it’s a pathetic house here… 28 May 2008
Posted by marisacat in Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
I am reduced to pawing the TV screen when there is an ad for cat food. There was one this morning with 3 pretty standard issue American short hairs…
Anyway… back to the moment at hand… Boston.com takes a look at the promise, offer, whatever it is, election slobber, from Camp Obama to ‘redraw the map’. Some changes can be made – no doubt. And I have long argued that if the Democrats gave two hoots about people they’d go more places, talk to more people. If you cannot look people in the eye and shake their hand (what too many of the Democrats cannot do), ask to hear what they’d like to tell you – well then, you cannot build the popular vote.
Howard has long promised his “50 State Strategy”… I hear burbles, but have no idea if truly implemented…
Usual caveat, FWIW, NTIM… 😉
Gato por liebre?
Sounds like the dems all right
(= Cat for hare)
It’s only the job of 3rd Parties to reach everyone, everywhere, right this instant.
Gotta’ love folks who exhort you to run harder after they’ve smashed both your kneecaps.
Ho hum.
oh the Democrats squandered decades. There is no question. My own belief is they surrendered the South. You may not win but you can build or keep popular votes, if anyone cares to, they did not. Some states are truly beyond the reach, WY, Idaho, MT, Utah… there is an intense white swathe there.
Bad news for Billary:
Shades of 1972, when the McGovern forces prevailed by switching their votes so as to lose some kind of procedural vote that preceded the actual vote on whether Humphrey was entitled to any California delegates (it was a winner take all primary and McGovern won it). It was a very Byzantine procedure, and the McGovern campaign handled it in a way that would have had Machiavelli beaming with approval. Things were so confusing, Walter Cronkite started babbling something about what a huge loss this was for McGovern, and then the reporter at McGovern headquarters corrected him saying “Walter, if this was a loss for McGovern, why are these people cheering?”
Then there was the credential challenge at the 1952 GOP conclave, when Eisenhower took the nomination from Robert Taft, with a huge assist from Richard Nixon, who delivered some crucial California votes against the wishes of the state’s governor Earl Warren (yes, that Earl Warren), who was hoping the convention would deadlock, and he could use his favorite son status as a base to rally delegates to him.
I wasn’t around in 1952, but it must have been interesting. Certainly the 1972 convention was.
I did not know that McCain recently challenged Obama to take a stroll through Baghdad with him (in flak jackets surrounded by hundreds of US troops, no doubt). Obama dismissed this as the cheap stunt that it is, but McCain is trying to make points with it. Josh Marshall is displaying some video of McCain’s attempt to display indignation at Obama’s having turned him down, and notes he highly doubts that it’s a winning issue. I do too, but am more struck at something else, namely how old, tired, and ineffectual McCain appears as he stumbles along in front of what is certainly an audience of loyalists, trying to inspire them to feel the same scorn he claims is movtivating him. As he attempts to read Obama’s words off his note card, he looks like an elderly gent trying to make sense of his wife’s handwriting as he makes his way down the aisles of his retirement community supermarket, talking to himself all the while. I think he’s going to make a very unappealing candidate once the fall campaign starts, he’s even more burned out looking than Bob Dole was 12 years ago.
See for yourself.
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yes he challenged Obama to go to Iraq, a couple or three days ago, (I’ve lost track)…
Honestly I was surprised when Obama agreed to the suggestion of a traveling show of unmoderated debates this summer with McC.
I’d love to write off McCain. Assume that he will combust, drool or fall down break an elbow and collarbone, whatever.
But those pols just rise up out of the La Brea Tar Pits with frightening regularity.
bleh… Ms Marcotte distinguishes herself, but not well.
Love the comment from kozmik:
no. 6,
Well, I’m no judge of what the American public finds an inspiring image w/r/t a president. Reagan, politics aside, left me cold. Being an actor myself, I was always far too aware of the craft behind his vocal and physical presentation. He looked like what he always had been, a modestly talented thespian who could never be a real star because he could never recite his lines with the sort of simple but transcendent conviction that other modestly talented performers who were stars could bring to their acting (think of Fred McMurray in Double Indemnity, and then try to imagine Ronnie in his place). So he developed the tricks that people who don’t believe a word of what their saying master to make a career in commercials. In his case, he developed his voice into as resonant a baritone as possible, and mastered squinching his features into various expressions that can suggest sincerity. I knew every last eyebrow raising, eye narrowing, and charming grin had been practiced in front of a mirror until even he didn’t know which was the reflection and which his real face. When he did that “City On A Hill” peroration in one of the 1980 debates, I burst out laughing, convinced that he’d just blown the election. Not only was it one of the phoniest performances I’d ever witnessed, but the words could have come straight out of some awful 1940s bottom-of-the-marquee feature MGM had dumped into theatres in the hopes no one would notice it.
