Drop in for a ride… if you dare. 14 May 2008
Posted by marisacat in Big Box Blogs, DC Politics, Democrats, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Political Blogs.trackback
it seems Mcat is a mighty scary place. Over and over, the last thing one dare do, is decline to fall for “any of the above”.
It really ticks people off.
I am not a refuge for people who are in endless, life altering (one must assume) rebound from being serially banned from any site where Armando hung out his tattered, then expired, shingle. There was a cadre of women who chased after Armando, begged for his email attention, some surprising names among them. I found it odd then, even odder as some of them cannot let go of beloved Armando, or Fernando, or Big Tent Democrat. Or poiuynick (think he got that one right). And have spent years beating up the landscape in their misery. I shared this privately in email with Miss Devore last year when she made an issue of herself, a rather too large display of her misplaced angst, for the first time. I declined to state it publicly. Then.
I am unsure who thought the political blogs would function as a hook-up service. It does not seem to have gone well.
So, as I was never in that number, it seems I am a “leatherneck lesbianic” and “KKK” gets strewn around my online name, along with whatever else Delaware Dem and his 2 inch henchboys missed throwing last year… largely, then as now, for eschewing the latest Dem party con. And dropping the vestiges of the old Armando fan base. And, of course, speaking bluntly..
The “shut up” brigades just grow and grow. It does not work with me…
It is a little, idiosyncratic blog, exactly what it always was. I use it to take my mind off other, bigger things and because I like to observe the political scene, for better or worse.. I always have done and won’t be stopping anytime soon (have a hankie). I am not interested in being “liked” or anything even remotely near that…
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UPDATE, 10:11 pm
Chosen by Gawddddddddddd... or he hopes KY will think so. I realise he is in a never ending bind over issues of being thought Muslim but I have long since come to the end with smarmy in your face religion. White, black or in between. i simply do not care. He’ll be pushing that Sysiphean pebble for the entire campaign.
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And last, for the ignorati, tho there is little real help I can offer, there is, however, this
Take your mind off of bigger things, gurl. Which would be?
I don’t make much specific reference to being ill, for one, if I am disinterested in the details and dismissive of a lot of the all too easy psychological mumbo jumbo and palaver around chronic illness, it would surely follow others are disinterested as well. Suffice to say that tho I leave it at, “under the weather today”, “not in the pink”, “sorry, not up to much today”… it is ”bigger” and ”other” than a tiny niche blog.
That is, as they say in the cartoons, The End.
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It is a little, idiosyncratic blog, exactly what it always was. I use it to take my mind off other, bigger things and because I like to observe the political scene, for better or worse.. I always have done and won’t be stopping anytime soon (have a hankie). I am not interested in being “liked” or anything even remotely near that
which is why it’s one of the few places I still bother with.
btw, the photo comes from this… LOL Colorado. West of the Mississippi.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU
Oh my God that is a great photograph.
I almost killed myself laughing.
Anyone else who should get off the boat NOW?
Some fo the stuff rolling around makes me wonder what is being said at sites like Democracy Alliance, and the various Obama outreach.
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I used it once before but had to go hunting for it… having not saved it ot the hard drive.
I’ll believe that he doesn’t need the so-called “jewish vote” when that corporate hack starts talking about the Palestians again.
I’m not holding my breath.
oops … “Palestinians”.
can’t type.
I think all of this is gibberish, trickling out as triumphalism is in charge. Remember, they intend to “remake the map”.
I’ll believe that he doesn’t need the so-called “jewish vote” when that corporate hack starts talking about the Palestians again.
Let’s face it, this isn’t only about the Palestinians and Israelis anymore. It’s about a regional conflict between the Shia and the Sunnis/USA/Israel.
Obama may pay lip service to the Israelis but what’s his view on dealing with the whole region?
Any sane president will try to hammer out some kind of regional peace plan that includes a two state solution for the Palestinians.
An insane one will plow full speed ahead towards a conflict with Iran.
How can one wonder what his plan is.
Wider war.
GWoT goes forth.
IMO he has picked his “blooding of the president” site. Even advertised it. Pakistan.
I was crying like a baby at my desk this afternoon:
Dujiangyan Parents’ Search for Child
All of our meaningless political postering seems so empty:
How can one wonder what his plan is.
Wider war.
After the 89987th article by Seymour Hersch predicting imminant war with Iran like at any second I suppose I’m a bit desensitized to the idea that there will be a war with Iran.
But you might be right.
Well there is scrabble babble and then there is…. Paul Street has been mentioning the issue of black incarceration rates, iirc the highest in the nation, for Iowa… and now has a full post on Iowa..
