Mais NON! (Mais Oui!) 15 March 2009
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, 2010 Mid Terms, Afghanistan War, DC Politics, Democrats, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, WAR!.trackback
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hmmm… what was that about “no sides” in the G-20?
Oh I don’t think so.
And why would there NOT be sides? We are all in a hell of a mess, it is bound to be fractious.
From an English language blog on French politics that Madman turned me onto a few months ago…
The FT Is Not Amused
The Financial Times has taken to referring to the G20 as “the gap of 20″ owing to the stark difference between the US and European positions. Witness this characterization of the European reaction to American proposals:
With the crotchety air of a dowager duchess sending a sub-standard amuse-bouche back to the kitchens, Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg prime minister and chair of the “eurogroup” of finance ministers from the single currency zone, added sniffily:
“The 16 finance ministers agreed that recent American appeals insisting Europeans make an added budgetary effort were not to our liking.”
PLUS, sacre bleu! They were not born yesterday:
And the American stock market hasn’t helped: the ten-percent rise in the Dow this past week can only fuel European suspicions that they’re being hustled yet again by city-slickers (or should that be Citi-slickers?).
YUM.
Plus.. you know, let us not forget, we are, concurrently, asking that people go drown with us in Afghanistan.
We are so loved. Truly…
Apparently most o f the leadership of the “Lawyers Movement” in Pakistan has been put under house arrest as well.
Well.. under house arrest til he defied the house arrest.
Independent…
The Independent on those non existant “sides”…
hmm Shark sighting, a lot of people on speed boats racing to catch up to it and…. well, they appear to be flexing their knees… so… jump over it..?
Laura d’Andrea Tyson on with Bartiroma… declared, when challenged, that the past 50 days and all that Ob has accomplished or set in motion “will go down in the history books”.
clammyc – dem staff ladder climber – indeed from jerey IIRC – has a diary on DK’s rec list @ 17 comments – The voice of the People clear was heard. All 17 of them. LOL. :::
Not bothering to link to it. It’s Party fluff. MBNYC- another Party fluffer – weighed in quick with a few other chipmunks working their scaled down pom-poms and little megaphones..
But Corzine – Governor Goldman Sachs is in trouble. And every pathetic on-the-Party-teat-type like clammbreath is out in front, trying to define former Bush US Attorney Chris Christie as Bobby Jindal or Palin. It simply isn’t going to fly. This Corzine-Crook- pushing jackass clammyc has no idea – writes at least- like he has no grasp whatsoever of the level of contempt for the corruption, Democratic freeloading and nepotism that people see in the State. The Republicans are shits too, but Corzine is approaching loathesome territory- well below “the polls” though they even show him in the dangerous low 40′s of approval for an incumbant.
It’s a referendum on Corzine, A World Class Asshole of an Incumbant. That’s it. That’s all it’s about. The very dynamic that allowed Obslobber to sweep Jersey will sweep Corzine out::
Plain vanilla anti- incumbancy when you get right down to it, at least when you take it to its low-brow Jersey core:
A fucksteak of an Incumbant, who simply gots. ta. go.
And No amount of Blogslobber over defining a challenger like Christie is going to change that. In a state like Jersey? Where the credibility bar is set so low?…
Christie will win the nom not because the nutter GOP likes him but because he’s their best shot. If anything, the blogturd clammyc’s underwhelming comparative insights to Jindal aside, Christie win like Jindal did even in a decidedly anti Republican trend when the Dem apparatus in the state is patently and so obviously MORE corrupt.
Oh, LOL- clammyc is just such slurppy swill even for a Corzine shill.
One poor excuse for an hors d’oeuvre, even by Jersey standards.
FFS, His runny goo hardly resembles a mollusk.
The Blahgs are going to have ZERO influence on the NJ Governors race. None.
