Sneeze 20 April 2010
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
Grains of pollen come in all shapes and sizes. The large object in the centre of this image is pumpkin pollen; the tiny speck just below and to the right of it is forget-me-not pollen [MICRONAUT / CATERS]
Just now, softly on a balmy night, the rain has come again. Probably our last ’til next October. Of course after the rain, comes the ……….. pollen.
Can’t complain tho………… no ash.
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Wow, that obesity project is a much, much more brilliant agenda than we knew, revenues and security:
Are school lunches a national security threat?
Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Writer – 23 mins ago
WASHINGTON – A group of retired military officers says high-calorie school lunches are threatening national security.
A study by the group Mission: Readiness finds that school lunches are making American kids so fat that fewer of them can meet the military’s physical fitness standards. That, in turn, is putting recruitment in jeopardy.
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EAT UP KIDS!
(repost from bottom of last thread)
I will repost my “reply” from the alst thread:
Mothers must nurse (or your child will DIE [someday!]). Teens must not drink or they endanger ………….. oh I forget the latest “advisory”……….
Don’t do anything. At all. OR, do what they TELL you to do.
Chuck it all, I say.
but make sure you chuck it in the proper bin, or that’ll be $1,000.
The whole Green You Must Go Green bin is so not going to work here.
Has Mr. Green Jeans passed the spend thousands you don’t have, and Paint your Roof White Bill yet, in the middle of a depression?
well the righties push that people will be commanded to paint their rooves white… but I have not heard of it yet… the idea of a white roof has been around for sometime here… some people DO do it…
All of this is just more of Ob or Gore or whomever drooling rather than governinig. Dribbling drool is jsut SO FUCKING SAFE for the pols.
Oh, don’t worry, the Dems will probably make their dreams come true, they usually do in one way or another. No difference at the end of the day.
But, on a serious note, what I don’t understand about that, is that up until the time the heat gets really bad, that white roof would also have folks turning on their heaters more often, especially in places like San Francisco, where it doesn’t usually get “hot” like the San Jose Area, etc.
ugh it does get hot here. We had a more traditional summer this one past (09) fog, mist, over cast, quite a few “chilly” days, etc… but for several years we have had weeks long heat waves.
Three summers in a row almost killed me… 6, 7 and 8. Plus ti just blasted the fires around the state….
ugh it does get hot here….Three summers in a row almost killed me… 6, 7 and 8.
I wonder if the sun actually came out in the Pacifica/ Daly city areas in those years, that area always seemed perpetually foggy and cold, along with, is it the Sunset District? that 280 feeds into?
well even overcast days generate light and heat… I burned enough as a child under overcast skies.
Yeah Pacifica by the water.. Foster City…. Daly City gets and loses sun, depends wehre one is…………
Parts of the coast can be socked in, no question. Skip SFO before about 11 am on many days…
and so on.
What to say, no regard for humanity:
US death sentence upheld despite judge-prosecutor affair
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of a Texas man who learned after being sentenced to death that the prosecutor and judge at his murder trial were having an affair.
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….”dozens of former state and federal prosecutors and judges and the nation’s leading legal ethicists have criticized the handling of this case by the Texas death penalty system.”
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Shorter version:
RAHM EMANUEL, to Charlie Rose, on getting Republicans to vote for financial reform: ‘Yes. I think it will be bipartisan.’
–On when the White House found out about the Goldman filing: ‘I can tell you with absolute — everybody at the White House found out like everybody else, when it hit the news. … Nobody at the White House knew anything ahead of anybody else.’
–On the anger in the country: ‘Everybody’s accountable. … Everybody, including the media. … They play a role in exacerbating the sense that America’s pulled apart, and it’s not as pulled apart as being reported.’
–On Supreme Court confirmation: ‘I think that there’ll be a huge, huge battle.’
–On whether Dems will lose the Congress: ‘Anybody that tells you that … doesn’t know what they’re talking about because you couldn’t answer that with this time in April [2006] … when I was chair of the DCCC … [U]nemployment’s important. It’s also about what people think about the economic future.’
Just commenting on an item from the last thread: the story about unemployed homeowners being foreclosed.
Once again, the story focuses on (surprise, surprise) a “woman of a certain age.” There seems to be no end of divorced/single women over the age of 50 who are in debt, or newly dumped by their employers, from whom newspapers can get their anecdotes of woe. I haven’t seen any news stories focusing on the financial state of America’s fiftysomething women, though… I would guess they are being quite hard hit. I think beguinages might be due for a revival…
yup,
outside of the beguinages, as I’m not totally clear on your term…
the dances?
When we begin the Beguine
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alas, when you’ve passed the age to be “milked” for the national nutrition, just disappear somewhere, preferably somewhere where we don’t have to wipe the blood of the tracks, and preferably, in the dark.
and certainly even those of milking age don’t escape…
I will never ever forget the news in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of a black woman in 2003-04 determinedly walking in the nasty, very cold at the time, Allegheny River (I believe it was that one, of the three noted ones), with her son in her arms, ….. drowning both of them, ….destitute…beyond belief…
Clearly not trusting any of the MOTHER FUCKERS to do the right thing by her son. The murderers most prominent at the time – Cheney, Yoo, Addington, Bush, on, and on and on – at large then, ……and still very much unpunished.
