Vampyres about in the land… 28 October 2007
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, Big Box Blogs, California / Pacific Coast, DC Politics, Democrats, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Iran, Iraq War, Political Blogs, U.S. Senate, WAR!.trackback
Right right right… that was such an outside the Beltway, insurgent run. Riiiight:
Webb, a former Pentagon official and Navy secretary, wrote novels based on his Vietnam War experiences. In the Senate, he sits on three relevant committees: Armed Services, Foreign Relations and Veterans’ Affairs. He keeps a writing office in Rosslyn that overlooks the Iwo Jima Memorial, and he often takes walks through Arlington National Cemetery, where his father is buried. [I am making a sign of the cross, head bowed in deep respect… yeah right… – Mcat]
Reid, who met Webb in the early days of his long-shot Senate campaign, has become his patron in the chamber. The two were introduced by former senator Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), another Vietnam veteran with an independent streak, who for years had been encouraging Webb to seek public office. [another fucking pro-war whack job! — Mcat]
Reid lobbied his party to invest in Webb’s candidacy, convinced that the political neophyte’s unusual profile put the Virginia Senate seat, held by GOP rising star Allen, within reach. “It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made,” Reid said in an interview, but he conceded, “He’s not easily led.”
Shortly after his election, Webb snubbed the president at a White House reception when Bush asked about his son, a Marine recently deployed to Iraq. Asked by Reid to deliver the Democratic response to the State of the Union address, Webb discarded a draft prepared for him and wrote his own. This spring, when a senior Webb staffer was arrested carrying the senator’s loaded handgun into a Capitol office building, Webb asserted his right “to defend myself and my family.”
No small “d” democrat mentioned in that article – not a one! LOL
Myself, I always thought Raising Kaine, the online site that backed Kaine and later Webb smelled to high heaven of Republican (tho not pro George Allen) elephant droppings… The objective of the Wapo piece is to push (or merely profile, who knows) Webb for Veepessa (he just gave the key note speech at the J-J dinner in NH, woohoo!).
I could see it, tho I have zero idea who Hillary will pick.
No matter what, we are screwed, so — why worry ?? (truly! I have learned to love the bomb!). Her annual State of the Union speeches should make George’s look tolerable.
Yes, I did say that.
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Sunday morning – Malibu – October 07 fires [LAT reader photo]
Love it when the vampyres rise up and piss on the Democrats – (remember… I have learned to Love the Bomb!!)
BREAKING NEWS: Electoral initiative backers give up
Plagued by a lack of money, supporters of a statewide initiative drive to change the way California’s 55 electoral votes are apportioned, first revealed here by Top of the Ticket in July, are pulling the plug on that effort.
In an exclusive report to appear on this website late tonight and in Friday’s print editions, The Times’ Dan Morain reports that the proposal to change the winner-take-all electoral vote allocation to one by congressional district is virtually dead with the resignation of key supporters, internal disputes and a lack of funds.
The reality is hundreds of thousands of signatures must be gathered by the end of November to get the measure on the June 2008 ballot.
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Opposition was led by Democratic consultant Chris Lehane who received financial backing from donors such as Stephen Bing, like Lehane a Hillary Clinton backer who saw any threat to keeping all of California’s electoral votes as unacceptable.
“We want to to make sure this is not the Freddy Krueger of initiatives,” Lehane said today, “that comes back to life. We’ll continue to monitor it.” Morain’s full story is available here.
The Democrats even ran a puff piece in the NYT, loaded with slobbery luv for Lehane, how he had vanquished the Republican efforts…. Both sides are making sure their operatives appear above the fold in this play for the CA EV…
The intent is to change California’s winner-take-all system, which would give Republicans an edge in the presidential race.
SACRAMENTO — Veteran GOP consultants said Monday that they were relaunching a drive to change the way California allocates its electoral college votes, aimed at helping the 2008 Republican presidential nominee capture the White House.
Political strategist David Gilliard said he was taking over the ballot initiative campaign, along with strategist Ed Rollins and fundraiser Anne Dunsmore. Consultant Mike Arno will oversee the signature-gathering effort.
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Our budget is going to be whatever it takes to make the June ballot,” said Gilliard, who played a key role in getting the recall of Democratic Gov. Gray Davis onto the 2003 ballot.
The proposed initiative would change California’s method of allocating its 55 electoral votes from a winner-take-all basis, which favors Democrats, to a congressional district-based approach. Republicans hold 19 congressional seats, so presumably the GOP nominee could win a similar number of electoral votes.
The effort stalled last month when its original organizers failed to raise the $2 million needed to place the initiative on the June ballot.
Until recently, Dunsmore oversaw fundraising for Rudolph W. Giuliani’s presidential campaign — prompting Democrats to charge that the former New York mayor was behind the initiative drive. A major Giuliani benefactor, Wall Street mogul Paul E. Singer, donated $175,000 to fund the original effort.
Yes there is a daunting number of signatures to gather to get this on the ballot… but this has loads of behind-the-scenes Republican factions, operatives and consultants working on it. And has for a long time… Arnold publically claims hands off, but last year Tom Campbell (ran agaisnt Feinstein three times, from her LEFT, as a R) was working with Arnold on this very putsch. Long time R money from the 2003 Recall as well as no tax/low tax CA pols and operatives are behind this. And Guiliani money and operatives.
The last kicker…
This can go on the ballot as late as the NOVEMBER 2008 ballot and be legal in the 2008 run. Our votes are not certified ’til January ’09. The current plan, the public plan, is that it should go on the June ’08 [rimary ballot here… yes … our primary is split. The moved up, gamed up, Dem mobbed up early presidential primary, then later, in June, we vote in the down ticket primary. They plan to wear us out, voting for scheisse.
Republicans feel that with low turn out (our primary numbers are falling – 30% in the ’03 Recall and less than 25% in the ’04 primary – any shock? We are WEARING OUT!) June might work for them, low turn out, but more Republicans.
No point counting the R out of the game. And, for months now Guiliani says, support me, I can win in CA. I caught Willie Brown, the other night on television, trying to say this is a very blue state.
BULLSHIT!
No, it’s not … it has some big blue districts. And the Republicans have parsed the numbers, very finely. You break the ‘winner take all’ system of apportioning the EV, you can, conceivably, deny the Democrats the WH. For a long time.
Years ago, I used to worry — about this very thing. But I learned to Love the Bomb: In all its forms….
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Marisacat 
I say let them have it, fuck it, whichever flavour of the war party wins out. I hear people all the time say “Americans are a ‘conservative’ (though most people have NO fucking idea what that means) people. So fine, let them have it, lets get rid of the last vestiges of even the appearance of a debate. Let them vote for war or wider war. Let them have the party of Big Oil, or the party of Hedge Funds. Let them all learn the harder lessons to come … the falling bridges and drowned cities and burned subdivisions.