Even so, McCain looks like an underconfident Mr. Magoo (note how he has to move the index card back and forth to read it). Even a lot of racists are liable to feel he’s too big a risk to vote into the White House. Also, claiming that you don’t read your opponents’ statements (which he does at the beginning of the clip) is leaving yourself open to a big kick in the rear.
well we knew Ron and Nancy very well out here. In fact, we all knew the western rise of the new conservatism, wingerism. The Birchers, cleaned up a tad. Some gloss from Buckley, that fucking nutter.
It was beyond painful to watch the nation scarf Reagan down, like toast with butter and jam.
hmmm Charles Pierce has a piece up in Esquire on Obama………
100 – last thread: And that should be “Botany Bay,”
I really hated when Kahn managed to escape from there.
regular unleaded gas at $4.29 a gallon today. ouch.
UT will be out of play for the duration, but i’m not so sure about MT. the rancher/natural gas driller conflict is simmering, although whether dems will exploit that is anyone’s guess. not real big fans of the police state out there either, even the wingnuts have a pretty strong leave me the hell alone and mind your own business vibe going on that was never wholly integrated into the southern busybodies that make up the core of the current GOP.
and then there’s global warming, and connections to bugs, droughts and fire in the forested west. people are starting to talk about it, and the alert ones are getting concerned. some timber owners are looking into carbon trading as a way of staying solvent, where four or five years ago they were deriding it all as another enviro plot to take their land.
there could eventually be a realignment down the road that leaves the west voting in parallel with new england, nationally. far from assured, but it could happen.
IOZ turns words into Japanese fugu knives:
THE FLIP SIDE OF GLORY
Spanish Judge Calls for Bush to be Tried for War Crimes
I have to disagree with you there, JJB – I thought Reagan was a mediocre actor but not as awful as his political foes pretend, and he was an excellent public speaker. Those mannerisms you note and criticize – the deeply resonant voice and “canned” facial expressions – are highly effective in public speaking, particularly in the style of public speaking that Reagan and his generation grew up with. His style was a throwback to an earlier era (think: The Age of Radio) and that got across to people.
Furthermore, remember that he came into office immediately after Jimmy Carter, who was one of the worst public speakers I have ever heard. The current Bush has him beat, but not by much. What a relief to hear someone who could actually deliver a speech! Whether it meant anything or not was another matter.
Heather-Rose, wu ming and Madman
out of moderation!
Sorry for the delay!
… 8)
A Religion Hijacked
12: from the article: Turns out the dehumanization process is not easily controlled, especially when it is well-armed and stoked with testosterone.
Ah. OK, to borrow from the critic of Amanda Marcotte quoted in the earlier thread: yeah, and water is wet. Wow. Insightful commentary.
This problem in the US military is nothing new. It was happening long before the current “Roman” expansionist doctrine. Webb was defending it decades ago, in his “Women Can’t Fight” article and his later defense of the Tailhook perpetrators.
I think it happens in militaries around the world, but we don’t tend to hear about it as much.
The news story posted here the other day (by catnip?) about UN “peacekeepers” raping an underage girl is indicative of the prevalence of the problem.
I’m just enjoying the White House show. It’s good to get a chance to watch the rats flee.
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Why did you cut that quote out, Madman? That’s the key quote of the article. For me, at least.
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well I agree on MT — internally. If you can get a governor that peopl;e like, and without knowing much of Schweikert, he seems to be doing OK… things can happen.
After 2004 I sat down wtih the CNN state breakdown, by state and by county.. One thing was that for neither Bush nor Kerry was there a massive home state love. Each pulled in over 60 pts at home, but a very clear over 30pts that were not with them… then some of the very white states… in the mountain west or interior west… very hard core, most counties. Some southern states were definitely more penetrable, if the Dems ever cared to work on it.
