Because… 30 August 2008
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, DC Politics, Democrats, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, The Battle for New Orleans.trackback
the electorate is good and wise (you had not noticed???) – I am trusting them to work it out between the Black Guy with the Old Guy, and the Old Guy with the Chirpy Cheery. I have done nothing but laugh, chuckle and yes, snicker, since Palin entered. What a hoot.
Stuff is sliding around, stuff is up in the air… and that is not a bad thing.
After so many years of foolishly worrying about the Democrats (and they never worred about me), could they make it. Could they win. If they won, could they hold on. Would/could that Democrat over there not cave (wow that was useless endeavor!, LOL). Would this Democrat not be such a fucking Republican (wow that was dumb of me!)… and so on!
Once I realised they can’t help their nature (is it nature or is it nurture, with the Democrats it is BOTH!, LOL) what a relief… like great shards of someone else’s bleeding flesh falling from my shoulders.
So, go at it candidates. Bleed for all I care.. in fact please do, in prime time and under klieg lights. No tourniquets for you creeps!
The ONLY thing I will say for the Clintons is that they fought back in ’92, they did. I loved it, the day that Hillary dropped a comment to a camera crew, as she was walking, that GHW had “his own Jennifer” and then cheerily let the media take over. They HAD to tell the story… now it was out there. Bill and Hill could street fight, and she was happy to deliver the blow…
I am going to catch Miss Cindy in all her SW x Southern white glory on This Week.. it strikes me a wrinkle in the flow of events. Maybe sending a signal under the easy to see noise…
And I will catch the first ever! with them both! interview on 60 Minutes with O’Biden… see if they can complete each other’s sentences, and chew gum.
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for Gustav [and Hanna] info, thanks to aemd previous thread:
For Gustav’s path, check with Jeff Masters, a hard core weather geek. He loves him some hurricanes.
and from bayprairie:
AND, NOLA.COM
Which currently carries this headline:
Nagin: Flee ‘mother of all storms’
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The Caymans felt its force on Friday night, with storm surges and heavy rain flooding. People took refuge in government shelters and there were no reports of injuries. [AP via BBC]
The storm had earlier killed more than 80 people when it swept through the Caribbean. [AP via BBC]
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1. ms_xeno -
30 August 2008
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EXTRA: Cat Proclaims Collage To Be “Not As Exciting As Torturing A Half-Dead Mouse !!!111”
😀 Stolen from here, the Kris Garland interview. Lots of eye candy. Alas none of it’s mine.
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2. Arcturus -
30 August 2008
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well, being against the death penalty ‘n such, I say give ’em the tourniquet – knowing full well what its use means: amputation – let ’em learn the living meaning ‘n cost of an arm & a leg
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3. Arcturus -
30 August 2008
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Malik Rahim was on KPFA yesterday – the despair & determination in his voice was palpable – he’s w/ Common Ground & also a GP candidate for Congress – from the CG site:
We of Common Ground Relief are asking that you all remain aware. Aware that the potential for history to repeat in response to disaster or really to anything. Also not forget during this time of remembrances. New Orleans has still not been rebuilt, and the progress is slow. The levees are only 20% completed and millions of dollars over budget. The coastal areas which include First Nation and other small towns and Vietnamese and Cajun fishing villages; these people are still in disrepair and vulnerable due to major wetlands loss of human cause.
We at Common Ground are making preparations to again be first responders through out most any region in the Gulf. We will need people, material aid and ways to keep the story visible. We have some supplies and coordination to mobilize quickly and efficiently but we also need you. We are monitoring the situation, preparing ourselves and others to be ready to act should it be necessary.
Stay alert and prepared to support those in the Gulf Coast if necessary. It is we–in civil society–and those affected directly who will face the real needs head on. Governments and large bureaucratic agencies will raise money, will do little and often will not do it well.
There are many small grassroots groups throughout the region that will need support. Find them, and do what you can from your home with what you have access to.
