The blue line: race-ing justice 25 April 2008
Posted by marisacat in Culture of Death, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, WAR!.trackback
Photo: Uli Seit for The New York Times
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From the Village Voice:
[I]n the run up to Cooperman giving his verdict, the courtroom was ringed with 17 court officers, who remained standing in front of the pews, while another 11 jammed the aisle separating supporters of Bell, filling the pews on the right side, and the backers of the cops, seated to the left. Before the judge entered the audience was asked to refrain from making any outbursts and remain sitting after the verdict until Cooperman had exited the court.
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Shortly after, the judge finished up his reasoning and announced he was acquitting the officers on all charges. Ignoring the pre-verdict instructions, Nicole Paultre Bell, Bell’s fiancee and widow, stood up immediately and walked out of the courtroom. Rows of Bell supporters followed her. “Unadulterated bullshit,” one man said on his way out. In a second row pew, Bell’s father, dressed all in white, buried his face while shaking his head as Bell’s mother broke into tears while being consoled by a family member next to him.
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After the potentially explosive verdict was given, Mayor Michael Bloomberg conveniently attended an unscheduled ribbon-cutting ceremony about a mile away from where Bell was shot to announce the opening of a job center in Jamaica. “There are no winners in a trial like this,” the mayor said. “An innocent man lost his life, a bride lost her groom, two daughters lost their father, and a mother and a father lost their son.
No verdict could ever end the grief that those who knew and loved Sean Bell suffer.
Judge Cooperman’s responsibility, however, was to decide the case based on the evidence presented in the courtroom. America is a nation of laws, and though not everyone will agree with the verdicts and opinions issued by the courts, we accept their authority. Today’s decision is no different. There will be opportunities for peaceful dissent and potentially for further legal recourse—those are the rights we enjoy in a democratic nation. We don’t expect violence or law-breaking, nor is there any place for it. We have come too far as society—and as a City—to be dragged back to those days.
After the morning court instruction to attend the verdict and wait politely afterward for the judge to leave, Bloomberg then cautioned the community of Sean Bell against violence. I am sure the accurate parsing of the judge’s stated reasoning is that this community did not deserve justice:
Noting the unreliability of prosecution witnesses, through their renunciations and inconsistent statements, past criminal convictions, demeanor while testifying and motivation to lie on the stand, Cooperman acquitted the cops following a bench trial, saying “These factors played a significant part in the people’s ability to prosecute their case and had the effect of eviscerating the credibility of the people’s witnesses….at times the testimony just didn’t make sense. “
Not much left to say, really. Power spoke with its heavy hand.
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This languished in Moderation from near the end of the previoius thread… and it fits in with this post:
Manhattan Basement Sells for $801K
NEW YORK (AP) — Looking for another sign that Manhattan real estate prices aren’t headed for the cellar? A basement storage room in the famed Dakota apartment building fetched $801,000 in a recent sale.
High prices are nothing new for the Dakota, a gorgeous, gabled palace overlooking Central Park, best known as the home of John Lennon and the scene of his 1980 assassination. Yoko Ono still lives there and its apartments routinely sell for many millions of dollars.
The room’s buyer, hedge fund manager John Angelo, said the price was reasonable, considering what he’s getting.
The space is 800 square feet and has 20-foot-high ceilings and two windows, he said, making it bigger than many apartments in Manhattan, where a studio can be as small as 300 square feet and the median price for an apartment is over $850,000.
His storage space also has a bathroom and electricity. “I could make it a squash court if I wanted,” Angelo said, only half joking.
He said he plans to turn the room into a small gymnasium and open it up for use by other residents of the building, which, for all its luxury, doesn’t have a common exercise room.
Angelo and his wife already live in the Dakota. They acquired the basement space from a departing resident, Juliana Curran Terian, who sold her apartment for $20.5 million in January. That unit was once owned by the composer Leonard Bernstein. She sold the storage room separately.
While $801,000 may sound like a lot for a basement den that cannot legally be used as a dwelling, it isn’t unusual to see well-off Manhattanites paying top dollar for auxiliary space, said real estate appraiser Jonathan Miller.
Marisacat 
Priceless, heartbreaking photo…
Power indeed. Bloomberg distanced himself mightily today, a real creep who needs to never hold public office again.
What a travesty, all I can wonder is where is the next one because you know it is on its way.
hmm I don’t know wehre I am picking up this addendum that is appearing at the bottom of my posts, the ”related posts” thing.
hmmm. It does not appear in my draft version. Not a bad thing, but not soemthing i put there.
