Sunday evening thread………….. 22 June 2008
Posted by marisacat in Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
India’s annual monsoon rains have arrived early, causing floods that have killed at least 23 people in the north-east of the country. [AP via BBC]
I’m calling it off, LOL. Offered Brokaw, I’d take Russert back. Both are July 4th and hot dogs, flags flapping – and whatever else, both wrote atrocious mittel mittel books and pandered miserably, but Russert, on balance (or off!), was slightly more alive (when he was). It’s not saying much.
What a choice. We are so screwed.
Marisacat 
new 3,500 acre fire in the hills between napa and solano county, north of vacaville. still no cool breezes inland, just stifling smoke, it’s hovering around 80. all those thunderstorms did was set a bunch of new fires.
fire season’s gonna be awesome.
they say the whole state is on fire, from one end to the other. If there is going to be fire starters as well as lightning, it is frightening.
500 northern Cal fires now. earlier the TV and radio news made it clear, resources too stretched.
and I just heard of a San Bruno fire, moving toward SSF…
god.. I cannot believe it… except
A very disheartening diary. What can I say? A not so subtle attack. Perhaps quote once again Chico Buarque;
Afasta de mim Cale-se
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In last week’s frontline on China (which I had to see mostly online ,since we have a crappy TV, crappy reception and no cable subscription), I was impressed with the courage of the environmental lawyer Zhang Jingjing. I must admit that when I first saw her picture, she immediately reminded me of ELis Regina, an enormously loved and politically engaged singer who died in unfortunate circumstances in 1982. Her funeral was a major event in Brazil, in the waning days of military rule – “os anos de chumbo”, the years of lead.
Re Cody’s. I sadly discovered last September on my visit to the Bay Area that the Telegraph Ave store closed up. And now the whole is shuttered up.
city lights is still around, right?
“father, take this cup from Me”?
couple of viewer photos of the San Bruno fire, just so of the city… somehow a bird, or hummingbird?, was caught in the second photo.
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yes the environmental lawyer was very affecting.
“Afasta de mim este calice” is a play on words
calice (chalice) sounds like cale-se (shut up)
This was a song against censorship recorded in the worst of the dictatorship. It managed to get through the censors until they finally figured it out.
ah. in my poor texas vernacular, father take away the shut-up.
George Carlin died… in Santa Monica.
hmmm analysing raw sewage for illegal drugs. London is pretty druggie, what a SHOCK. Pretty high use of MJ in cities in Europe, more meth in the US… again, what a shock!
Ron Silliman on Cody’s & Berkeley booksellers when the Telegraph store closing was announced
e vero!
Donatella, who personally oversees the orders for Fr Ganswein, the personal secretary for Ratzy, dedicates her spring/summer 2009 mens line to…
ObamaRama.
hmmm Tsvangirai takes refuge in the Dutch embassy in Harare
Carlin’s passing is a bummer, but his health was so bad for much of his life…
Am I not remembering the content of his routines correctly… or was he one of the least misogynistic standup comedians of his generation? He seemed to have no interest in making women the butt of his jokes. Just demeaning organized power structures and human silliness in general.
I found his later routines to be more angry than funny — but that’s just because he moved on to a different place, just as he moved on from Al the Hippy Dippy Weatherman to his Seven Words You Can’t Say phase. I never felt he didn’t like people, just that he, well, hated humanity. 🙂
Zhang JingJing was really amazing.
The thing about meth is no surprise. This culture all-but demands that people be on some sort of speed, from caffeine on up.
Carlin made fun of misogynists frequently, IIRC.
LOL I knew today was going to be just flat out hilarious when I heard Will Smith, paragon of the box office revenue on 5 continents, say that Obama has to be elected as the ideals that drove the Founders just pour from his pores. (Ponder that for a few… )
Don’t miss the brilliance from another corner:
If this keeps up I will lose track of all the threads blown off course at PffterPoofter by extended commentary about Mcat and those who post here.
Pretty hilarious. Really pisses them off that I am not for the Chicago Daley confrere corporatist (wakey wakey, Jim Daley often at his side, Axelrod and Gibbs on his other two sides… MO takes the 4th side).
Good Luck!
There’s so much I don’t know second wave feminist …Is that like “nouvelle vague” or “cinema novo”?
…appears Donkeytale knows more than I about feminisms. Not too surprising as I don’t use the word in regard to myself.
My own opinion of America today is that older women should withhold all volunteer, unpaid, work. Immediately. And withhold all donations whether political, charitable or other where they use their own money.