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4. lucid -
30 August 2008
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LOL – from the NOLA.com comments
Posted by Millionaire2 on 08/30/08 at 10:38PM
I make these comments with the most sincere intentions: There was a Decadence Festival about to take place in New Orleans in 2005… then came Hurricane Katrina. There is another Decadence Festival approaching, and here comes Hurrican Gustav. I am a firm believer in the wrath of “GOD”. God is tired of all the sin and corruption that takes place in New Orleans, and he is sending his “WRATH” and “ANGER” upon New Orleans because of it. Remember Sodom and Gomorah in the Bible: God destroyed an entire city because of Homosexuality. Until we turn away from this, it will only get worse until there is no city to visit anymore. You can agree or disagree, but I believe that the Political Corruption, killings, stealing and sin has caused GOD to pass his judgment on New Orleans. We must PRAY and turn our attention back towards Him and ask for forgiveness.
Pick up a shovel and bury me deep… I’m embarrassed yet again to be a human being.
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5. Arcturus -
30 August 2008
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fwiw, prisoners in CA (& presumable elsewhere) have been known to ferment shit & urine, then throw it on a guard – they call it ‘gassing’ – never heard of it in protests, but the cops are obseesed by the idea this year – read somewhere one well-trumpeted container that was seized in Denver turned out to be coffee w/ cream . . .
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6. Arcturus -
30 August 2008
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found this amusing, as a lightbulb dimly begins to glow . . .
Kim TallBear, via angyrindian:
On May 19 at Crow Agency, Mont., Barack Obama received a Crow name that translates as ”One who helps people throughout the land” [Indian Country Today, Vol. 27, Iss. 51]. He then committed, if president, to fulfill tribal treaty obligations: a fitting promise for a candidate who has the ”audacity of hope.”
Does Obama understand the enormity of his promise? Fulfilling treaty commitments will entail legal and material remedies that the majority of Americans will be unwilling to accept – especially the renegotiation of title to vast tracts of land, including the Black Hills, and tremendous financial commitments. . .
The ideology of exceptionalism, which Obama shares with McCain and with many Americans – both liberal and conservative – informs his broader platform. He preaches exceptionalism alongside a mantra of democracy and inclusiveness.
Obama talks often about the ”greatness” and ”goodness” of the U.S. He pledges to restore the American dream, and he claims that ”in no other country on Earth is [his] story even possible.” As if other nations don’t have histories of colonialism, immigration and racial diversity. As if social and economic mobility is uniquely American.
Sustaining the ideology of ”the American dream” requires the down-playing of social and political change in other countries, and the elevation of economic prosperity – however gotten – above other types of prosperity.
American exceptionalism requires that the truths and experiences of the very constituents Obama seeks to enfranchise – the politically and economically disempowered – be painted as non-fundamental to the history, character and prosperity of the U.S. Their contradictory experiences get downplayed or silenced in favor of the grand narrative, and progress gets interpreted not as humane social action and hard political work but as the inevitable outcome of inherent U.S. American righteousness.
This is simply inaccurate. Certainly there are nations that don’t do as well as the U.S. on multiple counts. On the other hand, other nations have already elected women presidents or indigenous presidents. Other nations ended slavery before the U.S., or never engaged in it at all. Other nations already offer national health care, empower labor, regulate lending institutions, and protect the environment.
No other nation in the world imprisons the proportion or the sheer number of human beings that we do. A disproportionate number are black, Hispanic and American Indian. No other nation has detonated a nuclear weapon in war killing tens of thousands of civilians.
The tired story of American exceptionalism does not jive with our knowledge of world affairs and how foundational dispossession, exploitation and violence have been to the rise of U.S. power and prosperity. Such aspects of U.S. history are not the exceptions that betray the true democratic soul of the U.S. As much as the feel-good events, these are integral to the American story and how we developed as a powerful nation
(yes, this is how I ‘spell’ procrastination’ – laters)
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7. liberalcatnip -
30 August 2008
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Check out the juxtaposition of these 2 Time covers on the same page. Rather cosmic (or not), I’d say.
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8. marisacat -
30 August 2008
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9. lucid -
30 August 2008
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This is going to be terrible – regardless of whether or not the fed/state/local entities have pulled their heads from their asses – which I’m sure they haven’t. Current tracking, the strongest part of the storm will be brushing west NO, not to mention devastating [again] the entire Mississippi delta – and this one will be hitting Baton Rouge as well.
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10. liberalcatnip -
30 August 2008
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Website maps surnames worldwide
I imagine the Bush surname will begin overwhelming Paraguay early next year.
