Just a thread……………… 24 February 2008
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What the hell… Oscar for President. Why not?
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Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
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And the Oscar goes to …..
Obama!
I think it’s almost over, unless Hillary can win all of the next several states …..
And the Oscar goes to …..
Obama!
Unless McCain gets the lifetime achievement award for this year’s mediocre production to make up for being slighted in the past.
BTW, you know when I stopped taking the Oscar’s seriously?
1990, when “Dances With Wolves” beat out “Goodfellas” for Best Picture.
1979 was pretty silly too (Kramer vs. Krame over Apocolypse Now).
Minor pique. 1999. When an overhyped and overacting Angelina Jolie in the mediocre “Girl Interrupted” beat out the (taste in Vincent Gallo notwithstanding) genuinely orginal Chloe Sevigny in “Boys Don’t Cry”.
But I guess silicon lips and fake tits beat out the ability to just nail the white trash American female in movie after movie.
Chloe Sevigny was just amazing. Tremendous movie.
HA! Anyone wants to see hideous silicone lips, catch an interview with Gennifer Flowers. Good god.
She had a perfectly fine, sculpted mouth previously. Now she has great cow udders stretched across her face.
Disfigurement.
I’m actually a bit surprised “Boys Don’t Cry” got nominated for anything. It had a pretty pretty bleak view on American culture.
BTW, Kimberly Pierce (who made BDC) just released a movie on Iraq.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0489281/
I thought Boy’s Don’t Cry captured the claustrophic horror of too many American homes. Perfectly. And how dead end most small towns are. Nothing there, in state after state after state.
I thought Boy’s Don’t Cry captured the claustrophic horror of too many American homes. Perfectly.
Right down to the lighting, dim 65 watt bulbs over cheap wall to wall carpeting.
Tilda Swinton just won!
I actually have no idea about any of the nominated movies or stars. I upgraded my browser, but I might as well be churning butter.
Since we’re going to be hearing a lot of Patriotism in the coming months, I recommend everyone read Emma Goldman.
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Society/Patriotism_EGoldman.html
Gustave Herve, another great anti-patriot, justly calls patriotism a superstition-one far more injurious, brutal, and inhumane than religion. The superstition of religion originated in man’s inability to explain natural phenomena. That is, when primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature. Patriotism, on the other hand, is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods a superstition that robs man of his self respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.
well, I am neither patriotic nor nationalistic. And thus not jingoistic .. either.
Nor would I ever be actively bombing anyone in the name of this country. WIth my name linked, singly and completely, to that act.
I don’t have to justify myself to anyone.
oh, what a nice surprise, “Falling Slowly” won for best original song.
“Once” is a really nice little movie.
One of my favourite Oscar memories: back in the days when we had a B&W teevee, my dad picked up a colour teevee to “try out” (ie. convinced the store he might be interested in buying it). That just happened to be on Oscar nite.
HC #10 – patriotism/nationalism, hard to deny that when you see the results, so often. Wish more people would have the nerve to say it.
Looks like ‘There Will Be Blood’ may be a big winner …
I haven’t seen any of the nominated movies yet …
Cheezy moment there with the troops in Baghdad. They should have said, “Hey! Look at us! We’re still here! Get us home now, damnit!”
The New Obamacans.
I missed the rest of the show so didn’t see the ‘best actor/actress/movie awards ….
Just saw that Daniel Day-Lewis won best actor for ‘There will be blood’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’ won best picture ….
Daniel D-L is a very good actor …. I’m glad he won …
Marion Cotillard won best actress for ‘La Vie en Rose’ …. want to see that movie too …
Catnip, I didn’t see the troops ‘moment’ … I’m sure it was cheezy, but then it’s good to remind people that the war didn’t end yet … which is why they elected Democrats ….
Aw, that’s cute, I like the alligator ….
hmm don’t miss the thread. Non violent border protest, a mass crossing agaisnt Israeli resistance, is the same as rape.
I think it was more about Hollywood trying to look patriotic than anything else. And it happened just before the list of nominated docs slamming the wars and the administration. Here’s a video of the troops appearance.
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oh but more and better Democrats are now needed.
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well I gritted my teeth when “box of chocolats” showed up to make the award, then they cut to “little baghdad” [still gritting my teeth] and then what wins, Taxi to the Dark Side.
Non violent border protest, a mass crossing agaisnt Israeli resistance, is the same as rape.
