War consumes peace 13 June 2008
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Lie Down Fall Down Dems, WAR!.trackback
At the Bastille in Paris, 2000: Vassili Gerello as Napoleon in War and Peace – directed by Francesca Zambello – Co production Opera National de Paris with San Francisco War Memorial Opera [photo: Ken Howard]
hmm Could be wrong, but I think our ”listener” is going to pick a War Man for his No 2, tho in two interviews with Webb recently, it does sound as though Webb does not want it… Or, LOL, the pro-life Catholic Kaine… whose state was said to be cranking up the execution process following a 15 day moratorium, the minute the SC ruling came down… cannot catch up to TX, but he can try…
Obviously there were never going to be 10 unmoderated Town Hall events… Obama would not be giving McCain such beneficial exposure, but what it has fallen to, an added debate to the usual three presidential debates (all moderated to death, I would guess) and now a SINGLE Town Hall on low viewership July 4, is a fucking joke. Obama, imo, needs to be less of whiner and start ACE-ING stuff. Basically, this is discussing the wedding gown, the catering and the photographer, forever.
Yes, the proposed NYC event McCain went ahead and held at Federal Hall was packed with cronies and supporters… what a shock. So was Obama’s stump style gaming of his Great Race Speech. Cronies, supporters and friendly black clerics – a far cry from JFK’s speech to anti-papists in Texas…
I’ll admit one of the flash backs I get often, lately, is of Clinton announcing that his FOB McLarty, chief of Arkla, would be his Chief of Staff. And he announced it with visible tears in his eyes. What a fucking mistake. And a joke. On us all.
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A couple of comments from the end of the last thread that languished in Moderation (the Evil Filter God of the Blogs):
He’s on a roll.
“There are some fantastic quotations, in particular the unctuous Keith Olberman, a gussied-up sportscaster whose sanctimonious monologues on the depredations of the Bush years get passed around liberal Netrootsia as if they’re utterances straight out of the Nazarene mouth. Lordy.”
Sweet Jebbus, I wish I could write like that.
“voluntary evacuation of downtown Des Moines”
Well at least some one thought “to secure consecrated hosts.”
AMEN.
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and…..
hey 97! i wonder if booman realizes that is that if conley victory holds, his progressive netroots just suffered a defeat. at least in the sense that cone is often seen posting in the atrios threads and seems liked and probably should be counted as a progressive.
and this is a little snapshot of who defeated the progressive, from the booman link
…But, assuming Conley wins, we’ll have another candidate that falls roughly into the Cazayoux/Childers mold. …
:::snip:::
Conley, a North Myrtle Beach Democrat who voted for Ron Paul in South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary, says he believes his opposition to abortion rights, belief in marriage between a man and a woman and opposition to illegal immigration strike the right chord for voters here.
“I can grab a significant portion of the pie that would otherwise not vote Democrat,” he said in a recent interview.
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Conley refers to likely GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain as “Juan McCain,” for advocating last year’s failed immigration bill that would have provided a path to citizenship…
whats really in play here is the same old southern “populism”.
The general idea seems to be that some progressive agenda can be effected in the south, sidestepping and not confronting Neo-Confederacy. This is despite the historical record of biracial coalitions in the 1890s and the Virginia Readjusters in the 1870s being defeated by Neo-Confederacy.
Part of this is because some white progressives in the south may think they are the most advanced thing, but they never have left the plantation. The abandonment of Green Party congressional candidate, Vanderbilt University mathematics professor and African American Jonathan Farley to the Neo-Confederate wolves in Nashville, Tennessee after Farley criticized the Confederate tradition, reveals the Green Party to be the white party after all. This is not a unique event with some progressive elements in the south who time and time reveal themselves to be good sons and daughters of the Confederacy. Being prisoners of a Confederate identity, they can not effectively advance a progressive politics. Banal white nationalism short circuits progressive politics all too often.
Outside the South this reactionary complex, the Confederate-identified South, is not comprehended as what it is. There might be some comments about conservatives in the south, but the Confederate nationalist South as the origin of these reactionary politics is not comprehended. When the Confederacy is brought up, it is seen as an obstacle to prying few a few loose Southern electoral votes and congressional seats from the Republican party.