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11. marisacat -
30 August 2008
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12. ms_xeno -
30 August 2008
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#8: David was a nothing little hurricane that brushed NJ when I was a kid. I still remember how scared we were, hunkered down in the house hearing all that. We lost two trees and had a couple of cracked windows. That was all.
I can’t comprehend this, either. It’s impossible, even looking at the earlier storms and knowing what’s coming.
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13. lucid -
31 August 2008
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They’re selling vibrators on television… on Ovation. Why am I having a disconnect?
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14. baypraire -
31 August 2008
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#8: David was a nothing little hurricane that brushed NJ when I was a kid. I still remember how scared we were, hunkered down in the house hearing all that. We lost two trees and had a couple of cracked windows. That was all.
thats the insane thing about hurricanes. you never know. you cant rate them by intensity. in june of 2001 a little tropical depression named allision rolled over freeport texas and ended up hovering over northeast houston and froze before moving south to the gulf and then eastward to lousiana. it wasnt anything as far as storms go, only 50 mile per hour winds, but just went motionless and dumped between 18 to 35 inches of rain, depending on location and completely flooded houston. you just cant tell about these storms. they’re tornados or strong winds or unceasing rain or all of the above. they’ll predict a monsoon and you won’t get a drop, or they’ll say its hardly anything and it’ll fucking drown you on the second floor of your home with the storm surge.
its nothing but the most horrid kind of competely random event rolled up inside bad fucking weather.
hurricanes scare the shit out of me. i’ll never get over the fear. and this one is bad. it looks to me like its the worst in a long long time. -
15. lucid -
31 August 2008
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Yet Janet Jackson’s tit is a national scandal… and any dick shown in a movie immediately gets an NC17?
I don’t fucking understand this country.
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16. lucid -
31 August 2008
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Bay – I concur – wherever it makes landfall. It is going out into the gulf with 135 mile per hour winds, which will only strengthen. It is going to devastate anything in its path. And though it is not yet as wide as Katrina, it could get there. And there are 4 major tropical depressions behind it, all of which could develop as strongly.
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17. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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18. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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19. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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20. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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21. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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22. aemd -
31 August 2008
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23. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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Gustav, set to hit the US Gulf Coast on Monday, was described by Mayor Ray Nagin as “the storm of the century”.
Umm…??
Gotta love the Brits. Caption underneath the video:
Mayor Ray Nagin used emotive language to announce the evacuation
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24. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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25. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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26. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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27. ms_xeno -
31 August 2008
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Too bad McCain couldn’t find a woman with no children. Then everyone could have denigrated her as a withered-up automaton out of touch w/Real America [tm], or whatever.
If you’re female in this culture, you just can’t win. Whatever you do is going to be wrong, and millions of people you don’t know will be falling all over themselves to tell you why.
I’m sure Palin is Not A Nice Person, but this shit is so predictable. Mommy is always Doing It Wrong, SAHM or at wage work. Unmommy is always Doing It Wrong, if she want kids or if she doesn’t.
Feh.
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28. ms_xeno -
31 August 2008
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bayprairie, #14:
…its nothing but the most horrid kind of competely random event rolled up inside bad fucking weather…
But don’t worry. They’ll be plenty of assholes ready to blame the dead and injured, alllllllll over again, for being poor and/or not clairvoyant. Or, as Arcturus points out, for coddling those darn Sodomites again. [fans self]
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29. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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30. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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31. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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32. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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So-called “progressives” in action.
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33. wilfred -
31 August 2008
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Wow, what a morning. Gustav ready to slam Louisiana while Hannah ramps up and heads toward Florida.
R’s possibly doing a telethon on Monday and Bush will only address via video. They’re turning chicken shit into chicken salad, smart.
Thanks for the links on Palin AEMD. The most interesting thing was not about the baby that was just born but that Palin’s 16 year old daughter is possibly in her 2nd trimester. That one will be pretty interesting if it’s indeed true. The other thing in that link that I want to verify is that Palin was unemployed for 3 years between being Wasilla mayor and being Governor. She had no job between 2003 and 2006?
The most scary thing to me this morning was on Matthews: Sarah Palin only got her first passport last year for a trip to Kuwait!
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34. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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35. wilfred -
31 August 2008
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ugh, Cokie bloviating on Steffie just now:
“The hurricane is about to hit my hometown which is right on the brink of a remarkable recovery”
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36. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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33. R’s possibly doing a telethon on Monday and Bush will only address via video. They’re turning chicken shit into chicken salad, smart.