Mcat, remember that if you don’t let the menfolks puke all over your page, you is AUTHORITARIAN !!!
[snerk] Mr. Stomach Flu calls somebody an “authoritarian.” Isn’t that kind of like Dick Cheney calling somebody a “cold fish ?”
#19, Madman:
…Carlin made fun of misogynists frequently, IIRC…
Too bad it didn’t catch on with the rest of America.
#21, CSTAR:
Second Wave Classics, via Feminism 101.
Have at it.
I’ve always identified with third-wavers myself… then again, that is also my generation.
will smith just wants obama to be president because he’ll be playing him in the movies. like denzel washington with malcolm x, or val kilmer with jim morrison.
Waves make me nauseous.
You’re not using the right kind of raft, catnip. Check out The Sharper Image, Brookstone, etc. If your flotation device cost you less than the entire GNP of either Haiti or Honduras, you’re DOING IT WRONG !!
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that one evidently resented his “hush-up” so much its become an(other) obsession.
whats funny is, in spite of what he says, he obviously reads the site as obsessively as he rants against it. iirc he was warned about the potty mouth. yet complains and complains about the taste of soap.
bayprairie, the only thing the dick-waving squad hates more than young women they want to fuck is women too old to be worthy of their magical fuck wand(s).
[cue violins]
7. yes – best options now are still Moe’s in Berkeley, Green Apple in SF
29. & boogie boards? . . .
Arcturus, my boogie board has the Obama Eagle on it. It was a steal at 2K’s worth of non-lobbyist donations.
BTW, the only thing more unwittingly hilarious than fritzwitz’ daily tantrum is Hairless Weasel giving yet another variation of his I-Know-What’s-Best-For-The-Black-Monolith Speech.
Of course, there are POC, even in the very heart of PFF itself, who have said that they are less than thrilled with Obama as a candidate and/or human being. But in Weaselland, I guess those folks just don’t exist.
… or shadowthief’s obesession with being banned…
I guess my favorite really has to be titzy’s whole ‘Capitalism has won! If you stand on principle, you’re just a ‘left beinder” speech. Uh, dude, capitalism is violently falling apart at an accelerating pace. Get a freekin’ clue.
speaking of Will Smith breathless to play Obama…
Back in earlier breathlessness… on Charlie Rose one night in … early 2007 was that tall blond Australian actress, for get her name, she has played QEI as well as Dylan (he should sue, LOL) and it was clear, she planned to play Hillary.
Whoops.
Cate Blanchett. She’s actually been in some pretty decent roles over the years.
She was particularly good in ‘Notes on a Scandal’.
#34: Oh, lucid. Everything’s going great for Supreme Commander Ficus. Weren’t you there when he whipped out his wallet full of successful offspring and his treasured photocopies of the first dollar each of them ever made ?
So if THEY’RE doing well under the current system, what the hell is YOUR problem ?
emma thompson was the best hillary in primary colors. i almost wondered if hillary was patterning some of her styling in the primary after thompson playing that character. the haircut certainly seemed that way.
As much as I hate to admit it, Travolta did a pretty decent Bill too.
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agree…
Oh Bama handlers have yanked the Great Seal.
Gee and Ambinder just explained to us wee brained ones, just this morning, how confident and properly hubristic that made Oh Bama seem:
Whoop. de. doo.
Then, having defended hubris, he explained taking it down (a lot longer)
42. Oh Bama handlers have yanked the Great Seal.
My laugh du jour. I really should have an Obamalama Flip-Flip Counter on my page. Come to think of it, his seal should be an actual flip-flopping seal. No offence meant to seals.
As for the nausea, I guess I’ll just have to stick with Gravol when necessary. No boogie oogie oogie boards for me. (I’m a prairie gal. I like earth.)
Puh leeze. March 18, the Great Race Speech, he could not even add in “imam” to the list of various religious. Get over it Keith (who slobbered pretty messily for Oh Bama just a few weeks ago and spoke the party line about abortion, so awful awful, a moment of great moral hoo hoo).
Link to The Page w/ embedded link to NYT article on muslims’ issues with Oh Bamamamama
LOL Enjoy!.
Added:
Ellison’s slobberification for Obama, March 24, ’08, and how he is not for criminalising soemthing he is morally opposed to. That would be abortion. Gee I am so fucking relieved.
http://counterpunch.org/waj03242008.html :
hush now, don’t complain . . .