I have to say I have been deeee-lighted to read of Corzine in trouble. Very strange guy imo, he seems unable to look a camera in the eye and speak with any sense of authority.. what is his problem! ?:? Too decent to lie well? I hardly think so. Frankly I thought the last guy gave him a run for his money.. I know he pulled it out, but I watched a Cspan debate between then, and Corzine shrank thru the whole of it.
Good Luck!
Short of Corzine personally cutting checks all around, he’s through.
He’s probably begging Presidential appointees –
you know, from the CLINTON Administration – LOL – to go after Christie’s record at the DOJ.
The usual bullshit of placating the thug bosses in the unions isn’t going to save his ass nor is last ditch, election year efforts at pouring money into social services or municipal budgets. Again it just gets ripped off. No GOP talking point here, it’s what happens. Now it’s the Republicans turn. UGH.
Corzine will be back snorting blow in Manhattan soon enough.
Sorry for the Typos in first paragraph ; Clammyc is from *JerseyIIRC
also …”The voice of the People *clearly was heard. ”
The Dawn has a live blog following the progress of the lawyers’ protests. Linked via the NYT, believe it or not.
I must confess though- I was also wrong on Corzine’s numbers.
I said he was in the dangerously low forties.
I had no idea what I was talking about.
I was using old data. From a few weeks ago.
These , ah,
are the latest polls, LOL:
CHRISTIE 46% – CORZINE 37%- Quinippiac- 03/13/09
CHRISTIE 49% – CORZINE 34% Rasmussen- 03/12/09
Corzine Falls Further Behind in New Jersey Reelection Bid
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Anyways, There’s something common in Jersey Coastal towns and the fishing hamlets the lining estuaries of Southern Jersey. I imagine it is said elsewhere, too..
In decline, the old saying goes:
“Hey – we can always dig for clams.”
Strange now,
it seems to have been adopted by Corzine and the Dem patronage set in Jersey, explaining clammyc’s low yielding bucket,
his crappy little steamer on DK this morning.
But Steam ON clammyc!
You paid-shill , little Shittle-in-the-Broth fuck, ya!
Corzine! The Progressive! From Goldman Sachs!
Well. Goldman Sachs has been just peachy on Pakistan.
In their much celebrated N11 , “Next Eleven” Countries..
<a href=”Orig Source.
Anyone interested – Be sure to read those “important disclosures” noted on the first page but left on the LAST- just who the Scholars under the Chicago masthead really are…
There is now video of the peace activist that was almost killed by the IDF on the net. I could not watch it, it was horrible. The IDF always seems to aim for the head.
I am sure the video will disappear from news agencies soon, and the ADL will keep it off youtube.
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=12497086&ch=4226714&src=news
mattes: this one is just up – not Reuters raw vid showing the IDF firing on medics in vests -clearly labled red crescent as they work on the guy where he dropped, and as they tried to evacuate him.
I am glad the footage is on the net, but I just can’t watch it. Tristan Anderson I believe is his name. Let’s see how much press this gets.
sorry BHHM… two of yours just now out of Moderation…
I don’t know how much of this is true.. but the ACLU has no business being a part of it. The rest of the bullshit groups, who cares… they barely breathe but to collect money. PPFA would be a fucking fool to coalesce (any more than they already do) behind a party that plays politics with birth control funding.
Asia Times:
hmm in the Boston paper…
hmm other than that I see the latest gambit it to push Summers and Valerie Jarrett.
As part of the offensive to ”sell the budget”. Snow jobs in spring.
Carry on………………….
Who will disarm the settlers?
well a significant majority of them are AMERICANS.. but no matter the origin, I don’t see anyone disarming them. Why would anyone?
israel has long run a game of sick radicals and religious extremists placed on or adjacent to land they want.
Politico
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LOL
When he is not pushing Blanche Lincoln (who is now opposed to card check) for her re election Biden is still a gift that gives. And I guess he is fully a part of the big push. (It’s going to b an ugly baby that gets pushed out)
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There is so much fucking gibberish out there today it is hard to pick.
