“You have to show them you won’t vote for them” 19 December 2007
Posted by marisacat in 2004 Election, 2006 Mid Terms, 2008 Election, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Lie Down Fall Down Dems.trackback
Assassination? Terrorism? yeah right.
PBS tonight showed An Unreasonable Man, on Ralph Nader. More than worth it, quite wonderful.
But in the middle was Lawrence O’Donnell… such a classic
version of the Irish extraction doofus Dem strategist and whatever else, operative, bit of speech writing (get a glisten off those West Wing scripts)… and of course he said the very thing that matters:
You have to show them you won’t vote for them.
He added the sub text, also classic… ”working inside the Democratic party”, he ”never had to listen to anything from the left”.
“They had nowhere to go”.
Ain’t it the truth.
[I realise this is not news]
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UPDATE, 1:07 am
Richard Holbrooke as street sweeper:
[S]enator Clinton has traveled to more than 80 countries, building relationships that will enable her to begin to restore America’s global standing, beginning on Day 1 of her Presidency. Senator Clinton is a passionate believer in diplomacy, negotiations, and the value of, well, American values. She would outlaw torture and close Guantanamo. She would make us proud again of our leadership role in the world. I know from extensive personal observation that she would be a superb negotiator and diplomat. Hillary would strengthen the U.N. and make it more effective, after the Bush Administration weakened it. :: spin and spit::
Go strangle a chicken, Dick. You’ll feel better…
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About to close the HuffPo (too tough to navigate, some popup or something is just a bear) but I see on their main Politics page (such as it is) that Ken Burns compared Obama to Lincoln.
Let me off this plane.
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UPDATE, 12:23 pm
The kid is not stupid:
When Obama’s family heard they would be spending Christmas in a Des Moines hotel room, his 9-year-old daughter cried.
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“Volunteer” military?
256 prisoners held at prisons in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib, filed a lawsuit on Monday against the private military contractor, CACI. The suit alleges the prisoners were repeatedly sodomized, threatened with rape, kept naked in their cells, subjected to electric shock, attacked by unmuzzled dogs and subjected to serious pain inflicted on sensitive body parts.
The suit alleges that employees of CACI directed soldiers to mistreat the prisoners.
Volunteers for what and to whom…
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Marisacat 
Mike Huckabee on “Morning Joe” said that John Bolton and Frank Gaffney are two possible foreign policy advisors.
It looks as if he’s realized he has to suck up to the neocon Israel humpers as well as the Xtian fascists.
He’s coming across more and more like the Manchurican Jebus Freak every day.
Putin Times person of the year over Gore?
Gutless of Time. They didn’t want to alienate Les Wingnuttes.
Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A.Tapes (NYT).
A few minutes later, on the wires, Building catches fire next to White House.
Overheated shredders, no doubt.
White House lawyers and overheated shredders in spam.
3–does the smoke mean that Hillary has been elected as the new Pope?
5 – Spontaneous combustion at Energy Task Force power breakfast as Bush signed the fuel standards bill.
PS: Roomba news!
I saw the program. All I can say now in retrospect is how right Nader was. How silly Eric Altermann and Todd Gitlin seemed in their interview. Can you imagine Lieberman as the WP?
What an absolutely pathetic (at best – criminal most likely) crop of candidates we have running now. What an absolutely pathetic “democratic” party.
I need to stop or I’ll lose my sanity or whatever I have left of it.
Ralph’s voices & choices message is like a mirror to the authoritarian koswack vampires. They can’t see their reflection in it because their people “shut up and vote” powered politics doesn’t exist in reality.
Doubtless Kosdagontriosigbycafeland is on fire this morning, as the head honchos and their loyal fans feverishly discuss An Unreasonable Man, which of course they all plugged in their spaces and watched last night. Especially popular as a topic is the contention of the Democratic pollster in the movie who claimed that there was no way, given the numbers, that Nader could have ruined it for pore pore Gore.
Also, I fully expect Santa to visit on Xmas eve and replace all my leftover Hanukkah gelt with real gold coins. I’m going to Hawaii !! Wooooo !!!
IOZ… yum:
BE AFRAID!!!