I listen to Webb and I hear fascist nutter. His worship of his “warrior” (meaningly zealous cannon fodder) people is creepy.
I could see him running w/ Clinton.
The NY Times is full of silliness writing off the Xtian theofascists this morning:
The Evangelical Crackup
And Frank Rich has a silly idea that it’s Rudy who will finish them off
Elliot Spitzer, just another spineless Donklephant
Pathetic.
John Cole on the medical marijuana activist who killed herself recently (I linked in the last thread):
Let’s Be Blunt
Spitzer backed down?
Eric Schneiderman (a Spitzer point guy in the NY Legislature) was on Democracy Now last Friday breathing fire against the nativists.
What happened?
Oh well, I guess we STILL have to vote for Hillary in 2008 because at least she’ll be more moderate about punishing illegals.
“What a huge political flip,” said Chung-Wha Hong, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition.
FLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP
FLOPPPPPPPPER.
But really, learn to love the bomb. Because that is what the Democrats are. They just bomb.
Stock up on pop corn.
I thought that the real ID license was defeated. So everyone has to have their papers in order to live in this country anymore. And we’re not supposed to compare it to Germany in the ’30s.
As for Spitzer backing down, I am surprised. I had not heard that.
I just read an article somewhere that farmers are suffering because of the crackdown on undocumented people.
I kind of agree with Mitm – it made no difference to have a Dem majority over the past year. Things are actually worse.
But Rudi does scare me, I have to say … he always did.
oh the plan is to demonise Rudy to the so called left, liberal (always cowering), moderate Ind…
and thus up turn out for Hillary.
Sorry, I am immune.
At least Rudy will stab people in the front … or at least openly ignore them and make it clear that he doesn’t give a fuck what non-supporters think. Increasingly it’s the imperiousness of the Donks that gets to me, the empty promises and the lousy nuts-and-bolts politics and the willingness to sell out any group, reverse any stand, when they and their feckless advisors think it’s easier. I find that more dangerous, because it dangles hope in front of peoples’ noses, like a bright flashing lure that hides the barbed hook in its belly.
oh the plan is to demonise Rudy to the so called left, liberal (always cowering), moderate Ind
Hillary had supporters at the anti-war rally yesterday doing just that. Oh, I’m not saying they were paid to be there or anything, just that a lot of people (even on the left) in NYC seem to like her.
But honestly these anti-war rallies are an incredibly mixed bag since they require not real thought or committment to be there. Walking down Broadway on a Saturday carrying a “fuck bush” sign is, shall we say, a bit less threatening than marching from Selma to Montgomery.
Meeting up with a grizzled old “I was in nam” vet sort of guy wearing a Keffiyeh and hearing him say “what we really need in this country is a draft. I’m sick of all the rich kids sittin this one out” is disheartening to say the least.
well Rangel was sent down, as a young(ish) elected Dem, to march in the Selma to Montgomery march… he has stated he had no idea what it was about and resented that his feet hurt.
No, really. And recall he was not some 18 year old middle class Harlem kid, he had, by then, served in Korea.
Yes………. hard to care about the Dems.
Yeah but in that case Rangel’s cluelessness could have gotten him killed. A lot of northerners (both white and black) made the same mistake, people like Viola Liuzza and James J. Reeb. They thought they were playing by northern rules.
http://www.uua.org/pressroom/pressreleases/14689.shtml
Rachel Corrie kind of made the same mistake in Gaza, didn’t think the Israelis would kill an American.
But in both cases, Gaza and in Selma, there was such a palpable sense of danger in the air that you didn’t do it in a casual way. Rangel notwithstanding, you tended only to go if you were pretty hard core.
But compare 2007 even to 2002 and 2003. In 2002 and 2003, going to an anti-war march was at least a bit of a step. After all, we were all in that post 9/11 jingo period and the cops were ready to slam barricades on people and run them over with horses.
But in Manhattan in 2007? You’d be hard pressed to find anybody who would admit to liking Bush or being in favor of the war.
I rememeber at the beginning of the war there were reports about a bomb being sent to Iraq called the ‘mother of all bombs’ MOAB airc. I haven’t read anything about it since. Is that the same bomb Bush wants money to ‘maintain’?
Looks like he’ll get all the money he wants. After which I’m sure there will still be apologists for the Dems who give it to him.
Ed Rollins is back? Re Marisa’s post. The last time I saw him was about two years ago on Charlie Rose. He was predicting that ‘Hookergate’ would take down dozens of top elected officials and that it was worse than anyone was aware of. He said he had withdrawn himself from the whole mess. He also said it would be mostly Republicans, but there would be some Dems involved also.
So what happened to Hookergate? Chertoff was mentioned in that scandal, airc. They were all partying and celebrating war supposedly that included prostitutes. Chertoff claimed all he did was have a few drinks and never saw any prostitutes.
I haven’t seen much coverage of the Wilkes trial either. Considering the media’s obsession with sex, you would think this was a trial that would have received saturation coverage:
WILKES’ REPUBLICAN CULTURE OF CORRUPTION TRIAL GETTING WILD– MAY BE KEY TO HASTERT’S EARLY RESIGNATION
Then there was the testimony of the prostitutes:
Rich state, poor state
the real story on Cunningham is the gay prostitutes.
SOmeone put a tournequit on hte DC madam story/stories.
I assume it is still roiling slightly out of view.
That’s my take anyway.
It could all lead back to Jeff Gannon who seems to have come from nowhere just as the warmongers took over the country and gained unprecedented access to the WH.
The media explained Hastert’s early retirement as a politician just being tired and wanting to return to private life. They made no connnection to the testimony given by Wlkes’ nephew and Hastert’s decision to return to private life.
TPM has been covering the trial also. It’s all so disgusting that these men, Cunningham who screamed ‘traitor’ at anyone who opposed the war, are now revealed as nothing more than cheap liars and crooks and cheaters, living their sordid lives financed by funding for the illegal war.
Prosecution rests in Wilkes trial
Any Democrat worth anything at all would refuse Bush’s latest demand for more billions based on these revelations alone and ask for an emergency session of Congress to get accountability for the billions already spent. ‘This money is not for the troops! This is what they were doing with your tax dollars’! So why don’t they? Cunningham is already convicted, one of the war’s most vocal supporters.
And named by Wilkes nephew is a string of other Republican war mongers:
Funny how the media doesn’t feel this sleazy story of sex, lies, war, top DC politicians and their disgusting existences as interesting as Clinton’s little fling with Monica.
Any Democrat worth anything at all would refuse Bush’s latest demand for more billions based on these revelations alone and ask for an emergency session of Congress to get accountability for the billions already spent.