Oh, but, Baby he’s the One.
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where did I mention Iran?
Well, if there isn’t an October surprise Iran war, there may well be executions unless sane judges prevail.
where did I mention Iran?
Where do you think the wider war is going to begin?
it seems I am a “leatherneck lesbianic” and “KKK” gets strewn around my online name,
Boyz will be boyz. They’ve proven that repeatedly.
And I’m just here for the macaroons. Paging ms x.
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I named a country.
If you wish to read my mind, get in line.
IMO he has picked his “blooding of the president” site. Even advertised it. Pakistan.
Do you think Clinton or McCain is any less likely to (invade? bomb?) Pakistan?
Do you think Obama is any less likely than McCain or Hillary to attack Iran?
The problem is a lot of these ultimate decisions are made behind the scenes. There MAY be an enormous difference between all three behind the rah rah USA USA rhetoric.
But we have no way of knowing. I suppose if we had a real media interested in doing serious research into the advisors and donors of all three candidates, willing to read between the lines and look for small clues we could find out.
Obama would be a fool to bomb Pakistan’s hinterlands. Most US troops in Afghanistan are amassed right at the border. It would be a huge, bloody mess but he somehow seems to think it would be his version of a successful “shock & awe”.
If you want to play 20 questions sorry fella… not up for it.
And remember back a ways it ws YOU who asked if anyone else thought he was to be a front for AFRICOM.
Which I have always thought.
I ahve made it clear over and over, the agenda, either party, is for war.
Throw darts at a map of resources..
It would be a huge, bloody mess but he somehow seems to think it would be his version of a successful “shock & awe”.
What it actually reminds me of is Kerry’s endless blather about “blah blah blad we had the best troops etc. at Tora Bora” in 2004.
It sounds like something somone would say if he wants to talk out of both sides of his mouth, appeal to the anti-war crowd and yet act tough.
Personally I think any of the three is going to more or less keep the status quo and start chipping away at Iran with covert actions, low intensity war, sanctions, etc.
And remember back a ways it ws YOU who asked if anyone else thought he was to be a front for AFRICOM.
At some point he may but at what point do you simply not have the resources to do Pakistan, Sudan, Columbia, Iran, etc. etc.
I don’t see him moving troops out of Iraq. I don’t see anybody doing that.
I don’t see him moving troops out of Iraq. I don’t see anybody doing that.
Obama’s plan is to move them out to redploy them to Afghanistan for his “surge” there. I’m sure the troops will be thrilled.
Obama’s plan is to move them out to redploy them to Afghanistan for his “surge” there.
Right but that’s Kerry 2004 rhetoric designed to bullshit the voters.
Speaking of Dukakis*, he’s on Larry King’s show tonite. Nothing like pulling out old ghosts.
* someone was earlier…I have a headache…
Well within two weeks they had 65,000 troops if various kinds in NO, alone. Without a draft we inevitably move to sacrifice level of fodder, and/or paramilitaries.
The AF.
They will be increasing troops in Afghanistan, if only to point and say, WE are going after bin Laden. IMO.
I merely observe. the war machine is up and running, the arms merchants are tabulating the profits. Israel has moved to be a larger and larger share of global arms sales…
I don’t see any of this contracting. it should but it won’t… just as Iraq should be a withdrawal. it won’t be.
I have said all of this.
Right but that’s Kerry 2004 rhetoric designed to bullshit the voters.
All 3 of them have been talking about this surge in Afghanistan thinking, I suppose, that’s the “Good War” the public still supports but I have no doubt the redployments will happen. Canada (foolishly) extended its commitment to 2011 but that will most likely be the end of it unless the useless gov’t can somehow convince our public it will be a peacekeeping mission from then on. Good luck with that. The other NATO allies have been screaming for years for more troops. If the US doesn’t ante up, they’ll just leave. Does the US (including the Dems) really want 2 failed wars? (Not that I don’t think they’re already failed wars but the US polled public seems to still think otherwise.)
Well I’m going to go read some Hemingway.
And imagine I’m a bullfighter named “Armando”.
This country is a death cult. the campaign is just a contest for who gets to be High Priest.
There is always a way to make war.
Not the only proxy war we are running in Africa.
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wise move.
But the RNC convention should be exciting for you.. with Ron Paul on the scene again. Buck up, big days coming. Surely.
LOL Wrong again!