Chicago police ask you to report people using maps or taking notes in public
Gore Vidal on the Democratic Debate Debacle
Mike Huckabee’s Big Spectrum of Aberrant Behavior
oh the spectrum is a hoot!
Speaking os women being “insufficiently submissive”… The Washington Note had a post a few days ago about the HuckWif, who is said to be lying low thru this season…… seems in 2004 she was at polling sites, acting almost as a challenge to voters, asking for ID, which at the time was not a legal requirement in ARK… AND witnesses indicated she seemed to challenge African Americans.
What a lovely Christian submissive family. They seem to be racist dog killers.
Ralph on Tweety
bad company
Huckabee Counts on Pastors for Iowa Help
one would think he would count on iowa pastors. hey moiv, where have i heard that name before?
Get Your Rapture On!
When the Bill Comes Due
http://www.rogouski.com/2007/12/when-the-bill-comes-due.html
here is HCfM posting at PFF…
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I have to say, I don’t know why the bank was charging you 20 % on a SECURED card…
I don’t remember how much it was exactly. I’ll have to dig out an old bill and check.
But my unsecured card charges me 29%. I actually like it. It’s like a scarecrow that scares me away from using it.
bay @ 16
Scarborough and Rick Perry have been joined at the hip for so long that they could pass for Chang and Eng, and if his recent slip of the tongue is anything to go by, Perry might be thinking that he signed on as head majorette for Rudy a little too soon.
Good article HCfM, good blog.
The real kicker in this capitalist economy is the management of risk: everything has risk; and the risk is now securitized in ever more sophisticated ways so you can effectively transfer it. You can’t transfer the risk of getting cancer of course, but you can transfer financial risks associated with disease.
The proponents of “personal responsability” have conjured the construct of “moral hazard” as a justification for transferring ever larger portions of the risk of living in a physical universe away from the wealthy. The personal responsability movement claims the risk sharing function of social organization is antagonistic to individual incentive. In fact the effective purpose is to replace the risk sharing function of social organization by risk-transfer for those that can afford it to those that can’t.
Let me upgrade that comment HCfM: GREAT blog!!
Thanks to Lenin’s Tomb…. the real surge – the so-called secret air war against Iraq and Afghanistan.
somehwere up thread I link to an IOZ on the blahgs blithering on about “those defeatists”… LOL… I finally made it to the Dennis Perrin post Ioz built from…. a very good column on the blather around over Dodd… how “noble” his return to DC, etc…
Pancakes while there hot.
There writers who resist, and resistors who write, then theres Dailykos who do neither.
I was LOL typing.
Pancakes while *they’re* hot, and there *are writers…
clearly for all parties concerned I’m not one of them…LOL.
Griddle got fiddled already – cut and paste the burned flapjack, if you can?
BTW, BHHM – Double-dog dare you to whip up a little something for GodTube.
Think think think of the possibilities. You, too, could reach out to the faith community! No naughty language or “blasphemy,” mind. . . .
Tancredo to quit today, AP is reporting.
Tancredo to quit today, AP is reporting
Whatever will we do in New Jersey without Tom flying in and giving a press conference to 12 fat Minutemen every time an illegal immigrant committs a crime.
IB,this one of the better screen shots..from this am.
I knew it would go fast so Here it is.
The Vichy are actually helping to produce their own documentary…
The Superest – Who is the superest hero of them all?
Sorta like a rock-paper-scissors contest in cartoons . . . reminiscent of Dem Candidate Operative battles, too.
Testing. I think I’m in moderation..
IB
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22030558@N04/2124887986/
Hair Club – great diary, BTW – you’ll just have to settle for Imus love, I guess.
“Parking Valets in Orange Livery”
🙂
OMG, it’s Huckabee when he was fat.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22030558@N04/2124877276/
32 – Reindeer smiley for the morning laugh!
Sorry BHHM.. found one in spam… and let it out…
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kissinger endorsed McCain.
LOL think it was the Bomb Bomb Bomb IRan lyrics that did it… reminded him of Cambodia.
I’d love to see an Ahnold / Kissinger
fireside celeb spot , rolled out for McCain by Christmas…
Then Rudy, to get in on
the unintelligible act, might have Sylvester Stallone…
Fred Thompson stands alone.
Bush at the podium. Such guff… but he pre empted Obama on ABC, PT, ‘splainin’ his ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY “present” votes.