Well, they don’t care. They don’t care about Schip either, but they need something to run on…
hmmm Democrats only fussed about a few things last summer and fall as it would bolster the election. They expect 08 to be a slide to the Oval and have forgotten that the war and Katrina (which was strategically folded into the war anger, rather than be allowed to stand on its own) were not enough. Nor was widespread R corruption.
They needed the Foley sex scandal. Very badly.
’08 will be popcorn viewing. Balls to the wall, blood in the gutters. And I think it may be a toss up. Hard to say. Democrats think it will be a cakewalk, all the “retirements”…
Latest seems to be Hillary telling women to vote for her, for staying iwth Bill. I suppose they will line up…. middle management women… small town women…
Rudy seems very intent on CA, will be interesting to see how it goes. If he plays better in the SW and the Mountain West, could be a very tough election.
Democrats think it will be a cakewalk, all the “retirements”…
yup, stupid against a Republican party that has spent years building infrastructure. I’m sure there are plenty of local up-and-comers ready to fight for those Republican seats, as Rahm and Schumer and Co recruit more “former” Republicans and not-ready-for-primetime “selfmade” millionaires.
Let it all burn down.
Why we’re in such deep trouble … THESE are the sorts of people who OWN boththe US and UK gov’ts.
These tycoons are stranger than fiction
Republicans seem t be in an extended purge of some, but only some, of their gays.
Frankly Gannon seemed a part of all of that. And he did not disappear, either, which is at least worth noting. Considering people thought that would be the next “Watergate”… I never saw that as on the agenda.
Forget his name now… Nicholson maybe? But the Vet Affairs guy who “retired” a few weeks ago, was another.
Truth Matters
I think you’re right about the purge of gays … why so many leaks about this behavior all at once? Much crowing about the “decline” of the theofascists these days, but what might actually be going on is a consolidation of power amongst the jingoist right, with the removal of anyone who might post a risk later.
Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis
“They don’t care about Schip either, but they need something to run on….”
Ya noticed that, did ya. 😉 The “chicken in every pot” gambit. Maybe I’ll LOL sometime in the future, can’t do it today, it’s all so sick and gamed.
On the bright or of some interest side….in the “yard sign” wars, gotta say the “White boy only and fuck everyone else” libertarian, Paul, is in the lead but..LOL, I’m seeing I’m seein’ BIG (sledgehammer to secure, big) and multiplin’ Gravel signs. Ain’t shittin’ ya here, it’s true. He ain’t got a chance in hell but it’s gotta be buggin’ the shit outta some. 😛
Maybe Hoi polloi, both sides of the aisle, are getting sick of it all. Roll those dice.
Btw, great shot of Webb considerin’ the post title and all…
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yes– I thought the Niki Tsongas run was pathetic. Running on ending the war and on Schip.
Beyond pathetic. And straight dictation from what is permitted, as per Wolfson/Ann Lewis/Clinton/etc.
Pathetic!
“I thought the Niki Tsongas run was pathetic.”
…but very pricey. She’s gonna have to work had to pay that back. Same old… 😀
work had = work hard..
agree on the bucks for Tsongas…
I read the Dems panicked at the R ground game. Poured money in… and she ran heavily on Paul’s memory. Ugh… for a squeaker.
Good luck, don’t write, is what I say… 😉
agreed on california being more complicated than a blue state. were the democratic party interested in building up a base with the latino population, hard core organizing, building up local parties, it could be. but they have decided that it is to their liking to depend on independent white homeowners as their margin of victory.
arnold and davis were of the same party, as far as i am concerned. we’ve got far more than two de facto parties out here, and a spectacularly uninformed electorate to boot. as intended.
still, i think the only way giuliani gets any EVs from CA is the state-splitting initiative. those white independent homeowners still care a great deal about lip service to abortion rights and social liberalism, at least for their families. not sure rudy could run arnold’s gameplan in a national race.
blow up a city in CA in some “terrorist attack,” and he’d have a shot, though. hope it doesn’t come to that.
hmm
not saying ti can be done, but CA is so split in its many factions that I would nto place a bet against Rudy, should the proposition to split the EV make it thru. And they have more than one chance, as I see it.
I sat up watching the returns in 05 on parental notice…. that Sebastiani and the Catholic publisher (forget his name) down in OC put a mil or two into. It was a squeaker but for SF, Alameda Co (the big voter base that put it over) pulling in numbers that put it over statewide, tho helped by smaller counties like Marin etc.
Field poll showed it winning by several pts and while it didnto make as a big win as Field indicated it did pull in a more than 5 pt spread.
But in the Recall, I sat in a blue island (the 9 Bay Area counties) in a sea of red, with LA Co barely pulling in 51% against the Recall.
Scary, depending on how a campaign is run. And Arnold is in charge now, with Dems weakening.
Not good news.
The many grass roots orgs that want to concentrate on organising voters and registering new voters, minorities, women etc get shafted. HAVA money went to partisan orgs that only bother iwth “the likely voter”.
Stasis. Which is what the parties want.
Learn ot love the bomb, I say.
Greetings, all. Quite a photo up there – a double-booter! Suppose we should be happy he isn’t waving actual M16s. At least, not yet.
Can’t imagine why the GOP would pass up a chance to split the California EV, if they can get away with it. And if they can do so at the very last minute, so much the better, right?
Regarding the NYS driver license mess: I was very surprised that Spitzer proposed the plan in the first place, to tell the truth. A guaranteed rabble-rouser of an issue for the GOP, at a time when Spitzer’s already hemorrhaging approval (on all sides) thanks to the Bruno fiasco.
Talk about free hayrides for the terra ghouls. . . . And unlike residents in some other border states, New Yorkers don’t tend to think of the state as dependent on (never mind in any way loyal to) immigrant labor, since a lot of those workers are semi-invisible – in the timber industry, in orchards, in kitchens, and in overnight cleaning crews.
Right away, a bunch (and eventually, a dozen) of the state’s county clerks publicly announced they would refuse to issue licenses to undocumented residents, and then a couple of them took it further and vowed to notify law enforcement and immigration to ensure arrest and deportation of any aliens who tried to apply.
(Link above is to earlier story at The Albany Project , which follows all the state shenanigans pretty closely.)
Plus, the document requirements for land travel across the Canadian border are supposed to get stricter in February of 2008, though there are still various rumblings about extensions or alternatives to that.
The timing of (and non-preparation of the public for) Spitzer’s initiative meant it was pretty well doomed from the get-go, I’d say. Guess he’ll be learning how to love the (NYS political) bomb, too.
at a time when Spitzer’s already hemorrhaging approval (on all sides) thanks to the Bruno fiasco.
—– IB
I threw my hands in the air when that happened. I am sick to death of dumb pols. spitzer included.
Buffalo News story on the driver’s license deal:
Way to piss everybody off, Eliot.
Nice little goon-whistle in the Bruno quote from the Buffalo News piece:
… things are moving along nicely I see w/r/t immigration. Nicely set up for whatever the R will spring in GE.
