Mission creep… 20 July 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Border Issues, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, San Francisco, The Battle for New Orleans, WAR!.trackback
A vinca flower floats in brown, oily sludge in a canal behind a home just off Lake Pontchartrain near Slidell, Louisiana [Chuck Cook/AP]
But it’s capped now and little things like sludge in Lake Pontchartrain, which lies to the North of NO btw, will be dealt with soon.
Sooner than soon.
Yes?
The local talk radio tonight, in so liberal San Francisco, is pushing a real war with Mexico, as in, ‘go in and clean up that problem’, a shooting war with Mexico. Or, at least the North of Mexico. (Little wars always promise to stay that way, I guess…)
WE can’t have that on our border.
That should work… take care of all those pesky problems.
Sean Penn is on with Charlie Rose… and did manage to say an interesting thing or two about Haiti… but all goodness lies with Pretzel Clinton, and “the First Lady”, by which he means Mother Michelle. Clinton really got everyone on board, and MM will see to the education.
I think she is so busy hunting for baby fat that she has no time. Meanwhile the babies are being thrown out, bath water or no…
And, Haiti suffers as “there is no Warren Buffett there”.
Vote the party! Early and often! Then, take the only rational next step: lie face down in very wet mud and breathe deeply.
Just flipped on CNN and caught some of the Shirley Sherrod interview. Another Obamalama appointee thrown under the bus. They also interviewed the wife of the farmer (and the man isn’t dead, contrary to news reports) and she stood up for Sherrod.
Is it time for yet another “national conversation” about race? How about a beer summit? snort
The underside of that bus is pretty damn crowded.
a lot o us are under the bus…. I guess if I can find her I can ask dead white granny what she thinks of him.
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The underside of that bus is pretty damn crowded. – catnip
Could be used as a beach skimmer. Just sayin.
Always tryin to help.
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}} but parched after being away for a week.)
I’m doing the garden recovery thing too here, catnip..
(No hail {{
I didn’t know you were a gardener. Just another reason we shouldn’t have called off the engagement.
My garden’s trying to bounce back and I had to replant peas and cucumbers. I’ve been blasting “I Will Survive” on outdoor speakers to provide some encouragement.
the cats need to learn the joys of the short hoe. Little work gloves, garden boots… sun hats.
I can see it!!
lol… their “work” consists of adding compost in the form of poop. And then they nap.
hey! they gave!
read te AJC piece, thanks for posting that… much mroe context than elsewehre.
Poor woman, sounds liek a sacrificial lamb, at this point.
They’re awfully quick when it comes to turfing some people. Geithner, Summers, Gates et al – those who really deserve to be punted into obscurity? Not so much.
It is crazy-making. Can we come live with catnip?
Sure! Bring a tent. There’s lot’s of room. Must like ducks.
The underside of that bus
Public transportation stimulus?
Could be. At this rate, they’re going to need to buy several more buses.
I didn’t even learn until later in the day that the video is from the ’80s, and she wasn’t even working for Ag when she said it … over 20 years ago!
they’re so pathetic.
CBS evening news is going to report on it… Couric just mentioned it in the tease..
Let me get this straight.. Obby has now, from on high, had a woman fired for a muddled story from 24 years ago… and all to do, then and NOW, with race.
I say Obby takes his marching orders from Breitbart. Pretty much. (this is one of Breitbart’s best days. Ever)
the really amazing thing was Breitbart, interviewed uncritically on NPR, managed to claim HE is some kind of brave truth teller, as NPR tied the Sherrod story to the trumped up New Black Panther “story”
Oh, and NPR also points out in the story about Sherrod that her father was murdered by the Klan.
well… My guess is that Sherrod is not reinstated. And if this is all about convoluted retribution, pencil on Ob Administration.
They SO sweat the crap from the wingers. It really is one of their big stressors… AND they would be lost without it. Pathetic is not even starting to describe it….
(Oh look! Palin made up a word!! I’ll bet it is really her daughter’s word!!!!!)
don’t forget about Lindsey Lohan.