Oh I don’t know. (and Elijah Cummings was just as drooly and useless, Summers is pushing “buy stocks”… “sale of the century”.. and so on…)… I think we sealed our fate with the FOURTH BAILOUT of AIG.
Why wouldn’t they do just what they want to do?
BTW, why would it matter, anyway. Romer says “fundamentals are sound”.
Where did I hear that whopper? A few months ago from a weird old guy in the GE. Who flopped around like a big white fish dropped on the dock.
La Nan:
“I have asked Chairman Barney Frank… to examine options that are legally available to recover taxpayer funds of companies that abuse the privilege of taxpayer assistance.”
As others have said: We need trust, not optimism, at this point.
Anybody who hoped for a deliberative and truthful national discussion on the economy is just going to have to hope that it is going on behind closed doors among the elites. I dunno… if not Obama and Geithner and Obama’s kingmaker (totally drawing a brain-fart blank on his name right now), then between Obama and his five new pastor friends. Because this is the sort of pablum that the public will continue to be served in the bread line.
The five pastor thing drove me insane. Sick louts imo, all of them. AND Josh Dubois as well… Loved all the drool about social justice.
Not from that group.
I’ve entitle this This Piece
simply,
” Blog Meta for Brian Keeler. NYBri . “
Psst …Hey can you ping me off thread?
Psst …Hey can you ping me off thread?
Psst …Hey can you ping me off thread?
LOL. NYBri.
Anyways, Remember Him? NYBri? Brian Keeler? His acting career?
Or his new one? LOL.
Maybe this will ring a bell.
THE BUTTHOLE netroot candidate / collection plate pilferer…
who was Sooooo on top of things politically, here’s what he came up with in an interview on “the Issues” “facing his district” for Statehouse in NY…
And that was on another pwog blog.
The “?” question mark is from THEIR TRANSCRIPTION. LOL.
Now it turns out, the new! blahgscam he’s got going is fluffing as (sorry!) ANOTHER Corzine dick smoker on DK threads, working clammyc’s talking point,
Corzines opponent as the “Jersey Jindal” —
What fuckin genius, tho. Yep.
Keeler and clammyc are gonna be right there when Obama fires Axelrod as soon as he hears they’re the guys who came up with
The “Jersey Jindal” Jingle..yeh That’ll go real far –
Well, people here in Jersey –> could give a Jindal-shit.
This is the best these fuckin morons came up with? For meme-battle against, I dunno, say, comparing Corzine to, ah, ~Wall Street?
So get a load of this shit….
–Some heel, Praising Corzine in an Astroturfed thread, while slinging shit “For the Children” of New Jersey.
Then NYBri moves in, all with the “Psst..hey..”
No wonder Keeler – that beloved nutrootsammer NYBri – is moving in on a settlement lawyer.
DYFS in New Jersey Settles for $7.5 Million
—->But then there’s the small matter of truth telling. <—
DYFS is/was and continues to be a horror show in New Jersey.
BullShit. Corzine and the Dems haven’t done shit for reform or expediting case settlements other than to the benefit of their croneys. And the lawyers in the case above made $2.5 million off the dead kids.
Here’s another DISASTER. That meandered through civil resolution, the lawyers got their, no criminal charges for DYFS or Court Personnel.
State settles DYFS lawsuit in death of 2 in agency’s care
There’s been NO reform in Childrens Services in NJ no matter how many self-serving liars say so. The Democratic Patronage System hires social workers that could give, well, a Jindal-shit:
This from a few months ago.
Feds nab former DYFS worker and girlfriend in bogus check scam
No matter for Brian Keeler to consider, there’s opportunity for money shmoozing lying lawyers scoring big paydays as every violated and murdered foster child falls through the cracks. One down,
blow-dried Brain the Party Boy moves on to smaller game, same M.O. on another blogeeta.
