If you liked the 110th………….. 13 July 2008
Posted by marisacat in Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid of Nev., center, speaks at the Library of Congress in Washington in this Jan. 18, 2006, file photo, to outline their agenda for reform in the wake of the scandal involving former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. From left are: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., Reid, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-SC. [AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File]
Reform? Where is it? Was there any? Did you see any fly by?
“This is a Judiciary Committee matter, and I believe we will see some attention being paid to it by the Judiciary Committee,” she said. “Not necessarily taking up the articles of impeachment because that would have to be approved on the floor, but to have some hearings on the subject.” — Nancy Pelosi July 10, 2008
hmmm You have to laugh, to retain any sanity. I see this as “couchie couchie coo… baby voter, vote for whomever we push out, and mama will be nice to you”. Diddle the baby. Always reminding the baby mama is there to wipe baby’s mouth and ass, as it is HELPLESS. And mama is all you’ve got. It really does seem to be that basic.
I can certainly see Nancy saying, in a few years as things crash and crash and crash, Tough tittie, you all kept voting for us. In her inimitable, barely masked, hard bitten style. Don’t think there is a Versace cover up, yet, for that.
It’s like sitting thru the umpteenth production, such as they are, of Mamma Mia, Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, The Mousetrap (the first piece of tired worn out junk theatre I ever saw), any long running, dusty, hyped, reel in the rubes and the wanna bes production. First, of course, the ticket price was demanded…
Roll it out again!
Nevertheless, his spiritual life on the campaign trail survives. [I was so worried… — Mcat] He says he prays every day, typically for “forgiveness for my sins and flaws, which are many, the protection of my family, and that I’m carrying out God’s will, not in a grandiose way, but simply that there is an alignment between my actions and what he would want.” He sometimes reads his Bible in the evenings, a ritual that “takes me out of the immediacy of my day and gives me a point of reflection.” Thanks to the efforts of his religious outreach team, he has an army of clerics and friends praying for him and e-mailing him snippets of Scripture or Midrash to think about during the day.
We’ll be dripping in prayer. Things should go well.
Marisacat 
saying that you pray everyday should be an automatic disqualification.
It’s jsut so sanctimonious.
Posting a response from previous thread-
Madman, there are plenty of people everywhere who are working on these problems. It’s just the idea that the BoingBoingoisie have just had this brilliant idea! if it drops from the keyboard of Cory Doctorow, it must be revolutionary!
Well, these ideas have been had before. And usually, they get bored because of the lack of Starbucks and Apple stores in the areas they’re forced to live to do this missionary work. So it’s not the idea I’m questioning, it’s their actual understanding of the people they’re purporting to help, and their commitment. I doubt their ability to get their hands dirty in local politics, to deal with systemic local problems , without getting bored and moving on to the next thrill.
Adding: The Rust Belt has already been through several of these “rescues” and this is how they inevitably end up. I know these guys probably think they’ve just thought of it, but nope, someone else thought of it first. Not wholly blaming the would-be rescuers, but they have had a track record of quitting these projects. The problem isn’t that the “locals” are too stupid and un-edumacated; the problem is politics and local power issues. And BoingBoingers don’t do politics, unless it’s protesting the G8 or something.
Just checking out this now:
MAKING IT How Chicago shaped Obama.
At the beginning of his ascent…
Lots of details, 15 pages long–>>
I was listening to the financials this morning, of the 90 banks that were on the government watch list regarding bank failures, IndyMac was not one of them.
Pretty.
Cover dither.
Obama’s folks at DK are all in a dither over the cover.
The outrage is ballooning from defamation of Obama & wife, to that of Muslims en toto…
You know, like the NYer did before, as explained here:
Oops. Blockquote error in my last post.
Here’s the link, too, to the comment from The New Yorker Obama cover: OMFG, WTF?
Almost 2,500 comments of outrage thus far.
Hopefully the reply in linked post helpfully adjusted the lens of the poster who bizarrely interpreted the NYer cover depiction of taxi drivers driven to slap patriotic crap all over their vehicles, as somehow aiding the rightwing in their post 9/11 crusade against Muslims.
