Might as well lie back and ”think of England…” 31 December 2008
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, 2010 Mid Terms, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
“The Obama presidency presents us with both an opportunity and a challenge,” said the Rev. David K. Brawley, of St. Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn. [J.B. Reed for The New York Times]
It’s from November 15th, but still timely… a friend had emailed me that night to not miss the photo on the FP of the NYT… and I would say it is special. In the sense that specials, my father used to say, are on the sale table at Macy’s (and now the whole nation is on the Sale! Reduced! Mark Downs Intermittent and Otherwise have been taken! tables).
As he walked into his office in Brooklyn nearly every day this fall, the Rev. David K. Brawley noticed a photograph on his assistant’s desk.
It showed Senator Barack Obama, head bowed, as a circle of black ministers gathered around him, touching their hands to his shoulders and uttering prayers.
Without even knowing the precise circumstances of the picture — it had been taken in July during the quadrennial conference of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination — Mr. Brawley understood the broader context. The hands and the prayers offered to Mr. Obama were an act, in the lexicon of black Christianity, of impartation.
What was being imparted at the most obvious level was a blessing on a black candidate’s pursuit of the presidency. Now, with Mr. Obama’s election, the image has taken on a double meaning. The presence in the White House of an African-American, and specifically one from the post-civil rights, multicultural era, will almost certainly impart influence and prominence on his contemporaries in the black ministry.
What a con. The ultimate boxing in of Martin Luther King… as well as the ultimate projection of that narrowed, bitten off, truncated ”reality” the government allows. Just a damned reverend, conning the people. Quite convenient for the PTB, because they can control the reverends and the ministers and the priests…. thru cash and gratuities.. Deals… and whatever else. Up for sale. So many of them always taking the flock to market.
Ain’t it a shame. And around our necks for years…
As if the church of Ratz or Rick Warren or Dobson or the Elders of the LDS or TD Jakes — or the one pictured above (don’t miss the cute little wimmens ministry! …you too can be re-named after a precious, precious jewel!) meant anything, at all, to me. I’d love to be a citoyenne in a secular state.
But we are stuck with them. And a wanna-be, imo, in the WH.
Fucking hell.
*****
I’ve had this, title picture and text, tucked away for sometime, never found a good day to use it… but as of a few mins ago, I’ve hunted for days for something for New Year’s Eve… celebrations, NewYear’s as it hit the rising cities of China, S Asia, Australia… ships trying to fish in contested waters, fresh new babies, fresh new piglets (Good Luck for the year, so they say in Germany) all sorts of faces and moments, wild stags on tundra like landscapes… you name it, I looked at it… but hell, He sold himself as the ultimate New Year’s Baby… so, over to you Obama.
aemd from the previous thread:
One more time, Ioz, Belief You Can Change In.
“Israel is destroying Gaza, we’re still occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, Pakistan is moving troops to its Indian border, the card-house global economy finally went a floor too high, and no one can do anything about it, least of all His Youthfulness.”
Good luck. And have at it…
(Disclaimer: I realise this does not reek of Hope… nor does it indicate I have a personal belief in the healing power of the Obama DNA)
Gee. Here is a big big bingo…
Not like we can just cough and burp up teams of people educated differently than the dictates of decades demanded. Whoops, and a big one.
hmm, mm this is in among the Photos of the Day at the Telegraph.. for Dec 31…
IIRC a ‘stone” in weight is around 14 lbs… so maybe we should worry about 80+ lbs beavers… as much as anything else…
Tossed something up for the new year: Nothing New in the New
Ms. Cat, great post header photo for the New Year. Damned if that bulletin board, in the backgroud behind the twinkly and so shiny OBAMA, don’t look like a video poker machine.
I love it…
2009, The Year of the Grifter.
😀
Cynthia McKinney: Oh What a Day!
In today’s economy, should we be looking 80+ lbs gift beavers in the buck-toothed mouth? Can we trust that the young folk – with all their video-gamin’ – will at least prove as handy as Jed and Granny at shooting up some food? Now that the Beverly Hills crude is runnin’ dry?
Run, Monster Beaver, run!
Well, I for one refuse to think of England on Hogmanay.
More on the WishGatherers here. Now that’s a mummy!
