out. That should be a nightmare.
Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date – despite being watched by CCTV
Watching a good interview on Moyers
Mr. Fish
I picked up John Krakauer’s ” Under the Banner of Heaven” from the library today.
Didn’t the author of “A Fire in the Lake” write about Mormon communities, also?forget her name. oh, yes, google…
Ok, it’s Frances Fitzgerald, but she wrote about Rajneeshpuram in Oregon.
My bad. (”Cultish religions all look alike”?)
The “Freedom Tower” plans in the garbage can. The original story was from NY Post. Psy op?
somewhere today I read that the US “uncovered” plans that Al-Queda intends to strike Baghdad.
I guess a follow-up to the GAO report that says the government has no comprehensive plan to fight terrorism.
Never has, never will.
banging head agaisnt the wall
EJ Dionne broke his daily epistle for Obama, for RatzZingerWinger.
I was wondering – the Guardian didn’t mention it:
Obama/Lieberman – Unity ‘08! HOPE!
heard some wag on NPR clamoring for Obama/Nunn
o yumm
New, potential O supporters’ enemies listee: Larry King, who’ll be interviewing Hillary on Monday nite.
Ross also points out that “. . . without Chavez’s oil, Bush’s war in Iraq would be grounded.”
Arcturus …. out of spam… sorry for the delay!
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yes I caught the Obama / Nunn push too.
I have no idea who he would pick OR who McCain would. There is a push starting … think Noonan has a piece in WSJ today and Kate O’Beirne weighed in at NRO… for McCain to declare for a one term.
I have mentioned he let that very thing drop once during the primary, and I thought then it would give him a lift with some people..
I think we are in the wide open high seas.
“Under the Banner of Heaven” is an amazing read, though, imagine the difficulty of trying to hold a sentence like this in one’s mind:
“As his sixth wife, Debbie became a stepmother to Blackmore’s thirty-one kids, most of whom were older than she was. And because he happened to be the father of Debbie’s own stepmother , Mem, she unwittingly became a stepmother to her stepmother, and thus a stepgrandmother to herself”
40 — I’d hate to be the executor of that estate. Probate would take twenty years.
#40 I felt like I swallowed that book whole. Krakauer does an amazing job.
Dana does Hillary.
Classy.
31. Good show. I was surprised to learn that she’s only 26. Wow. She also echoed much of what Nir Rosen testified about. It’s unfortunate that the popular US journalists & pundits, who basically feed everyone the same tired line, eclipse the fine work done by people like those two.
Martha Nussbaum was interesting too but I disagree with her line that nobody really wants a separation between church and state. Also, I thought her explanation of why the so-called faith-based initiatives are here to stay (legally) was insightful. All Obama or Clinton would have to do would be to rescind the executive order that set them up – something neither one of them has the courage to do. Yet another cave to the religious lobbyists.
43 Did you even read his piece moiv? Or maybe you lack the necessary comprehension skills?
Class is the DickHead’s middle name. Note also the condescension tangled up with his failed attempt at humor, informing his readers that Ann Arbor is in Michigan.
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It’s all perfectly comprehensible. After all, he’s only had 17 beers.
43. Clueless idiot:
Unless “MILF” means something other than what I think it does, I’d say that Houle once again has made one huge ass of himself. Granted, he doesn’t be able to help himself in that regard since he’s eternally stuck in his pubescence.
i didn’t know cesaire was still alive. brilliant, incendiary writer, i stumbled across his work after following one of edward said’s footnotes, and was blown away by how clearly it laid out the sickness of our civilization:
Listening to Fadel now on with Moyers.
Just finished the Dana – and the thread.
Honestly they sound naive, … I dunno, whatever it takes to guzzle beers and write that thing.
But that IS the place wehre regularly they put up threads (or they did) what is the Democratic party to you, what does it mean to be a Democrat…
And the most sudsy stuff would appear. Bizarre dreamscapes.
I don’t know. All it meant to me was I was nto a R. They harbor a lot of illusions.
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Wow.
Top Bush aides pushed for Guantánamo torture
How could he not know the truth?
Why didn’t he read the manual to find out what was allowed?
Sorry. Not buying that story.
and we rationalise it, defend it every single day.
on baloney. He knew.
48. I think Alice Miller did a good job of explaining the rise and acceptance of Nazism in her book ‘For Your Own Good’. She looked at it from the perspective of how strict German parents and culture were at the time, priming the populace to accept an equally strict, patriarchal leader. Society has to have arrived at some point of ideology that a person in power can feed of off to get away with spreading that ‘disease’. All of the elements fell into place before and after Bush arrived, allowing him to explain away his horrors. And he’s still getting away with it.
Which reminds me of that blog post I’ve been putting off writing all day.