I don’t necessarily agree. Doing a telethon will look cheesy (not to mention guilt-ridden). And Bush appearing via video might make him look like he’s presidentin’ to his base but, afaic, it’ll look more like he’s hiding.
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37. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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38. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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39. wilfred -
31 August 2008
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I suggst enforced gynocological exams for all female members of the palin family. We can accept no less.
I suggest someone vet of our VP’s when neither McCain nor the MSM seems capable.
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40. wilfred -
31 August 2008
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LOL, read that one too about the brother and the sister. Funny how the wingers on both ends sound like each other, that was a pure RedState/Limbaugh kind of comment.
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41. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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42. wilfred -
31 August 2008
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Weather Channel just reported that there are 2 more systems now forming behind Gustav and Hannah.
The Atlantic/Caribbean corridor is turning into a hurricane bowling alley.
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43. wilfred -
31 August 2008
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MSM is not vetting Biden either.. and frankly who cares?
They should vet all 4 of them thoroughly.
Who cares? Hopefully everyone who suffered under 8 years of an under-vetted George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
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44. CSTAR -
31 August 2008
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Little is said by anybody and certianly nothing by either major political party, of the Cubans, who on top of a cruel embargo, suffer through most of the hurricanes. Obama has no intention of easing this embargo — I was going to say useless embargo, but obviously it’s of use to somebody.
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45. wilfred -
31 August 2008
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Oh Jeez, Nagin on CNN and he’s going to town on Looters of all things. “You will go directly to Angola prison” and he said it 3 times. What a colossal asshole.
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46. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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47. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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48. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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49. lucid -
31 August 2008
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That Nagin presser was a pisser… ‘you will go directly to the big house’. Asshole doesn’t even begin to describe.
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50. CSTAR -
31 August 2008
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The comments on the Palin (non)pregnancy thread are incredible:
This is about the credibility of the potential leader of the free world.Leader of the free world. That’s another phrase which urgently needs deconstruction.
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51. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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52. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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6 – too bad Obama was talking out his ass.
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53. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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via Crooks & Liars: Blackwater Gearing Up for Hurricane Gustav
Blackwater Worldwide is currently seeking qualified law enforcement officers and security personnel to potentially deploy to provide security in the possible aftermath of Hurricane Gustav. This is the first time Blackwater has mobilized under its controversial Homeland Security contracts. Blackwater did deploy security personnel to assist New Orleans in wake of Hurricane Katrina and this resulted in great controversy since it was the first time a private military corporation had deployed on US soil.
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54. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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29 – good call.
McCain, Palin team up as Hurricane Gustav looms
ST LOUIS (Reuters) – White House hopeful John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin hit the campaign trail as a team on Saturday, seeking to build on the momentum of her surprise addition to the Republican ticket even as Hurricane Gustav threatened to overshadow next week’s party convention.
The Arizona senator and Alaska governor will fly to Mississippi on Sunday to view preparations for the hurricane, adding a last-minute trip in an effort to contrast their would-be administration with President George W. Bush’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina three years ago.
The two candidates will visit a storm command center in Jackson, a spokeswoman said.
Forecasts showed Gustav could come ashore as a powerful storm in Louisiana by late Monday or early Tuesday.
McCain told a rally in Washington, Pennsylvania, he was keeping the people in the Gulf Coast in his prayers and said in a taped interview that the convention could be postponed.
“It just wouldn’t be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural disaster,” he told Fox News.
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55. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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That shit about the baby makes me sick. Did anybody demand paternity tests from John Edwards when he ran for veep. “After all, those two kids are awful young, and don’t you think it’s weird that they’d have kids after their horrible tragedy blah blah blah …”
Think we would have heard those questions if EE had been on the ticket?
Me too.
This country is so fucked in how it treats women.
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56. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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Who scrubbed Wikipedia’s entry for Sarah Palin just before nom announcement?
Someone — and apparently it was just one person — felt like the existing biography wasn’t appropriate for a vice-presidential candidate. On Friday, 15 minutes before the rumor that John McCain had picked Palin as his running mate, a Wikipedia editor discovered 30 mostly favorable changes had been made to the Alaska governor’s profile.
