Dissent 3 February 2010
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“In a social milieu that encourages the expression of a variety of opinions on every question that arises, it is important to recognise dissent for what it is, and not to mistake it for a mature contribution to a balanced and wide-ranging debate.”
Well that settles that, doesn’t it?
It’s Benny of course…
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Now… this is just for fun. I don’t much care overall.
Special Olympics: Apology not accepted
The Special Olympics is disputing the White House claim that its chairman, Tim Shriver, accepted Rahm Emanuel’s apology for calling liberals “retarded.”
Seeking to damp down the controversy over Rahm Emanuel’s reported, months-old use of the word, a White House official yesterday told me and other reporters that Emanuel had called Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver to apologize.
“The apology was accepted,” the official said yesterday.
The Vice President for Communications at the Special Olympics, Kirsten Seckler, told me that account of the conversation is “inaccurate.”
“Tim didn’t accept his apology,” she said. “Tim can’t do that. He can’t accept an apology on behalf of all people with disabilities.”
Shriver had simply said, she said, that he was willing to continue the conversation with the chief of staff. Emanuel is currently meeting with a group of advocates for the intellectually disabled who are lobbying him to join their campaign against the “R-word,” and Seckler said the group would release a joint statement after the meeting.
Posted by Ben Smith 03:06 PM
Quite aside from calling LIBERALS “fucking retarded”, and with no need for a shaming punishment to be connected to any particular outburst, I think Rahm should spend a few days with his tongue diaper-pinned to his chin.
Changes the daily ambiance, don’t you think?
No apologies, no hiding, he can say, or gurgle more likely, what he likes to whomever he likes (or, ahem, does not like) … just be out and about with the tongue pinned to the chin. Or either cheek, I am not picky.
Marisacat 
Time for another WH beer summit!
I had to reread that 3 times. I was sure I got it wrong somehow. But…no.
The flying bum?
So Ratzi likes debate, he just doesn’t like dissent. Surely this is the finest Catholic reasoning in a century.
I thought it was pretty spectacular…
George W Bush always praised this country and its tolerance of free speech. Of course, in practice free speech was only tolerated in certain zones well away from where the targets could hear them; and, should such speech actually dare to be heard, then free assembly was no longer tolerated.
Hence the summit in Pittsburgh (witnessed via video by IOZ) where riot police announced through the tear gas “this is an illegal assembly…”
HA! Tapper v Burton…………….. pretty pithy thead too. Someone called it the “special olympics presidency” (among other slams and slurs).
Naughty!!
Burton has a bit of the old Ari Fleischer assholishness to him. Much better than Robert “Uh. Um. Ah. Hm.” Gibbs.
Even though his response to every question was “I think we’re doing a good job making speeches.”
I regret to say Ari Fleischer was one of hte very best I have seen at that job.
what I see with Gibbs is Ob saying: sure we think you are jokes. And treat you that way! But hey, so are we! So chill, like me.
Ari’s attitude was the right one: You are all scum. I am only going to tell you what you already know because the President/Administration guy said it already. Get uppity with me and you won’t come back. Do any of you still have questions? Besides Helen?
HA! Kagan wif comes aboard the Ob spaceship…[Special Envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.]
And the excuse… oh she just worked under Cheney as a “loyal FSO”.
What shits. Drips with snideness and rebuke.
speaking of wifs:
More wifs… 😉
Two female albatrosses in NZ managed a fertile egg (it used to be a threesome, til the male decamped) and further managed to protect the egg to a live birth…
Did he learn that as a young brownshirt?
I guess so…………….. 🙄 …
Unemployment is unnatural
good thread at corrente… thanks for that………………
they get some fun threads there sometimes.
Specialization is a big problem. The more specialized our skills, the more difficult it is to structurally move between jobs.
Debt and spending is another big problem. If we require $40,000 to live, we can’t work at Mickey Ds and smoke pot like Kevin Spacey in American Beauty.
A third big problem is a cultural perception of work = usefulness and wage = quantity of usefulness.
The first is out of our control, the second is voluntary, and the third is a state of mind.
And that Mosler article – wow, what a crank. I’d prefer a studyfare plan that just pays me a stipend to get PhD’s. I hate working. I love learning.
I’ll take that action.
I’ll take Rahm’s apology on behalf of the retarded people in this country.
Somebody needs to, ~ ya know ~ eh, sort it out and somebody is gonna benefit and it sure ain’t gon’ be the retard..eh..community?
Soooo. Why not, right?
So Rahm can work with me in the confessional and, thinking ahead, anybody who doesn’t like it can buy the retards a real high jump through the Kennedys. Something for Everybody.
I mean, it’s not like hiding behind Rahm’s remark about
Retarded “Liberals” is a man who harbors any ill will towards THEM Fucking Retards, that he’d like them begoned, and, dissent along with it. No, Rahm actually shares much with Our Holy Father™. It’s not like Rahm is a man with alternatively comforting words , yet, behind the mask, is a Patronage cum guzzler who is happy to lop off social assistance to the vulnerable if it meant more money and power to
HIS camp. It’s not like it was said by the kind of guy
who would be quite okay if a “Final Solution” was found for the Retarded Liberal…..”Problem”.
Right?™
🙄
And now that Rahm’s check funneled through
six different Pwogressive New Media consultancies has cleared my bank, I am happy to announce that Rahm is spearheading a fabulous new Pwogwessive event at the Special Olympics: literally, Spearheading. Rolled out with much ado under a brilliant new ad campaign:
Think, Retards, THINK.
Courtesy of the
Shitty Group Home Pol Connected Contractors of America,
The Alliance to Diminish Caregiver Resources,
The American Insurance Companies, of course..Of AMERICA, RETARD,
and,
{ All PBS-like pause/emphasis and all…}
A Roman Catholic Archdiocese near you.
…among others…
Something for Everybody. Well. Not Really now, is it?
I’m done.
It’s Now More Dangerous to Give Birth in California Than It Is in Kuwait or Bosnia
I think Rahm has made a good case for his own mental handicap.
Doubt the Dems could “lie down fall down” more………… NTIM
via Mike ALlen Playbook:
Good-bye Craig Becker! Join the pile of discards.
Republicans are salivating… Dontcha think they shoulda vetted the Dems running in Illinois (who comes from there again?) …
Markets off 175 on sovereign debt woes…
Bob Woodward is working on his paean to Obama, called “The non-Agenda
A choice quote.
“You mean to tell me that the success of the economic program and my re-election hinges on the GOP and a bunch of fucking bond traders?”
I take it Ob was surprised?
ruh roh!
Queue a public apology to all bond traders. Beer summit!
I wonder what kind of deal (with a bonus, no doubt) he’ll cut.
Obama shows up at the National Prayer breakfast and calls the homophobic Ugandan law “odious” – much to the delight of several kossacks who seen to think the word “odious” (and his presence at the breakfast with those religious nutbars) is some sort of show of strength – a ‘coup’, no less.
Got a post coming on that……………. his performance was disgusting. AND meaningless. Oh yeah it will be spun as bearding the lion in his cave (or however that metaphor works!) but I just saw it as ………………. WEAK.
gnu…………………
LINK
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