It just keep getting more bizarre over there.
It just keep getting more bizarre over there.
It’s all supposed to make sense if you study “cognitive science” or something like that.
It’s all supposed to make sense if you study “cognitive science” or something like that.
Apparently so. According to Ormond:
Which is ironic to say in the midst of chewing out others who think differently than he does.
thiknk Ormond has been in too many enounter groups… for too long.
saekozy behaving badly:
How stately of him.
Which is ironic to say in the midst of chewing out others who think differently than he does.
Most of the time I can’t understand a word he says. He reminds me of my grandfather who would start talking about the war whatever the context and just go on, and on, and on, and on until he finally realizes nobody’s listening to him (even though some people are actually trying but can’t understand him) and gets mad and starts shouting at everybody.
Sheesh – “Sarkozy”. That’s what I get for typing with my toes.
oh this made me laugh so hard I am still choking/laughing…
28. Well, when I made a comment that related to his diary, he called it “diversionary”. Meanwhile, someone asks him what kind of bike he has and that’s supposedly on topic (??) Strange person.
Freud would have a field day with that site.
I have so loved the fall of small mean shit Sarko.
Who said there is no egalite, if you have more you are more.
I hope they roll him in the gutter before this is over.
he’s still at it:
Didn’t take long with Sarko …. they were so thrilled with him, the globalists ….. maybe it’s a sign of things to come …. although he’s certainly no worse than those in power here … I’m sure the French will get rid of him … we just keep holding on to our clowns ….
Catnip #20 – thanks for the video. If only it was all nice and clean like that, no one dying, or being raped etc. It’s the dishonesty, the false image that is disturbing to me ….
I am very interested at how shocked people are…
And yesterday, denali said he didn’t “approve” of Islam.
They seem to think they actually mean something in the scheme of things.
luv the NYT evening email headline:
Rising Inflation Creates Unease in the Middle East.
Oh no.
Someone actually uses the phrase without sarcasm.
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2008/2/23/132444/743/73#c73
This is the MOST important election of many of our lifetimes.
Anyone reading this melt down?
http://www.politicalfleshfeast.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2153
….guess the answer is yes. Just read comments above!
Too shocking for words. How do people get so brainwashed? Zionism is only about 100 years old, or maybe I should say, how has it lasted this long in the communications age?
MCat, no. 6,
Another film that beautifully captures the pinched, stultifying, frustrated lives that people live in small towns is the Alfred Hitchcock classic Shadow of a Doubt. The script was primarily the work of Thornton Wilder, and does a wonderful job of portraying just how limited were the prospects for the Greatest Generation before the Second World War turned their lives upside down — something a lot of them very happy to have happen, BTW, in spite of the possibility of being sent to the front lines, or off to some Armageddon at sea.
BTW, has anyone pointed out to that idiot peeder that the Gaza Strip was part of Egypt from 1948 through 1967?
ugh.. I have to go back and see that thread again.
His claim that they cannot protest as it would be illegal is just horrific.
It made me think of what GAZA is all about — a cross between slave rebellion and prison strike/riot.
The core truth that Israel does not need Palestinian cheap labor anymore…. Quite happy to do as Dubai, Lebanon, Saudi, etc., do, import cheap labor, work it to death [or suicide from depression], get another shipment.
What Peeder realizes and what Kos and Hunter don’t realize is that there’s no real need to censor debate on Israel/Palestine.
The vast majority of Americans will side with a rich white country against a poor refugee people without even thinking about it. Add American guilt over the Holocaust (which of course we had nothing to do with) and the ability of the Israelis and their American supporters to appeal to American exceptionalism, arrogance, and racism and there’s very little supporters of the Palestinians can do.
About the actual facts on the ground about the conflict, Peeder’s just another American redneck (even though I think he’s British).
Samantha Power on Democracy Now.
Amy and Juan didn’t do a very good job at nailing the slick b–ch down on anything.
Not a single question on the UN sanctions against Iraq. I’m sure Sergio Vieira de Mello was a fascinating guy but did anybody ever thing about WHY the Iraqis blew the UN building to Kingdom come?
Three cheers for Tilda Swinton, the only person in the building not wearing makeup.
And to her, Diablo Cody, and Sissy Spacek for picking their own clothes like adults instead of letting themselves be corseted into the same old $10K sack.
I read somewhere that not one Palestinian family has been spared the dead of a loved one to the Zionist cause.