I could see Obama doing better in MT than in some others. Land issues, ranchers issues, the western libertarianism are all exploitable (beyond MT) issues, if they care to.
He certainly managed to pull in several Northern Ca very white, often very or rther conservative counties… Tulare comes to mind, off hand. there was a little row of them heading for the Oregon border… Maybe in thsoe districts he had better, or just some at all, operatives, precinct captains, than thru out the interior / southern parts of the state.
Why did you cut that quote out, Madman?
I felt like I was lifting too much. I’m glad you highlighted it.
sorry yet another H-R out of moderation.
I swear WP had two good weeks about 5 months ago. It was brief. And over.
Sorry!
19 – I linked it b/c I thought it interesting that a columnist from the Republican-leaning Chicago Tribune wrote it. While most of us know this stuff, if you mention it to a lot of Americans you’ll get disbelieving stares, or the worse response of “that’s war”. After all, aren’t all military men heroes who make our freedom possible?
Sorry if it bothered you.
Phone Calls to the CBC? How about Primary Challengers
The Poorman on Scottie’s “tell all”
“I wouldn’t vote Nader for dog catcher but I still think what the Democrats did to him is nothing short of criminal.”
23. OK, Madman, thanks for explaining. I do think it’s a crucial quote and very moving. If we could all – especially women – tune in to our “inner voice” that tells us that nobody can threaten us and nobody can tell us what to do, the world would be much better off.
25. I found the article unimpressive but other than that, it didn’t bother me. The problem bothers me.
I Will Derive!
McKinney CLOSE TO Clinching The Green Party Nomination.
Looking forward to planting my first LET MC KINNEY DEBATE !! lawn sign next to the cosmos seeds this weekend.
:p
27. What I find fascinating from a psychological point of view is watching the litany of Bushco kool-aid drinkers – Fleischer, Bartlett, etc – blabbing on the cable shows in disbelief because Scotty somehow managed to come around to telling the truth. He must have had a kool-aid transfusion. Not that he’s blameless – not by a long shot – or that his book isn’t clearly a ‘CYA and blame everybody else but Bush’ entreaty, but the bubble-dwellers, I believe, really don’t seem to be capable of understanding how someone previously in their fold could actually break free of the cult.
31 – me too!
Madman, everyone knows what those plants in your window box are. Running with this crowd has completely ruined you. [cough]
Are they going to let Barr debate? Who decides? The news channels or orgs setting up the debates? Are there some kind of national election rules about that? I can’t remember.
Btw, I enjoyed that Esquire piece, mcat. “Absolution without penance” indeed.
And bravo to that Spanish judge.
Speaking of war criminals: Bolton dodges attempted ‘war crimes’ arrest
Tapper had a post up today on what little Scottie said when Paul O’Neil’s book came out. Pretty funny in retrospect… the standard … time spent on “Well, Paul never said anything at the time”.
LOL
Let them ALL debate, that’s what I say, with big tub of anticipatory popcorn in hand!
Won’t happen, though. The debate rules are determined by a non-profit corp overseen by the “two” political parties. It was established after the League of Women Voters were basically forced out by the “two” parties.
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Think there is a percentage he has to have hit in polling. There may be additional rules, in some cases they knock people out of debate for not hving a million in the bank (campaign funds). I just read of that instance in the past few days
I assume the Dems would be the party expecting some benefit from the Barr run… so I guess their burbles would be the ones to watch.
People scoffed at Nader in the last election for doing a “debate” on his web page where Kerry and Bush II had puppet stand-ins. But actually IMHO that’s about the right level for the whole affair.
David Gergen and Kiki McLean, both on CNN tonite, blasted Scotty for blabbing because it somehow disrespects the office (or some such rationalization). Unbelievable, considering the crimes Scotty helped Bushco cover up over the years. It was his duty to come out and tell the truth and he should have done it a long time ago. This “loyalty” bullshit or the idea that he owes Bush something for having been given the job just shows how far some of these DC types have their heads up their asses. President and party before country at all costs.
47. Thanks. I recalled something about the League of Women Voters from the last time around but not what happened after they weren’t the deciders anymore.
39. where Kerry and Bush II had puppet stand-ins
lol…I missed that one.
39 – Gravel did a similar thing after he was excluded from the donk debates.