Ewww… that photo. My stomach turned over. Twice.
hmmm Tapper has a slew of interesting posts…
he interviewed Remnick on the [sooo controversial] cover,
Ventura seems about to enter (LOL forever, get to it guy!) and about the 4th post down
he links to some Hyde Park Herald articles from 2007 on Obama that I had not read… several links at the bottom of Obama the Empathetic.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/
Michelle Bernard, 24/7 guest on MSNBC (the dullest, with nothing to offer except center-right platitudes and Obamarahrah) is on Tweety opining on the gawdawful New Yawkuh covuh:
She said it was racist, bad bad bad. Included in her gems of observation were that it shows MB and OB giving a fist “pump” and she doesnt agree that its harmlessly “sartorial.”
Lol
Okay NYCO, I guess that people interested in helping should just stay away.
Might as well.
My favorite part is the flag in the fireplace.
Well the Obama campaign seems to hve another “distraction” on its hands. So, my observation, they are happy.
Perrin:
Race is to Obama as the Vietnam escapade was to Kerry, four years ago.
Enough said ?
Aloha. Stopping in after a couple of weeks spent heavily preoccupied with meat world, as the bloggers say.
Hope the air quality, at least, is starting to perk up out there, now that you’ve got rain and mudslides (not to mention mass moonings) to contend with, as well as the fires.
Anybody here seen Zeitgeist (the documentary)? A friend visiting from overseas brought a copy of the DVD, and I’m wondering how much Larouche, etc., was in it. It starts out debunking the “myth of Jesus,” then moves on to the banking system and the “myth of 9/11.” Quite a piece of work.
IB
have a laugh… the mass moonings got shut down this year, due to “ladies raising their shirts”.
I guess we could not handle it… Someone, somewhere in the state (I have nto run it down) also wants to shut the CA nude beaches. hmmm
I heard last night about our first mudslide (since winter). Soon we will be confused… I keep an eye out for raining frogs and of course, locusts.
The air is def better………………….. hope you had a lovely break
Isn’t the display of boobs protected by some clause or other in the California state constitution? Don’t tell me the cosmetic surgery lobbyists fell down on the job!
Break had its lovely moments – including 3 days of relaxed and blossomy garden parties, in fine weather – but a few stresses and strains as well, being so-called “real life” and all. Thanks. Certain challenges are ongoing, as I attempt to conjure up a new (and hopefully, improved) one.
Can’t say I’m missing the presnidental campaign much, while distracted. And boy howdy, when was the last time the New Yorker made so much headline news? Wonder what the net effect on single-copy sales (and subscriptions) will turn out to be, once the dust blows off and the hairballs settle.
hmm Well I guess Obama got a chance to say “screw you” to an UWS fixture. Or something.
I just caught Henrik Hertzberg, tired mouthpiece for the party and Ob, weakly trying to explain what satire is, in this case.
LOL
They (Ob and Wife and Obamamites) have always been remarkably lacking in humor. LOL Too much church, I would say…. 😉
Please god let them win, the whining will be so awful.
How Do You Stay Cool
Local news just reported that Jon Corzine is going on his first official trip to Israel. They said that Israel is now the 9th largest trading partner with New Jersey.
If Obama has a problem with the New Yorker cover, he should follow his own advice to women who had supported Hillary — maybe reading a few of the cartoons inside the magazine would “help him to get over it.”
They said that Israel is now the 9th largest trading partner with New Jersey.
I feel a joke about bridge and tunnel trade fighting to get out.
LOL How soon til Cipel receives some award, as a Hero of the State of Israel.
Buying our politicians one state at a time.
One more thing, there should be a list showing which states do business with Israel and for how much.
Just in the aid we give them, 75% of $30 billion in the next 10 years comes back here. That does not include Israeli businesses. Israel is now actively buying dollars. Wonder why.
AND wonder how much business Connecticut gets….
With all the defense companies in Washington State, no wonder Israel has our congress people in their pocket.
The things one learns reading The Corner:
The Pope’s New Pal [Mike Potemra]
Pope Benedict XVI’s love of cats is well-known. It turns out that his Australian hosts at World Youth Day have provided him with a delightful roommate for his stay in their country—an “11-month-old grey tabby kitten.” (H/t: Rocco Palmo.) In fact, this will make him feel more at home than when he’s at home: He doesn’t actually have cats living in the Vatican.
They snagged it off http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com
which used to be a lot mroe irreverant… sigh.
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KGO radio is saying that TNY plans to use the same artist for their McCain cover…………
It’s coming from one of the hosts, Christine Craft who has been saying ,for weeks, that she thought as a quid pro quo (one fo many is my guess, LOL) to Kennedy that Ob would give Arnold a spot on the Cabinet….