And today I might say good bye to my beloved australian sheperd. And my heart is breaking….
Sinclair not doing so well with polygraph: “deception indicated”
oh Sergio de Mello was jsut there to do a job for us.
BTW, Stop Me Before I Vote Again (owen paine in fact) is calling her “glamghoul”…. LOL I think that fits.
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well peeder is not tethered to the party in teh way DKos is.
He was in favor of banning I/P at Dkos. Soon aafter he opened think it was, catnip pulled up a diary of his advocating that at Dkos.
Counterpunch has what purports to be a piece by Ralph Nader entitled “Why I’m Running.” When you open the link, you see it’s merely a transcript of his appearance on “Press The Meet.” Apparently, he can’t even be bothered to type something up himself, or (more likely) order an intern to do it for him.
All that means is Counterpunch republished it. They do that with public speeches/writings from politicians all the time.
Russ Feingold obviously doesn’t write articles for Counterpunch (mayby even hasn’t heard of it) but they do republish his speeches.
Dennis Halliday obviously had more influence in the end than Sergio did.
Sometimes condemning power does more than trying to ride it.
By peeder’s definition I have accidentally raped Canada twice.
By peeder’s definition I have accidentally raped Canada twice
Quebec City protests a few years ago?
By peeder’s definition I have accidentally raped Canada twice.
I will notify the appropriate authorities. 😉
56 Far less dramatic. Hiking in the Cacades. It is not always obvious where the border is.
53,
Nader is a regular contributor. This silly reposting of something that can be found by anyone wishing to look for it is typical of how Nader has approached this election year. He has made exactly zero preparations, gotten together no volunteers, raised no money, done absolutely none of the spade work necessary to prepare a campaign. At this point, he’s completed the descent into self-parody he started 4 years ago (his 2000 campaign, which I did not support or approve of, was at least a serious effort).
And that isn’t either a speech or an article, both of which would have been written up beforehand. It’s the transcript of an interview. Counterpunch does not ordinarily run such things unless the listed author is the one doing the interviewing.
It is not always obvious where the border is.
Well, just wait until the northern mega-fence is built. Problem solved! (I think DHS is planning to arm the bears too.)
I saw an article…maybe on CNN yesterday…that had Hillary blaming Nader for Gore’s loss. For that reason alone, kossacks should be supporting her – obviously.
The most depressing book since Bambi
his 2000 campaign, which I did not support or approve of, was at least a serious effort
Well here’s the way I’d look at it.
Nader has a better chance of being president in 2008 (a much better chance in fact) than the ordinary American has of “influencing” or “pushing Obama to the left”.
The most depressing book since Bambi
It seems to me that every 20 years or so there’ s a book panicking about American anti-intellectualism. And it tends to reflect the rising political ideology of the day.
So in the 1980s, the book was “The Closing of the American Mind” by Allan Bloom and it reflected the Reaganite idea that the 1960s destroyed American education.
Now with the Democratic Party on the rise, the explanation will probably be about the lack of educational opportunties that come with the breakdown of the New Deal.
liberalcatnip, no. 62,
Depressing, indeed:
I read that NY Timesarticle about The Great Gatsby’s renewed popularity myself, and found myself thinking the same thing as Heather Mallick. That Fitzgerald had a very sour view of The American Dream isn’t a secret (not that he didn’t vigorously pursue it himself), and it’s hard to believe that anyone could miss that part of his message. Here’s hoping those kids never get exposed to “A Modest Proposal” until they have a teacher who can make them understand the point.
Just as a side note, I’ll mention that the chances of Obama being moved to the left of the political spectrum, however slight, are vastly greater than the chances of Nader actually doing any real campaigning, political organizing, or having any effect at all on our politics over the course of the next decade. The phrase “dreams of raging sheep” should be the banner under which his ever-dwindling band of supporters marches.
It doesn’t take much… Chloe pretty much is white trash – a mid ’90’s nyc ‘club kid’ [i.e. Michel Alig, et al] from LI who stumbled into a role in Kids with no previous acting experience.
Chloe pretty much is white trash
I heard her interviewed and she seemed to have a pretty standard issue snooty Mid Atlantic high WASP sort of accent.
But even so, just being from a white trash background by no means gives you the ability to act credibly white trash on film.
Oh – and from my friend in the industry, she’s apparently extremely difficult to work with [not that Ms. buy-a-child would be any easier].