I knew about hte present votes, but not that complete number…
LOL I saw a snip, before George took over the airwaves — he said he used it when a bill was UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Among other things.
I dunno Obama, Habeas Corpus?
They are all such shits.
I drragggged myself to the Matt Bai NYT Magazine piece on The Clintons… but it is going to be a hoot. I am barely past midway on the first page and this is about the 5th chuckle – he must have written this before the past couple of weeks will Bill.
Earlier Bai called him “lean and regal”.
Wonder if Bai can roll that tongue back up into his mouth.
hmmm
IOZ (think this post grew out of a posting of his of yesterday, Eschatology, it immediately precedes this one… ):
Myself, I am still honoring the llamas who refused to march into Lebanon last year with the hapless IDF. They just sat down and would not proceed.
Smartest move in ages.
well atrios is doing something! and has been for quite some time if i recall. he eats free lunch!
what sticks in my memory was that photo of him at that warner smooze luncheon in philly a while back stuffing that free sandwich. tenderloin, wasn’t it?
i still have that image in my head, three little blogger boyos of philly sitting in a row down at the end of the conference table all eating sandwiches. atrios, booman and alo that young philly blogger, alex something or other. oh and wasn’t the lawyer there? i do believe he was.
i’d link to it, but evidently warner has had the good sense to take it down.
im not sure a great victory over the senate leader of one’s own party is really, you know, anything one should crow so loudly over, especially when the scene hasn’t played out fully just yet. reid is hardly beaten, hes just going to kick back and wait til dodd has no reason to grandstand. and then that corporate whitewash bill is in like flint.
cocky is the operative word for the boyo nutroots A listers. always has been.
asshole is often a perfect fit too.
hmm can’t remember the third Philly male blogger at that event, but I recall Suburban Guerilla was there, and I forget her name in RL, but recall that she does Dem party paid work, odd jobs as consultant, whatever the term of art[lessness] is…………
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I don’t know if anyone has bothered to go over to Duncan Black’s little corner of the blogosphere today, but he’s got no less than 3 posts devoted to the subject of whether or not Lynne Spears is a lousy mother, and whether her 16 year-old daughter’s recently announced pregnancy is an indication that she is (DB thinks those who think so are being unfair, which presumably means he thinks allowing your 16 YO daughter to more-or-less cohabitate with her 19 year-old boyfriend is okay). From a quick look at the comment threads, this is not a popular POV, and rather than merely turning to other topics and forgetting he ever said anything to begin with, DB is (Armando-style) going on, and on, and on, turning the molehill into a rather large promontory, and making himself look pretty foolish. Even if one thinks he has a point (and I don’t, frankly, getting pregnant at 16 is a lousy idea no matter how much money you may have), he’s made it in clumsy fashion and is stubbornly refusing to admit that, just maybe, he either hasn’t really thought out a coherent position on the matter, or just doesn’t know enough about it to have discussed it at all.
Anyway, if you feel like have some chuckles at his expense, head on over.
hmmm… obama would consider Arnold for his cabinet. Among other Republicans he names, rather too glib, imo.
Fuck them all!
Madman, no. 12,
Interesting, though short, piece by Vidal. However, he’s wrong about the De Moines Register, which was (at one time anyway) a well-regarded and influential newspaper. It used to be owned by a family named Cowles, and has long been affiliated with the Democratic Party. It has fallen off in recent years since it was acquired by the Gannett chain, which has cut down on its coverage of not only national and international news, but of any local matters that don’t occur in the immediate vicinity of Des Moines. Still, it has been a voice against the Bush Administration, and has loudly denounced his wireless wiretapping program.
Just noticed the Eric Alterman has his “Top 20 Albums Of The Year” listed on his website. I might care a bit more about what he thinks of music if he hadn’t only recently discovered that Steve Winwood could play guitar (that’s kind of like declaring yourself a baseball expert and then blurting out “hey, I had no idea Mickey Mantle was a switch-hitter!”).
Then again, maybe I still wouldn’t care.
Season’s Greetings from Glen Barry:
Happy Holidaze
hmmm… obama would consider Arnold for his cabinet.
I might trust him to an appointment to investigate steroids in basebal (he’d certainly know where to look) but what else is he qualified for?