34. But the RNC convention should be exciting for you.. with Ron Paul on the scene again.
Hey, it’ll be exciting for me if Ron Paul (or anybody) stirs up shit there too. Certainly more exciting than watching them with their purple bandaids and flip-flops in 2004. Let’s hope it turns into an all out western, saloon-style brawl. Yeehaw.
35. That’s quite the intellectual discussion they have going there. snort
I expect the Dem convention will be the equivalent of a revival tent meeting this year with snake oil being sold on the convention floor. zzzzzzzz…
LOL whiplash suits to follow from this cycle of the Dem party squalor:
embedded links at Ben Smith. http://politico.com/blogs/bensmith
So, does Obama call men “sweetie” too?. Inquiring herbs want to know.
“sweetie” men in spam.
Ironic Headline du Jour – Bush: We must be firm in face of those who murder the innocent
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i feel like i’m right back in ‘99, stuck in a hong kong layover, trying frantically to read the online news and find out if my friends, students, apartment, neighborhood are even still there, after the 7.6 earthquake that happened while i was on vacation in – of all places – chengdu.
it’s such a wretched sense of impotence, to be able to see the faces of the grieving, and not be able to just reach out and hug them. earthquakes like that are terrible things, it just takes the world and wrecks it like a giant toying with the world.
like american presidents do the world, really.
i was looking at these, to be clear.
one irony here is that in these foothill towns, han and tibetan are buried, digging, and grieving together.
Residents: missile strike hits Pakistan village. Suspected missile strike hits Pakistan border village, about 12 people reported dead
U.S. Has Detained 2,500 Juveniles as Enemy Combatants
It seems the count of the dead is resilient to rising. Somehwere in the past two days I read what sounded like a very educated guess, that possibly over 18,000 are buried in one town. I assume an assessment made from thsoe concrete buildings that did not shake, but collapsed…, as they put it.
The numbers are staggering. The latest:
And the press is reporting now that anywhere from 1.5-2.5 million people in Burma have been affected by the cyclone, with the reported death toll at 34,000.
Here is why he met with the CEO of Chrysler:
Dingell’s wife. who [Dingell] has a lock on the automotive industry AND the NRA.
it’s a report on his two days in MI, at Politico. Anyone cares they can find it easily enough.
From the BAR link at comment 33
but but but it is so tough to make war… waaaaaaaaaaaaa. How can this beeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Obama talks tough on Detroit; Criticism of auto industry could make winning support an uphill battle
Whoops – he did it again.
The Detroit Free Press has a lot of Obama coverage.
it really is hard to grasp, as an american, the levels of population density in either the irawaddy delta or sichuan. the same earthquake in any part of america would affect a fraction of the the number of people, even if, as was in new orleans, it remains a wretched human tragedy. packing people in that close to a natural disaster makes the human cost mind boggling to an american eye.
i heard a geologist say possibly 150,000 dead in sichuan, and it felt right to me. thank god it didn’t center under chengdu itself, then it would be in the millions.
as a californian, just watching it all gives one pause, as this is the scale of the “big one” for both LA and SF.
and all that digging, as in taiwan, will be by hand, concrete block by concrete block. there is a certain tragic solidarity involved in such things, everyone nearby just pitches in as they can.
after it is over, there will be hell to pay, about the building codes. sichuanese are some of the most stubborn, tough people out there, and do not hesitate to go after the government with hammer and tongs when they feel wronged. perhaps one silver lining will be some attention paid to decent seismic building codes.
well ti sounds like the updated codes were simply ignored. Gotten around.
Yes I have read there is already, in the grief, rage at the authorities.
I suppose someone will be shot as was done with the issue of the tainted toys and other things.
here they don’t even step down. Much less justice.
53. sichuanese are some of the most stubborn, tough people out there, and do not hesitate to go after the government with hammer and tongs when they feel wronged.
That’s good to know. Do you still have friends/colleagues in the area hit, wu ming?
54. I suppose someone will be shot as was done with the issue of the tainted toys and other things.
Not exactly the “heckuva job, Brownie” approach.
… several someones would be my guess.
LOL
Jeremy Greenstalk is on with Charlie… and Charlie is confounded. For the umpteenth time, in the umpteenth way he is being told that both UK and US knew that Saddam did not have nuclear weapon.
Poor Charlie. Such a dumb rock.
So do I.
nope, my colleagues are from the east coat. but i was quite struck by sichuanese people during my times backpacking through there.
i thought it notable that a grassroots group opposed the construction of some nearby dam (not the 3 gorges) two years ago because it was on a fault line. notable, in that that group was out there and protesting some, even i they didn’t stop the dam. today, of course, it’s got huge cracks and may fail in weeks to come.
in the long run, china will have to find a way of accommodating civil society and grassroots hellraisers to keep its society/economy in balance. it’s just a critical part of any functional system, and way easier than just executing party officials when the predictable happens.
just from a pragmatic perspective, a loosening can’t be all that far off.