NYBri, A frivolous, bogus person ,
who has led a frivolous, bogus life now carries on for Corzine of Goldman Sachs fame…he ‘s actually blogmaiden on the thread here, when it veered off talking point
For anyone interested
Brian Keeler, is also Available ON TWITTER!
Twit – Twit.
NYBri always seemed like some nice white pretty boy sent to play the flute for the blahgs. Soemthing like that.
Sorry!
???can I get a closed bold after
“No matter for Brian Keeler to consider “
Millionaires-In-Chief
hm I read once, and remember this is 30 years ago, that a group fo Japanese business men saw Gerald Ford, in his retirement, golfing and sent over a request that he join them later at the clubhouse.
He replied, he’d be happy to and the fee was 50K, payable at the club house. And they accepted.
So yeah I could give a flying hoo hoo about ”hope and change”. The dollar signs float in front of Ob and the wif. Biden too.. he can talk for years about how he triiiiied to steer dear Ob right on thsi or that. They will all have TRIIIIIED and will talk about it for a fucking age.
Fist bump fist bump
and they’ll build religiously-based Charter Schools with Oprah, probably overseas b/c Americans don’t deserve the help b/c they’re too lazy, and Ob will write the screenplay based on his father’s life (appearing in a cameo as a greatgrandfather or something).
He’ll channel Martin as his true grandfather.
only the safe bobblehead Martin. Riverside Church/Memphis Garbage Strike Martin never existed.
33 safe bobbleheaded martin
HA! Lincoln Memorial all the way baby! Dream match!
Turn the key in the back and he repeats the safe parts of the speech.
I read in the Independent this is happening with bank bail out money (that they printed up all special like!) in the UK as welll.
AIG Bail Out Money, in the Billions, Going Overseas
What a joke. No loyalty to anyone from the corrupt and bankrupt banks and financial services. And looking at Congress and the WH, NONE DEMANDED.
Pair this with that… just above.
Note how Bernanke (and Geithner and Summers and Lamalovebaby) all just wanna help the BANKS. Keep that up, the depression will never end.
I just laughed out loud at this:
“But we do have a plan. We’re working on it. And, I do think that we will get it stabilized, and we’ll see the recession coming to an end probably this year.”
A man a plan a canal panama
or something.
I have it on, and he just said that the “era of high living is over for the banks”.
[T]he spike in violence along the border is an early indication that roadside bombs and other ambushes are likely to surge as thousands of new U.S. forces arrive in Afghanistan this year.
Brig. Gen. Richard Blanchette, a spokesman for the NATO-led force here, confirmed that a roadside bomb killed four U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan. A U.S. statement indicated the troops were based in Jalalabad. …
once and future pakistani chief justice chaudhry has been reinstated, protesting lawyers let out of prison. great news.
Zionism is the problem – The Zionist ideal of a Jewish state is keeping Israelis and Palestinians from living in peace.
By Ben Ehrenreich
”It’s hard to imagine now, but in 1944, six years after Kristallnacht, Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, felt comfortable equating the Zionist ideal of Jewish statehood with “the concept of a racial state — the Hitlerian concept.” For most of the last century, a principled opposition to Zionism was a mainstream stance within American Judaism.
Even after the foundation of Israel, anti-Zionism was not a particularly heretical position. Assimilated Reform Jews like Rosenwald believed that Judaism should remain a matter of religious rather than political allegiance; the ultra-Orthodox saw Jewish statehood as an impious attempt to “push the hand of God”; and Marxist Jews — my grandparents among them — tended to see Zionism, and all nationalisms, as a distraction from the more essential struggle between classes.
To be Jewish, I was raised to believe, meant understanding oneself as a member of a tribe that over and over had been cast out, mistreated, slaughtered. Millenniums of oppression that preceded it did not entitle us to a homeland or a right to self-defense that superseded anyone else’s. If they offered us anything exceptional, it was a perspective on oppression and an obligation born of the prophetic tradition: to act on behalf of the oppressed and to cry out at the oppressor.