SIGUR RÓS : Gobbledigook
league of Women Voters were pushed out after 88, iirc. The documents, the agreement between the parties following that is online… (might be what Madman links to above – sorry to be behind here) … and findable … if you can stand to read thru it… very clear what has been going on.
It’s ridiculous to call them “debates”. They are merely TV appearances in which the candidates endeavor to generate the best sound-bites, with “moderators” asking inane questions along the lines of “what’s your favorite color”.
I couldn’t find the original agreement … not that I looked so hard. The most disgusting thing about the non-profit corp’s site is how they appropriated the history of the debates before they took over.
Everything is gamed by the duopoly. Access to the polls, access to getting onto the ballot, and access to getting into debates … all controlled by “two” parties controlled by big money and the corporations.
We’re so fucked. Even when we’re offered a “choice” it’s a game to herd people in one direction or the other.
if the mccain and obama camps think that mckinney and barr, respectively, might hurt their opponents, i suppose there’s an outside chance we’d see the full spectrum up there.
i loved having perot in the debates in 92. anything to get away from the dull-as-dirt back and forth of the D-R moderated by a media hack.
well, i can dream, anyway.
Here is a google link to “Commision on Presidential Debates”
(I was motivated to google by hitting the ceiling over a debate/caller phone in on KGO on all of this fucking fundie “issues of conscience” over dispensing Plan B, RU 486. providing care in the ER to rape victims, access to artificial insemination for lesbians and last but surely the most critical, allowing someone carrying liquor to enter your hallowed cab, I am swinging from the chandelier)
Here is common dreams, Jeff Cohen etc of FAIR on the “compromised” CPD
Long snip from the Common Dreams:
Amen. Good for them.
Cluster bomb ban treaty approved
Of course.
Oh go fuck yourselves.
Oprah’s losing her mojo. The article mentions the fallout from her endorsement of the other O – Obama.
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I wonder fi it was not just saturation leads to burn out. At some point you hit maximum audience reach and what happens next can be slow decline. I never watched her Sunday evening “Giving” thing but just the clips and promos seemed shark infested.
I watched some of the Big Give. What I didn’t like about it was that the people the contestants chose to help were at the mercy of how well the givers could do when it came to raising money etc for their individual causes. Some who needed help came up well short compared to others. I did like the idea of inspiring the average person to be creative and charitable but how much of that was realistic considering the contestants could say they were from Oprah’s show, thus garnering more donations etc? If I decided to help someone out, I wouldn’t have that kind of clout behind me. I’m glad they decided not to do it again.
I liked her show back in the early days before she became a commercial for every corporation, author, actor, and their dog.
ruh roh…looks like the DNC is having trouble fundraising for the Denver convention. Whoops.
Queen Nancy of California addresses the concerned peasants:
All hail Queen Nancy!
Wild smiley on the loose – although I think it’s appropriate in this case.
LOL the top card fight IS on the table!
58. the top card fight IS on the table!
Well, there should be lots of room for it considering everything else that’s not on the table.
I don’t know if the historical comparison is accurate, but I found this Broder article interesting.
A Kinder, Gentler Torture
what’s Nancy gonna do, wag her finger at Clinton? Hillary will laugh in her face.
Roger Stone was just on CNN … what an odious man. I will never understand the silly game of a newsmodel asking the likes of him what advice he would give Obama or Clinton.
Pretty unflattering NYT story about Portland.
They’re only just starting to admit the perils of gentrification there?
Ouch.
A lot of phenomena won’t survive La Revolucion. Oprah is one of them.
#63:
…They’re only just starting to admit the perils of gentrification there?…
Hahahahahaaa.
Uhhh… no. Obviously you’ve never hung around PDX Indymedia. But, yes, it’s very, very pale here. Less so outside the city proper, where a lot of the population growth has been Hispanic, especially in the Eastward direction.
I did snicker when I saw that Obama’s handlers booked The Decemberists to play at his rally. Most of the fresh-faced pale kids probably just showed up to hear them;Mediocre band, hideously overrated and completely overexposed– The perfect metaphor for his campaign. Call me a snob, but however pale we are, the town loves its jazz, r&b and especially Blues (witnessing the huge turnout for the Blues Fest every July). They couldn’t have gotten Soul Vaccination or maybe Linda Hornbuckle ?
Feh.
Cindy Sheehan Debates Military Recruiter In SF Today
Wear pearls, Cindy. Otherwise nobody but a few YouTube and Indy faithful will know that you ever existed.