S’pose that’s true. I’ve just never liked her though – maybe I’m just too clouded by the days in which she was glorified by Michael Musto in the Voice, along with her annoying club companions… Or just the fact that I find ‘Kids’ to be a horrendous movie [despite the lovely Rosario Dawson]. As for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, I’ve always found Hillary a much more compelling actor.
Here are teh links… HCfM mentioned Samantha Powers on DN! up thread…
Well, from my reading she has been on his DC staff payroll since he got to town 3 years ago.
“And to her, Diablo Cody, and Sissy Spacek for picking their own clothes like adults instead of letting themselves be corseted into the same old $10K sack.”
Except that Cody was wearing, yes, million-dollar shoes.
There is such a thing?
Speaking of monstrosities what the hell was that gargantuan diamond studded thing hanging around Nicole Kidman’s neck last night? Absolutely hideous.
Cody tho, I think, was barefoot on stage….
I think for Kidman they went slightly for the Queen Mary look (bedecked and bejeweled). I’d like to see the actual necklace.
It seemed to me she did nto carry it off and the black [dress] backdrop was too harsh for it…
Just my take.
I can see that. It just looked to me like bejeweled climbing ivy or something – and terribly ostentatious to boot… then again, I’m pretty much always disgusted by celebrity and their vainglorious accoutrements.
Nice to see Tilda win though.
I was thrilled Tilda won…
maybe I’m just too clouded by the days in which she was glorified by Michael Musto in the Voice
I wasn’t in NYC back then so I missed that one.
As for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, I’ve always found Hillary a much more compelling actor.
I prefer Obama myself. Da dump. But Hillary had the easier role in some ways. The more high concept the character the more steps you have to take simply to make it credible and the more of a chance you have to connect. On the other hand, if you’re just an angry, white trash woman in her early 20s stuck out somewhere in Nebreska, it’s tempting to play the role as a caricature to just give people something to hang onto to. To do it in that kind of a flat, Raymond Carver like way means you’re either a very good actor or your just playing yourself.
Or just the fact that I find ‘Kids’ to be a horrendous movie
It almost plays like a comedy now. Then again, I thought “Scarface” with Al Pacino was the funniest movie I’ve ever seen.
I thought Scarface was quite operatic… and the close with the newer versions of himself, the new immigrants swarming the castle was REALLY operatic.
What a hoot!
Although I also liked Peter Sarsgaard in that movie.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0765597/
That whole “yes my life sucks and I’m nothing but as long as my dick is bigger than everybody around me” outlook on life was just perfect.
When he blew up and started shooting it was totally believable.
And he was good in “Shattered Glass”. Chloe Sevigny was awful. I didn’t believe her as a New Republic editor for five seconds.
Same with that awful Wit Stillman movie.
I missed Kidman’s appearance. here’s the info on the necklace and a pic. Pretty gawdy, afaic.
LOL IOZ has two good posts today, one on Ralphery hand wringing [spotlight on Lawyers Guns and Money]… and one on that religious nut, Amy Sullivan. And WWJD hand wring.
I thought Scarface was quite operatic
It was also a monster movie posing as a ganster movie. Michelle Pfeiffer’s character was named “Elvira” after all.
Kneel in Ohio, PA too, where aggressive BO voter reg going on, effort to split along generational lines. In fairness, I understand both sides are looking into debate venues at Penn State or Pitt vs a Big Five Philly Catholic School. ..nothing like equal opportunity pandering…
Tin foil hat talking:
So David Duke endorses Ron Paul when Paul’s campaign starts to take off. Now Farrakhan endorses Obama on the same day the photo from Kenya comes out.
A lot of these black/white racial supremacists have probably turned state’s evidence or snitched to the FBI at one time or another.
Or at least someone in the government has dirt on them.
Interesting article on World Can’t Wait.
http://youbelonghere.wordpress.com/
I cut my ties with them after their October 2006 protests fizzled and they refused to criticize or even talk about the reasons why.
Just catching up on that Somali elder garb pic of Obama. Interesting that Chuck Todd said on Hardball that, according to a reporter who was on that trip in 2006, that part of Obama’s schedule was attended by very few people, thus seriously limiting the number of people who actually would have known that pic existed. In the end, nobody knows right now who sent it to Drudge. He claims it’s the Clinton campaign. Maybe he should prove it if he wants to be believed.
Is it Cranky Monday today or what? Full moon? Political fatigueyness? All of this stuff is getting so old.