The Wishgathers’ group is, however, merely one of 18 pieces created by 120 Scottish artists for Feet First, a £265,000 event coordinated by the city’s Boilerhouse theatre company. The free evening show takes place on the ground and in the air, down closes and behind windows, with a choice of performances taking place throughout its two-and-a-half hour duration. Organisers claim it is the biggest ever single commission of Scottish work.
Sounds fantastic to me…
I noticed that Reno, RENO! has shut down fireworks… SF is keeping to it (tho we are heavily fogged in tonight and its getting thicker), but severe warnings to not be seen having a public libation on The Embarcadero, where people gather to watch the fireworks. Or fighting, or drunk in public…. no hope to not scold people.
And of course they just drowned the City of Walkaway drinks..
So many rules. So little joy…
Livni says “the humanitarian situation in Gaza is quite well, and they would take advantage of a ceasefire”. (ABC with Georgie)
So blessed. Kiss the Torah.. and bow to anyone at all. The BOW is the deal.
8. I tried to decipher the word she used. That woman has no conscience.
I don’t know if you get the same feed I do but I noticed an announcer say that ABC Nightly News with Charles Gibson was being brought to you by some brand of garbage bags. How appropriate!
I don’t have MSNBC anymore so my days of critiquing KO are done for now. And my blood pressure is lower, I’m sure.
More on the Market of Optimism
Mischief La Bas site.
(FYI to non-Francophones – là-bas means “over there” . . . or “down there.”)
Fireworks and fog . . . very impressionistic combo, I bet! The haze must affect the acoustics, too.
Fresh piles of snow here today, and now bitttttttttttterly cold. Local First Nights will proceed with fireworks, no fear, and some municipalities have free shuttles and (sponsored) cab-rides-home available. For the suburbanites, I notice the cops are stressing the cost of a DWI conviction this year, with lengthy bits on the local news. ($9,000, including insurance premium increases, was the – recently fee-inflated – dollar figure for “that extra drink tonight.”)
oh the bitter laughter.. from a comment at lenin:
yesh… Egypt says it ”cannot open the border as it has no agreement with hamas”. Its all in the hand job technique. “we cannot simply open and close a door”
Ambassador from Eqypt to the US.. Hisham Nekab (phonetic) on my local news.
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I was, as everyone is saying Obama will do, multi-tasking as ABC World News came on… popped my little head up as Miss Tzipi appeared.. so I missed teh intro and the ads… tho there seemed to be few ads as it progressed… they sometimes have nights when a big ad buyer appears only at the beginning.
Quel Nooz.
Speaking of ABC, reading around about Arne Duncan I saw that Disney sponsors a charter school in Chicago. Aside from the 5 military charter schools, with more of those planned. Hallelujah and pass the Kool Aid. Just remember they drank Flavor aid in Guyana, it being cheaper than Kool Aid. So we are safe drinking the local hyped brew…
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LOL I will tell you what is lightly patrolled.. the route from North of Marin (the various wine locs) to Marin and SF… the WHITE drinking route. And will be ever more lightly patrolled now that Napa / Sonoma are in real pain (from what I hear).
Don’t want to screw with the buisness. Plus what is white wine, red wine and the fine liquors and liqueurs at the bars up there – between cops and drivers of fine cars.
Not that that is the whole profile of day tripping to the wine country, but ti is the majority. There are casinos.. and even a couple dragways, raceways that get the Winnebago crowd up there, but it is not the majority.
wow, that lenin bit is blackblackblack.
I think with the coordinated message from israel and all MSM mouths, the words from Tzipi and the various Consuls General around… the one here seems to have a mic taped to his chest… the utter denial of that they are in fact bombing a trapped people .. from the sea, from the air, from over The Wall— and so on..
the quote at Lenin is on target.. black as can be.
What a nightmare.
14 – Yeah, there’s places and faces and spaces and races and chases and special cases here too. Some more genuinely generous to and respectful of human joy, and others less devoted to public health and safety than to personal privilege.
Loved the poem a thread or two back. It’s not like troubadors haven’t spelled this all out for centuries, all the world over.
Burning Down the Goat.
Happy Hogmanay.
Just watched Wanted. Bad bad bad movie unless you’re a teenaged boy who’s really into violent video games.
Bad bad bad movie unless you’re a teenaged boy who’s really into violent video games.