Interesting that WCW is sponsoring it. I thought they were all about Be-Dem-Or-Be-Dead. I wonder if Sheehan will be allowed to mention that she’s challenging Pelosi or if she’s agreed not to bring that up…
catnip, #59:
Well, there should be lots of room for it considering everything else that’s not on the table.
[rimshot]
(Everyone bookmark this. You’ll thank me more and more as this campaign goes on.)
Ahh, Broderella!
Rubbish. Carter failed because he went out of his way to antagonize the Congressional Democrats, particularly Ted Kennedy, subjecting them to all manner of gratuitous and petty snubs, and refusing to pursue the neo-New Deal platform he’d campaigned on. He also went out of his way to annoy organized labor, which was still a potent force in those days. Jordan in fact was one of the reasons Carter’s relations with Capitol Hill were so awful. Tip O’Neill referred to him, more or less publicly, as “Hannibal Jerkin.” Neither he nor Jody Powell, who formed the duumvirate (or dumbvirate, if you prefer) that controlled the Carter White House had the requisite tact for the job, or the smarts to learn from their mistakes.
As to Broder himself, it’s tempting to suggest that this idiotic piece is due to advancing age (he turns 79 later this year), but he was writing stupid things like this when he was young. This paragraph is a real gem:
That’s why they call him the Dean . . .
BTW, the WaPo is in the process of downsizing its staff, and is offering buyouts to lots of people, prior to the inevitable layoffs that may follow if not enough folks voluntarily leave. Broder, who is well past retirement age, is staying put. Howie Kurtz wrote a real weeper of a column about this recently, without inquiring why someone like Broder, who is obviously not going to be around for very much longer, doesn’t accept such a package himself and provide at least one job slot for younger talent who might still be assets for the WaPo in 10-20 years time when Broder will most likely no longer be drawing breath.
Comment in moderation.
Two of my comments have vanished, one long one that I think was in Moderation, and a second short one stating same.
i found one in Moderation JJB
but not two…. ??? (sorry for the delay!)
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LOL Carter also cut off liquor at the WH, hard liquor. GOOD LUCK doing that!
Ha ha
I did snicker when I saw that Obama’s handlers booked The Decemberists to play at his rally.
ms xeno, when I read about the Decemberist band I meant to ask you what they were like. Mediocre, thanks… LOL
4 years ago, so I read, Kerry got 60K by bringing Lenonardo di Caprio and Jon Bon Jovi.
MCat,
Funny glitch caused both 68 and 69 to vanish, then the latter appeared when I posted no. 70. All are now visible.
I’d forgotten about the Carter booze ban, but yes, he did, only wine was served at WH functions, which I’m sure caused a lot of ill will both with domestic and foreign invitees. In fact, I think the wine might have been okayed only after rumors of a planned total alcohol ban were met with many loud complaints.
For the curious, here’s a link to an article from a year ago detailing many Broder idiocies of recent vintage. Note the one where he declares that Boy Bush and FDR have much in common.
… sometimes, the last few months, it takes a minute ot two for a comment to appear. WP, sad to say, is loaded iwth hiccups.
I did snicker when I saw that Obama’s handlers booked The Decemberists to play at his rally.
I’m having a flashback of Outkast’s “Hey Ya” playing all the time at Dean rallies in Iowa. Not a good flashback either.
[rimshot]
lol…beats my lame “pa dum pum”.
From the BAN thread about McKinney from yesterday. I smell Kozzie. Or maybe it’s one of La Nation‘s proofreaders on his day off:
Tee hee. Guffaw. Chuckle. Black candidate + “Crips and Bloods” metaphor = Wit at its zenith.
Law is obviously a bad profession. mr_xeno occasionally daydreams about chucking it all and opening a sports bar. I should probably encourage him. He’d meet a better class of people.
With apologies for messing up the quote-tag. Vampire sphincters on the attack will do that to you.
NYCO:
OTOH, at least it wasn’t (yawn) Springsteen. Again.
As local talent goes, I like Quasi or Viva Voce myself. But maybe they couldn’t live up to all that hype, either. Could anyone ?
Hey y’all – loved the rest of that Coo Coo thread yesterday morning. (Panties for Peace! Boxer rebellion! Finnish yonis running wild in the streets! Karaoke she-devils! Etcetera!)
