Forever 23 March 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Iraq War, Pan Arab Revolt - 2011, WAR!.trackback
Baghdad, Iraq: An Iraqi woman rests at the feet of riot police during a demonstration [Maya Alleruzzo/AP]
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Foundling in war paradise:
President Obama defended his Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, saying that Americans “don’t see any contradiction” in him ordering an attack on Libya to make sure “people aren’t butchered because of a dictator who wants to cling to power.”
“When I received that award, I specifically said there was an irony because I was already dealing with two wars,” Obama said in an interview with CNN from El Salvador. “So I am accustomed to this contradiction of being both a commander-in-chief but also someone who aspires to peace.”
Saying he is focused on ensuring that Libyans can “live out their own aspirations,” Obama defended America’s involvement in Libya, saying, “we’re not invading a country, we’re not acting alone – we’re acting under a mandate issued by the United Nations Security Council in an unprecedented fashion and with unprecedented speed.”
And he said again that the U.S. military has already saved lives there. “I think the American people don’t see any contradiction in somebody who cares about peace also wanting to make sure that people aren’t butchered because of a dictator who wants to cling to power,” he said.
Some foreign leaders have called on Obama to return the Nobel Peace Prize he accepted in 2009 since ordering the Libya attack.
It came out at the time of the award (which is hardly some “peace” prize with Kissinger and others recipients) that two of the 5 awarding Norwegians were appalled at his speech and wanted to take the award back.
Repent at leisure!
While he was down in Salvador he went to a memorial or the grave of Romero (I forget which and it hardly matters)… and claimed Salvador is some paragon of democracy now.
Hardly.
I say: Bring Back Bush! BBB!! It won’t matter.
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Apparently we DO have ground troops, taking off from Camp Lejeune, marines… MEU to join the fight.
Now marine jets / Harriers are involved but these are ground troops leaving in various numbers. 1000 went first and it sounds like, from garbled reports 2200 more leaving. FOr military and humanitarian purposes….
Mostly Republican aligned papers reporting, like the Examiner chain, of course. Ollie North, that old sabre in the teeth mess, screaming too.
UP UP AND AWAY!!… Obbie gets his own war.
now now, get it straight…it’s not war paradise, it’s Odyysey Dawn ™
virtual reality ™ peace ™ from the Obamessiah.
The war that can’t decide if it is a cruise or a dish washing liquid.
Gah.
oopsie …sorry, …weared awh git skooled at ….Odious Dawn ….
who is IOZ?
I think some higher up actually said, “we regret the photographs”.
No mention of anything else.
Like the people of the Middle East don’t know. They can only learn from show and tell, like children.
Etc.
yup, that spring wardrobe, can really hang you up the most …(waves, all good wishes, and hugs to ms xeno on the last “thread” …..)
Likewise, I’m sure.
thanks hon, may 4/4 pass with no ugly retraction.
Well, if “aspiring” is the criteria for getting a prize, where’s my gold Olympic medal??
Where is my Good Housekeeping Award?
I vaguely aspired all my life.
8)
Apparently the logic seems to be that if you make one hugely gigantic mess first and then promise to maybe sorta clean it up later kinda, you too can get that Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval!
Mine was no doubt lost in the mail.
Yum yum:
‘snack’ time! ….thank goodness they’re so low calorie …..I wouldn’t be able to get out the door anymore.
CNN and FAUX are too busy scrapping with each other in Libya.
i am probably desperado for a laugh, but this thread at IOZ hit an all time high.
that was interesting ….wonder what the point was …what came to my mind was the plane crash ….
where’s boohoohooman to add his thought?
Several stories on that plane crash. What a mess.
Wellstone … the 2002 Congressional Elections …and pulseless cheney always pop up in my head on that subject….
…oh and cheney ‘pheasant’ hunting in PA …Ligonier?…from a Limo window? … another best freind? …come to mind also.
Ahh well ….back to pondering the rabbit hole I fell down yesterday, after reading this: seekingalpha.com article 259619-japan-s-multiple-disasters-slam-the-market-what-happens-to-reits-now (Seeking Alpha indeed …they could never withstand being LAST …despite their nasty BUCK UP mythologies), regarding: Residential Rental REITS …it’s a BUBBLE! and then, of course, ending up on the subject of. Tony Considine & AIMCO ….HUD crimes …ReThugs and DemoRats ….’hand in hand’
sorry, that should’ve been Terry Considine, not “Tony”
Don’t get pompous with me
Chun Chumps.
“Sri Lankan-born Rajaratnam is fighting for his liberty, with a multimillion dollar defense team arguing that his stock trades were based on research or public information. Prosecutors contend he made $45 million in illegal profit from insider tips, including leaks from a former Goldman director.
Blankfein told jurors that the former board member, Rajat Gupta, breached fiduciary duties to Goldman by leaking board secrets to Rajaratnam. [ID:nN23249396]
The Brooklyn, New York-born CEO made his approach to the defense team during a break in the proceedings.