Systemic. Institutionalized. Racism.
(WordPress tags, like all other such whther blog or facebook-style, are useful for ANy who would keep tabs. like those up-coming Commish Hearings?
High School Bans Distribution of Counter- Military Recruitment Leaflet on Campus
IOZ
No wonder Obama has not energy in Indiana today. Big cracks in internal support for him. Catch the Dean comments.
Financial Times
trying to get to the rest of the article…not blocked by sub wall but by registration wall.
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ain’t it the truth. I sued to have a phrase I used at the lawfirm for promotions and elevations (rarely, when it happened)
“a human made it thru”.
not much else mattered, frankly.
Good quote from IOZ. But then again, I thought Hillary was trying to destroy democracy as we know it, so maybe she really is an anarchist in disguise.
Or something.
here is the whole FT article… getting thru the registration wall, and remember what email I had used for that site was like cracking teeth:
Democrats to choose ‘by end of June’
By Lionel Barber, Edward Luce and Andrew Ward in Washington
Published: April 25 2008 22:04 | Last updated: April 25 2008 22:04
The Democratic party’s “superdelegates” have every right to overturn the popular vote and choose the candidate they believe would be best equipped to defeat John McCain in a general election, according to Howard Dean, chairman of the US Democratic National Committee.
Mr Dean, who was a presidential candidate in 2004 and is a former governor of Vermont, spoke to the Financial Times just two days after Hillary Clinton put her campaign back in contention with a near double-digit margin of victory over Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary.
He said there was nothing in the DNC’s rules that would prevent the party’s unelected superdelegates, who make up about a fifth of the overall delegate tally and who will ultimately pick the winner, from “doing what they want”.
Mr Obama maintains a slim lead in the popular vote with just nine nominating contests left to go concluding on June 3 in Montana and South Dakota.
“If it’s very very close, they [the superdelegates] will do what they want anyway,” said Mr Dean.
“I think the race is going to come down to the perception in the last six or eight races of who the best opponent for McCain will be. I do not think in the long run it will come down to the popular vote or anything else.”
However, he added that it was highly unlikely that the superdelegates – of whom roughly 300 out of 800 remain undecided – would go against whichever candidate was ahead on the popular vote and among pledged delegates in practice. “I think it is very unlikely – I have never seen it happen. In fact it has never happened. But it is possible and they have every right to do it.”
Some commentators have speculated that if the race remains deadlocked after June 3 then a senior figure such as Al Gore, the former vice-president, or Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, could prevail on one of the candidates to withdraw – with most people focusing on Mrs Clinton.
But Mr Dean, who some have criticised for allegedly mismanaging the drawn-out primary calendar, dismissed that scenario as “total bullshit”.
He said the last such figure who had the authority to do that was John Bailey, a Connecticut Democrat who was chairman of the DNC from 1960 to 1968.
“That person has been a figment of the punditocracy’s imagination for 50 years or more,” he said. “It is great drama to think of such a thing and Washington loves drama. But the truth is that as a former candidate I can promise you only you know when it is time to leave.”
However, Mr Dean said the Democratic party’s chances of regaining the White House would be badly damaged were the race to continue up until the party’s nominating convention in Denver in late August – as many now fear it will. “If we go into the convention divided, we will come out of it divided,” he said. “Somebody is going to lose this race with 49 per cent of the delegates and we can’t win if we’re divided.”
He said it would take at least two months for the supporters of the losing candidate to get over their “grieving” and unite behind the winner, which meant the nomination had to be decided by the end of June. He said most of the remaining uncommitted superdelegates were either in the DNC, the House of Representatives or the Senate and that he, Mrs Pelosi and Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, all agreed on the end of June deadline.
“It is not just the extra campaigning time – although that is an issue,” he said. “It is the healing time that is important. I know this because I went through it myself. [Your supporters] go to Iowa and knock on doors and spend their weekends in Pennsylvania. These are real investments and when your candidate doesn’t win it’s incredibly painful. It takes time to get over that.”
Mr Dean appeared confident that the uncommitted superdelegates would know what to do in early June even if he could not specify which yardstick they would use to select the winner. “Politics is a herd mentality,” he said. “There is a gestalt in politics when suddenly people see things in a synchronous way. Politically there will be some feeling at the end of this process that somebody is better than the other person in terms of taking on John McCain
I hope the fuckers do choose Clinton.
Is Dean just trying to make himself relevant in all of this or what?
Obama’s Losing it!
Hillary’s Ascending!
McCain’s Gonna Win!