It’s so nice to see people learn … this is wonderful.
the real fun part of the right’s nativism is that it w/ devastate the economy, and it will get worse over time.
MitM: thanks for the video. I immediately sent the link to other people.
the real fun part of the right’s nativism is that it w/ devastate the economy, and it will get worse over time.
Right wingers are kind of like that.
The Nazis would have probably got nukes and been able to vaporize Stalin’s hordes in less than 20 minutes had they not been so uptight about Jewish scientists.
the real fun part of the right’s nativism is that it w/ devastate the economy, and it will get worse over time.
Right wingers are kind of like that.
The Nazis would have probably got nukes and been able to vaporize Stalin’s hordes in less than 20 minutes had they not been so uptight about Jewish scientists.
I think the right whips out its nativism routine with the flourish of some long, white opera gloves . . . such a neat snap in the air, and a classical pull-me-up covering the black-and-bruised, heavily credit-trackmarked, middle-and-middling, hired (for now) hands of an economy (with a matching national self-image) whose devastation is already well underway.
But I’m grumpy these days.
Stalin’s hordes? Hmm well, I’m certainly no fan of Stalin, but I don’t think it is fair to call the defense of Soviet Russia against the Nazis an act of “hordes”. And I doubt that however many scientists they had working for them, Jewish or not, the Nazis would have occupied Soviet Russia in a century, much less in 20 minutes.
They trust the exit polls in Argentina.
Hmm well, I’m certainly no fan of Stalin, but I don’t think it is fair to call the defense of Soviet Russia against the Nazis an act of “hordes”.
Actually the Red Army could accurately be described as “High Tech Hordes”. They had some good armor but they beat the Nazis because Stalin and Zhukov were willing to take a lot more casualties than the Germans could deal with. And just in case anybody got cold feet, you had the NKVD lined up in the back to shoot anybody who got cold feet.
And I AM a fan of Stalin.
It’s interesting though. Genghis Khan never had nukes or even tanks but he managed to occupy all of Russia and China for decades.
Now THOSE were hordes.
MitM – Saw that clip a couple of weeks ago, and yes, that’s the sort of political “TV moment” that deserves the widest possible play.
And just think – no boots were involved!
Sulphur crested Eleanora cockatoo dances to the Backstreet Boys, and by the end of the song, learns to love the bomb.
IOZ link went to spam.
oh Madman… nothing from you lurking in Spam OR in moderation.
I will check again, see f there was a delay…
Maybe I screwed it up … here it is. And the new Silber that inspired it.
moiv…
I am guessing Hillary is taking heart from the win for Mme Kirchner…
That video of the San Diego mayor should have been EVERYWHERE.
Here’s another vampyre for you — but this one loves the crucifix.
Mr. Lieberman brought the crowd to its feet by comparing Mr. Hagee to Moses.
Just another reason to be happy you voted for Nader. This man was one Mossad bullet away from the White House.
This nice — The Last Supper in high-def.
Chalmers Johnson pulls a Cornell West.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/28/211545/86
Smart guy. Stupid move.
Chalmers Johnson: No, that is the problem. I will probably myself personally, its not relevant or not (sic), but I probably will vote for Mr. Obama but not because I think he particularly can do anything, its simply that I have some friends at Yale Law School who happen to know him personally who say that he is extremely intelligent and I say that is about all we can ask for any longer.
Mitm, 50:
some tried:
http://www.politicalfleshfeast.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=441
also posted at MLW where I am miraculously undead, though have my eyes pealed for “Nately’s whore”.
fwiw… (and that is not much) I caught Tavis Smiley and West on iwth Charlie Rose, earlier this week.
The conversation turned to Obama… and –
They def looked pained at times. Esp Tavis. But also West as well. He called himself a “critical supporter”.
hardly matters, we are screwed.
hmmm wasn’t going to bother posting this but then landed at this graf (and nto finished with it, yet):
Tom Englehardt went to the march in NYC…
I would add, it is a very different war. Just as wrong, just as illegal (IMO) just as invasive… genocidal imo, but different – inevitably, as it followed Vietnam. To me, there is no question, no debate, no “coming back” from this, no [stupid and fucked as this language was and is] “taking the country back”, etc. The ugly hideous gibberish of “mismanaged”.
Thsi is who we are. Nowhere to hide, if you are still sane, that is.
hey yall —
thought i should say hi since I posted here daily for a while. I got that job I was moaning about a couple of weeks back. The brought me in for a second interview but it was really to make me and offer and start me working.
Since I had no “recent references” they put me on this bullshit probation (most of my refererences are principals or at least 1 level down. shit), paying me a bullshit hourly wage. IN the past I would have said FUCK THAT. but I needed the money. So even if it was just for a month it was better than no money. Anyway, they really liked my first two assignments. which were really just tests. and brought on for real on my 3rd day.
Its a good match for my skills. But I dont even know my title. I am doing “special” projects. I may — lol — be launching some blogs for them. (do you have any experience with blogs?). I am making $10-20K less than I should but once I know more about their business I can renegotiate.
That is the worse part of really needing work. You are in no position to negotiate.
So anyway. I am approaching a normal routine again and im busy. I just dont have the bandwith to keep up with multiple sites. God and I might get my computer fixed so I can play games again! I dont usually do this GBCW shit but since this site has a low posting pop I thought it the polite thing to do.
I also have to become more familiar with our client list so i know who not to make fun of.
and brought on for real on my 3rd day.
Think of it this way: they were kind. I would assume in the work atmosphere these days, it might have been longer.
Good luck out there. Wear a winter coat and bundle up!
Speaking of Vampires, Holy Shit, would someone stake this guy?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20071028/wl_mcclatchy/20071028bcusiraqchalabi_attn_national_foreign_editor_ytop
BAGHDAD- Ahmad Chalabi , the controversial, ubiquitous Iraqi politician and one-time Bush administration favorite, has re-emerged as a central figure in the latest U.S. strategy for Iraq .
Wood. In the Heart. Please.
I would add, it is a very different war. Just as wrong, just as illegal (IMO) just as invasive… genocidal imo, but different – inevitably, as it followed Vietnam.
Yup, that’s it … we’re freely choosing to do this shit, knowing better.
It’s painfully clear that what anybody, without a large amount of money anyway, thinks isn’t important.
congrats Revisionist!
Tom Englehardt went to the march in NYC…
Excellent article in some ways. He hits on all the problems. But it’s also disjointed and long winded. He has no answers.
But I’m glad to see he’s thinking along the same lines as I am.
he is always long winded… I scan his stuff mostly. And sometimes find some of his stuff (where he intros other writers) to be useful for links i missed on certan issues.