“Sweetie” is a bad habit of his. he says.
60. Good to know you don’t know anyone directly affected but I understand what it’s like to feel for the people in a place you’ve been to, regardless.
it’s just a critical part of any functional system, and way easier than just executing party officials when the predictable happens.
I really don’t know where the Chinese gov’t is headed but it seems to me that executions are the easier choice at this point, unfortunately. They still seem to be awfully effective at stifling dissent.
I wonder how many O supporters could pass this quiz.
I save “sweetie” for my cats and grandherbs.
Another Dem bites the dust in a scandal.
a bit of a round up piece on the SSM ruling, which is due tomorrow at 10 am
Misogyny I Won’t Miss
No Rebates For You.
Life is hard:
34. But the RNC convention should be exciting for you.. with Ron Paul on the scene again.
The blimp sailed off into the sunset months ago.
Just curious. Is “Miss Devore” banned here or not?
A subtext I don’t think people are getting with the heartrending photos and stories of the Chinese parents looking for their buried children is China’s one-child policy. I don’t know if it’s still really in effect, but I have read quotes from parents saying “my only child is gone…”
Is Miss Devore banned here?
The amount of drama taking place between Obama and Clinton supporters (and people who claim to be neither) seems a bit silly to me.
But I guess I’m not getting it.
that’s a good point, NYCO. as if it weren’t horrible enough…
Does Obama need the jewish vote? Is Obama pandering to jewish voters? Gosh, beats me.
Two of HCfM out of moderation…
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As to your question, LOL I gather you did not read Donkeytale diary…he’ll be hurt.
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LOL smithee
It would seem Barack is conflicted… perhaps some daisy petal pulling while going back and forth,
Do I love the Jews
Do I not love the Jews…
(or the reverse)
Who knows….
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SSM in the CA SC
The ban has been struck down.
here’s a story i didn’t see reported at duncan black’s blaggh. online donks fuck over independent media for “hope”.
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I laughed when all of this began rolling out… I guess a few days ago…
Some groups indicate they are immune to the BO dictate.
one would suppose obama would welcome attacks against mccain. maybe he doesn’t trust the nutroots. or perhaps he’ll end up controlling the message while spending december ‘08 at the beach. wonder if he’ll be appearing at yearlykos?
well months ago… it was before Edwards dropped out, I posted here that Obama was asked, if you are complaining (and he was) about Edwards third party groups, how do you plan to fight McCain in the fall… it was a voter at a Q&A
he asnwered that he hoped he and McCain could come to an agreement as to what was “permissable”.
I laughed my head off then — and now.
And of course right now the R are generating headlines about “Woe is us! We failed FAILED! with our third try to bracket Obama with Wright based ads… we MUST, simply must rethink”.
More and more it seems to me obamaRama is revving up for a runway show… and not a hell bent for leather race. And that would be so strange for the Dems. You know so strong!
I think the nutroots is the least of it. Apparently he considers a lot of those groups too aligned to Clinton.
Then of course he could be more than a usual case subversive… perhaps a Trojan Horse bearing cruise missiles.
Since it is all grist for the mill… and I don’t care what happens, in any real way, to Obama, his run or the pathetic party:
Popcorn!
79. California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban
Good stuff.
Yeah California!!!!
When it rains it pours:
Neo-cons still running the show, with help from Sheldon Adelson. Beware false flag incidents!
http://www.politicalfleshfeast.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3251
I must say, that PFF donkeytale thread is the most idiotic diaglogue I can remember reading on a political website, a very large statement indeed.
John McCain has apparently decided that insisting on an open-ended commitment to war in Iraq is a bad idea:
Needless to say, lots of other wonderful things will happen too as long as he’s elected President.
I think when Kristol advances (?) to the NYT and Rove has a regular column in Newsqueak… the Neocons are not and likely will not be gone.
LOL some pinched and frantic faces appearing to denounce the ruling…
what a hoot!
Think I’m in moderation.
bay
Jsut saw this from Ambinder, an Atlantic article. It seems rather opaque on what Obama plans to do. Othr than “harness” the power of the web. ?? Or, Ambinder declines to say much that is clear…
JJB out of moderation! Sorry….
wilfred…
the foundational basis for the ruling is the right to form a family.
Fantastic!