Woo hoo!
20. Woo hoo!
Yeah..well… lol 😀
well when I finally pick a new TV from the avalanche of sale priced flat screen, digital… and actually order it and get it unpacked.. I plan to join Netflix.. and order tons fo bad movies.
My prescription for survival… 😯 ….
Peace to ALL!
May one’s travails be only as troubling as younger kin seeking to make off with “The Good” Crockpot to places allegedly nearby
lol
And the same to you BHHM.
Netflix is fabulous, though it’s still possible to get stuck for days or weeks holding on to movies you only thought you wanted to see. Bright side is you only waste the regular monthly charge for the folly. No late fees!
BHHM – Let your crockpots go!
I don’t make resolutions but I’ll make an exception for 2009: I resolve to contribute to global warming because I can’t stand the damn cold weather here in the frozen tundra anymore.
Ramen.
Free the Crockpots!
Oh good to know about netflix… have to check the rules before I join… in any case. Late fees. Ugh. The mere presence of late fees would prohibit my joining, so good to know.
Lack of late fees is why I extended a gift subscription! Used to rack up at least as much on a single stupid, stubborn-minded rental I’d swear to resume watching, another day.
(Kinda like those books with the permanent crease in the middle, from where you last put ’em down and intended to pick ’em up, a year or two ago.)
Happy New Year! Bonne et Heureuse Annee!
For you non-francophones, that translates into Fuck You Bush!
I see they have a 3 dvds at a time plan, unlimited amount permonth. 16.99… that sounds really good.
Do they put your dvds in your mail box? Or do you have to sign for them? I often miss deliveries as my daylight hours don’t conform well to RL
And, as a New Year’s gift for Pakistan, BBC is reporting a missile strike that killed 3 in Waziristan in Pakistan. I guess that’s what passes for “fireworks” over there.
Free the Crockpots!
O Great Moses! International Condemnation, now!
You people know not of this Holy Ark.
Not to mention the wonderful sausage medallions
in a mustard glaze contained therein
It was MINE.
[ Yenh – it went out the door with the kid at 11:05 EST LOL ]
Press Tv:
Gaza death toll rises to 399; 1925 injured
You never told me you had sausage medallions.
The wedding’s back on (if you can rescue them from the munchkin).
Do they put your dvds in your mail box?
Yes!
Or do you have to sign for them?
No signage required! The envelopes both ways are efficient, nifty, and free free free.
For you non-francophones, that translates into Fuck You Bush!
(Sorry, pulling a HairClub with the ital respondo-quotes, here …)
Phoque you Harpair, too!
32 – Not to mention the wonderful sausage medallions
in a mustard glaze contained therein
You didn’t mention it was FULL!
Thanks for that IB.. I have a slightly larger mail box that accommodates a lot and a neighbor who is on the watch for deliveries and home a lot.. but still… signatures in the daytime is a real chore for me… So that is great.
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You didn’t mention it was FULL!
The crockpots are called home. No freedom when full.
Comment from a lenin thread:
35. Phoque you Harpair, too!
Oh mon dieu (or non-dieu), no doubt!
And may all of you kossacks drown in changeyhopiness this year. I hereby dub the Obama administration years The Milquetoast Presidency.
LOL I started calling it Post Toasties a couple days ago.
Somehow toast is in the air….
“Toast” in more ways than one.
resolve to contribute to global warming because I can’t stand the damn cold weather here in the frozen tundra anymore.
Just what are you toasting up there?
BBC is reporting a [U.S.] missile strike
Such frivolity we have here really …
by that I mean , culturally, intellectually, in the US..
Some of it almost required sedation,
a certain faux-yet-temporal elation but
Amidst Wrappings and Football and Crockpots and Crackpots missed
and Passed Over PolPots we’ve made of ourselves here at Home…
Perhaps the only Production we CAN be assured of – is that of
Our Butcher’s carefully assembled grindings…
most assuredly with the wonderful glaze sauce too..
But Carry On we will. It is Our Way.
Enjoying the Party and All That…
..you know,…While it Lasts…
To Gaza!
{Recognizing this is but ONE Toast…
Recognizing there is not enough Champagne
for all of our Exceptional Toasts to go around…}
I dutifully bought a crockpot about 12 or so years ago. Still in its box, never unsealed. Near the never opened and still sealed vacuum…..