I signed up for his emails years ago… and find enough to not unsub..
well, Rev, i was going to congrat you on the job, but I think this is less than gracious:
“So anyway. I am approaching a normal routine again and im busy. I just dont have the bandwith to keep up with multiple sites. God and I might get my computer fixed so I can play games again! I dont usually do this GBCW shit but since this site has a low posting pop I thought it the polite thing to do.”
IMO. maybe it’s just clumsy.
this is the future…..”I don’t have enough bandwith for you…”
well… Miss D
Not to worry… it was a jumble of paragraphs with a lot of run-on thoughts. Revisionist seemed to think it was an important comment he neded or wanted to make.
As I said, bundle up out there. General weather advisory.
well i’ll delurk and offer congratulations! i had noticed you not being around as much.
put on my cancer-survivor hat now. careful about knocking that hourly wage position, you might grow to like it if the hours are kinder. i spent years salaried, plus percent of the gross for several years, and i like my slacker-hourly better than my previous workaholic life. so what if the funding isn’t as great? salary’s often an excuse to force one to pull 60s. on hours, especially if you get time and a half after 40, they’ll usually chase you out and work the salary types OT.
personal time is limited, and more precious than just about anything, other than maybe those you love and your respect for yourself. time spent slaving for some idiot corp is personal time being traded. we all have to trade some. but keep as much as possible. once its gone, you never get it back.
Wise words, bay. The older I get, the more “my” time is worth. Some money is just too expensive to make.
That being said, best of luck with the new gig, Rev.
66-funny, I met a young woman who is studying to be a meterologist–very impressive. and she has no taste for being a TV one, which she considers the lowest rung.
The LOL highlights of this weekend for me, which involved packing and defrosting refrigerator (hateful), is that several times I freaked myself out by accidentally stepping on the bubble wrap lying on the floor.
In other areas of intrigue, I watched an almost physically violent encounter between 2 guys on the used car lot. It ended with one party relinquishing keys. It seems that party lived in the trailer on the property, and I observed all the feral cats swirling about the trailer when it happened, some going in the trailer.
The trend is that they always boot the cat sympathizers out.
Reporting, barely alive, from an undisclosed location.
well miss devore, someone must have told you to jump, cause i was just over at myleftnutmeg and don’t see anything of you at all.
while i was there though i did see this rather humorous bit.
:::snickering::: hey rabin. you left out the AIM stuff… i’m chure i’ve seen him going on about that…
he does go on.
He has no answers.
I don’t think anybody does. I don’t think we’re at a place for answers yet. No one is asking the right questions, we’re using a vocabulary for an old world, and old war, and old shared belief system.
I think a lot more chaos and conflict is going to have to happen before a real political discussions, real solutions can happen.
i think i got sent to spam.
i mentioned the MB word! haha
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LOL someone sent me the Raybin comment this am. He left out quite a lot.
No wonder I long ago decided, MB had been at TOO many hot spots, for my comfort level.
hell.. millions think electing Hillary (or Obama or Edwards) is an ansewr. They cannot let go, or softer less angst driven imperial war (pounded out from a Democrat) is fine iwth them. And really, most Democrats roll over and go to sleep when a Democrat goes in.
And for months it, whatever the outcome of the election, will be presented as The Answer.
70-maybe because my last post was in september. and only post in some time.
and any number of other things I’m doubtless forgetting and/or unaware of;
Left out crossing the Delaware with George Washington and liberating Auschwitz with Ronald Reagan.
moiv said
if i could give you some of mine, i would. the time you spend on work is very well spent. you help ease the fears, and i’m sure in many cases, the suffering of others.
pity i can’t.
The eternal verities comfort us in their immutability.
And George Will is still a tool and an idiot.
In the snipped-out text, he explains why it’s “irrational” for Californians to worry about electing a pro-choice president. Because, you know … it’s just not important.
I heard someone the other night, very sanguine, that it is all but certain that abortion will devolve to the States. It was Toobin on Charlie Rose.
He said it would [no shock] come down hardest on poor women, but that middle class women could go “a state over”. Abortion “would still be available”.
Blew me away, just because it wsa so matter of fact, not that I was surprised at the assessment. For a few years now it seems, it is all but decided. Both parties are comfy wumfy, let it revert to the states.
Think Charlie made some ignorant statement about “just issues of late term”…
Lordy. As though either knew anything.
Ah, “just issues of late term” … yeah, there’s always that.
People have no idea of how many women are shocked to the core when they learn that their fetuses are fatally flawed, and then find out that they’ll have to carry them for another five months and watch them die with their first breaths — because their OBs “just don’t do that,” and the hospitals won’t permit an abortion anyway, not so long as there are discernible fetal heart tones.
Then the OBs — clueless as Charlie (or Obama, for that matter) — tell them to call a clinic. Because even almost four years after the law changed, most OB/GYNs in Texas still don’t know that licensed clinics can’t provide care for women after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The pundits are clueless, but they like it that way, so that they can continue to administer soothing lies. All the anesthesia we’re going to get.
that’s the reason we’re all on edge, madman, and i suspect one underlying why we tend to jump all over one another in the middle of political discussions, because we know, deep down, that there is no answer.
it’s so hard to accept, and i’ll admit to grasping at straws for vain hope from time to time. this country is such a hard thing to look in the eye, when you care about people, and have a lot to lose.
i wonder if any of those pundits opining on the ease of “driving a state over” have ever tried to drive from state to state west of the rockies. i mean, those little states are close together next to NYC, perhaps, but that’s a long day’s drive out here, and will get far worse if it gets sent down to the states in huge swaths of this country.
not that it isn’t already pretty much that way in a practical sense, of course.
Not only that, but it will more likely be several states over. Another aspect of regulation that people ignore — in both senses of the word — is that the key to the severity of restriction is federal court districts. Most states within a given district tend to adopt quite similar statutes.
That’s how Texas ended up with the same law, word for word, as Mississippi. After the Mississippi law was upheld by the 5th District in New Orleans, the coast was clear to pass the same measure in other states within that district without fear of incurring heavy expenses to defend a legal challenge.
But facts are such a downer, so let’s not let them get in the way of expert political commentary.
Looks like Hillary’s not the only one taking bucks from the usual suspects: Lieberman Contributions Being Investigated by the FBI.
wu ming
the only hopeful sign is that some of the right’s language is breaking down too. The cognitive dissonance of that movement using terms like “freedom” and “family values” and “compassionate conservatism” is becoming harder and harder to ignore. Katrina and falling bridges and hypocrite preachers and politicians make it all increasingly empty. I’m not at the happy place indicated by the recent spate of stories about how the evangelical right is breaking down … the process will take some time … but it is increasingly ineffective in a broad sense. Unfortunately, that end of the spectrum tends to be better able to stick together as a bloc, which gives them power in a society as fractured as this one, so they’ll still exert some influence for quite sometime.