Next week reverse all of this. Then repeat as needed.
I need a neck brace from the all the pundit-lash.
well my guess is Obama / handlers have been told to get a credible set of wins on track and start managing the story line.
I know that the interview I saw with Axelrod in Indiana the night of the PA vote, he was very very nervous.
I think if the Dems slam McC one more time as “old”…. he may mention that Obamas’ grandmother was one of two “first women Vice Presidents” (she and a Japanese woman were elevated together) of Bank of Hawaii. And I think she rose to that job within a couple years of joining the escrow dept. Some of the storylines Obama/handlers/Dem party has built will crumple.
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well I am sorry wilfred. I am going to go on thinking about the election.
lol Marisa, it was about 3 hours of Hardball, Olbermann and The Verdict with the MSNBC host whose name i can never remember.
Iraqi oil pipeline blown up again.
In related local news, one electric bicycle shop here in Calgary is getting orders from around the world as commuters ditch their cars.
The Verdict – Dan Abrams
Here comes Wright on Moyers’ show…should be interesting.
same shit. different day.
In May 1977 Houston police beat José Campos Torres, a 23 year old ex-marine, so badly that the city jail would not book him. He was then taken to Buffalo Bayou, beaten again, and thrown in the Bayou where he drowned.
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You know, this whole Amanda Marcotte thing seems to me to point out the problems with the “Obama coalition.”
Because here you have one part of Obama’s base (women of color) and another part of Obama’s base (white women who have book readings in cute urban cafe’s with “Vegan” signs out front)… and they are not getting along.
Anecdotal, since we don’t even know if everyone in that discussion actually supports Obama… but this paints a picture of a “base” that is not really a “base” — that is, one that got together beforehand and decided to send someone into a presidential contest. It suggests that his “base” is really just a loose collection of demographics with very different gut interests, and these demographics are not really understanding each other.
So wow, Obama gave a big speech on race; but it seems half his “base” was maybe barely listening. That’s not very promising for long-term success.
What do people think about the fact that 2 of the accused cops in the Sean Bell case are black? Do you think it makes the case “different,” or that it doesn’t make it different at all?
Sorry to post three times in a row… but again… “You can’t make this stuff up!”
Uhhh… sure!
Could someone contemplate my navel for me? It’s so hard for me to do it myself sometimes.
well his base, really, has been white male older pundit and political writers. It’s been interesting to watch, Al Hunt, Jonathan Alter, EJ Dionne, the line up at TNR… and so on.
Then black writers on the op/ed pages. Eugene Robinson, Bob Herbert and so on.
His cadre of aging conservative pundits seems to be cracking up. For weeks now. Noonan will be the last to go, I think.
His hard core of aging white so called liberals (basically men who have been squishy hangers on for decades in our sick system) really is his hard core. The rest of media – and some important voices, Fournier of AP for one – were going to peel off imo. For one thing if you read way too much on this cycle (and I did), Obama can be very unpleasant. To ordinary voters in small fora AND to media.
CA was a good slice of what is wrong. Little to no real Latino outreach (this is not being discussed, much, as Obama crashes to earth these days, but it is a big issue for the fall, I would think) and what there was was late and patchwork. CA has 6% black vote and 36% Latino vote. Obama won a heady, but narrow, strip along the coast. That was it. Couple of specks over by NV. She took it by 10. It was also reported that we had, as share of the vote, less black turn out than in 04. That same report came out of TX. Who knows.
I assume he ends up with the nom… but to me the whole thing is shakey as hell. I am glad I just watch and no longer stress if ‘the Democrat’ in the vise can hold it together, do anything, not screw up. Etc.
Oh and i just read last night, quite blithely stated by EJ Dionne, that the Obama camp just recently organised their Catholic outreach. That was his excuse for the bad perf in PA with white Catholics. Gee I would have thought it was RACE. That’s been the out always before. It certainly is the one plouffe wants to use (interview with NJ with Douglass, McC can have the racist vote, who cares /paraphrase but close)
The other worry for the Dems is does Obama have the instinct to bring McC down, to go for his weak spots. What I see is the party, a few elderly senators (Rockefeller and McGovern trying to insult him over his service) trying to do it for Obama/for the party (McGovern supports HilPac)
It’s redundant by now to say “popcorn”..
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I am waiting for Obama to point that out. As a dodge to say much of anything real (he burbled the “nation of laws” slobber). I would imagine McC might point it out as well.
Well, I think it comes down to the “thin blue line”. They stick together.
And god knows what they were really doing there that night “undercover”.