Given the economic status of the south and the average income, it should be the bastion of the Democratic Party, in fact the left wing of the Democratic Party, instead of the Right wing of the Republican Party. This was perceived by Howard Dean, former 2004 Democratic presidential candidate in his statement about having economic issues as the politics to get the votes of the guys with the Confederate flags. This statement both shows what Dean understands and what he doesn’t understand at all. It is the very Confederate flag which represents a view that the holder’s interests are ultimately their white skin and a privileged position in society as a white man versus gays, minorities, feminists, immigrants, and others. The Confederate tradition is the anti-democratic tradition and short circuits the politics of class.
There will not be a sustained progressive politics in the South or in the nation as a whole as long as there is a Confederate nation within the American nation. If there is to be a secure basis of democratic politics in America this must be understood.
However, we have not understood this, and so we find ourselves today in a nation rapidly becoming the Confederate States of America.
make your bed boys, and lay in it. the big stinking tent of the new southern strategy is knocking on your door.
***close of bay’s comment***
Bingo!. And, what i always say, we are still in post Civil War Reconstruction. The years go by, but it and The Confederacy stay on.
Speaking of the Confederacy and how it extends beyond the South, just heard on the radio that Russert died. Apparently Drudge has the story, such as it is. Collapsed and succumbed. Whatever will NBC do, I ask you.
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Come to think of it, what will Carville and Matalin do without Le Russert.
No need to watch MTP, it will be total lugubrious wake.
From Hedda Drudge…
Russert, 58, was vacationing with his family in Italy, he returned last night. Collapsed while recording a track at bureau in DC… More…
Here is what the NY Times has:
I guess that means we won’t be getting any Super Important Questions such as “What is your favorite Bible verse?” in the debates this fall.
“[A] towering figure in American journalism,” indeed. Actually, his journalistic credentials were remarkably slim even for this era. He never worked as a “journalist,” per se (i.e., never worked at a newspaper or magazine), he had a job as a Moynihan staffer and then went directly into TV news.
Wikipedia, never letting moss grow on a no-longer rolling stone, has the following:
Russert was a very useful tool that the war criminals who ruled us employed to funnel their propaganda. He wasn’t their only loudspeaker, but certainly was one of their most effective ones. About the only difference between Russert and Guckert/Gannon is that the former was slightly less transparent, and made a lot more money, the latter factor raising the question as to which one prostituted himself more egregiously.
RIP, and tant pis.
Hey, if Wonkette has got it, it must be true. refreshin’ (F5′ing) google news
What ?, what ?, I’m bein’ too offensive. Not proper enough… well too fucking bad. I’ve buried friends, parents and lovers. I have no tolerance for our national worship of the dead.
Is “tant pis” french for “too fucking bad” ??? (catch as catch can 1-12 education… deal with it
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Is “tant pis” french for . . .
Kind of. It means “too bad,” but with an unspoken element of “so what?” I guess it’s pretty close to the English expression the French might translate as “merde de fers” (sorry to be so vague, but I’m typing this at work, it’s a two word phrase the first of which is “tough” ).
To be honest I always thought the Bushies/Rovians put Gannon Guckert in the WH press corps to laugh at the so called legitimate press. That’s how it seemed to me.
No need for reverence for Russert, he will get it in buckets from the DC crap heap. The Catholic hierarchy, the pols, the insiders, the thieves and so on. I always feel I don’t have time to be reverential, of that sort… LOL. Life is too short…
Both CNN and MSNBC are in full-out Ford-style weeping and wailing. Is it bad that I smiled when the news came over NPR? I cannot give words to the relief that this Presidential campaign will be Timmeh free.
Too bad your Invisible Catholic Daddy isn’t there Timmeh, you apologist for bigotry and warmongering, and good fucking riddance.
LOL Short is best (via Ambinder)
John McCain:
“I am very saddened by Tim Russert’s sudden death. Cindy and I extend our thoughts and prayers to the Russert family as they cope with this shocking loss and remember the life and legacy of a loving father, husband and the preeminent political journalist of his generation. He was truly a great American who loved his family, his friends, his Buffalo Bills, and everything about politics and America. He was just a terrific guy. I was proud to call him a friend, and in the coming days, we will pay tribute to a life whose contributions to us all will long endure.”
Barack Obama:
We all I think have heard the news about Tim Russert. Ive known Tim Russert since I first spoke at the convention in 2004. He’s somebody who overtime I came to consider not only a journalist but a friend. There wasnt a better interviewer in TV, not a more thoughtful analyst of our politics and he was also one of the finest men I knew. Somebody who cared about America, cared about the issues, cared about family. I am griefstricken with the loss and my thoughts and prayers go out to his family. And I hope that even though Tim is irreplaceable that the standard that he set in his professional life and his family life are standards that we all carry with us in our own lives.”