(Okay, for the rabid and lurking, shouting: She was Sick, Unbalanced, (Pfizer)! and you fuckers really think that your not the sickest, most lunatic, egomaniacal fuckers in the house?)
and, yes, apparently, Pittsburgh, is, one of Obama’s favorite cities.
more than Elkardt Indiana?
[snicker]
toss up is possible, dependent on the misery factor that can be manipulated at the moment?
Nah, no, this chick’s not a little partisan hack.
Yeh Yeh. Got it. { SNIP }
{ looking, browsing, looking for donate button any second now}
Ahhh – No! YOU churn the butter by kerosene lamp, fuck Rock the Farmer all night then milk the cows at 4 A.M. LOL.
Sorry Wood Waxer!
There it is!
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well Biden used his pac money for landscaping at his house… and Reid used it for christmas cash at his condo in DC. Feingold gave some from his patriot’s pac to MyDD… [snicker]
Oh my god! A report! I can feel the vibration from the industry’s knees shaking.
Hey, MCat! Where’s ya get that picture of the inside of my sinuses?!
LOL!
Hope all is well with everyone! I have completed 25% of my student teaching — all is going fabulously!
kind of amazing isn’t it?
I got the boys this thing called the “Eyeclops” a couple of years ago, it’s basically a digital microscope that you plug into the TV to have all things small projected very BIG (1000s and 1000s of magnification) — a couple a “hey, guys, let’s look under your fingernails!!” really helped with the importance of hand washing!
LOL! Unfortunately, we haven’t yet jury-rigged an extension that can go up our noses, but I do imagine it looks something like that pic!
hmmm for whatever reason the GetEqual people have the WH – and Obby – really spooked. Last night, at the LA fundraiser I thought maybe he is just overwrought… pissed at a public shout out and unable to make use of an audience… etc., etc…
But now……… Ben SMth also has a vid. Someobody hold Obby’s hand and get him thru the rough waters!
Good luck Obby.
I think full make up drag queens chained to the WH fnece would really scare him. Just my wild thought.
ooo just have to share this… I wrote to moiv that next it ought to be a line up of full dress drag queens chained to the WH fence. She replied, have them all be Michelle clones. BRILLIANT!
THEN I said, how about a whole line up of drags doing our several former Flotuses! [flotusi?] Chained to the WH fence! Works for me!
There’s Nancy! And Pat! And Hillary! etc.
YES! That IS brilliant!! How is moiv. MCat? Wouldja mind telling her that I say “hi” and that I’m still waiting on her to get her butt (well, all of her actually) to Austin so we can have lunch!?
moiv added that each drag queen flotus should have a mil escort.
Too funny…. this SO works for me.
madman’s contribution to the email:
better yet, drag queens dressed up like Michelle MAKING OUT with in-uniform guys who’ve been kicked out.
I jsut saw pics from the protest and the ones who chained themselves to the fence today, were in uniform….
Ok, I want in on this email ring! 8)
I forwarded your comment to moiv…
Yay!! Thanks, Marisa! Yer da bestest!
And at least one of the ladies would have to be wearing a copy of Michelle’s chenille bedspread dress from the Inaugural Ball.
Hey there, brinn. What I really think is that GetEqual should hire us as media consultants.
These days it’s hard to drag me to a blog, although you are one of the reasons I might miss it. For the most part, I’m better off cultivating my intellect with the readers’ comments at the Daily Mail.
hard to beat the Daily Mail…………
It’s addictive — one of my guilty pleasures.
Hi, moiv!!!
I miss you and your words and I meant what I said about Austin — hey, maybe this summer I can come up your way….there will be 2 weeks in July when I will be beside myself as the boys will be with their dad and gone to Colorado….it’ll be longest I’ve ever been away from them, so I would totally be up for a road trip! (especially if I have passed my certifiable exams by then, er, certification….)
Let me know!
Oh, and yeah, we’d make GREAT media consultants!
Today’s moment of w00t brought to you by propagandist blackwaterdog:
Blowback ensued. As did the sound of popcorn popping.
I suspect a 4th GBCW might be in the offing soon…although – new rule – if you GBCW, you’re banned and have to beg to be reinstated. The result – people writing TTFN (ta ta for now) diaries instead. lol
I’m for treason then.
I seriously hope I run into that asshole in private sometime and they get in my face with that one while asking me why I’m not voting for any of the prostitutes
Talk about Treason??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
white trash that I am, I might lose it and punch someone in the gut, or knee them in the balls, if they cross that boundary and any of their spittle lands on my face while they project their own betrayal of the country, and humanity onto me.
She lives in Israel, apparently. No “balls” involved in any sense of the word, afaik.
Is she a US citizen do you know?