Bingo, what does Arnold hint at yesterday on This Week. She’s playing the tape from TW, yesteday. I must say Arnold was gag worthy about how great he is on Energy and Enrionment. Bet he loves bunnies like which Nazi was that? Mengele? Eichmann?
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CA is probably a much bigger trading partner with Israel than NJ. Think media/entertaiment.
that pic above, it looks like Harry is trying to keep the wind from whistling too loudly thru the hole where his living heart used to be.
Most Australian police don’t want marital rape reported
If he kills her and she goes to heaven, does she get a kitten, too?
As if I needed yet another reason to be Texas-proud.
By a strange coincidence, Rep. Eissler lives in the same town, and belongs to the same United Methodist Church, as State Sen. Tommy Williams, the architect of our state’s war against the “contraceptive mentality” that causes abortion.
Which is why Texas has the highest teen birth rate in the nation.
Yee-haw!
Democratic hero now clinging to seat
Rather, it is state Rep. Michael Jackson, a leading African-American legislator who filed to run against Cazayoux as an independent Democrat just before the filing deadline last Friday.
yeah but ObamaRama made his choice… and it was not Jackson.
LOL
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hmm I should try some of my mangled googling see what our teen birthrate rate is, CA and SF.
cuz you know we are the Whore of Bablyon out here. Each and every one of us………….
Maybe the birth rate doesn’t spike as high because the Babylon ISD has real sex ed. 😉
yes, from what I hear we do have actual sex ed in the CA schools. The old banana and condom routine.
Well, that explains the problem right there. Texas state law forbids tropical fruit in classrooms — Rep. Eissler’s kids might come home and tell daddy about all the new ways they’ve learned in school to make a banana split. They might even mention whipped cream or … ::shudder:: … a cherry.
Then, on top of classroom fruit bans, the righteous bastards pass laws requiring notarized parental consent for a minor’s abortion, never dreaming that when their own precious virgin daughters get pregnant, their wives will feed them a cock-and-bull story about a mother-daughter shopping trip in order to keep hubby’s Methodist sensibilities intact, because “if he knew, this would just kill her daddy.”
Faint hope . . .
plus last i paid attention the SF General Hospital had an abortion clinic on site.
And thru the City Public Health Dept there is a staffed text messaging service that will answer sex questions for kids, as young as 12. I thought it was pretty great when it went thru in 2006….
All of that helps, I am pretty sure… 😉
Every little bit helps, just as every little bit that’s eliminated hurts. And down here, they’ve eliminated so much that most people have forgotten that it can be any other way.
But these christianistas cling to their delusions, live and breathe them.
LOL… one fo the few things that saves our extremely nasty, blood and guts for breakfast, political system from being some ritual suicidal funeral pyre, is satirical political cartoons, but, you know, so many are too fragile for it. FWIW, iirc, The New Yorker has done Rome/Bush/fiddles as the cover already. And any number of Bush Cheney ones……… Some time ago.
From Cillizza’s The Fix comments:
Gee, sorry. Not going thru the next 4 to 8 years minus political jokes to make Obama, Michelle and Ob-ites happy.
hmm looking at more extensive film of the lines today at Indymac. That is a serious run on a bank. The next and next and next will be much more frantic.
The old banana and condom routine.
I can’t begin to tell you the trauma when she tries to find the end of the peel.
:O
US terrorist watchlist now has more than 1,000,000 names
Is anyone here familiar with, & read, any books by Gerald Posner? I have a book by him on request at the local library. Small, rural town here so they don’t have a lot of choice but can get books in from other libraries. The book in question is:
“Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection”.
Is he a believable writer?
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A carrot will substitute nicely for a banana, as Phoebe Cates could tell you. No rubber goody involved in that scene, however.
W/r/t other topics in this thread:
Talk is cheap, prayer is cheaper.
And I guess they’re changing that sign on the bridge that runs over the Delaware River to read “Trenton Makes, Tel Aviv Takes.”
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W/r/t Gerald Posner, it depends on the topic. He’s the author of Case Closed, a bit of damage control related to the JFK assassination that might as well have been called Warren Report Redux. I’ve seen him interviewed on other topics on television (can’t remember what) and he seemed to make sense. Here’s his Wikipedia entry, if that’s any help. I’ve always considered him someone worth reading, albeit with a full salt shaker at hand.