I am aware speaking in these terms may seem presumptuous or haughty, and that is not my intention.
LOL I used to say Dkossers had two navels. One to contemplate and one to emit the reinforcing language or soft elevator music.
So pathetic.
Somebody start a blog collecting this stuff… were the Deaniacs ever this wacko?
I feel sorry for whoever wrote that re-telling of the Christ Child. What utter bullshte.
Heileman in NYMag:
The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke – By Chalmers Johnson
really good article by CJ.. thanks for that…
Nyco at 21 said
it seems to me that minority police acting as gatekeepers to maintain the status quo, would not negate racism within the status quo itself. here’s a few things i found that makes sense to me.
or this
Parker again
of course i only know my region and nothing about the staus quo in new york city. but i hold the opinion that while expressions of anglo-american racism have differed greatly from region to region, and over time, the underlying nature of anglo racism in this country is much more uniform. today and yesterday reading the news out of NYC, and some of the offensive comments in the threads at the new york times, frankly, i don’t a lot of difference.
The contempt that NYC cops have for citizens is palpable. Nearly every interaction I had w/ them when I lived there, including when we called for them to come pick up a shoplifter we’d caught, was nearly always very negative. They weren’t much better towards us than they were to the criminal. They wanted nothing to do with us or them. I saw three of them harrass an elderly asian homeless man once, it was terrible.
Did Israelis Leak New Spy Info to Thwart War?
Hmmmmmm. Reproducing a blockquote from within that piece:
wheels within wheels.
What do people think about the fact that 2 of the accused cops in the Sean Bell case are black?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_nigger
Philip Giraldi reports that Israeli sources have indicated to him that the recent leak to the FBI about the new-old Israeli spy case came from inside the Israeli government toward the end of thwarting Ehud Olmert, Dick Cheney and the War Party’s plans to expand the Middle Eastern slaughter to Iran
Heh. Did Seymour Hersch run out of unattributed insider sources at the Pentagon or something 🙂
and that there are more spies to be revealed…
tell them to fucking hurry up.
Chicago: the Stupid Experiment
I think a link went to spam.
When the Pope Came to America by Gary Corseri
The horrors keep trickling out:
The Return of MKULTRA? Evidence Mounts that Drugs Were Used on CIA “Ghost Detainees” During Coercive Interrogations
IIRC, somebody here linked to some stuff about raw milk. You might find this interesting:
#22:
I doff my Sociology hat for a moment to point out that often times those of us who blog may forget to contemplate our own classism and elitism, which is just as destructive a force as racism or economic disparities.
Uh, “doffing” means taking off. You “don” a hat when you put it on. I’m a fedora wearer, so I “don” hats many times a day.
My friends Merriam and Webster will vouch for me in this regard.
Are English not the first mangleuage for blawgers?
As for returning from the hospital with a “reformed viewpoint”: the only thing I learned from my recent hospital stay was that hospitals are cold, drafty, decidedly inhospitable places. And really, what cafeteria still feeds people Jell-O?
Madman @ #40:
So much for the theory that Canadians are saner than their Southern cousins. The first graf is the first of many hoots:
A team from the Ministry of Natural Resources had been watching Schmidt for months, shadowing him on his weekly runs to Toronto. Two officers had even infiltrated the farmer’s inner circle, obtaining for themselves samples of his product. Lab tests confirmed their suspicions. It was raw milk. The unpasteurized stuff. Now the time had come to take him down.
Put down the cookies and milk, and back away from the platter. I want to see hands! Get down! Down on the ground!
At least the Canadian cops didn’t shoot Mr. Schmidt 50 times and then execute his cows. I assume the cops hoof-printed the entire herd and took DNA samples of the milk so they can submit it to Interpol, in case the dairy farmer in question has been shipping his “white substance” internationally. My God, do you know they sell this “milk” stuff to SCHOOLCHILDREN?
Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children…
I hope they have Mr. Schmidt’s trial very soon. I can’t imagine the evidence room has a large refrigerated section. Or can you send a man to prison on the basis of curdled milk?
The second graf in #42 is my embellishment, not from the story. Sorry, medication mixed with coffee mixed with a sleepless night does not make for a coherent blog post.
I think they keep Jell-O in hospitals as it is literally the only safe thing in a dangerous place. From intake to streeting. ONLY trust the Jell-O
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BTW VL
glad to see you survived the hospital… 😉
Oh so silly when the god botherers start slap fighting with each other
Can you feel the godly love?