Meanwhile, what we’re left with mostly is a kind of broken feudalism, akin to factions at the English court in Elizabethan times or the Roman nobility in the time leading up to Julius Caesar’s return to Rome, wealthy factions scrabbling over a pile of treasure that they’ve stolen from everybody else as privation spreads elsewhere.
Anyway, I don’t think it’s fair to say that someone has no “answers” now. We’re cut into tiny demographic slices, left with a language swimming in PR distortions, so I’m just glad when people raise the questions. Enough questions are asked, for long enough, and answers and the words to express them will arise eventually. It’s just going to take some time, and a lot of pain and conflict.
Pepe Escobar in ATimes:
Interesting article from Bloomberg on the US dollar…
“These things start out slowly, and in recent months I have had similar experiences from Mexico to Vietnam. In markets, restaurants, taxis and tourist shops that long accepted dollars, many are opting for local currency. The reason: concerns the dollar plunge that analysts have predicted for years is afoot and that the U.S. is uninterested in halting it.”
Bloomberg link
Via The Housing Bubble Blog
LINK
oh in case anyone cares, the “old” Obama will be on the DeGeneres show (today?)… it was pre taped.
What is a campaign to do, the “old” Obama in a can, the “new” Obama flailing around iwth, still, weak language (in that breakthru publication, NYT).
What a primary (not).
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shift out of US markets… LOL do it retroactively if possible…
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Major Obama-slammin’ meltdown at the BBBs today, starting with Aravosis, who picks up on the NYT Caucus blog’s description of “ex-gay” gospel singer McClurkin’s performance last night in SC.
From the NYT Caucus:
Sez Aravosis:
kos links to Aravosis on the FP and sez:
600 comments and counting. Diaries ruling out Obama are underway.
So . . . 98 bottles of beer on the wall?
Re: The Two State Solution Debate on PFF
It’s just another Kos flame war thanks to the terrible trio of twits (David Byron, Ender, and Moon)
I get Ender and Moon. They want to turn up the volume and level of acrimony up so high you can’t have an intelligent debate on the I/P issue.
But I don’t get Byron. He claims to be anti-zionist. He’s slinging around anti-semitic slurs and personal attacks (even against his fellow anti-zionists) so furiously it’s almost as if he’s just a sockpuppet for Moon and Ender.
I guess he’s just an asshole.
Obama and his critics.
Dumb and Dumber
I just saw a CNN Graphic “How to Spot Autism” that segued into a pic
of Bush AG Nom Markasey. The new graphic title: “Torture Talk”
Now gush about troops in Iraq sending donations back to Camp Pendelton . Who comes up with this PR slop. ‘Bout have had all the pablum I can eat…
*Mukasey*
Mukasey should be blocked. But then Bush will just find someone worse. And whoever that is should be blocked also and they should keep doing that until he is forced to find someone acceptable or leave the job empty as we are better off with no one there than anyone he might choose.
Re Obama – Harvey Milk wrote a diary with blackface images and text that was pretty bad last night. That generated two more diaries, one an apology from him and one from KO asking for him to be banned. Each diary had around 800 comments.
Obama supporters and Edwards supporters are battling it out in the threads. This two year election season is just ridiculous. They should pass a law that the presidential election should be no longer than 6 months. I think the only people paying attention to it are political operatives.
yum?
Sibel Emonds will spill all beans if any TV media outlet will let her spill all:
well the media is loaded with various levels of Obama chit chat, stalled campaign, etc.
I read the portions of the interview in the NYT. A joke. The most passive language I have ever read from the “runner up”.
Seems the moment that all turn on Obama and Hillary gets her wings to leave the Brownies and become a Girl Scout.
Is anyone surprised?
Understatement of the year award…
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people are being treated to the full DavidByron over at PFF. As I said earlier, he is snorting clover.
Sorry to be rude, I banned hm before I opened. He takes over.
But that would keep the pols from being able to distract everyone from the crappy shit they do between election cycles. We can’t have the people aware of what is actually going on now can we?
sorry – missed a slash or sumthin in the blockquote.
I think elections are a creature now, fully, of the media/entertainment industry… and it suits the people that pols front for.
If the nation ever really wanted public financed and limited elections, well… toooooooooooo late now.
Not that the public ever did. Some did, most were oblivious.
97 Mcat Seems the moment that all turn on Obama and Hillary gets her wings..
All that’s missing is the “ding” sound. Wings , Bling, what more could she ask for?
On Second thought…..
Miss D
I would love it if Sibel got an hour or so in interview…
Last I saw that it ws Deborah Norville on her long gone show on MSNBC. A full hour for Sibel… n ot the only good show Norville managed.
When Hill gets the her real wings — anyone think she gets her own Commander in Chief Animated Gif Fairy? Kinda like MSOC’s but with a nuclear wand??
Well Hill’s theme song was a commercial for Air Canada, no? She probably already has her wings.
well her GE confidential intell briefings should be a hoot.
Oh I think for Hill the ”wings” are the nuclear codes. Same as for Bush.
Oh, I hope someone has the courage to let Sibel speak. But I doubt it. In the past, 60 minutes probably would do it, but not anymore.
Marisacat, sadly, I think you’re right regarding elections. But who’s paying attention? The debates are not even being watched by many political junkies anymore. The ratings must be abysmal. What can they say they haven’t said over and over again and none of it is very encouraging.
I’m not sure this will ruin Obama. Most of America probably won’t even know it happened, and if it is reported on the news, it will not be explained very well. People will just hear that some black minister is anti-gay and Obama invited him to campaign for him.
What he should do, is to call a press conference and condemn what was said. At least he’d get on the air, and most people would probably sympathize with him. So far, the campaign has said nothing.
We;ll have to see if it affects his poll numbers, but I don’t think it will.
Bhhm, maybe Hillary will ask him to be VP. If she does, the party will explain away this incident. If they don’t defend him he’ll know he’s out of the race. It’s not the people who will decide, it’s the Paryt, imo.
hmmm shouldn’t the interview with a mcclurkin [ex]lover go high profile about now???
it is very salacious,
HC said:
put an MRA in front of asshole and i think you’ve just about got him nailed.
So Sibel’s Libel but the Mob were really SCLC…..
This ~girl~ is going to tell all on all the boys playin dress up in the FBI. Whats a guy to do? Get another girl….
While you’re at it, ya might as well roll out the Special Agent Gene Hackman mythology— ya know — the one where the FBI SA’s (no irony there) we’re so “burned up” down Mississippi that, ‘ginst “all odds” those tireless fighters demanded and got justice done! ….[Splarf!]
AP News: Mob FBI Agent
Mcat! Help! I’ve fallen! And I can’t HTML fer shit!
What’s an MRA?
I’m starting to think of him as a barnacle.
Barnacle Byron, Web Sailor.