#38: My God told me that the Sacred Banana should only be used in its natural state with the permission of spouse, pastor, etc.
Damn you blasphemers with your accursed puddings, breads and smoothies. Someday you’ll be sorry.
[scowl]
HA!
GM editorialised their massive layoffs announced to day as “not a plan to survive, but a plan to WIN!”
#33:
(From moiv’s link: )
…“This is a spoiler candidacy,” said one Democratic operative with experience working on Louisiana campaigns. “It’s a mess. There’s no doubt about it.”
Waaaaahhhh. Whine ‘N Cheese with the duopoly.
This is why I just don’t get the point of fusion candidacy. If you go in with the Big Guys KNOWING you are no threat, they won’t do a thing to further your agenda. If you ARE a threat, they whine “SPOILER” and do whatever it takes to make you disappear, starting with the emotional (or other) blackmail that implies the only right thing to do is get off the ticket so the anointed can have his/her preordained post.
The last refuge of people too chickenshit to run on their own non-existent merits. Assholes.
#47
JJB…thanks for the link & the feedback.
#48
Well that makes sense given the tendency for U.S. media & pundits, even, to use sports analogies & terms to describe various strategies. It’s all about WINNING eh.
Bwa-ha-ha-hahahah. More deliciousness from PA involving the 2006 frolic, swiped from BAN:
No similar breakthrough on the horizon in this neck of the woods. More’s the pity. After 2004, I don’t trust our AG any farther than I could throw him.
NY Daily News via Gateway Pundit
Bloombama…
Obamberg?
(Mayor Bloomberg + bronzing + charisma* = Barack Obama)
[disclaimer: alas alack, I am immune to the perfume*… ]
hmmm I am guessing he dates Hagel, goes Kaine. Then again, I read if Kaine exits VA early (mandated one term) the Lt Gov who becomes Gov is a R.
So, who knows. A lot of burnishing of Sibelius, but KS houses Dr Tiller, one fo the very few to do tricky late term abortions in the US… and he jsut managed to survive a Grand Jury again. So……… as moiv says, Sibelius has an abortion problem.
I have no kufcing clue.
I dont think he will go with Bloomberg as veep – doesnt need him at all, but I am just feeling him as Bloomberg in a certain way…
They had some cozy meetings and it felt disturbingly right, hand slides into glove…
Obama mustve loved the smell of Mike up close, the power and the way Mike successfully did the im blue, im red – im purple thing. And he had no political history. He is Green… the color of money. No soul. Plastic wrapped. No real integrity on matters of war, on raising up the life quality of middle and lower class.
I mean, they differ in ways and they probably dont come to mind as soul(less) mates to many, but I am feeling it in a few ways…
Oh, btw, just went back to previous thread and saw you guys had the New Yorker Cover thing and the DK flaming pitchfork thing up already…
Hadnt seen it here, but hell, guess it doesnt hurt to repeat the daily trauma once in a while, eh?
(I was ready to have a drink with a Danish cartoonist, after reading some of that thread. Ohhhh,,, the OUTRAGE! I may go see if the New Yorker bldg is not an ash heap.)
hmmm ObamaRama at the Woodrow Wilson Center today, speech on Iraq (or National Security to make it broader, LOL), intro’d by Lee Hamilton. Hunt for the change. Transcript as delivered via CNN. I noticed the text reads a little cleanly for “as delivered”… but hey, who’s counting stammers not there.
I get, bomb bomb bomb Afghanistan and invade Pakistan.
A lot of invoking of Marshall, the Marshall Plan. hmmm. America could use one.
57 lol — agree
I’m taking some time to read more on Obama, now that I have time to delve off the beaten (work) track. Some I recall from dribs and drabs that managed to sneak in.
The queasiness expands with…
Ugh, this: How Barack Obama Fronted for the Most Vicious Predators on Wall Street: Obama’s Money Cartel
In 2 parts, even… Ugh. Ugh.
Bankrolling a Presidential Campaign: The Obama Bubble Agenda
You can breathe a lot of this in, in a generalized way, without even getting the details. Just from the MSM view of the circus, center ring and side shows. Mort Zuckerman, that hollow conservative, Michelle Bernard, Ben Nelson et al (and its a lot of et als) who have been so quick to endorse and/or sing praises to Obama from the get-go.
He is very SAFE.