Ah just make him head of FEMA.
Arnold knows how to collude in secret with Bush and Cheney and conspire to thrust CA into a full blown energy crisis, one that did not have to happen.
Arnold knows how to collude in secret with Bush and Cheney and conspire to thrust CA into a full blown energy crisis, one that did not have to happen.
And his election was largely about covering up for Enron.
Sounds like Secretary of the Interior material.
Skeletons seem to be getting ready to rattle out of Ron Paul’s closet.
McCain has a christmas ad out, using a cross “front and center” according to CNN’s Political Ticker.
gahhh.
Just heard McCain’s Xmas commercial.
He needed to work Woodstock into it.
57. I’m waiting to see which candidate has themselves nailed to the cross in their xmas commercial.
the new democratic party! better caving than the ozarks!
wonder whats on those spelunking democrats schedule for tomorrow? perhaps mammoth cave?
Speaking of endorsing McCain, what did Steny have to say about his buddy Holy Joe?
Way to “lead” ***cough*** the Donklephant’s, Steny. Well, actually, he’s leading EXACTLY the way the Donks always “lead”, by helping Republicans, either directly or tacitly.
I’m waiting to see which candidate has themselves nailed to the cross in their xmas commercial.
Whoever it is, can I dress up like a Centurian and jab the Spear of Destiny into his/her side? I promise to only twist it a little.
Next time, evacuees subject to criminal checks
We love you, Big Brother.
Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US
hey madman. background check this out.
i bet some rick perry lobby-buddy just scored a huge state contract for criminal background checks?
We’re here to save lives©
Yeh, BIG AIM guy:……
All agreements with the Lakotas … (7+ / 0-)
Recommended by:
rincewind, NMRed, dharmafarmer, bluebrain, flumptytail, kulshan, J M F
…require a vote of the tribes. This is one of the reasons that the financial settlement for the Black Hills (Paha Sapa) in the case of United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, 448 U.S. 371 (1980) was never accepted. The Supreme Court granted $105,994,430.52 in 1980, but now that sum, with interest, has risen to nearly $900 million. The Lakota refuse to accept the money because they want a return of the Black Hills. That lawsuit, by the way, took 59 years to reach the Supreme Court; it was first filed in 1921.
Back to the point at hand: Russell Means has zero legal standing in this matter. He is not recognized by either most traditionals or any of the modern, elected governments of any of the seven Lakota tribes, including his own, the Oglala, the tribe Crazy Horse (Thašųka Witko) belonged to.
While this effort to “secede” is interesting, no court precedents will allow it to succeed any more than the 1980 case did.
“Just remember, boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn’t mean you win.” – Special Agent Fox Mulder
by Meteor Blades on Thu Dec 20, 2007 at 02:49:54 PM PST
In Diary
You all have probably already heard the news from NOLA today:
Protesters at City Hall are tasered and pepper sprayed
All of what Meteor says is true, yet the situation is much more complicated than he is making it out to be.
BTW, I have relatives that aren’t happy that they couldn’t claim that money, so I definitely understand that there is a LOT of disagreement in the Nation about how best to handle our thieving gov’t.
Here is the website for the group.
I have no direct idea of where this stands, or how much support it has, as I’m basically a white man with red blood from my mother’s side, no matter how much disgust I feel for what the whites did to the original inhabitants of this land. I think it needs to play out, in many ways in all of the nations. These questions need to be asked, dissention pressed. I think MB dismisses Means too easily.
Speaking of our thieving government:
Bay … who are they kidding? Getting rid of good teachers is the whole idea. Well educated people make for more unwilling cannon fodder.
My take on the MB….
Tribes vote? Check.
Settlement Money Dangled Out? Check.
Legal Standing Argument Repeated? Check.
Factual? Sure.
The Truth? Both a Leap & a firm grip on the obvious, the Status Quo..
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oh right Meteor Blades, the only Indian in the room. Always and forever.
Took me a while to find this, as the search engine and the little searcher here are, neither of them, are too good at it.
Madman called MB a barber shop Indian, iirc… (links at the post) and BooBerGoober and whomeever lese in BlaghSnotteries escalated it to ‘Madman called MB a “nigger”‘.