For the last several decades, though, it has been all but impossible to cry out against the Israeli state without being smeared as an anti-Semite, or worse. To question not just Israel’s actions, but the Zionist tenets on which the state is founded, has for too long been regarded an almost unspeakable blasphemy.
Yet it is no longer possible to believe with an honest conscience that the deplorable conditions in which Palestinians live and die in Gaza and the West Bank come as the result of specific policies, leaders or parties on either side of the impasse. The problem is fundamental: Founding a modern state on a single ethnic or religious identity in a territory that is ethnically and religiously diverse leads inexorably either to politics of exclusion (think of the 139-square-mile prison camp that Gaza has become) or to wholesale ethnic cleansing. Put simply, the problem is Zionism.
….
It’s not working. Opposing Zionism is neither anti-Semitic nor particularly radical. It requires only that we take our own values seriously and no longer, as the book of Amos has it, “turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground.”
Establishing a secular, pluralist, democratic government in Israel and Palestine would of course mean the abandonment of the Zionist dream. It might also mean the only salvation for the Jewish ideals of justice that date back to Jeremiah.
….”
hmm Times Online has a story on claw back… in the Bernie MadoffMess… I am guessing that Madoff investors will be turning on each other.
LOL … funny, since there were no returns.
Spring is busting out all over… BBC breaking news…
In other news, ABC has “breaking news” that Ob will search for AIG’s fat wrist and … threaten to slap it. And he’ll really really mean it.
How long to the fifth bail out of AIG I wonder. Too big to fail.
They’re obviously lying since Obamalama has maintained for years now that “the US does not torture”. And, as we all know, The Big O never lies.
LOL FP of NYT is all about AIG. That’ll do it.. with Obama and Cuomo fils working for the peeepuhl surely we will win this thing with AIG.
http://www.nytimes.com/
ooo shiver with the goodness of it all.. Cuomo is threatening subpoena if no info from AIG by 4 PM!
At lest the Italians get the drama of the sitch.
It only took 96 + hours to figure this one out. Good going. What is next? Check in next week for a plan. Via Clusterstock
He should just go ahead and disburse it, recouping EVEN MORE LATER by cutting the next 800 schlabillion they need down to only HALF a trillion.
The awesomeness in savings can be used to generate 2 million new or saved jobs. And when Ob starts generating those saved jobs. .. blink, blink….
WHATEVER- It a job~savey~generation~like~thing, tho I ‘m sure it eludes all the Philistines here. LOL.
#42, diane, great article will do diary on it. Very close to what I think. Go to the root.
Thanks.
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Rendell’s ally Vince Fumo got convicted today-
the guy who called Rendell in to testify as his top character witness – Whoops! -
Tip of the Iceberg, this shit Fumo got nailed for.
They’ll lawyer the shit out of this as Fumo is one of the most dug-in, corrupt, nationally connected City and Statehouse Dems in the country. Think Shelley Silver in NY. Daley in Chicago.
Fumo’s grandfather started a Bank, one that eventually obtained a Bank Charter and another , shall we say, that continued on without. Fumo is Thoroughly run in with the mob going back 80 years. Same with Rendell and his trust fund from his garment district family in NY.
If this guy Fumo ever flipped on Rendell over the Philly Gas Works Sale, the Municipal Bond Scams in Philly, State Bond issues, Pension fund steerage, slot machines brought to PA via bribing nearly the entire Democratic Caucus…fuuucccckkk ….
Reality, tho- He won’t flip on anybody. One, because his gangster associates would kill him. Secondly, it’s the creampuff nature of what he’s facing.
Looking at 2 years on 10 and minimal give backs on the money?
Too bad he won’t come clean. Fumo is one of those thoroughly corrupt, thoroughly connected insiders who could blow a hole in the whole Two Party illusion.
mattes 51
you’re welcome…it was really nice reading that before I went to bed…gave me some hope that sane people are not totally stifled in the mainstream news……..