Former vice president Al Gore:
The US and the world have a lost a great journalist, interviewer and author. He was an original and will be greatly missed
Moral
Be a booster.
I cannot give words to the relief that this Presidential campaign will be Timmeh free.
Too true…
and part of the drippiness is that Lordy! Cry to the Heavens, he died TWO DAYS BEFORE FATHER”S DAY.
We are juveniles.
I had to flip to Star Trek reruns. Suzanne Malveux reminiscing about how he was her “rabbi” and called her “kiddo” was all I could take.
You watching Voyager too?
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thank the great cactus that I checked in here first — I was about to turn on the TV for a few before we went off to a baseball game with the family….
shit. I hope that Timmeh’s demise is not a focus of tonight’s — usually tolerable/ignorable after a few draft beers on the Home Run porch — faux patriotic uberbullshit that accompanies baseball games in USALand….
At least they have fireworks on Friday nights…
hell, at this point I’ll take my little pleasures where I can, ya know?
12 – yup!
Killing some time before tonight’s Aimee Mann concert.
“merde de fers”
Hmm, hard, iron, tough…shit. Yeah, sure, I can see that. “Tough Shit” = “Too Fuckin’ Bad”.
“It means “too bad,” but with an unspoken element of “so what?” Oh yeah, ya know that “so what” slides (translates) so easy into “fuckin”. Well to my mind, anyway.
LOL, the silly season has made me silly.
BTW, for those that can’t do anything but believe… I’m so goin’ to hell.
“preeminent political journalist” , “not a more thoughtful analyst of our politics”, “I am griefstricken with the loss”
Bein’ stuck in a room with that man would be hell. No Exit. May he find his petty, pearly white redemption in the arms of his violent, misogynist god.
“Shit of iron”? Wow… that’s pretty funny.
I like the Brit expression “Hard cheese”.
In this country I’ve heard “Tough darts” – not quite sure what that means.
My favorite version of that expression is “Tough titty, said the kittty”, which would be a great motto for Ms. MCat
BTW, I’m shedding no tears for Russert – not that I hated him or anything, but he was never what I would call a giant of journalism.
The last TV news guy I really mourned was Frank Reynolds. But I was a kid back then.
oh the dripiness is to die over.
I have on KGO radio… which has suddenly dedicated two hours to Russert and “remembering our dads”. ?????????
we are called to honor Tim. WTF?
WTF? I have real problems with the expected reverence for anyone at all these days. Like Russert was a meld of Jefferson, Adams and Washington. I don’t wnat to “revere” them either…
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H-RH … yeah “tough tittie kittie …” is a good one. Think at some point I used it as a post title… LOL
Ambinder:
An unbelievable shock; this city will all but shut down over the next few days, so vital was he to its voice. I did not know him personally, but I know many people who did and they are devastated; passionate about politics and his integrity, he nurtured so many careers and is responsible for so many innovations in modern political journalism. He was, for everything that people may they know about about him, much more of a creature of Buffalo than a denizen of Washington. Above all, an unbelievable father to Luke and a loyal, devoted husband to Maureen Orth. A life marvelously well lived.
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LOL w hat can you do but laugh? Aha! “innovations”, he was then an INVENTOR. So he was Benjamin Franklin as well.
How did i miss it?
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glad the concert did not washout…
well, as we all know America is the most exceptional place on Earth, so anybody who climbs to the top of our very bloody heap must be extra special, super-dooper, ultisimo exceptional themselves … some kind of combined embodiment of a founding father, davey crocket and babe ruth, all wrapped up in a church-going expensive suit!
All with a sweet cherry pie center.
The really pathetic thing about all of this is how much it reveals the outsized regard those in the media have for themselves:
Timmeh was special.
We knew and learned from Timmeh.
Ergo … we’re special!
Ugh.
19 – It’s being held at an old Opera House, the Pabst Theater, that they restored several years ago. I hear it’s a good place to see a show, this will be the first I’ve seen there. It’s about the same era as the Beacon in NYC. They have three old houses that that non-profit has restored: the Riverside, Pabst and and the Turner Hall Ballroom.
Can you tell I’m excited? I last saw Aimee at the Town Hall several years ago. She is very entertaining.
Milwaukee is actually a pretty good place to live for live music.
Flags in Buffalo will fly at half mast.
Oh surely in DC and at the Vatican too?
re#20 urgho!