I was also reading the black agenda report on the questioning over his name on DLC list, then scrubbed after forcing the issue. (I used to read Black Commentator on occasion and recall it from back then…) Well, it fits – His bestest friend is the god awful Harold Ford… cant twit about Obama enough… lately urging him to come out of the closet, so to speak, and embrace his full blown DLCness openly. He is harping on this constantly.
Again, very telling, right there between the lines of the MSM.
They love to talk about his “brand” too, how he cant “appear” too centrist (two-faced liar) or he will hurt his “brand” – that one, “brand” pops into starker relief when you read the Pam Martens’ piece I linked (I would wager you had it somewhere here, back when it came out.)
He’s a commodity — and not a new one,either
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I don’t care if things get repeated… stuff that will hang around, become a lodestone, touchstone usually gets linked to or comes up, here, about 3 times.
Not a problem… 😉
Bye-bye, Griswold.
HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion
LOL Eli Lake at The New Republic argues ObamaRama is not Jimmie Carter, He’s Ronnie Reagan Quite the right wing piece, he uses Jeane Kirkpatrick to define Carter. Pin a nose on that donkey game..
You HAVE to love our elections. Wanna lollipop little girl, said the big bad wolf, wearing a Reagan mask.
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… talk about death of choice.
And I would assume, of course, that means a double dose or morning after pill as well…post rape…. and most certainly RU 486.
Griswold v Connecticut… via Wikipedia.
Well, I am able to crystallize the unease I felt. It’s better to know ahead of time what’s up the road.
When I link Obama with Bloomberg, it’s because I am really sick of what has become of New York under him. Yuppy mayor, buppie president. I have this sense of the future of the nation in this linkage.
er, yuppIE…
It’s better to know ahead of time what’s up the road. — NYCee
agree. I’d rather look full face at the party and the fronts it shoves forward, then be compliant. And complicit.
re: #64 OMFG!
*waves at moiv*
“there would be no way for a woman to prove she’s not pregnant” — fuck me (or don’t, as the case may be) now I have to go around proving I’m not pregnant?
This kills me (maybe literally at some point soon) too:
“dismissing medical experts and opting instead to accept a definition of pregnancy based on polling data….”
dismissing medical experts in favor of polling data….
I still can’t wrap my brain around that.
and…
“So HHS proposes that anyone can enforce his or her own definition of abortion “within the bounds of reason.”
k, I’m going to, as a matter of conscience, mind, start “enforcing” my own definitions of the following:
MURDER
MALFEASANCE
and well, hell,
MARRIAGE
Effective immediately.
My sister happens to be in Sydney at the moment, winding up a visit to rellies elsewhere in Oz (and without a clue about World Youth Day when she booked her itinerary) and she sez it’s positively swarming. She reports via Blackberry that the Aussie joke she’s hearing is “so many Christians in an arena – where are the lions?”
FYI for those with the Sundance Channel: They’re running another episode of Outrageous Wasters tonight – a Brit-produced, eco-themed reality show, wherein an obliviously energy-guzzling family is sent by a Green Team (including a gruff “eco-anarchist”) to a camplike “House of Corrections” to grock the fullness of water conservation, waste reduction, food production, etc., up close. (Think outhouses, rabbit skinning, cold showers, etc.) Meanwhile their home is re-engineered for eco-efficiency and recycling, and their awakening greenitude is monitored upon return. Last week’s module with a Glaswegian family was pretty funny, as well as agit-productive, for its ilk.
moiv at 64 – Does this HHS proposal have anything to do with recent hospital consolidations, including the merger of Catholic and secular facilities? Who has authority to approve the change of regs?
I betting that it could very well be Hagel.
Oh, and I think you all will like this:
Illegal Wiretaps We Can Believe In
I remember when a bunch of us were writing that both parties were aiming at Griswold and privacy rights in general, and how others told us we were wrong.
Wish I’d BEEN wrong.
IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION INTRODUCED IN HOUSE WITH READING BY CLERK TODAY
76 – Yep. (Classic AllMEEMEEMEMEEEEEEEmando line of crap in the comments there, too. . . down to the paternalistic “advice.” And I see this was before Digby “came out” as a female.)
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All of it has to with churches, in hospitals and elsewhere. But one immediate result would be to cover family planning clinics receiving federal funds (which is almost all of them) that refuse to provide birth control. This was the impetus behind the 2007 appointments of Drs. Eric Keroack and Susan Orr to direct the Office of Population Affairs at HHS, a position that oversees the disbursement of almost $300 million a year in federal family planning dollars.