Has Obama ever posted on DK? I think he knows better actually.
One of the comments in that link I posted w/r/t McCain’s rosy predictions of what four years of his presidency will bring says “Will there be flying cars by then?” That’s about all there is to say, really.
obama should take advantage of a media group with 60 million dollars thats distanced from his campaign. mccain could, and should, be swift boated if for no other reason than to let the opposition enjoy some of their own medicine. i read a story which stated that somewhere in the bowels of washington, (and vietnam i would assume) are 31 some odd propaganda films he made for the vietnamese condemning american foreign policy during his captivity. i’ve read elsewhere that mccain didnt lose one aircraft, he lost five, and had a bad reputation among his fellow pilots.
i’ve also read that that that the shoot down that led to his captivity occured after a bombing run, during daylight, that was a strike against a light bulb factory in which most of the production positions were held by women. i read they were working that day and the strike was successful.
obama going to sit on that? well hello president mccain!
Obama religious pics: I hadn’t noticed at first glance but he seems to be standing in front of a stained-glass black Jesus giving a black power-type salute who’s wearing a Lance Armstrong bracelet.
Not quite sure who the targeted audience is there.
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Obama won’t do anything about the bombing run. At all. Where are the calls for his medical reports?
You know Obama only declines support for “dumb” wars. And so many loved Kerry and his salute! Who stayed longer in one village to make sure he and his buddy destroyed the rice stores. A bit of flaming rice hit his arm.. and that was a purple heart. (No I did not get that from the swift boaters, hold the emails)
Oh no … the fellow running for pretzeldent who wishes to ignore Pakistan borders will nto be calling out that sick old garrulous fool on his bombing run. Not as we fund the bombers of today.
94 – yes he did after the Alito appointment & got jumped upon by legions of pwoggies.
94. Has Obama ever posted on DK?
Yes – and he was rejected and denounced.
Needless to say, lots of other wonderful things will happen too as long as he’s elected President.
Will everybody get a pony? That’s what I want to know.
100 – jinx
lucid, if you get a pony from McCain, can I go for a little ride?
anytime catnip… but what if I get a pony from buhdydrahma?
he did a diary in 05. I had been banned so I posted at LSF and BMT…
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/10/1/231846/501
RecordKeeper comment, near the bottom is absolutely on target.
that was a fantastic ruling, very clear and broadly written. i don ‘t think the right can roll it back this november. i think we’ve beat them.
104. Just say no to faux ponies. Yell louder!
catnip:
Paging ms x.
I’m in the yard digging up violet seedlings/offshoots for a plant swap this weekend. Apparently I’ve missed another huge eruption in Blogland, yes ?
As I keep telling people, I’m not getting into protracted fisticuffs, verbal or otherwise, over Obama or Clinton or anyone this time. I meet a lot of people in Blogland who have very admirable qualities. I will never meet Obama or Clinton and do not concern myself with their qualities;I figure their very status up near the top of the food chain is testimony enough to the fact that they can’t have very many things happening that I’d admire.
Here. Everyone grow some damn violets and sit in the shade drinking some ice water and just relax, awready.
108. What-evah! I just want macaroons. Hand ‘em over! (please?)
And I’d be out planting violets if I was sure we wouldn’t get more fucking snow and if I wasn’t moving in a month. So there!
(love ya)
I’m not seeing any macaroons coming my way yet…hint hint. Pony up!
CREW and VoteVets release email telling VA staff to “refrain from giving a diagnosis of PTSD straight out”
How outrageous – refusing to properly diagnose vets because the VA doesn’t have the time to do the testing. They obviously don’t understand that PTSD can be a matter of life and death if it’s not properly diagnosed and treated. Unbelievable.
Sorry, catnip. I blew all the macaroon money on slug beer and tickets to Was (Not Was). I posted it to my homepage, so don’t act like I led you all on or something. :p
112. I’ll forgive you – this time.
Slugs drink beer?
Biden blows a gasket – again. Let’s play Who’s the Best Zionist?
my slugs never responded to beer.
And the salt routine I just never tried. What I finally did… and thankfully there seem to be few to none the last few years.. was collect them, each into a baggie and dropped into the big outside garbage bin.
I use the slug control method described here. A single-serving yogurt container, with its cover, is a great beer bath for slugs. But you have to be diligent and change the beer a lot. Don’t like poisons, and the iron oxide (non-toxic) pellets never seemed to work as well as the beer does.
Oh, okay. That kind of slug beer. I’ve only seen a few slugs in my many gardening adventures so they haven’t been an issue.
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