And I know I’ve harped on this before and it may be because I’m Canadian that the slogans bother me so much, but hearing things like “the US is the greatest country in the world” etc on a seemingly endless loop in the media – in my mind – definitely contributes to those conditions that make many Americans think that empire building is somehow an acceptable pursuit. That goes to Nussbaum’s point about the repetition of “G*d bless America” (America above all others) too, as she stated it on Moyer’s show tonite.
madman – it’s from this post that i wrote after reading his book discourse on colonialism, there’s an amazon link to the book at the bottom of the quote.
brilliant guy.
um, that was poorly worded. i did not write that quote, cesaire did. i wish i was that good of a writer.
the Nussbaum segment on Moyers is just beginning here.
she’s right on the fucking faith based initiatives. WIll put up the transciprt if available when it is over.
what a hoot! he’s going ot have Wright on next week…
what a hoot! he’s going ot have Wright on next week…
That will definitely be a two-tub popcorn evening.
moyers luvvvvvvvvvs to have on religionists. I put up with as I want to hear what they say… and some I like. AND it is such a huge invasive issue in the country.
One more… Wright.
Off to watch Pinochet’s Last Stand.
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Post on Cesaire at Arcturus’ blog
Link to comment, previous thread
post on cesaire at indigenist blog
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& someone asked about Native Am schools – this goes into much else, besides:
link to South End Press
& I just noticed this:
indigenist blog, mass graves, Canada
Asia Times… and don’t worry, the three grafs before this were on Burson-Marsteller/Penn:
Meanwhile, back at the ranch of horrors:
Fresh clashes break out in Basra
65. Lipstick on a pig.
Patrick Cockburn: America’s allies in Iraq under pressure as civil war breaks out among Sunni
Thanks wu ming.
I flip on cable this morning and CNN, MSNBC & Faux are ALL showing the NYC papal mass LIVE.
Plus it’s on the local Archdiocese-run station, and another public access station is streaming NY1’s coverage.
No state religion my ass.
Wu & Arcturus, thanks so much for the Césaire. I admit with embarrassment that I haven’t read him, or even heard of him before. I like to flatter myself that I’m well-educated, well-read, but I so often find that I’m not.
So much to learn, and life is so full of distractions.
gas in San Francisco…………..3.97
The news report mentioned that it went over 2.00 in late 2003. So it has doubled in less than 5 years.
Religion is stupid, part upteen million:
Hmmmm, in a time when hunger and food shortages and increasing strain on food pantries, one would think that a visit to a local shelter and donations would be a better idea.
state religion… well I think ours is sheer authority, wth the stench of whatever religion is handy.
Charlie’s roundtable last night, first half was on il papa. Meacham of Newsqueak… Celopete from the NY archdiocese and a couple of others… WHAT FUCKING BULLSHIT.
Then he followed that with Michael Kinsley, always a questionable person imo, and now really so.
He, at some point in the greasy dissemble, slobbered his love for WFB (thankfully deceased! if only he could be forgotten!) and later gloried in his swoon for BHO. In fact he says we are more advanced than we had thought in race relations, when a black man can be called elite. He laughed but he was not kidding.
We are lost in prayerful ignorance and always ready with the lube to accommodate the latest Great Man.
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If the local shelter is still open. I just heard last night that the Haight Ashbury Free Pantry shut down. Gone.
Exactly! I just put on Channel 1 here in NYC to get the weather and there is the Papal Mass and it’s also on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN and MSNBC.
Yikes.
As Maher said, if this man ran a Day Care center he’d be in jail.
local news just showed Ratz arriving at St Patty’s… I could net tell for sure as it was a fleeting shot as he exited the limo… but I think he wore a capelet of pure white broadtail fur.
as he exited the limo… but I think he wore a capelet of pure white broadtail fur.
all the better to demonstrate his vow of poverty
well most priests don’t take a vow of poverty. Nuns and monks do and those who live in cloistered retreats.
I mean, they worked it out long ago, these princes of the church.
Melvin, no. 45,
Anyone who has followed college sports the last 50 years knows that Ann Arbor is a city. DH is just following the stupid, formulistic writing that the BBBs have developed, one of the tics being that no pun/gag is to be avoided, no matter how stupid and tortured, and no chance to show off the author’s supposed cleverness is to be passed up. It’s almost like the old Henry Luce mandated TIME magazine style, where backwards ran the sentences until reeled the mind.
BTW, it’s nice to see ABC get creamed for that awful “debate” the other night, but almost no one has pointed out that having George Stephanopolous as co-moderator was as obvious a conflict of interest as can be imagined. Eric Alterman is the only person I’ve seen point this out. It also seems that Charles Gibson thinks $200,000 is a typical yearly middle-class household income (Matthew Yglesias picked up on that). That reminds me of how Nelson Rockefeller, back in the mid-1960s, tried to promote some tax plan of his by discussing how it would affect a typical family of four with an income of $100,000 a year, at a time when maybe 1% of the households in the country made that much annually.
Close- up of the capeletted Crusader.
NYT on the early morning line:
I used to work in the Art Deco building next door to St. Patrick’s and had big sunny windows (excellent for phalaenopsis) with a direct view of the roof spires. (Good Friday could be a bit lugubrious, as the dirges rose up in late afternoon.) Every now and then ACT UP would throw a spanner in the heavenly machinery, and the police response clearly demonstrated the city’s religious tolerance.