With his hand in his suit pocket, he walked up to defense lawyer John Dowd and other attorneys who were chatting with Rajaratnam. Dowd, a tall, former captain in the U.S. Marines, firmly shook the hand of the diminutive Blankfein and put his arm around him. They exchanged some words and a laugh.”
Reuters
Ok…can’t spell can’t see.
Wish there was a season 4 Damages. I want to forget the world for a while.
;0( hugs honey! (from someone who surely makes more spelling fuckups than you)
Thanks for mentioning Damages… I took a look at it and popped Season 1 onto my list…
Geesh bad press all the way over in Australia
Sounds like only Sarko really wants this damned thing..
I’ll say it again: BBB!! Bring Back Bush!
what would the difference be?
Times are tough when someone like me would agree with a GOP staffer:
Last but hardly least of the mess:
Oh Marisa, you have to understand the whole Democratic trip with Barry**, “The Spring Break President”.
Don’t ask, just pass the Jack, cuz ~ *Combined
AfPak and Iraq are,well, maybe only one blown tire, see, on this here roadtrip.
Think of Libya as ~the spare War~ a rinky dink donut of a war-tire, that Barry can, you know, pop on to get us thru so we can all be on our merry way.
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** {The graphic is one of the DNC trinkets released for the Democratic National Convention, The Great Re-Unification thing 2008…}
Woot… Woot!?? Yes? No?
I’m thinkin it’s No.
Did you see the snip of Obby trying all the side doors at the WH trying to get in? I think on his fourth try, a set of double doors to the Oval, he got in.
It was hilarious. He did not look happy, either.
LOL. I see.
Shocked they were! Tho momentarily stunned {“Oh yeh, Barry, him, whatsisname- ” } I imagine the guys and dolls inside bareley glanced up from their floating crap game and boiler room operations.
Barry should have called the Salahis.
They could have gotten him in.
Barry should have called the Salahis.
They could have gotten him in.
So true!!!!!!!!!!
Tsunami Was More Than 77 Feet High At Its Peak
Earthquakes in Thailand
where next, is all one can say.
Odyssey Dawn, a Homeric tragedy
Libya: Six injured as US team botches rescue of downed airmen
Mission accomplished!
One version I read said they arrived with food and drink for the pilots.
But you know, everybody is our enemy! We tolerate no friends.
Which is the bloody awful truth and has been for a long long time.
The Koch brothers are invading Alberta.
oops…wrong spot
Speaking of all things Koch, or at least Faux-Koch:
Ian “Koch” Murphy For Congress!
Poor little Reid has tightened up his man tits. He’s going to fundraising battle against them.
Have to laugh.
Escobar: Endgame: Divide, rule and get the oil
Who shot Anthony Shadid in 2002 in Ramallah (II)
Hellsbells…. I think we are under flood here.. between masses of hard rain for days and hours and hours of high surf, tons of snow, impassable roads to the Sierras.
At some points today the mountains that rise behind Santa Cruz got 4 inches an hour.
Are you safe?
oh yes I am … I am on a rock outcropping, pretty safe in most conditions. The worst taht happens here is the drains at the street corners get clogged, but does not seem to be happening at all…
They do pretty rigorous street cleaning here, side to side, about twice per week… I imagine that takes care of most of the leaf and what-have-you that can clog the drains here…
I will be glad when the amount of down pour stops tho. Not that I was anxious to get there for the needle draw but it has allowed me to day after day put off going to the hospital…
Too cold too wet too stormy and windy… or all at once.
Good to know that you’re okay – even if you are temporarily stranded.
house is full of food and various and sundry…. mail box full of netflix.
I am set!!
what a mess out there today…glad you’re cozy!
Yes I hope you are too…. I contemplated ordering a pizza late this afternoon and decided I did not want to have to open the front door… Too damned fucking cold, tho it is warmer than it has been for weeks.
thanks hon, I’m fine, had to a cancel a trip though.
mmmmm that pizza sounds good, hope you found a good substitute for it.
A rare, excellent article on the nuclear contamination (more than 204,000 cubic meters of highly radioactive waste remain on site — two-thirds of the total for the entire US.) at the old, 586 square mile Hanover, Washington nuclear plant, next to the Columbia River:
America’s Atomic Time Bomb – Hanford Nuclear Waste Still Poses Serious Risks
By Marc Pitzke in New York
03/24/11
Spiegel Online
I read taht today too… and found it quite the eye opener.
BTW, I meant to post, and might be of interest to you and BooHooHM…. Aaron Datesman at Tiny Revolution has two new posts on TMI, much info on the area of Harrisburg PA.
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/
yeah it sure was an eye opener, and the absolute lack of recollect on it, from those in the know, is despicable. Thanks for the TMI info, gonna go read……
from Aaron’s 03/24 post:
my two cents is that in far too many professions, those considered too concerned about ethical (and, for that matter, legal) complications are weeded out from the Expert Class.