Don’t think we heard back again on that detail, the detail being that Madman too descends from indigenous peoples, First Nation, American Indian. lakota thru his mother.
There being more than one Indian left, presently.
ooops Madman called him a “house liberal”.
LOL… hard to keep epithets straight, when they are accurate..
house liberal
barbershop indian..
whatever.
ugh. I see 72 is a bit garbled. Sorry…
I just woke up… caught bits of the very slanted coverage of NO protest on all three evening news, then caught up on the thread.
Left I noticed the slanted NOLA coverage, and offers some perspective about what the crowd was angry.
oh we should not worry about NO, Brad Pitt will take care of everything, now that he and Angelina live there. I caught some stray interview, he says he loves living in NO, people don’t besiege the children.
And that pittance of houses he says he will build.
Fresh Fruit at Affordable Prices!
hmm David Corn at CQ blogs has a post up on HuckANutter…
one thing about hard right xtians, some of them, at least, have the intestinal fortitude to withhold the vote…
77
I don’t know how many times over the past 20 or so years I have read a tale like that… with variations of course. I assume it takes place across the US picking route… but for some reason all the stories I can recall have come out of FL.
One of the worst I ever read, gangs of men were nto only enslaved but were also regularly drugged….talk about “harvest of shame”. some sort of outreach got wind of it and that particular plantation was raided, but that was long ago. Not sure a raid to release those held is what would happen today…
nola.com has a section (left side) on today’s protests… quite a few videos from several sources. Quigley was there. Nagin took a pass. what a shit he is.
sadly, #77 ties in all too well with melvin’s link up-thread at #52
that story also ties in with this recent review
Buy Some Stuff, Enslave Somebody
a review of
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
by John Bowe
big chunks of this country are just plantations in a big, nasty banana republic.
think this has been linked to before, here… but I am just catching up. Zunes on Hillary on Int Law, in Foreign Policy in Focus:
house liberal
barbershop indian..
Why not just call him a “Guardian of the Oglala Nation” (Goon)?
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/124045.html#comments
Tom Tancredo has dropped out of the presidential race. He will be replaced by Montezuma Aztlán Calderón, an undocumented worker from Oaxaca who will denounce the Brown Peril for just $3 an hour plus room and board.
LOL call him what comes to mind at the moment. Theyhave already called me a racist, homophobe and whatever else. I forget now…
all of that just makes me laugh.
As i have said for years now, at too many hot spots. Across too many decades.
They can call you a racist, but here’s a guy who was not only not banned at Kos but allowed to come back after he admitted posting with sock puppets.
http://politicalfleshfeast.com/showComment.do?commentId=50667
Fucking makes me proud of my Air Force. I love those guys and I knew the dudes who did the bomb dropping. Kinda envious I didn’t get a chance.
I’ll just call him “babykiller”.
oh no surprise that is Ender. And no shock the Boyz have the hotz for the conservatives and the wingers. Replacement anxiety, can they measure up. 🙂
its a nest of long time and short time operatives… the Enders are good fodder. But gosh, Ender is one stupid nothing. Like something made out of cardboard, frankly.
Kinda envious I didn’t get a chance.
well unless he is over 37 he should sign up for the regular military… or if older go immediately to a Nat Guard station and sign up.
Who in heaven’s name is this asshole?
http://politicalfleshfeast.com/showComment.do?commentId=50618
hmm no idea… one of the strings of koskadetkapos
BTW, did they ever name the new FPers? I go there so rarely, just to whatever someone might link to… and not to the FP. Which, when I do drop in, is stultifyingly boring. Send me old issues of Pravda, much more interesting, at least historical.
Even as the linking to kos keeps going apace..
And now, a quick news break.
I only wish this were via The Onion.
Gevalt.
from a thread at TPM… LOL
Anderson Cooper interviewing Glenn Beck.
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this one CNN talk show host interviewing another?
How lazy can a network get?
Hair Club, you could call it the ultimate wank-fest but then again, isn’t self-love already denigrated enough without dragging it into this ?
It’s so obviously filler.
Why not just run another story about Britney Spears’ little sister?
You can never get too many of those.
Easy way to find out if Ron Paul is a racist or not:
Just ask him what he thinks about the “Bell Curve”.