She was called “a politician of eye-popping integrity” and sections on her participation in a beauty pageant and her alleged use of influence to get her former brother-in-law fired were diminished.
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57. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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58. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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The suprising and pathetic ways racism rears it’s ugly head in this country:
William English called the City of Milwaukee in February about his neighborhood’s potholes, but no one showed for 37 days. English lives on N. 33rd St. in a predominantly minority neighborhood, where cracks and cavities took weeks to fill this year.
A statistical analysis by the Journal Sentinel found that the larger the minority population in a neighborhood, the longer it took city crews to fix potholes. Potholes in mostly minority census tracts took an average of 11 days to repair, while potholes in mostly white census tracts took seven days.
Potholes are not the most serious problem plaguing Milwaukee. But the city’s many pockmarked streets can harm the quality of life for those commuting to work and force unfortunate drivers to shell out hundreds of dollars to repair damage to their vehicle.
What’s more, potholes and how the city responds to them are as close as many people come to watching local government in action.
City officials say they set priorities based on several factors. A top concern is keeping heavily traveled roads safe for drivers. But the Journal Sentinel found that major roads on the north, such as Silver Spring Drive and Hampton Ave., were fixed more slowly than less traveled residential streets farther south.
The Journal Sentinel discovered the disparity in service by reviewing a city database of more than 11,000 pothole repair locations from January to mid-July. Hundreds of repairs took longer than a month from the time a complaint was logged.
An analysis of pothole fixes in the city also found:
• Residents who live on or north of Capitol Drive waited the longest for pothole repairs. It took crews an average of 14 days to fix potholes on or north of Capitol Drive, where more than three-fourths of census tracts are predominantly minority. But to the south, where 56% of census tracts are majority white, repairs took about six days – even for twice as many potholes.
Considering that the JS is part of the winger noise machine here, and that it often pushes stories about how criminal/dirty/lazy minority parts of town are, seeing this story was a surprise.
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59. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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60. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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Slap him in stirrups too.
They might find his head up his ass.
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61. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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62. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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the NOLA front page is overwhelming.
So sad to watch a great, historic city be allowed to die. Cokie can’t see that “being on the VERGE of recovery” after all this time is a CRIME?
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63. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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64. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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65. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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Cheney will be AWOL from the convention now too. Hiding in his Nebraska bunker, no doubt.
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66. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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67. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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68. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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Obama is coming to Milwaukee tomorrow. Local activists are trying to fill the Marcus Amphitheater, which 25,000.
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69. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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70. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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71. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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72. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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oops, try this link instead.
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73. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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74. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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75. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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76. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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77. CSTAR -
31 August 2008
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# 73 I used to live in Laranjeiras — it’s to the left about 2 km from picture #2 in that series. At the end of our street was a small favela (under 20000 — the big ones such as Rocinha have around 200,000) — several times the street we lived on was closed as “police” (called PM policia militar) with helicopters, small tanks and other armored cars raided the favela “in searrh of drug dealers” at the end of the street, Of course at the time, the biggest criminal gang was the PM itself, and it was hunting down its rivals that were taking away business.
I guess not a whole lot has changed.
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78. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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Millimeter wave scan machine at Denver Airport
I snapped this photo of a passive millimeter wave scan machine set up in the main entrance hall at Denver International Airport on Friday evening. The machine was swiveling back and forth, searching people who didn’t even know they were being scanned. I’m sure some of the people scanned weren’t passengers; they were simply coming to pick up or drop off friends and relatives.
I wanted to see if they would scan my 11-year-old daughter as she walked by so I walked over to the desk with the computer monitor on it. I got a peek at the monitor for a second or two before one of the bald guys to the left of the TSA agent jumped in front of me and said I wasn’t allowed to look. I couldn’t tell which person was undressed on the monitor.
If federal agents set up this system at a shopping mall, would people care?
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79. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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80. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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81. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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82. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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w00t
Sarah Palin Is NOT The Mother [Photos+Video]
Well, Sarah, I’m calling you a liar. And not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the better.
I love the smell of lawsuits in the morning.
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83. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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84. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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Bristol is pregnant in these pictures. She is not carrying belly fat, which grows outwardly wide, and does not become dome-shaped. That’s because fat is generally evenly distributed around the abdomen and a fetus is not.