I personally have had nothing but great experiences with police — one even saved my life by waking us up to a fire he just happened to smell driving by until he found the apartment.
Even when I went to NY two years ago and gleefully ran through the subway turnstile without a ticket and was busted, the police were nice and let me off — I met a guy later that day who was taken to jail for the same thing. But I’ve been lucky so far.
#45–Thanks. Is there a hospital where you can recover from your stay in the hospital?
A Snapshot of Race in America
It’s weird that what little resistance in the media that manages to bubble up shows up in dramedy shows.
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well afaiac, it is all about money. With all of them but the tiny tiny number who UNHERALDED work the streets with the poor or in prisons with the utterly trapped.
The rest can die imo.
Still catching up here. NYCO, if you send me those kossack tidbits with links when you find them, I can post them at Mo Betta. It’s been slow over there and we could use some fun stuff. 😉 Click on my name for my e-mail address on my page.
Letters Give C.I.A. Tactics a Legal Rationale
So much for the theory that Canadians are saner than their Southern cousins.
You’ve definitely never heard that from me! 🙂
Hit the brakes! It’s wall to wall whackos! No escape!
Evening, all …
Tonight Bush is (once again) wowing the house at the Annual WH Correspondents’ Dinner, commenting on the absence of any of the presidential candidates:
“Senator McCain isn’t here this evening. It’s entirely understandable that he might want to distance himself from me a little bit. The Democratic candidates aren’t here, either. Senator Clinton couldn’t get into the building because of sniper fire, and Senator Obama’s at church.”
noom = Ender
On Friday, Ender remarks that he’s going to Florida.
http://politicalfleshfeast.com/showComment.do?commentId=88957
Well, I would love to do some “citizen journalism”, so to speak, for you, but unfortunately I am flying out to FL later today and got some work to do until then. Otherwise I’d be there.
The next Noom posts a diary about being in a cab in South Florida (something you might do after you get off a plane).
http://www.politicalfleshfeast.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2963
LOL McCain got off easy.
The other two got their scripts handed to them…
🙂
noom/Moon has always sounded so different, at least as I recall, from Ender.
BTW, I just read that diary of kraant’s on the Wright appearance. And notied that Donkeytale – in the thread – is now also pushing RELIGION.
Really an odd entity that one.
noom/Moon has always sounded so different, at least as I recall, from Ender
Pff isn’t a high traffic site.
OK let’s think logically
Ender and Noom both live in NYC
Ender and Noom both hate Arabs and support Israel
Ender is flying to Florida on Friday
Noom arrives in Florida on Saturday
WAT R the odds that on a site of 600 registered and maybe 20 active users that there would be two NYC dwelling Israel supporting assholes who just happen to be flying from NYC to Florida on the same day?
oh not saying it is not possible. I mean, what do I know.
The most I ever read Ender, actually, was at the Crossed Swords (or whatever euphemism as used) that Armando had. He always seemed wooden, stolid. Dull. Noom seems a lot more flexible.
Noom just seems a fucking nutter, pro Israel and whatever esle. So many reactionaries at PFF.
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Major Disarray has the best comment in that thread, in response to a mention of the Sky Fairy.
wow, kudos to Disarray… that is excellent.
FINALLY I hear something of value on SF ”Liberal” Radio… apparently, what a shock, record numbers of electrical shut offs for non pay.
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That’s why I so hope for a mild summer in North Texas. Elderly people in high crime areas can’t afford to run their air conditioners (if they even have them) and are afraid to leave their windows open at night. After a few days of 100-degree days and 90-degree nights, they start dying of heat exhaustion.
This is always the case, but this year it could be much worse.
hmm there seem to be some media scenarios developing. That easily could be one of them.
Of course we get heat waves in spurts, tho recent summers are warmer than years past. They are fairly efficient here distributing relief, fans, air conditions, iced water or opening various facilities if need be.
We’ll see. Loss of service to a home is just deadly. And the laws (or regs) regarding shut off of power, or so I have read, have gotten easier in some areas.
i remember that power outage in the summer of 96, and the rolling blackouts courtesy of enron in ’01. just for a day, it sucks but you can deal if you know how to take cold showers and stuff.
but getting your power cut for good is close to murder in places with infernally hot summers. ditto for cutting off the heat in the winter in cold climates.
Only a very sick society would require this:
When the Police Say, ‘Stop’
Not criticizing 100 Blacks … it’s just sick that it’s NECESSARY, and even more sick that no one feels the need to sit a bunch of suburban kids down like that.
hmmm .. well we know what the pattern is now. My guess when it happened, Bloomberg and Kelly both sighed with relief that two of the cops were black.