What makes the photo damaging is not the fact that he’s in Arab dress but the fact that he looks week and bizarrely young for a man in his 40s. He also looks like the passive, junior partner and the old man almost looks as if he’s ready to seduce him.
Oh it was a tawdry ridiculous tale. Musto became obsessed by a group of drug addicted party promoters and dubbed them the ‘clubs kids’. He’d then follow them around to all of their haunts [mostly Peter Gatien’s joints – the guy who got busted for tax fraud] and sullied the pages of the Voice with tales of their absolute mundanity. Chloe was one of them. The most famous tale was the one in which Michel Alig [who went to a cross town high school from me in the midwest] killed his drug dealer, carved him up in his bathtub & carted the body parts to the Hudson. This was no doubt depitcted on a Law & Order around the same time.
87 – yes I agree on the atmosphere of hte photo…
Supposedly, from what I read, it has been on conservative sites for a week ro so (I saw a thread from Free Republic on it) and at a tabloid, The Examiner.
It was bound to surface.
I have no idea… Cillizza almost implies Drudge did Obama a service connecting it to HillaryLand… and Napolitano does not buy that HIllaryLand disseminated it.
Who knows.
Think he lacked for advisors on that Great Africa trip? Seems so.
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Halperin’s The Page has extensive text from the Cleveland Jewish Community appearacne.. will fish up the link
Supposedly, from what I read, it has been on conservative sites for a week ro so (I saw a thread from Free Republic on it) and at a tabloid, The Examiner.
Neokong has been posting it on PFF for a couple of days (I think).
Note. The Troops have been growing beards in Afghanistan for awhile and it even became an issue for awhile.
http://gojackarmy.blogspot.com/2005/03/beards-in-afghanistan-either-beard.html
Very few men can get away with wearing a toga. I shudder to think of how I’d look in one.
I never heard of World Can’t Wait. So much for their “reach” into Middle America. 🙂
I had once entertained vague thoughts of going to New Hampshire for Dean (quite vague) and even went so far as to inquire among local DFA people about it, but the answers I got back about specifics were so fuzzy and so obviously not real answers, that I immediately dropped any notion of doing it. There are just certain signals that an organization gives off which should tell anyone it’s a waste of time… vague answers or non-answers are one of them…
What’s scary is that there are a lot of people out there who don’t seem to have this kind of basic bullshit meter. (I don’t want to say “bullshit” – that’s rather strong – but maybe a “they lack seriousness” meter.)
Add American guilt over the Holocaust (which of course we had nothing to do with)
Oh, really? Not to mention IBM and other companies. Some of these people were also connected to the Business Plot against FDR that Gen. Butler exposed.
There were fairly large pro-nazi groups in America, especially in the the NE, and many Jewish refugees found our ports to be less-than-welcoming.
Now with the Democratic Party on the rise, the explanation will probably be about the lack of educational opportunties that come with the breakdown of the New Deal.
Yup, exactly. America has hated intellectuals since before it WAS its own country. It’s part of the DNA of this country, like racism. Thankfully, there is always a countervaling bunch of freethinkers who push back against the gleeful stupid.
Oh, really? Not to mention IBM and other companies. Some of these people were also connected to the Business Plot against FDR that Gen. Butler exposed.
True. And Mellon also lent huge amount of money to Mussolini in 1926.
But I think the Israel lobby’s main appeal to Americans rests more on our chauvinism and exceptionalism than our guilt anyway.
The typical right wing pro-Israel website has one line.
“Hey Americans. Those Arabs aren’t like us.”
And Americans respond with “then bomb them”.
It’s Noom’s whole act. Middle Easterners dress in ways and act in ways that deviate from middle American norms and anytime that happens someone will be putting it on a website somewhere.
This is very different from British imperialism in some ways. The British elites always had a sense of adventure, a sense of wanting to penetrate into non-Western cultures (see also Richard Burton’s sneaking into Mecca).
America has hated intellectuals since before it WAS its own country. It’s part of the DNA of this country, like racism. Thankfully, there is always a countervaling bunch of freethinkers who push back against the gleeful stupid.
Hofstadter’s book (unlike Allan Bloom’s) is a good book worth reading but it just reeks with elitist 1950s consensus liberalism and anti-populism.