The policy is set at the cabinet level, although of course Congress has control over the purse strings.
Bit of happy news from Massachusetts today:Senate passes repeal of 1913 marriage law
79 – Thanks. Will there be any federal requirement for public notification, comment, or hearings before adoption of the proposal? Just how quick and easy will it be to make it so?
Pardon my ignorance. (I spend my days navigating post-BAPCPA and NYS local regs, and I confess that there’s only so much extra federal bullshit I can handle.)
Always appreciate your insights, as well as info.
Now I’ve done it. For the record, IANAL.
Madman – I think we oughta start a funky pulproots group and call it YAP!
family planning clinics receiving federal funds (which is almost all of them) that refuse to provide birth control.
Oh I think I’ve seen one of those near the strip malls. In billboards, too.
Oops – bad blockquote on the first graf. Sorry, MC.
might as well put some bold around *that refuse to provide birth control* too.
LOL … great line: Things have deteriorated to the point where staffers at People are mystified by the inanity of the political press corps.
might as well put some bold around *that refuse to provide birth control* too.
Yup, those folks at the boy-buggering church sure are bold in their hypocrisy.
via the blog Illusory Tenant,:
88 – Thank God for Jesus, right?
As we peer at the Future Ghost of jury selection . . . .
Doughnut in spam (believe it or not)!
MCat at 20 – What the heck is UWS?! Not sure even Acronym Finder is helping me out here.
IB
sorry… Upper West Side…
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nothing hanging out in Spam or Moderation…
will wati a minute or two and see if it turns up…………….
89 – Aha! Thanks. Didn’t think it was “United We Stand.”
And 90 – Spam item was just a quote and a laugh at Madman’s Daily Howler link at 86. Here it is without blockquotes:
And the gang seemed impressed with Barnicle’s insights. “”Eat the doughnut,” Jack Welch’s sage advised us all once again.
You can almost hear the arugula, rustling once more in the wings. . . .
# 79:
B-But but MC CAIN !! Ooga-booga !! FEAR FEAR FEAR !! Shut up, you PUMA-Boomer Bitches !! [snarl]
(Ironic sexy pic of bloo hooker shoes goes here.)
I know it sounds like tonight is mojito night, but that was actually last night. Tonight it’s just fresh watermelon & some blueberries. Help y’selves.
our early 90s CA public school sex ed demo was with a cucumber, not a banana. eat locally and all that.
of all the things that CA is fucked in the head about,sex doesn’t make the top 10, thankfully. there’s a persistent and well funded lunatic fringe, but the center of gravity is still relatively sane on such things.
as opposed to, say, taxes or crime, where we’re fucking bonkers.
LOL I never had sex ed……………..
😉
However, I did find out years later, tho, that the religious order at the Convent, Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, an order that answered to Rome and not the Diocese, had their rather predictable affairs (as ti was explained to me) with the Jesuits in town, at St Ignatius.
Naomi Klein was interviewed on Democracy Now! today by Amy Goodman. The transcript is here
I am sure most of you are aware or have read her book “Shock Doctrine”, which I read just recently: it’s out in paperback now. The book really proposes an interesting alternative narrative to the neoliberal economic thinking of the last 40-45 years. Much of this narrative begins in Latin America (Brazil, Argentina and especially Chile) and is certainly familiar to most Latin Americans. For the LatinAmerican center-left most of those memories are extremely painful.
However, I think there is a tendency in the american left to ignore that historical period and to view it as somehow disjoint or irrelevant to the politics of an a developed capitalist society. Klein does a very good job in her book of dispelling that view.
Back to the interview: There are lots of interesting things in it. Actually I think the written transcript is better. I particularly thought this exchange interesting:
The moral hazard Obama was worried about of course was that people should assume responsibility for their bad economic decisions. That “moral hazard” concept is interesting because it is an essential part of the corporate narrative justifying redistritribution of risk onto the poor.
This definition from WIkipedia is pretty good
Of course what is missing from the corporate narrative is that the entire financial system reeks of moral hazard in favor of the rich.
nu thred………..
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IB, the proposal [pdf format] that’s linked by Cristina Page at RH Reality Check is still in the planning stage. It appears that someone inside HHS leaked it to the NYT (and possibly to others). So there’s been no announcement of a formal proposal as yet.
But here’s a link to the public feedback page at HHS.