The problem of course isn’t that he’ll probably like it but all the other Republicans will probably fall all over themselves trying to like it more.
But the MSM would never set up a litmus test like this because it would have to acknowledge that the “Bell Curve” is actually racist.
How about a drunken fistfight in which Cooper accuses Beck of being the daddy, and vice versa ?
I would finally be inspired to get cable.
well they could ask him what he thinks of Dr Watson’s recent comments.
That old heap of flesh. Sitting thru several hours of him over the past years on Charlie Rose clued me in about him. He gets teary over Jeeeeeeeeeeeeesuhs.
well they could ask him what he thinks of Dr Watson’s recent comments.
There are a lot of ways to determine whether or not he’s a genuine racist or if he’s just unpopular because of his views on foreign policy. Same with Giuliani, Tancredo, Romney, Huckabee and yes Hillary Clinton.
Do you think there are racial differences in intelligence and do you think it should affect government policy towards social programs?
What do you think the causes of poverty are?
Hillary, do you think a Muslim is fit to be president? Were you implying that Obama’s immigrant background makes him less American than someone named “Clinton” or “Bush”?
Edwards, what do you think about the idea of reperations for African Americans?
Tancredo you stinking wop, don’t you realize the Immigration Reform Act of 1924 would have kept you out too?
well at least that atrios is good for something today. i’d like to thank his anonymous tipster for the link. looks like moreman mitt’s been lying. huge surprise there.
Was it all a dream?
EXCLUSIVE: Mitt Romney claims that his father marched with MLK, but the record says otherwise.
a small but funny break in the late night.
LOL Think I have a neck brace somewher in the house (from a Patrick Healy entry at The Caucus, NYT)
bay…
I heard that claim from Mitt and wondered, it seemed impossible.. as well as utterly incongruous. IIRC he made someother claims at the same time (forget now wtf they were, it is all blruiing oops blurring!).
They are all getting carried away. Good!
Damnit, bay. I was hoping that the story about Romney and King meant that Romney’s dad had some kind of Chinatown-like thing going on with Lieberman, or some member of the Lieberman dynasty. Given that Lieberman is constantly airing his marching days with King.
So much would then make sense that now defies it…
Mitt Romney claims that his father marched with MLK, but the record says otherwise.
Romney’s father invited Martin Luther King to march in Detroit in (I forget the exact date). I don’t know if he actually marched with King but he was certainly no racist or segregationist. Michigan was one of the few places the local government welcomed civil rights marchers. I’m not sure exactly how hands on Romney’s father was but he was certainly part of it.
Hmm. I’m not sure. Looking in Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch.
Detriot had the largest civil rights march up until the March on Washington in 1962 and the police commissioner said “”you won’t see any dogs or fire hoses here”.
Doesn’t mention Romney by name here but he was definitely a progressive on civil rights, a much better man than his son is.
Hmm. It doesn’t look like Romney’s father did speak at any of these marches. The more you think about it, the more it would make sense that he didn’t. Kennedy and King had to go through this elaborate dance everytime King came to the White House so not to offend whites. Romney wouldn’t have had to get Southern Democrat votes but I’m assuming he probably did take the trouble to make sure the march in Detroit went off well but probably didn’t show up.
So it looks as if Mitt did lie.
that’s didn’t speak
geesh, from The Phoenix link in bay’s comment:
Here’s a good one about the mall shooting’s aftermath via Glebe Cow Drooled:
update at The Phoenix:
110–
Oh well, that clears that up.
Didn’t I see you at Woodstock? Or am I thinking of that time in the SEALS?
I seemed to have lost all capability of saying anything rational or even remotely intelligible about the entire 2008 election cycle. I used to be a serious person.
Did I actually see Il Duce talk to Sanat Claus in an online ad today? Did I dream it? I’m not sure I can tell the difference.
Turn off, tune out, drop out.
distribute weapns and stand back
she’s pulling in the light cavalry … be interesting to see what ObEd do in reply…….
114 Easily disposed of. John Negroponte has been around. Others, like W and Frederick the Great’s mule, have seen the world and are no wiser.
Completely OT… Lucid update one year after facial reconstruction… I’ve held these things in, but my cheek muscles still don’t like it, I still have serious numbness in my right temple, and sometimes my eye goes ballisitc too. It’ll flutter until its flutter is content.