I love Tilda, in everything I’ve seen her in.
maybe I’m just too clouded by the days in which she was glorified by Michael Musto in the Voice
I helped Musto a time or two in my retail days in NYC. A relentless prick. Asshole. Prima donna. Absolutely horrible to the boy he was dragging around with him. Maybe one of the most unpleasant supposed “celebrities” I had the displeasure of encountering. Right up there with Harvey Feirstein and Henry Rollins.
Ugly little man.
link to excerpts of his comments to the Jewish Community in Cleveland on Sunday
But I think the Israel lobby’s main appeal to Americans rests more on our chauvinism and exceptionalism than our guilt anyway.
Oh, I think there is a lot of that, too, but I also think that people in the UK/US were persuaded into backing the establishment of the Zionist state based on their own guilt for not stopping the Shoah (a much better word for it … I hate the appropriation of “holocaust” to signify just one horrible genocidal campaign out of a world history so damned full of them) and for their own long histories of antisemitism (which is itself a misappropriation of a word, since “semite” refers to a whole group of people sharing a language-grouping, including Arabs).
WHENEVER a group of people considers themselves exceptional there is trouble, and that is epitomized by Germans in the 19th and early 20th century, Americans and now Israeli Zionists … it is an excuse for crimes and exploitation of other people who aren’t themselves part of the exceptional group.
btw, did everyone notice Jon Stewart exposing Obama’s full name last night, to a billion (LOL, give or take a few) people? And iirc when he did so he explitely remarked that “Hussein” is the same name that Saddam bore.
No matter what, it did take it higher profile. But I notice little mention in the meida today, or I have not gotten to the sources that are retelling it.
I always got that impression from his writing – too clever for page 6 of the post, but just as vain and vapid.
based on their own guilt for not stopping the Shoah (a much better word for it
But note how easily we’ve gotten Rwanda and East Timor and Guatamala and any number of genocides.
Americans side with “winners” and we see the Israelis as winners and Arabs as losers.
Add the Iranian hostage crisis and 9/11 and you don’t have to work very hard to get Americans worked up about the Middle East.
But I think in addition Amerians just lack that love of the exotic and different that Europeans had in the 19th Century.
Anybody see that Capital One credit card commericial where the poor sap thinks he’s getting free plane tickets to Ireland but winds up getting sent to the middle of the Amazon rain forest instead.
We’re supposed to feel sorry for the guy and not realize that it costs several times the amount of money to go to the Amazon than it does to Ireland.
Gotten OVER Rwanda etc.
Samantha Power was actually really good on how really bad Clinton was on Rwanda.
She didn’t mention the Iraq sanctions but…
HERE is an interesting little additional tidbit about the “60 Minutes” Gov. Don Siegelman story last night:
Good piece in Scientific American:
Space Wars – Coming to the Sky Near You?
she’s “good” on Rwanda ONLY as it will be used to get so called liberals, so called democratic Democrats on board for some great rallying campaign that will further AFRICOM, and will NOT be peaceful “blue helmuts” (and the UN can most certainly do our killing dirty work when it suits) nor feeding missions (real ones) NOR hands off alliances with genuine, not false flag, NGOs that actually wish to work with and empower local grass roots.
The bitch is for war. Behind any face.
There is a hugely important special election happening in New York tomorrow, one that could change the entire balance of political power in the nation’s third-most-populous state. I’m sure it will sail right over the heads of the Big Box Bloggers.
Toledo Blade has a fairly extensive report on the sit down Obama did with the editorial board.
This snip is nice:
Thanks for the Link to the remarks themselves, Mcat. One Chicago Minister thrown under the bus…Then the SOS.
Same Old Shit. Simply a Battle of the Conduits now…No talk against NeoCons. Never hear the word now or ‘PNAC”. Crickets.
Al Giordano has a bunch of interesting stuff up at his campaign coverage blog:
11,000 in Cincinnati… with Buses to the Polls
Ohio Preview (I): It’s About Delegates
And my favorite, w/ pics of GWB, Hillary and Bill in various folk garb:
and:
Clinton in 2002: NAFTA a “Fundamental Idea” that “Changed America”
Trial Starts for Detectives in Bell Shooting
Here’s an interesting twist in the proceedings:
Well, strange men, who don’t identify themselves as cops and have guns … I’D run.
and THIS from another defense attorney (funny how this argument isn’t even allowed when you’re in a getaway car from a crime):
oops, messed up that last blockquote.
GOP fears charges of racism, sexism
oh, and on page 2:
Hoisted on the petard of your own Southern Strategy.
a headline:
“NYT Tuesday: Clinton now unleashing ‘kitchen sink’… Developing…”
Great. We’re going to get her SAT scores, her 10 pound Girl Scout medal sash…..