I ran way late for work, catching up . . . .
MCat – Maybe you need to reactivate your grandmother’s straycat beacon? Calling all feline agents – station available!
IB
Ha!
I laughed the other day… I remembered once, several years ago, rushing around the house doing something (probably some manic over due cleaning) and realised that, as I had rushed past the open door to my bedroom, visually something had been “off”… so I backtracked and curled up on the sitting chair was an unknown black cat. Sound asleep… As I approached I could see th cat ws in good shape, not thin, clean, cared for but no collar. And he or she was not a nice cat. (eventually it got to the rear up and hiss)… so I got a big thick towel, tossed it over the cat, got hold of the bundle.. and escorted him or her thru the opening in the fence.
LOL
No it would not be fair now to a cat. I hung in with Baby but the vet bills alone would be daunting. Very quickly, before you know it, you are into the costs of care for an “older cat” … very expensive blood work for any sort of issue or prior to teeth cleaning. She hated going to the vet and for my own issues I had begun as of 2002 to pay a vet technician to pick her up for the odd vet visit and to pill her (she somehow managed to have three expensive infections earlier this decade)… all of which was expensive … her last teeth cleaning with some small attendant issues as 550.00.
I did almost bundle up the 25 or so cans of cat food… and ask my neighbor if he knows of a cat household I could pass them to, but did decide to keep them… if some waif arrived, I would do what I could but not fair to bring a cat in… not really. I wish it were otherwise… but seems not…
via SFGATE>com – full text:
Don’t know if anyone has seen reports of this ludicrous incident:
Only a complete lunatic could seriously suggest that an American corporation such as Dunkin’ Donuts intended any such thing as Malkin suggests. The scarf doesn’t even look like kaffiyehs, which have only checkered patterns, usually don’t have fringes, and when they do have ones far shorter than the fringes on Ms. Ray’s scarf.
This, more than ever, would seem to be an appriopriate time to tell this loathsome woman to take a flying you-what-what at a rolling donut. Instead, the corporation caves. They should sue her for defamation, and take every nickel she currently has and will ever earn for the rest of her life.
80. Calling all feline agents – station available!
Too cute…and I keep telling my cats they should get jobs but they look at me like I’m nuts.
81. I definitely know what you mean about vet costs. I’ve been lucky with my 16 yr old cat but my other one, who I’ve nicknamed “high maintenance boy” (the Obama cat) has cost me hundreds in vet bills. I don’t think I’d get another cat if anything happened to these two but, otoh, I’ve had cats all my life (since we had the John, Paul, George & Ringo litter when I was very young) so I’d never say never.
JJB
The Rachel Raye thing has been jsut too bizarre, from the get go. Not certain, but sounds like Malkin ws one of the big pushers.
Totally nuts. But, there we go.
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catnip:
My old line to the cats always was:
Give me your pocket change… give. me. your. pocket. change NOW.
Never got any.
MCat,
When I first heard about this, it was a before-the-commercial-break tease on the local morning news. They didn’t mention what it was about exactly, just that an ad had been pulled because of something RR was wearing, and I thought maybe her blouse was too sheer, or maybe her nipples were showing, etc., they never did show the story while I was watching, and I promptly forgot about it until seeing the piece I linked to. And as I looked at Google images so as to confirm my notions of what a kaffiyeh looks like, I notice that there are all sorts of nuts claiming that people are wearing them and it means something sinister. There’s even one of Howard Dean at some kind of political rally I, suppose (you can see some people holding American flags). Also, a lot of claims are being made that various things much to small to wrap around your head and shoulders are kaffiyehs.
Obama had better be very careful about wearing anything that even remotely resembles one.
I’m wearing a men’s paisley shirt today. So I’m a terrorist, AND a sexual deviant.
[preens]
ms x
the religio-sex police will hunt you down and insist you move your buttons and buttonholes. you will be referred to the religio-sex-fashion police for long term follow up.
LOL…
This just in from Prada Central: Vatican will excommunicate women priests
Besides the obvious fact that “Father Mary Magdalene” just doesn’t sound right, Ratzy and Georg aren’t about to cut anybody else in on their designer concession. Imagine what Donatella would do with cassocks for actual women. 😉
LOL referencing the Finnish tales from the previous thread… Fear of the Wild Runabout Golden Squirrel.