I was glad to hear you’re relatively dry, madman — here in Austin we’re working on our 15th day of 3-digit temps. Not normal even here in June and yet the TV is full of the terrible “heatwave” back east….
Where’s Amiee Mann playing?
apropos of absolutely nothing…I LOVE Friday the 13ths. Was bron on a Sunday, but have had excellent b’day on on Fridays — 15, 21, another one or two in there somewhere — the next one is next year, and I cannot WAIT.
It’s the Saturday the 14ths that scare me…. not.
I live right downtown, which was fairly untouched. There are other parts of the city where there are problems, and several of the suburbs are a mess. We’re coming into festival season here, so a lot of effort goes into cleaning up downtown tout de suite. They actually had street sweepers out last night at midnight clearing debris that was getting washed into the sewers so that the roads wouldn’t get flooded.
“he nurtured so many careers”
Oh, I bet he did just that. Quite the little kingmaker.
Oh Marc. What? Did you think when other reporters refered to Timmah as “bigfoot” they was talkin’ ’bout somethin’ else. It’s too late to drop to your knees and open your mouth. Too bad, so sad.
hmmm BAR has an article on the hidden story of the new DTV era. Sounds like a wasteland, frankly. Compared to what it could be…
btw Brinn, if you’re already melting down there, what are you going to do in August?!?!
The weather is beautiful here, but it’s wasted on me. I’m in a foul mood. Don’t ask. I’d will it to you unfortunates if I only could.
A friend sent me another damn Olberman clip. All it did was make my three days-running headache worse. I emailed my friend and begged him to never do that again.
Blecch. >:
29 – It’s all of the LaRouche you read ms_x! Talk to mr_x about some fine, cool, refreshing Obamaide and that foul mood will dry up and blow away like a hairy-legged-women’s-study professor’s unused womb!
Anyway, I’ll probably check in after listening to some wonderful songs of heartbreak and human disfunction! Have fun.
I bought fresh tomatoes at the Farmer’s Market for tonight’s supper, Madman.
After I’m dead, you’ll be sorry you were so mean to me.
[sulk]
Oh, I just can’t wait til Sunday!
Seek Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesuhs! He knows all saves all.
Well maybe not ALL.
hmm I just scammed this from Stan Goff’s blog:
Chris Hedges in the Asia Times:
6.9 North of Tokyo… 240 miles N, they say….
18. “I did not know him personally [...] Above all, an unbelievable father to Luke and a loyal, devoted husband to Maureen Orth.”
Hmph. In my day, the griefstricken impassioned eulogies were given by people who actually KNEW the deceased. You know – in person.
Now, in our era of Cheap Tawdry Media Histrionics, anyone with a microphone or a keyboard can leap into the shrieking mob of professional mourners and do the rending-garments/tearing-hair thing.
22, MCat – LOL!!
30, Madman-
foul mood will dry up and blow away like a hairy-legged-women’s-study professor’s unused womb!
LOL! Good one.
33. Oh nice, Mcjoan’s going to rehabilitate the archetypal symbol of White Manliness. Why am I not surprised?
What an edgy “gatecrasher” she is.
What a gusher of a day. NBC is virtually an altar… Please Jesus let it be over by Monday………
Re lucid from last thread: I was told Rage was representing with original lineup indeed. I am not really familiar with their oeuvre personally.
Tough Darts was also a seventies noo yawk punk band of some stripe.
Feels like an october evening here, very lovely
they seem very anxious to tell us that Russert was ”deeply devoted” to Maureen Orth.
He must have been schtuping somebody in DC, pretty publicly.
More hairline fissures appearing in Dem-Feminist-land ?
Within five comments, somebody’s already swearing to vote McKinney.
Hmmm…
omigod.
Sally Quinn on NBC saying it is ”like when Jack Kennedy died”. She is totally rambling keeps calling Tim “Quinn” Williams tried to stop her but she KEPT GOING>>. LOL
I wonder if she is drunk…
EVERYBODY STOP!
Stop drinking ?!?!
But I haven’t even started yet !!
[sulk x 2]
Never mind Timmeh’s ascent unto paradise. After seeing Obama’s donation directive pass largely uncriticized, I’m more interested in his latest move: “all ur DNC iz belong to me.”
If they expect to get any lunch money, they’ll damn sure be unified now.
Thanks for the warnings, everybody. Otherwise I might have turned on the tee-vee or looked at dKos.
Now I can just go make some Costa Rican coffee and find a book instead.
oh i noticed his squirrelly donation scam… AND the DNC is ME routine.
I think it stinks to hell. All of it.