While my face might almost look like it once did, all of it is a constant flutter… every muscle is still upset… obviously my nerve endings will never get right.
I’m starting to learn to live with it, but my face is fucked up now. It will never feel like my normal face again. It will fidget and be numb and make me uncomfortable every year. There are titanium plates, there is serious scar tissue.
It still amazes me how this all happened. It still amazes me that I’m Darth Vader on the right side of my face.
And the fucker who did this to me is probably still driving a cab.
Thank you NYPD for doing your job!
hmmm I have read so many reports of this Tuesday convenience store stop:
what a hoot. yes… what to do with Bill…. Good Luck Clintons!
Naomie Klein with the Zapatistas in San Cristobal de las Casas
90: I believe it’s MBNYC, one of jhritz’s staunch defenders.
honor the cat in the mini-mart:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2agc5g
Broder makes shit up?!?!
My world is falling apart around me … ;P
Re Romney Sr. and MLK, I don’t know if they ever marched together or even met, but the elder Romney had an excellent record on civil rights, as well as on labor issues. He also saved American Motors Corporation from extinction by promoting cars that emphasized solid design, construction, and fuel efficiency over the fancier looking, overpriced gas guzzlers produced by the Big 3.
When he announced he was running for President in November 1967, he was leading the polls w/r/t the GOP contenders. At that point, the following comments he’d made 3 months earlier were used to destroy his candidacy:
“Brainwashing” is probably as good a description of how the Pentagon and the Johnson administration sold that war as any other, and Romney had the brains to see through it long before most of the country’s other prominent politicians. Ironically, as his candidacy sank, the Tet Offensive occurred, and proved just how accurate his comments were. That sadly did not help his prospects, he had to drop out before the first primary.
breaking………Lucious Vagina endorses Hillary.
you know where.
sorry.. didn’t mean to go weird last night. Was feeling somewhat depressed for some reason… My problems pale in comparison to some who read and post here as they are neither debilitating nor life threatening. Anyhow, carry on… I’ll be out of town for the [hmpf] holiday. Thankfully there’s only 4 days left of blaring xmas music wherever one turns.
Have fun kids.
lucid said
lucid. don’t worry about that at all. its my opinion, for what little that is worth, that however one reacts on any given day to the pressures of “dealing with it” is the right way to react. you’re only one year on this side of a clearly severely traumatic event. its understandable to be unhappy and concerned with the event’s long, lingering effects.
i read your post and feel compassion for you, and your situation.
it’s ok to have bad days. and its also perfectly fine to speak of such things, its necessary if you feel the need for a listening ear. so don’t worry about it at all.
i dont’ suppose that there are true experts in dealing with disability, no professionals. just humans doing their best to hang on and cope.
This may be the only poll that isn’t frontpaged and analyzed for hours at dkos. Cheney beats Moulitsas in Nation Poll: Who was the most valuable progressive in 2007?
Al Gore 365
Kucinich 242
Amy Goodman 183
Valerie Plame 123
Dick Cheney 107
Michael Ratner 85
kos 74
Lucid, (btw, thanks for the welcome back. I’ll be here in the SE for a few months at least, to answer your question, then maybe back east again). Anyhow, just read your post on how you are faring after that horrible accident. I wondered often how you were so please, do not apologize for the update. Too bad the NYPD didn’t think it worth their while to do anything to help you. Had you been a friend of Rudy’s though, SOMEONE would have paid, guilty or not!
Thanks BHHM and ms xeno also … 🙂 Miss xeno, sorry about your laptop!
BHHM, I’m with you on MB btw. You can always depend on Meteor Blades to defend the status quo – after he tells you how much he sympathizes with those who are willing to fight for something!
lucid…
let me second sabrina [Hello there!… 8) ] and bay
I remember the story of the accident and the hospital, the way no one took responsibility for the accdietn — and those things take a long time to heal, for whatever parts and pieces of accidents, damage and illness ever heals…
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IS MELRATH AN UTTER FUCKING IMBECILE???!
DIG THE SIG LINE.
And Jason, – don’t poop yourself – its already cached and archived a hundred times over—- Its the screeshot we’ve been WAITING for…