Right on the perimeter of the old plant, is the still operating Columbia Generating Station run by Energy Northwest ….and guess what:
Plutonium fuel could be used at Hanford power plant
By Sandi Doughton
03/18/11
Seattle Times science reporter
What it is:
But they are EXPERTS:
Shhhhhhh:
(bolding mine)
well why shouldn’t the site that extracted the Plutonium for Manhattan Project AND for Fat Man and Little Boy now use MOX/POX.
I mean it is jsut so karmic.
BTW, have you noted, I just caught it in the past couple of days in writings (forget which tho I know I linked it here) there are actually a total of 10, TEN, reactors at Fukushima. Not just the 4, nor the additioanl two they took a few days to tell us about, but another 4, quite close by.
We are all so skrood.
I did see that somewhere and can’t remember where now …too much fucking bad nooooz ……………
yes we are screwed …
oh btw, it is not a war. At least not a war war (you know, like “rape rape”).
it’s “kinetic military action”.
In case you were wondering, and that is from the WH itself.
Well, on the lighter side of the news…
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0311/Schism_brews_in_Coffee_Party.html
[yawn]
“More & Better Democrats™,” by any other name, would still smell like freshly-brewed shit.
Humanitarians of the Year
hmmm…ms nip …you’re not getting me to click that link and go into rapid mental boil again today about the state of insanity and language destruction … especially when I’m listen to music and drinken cheap red …
;0)
(or is it actually about ‘real’ humanitarians?)
Big day in CanuckLand today…the federal Con gov’t is falling – the first time in history it’s happened on a matter of contempt.
Somewhat ironic that…
It’s been a LONG time coming.
A WI Supreme Court justice, up for election in a week and a half:
Prosser Enabled Sexual Predator, Possibly Violated State Law Himself
He’s up against a relative unknown, Asst. AG Kloppenburg, but some left-leaning groups are running brutal ads against him and he and his campaign have made some pretty blatant statements to Republican groups (that of course leaked out) that he was a solid vote on the Court for the Governor’s agenda. The election could be a bellweather of how effective the movement to stop Walker will be in getting out votes.
yum
Pine Ridge Billboard Project
WTF
G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
2nd…WTF. Does obama think immelt will bring the profits back to US if he cuts their tax rates??
BubbleObama
I don’t think Obama is interested in profits or jobs for the US national situation. Why would he be?
He’s their boy in the WH. And he has found he can golf and compose brackets and so on. Works for him!
Be interesting to see how many working class and lower paid professional white libs and black followers vote for him again. (If so, they deserve him, and I don’t usually go on about the sheeple)
‘Cuz you know, other wise it is Palin Bachman and Beck. (So relieved I have not cared for years)
Silly season in full swing. Watch out for the blood spatter.
More:
“In a rational system, a corporation’s tax department would be there to make sure a company complied with the law,” said Len Burman, a former Treasury official who now is a scholar at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. “But in our system, there are corporations that view their tax departments as a profit center, and the effects on public policy can be negative.”
The shelters are so crucial to G.E.’s bottom line that when Congress threatened to let the most lucrative one expire in 2008, the company came out in full force. G.E. officials worked with dozens of financial companies to send letters to Congress and hired a bevy of outside lobbyists.
The head of its tax team, Mr. Samuels, met with Representative Charles B. Rangel, then chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, which would decide the fate of the tax break. As he sat with the committee’s staff members outside Mr. Rangel’s office, Mr. Samuels dropped to his knee and pretended to beg for the provision to be extended — a flourish made in jest, he said through a spokeswoman.
That day, Mr. Rangel reversed his opposition to the tax break, according to other Democrats on the committee.
The following month, Mr. Rangel and Mr. Immelt stood together at St. Nicholas Park in Harlem as G.E. announced that its foundation had awarded $30 million to New York City schools, including $11 million to benefit various schools in Mr. Rangel’s district. Joel I. Klein, then the schools chancellor, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who presided, said it was the largest gift ever to the city’s schools.
Charlie is a door knob. There to be turned.
hmm I just heard a bottom line tidbit, listening to a US dissident (I missed her name, but they may repeat the segment) on Russia Today, that NATO bombing raids in Serbia destroyed 14 tanks but bombed 437 schools.
In a nutshell.
So simple.
ugh:
“Judaism, unlike some other religions, discourages conversions, but there has always been a certain amount of giddy excitement when a star, from Marilyn Monroe to Sammy Davis Jr., converts to the Jewish faith.
Few celebrity conversions, however, have garnered the lasting impact that the ceremony at Hollywood’s Temple Israel on March 27, 1959 did, at which a 27-year old Elizabeth Taylor took on the Hebrew name Elisheva Rachel and converted to Judaism. ”
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/remembering-elizabeth-taylor-jewish-by-choice-1.351556
BIG supporter of Israel as well.
thanks for that, hadn’t known that …now I understand some things better…. why perhaps, Ava (who I thought was far more ‘beautiful’…not that that makes anyone a decent person) got a far worse rep, than Liz in many corners …or am I wrong there? …never really ‘followed Hollowwood …not a movie buff, though I’ve really loved a handful of them.
New
LINK
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