The Clintons drained the DNC… and my guess is the parties who prop up obama will too. Wearing crosses, supporting Israel and being as big thieves as all the rest.
40- funny, that was my thought too.
42 –
Wow, Sally Quinn is still alive?? I’m so glad I’m missing all of this. The only TV I’ve watched today is some golf coverage.
Sports, old movies, and a few kids’ shows are the only things worth watching on TV. And even then, not often.
Pro-choice feminists voting for McCain???? Where is this preposterous crap coming from?
One interesting note, when I got home, Brian Williams, Pete Williams, and someone else whose name didn’t register with me (a woman) were going on and on about Timmeh, and I found it very interesting that Tweety “Blueballs” Matthews wasn’t with them. It came out last year that Tweety hates Timmeh, no doubt because he’d more successfully ass-kissed his way to the Press The Meet gig. I imagine there were a few champagne corks popped Chez Tweety this evening. One man’s death is another man’s career opportunity, after all.
49 – well, frankly, I thought Tweety and Timmeh were interchangeable. They both have that stodgy roundfaced beady-eyed whiteboy look that goes so well with priestly raiment and Nazi uniforms.
Oh my goodness, I do believe I’ve found the motherlode of appropriate imagery for this very solemn occasion.
IB
oh that is truly on target. Pumpkinhead.
And Good Luck Jamie Wyeth… LOL the third one down in the wheeled basket wtih some serous “reach out” is too special for words…..
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oh I can see Tweety seriously thinking he can now have Russert’s [bigger better paid higher profile] job. Ludicrous fat faced boy child, Catholic, Hill experience..twins, in love with “Dad”… yeah sure why not.
LOL
Learned of Timmeh’s demise this afternoon when I overheard the owner of a tiny second-hand clothing shop calling her mother to tell her, so as to break the news gently. I was probably less shocked by the heart attack report than by the ten minutes of telephone praise and consolation by an ordinary human that followed.
Never fancied Timmeh as much of a Peter, myself. Au contraire.
LOL one of the call ins to KGO this afternoon said “we should be comforted that he had just completed a wonderful family trip to italy, and that the son had just graduated from Boston U, so this was a peak time of his life”.
you wonder, do these people have families, of their own? Or what?
Tweety’s in Paris. KO interviewed him. I decided to have a nap instead of watching the rest of KO’s ridiculous bloviations – “No home town was ever more proud of a native son…” (puhlease). Then when I woke up and flipped on the teevee agin, it was KO’s rerun! Ugh! You’d think G*d died. Seriously.
Jamie Wyeth’s site, with bio. (His grandpa was pretty terrific, too, but his dad’s stuff always left me cold.)
56 – Obviously the gaggle is going whole hog.
(BTW – sympathies re packing. Excellent bumper sticker results!)
Well, here’s my eulogy: “Tim Russert – slightly less creepy than Dr Phil. R.I.P.”
57 – I admired NC greatly but I never got on the Andrew/Jamie bandwagon.
There were very talented women painters in the Wyeth family but few have ever heard about them.
58 – Have to disagree. Dr. Phil may be a snake-oil mindfucker, but Russert was an out-and-out war ghoul.
Ugh… I went to Dkos just for the hell of it, and what is atop the rec list but a diary touting the failed cholesterol hypothesis for this saint of media’s young demise… followed by a whole lot of media brainwashed commenters going on about how they all really need to lower their cholesterol, despite the fact that all long term studies show no correlation between serum cholesterol and heart disease… and the fact that all of those same studies show low saturated fat intake and cholesterol correlate with a higher all cause death rate [namely cancer]… Why did I even try?
Then there’s this piece of tripe. My favorite quotes:
and
I threw up a little in my mouth at that last quote…
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Enjoying the pumpkins, thanks IB.
LOL the third one down in the wheeled basket wtih some serous “reach out” is too special for words…..
Here’s a better look at Mischief Night
57. (BTW – sympathies re packing. Excellent bumper sticker results!)
Thanks.
It’s not like I have a houseful of stuff after so many moves over the years into smaller and smaller spaces, but my book collection is out of control. Lots on investment there though – picked up many first editions, autographed, rare, old and quirky books along the way with the idea of selling them eventually. There’s no way I’m moving them all again so selling them is my summer project.
I also have enough wool to clothe Liechtenstein but crocheting is more of a fall/winter hobby.
who are these people.
The Clown Act in the circus, that is hwat the Sunday media is. And they weep and tear their cloithing and plot their own cholesterol charts.