Papal update: Benny talks Rx.
hmm I took a look. From the derivative diary at PFF, I am actually sorry I missed the Harvey Milk diary. Not sorry I missed Kid O as race interlocutor – again.
But then…………………. enh..
Not only is Byron snorting clover [seems he is now, fully, publicly fixated on his penis, in comments to ms xeno], but so is donkeytale… and I spy a boy programmer melt down in the crawdaddie squirm sewer.
But — must go, the cat is throwing up…
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BHHM –
think I fixed the comment… or at least did what little i Know…
IB – 113
I don’t know what “MRA” stands for, but i see it used, so it might be in some sort of acronym listing online…
😉
I did try acronyms, and got
Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Minimum Retirement Age
Mutual Recognition Arrangement
But Urban Dictionary has just informed me it’s
Mens’ Rights Activist.
Doubt he’s doing many favors for the cause. . . .
hmmm Mens Rights Activist… so logical and i never would have guessed it.
Byron is a strange one. He careens from visibly out of control to oozing and unctious. Very distasteful. And he has been at this for years.
I think, just a guess, he has some serious history tho, at least online. For a while, tho “banned” – meaning he just wnt to Moderation and stayed there – he was leaving comments, special little messages for me. I, just for the act of doing it, threatened to contact his ISP (right, a useless threat)… but he disappeared immediately and stopped his comments that went straight to Moderation…
Odd guy.
hmmm Mens Rights Activist… so logical and i never would have guessed it.
He probably is but not much of that’s going to come out in an I/P thread.
There’s a real debate to be had over whether a two state solution to the I/P problem is feasible (especially since we’re going to see a lot of fake two state solutions coming down the pike if the Clintons get back into power) but the thread quickly degenerated into a pissing much between Moon/Ender and Byron.
For Byron, anything except 100% agreement with him means you’re an Arab hater. And he likes to make anti-semitic statements to show that by golly he can and no-one’s going to stop him.
http://politicalfleshfeast.com/viewRating.do?rateCommentId=40300
What is that? (0.00 / 0)
“evil greedy banker joooos”, a triple redundancy?
by DavidByron @ Sun Oct 28, 2007 at 18:21:08 PM PDT
He seems slightly more intelligent than Ender but not much. Ender, of course, is just as racist.
http://politicalfleshfeast.com/showComment.do?commentId=40282
I’ll just say that I am amused that anyone here thinks Israel will somehow be defeated by your islamonazi darlings in the near future. You will die of old age still dreaming that.
Funny thing is that I can see why Ender would be hostile towards me because I was expressing a rather extreme anti-zionist point of view but I don’t get Byron.
WOA!!!!
Look for major Media Matters outrage over the next few days.
Here’s what Pat Buchanan said on Hardball.
Barack Obama is not a street fighter. He just doesn’t act like a black guy from Chicago. He acts like an Ivy Leaguer.
And Tweety didn’t call him on it.
Byron just plays people… I am unsure any issue matters to him.
I pointed out to DB, over at MoBetta Meta when he pyrrho and supersoling were holding conventions to bash me, that ANTI FEMINIST sites have banned him, he is pathological. He crescendoes to out of control.
well… Tavis and West said virtually the same thing the other night to Charlie, they explained the whole “not black” rhetoric, esp as rises from BLACKS to Charlie.
It is a shout out, that Obama is not authentic.
Going back to Ehrenstein’s Magical Negro piece in the LAT, I agree.
Of course white boy Edwards and Ma’am Bitch are no more authentic either.
and so on.
Byron just plays people… I am unsure any issue matters to him.
I’m kind of seeing a 300 pound Unix geek with bad personal hygiene and a bad toothache he’s afraid to go to the dentist to get fixed.
Charges Uncertain in Blackwater Shooting (AP):
Between Ratz-zinger issuing dispensations for Catholics to not sell birth control – and Eric Prince and his thugs replacing home grown and trained NG in the states… why I see a lovely future for america.
Just caught the senior Podhoretz on with Fareed [who capitulated so much in the early years of this decade that he is leonine dog meat] on TNH. Podhoretz invoked Hitler 5 times in connection to Iran. Fucking little creep.
I just dispense iwth the holocaust, dispense with the survivors – all of it. I am sick to death of israel supporting Jews using all those deaths.
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Pyrrho: Fuck off. Stop smoking badly and typing. It clearly is too much for you.
Interesting article (at a new, Iranian section of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting’s website) on changes in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a result of the US accusations that it’s a terra organization: Iran Responds to US ‘Warmongering’.
hmm thanks for that link IB
Podhoretz said, when asked directly by Judy Woodruff, that he “knows” that Bush will “bomb Iran before leaving office”.
What a stew we are in.
I’m not familiar with this website, so I don’t know how careful they are, but this is interesting
Welcome to America. Now spread ’em!
ooops, there should have been a break btwn the second and third paragraphs above … there is more detail at the link in between those two sections.
[I inserted […] above ———- Mcat]
My newest form of meditation to withstand the daily headlines is watching yootoob footage of raccoons.
No doubt this has something to do with the fact that my first non-human friend was a baby raccoon, a rescue critter that landed with the family for a while. I’m told that as infants, me and the raccoon were allowed to hang out on the floor and play. Years later, at a different home, a raccoon family would visit for nightly leftovers and eventually accepted M&Ms and fruit by hand.
These folks are hosting quite a regular feast for their local band of bandits: Raccoon Table Manners.
There’s something reassuring about seeing healthy scavengers, I guess. Their faces make a nice change from humanity’s visage, too. 😉
well hte poor Finns happened to be at Customs and Immigration+ICE+Homeland Seurity… but best to consider airports and surrounding areas free fire zones. For everybody.
Soon to be manned by private paramilitaries. Hair triggers and SHoot to Kill orders… I would not be the least surprised.
ON THE JOB
The fog of work: What happened to Fremont mechanic Hamid Sayadi after 9/11?
A long, sad, shameful tale.
… I am unsure any issue matters to him…
Yep. The manipulative hot/cold routine is pretty obvious.
Oh, and I can’t decide who’s the bigger annoying PFF blowhard: AG or Jules. Maybe it’s me who’s crazy. I worry that I’m self-aggrandizing just for saying that I sold a picture twice this year. Neither of these guys can type ten words without promoting himself and all the glorious, wonderful things he’s doing every six minutes. It’s more than a little puzzling. Who uses obscure political blogs to promote themselves this way, to this extreme ? Hell, guys. Buy some banner ads. Buy some spam. From what I’ve seen of your personalities, the less of yourselves you inject into the mix, the more product you’re likely to move.
Gevalt.
found it linked thru Orcinus … this is a great slapdown of Lou Dobb’s racist demagoguery
ms xeno — LOL
a couple years ago a wonderful commenter that I don’t see around anymore “susanw” did a reply diary to AG – without naming him. (It was at BMT.) He had a done a quite veiled but nasty diary about women.