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
The “Rules of War”
If we had any decency as a nation, we’d be ashamed, we’d leave and we’d make reparations.
NONE of those things will happen.
NONE of those things will happen.
and that is why I won’t vote at the Federal level. I wish had the strength and physical courage to withhold taxes, but I don’t.
I’m REALLY enjoying the wringing of hands and wailing over Nader’s announcement yesterday, and am especially appreciating the fact that the more the donklephants bitch and moan, the MORE teevee time the media will give Ralph.
Oh, what joy.
The Calm Before the Conflagration
Viva Obama – The Ohio Remix lol
115. I liked the side article “Depressed Candidate takes out Attack ad on himself”
Antidepressant drugs don’t work – official study.
That’s depressing.
LOL catnip where~~ the fuck~ did you get that? That is Hillarious!…
Oh one other thing ,never thought I’d say it, but over at PFF you guys get a load of the NeoKong Diary? I confess I LOL’d at the pics…
LOL catnip where~~ the fuck~ did you get that?
Just a happy surfing accident. 😉
I never have happy surfing accidents. They always involve more water on the brain and the tearful loss of expensive Churchill fins.
My surfing doesn’t involve water, although water on the brain still ensues at times.
Al Jazeera interview with Cindy Sheehan.
Btw, I applaud Nader for joining the race. The more, the merrier and he definitely has a message that isn’t being heard. I really don’t care if his presidential runs are the result of some character flaw, as some people have speculated. He can run so why not do it? (Plus, it drives kossacks nuts, so that’s a bonus).
LOL. Hitting the hay in New Jersey – The Toxic Waste Dump State(c)
It seems the Turks have worn out their welcome in Iraq:
Big surprise, huh?
BTW, the only place I’ve seen this military action called by its proper name, i.e., “invasion,” is over at Juan Cole’s site. Everyone else is channeling Mad Dick Nixon (“This is not an invasion of Cambodia.”).
I really don’t care if his presidential runs are the result of some character flaw,
ALL Presidential runs are the result of a character flaw. You’ve got to be nuts to do it.
hmm i heard both Biden and Hagel (be happy! it was bi partisan!) basically excuse the … crossover… forget what they called it, doubt ti was invasion. On Lehrer.
They nattered on about the PKK, said we call them bad guys “evil doers” (we are bipartisanly stuck with that demonically stupid shit, I guess) and they are on our sacrosanct terror list.
eh.
it’s a fucking train wreck.
And another fucking train wreck. Once in a rut there for a long time.
Gosh tho who would bother to stop the hatred online. It’s waaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond misogyny..
It’s a character flaw. You have to be three kinds of crazy to even run for state office.
Okay, okay…as long as we’re admitting that it’s a character flaw of all involved. 🙂
Dodd endorses Obama. Quel surprise.
Obama movie talk:
Yes. That’s what we need. A movie about Obama’s life. Sheesh.
Oscars draw record low TV ratings
136
Entertainment rules… And a cut of the deal, I would suspect.
LOL I remember a few months ago when Cate Blanchette spoke with great certainty that she would love to play HIllary.
ooops.
Gennifer Flowers’ revenge:
Not that she’s bitter or anything…
I wonder why she’s changed her tune since Dec 07 – perhaps because Hillary is losing so she sees a chance to cash in?
More Flowers in Dec 07:
Right. Sure.
Why is Robert Gates acting like the US’s chief arms dealer in India? Makes me wonder how any Dem candidate can promise not to pander to corporate interests.
Entertainment rules… And a cut of the deal, I would suspect.
He has to pay off his McMansion somehow.
Is it just me? I can’t get Hotmail, MSN or MSN messenger to load. Odd.
Former Hodes chief-of-staff emerges as Daily Kos blogger
Dana and (of course) Missy Laura troll the comments. 😀
Strange that no one ever questions if Dana’s longtime position at Dkos had anything to do with Hodes being picked as a netroots candidate. 😎
Dana and (of course) Missy Laura troll the comments.
And badly, I might add.
LOL. We got an debossed (numb)skull here
Short end of a 2 x 4 to the forehead….
Merkley simply wiped the slate clean and wrote on it anew, as if John Edwards had never existed.
sniff sniff…pass the tissues…
picture and a snip to hold up a thread…
LINK