Nothing left to say………….
59 – Ha! Thanks for the link. Count me among the previously unfamiliar.
I do like some of Jamie’s work, though. It’s sufficiently twisted. Check out this one from 1965: Draft Age.
62 – a massive void in American journalism
I thought that was what his career was devoted to creating.
66 – some of the paintings of both Jamie and Andrew are OK but they all have the flat, spiritless look of paintings done from photographs. They may not have actually painted from photographs – maybe their eyes just work that way.
It’s like a visual form of Asperger’s syndrome.
Forgot to add – in terms of film, Spielberg has the same problem – technically fine, but when it comes to emotion and humanity, zilch. Lights on, nobody home.
moiv – Very welcome. Thank you for all the recent updates on Freddy Haynes, the taped-up silent generation, and the McCain astroturf point system, among other matters!
66. It’s sufficiently twisted.
That one’s really interesting.
The Wyeths remind me, or their paintings make me think, of draughtsman work. To a high level, but eliciting a mixed reaction for painting. Something Durer can do as well… tho his paintings I like.
Nothing especially wrong with it tho Wyeth paintings of people definitely don’t draw me in……
And Jamie seems he could drift over to evoking horror, almost a Gothic feel to some of it. Comic horror as well… Some of thsoe pumpkins are ready to bleed… or draw blood. LOL
The Clown Act in the circus, that is hwat the Sunday media is.
This Sunday’s going to be intolerable as they try to cover his death from absolutely every angle. Glad I’ve got something else to do.
72 – Durer is one of my faves. I agree about the draughtsmanlike work, but unlike the Wyeths, his portraits do have life to them, for example, this one. He communicates the sense of an actual human being.
In contrast, the (younger) Wyeths seem to be painting mannequins.
It’s like a visual form of Asperger’s syndrome.
Definitely agree regarding Andrew.
Shout out to NYCee, a couple of threads back. It was the blue and green skin tone inclusions at the Lucas Learning site that made me post it.
BTW – Really liked what you said about the Boxing of Obama a couple threads before that. Topiary hedging. Snip, snip.
And shout-out to ms. x – Mistress of the elegant, angular smileys – much appreciation for the recent links to (gasp) female blogospheric discontent. Plus, your recent remarks to the Hair-Trigger Flinger of La Brea have caused me stitches.
(PS – Please tell me somebody laughed at the papal tampons.)
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Some people are candidates of our two major parties, others rob banks. It takes a certain disposition. Not being suited to at least one of these callings, it just seems too mysterious to me why anybody wouldn’t just let the dead be. The deceased are just that: deceased. They’re not going to endorse anybody.
What a laughable practice to try to ingratiate oneself with a corpse.
Love Dürer.
And yeah, I think it’s the admittedly restrained (yet, explosively under pressure) Gothic angle to Jamie’s work that makes (much, not all of) it come alive for me. The brushwork in the animal studies especially, loosens up.
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Oh, yeah, you better believe I saved those Ratzy Tampax. No way that visual ain’t gonna come in handy sooner or later. Besides, they make such a great companion piece for Mcat’s portrait of him with a green condom drooping off the end of his nose like a wizened cucumber.
jesus how did I miss he Ratzy tampax. Glad I caught up…
I am really sorry that when I landed on Ratzy with the condom off his nose I did nto note where I found it… same with the devilish colored cartoon of him with the seductive Lamb of God on his shoulders.
I will say htat when I want pic/imagery of the pope I do best using papa as part of search terms…
You cannot beat the Italians for getting the whole picture. LOL Not just cartoons but wonderfully editorialisd photos of (well nto ratzy yet, not enough time) of JP!! and the cardinali
Here si a laugh… someone kindly sent me commetns from Sthief at PffterPoofter saying i went Too Far in my commentary agaisnt the Pope and The Church.
That pruple and pink closet he is in must have a big ol’ crucifix as the key to the lock.
it’s days like this i am glad i don’t have a teevee.
it is unsurprising that the talking head/politico congealing fuckball would get this way about russert, but my mind is blown to see netrootsia parroting them. my god, will they unironically rehabilitate tweety next?
i suppose i could fathom saying a polite RIP in passing, but i cannot grasp the words “serious journalism” and “tim russert” in the same paragraph, much less sentence.
hmm… interesting… yet more intrusion of my heretical views into the ‘progressive’ talk radio sphere. Jeff Farias recently had Christine Maggiore & Henry Bauer on his radio show. The interview appears at about an hour 28 in and lasts 30 minutes.