She entitled hers “Masterist”.
BULL’S EYE.
Sorry I missed it, Mcat.
supervixen is convinced that the syndrome of AG/JS is very much a male thing, but I spent too much time on feminist boards to go along with her. Or maybe she just got a better quality of board. 😀 DB, too, has his female counterparts out there;Some specimens so remarkable that I flat out refuse to say their names out loud for fear they’ll zero in on this space like wasps around a warming bucket of raw hamburger.
Someday you’ll thank me. 😉
Here it is: Masterist
Some people are in a personal witness protection from reality program, dragging their pathology, various and sundry illnesses, supurating mental illness around the blahgs, netteries and blogs.
Oh wellllllllllll.
Thanks. My sort-of volunteer gig starts soon. Will read it in depth later.
Yep, to witness AG in action is to see the historic and continuing sexism of the jazz world made flesh. As a certified jazz snob for so long, I would hope that the guys half his age are carrying half his baggage as well, but who knows for sure… ?
Also, I don’t know how my responses to you ended up IN FRONT of the comments they were in response to. Must be a full moon/halloween thing. Sorry.
On the Road With John McCain: A Video Report by Matt Taibbi
The subtitles he puts under McCain answering one of his questions are priceless. About halfway thru.
Thanks Mcat, up above
Please note that unlike Pyrrho, I smoke well but only type badly….
Mayor Rocky Anderson this past Saturday:
and this:
Did that woman at the end of the McCain video really say that Muslim cab drivers in New York don’t pick up people who have been drinking?
I realize that Taibbi edited out all the intelligent people and picked out the dumbest South Carolina hicks he could find but Jesus, are people really this dumb?
I really wanted to take her in my arms and reassure her that no, Chelsea and the East Village are currently not living under Sharia law imposed by Pakistani cab drivers.
well the last time Muslim/ME cab drivers went on strike here over refusing ot pick up travellers at the airport [think it was Oakland airport, East Bay] who are visibly carrying alcohol…
so it is def happening, at least here…. Now there ws also a story that the drivers are using that, the real issues are labor or preference issues at the taxi ranks at the airport…
I am sick of all fundies. any type.
LOL Madman. I resemble that…#146..
Oh, SF too?
Avoiding drunks in NYC is like trying to avoid air, btw. They’d be out of bizness in no time.
Of course, they’d get along fine w/ all the other cab drivers who refuse to pick up black men.
well the last time Muslim/ME cab drivers went on strike here over refusing ot pick up travellers at the airport [think it was Oakland airport, East Bay] who are visibly carrying alcohol…
Wouldn’t happen in New York. Rudy Giuliani and the NYPD beat the evil Muslims to the punch. The cops very aggressively ticket people for carrying open containers of alcohol. I’ve already paid two fines for drinking beer out in the open in Washington Square Park. I guess that puts me one 40 oncer away from life in prison.
And while I rarely take cabs I’ve never had a Pakistani cab driver attempt to give me a breathalizer test when I do.
I’ve actually read or heard rightwing pundits claim that about the cab drivers. Wait, I actually found a story about it, but it was in Minneapolis, not NYC.
From a cultural movement that thinks it’s okay for licensed professionals like pharmacists to deny women lawfully written prescriptions, I find their outrage to be really funny.
Oh, and I doubt he had to do a lot of editing. Americans are fucking benighted idiots, in far greater numbers than most of us want to face. I offer pro wrestling and NASCAR as exhibits 1 and 2, with G. Dubya providing the final argument.
Q.E.D
You know how racists like to use code words for people they hate so they don’t get caught, like calling Jews “Swedes” or Puerto Ricans “Irish”.
Maybe “drunks” is just the code Pakistani cab drivers in New York have for “African Americans”.
bwaking…..Luscious Vagina has conceded all to Hillary…..
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/29/20181/073
His parents liked her.
well… the East Bay taxi driver mess ended up before a board over there… Not sure if it ws a Oakland board or a county board that oversees the air port.
It was real, as I heard some of the hearings. Now what was REALLY going on under the various stories.. I don’t know. As i posted above, there were indications the drivers were using religion as a bargaining chip of some sort.
And I think there are instances of Muslim docs refusing care to rape victims in ERs.
As I said: FUCK all fundies, I don’t care the country of origin. Home grown or import.
As I said: FUCK all fundies, I don’t care the country of origin. Home grown or import.
Agreed but not on the basis of urban legends.
I’m not wild about fundi Jews but I’m pretty sure they don’t use Xtian babies to make matzah.
A lot of what these right wing hayseeds believe about Muslims approaches that level of insanity and the real interesting thing is that I doubt any of them have ever even met a Muslim in real life.
I used a lot of E Bay cabs in 2000, 01 and -2… many are Middle Eastern of one country origin or another.
Very gentle lovely people…
And as I said, it appeared there were underlying issues with the airport/alcohol issues.
Of course I don’t support urban legend based (or any other kind) racism and ostracism.
Lordy, we have 170 languages here. The most diverse area in the nation, the 9 BA Coutnies… I have a problem with winger extremist immigrants, esp the wealthy version… fundies of all stripes, home grown and imports, who refuse to serve the public when taking jobs wehre you serve the public.
And white supremacist.
This reminds me of the wealthy muslioms who held up the plane, they had been shopping in Milano and were on the afternoon plane to London. HIRE A FUCKING PLANE. They were on a public conveyance: Go with the flow.
well, I have no patience for any of the three Abrahamic faiths.
Now I know Hillary is going to lose if She has the endorsement of
Mr. Cunt Bitch Whore Melrath. A real Class Act.
Comment Nums jumped aroound a bit.
For Posterity’s sake, my # 147 was referring to madman’s #150
I’ll fill out a Numerical Comment Adjustment Form
and a Post Melrath Ridicule Summary for the Pudliness Archives
C’mon, y’all, it was time, and past time, for one of the favored few to do it, and DD just drew the short straw.
what kills me about all this resignation to Hill, are the people who say “she’s not going to make a mistake”
which I guess supports the perception of her as non-human.
could she suffer a programming error?
she’s the ultimate Donklephant, she IS a mistake.
So much for the netroots tranforming the party. Not only won’t they back Kucinich, they’re going after Obama with an hatchet to make sure he’s dead before he sees Iowa.
Nice to know they’re all in favor of letting every vote in the primaries be counted.
nutroots are just media… outreach from the party.
Not sure there is much else, some factionalism. About it.
the primary schedule this year is useless… Iowa is now Jan 3.
No point. They want the least involvement (and a caucus is fucked anyway, it should be secret b allot a voting primary) possible.
held hostage to the whims and prejudices of white people from the “heartland” … no wonder we’re fucked.
new thread…
LINK