If she isn’t, I can’t imagine inserting myself so personally, with the TREASON WORD, in a conversation regarding the issues of a country I ‘m not a citizen of, and further, much isolated from the domestic policies of.
I don’t think she is. Someone commented that her OFA page says she is “unregistered to vote”. She’s written about her background before but I’d have to dig. Plus, she’s deleted a number of her diaries so I don’t know what’s left to find.
Even some of her regular cheerleaders are criticizing her for this ‘treason’ BS.
I don’t think she is
(a citizen)
Sounds pretty ugly (just like the odd, creepy choice of user name), given the Treason accusation she’s making.
treason, please. No wonder “we the people” can’t take back the govt. — 97% of us don’t understand how it is supposed to fucking work in the first damned place.
those are the people who share the DNA of the banana slug.
Hey now, no dissing on the banana slug!!
Beat me to it!
Great minds, catnip!
Case in point: a vivid and livid illustration of why moiv doesn’t live there anymore.
I didn’t know about the New Rule, but it makes perfect sense. It probably saves the FPers a lot of work. And how they love to be stroked, so all that begging is a big fat bonus.
LOL
Is that actually maybe a new Dana sockpuppet?
Thinking on it, maybe it’s Rahm.
She and her buddies heart Rahm. That’s about all you need to know.
yup, sounds like.
“retain” seems like a bit of a Freudian slip. Are they admitting their own team was never really in charge, after all?
I get confused, in between my traitorous blackouts. :p
Speaking of TREASON (the NSA’s treason), I can’t find any further mention (other than the initial commentary) about Thomas Drake, the NSA Whistleblower, the ACLU main and MD site had nothing on it either. I was hoping to find a defense fund being put together for him (since it was noted that he couldn’t afford an attorney), or at least something to help any family that relied on his wages. That seemed like something that millions would support.
Crickets……….
Oh wait, it’s all about the quaint, dust mote on the Goldman iceberg case..
Goldman versus Goldman (hat tip Boo Hoo Hoo Man)
Carbon offsets: fraud, exaggeration, and poorly run projects
No wonder the fucking donks love them.
Dan Savage posted video of Lt. Choi’s statement while chained to the White House fence.
he’s very amazing… the movement can thank their lucky stars he came along.
I think he’s just getting started.
I agree… he is very interesting in interview…. he gave quite a few when he was out here, even impromptu ones during the gay parade, he’d jump off whatever they had him riding in and just chat.
Exudes strength. It’s kind of interesting to watch, esp considering how we are in a swamp and in concrete.
Every once in a while the right person comes along… he might be that type.
And god knows the gays, all stripes and versions, desperately needed a new activist rights group… they really did.
‘Course so do the wimmens.
He’s being trashed at dkos, of course. Being compared to Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink. And slammed for being “rude”. Oh, the fealty to propriety. Glad the intertubes weren’t around during the 60s…for the protesters’ sakes.
If they’re comparing Choi to Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink, do they mean he’s shrill, an ingrate and doesn’t know his place? Or just that he’s ugly and his mama dresses him funny?
This could be important. Like the church’s wide stance on child rape vs. abortion, some sins are more equal than others.
Dan Savage is still an arrogant stupid shithead, though. I wonder if he’s forgotten how he was calling for the bombing of Iran just a few years ago. Probably wished all that away with a few green ribbons on his loafers, or whatever.
Oh great…fucking meta is going to keep me up past my bedtime again.
And just when the meta was all calming down a bit over there. I think what set off blackwaterdog was the heckling of Obamalama at Boxer’s shindig. I saw a couple of her comments in the LGBT diaries (odd for her to comment at all). Now all of the homophobes and Obama-worshippers (and those who straddle both of those categories) are spewing whatever’s left of their grey matter all over the site. Popcorn! (And chicken soup. I made chicken soup tonite.)
Glad I can’t access that diary, I know I’d blow off at least an hour.
I made chicken soup tonite
….at least you won’t be getting a cold.
That’s my new thing – making chicken soup.
We have some of your geese down here.
Step away from the stock pot, lady. LOL.
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Claiborne?
LOL. Well,
Good thing no one is pulling a pistol on those Obama fuckin morons.
Oh wait ! –
Thank God there’s SOME Professionalism left in the world.
O yeh – runnin the press off over at the bosses house.
Geesh.. I was held up at gunpoint once… and my immediate thought looking at the barrell of the gun was: I don’t want to be in the newspaper tomorrow.
Speaking of chickens…
Strategy Corner: Time for a New Kind of Bold from President Obama
AGAIN?
It’s from MARK PENN.
AGAIN?
And true to Beltway bubble form, the epically discredited strategist is double dooper quadrupling down… on how “Strategy”…
{ Penn’s, of course} ..will save them.
They’re facing electoral retribution on a scale unseen since 1994….
Period.
cry me a river………….
But Rahm just said if anyone projects big loses for 2010 for the Dems, they don’t know what they are talking about…. he must be right!
I cannot believe that he is on CRose for a second hour. (I skipped it… and part 1 as well… there is only so much I can take……………… )
Gnu……..
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