For those that don’t know, Christine is the founder of Alive and well, an AIDS dissident support and advocacy group that was highlighted by Celia Farber in Spin circa 1997, and to be honest, one of the people seriously got me into the issue. I had several e-mail exchanges with her around the Durban AIDS conference in 2000, as someone who was then a true believer, and the scientific literature she took the time to send for my review vastly changed my opinion. Christine has been HIV positive for almost 17 years. And while she started out as an AIDS ‘educator’, when she had several more tests that turned up negative, indeterminate and positive, she began to question what she was told. She’s since had two children with midwives. After the death of her daugher 3 years ago from a toxic reaction to amoxicillan she was pilloried in the press despite the fact that both her husband and other child test negative. LA county still won’t release any test indicating her daughter was HIV positive, the coroner in question is under investigation for criminal fraud, and LA county dismissed all of the trumped up child negligence charges against her. She has been a warrior for HIV positive pregnant women who don’t want either themselves or their children to be put through a system that rigorously denies their rights & calls child protective services if their children are too healthy.
Henry Bauer is a professor emritus of Chemistry from Virginia Tech and in retirement runs a little wordpress blog. He recently wrote a lovely book that destroys the HIV hypothesis from every angle.
Sorry… OT, but if I start going on cholesterol, you know where it’s going to end up.
btw – it’s the radio show from June 12.
Oh no, mustn’t criticize Ill Papa.
It constantly surprises me that we are supposed to be afraid of backward fundamentalist Muslims, but we must say nothing critical about a society ruled by misogynist men who glide around in long skirts and have pledged to never marry or have sex (with women, anyway). That’s perfectly OK.
HRH – don’t you know that sex is evil? Particularly with women? I mean, they’re bloody and ‘natural’ and all… and I’ve heard rumors that if they stand up for their rights, they’re hairy too!
He must have been schtuping somebody in DC, pretty publicly.
Gannon?
Anyway, Aimee was good, but not fantastic. It was a pretty short set, and it felt a little phoned in. Some good parts, though, and a wonderful cover of Elton John’s “My Father’s Gun” from “Tumbleweed Connection”.
Another promoted mystery, that all muslims, all people within a nominally muslim country are observant.
The hard core are all in competition wiht each other. One reason we have so damned much trouble in the world.
Probably the most tedious thing about Russert, at least since his big genuflction to Big Russ… is how he only valued men. Whoever was married to Big Russ was a broom. Basically. Or a pot on the stove. So my guess he only valued Maureen for her income. A mere vessal.
I heard again today, one of his sound clips letting it sound like HIS plane, that he piloted, went down in WW2. Uh no. He ws on a transport to R+R, it crashed.
Oh, and the Pabst is wonderful. Beautiful old intimate little opera house. Great acoustics, wonderful sightlines.
Uh-oh … the Tennessee Dems might be the first to lose their lunch money.
Not that it would ruin my week if Lincoln Davis (DFLA-TN) had to skip a couple of schoolburgers . . .
From a dating site, I remotely check into… Since when are M&M’s and Twister the finer things in life… I’d rewrite that as ‘I like a good bottle of Bordeaux at a bar while I’m getting wasted and talking politics, good chocolates optional’.
Just for fairness, mine reads thus:
Prolly why no one ever contacts me…
M&Ms remind me of being a child. And I fully admit that in a certain mood when I went thru the chekc out in markets, past candy and tabloids and batteries and magazines… I might grab a small bag, for that reason.
But nothing to claim it’s the good life.
Christine Craft on KGO radio is just tearing into Russert… wham. bam. Tearing at him for his interviw of Bush and of Cheney…
and the calls and emails (she is reading them and laughing) are just going out of their minds. LOL
davefromqueens: McCain’s Town Hall Was A Farce, I Was There.
She read some quotes from Koppel that he made on Larry King tonight, gently taking issue with the slobberation today for Russert and Russerteriana style of “tough interview”…
LOL
Naomi Klein is up at The Nation: Obama’s Chicago Boys
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and ti would be little and staged if ObamRama met up with McCain. But he is DUCKING it as he is chicken. And burned from ABC, the April 22 (think that was the date) “debate”.
Chickens should come out and play..
Play now or get played later. Later will be more entertaining and more lethal. So … I can wait.
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LOL I posted that CNBC quote she opens with here, when he gave that interview.
Luv it.