What a hoot.
And here some investigations place Mary Magdalene at the Last Supper painting. Wah. Do we HAVE to go with St Paul?
Brrrrrreaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT HAS RULED THAT THE HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN TAKEN FROM A POLYGAMIST SECT RANCH SHOULD RETURN TO THEIR PARENTS
Obama denounces and rejects Father Pfleger(couple of embedded links at the Politico link)… another of his trinity of Chicago clerics. And iirc, think Pflger is one who slapped Hannity around…
2 down one to go.
LOL Father Pfleger rejects and renounces self:
via Tapper
65 – The Decembrists bore the shit out of me. For that matter, most of the crap Paste magazine and such push as “indie” or whatever sucks.
The White House press’ favorite male prostitute just doesn’t recognize Scottie either:
Yeesh…sadder is Democrats calling Scottie Dottie COURAGEOUS. Which I heard today on KGO.
GMAFB!
He and his brother were at the heart of the game. Now Scottie is making some hard cash… I have not read what his advance was but I did hear it is already No 1 on the NYT best seller list. (which is based on air and poop, but still)
Scottie sounds like a sap when he talks about Dubya, still. He’s a moron and accomplice. I don’t get why everybody is so jazzed about.
This is how Americans make friends in foreign lands:
Why not just wear Templar-style robes with big red crosses on the front over their body armor?
McClatchy “Nukes & Spooks” blog on Scottie’s BS, and the media’s
Sinister Cat
The Great and Unremembered War
oh Scottie Dottie has the ultimate. he’s interested in “obama’s message”.
LOL Not sure who he will vote for……………. dontcha know.
I think this Scotty book is all good for the Dems. I’ve been listening to the AM radio blowhards to hear their spin, and I’m impressed by the number of conservative callers calling them out. It’s fun.
85. Give me your pocket change… give. me. your. pocket. change NOW.
Never got any.
I keep my debit card well hidden. I’m just sayin’.
I am having problems with the ‘back pages’… getting comments to stay out of Moderation once released.
gah. Still trying…
95.
That’s just creepy. Gannon – still trying to be relevant.
105 – I laughed really hard when I read that sentence.
Madman, #65:
I try to strike a balance between not worshiping newness for its own sake and still trying to appreciate something new when it comes along.
Honestly, I think it’s hard for almost any artist to live up to the sort of steeply arcing/descending hype that seems to allow one or two bands per year to be somehow the best there is.
But I went to see Was (Not Was) a couple of weeks ago and had a blast. My “bad” (left foot) still smarts from dancing and I don’t care. :p
So what do I know ?
Now, imagine if Obama had booked Portland’s (as opposed to Australia’s) Rollerball ? Possibly it would have been an entirely different demographic. (Warning: (Portland’s) Rollerball is not to be taken at bedtime, unless you like having really disturbing dreams.)
Mcat, (#88] I’ve decided to solve the gender outlaw issue by walking upside down whenever I’m moved to wear a men’s shirt in public. Because I really hate sewing buttons.
As to the feline job issue, I have exhorted my horde for years on the subject, but the best I’ve ever gotten was a free Workman calendar in 2002. The late, great Walter was actually chosen to be one of the November cats.
Tsk.
Great. Another broken tag. I don’t deserve to live.
I love Was (Not Was). I should have gone to see them when they came through here, but I was too lazy.
Gonna see Aimee Mann in a couple of weeks, and Steve Earle and Allison Moorer are coming through in July. Oh, and the Harley Davidson Roadhouse stage at Summerfest looks pretty awesome on July 3rd: Drive By Truckers, Alejandro Escovedo and then Lucinda Williams after the traditional Summerfest fireworks display.
Yes, I’m a slave to singer-songwriters and No Depression-style alt-country (whatever that is). Sue me! 😉
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Why not just wear Templar-style robes with big red crosses on the front over their body armor?
I laughed, but not for long; it could happen. Red on white would make too easy a target, but I can see them doing it in a low-contrast camo-style print.
Onward, Christian soldiers . . .
That Rollerball stuff is interesting.
Michelle contradicts Barack again. Last week, his response was that he didn’t think Hillary meant anything untoward with her RFK comment. Michelle took it quite differently (and made several people cry as a result). Oh, the agony.