Yes so useful… (Look! Over there!)
Gah the poor Sherrod woman… she is being used as mini sound bite around the top of the hour news out here.
What a huge shame.
CNN video of their interview with her today.
Rick Sanchez is interviewing the farmer couple and they’re staunchly defending her.
Heckuva job, Obama.
Sanchez: “The WH is denying that they played any part in this.”
Sherrod: “I was told this (the call for the resignation) came from the WH.”
What a clusterfuck.
Popcorn!
Now Roland Martin is making as ass out of himself on CNN trying to defend his knee-jerk reaction.
Sherrod: “I cannot listen to more of this because he is dead wrong.”
“I don’t want to get into an argument with him because he’s clearly from a different world.”
Holy fuck.
oh I am glad it is getting some exposition… Good!!
This whole thing is just so mind-numbingly stupid. I just have nothing else to say.
The NAACP is saying now that is was “snookered” and I just caught the end of Breibart on CNN blaming the firing on Vilsack. It’s win/win for the wingnuts.
Oh – and I read that Glenn Beck is defending Sherrod on his show tonite. I just don’t have enough popcorn for all of this.
Federal hate crime charges filed in Katrina shooting of African-Americans
You’d think they’d be publicizing this.
I really think, in all the wrong ways, Ob lives for the white vote.
This case was so egregious (and imo must stand in for many not prosecuted) that they had to bring it.
I am interested to see what DOJ comes up with in the Oscar Grant BART shooting out here, they are investigating both Mehserle, the BART cop shooter AND another Bart cop there that night, Peroni.
We shall see…
they’re being so damned quiet about these cases … the Obama DOJ seems almost embarrassed to have to bring the cases. They’ve charged the cops on the bridge, too.
Yes the cops on the Danziger Bridge… gah. They SHOULD shout that one from the rooftops… imo too few cops are snared but they are both black and white. The Blue Line.
What is worse, imo, is that the entire net is too small, I heard rhetoric in the early days following the landfall, from as far away as a fire fighter in Seattle whose audio got picked up ovr and over by local TV news here, issuing a coded call to come shoot some coon. And his audio would appear on te news for several weeks, 3 at least.
AND the stories pushed by the R and political operative owner of the Acadia Ambulance company, he ALONE devised and pushed the story of snipers on rooves shooting at his air ambulances, black snipers of course. I later found a pic of Mother Laura, who made it dwn to his company on September 2, barely 3 days into the nightmare, and was photogaphed with him in his personal office.
His audio, on camera interviews etc were run constantly on local news here…
I don’t think ti is a stretch there were hunting parties operating in NO and other places…
Dan Savage: Give The Woman Back Her Job
No doubt. I damn near choked when I saw Vilsack’s reaction. And the WH is standing by his decision. Weak-kneed assholes – the lot of them.
Lackeys… lackeys … lackeys. Hired help. Minions. And at the end of the day, dumb fucks.
[snerk] Oh, like Dan and his readers will do anything about the Dems’ hypocrisy other than wring their fucking hands and vote Dem again
and bash everyone running on their left, of course. In a week they’ll be screaming and crying at the tops of their lungs about the Tea Party Brown Shirt Neo-Confederate threat from which we must all be saved with our ballots and all of this will be forgotten.Dan’s outrage, like Moore’s and Sirota’s and Pollit’s and all the rest, plus a dollar, won’t even buy a cup of coffee. BFD.
Ben Stein: the unemployed possess poor work habits, personalities
snip
It is always interesting when a Jew uses the word “camps”.
Speaking of that mess, just finished reading this from Uri Avnery.
Zoabi is the Israeli Arab who was on the Turkish flotilla…
And now of course the Israelis, whoever they are, are making mvoes to remove citizenship (actually a kind of residency status) from Arabs living within Israel. And as Avnery points out, in the way of the world, it will nto stop there. NOW the Knesset is considering actions against ANY Israeli advocating boycott of Israel.
Good luck!!