OH NOZ! I’m pregnant!
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85. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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And, on top of that, it’s Joebama’s baby because I had a dream I was having an affair with him!
BREAKING NEWS: CATNIP HAVING JOEBAMA LUV CHILD…developing…
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86. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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link via Boing Boing: Gustav resources online
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87. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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Twitter feeds which I don’t find all that helpful or interesting, but just incase some do …
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88. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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Wasserman-Schulz (sp?) just went there on CNN: “I know Hillary Clinton and Palin…blah blah blah…”
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89. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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Can I just add that today’s high here was 7 fucking degrees Celsius?
Thank you.
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90. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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89 – time to break out the touk!
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91. raincat100 -
31 August 2008
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I just had to share this with all of you (sorry):
US voters’ views 2008: Republicans (BBC)
Samantha’s statement reads like a McCain press release.
Mcat, I sent a link to your gmail.
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92. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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93. intermittentbystander -
31 August 2008
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94. Intermittent Bystander -
31 August 2008
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Heard the Archibishop of New Orleans (by phone, I think) on FoxNews (at the time, the only cable channel reporting live from LA), speaking very reassuringly of the blessings he bestowed on the orderly evacuees.
Bagpipes were great. Saw lotsa dogs (including some rangy, sweet, 5-month-old Scottish deerhounds), some cabertossers, sword dancers, and a few goats and sheep, too.
I think I’ve got one in the moderation nets as intermittentbystander, MCat. Includes a link to sisdevore, which is now serving underwater deli for the diaspfflora and pffauna. (So far, commenting requires a WP account.)
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95. Intermittent Bystander -
31 August 2008
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Fox just reported there were already 3 deaths of critically ill patients at the airport, while waiting to be airlifted out.
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96. Intermittent Bystander -
31 August 2008
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The Cayman Islands pic is like a Photoshop job!
Fox is pre-flufffng this storm like a frickin eiderdown.
Nothing to worry about this time, folks! Never fear! All has been done! People have cooperated! Guns and curfews are in place!
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97. Madman in the Marketplace -
31 August 2008
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they must be terrified of Jindahl and Bush fucking this one up too …
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98. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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99. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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Jindal was spitting out the numbers of everything they’ve amassed down there a mile a minute during his earlier presser on Sunday. Where do all of those people (ie. the National Guard etc) stay when the storm is on – or will we see them end up on rooftops with “Help Me” signs by Wednesday?
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100. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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Btw, that little 60 Minutes tea party with Joebama and Obamalama was quite the snoozer. Waste.of.time.
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101. marisacat -
31 August 2008
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102. liberalcatnip -
31 August 2008
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Haha. Fools.
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103. marisacat -
1 September 2008
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104. liberalcatnip -
1 September 2008
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The dkos fake pregnancy story hits HuffPo (and is spreading quickly). Check out memeorandum and grab your popcorn.
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105. liberalcatnip -
1 September 2008
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OMG. The Times of London is on it.
If Mrs Palin, a conservative mother of five, ever doubted that landing on a national presidential ticket would open her to the harshest of spotlights and smear tactics, she also awoke yesterday to utterly unfounded internet rumours that her fifth child, born in April with Down’s Syndrome, was actually her 17-year-old daughter’s.
Way to go there, kossacks!
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106. liberalcatnip -
1 September 2008
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And may I just add that when I was ~8 months pregnant with my daughter, one of my SIL’s moms (who didn’t know I was pregnant and hadn’t seem me for a while) came in to say hi to me when I was sitting in a rocking chair in the living room. Later, my SIL told me she asked her mom how she thought I looked and the mom didn’t even SEE that I was pregnant and I started out my pregnancy around 120 and had gained 25 lbs (all in the belly) by the end of the 9th.
Shorter me: Fuck, some kossacks are stoopid.
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1 September 2008
Marisacat 
The Houma Courier
right now the plot has it making landfall, near as i can tell, in between cameron and morgan city. this is the heart of cajun louisiana, acadiana. there won’t be any dancing tonight. theres a large high pressure area north of the coast. odds are slim to none of the storm coming about easterly if it deviates it most likely deviates west. the high pressure could also slow the storm in addition to pushing it westward as well. and thats not good, you want them to move fast, otherwise they stall and pour rain like you wouldn’t believe.