I just read today’s “the day after” NYT take on how it goes down in Queens. Very patronising. Basically, those little black people, they are SO grown up now! They understand nuance. The cop’s job is difficult. Things happen. We need to take care of our police. … what was that about overkill? Again?
I am not overstating the article.
And the most prominent black in the nation is very busy. As is the senator from NY. And the other one, touring poor, mostly black forgotten communities. Good for photo ops tho.
I did just finish reading a 1995 Chicago Reader article on his first run.
Marisacat, my Donkeytale theory is that Donkeytale is a corporate entity at this point: more than one person is using that name. Definitely a political operative, whether paid or unpaid. Definitely strange behavior, to say the least: went from being a total cynic to being an evangelist for Obama. Smells like a bait-and-switch to me.
Oh, and I don’t know that much about this Ender, but if Ender/noom/Moon are all one person with different writing styles, it’s also possible that person is a corporate entity. Even Kos doesn’t write everything with his own byline.
Everyone is familiar with the theory that a thousand monkeys typing randomly on a thousand typewriters for a thousand years would eventually produce “Hamlet”, right?
My theory is that Kos just has the one monkey with a laptop and posts its daily output.
Can we report this man for animal cruelty?
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Victor, I agree… when I reopened the threads last summer after shutting them for 3 weeks, I banned him. Calling him “paid astroturf”.
I had watched him thru a couple of blogs… Booman Tribune where he made himself a split personality hysteric of sorts, many screen names, etc… and at an alternative site he was invited to post at… I forget the site’s name by now. it shut, I think bedeviled by spammers and DoS attacks, again iirc.
I am not in favor of banning, but he established himself here as “fourtitz” iirc… and i felt we were headed for mayhem.
To watch him move to hard political driving (well of a sort) and now to push religion… gah.
Screw him.
Oh, and I don’t know that much about this Ender, but if Ender/noom/Moon are all one person with different writing styles
Same person.
Friday Ender casually mentions that he’s going to Florida.
http://politicalfleshfeast.com/showComment.do?commentId=88957
On Saturday Noom posts a diary in his usual on crack style saying that he was taking a cab in south Florida.
http://www.politicalfleshfeast.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2963
Both Noom and Ender have remarked in the past that they live in NYC. Ender leaves NYC on Friday with the intention of going to Florida and Noom posts a diary saying he was in a cab in South Florida the next day.
Remember, Ender just casually dropped that remark in a comment (and comments can’t be edited).
OF COURSE they’re the same person.
Now it’s possible that “Ender” is an open account the Hasbara e-mail list uses also or that they’re boyfriend and girlfriend or boyfriend and boyfriend but the idea that there are two belligerent, right wing pro Israel jerks out of 20 or 25 people who just happen to leave NYC and arrive in South Florida on the same day beggers credability.
And what it means is that Ender has never been banned on the Daily Kos. He’s got at least one confirmed sock puppet in Noom and probably more.
So much for the high and might talk about how “Shergold” was only banned because he/she used sockpuppets.
Everybody’s invited up to my place for drinks, say 3ish.
Watch your step, I haven’t gotten around to repairing the pathway in a while.
70 There is a coal industry group infesting the threads to A Siegel’s diaries at satan, ABEC I think it’s dkos name is, quite openly.
73. Didn’t Ender write a mea culpa diary at dkos and ask everybody to vote on whether he should be banned or not? Talk about special treatment.
Regardless of who he is or which name he posts under, he’s still boring.
Having a pain-filled weekend here. Must be my cheesecake deficiency acting up again.
George Bush put in his usual, dignified appearance at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night:
I saw video of that conducting performance and the jokes on the local NBC affiliate’s news program this morning. What this MSNBC story doesn’t mention is that the jokes about Billary and Obamarama produced audible groans of disapproval from the audience. The video I saw cut off the sound to obscure this fact, but they arose so spontaneously from the audience there was no way to completely obscure them without cutting off the end of Bush’s joke. Also, he looked and sounded very drunk. Between this and that ludicrous appearance on “Deal Or No Deal,” I’d say he’s given up even pretending he’s performing his duties as POTUS, and given himself over to self-indulgence for the remainder of his term.
Re sockpuppets, well, dKos has always been rotten with them. My favorite was the loser from Boston who not only used his multiple identities to rate up his own comments, but would actually respond to his own comments, carrying on a 3-way dialogue with himself. Someone who’d received one too many unjustified zeros from him finally complained, and sure enough, all 3 were found to be using the same IP address.