You’d think Ben would remember that one of the excuses for those OTHER camps was that the Jews were placed in them were lazy parasites. “Arbeit Macht Frei” over the gates, and etc.
From The Department of No Shit, Sherlock, the WaPo chimes in with this brrreaking news: Firing of USDA official highlights larger political problems involving race
that gave me a good laugh! Off to read it… no matter what ti will be worth it.
they could have left off the last two words of that title and been more accurate.
so true!
(look! Palin is over there!)
poor pathetos:
AND she hits the larger message, the one that government, white or black, and tired co-opted orgs, white AND black (such as NAACP) want to avoid. It is about POOR people. Which is the message that got Martin LK killed. That and his anti war message.
AND she landed a last good punch. She’s right too.
yup
hey hey… CNN via lambert at corrente…
How’s that vote working out?
Maybe she should hit the road with VFP and Sheehan. They can call for Obama’s impeachment together.
BREAKING — painfully obvious bullshit that we’ll describe using overwrought metaphors and generous dollops of conventional wisdom!
On a related note, a buddy of mine posted some stupid Prog link about how the upcoming election will be a choice between “The Good Guys” and “The Confederacy” or some shit like that.
More like a choice between a covey of parasites that nest in one’s lungs vs. a covey of parasites that nest in one’s liver. [rolleyes] Either way, there’s no freedom from ‘em until the host finally croaks.
I’ll dig up the link Wednesday, if you all promise not to upchuck on your keyboards afterwards.
“The Good Guys”…
Well… all it entails is Obby telling us The Story of the Light Bulb, again….. And again.
How many useless No Hope No Change makers does it take to screw in a [corkscrew, mercury laden] light bulb.
Answer: Legions! And all Dem party regulars!
With an update on Butterscotch?
I’m off to bed but I want to know how she’s doing so I’ll check in tomorrow.
Yes tell us Cat Tails….
She’s no better and no worse. And she’s eating all her food, so I guess she’ll be okay until the rescue check from MomBank arrives.
hmm heard quick snip of a news update, this may be dated as I had a rather disjointed day (and night) but apparently Vilsack has said he will
R E C O N S I D E R
Sooooo big of him. He’s thinkin’ thinkin’ thinkin’.
It’s a slow struggle apparently.
yeah… reconsidering, reviewing, under review, diverse coalition calls for, etc.,
Somebody needs to tell Obby that Breitbart and Glenn Beck just had one of their better days. They say “jump” and the WH shoots for the stratosphere. It tells people to immedately, from the road, type a resignation letter on their Blackberry.
Choke chains in full operation.
hmm I think she hears how grudging Vilsack is being.
video of her interview on Today.
A friend of mine was wondering if she was a civil employee of the Ag Dept, rather than a political appointee. If she’s a federal employee, the forced resignation might have been improper.
hmm I haven’t seen taht be explicit… tho Vilsack certain acts as tho he has say over her job… Just waiting for the Today show out here…
I like how straighforward she has been… nothing couched or hidden.
she has been pretty good.
I did a little googling after I posted that, and apparently she was a political appointee, according to HuffPo.
NBC is calling her an appointee…. she is just coming on, her part of the segment…
I think typically the director of any cabinet agency is a political appointee.
Wow, I guess this is Obama’s way to fix the unemployment situation
Well, that and sending unemployed civilians to Afghanistan and Iraq.
My favorite headline about the who Sherrod debacle: Breitbart 3, Carebear 0
Archdiocese Pulls Confessional From eBay, Can’t Be Used As Bar
can ti be bought for a bugger room?
one of the comments pointed out that a glory hole could be cut on each side.
Jeebus, Andrew Breitbart “feels bad” and he “feels sympathy for her” … on an interview on NBC.
He thinks he’s a victim, too.
ugh he started out badly on ABC (stumble and stutter) but sadly he turned it around. Did far more talking than Boehlert and got the whole [dumb fuck] story from the black congressmen (Eldridge and Lewis and a couple of others) about being called names (and, etc.) during the health care gagagoogoo, got it all out again… .
And so it went.
he’s a creep
Gnu….
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