(just heard on the radio that a district court judge overturned the admin’s “enemy combatant” designation for one of the (Chinese Uighurs? not sure) Gitmo prisoners
I see in my inbox some “stuff” from Pelosi on the “modernizing of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act”…
actually, it was a 3 judge Appeals Panel in the DC circuit
46. trust me, it’s spam
Neuro-Liberalism
The critique of the book is classic Saletan in the rest of the review.
How can anyone list 2nd wave classics and not mention “The Feminine Mystique?” Isn’t that the book that pretty much kicked everything off?
It’s like people teaching Marxism 101 without referencing “Das Kapital.”
Although if I was teaching some youngster about 2nd wave feminism I’d probably go out and get them a slew of early and mid seventies Ms. magazines. I think you have the movement encapsulated right there, moreso than in one or two or even five of the more well known books.
ugh The Fairfield/Napa/Solano fire is only 40% contained.
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That reminds me I just read the other night (I am so out of it these days) the new bridge in Paris, roughly around Bercy and the 11e arrond., is named for Simone de Beauvoir (will hunt a pic of it up). I remember, as a child, my mother reading her book, The Second Sex
LOL Speaking of waves and what have you.
The Second Sex
HA! I actually mentioned that book in my post, then erased it.
It’s French you know. I figured the kids wouldn’t be so interested. 🙂
ooops the price of gas is gonna affect School Buses. So says NBC evening news. Hey, anything to destroy public ed.
Speaking of the wimmnens, I saw today that now Obama wants women (so he says, I have my doubts) he mentioned his g\mother became the first woman VP of Bank of Hawai’i. LOL Partial text of his speech in NM, toward the bottom of the transcript. Film of the speech looked deadly dull, to a nearly asleep small group.
These maps are interesting in terms of hard realities of the primaries.
an interesting post about tomatoes on a good urban gardening blog.
NBC moves on to selling the war in Afghanistan (Brian Williams in theatre, at Bagram). And getting Osama.
What a painful fucking joke, esp up agaisnt dwindling education for k-12 in the USA.
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Parents already have to pay to have their kids ride the school buses here in MA.
No pay, no bus. I can’t even imagine it. Now they’ll have to pay more, I’m sure.
Well w/r/t gas for school buses, they highlighted Montgomery Co in MD, outside of DC…
They mentioned other changes when targeting other districts. From school lunch fees to higher costs for field trips, etc.
I have to shut down and reboot but before I do… (more from NBC)
FFS
United has gone on a three day “How can we do it better” fact finding tour of Magic Kingdom, Orlando FL
I stopped flying United in ’97. Shaking hands with Mickey won’t be doing it.
Olbermann replayed his George Carlin interview from last October tonight.
Carlin said of Bushco “I deal with them with a sledghammer, not a rapier. They just need to be smashed”.
I hate to admit it but if I was training employees to give great service, I’d send them to Disney World.
They are so good at it, it’s frightening. They move how many people a day? I don’t even know but they manage to do with with a smile on their faces and a “can do” attitude like I’ve never seen before.
Have a mentioned there is no visible garbage there? At all? Not even a wrapper on the ground in the height of the season with thousands of vacationing kids milling about?
I told you, it’s frightening. I’ve heard their employee training is insanely structured, approaching militaristic, but as a visitor you can’t help but be wowed by the results.
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i agree they have a working model. No question. However: Won’t be working to breakthru YEARS into the second decade of United Airlines utter collapse.
A further comparison of Dean ’04 and Obama ’08:
Something like the Great Seal, during a Dean campaign, would have been created by a Deaniac, maybe posted as the day’s fodder on the DFA blog, but mostly distributed virally. It would have been dumb and cute and exuberant; and the media would have taken little notice of it, but it would have heartened and inspired the footsoldiers.
With Obama ’08, it seems that the Deaniacs actually are in charge now and what you get is something created by a campaign staffer which is twice as breathless, twice as weird, and introduced at an official occasion — to the derision of the media and disheartening of the footsoldiers.
That said, I doubt the average voter ever saw the thing.
50, Gayle:
Exactly. I’m continually amazed at the number of people who loudly call themselves feminists but who have never read The Feminine Mystique, nor do they have the faintest idea what it’s about. Some of them have never even heard of it.
It’s the Mystique of the Feminine Mystique.
As for the “wave” thing, it’s a crock of horseshit invented by academics to give each other something to write about. One big mistake made in the feminist movement was allowing it to be hijacked by academics bent on balkanizing it for their own purposes.
In other news, I just wanted to make sure you folks were aware of an important tidbit from this article:
Does that sound like a good time, or what? Let’s all go to one, and bring a keg.
Shit on toast.
I, who can scarcely drink anymore, would NEED a keg.
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