The mayor of Kabul survived yet another assassination attempt. It doesn’t seem like this one came all that close to killing him, but the fact that it could happen under what I presume were conditions of the highest security presence (an official celebration of the 16th anniversary of the fall of the old Communist regime) is alarming, to say the least.
Two comments in moderation/spam, I think.
A preview of Obama on FAUX:
Why are Dems so afraid to use their power? That reminds me of Begala’s quote about the way the Dem primaries are run – make sure everybody gets a trophy so you can look fair-minded. Well, when your country is falling apart and if you win back the WH, screw the trophies for the Repubs. They definitely don’t deserve any.
JJB out of moderation spam… Sorry! for the delay……….
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Why are Dems so afraid to use their power?
They’re both working for the same bosses, that’s why. Democrats don’t say “boo” without getting approval. Obama and Clinton and Pelosi and the rest of them know the rules and the limits.
And so the nation stumbles towards an election that nobody seems to really want and that will change nothing and confirm every worst fear we have about the disgraceful degeneration of American civic and political life.
Gin, Television, and Social Surplusa
Watching Wolfie and his panel discuss Reverend Wright. Stupid, stupid … tut-tutting over how Wright is hurting Obama. Doesn’t even occur to them that he might be doing it because Obama’s distancing HURT HIM w/ the African American community. Of course, the AA community doesn’t occur to them at all unless there is a violent crime involved.
Plainly the lower-than-expected turnout in Philadelphia in the AA community put a scare into them, and they need a big turnout in NC and in northern Indiana and in NC.
Anyway, all disgusted w/ Wright, but they LOVE them some Dubya at the correspondence dinner. They thought he was funny. They loved the conducting thing.
melvin … you’re nuts!
well “violent crime” in the AA community (and any crime that has a handy archived mug shot of the suspect) is, even more than normal, a rising scenario for the MSM cable. it seems to me that Chicago SOUTH SIDE issues are being nationally profiled with some regularity. They have had sprres of killings lately, but so have WE… and I don’t think we got the national profile that SS Chicago got… Daley did do a presser the other day, yelled and moaned and shook his finger at everyone…
All the R have to do is cue a string of R mayors and cooperating D mayors to signal High Concern about [increasing[] black crime… and whammo. We are there.
We have had a series of bad armed robberies in 7 or 8 Oakland restaurants, several men in hoodies walk into neighborhood establishments large enough to have collected some dinner time cash and they carry serious weapons. Reataurant till as well as individual customers are robbed. They have picked up a couple of suspects…
It’s being pointed out, in some cases by white media, that this got a much quicker response from Oakland cops (a famous bunch) than do killings in the poor neighborhoods. The big ol’ mean Oakland cops are famous for fading away from their jobs..
Its April now, they have the summer to build this. And it won’t even be noticeable as coverage creeps up.
ugh the sit com. Always hated them. And soap operas AND game shows. Knocked out a lot of TV but for news and forms of murder (always an interest!), in policier or other sorts of crime or spy shows, movies…
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I jsut tried again… (tried hours ago when you posted the link) and i get the page and your entry, but a big blank spot. I tried print friendly version, same thing. Big blank spot…
…?
here is the transcript to the, as Halperin calls it, newsless obama appearance on FOX.
The usual in two instances… Per Obama, the governmnet has the right to limit late term abortion (which is forbidden in Roe, they all make Roe seem like some radical permissive thing. It was not) in reference to ‘PBA”. Not to worry honey chile!. The SC banned ‘partial birth abortion’. An oftentimes MID term often preferred medical procedure.
Always a kind word the extreme moral conscience of the pro lifers.
Same old same old party bullshite.
The other CW he shoveled out, as parsed by EJ Dionne and Bob Speer: Martin was more “jarring” in his speech at Riverside Church than Wright. And that jarring language of Martin’s rose from the pain of the past.
BULLFUCKINGSHIT. Martin attacked the government as an entity that would further empire – and racist war for empire, SPECIFICALLY to cut people off at HOME.
IMO Wright winds up his middle class audience. Winds up the collection plate. Big difference. And another difference, I doubt Martin would have SOLD Obama from the pulpit as a “Black Liberator”. That was the thrust (and Wright used those words) of the big speech in Jan or Feb, the “ridin’ dirty” one. Who cares what he says about Bill and Hillary. But he sold Obama as a black liberator. Oh spare me.
What a waste it all is.