Lovely pics from VietNamNet: Early lotus
Mcat – I was obsessed with candy when a child. My parents own a summer home adjacent to a Missouri Synod Lutheran summer camp. I spent all my youthful summers there. Great beach, beautiful nature – the north woods in the northern part of the LP in Michigan, right on Lake Michigan.
In that poem a while back that I posted some line about swinging for the end of the pier… I think I might have only posted it here [if you remember and could remind me of when it was, I think it might have been a keeper]… But from that swingset, looking out over the wreck of a boat from a century before, watching beautiful sunsets, and feeling all ‘atoned’, at the end of the summer, I would go over the registry in my head of the candy I would stock up on before I left. Beacuse that was a time that candy was allowed. I had maybe $10 that my parents would let me spend on candy at the end of the summer… a couple packs of skittles, some chocolate bars, miscellaneous gum and hard candy – the obligatory $1 worth of Tootsie Rolls… I would calculate and register my list, while pumping my legs toward the sunset.
And that is all I thought about in that beautiful, lonely space – that place for illumination, revelation and epiphany… the candy I needed to buy.
Charlie Rose came on… LOL wiht Al Hunt who is usually pre orgasmic for obamaRama but tonight is performing neck-rophila [Terry Southern used that.. LOL] on Russert.
Whata bunch.
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if I can find it with an easy search of your comments tomorrow will email it to you………………………….
Oh yeah, kid stuff. Twister wasn’t my bag, but I fondly remember eating a huge bag of M&Ms while watching Planet of the Apes on TV – the ABC Movie of the Week or some such. Great movie, even with commercial interruptions (which were much less frequent and intrusive than they are now, you young whippersnappers).
There are dark chocolate M&Ms now, in a purple bag, that are quite good.
lucid – I’ve met you, and I think your descriptor fits you well.
OK here’s a fun parlor game – make up your own internet dating blurb! Here’s mine:
Come on, everyone, kick in your version.
99 – I’m old enough to remember penny candy. At the place we went in the summertime, I would ride my banana-seat bike down to the general store and come back with a small brown paper bag full of goodies – jawbreakers, Mary Janes, rock crystal sugar on a string – a Sugar Daddy if I wanted to splurge. Then I’d take the haul back to our little shack to swing in the hammock and eat while listening to ABBA on my transistor radio.
My son asked the other day, “Mom, did you have iPods when you were a kid?”
No son, we had vinyl, and it sounded way better…
If I ever have a kid, I’ll do my best to get them to appreciate audio fidelity… Prolly by following in the footsteps of my folks and encouraging them to play instruments from the earliest of ages.
The seating was staged.
93. Say it ain’t so! And while you’re at it, get more white people for Michelle.
102. I saw all of the Planet of the Apes movies when they came out in the local theatre. I posted a pic from Beneath the Planet of the Apes to go along with a post a couple of years ago. I wrote a note about it at the bottom.
Haven’t seen the remakes.
No desire whatsoever to post an internet dating blurb. I’m more content being single.
LC – my blurb is the anti-date… which is why I am single.
I just find it humorous reading ‘what’s out there’ when I occasionally log into the site on which I set up a profile a couple years ago [especially when I'm matched with 5 stars so inappropriately]… And I wanted to make sure that everyone knew I was also an object for ridicule… because my blurb is preposterous also.
104. Prolly by following in the footsteps of my folks and encouraging them to play instruments from the earliest of ages.
I wanted to learn drums but my mother made me play the violin. At least the road trips with the youth orchestra were fun. I also tried the oboe and took guitar and piano lessons. Oh – and we learned how to play the ukelele in school. Bunch of Tiny Tims that we were.
106. Well, it’s obviously preposterous that you don’t have good taste in chocolate.
HRH – you’re right, it is indeed what I am… I refuse to lie in such ventures… or most any venture for that matter. If one doesn’t want that, I ain’t gonna pretend to be something else, ‘cos I’m OK on my own, as lonely and boring as that can be.
LC I’d rather eat Verkade dark from the early ’80’s. No filling, no Roco Baroque, just damn good dark chocolate. I would buy a bar for 50 cents in Belgium in 1980.
Please don’t insult my tastes…
That should be Rococo Baroque.
the higher the cacao the better… 70 80 percent…
damn good anti-oxidant at those levels… high cocao chocolate is on par with berries for its health benefits.
new thread………………….. Does the pope pull a train… LOL
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My eulogy for Russert: Wow, a guy we saw on TV every day died. Just dropped dead. How brief is life, how unexpected our ends! His family must be really sad, especially with Father’s Day coming up. Oh well.