LOL
This is the story accompanying the photo up top…
I loved this comment from the thread:
Yes because it almost never happens…
IB
irreverent minds….
Thanks for the close-up. Some kind of fur, maybe a beaver or nutria… the shearing made me think it ws broadtail… hmmmm looks like a rose or floral design.
Quite the fashion item.
No doubt we’ll get the vestmentdetails by and by. Maybe Barbara Bradley Hagerty will fill us in on NPR.
By the way, I wasn’t familiar with the term “broadtail,” and found this interesting at the Wiki (redirected) page:
Are they sometimes white, as well? Does that make them extra-special fetuses?
Fetal lambs in the mod pod. Feel free to kill their mothers to (briefly) rescue the little dears!
IB
well they don’t come in white that I have known of… (and i am not recommending broadtail, in any of its versions)… but I assume any organic material could be treated and bleached, by whatever method is used.in the fur biz.
hmmm… I am probably more familiar with the end product… I think of persian lamb fur as the still tightly curled version, broadtail as the sheared version, meaning sheared over all.
Persian lamb for coats and hats, etc.. and broadtail used for oh, cocktail suits … I have never seen either but in dark colors.
Maybe his capelet is of a deep pelt synthetic, then sheared to the foral pattern.
Certainly easy tho to think of His High Holiness bedecked in fetal fur.
Seems strangely barbaric and appropriate.
Here’s a local story from Connecticut, where the outfits were made –
The Pope’s new clothes – but no detail on the capelet, per se.
Another local article, with more detail on the wardrobe preparations: Connecticut Firm Dresses Pope For U.S.
And this was pretty funny:
hmm very interesting that a CT company was used…. rather than Roman ecclesiastical haberdashers.
Thanks for those links…
hmmm Baker Liturgical also does church restoration. And well in with Ratzy, clearly
Correction to my sloppy phrasing above – yes, Baker Liturgical did the designs (and their main gig is church renovations and restorations – quite the apt metaphor for Ratzy’s visit), but it looks like Baker’s Dutch partner – Stadelmaier BV – did the actual sewing of the vestments, and a Spanish company did the metalwork.
Here’s a Washington Times article including a Baker Liturgical press release, verbatim. Benedict: Traffic Nightmare?
Hosanna! We are restored.
In 1999, ACT UP held a press conference commemorating the 1989 demonstration at St. Patrick’s. This page includes updates through 2003 or so, including a piece on the revisionism evident in Cardinal O’Connor’s obituaries even one day after his death in 2000.
Some will never be restored.
Some will never be restored.
isn’t it the truth…….
hey–I thought Jesus said to feed the lambs…not kill and accessorize!
wilfred–I’ve been reading “Under the Banner of Heaven” almost non-stop. very interesting and timely considering the Texas bust and the discovery that the Pentagon has contracts with Jeffs company.
sorry, for some reason can’t paste a link
Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army; In shocking testimonies that reveal abductions, beatings and torture, Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on Hebron
Dear ms x and your “greenery”,
It’s been snowing steadily here since yesterday morning.
Grrr & Brrrr…
Signed,
catnip in a parka and toque
I just saw this documentary “Constantine’s Sword” about the origins of the cross as a symbol and about the Catholic church and Christianity’s turn to violence since adopting that symbol (it was made by the former priest and author James Carroll). It covers everything from the Crusades, WWII to Vietnam and the current Evangelicazation of the Air Force Academy.
Here’s a link to the trailer:
http://constantinessword.com/?page_id=7
Meet the Press: Obama strategist David Axelrod, Clinton strategist Geoff Garin
This Week: McCain
Face the Nation: Obama-backing PA Sen. Casey, Clinton-backing Gov. Rendell
Fox News Sunday: Sens. Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Karl Rove
Late Edition: Former NJ Sen. Bill Bradley, NJ Gov. Corzine, Philly Mayor Nutter, PA Rep. Fattah, McCain economic adviser Fiorina
This Week: McCain
What are the odds ole Steffie will ask McCain an hour full of the drivel he peddled to the Dems?
Yeah, i thought not.
My latest: Obama on Bushco’s War Crimes and Impeachment
hmmm
nu thread…
tho I have to admit I am sorry to leave Ratzy in his lacy laying-in baby bunting behind… LOL. And the fetal furs…
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hi all, hope everyone’s having as good a day as possible………nothing to say, just checkin in.
wilfred – Thanks very much for the link to Constantine’s Sword. Sure sounds like it merits viewing. (FYI – The subject of the documentary is Caroll, but the filmmaker is Oren Jacoby.)
Catnip – Your questions are perfectly reasonable and your pfft is appropriate, but isn’t it thoroughly obvious that America’s political class – including all of the viable candidates – has decided to let history handle the indictments and (everlasting) punishments for war crimes?