As EE gets on her high horse in the NYT to sell the lousy bullshtie medical plans. She pans the crap the media follows. When the fucking candidates get real, and they NEVER WILL, then blame media. I am sure EE has heard the same comments as in the The Hill article I posted. How the Dems in congress plan to do NOTHING about health care. A little more to SChip and basta.
Such slop they all lob. ALL OF THEM.
86. Pretty sure my favorite U.S. District Court Judge, Thelton Henderson, also (in addition to the CA prison medical system) has some sort of oversight over the OPD?
I’ve had this in storage for a bit (from last Oct), seems appropriate:
Still, he’s largely about hiring more cops as far as I can tell.
And the cop who tased 20 y/o Gary King Jr. [suspected of having info (?) p’haps being a suspect in a murder (? I forget which)], pulled his pants down in a scuffle on the sidwewalk, and as the kid ran away pulling up his pants was taken as ‘reaching for a weapon,’ shot him in the back, still patrols the streets
well I am not a fan of Dellums. For one thing, been around too long. And now he likely is going to play the swtich jobs to avoid term limiting out, the game they all play here.
He failed massively in the garbage strike last year. Unavailable to the media (and not forcing mediation between the parties, either), then he surfaces to do a standard play to the bedroom communities, a big slam at streetwalkers and a send up of the cops doing undercover. GMAFB. No word, at all on the suppurating strike.
THEN it surfaced both he and Barbara Lee had intervened in the past to assist Your Black Muslim Bakery. A thug organisation if ever there was one.
Dellums has given speeches and done walk ons for far too long.
possibly naive (?) but I can’t imagine MLK buying a million $ home. Collection plate or no, I was impressed by the passionate response of the Sept. 16 sermon Moyers showed.
Martin and Wright got very different retirement plans.
Interesting, I’d heard of police intervention/protection of YBMB, but not the political.
Speeches (some great ones in DC back in the day) & walkons. Yup.
93. the ‘jarring’ effect
88 — Are you using internet explorer? I forgot sometimes there is a problem between it, the blog, and videos.
Try here, maybe.
melvin
I used Mozilla Foxfire… I will try AOL… and your link… thanks.
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they both wrote letters, on official stationary, to the Bankruptcy Court, to the judge, advocating for YBMB and the family (cannot think of the name of the family at the moment).
Yes I heard of the cops fading from the scene if there was a whiff that violence or thuggery might be the work of YBMB.
Anti-war Cindy Sheehan files to take on Pelosi
Fuck Obama and his coddling of misogynist, homophobic superstitious nuts.
Saw “Standard Operating Procedure.”
It continually freaks me out that one of the torturers and I went to the same high school only a few years apart.
Why are Dems so afraid to use their power? They’re both working for the same bosses, that’s why.
Yes. The Republicans own the mall and man the upper level management positions. The Democrats are the customer service. It’s their job to make sure the difficult customers don’t complain too much and continue to spend money.
Or look at it in terms of an ISP. Ever work tech support for an ISP? You can only do so much for the poor sap on the other end of the line. If the systems engineer doens’t feel like logging onto the router until the next day, he’s screwed. But it’s your job to keep the customers from leaving.
Not much protest or outrage in the city over Sean Bell. I think the largest rally came to about 300.
73. Didn’t Ender write a mea culpa diary at dkos and ask everybody to vote on whether he should be banned or not? Talk about special treatment
Well the issue is that Hunter banned Shergold (and a whole crowd of other people) because Shergold was supposedly using sockpuppets.
But since Ender has now been outed as Noom, it’s also clear that Ender was never banned from the Daily Kos, that he’s allowed to harass Kos users with a belligerent, mananic abusively racist alter ego with no consequences at all.
And essentially it means Kos and the inner circle at Kos have some sort of a deal with Ender and Red State that they’re secretely allowed to harass Kos’s users (since “Noom’s” persona is obviously meant to intimidate “liberals” who work for non-profits, in the education sector, etc.)
I guess that Chevron money came at a price.
Obama throws Kos under the bus
I strongly defended some of my colleagues who had voted for him on the Daily Kos
Heh. It reads like Obama’s colleagues are actually voting ON the Daily Kos, maybe uprating pro John Robert’s posts or something.
‘Cuz Blacks Are Too Fuckin’ Broke To Be Republican
nuuu threddddddd…………………… 8)
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he’s an appeaser.
I hope it is a different bus than White Grannie got. She shouldn’t have to share tread marks with KosFreaks.
98. Bey, I believe.
that’s right, it is Bey. Thanks.