As for the Vatican, men have done such a bang up job with their perfect record (cough cough) of tending to their flocks all this time, why would they allow lowly wimmen folk to step up and tarnish that stellar reputation?
CNN: Obama played hardball in first Chicago campaign
Lies from CNN, all lies.
He was found in the bullrushes. Near the manger. A Star in the East… Something about the Magi bearing gifts… Nothing to do with Chicago.
As MO said “He is the man I have been waiting for”.
Madman, that particular cut is from Trail of the Butter Yeti, which I’ve seen pretty cheap at half.com* and the like. That CD is a pretty good representation of the kind of stuff they do. Their first CD, Garlic came out in 1998 (???) when I was doing (mostly) unpaid stuff for a now-deceased local art rag. The music guru said that they’d still be going strong long after bands like Everclear had made their transitory fortunes milking the post-Nirvana scene, and damned if he didn’t turn out to be correct.
*Not a paid endorsement
…Yes, I’m a slave to singer-songwriters and No Depression-style alt-country (whatever that is)…
Peter Case ? 🙂
Mcat, thanks for the clean-up job.
no problem ms x
…and WP is acting up a lot today…
Gosh, all the Clinton II-Obama-RFK hoopla makes me reflect fondly on the sheer brave-heartedness that was Michael Dukakis the day after Gush/Bore 2000, proclaiming on TV that “Nader should be killed.” You could cut the outrage amongst Democrats with a– oh, wait. You couldn’t.
Ah, life was so much simpler then. Any minute now, the hairless weasel will burst back on the scene to proclaim that Gilliard and Dukakis were BOTH right !!
Colour me naive (and I certainly am at times) but it seems to me if Obama was really all about unity and bipartisanship, he would have accepted McCain’s offer to go to Iraq with him. Instead, he called it a “political stunt”. That just doesn’t seem to fit with his message and it seems to me that would have been a way to prove that he wasn’t really about “old politics” anymore. Just my 2 cents.
118. CNN’s kind of slow to pick up that story which I think I read about in a Chicago paper weeks ago.
I like Case, though I have to admit I never went and bought any. It’s weird how some singer-songwriters will grab you, while others are good but don’t.
Speaking of great singers-songwriters: Bruce ‘Utah’ Phillips, 73; influential folk singer- songwriter.
Michael Dukakis the day after Gush/Bore 2000, proclaiming on TV that “Nader should be killed.”
LOL plenty of entitlement to go around…
RFLMAO … suuurrrrrre it will:
Yeah, I only read about Phillips’ demise a few days ago. 😦
Meanwhile, who is going to strap on their hip-waders and tell the cadre of bleakly interchangeable far-Right dipshit Malkin groupies over at PFF that, yes, Dunkin Donuts does do business in those TEWWOWIST STWONGHOLDS like Riyadh, Dubai, etc. !?!?
Oh, the pain. :p
Anger Simmers, As Some Democratic Bloggers Are Shut Out From the National Convention Floor
Cue wailing, gnashing of teeth …
I was going to send our new album to them for review… should I not?
Speaking of which, I will shortly be uploading all six clips from our new album to myspace – 2 will be downloadable for free and the other four will be snippets. Will update ya’ll later on when they’re up.
Harvey Korman has died.
They do feature some good stuff sometimes (Iron & Wine, Calexico) … but their cover-featured bands tend toward stuff like the Decembrists. They also have a nice sampler CD that comes in every issue. I’ve found some good stuff on that.
I think if you’re trying to get the word out you should send it everywhere that might give it a chance.
Sadly, Harp has gone bye-bye, as has No Depression. Have you thought of sending a copy to Arthur Magazine?
Paste’s reviews.
I was also going to suggest Pop Matters, but their website is down. I hope they didn’t go under too.
Oh, and Pitchfork too.
Thanks MitM – will definitely do that.
So we’re having a war with our manager about the art… he wants the image of Sarah off the cover. I tried to explain to him the concept of ‘language reclamation’ tonight using the classic example of Patti Smith’s ‘Rock ‘n Roll Nigger’, alas not only does he not get it, but he thinks no one will get it… fancy that, I recognized exactly the idea she was going for without her even explaining it to me. We’re a literate band looking for a literate audience and he wants us to be ‘easy’. Anywho – off to snip those excerpts down so I can post them tonight.
Patti Smith Documentary Gets Theatrical Release
just a thread… really.
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