42. Just what are you toasting up there?
Anything & everything I can get my hands on!
I see Ductape’s words made it to the dkos rec list.
May your head explode, Booman.
LOL..I dutifully bought a crockpot about 12 or so years ago. Still in its box, never unsealed. Near the never opened and still sealed vacuum…..-mcat
Oh but even though you Already PAID for It –
The bogus Picture of a Meal on the Box-
It WILL produce warm and scrumptchie munchi goodness if you
shell out EVEN MORE DOUGH and do all the god damn work yourself…
LOL I mean who needs all that Horseshit when all
anyone in their right mind is normally looking for is
Chuck-Roast Take-Out in a disposable Plug-In chafing dish, right?
LOL. But it’s Political with the Corruption Cleaning Vacuum.
I think we should just be able to go to a store,
look at applicable domestic scenes marketed by Hoover or Eureka,
Two Vendors Only™ Please-
then shell out 300 Bucks and be able to go home an there it is –
Clean.
Every Eight years or so have it done again..
Hoover or Eureka!:: how Promising,
the Wave of the Future. Along with New Crockpots-
Hopefully EDIBLE THEMSELVES. .LOL
I’m Out All
and , Truly,
To Better Times Ahead!
My solution was the carpets went. There is one unused room with a big carpet on it.. but the rest is bare hard wood. A vague damp mop from time to time. Less rather than more.
And the beat goes on……………………………………
[doesn’t anyone have something other than coal for the global US hegemony stocking?]
From the morning round up at TPM Election Central… when Obster kept Gates all the liblogs immediately said, Oh but everyone EVERYONE under him will be going.
Please… 250 minus 90… Gates has at least 160 of his team.
hmm from the 27th at left i on the news… so it may be old news, but i missed it
I don’t even remember how many jobs at Mervyn’s were lost… because every day is announcements of lay offs.
left i links to skippy
🙄
David Broder sharpens the grapefruit spoon against Burris. I think they should simply publicise the mausoleum/CV … 😉
He was distinctive in Illinois mainly for breaking the color barrier in statewide office, thanks to his downstate birth and friendships and his pleasant, accommodating personality.
Obster should just reshape Broder into a small pink plastic pistol and strap him on…
Chapman of the ChicTrib calls Burris an empty suit. 😆
Spin the Merry Go Round out of Chicago again!
Kathy Griffin on CNN New Year’s Eve – “Knock the Dicks out of your Mouth”
I dunno.. The New Yorker sells this as the story behind the several years long suveillance ”get” on Blago for pay-to-play. I am just on page one, but I feel somewhat set up.
Thieves “Educate” Madoff On Stolen Goods
Photo of the sculpture at link above.
Surely releasing an asset list would reveal too many clues about where all the other lifeguards – of copper, silver, gold, or paper – went missing along the way.
I see Aspen’s New Year’s Eve celebrations were canceled and the town’s downtown evacuated last night, thanks to suspicious packages and threatening notes found at two banks.
Blanning was found dead this morning, though no word yet on how.
Aspen Times describes a few incidents from Blanning’s past:
I saw a report on Aspen. Talk about finishing off a resort’s big paying night.
“The Educators”… I wonder how much implied threat was in that act. Not everyone is going to be satisfied, at all in any way, by years of tedious litigation. While his sons and nieces and whoever else wander around free as jail birds.
Colorado land swindler and bomb suspect in moderation, I think.
More from the Aspen Times:
Sorry IB it threw all three of yours into Moderation… all out now.
I jsut reread the comment, see that Blanning was found dead.
A bit neat, too neat.
They’re not saying yet how he died, but apparently the police had named him, released a surveillance video, and asked residents for help in finding him.
Ok……………………………….. I am guessing that small rodents are singing Grand Opera. Un-neutered Dogs are sitting in rockers knitting baby booties.. or whatever happens when the world inverts.
Real Clear Politics has an article of Roubini’s.. not just linked to… but carried on their pages. I am stunned.
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I saw the surveillance video, or snips from it, during the night.
2009 was NOT his year…
god.. don’t read teh Harper’s Index for 2008. It can and will cause depression. http://www.harpers.org
a small snip:
I call this a sticky icky bullshit beg. Hey, grovelling is currency.. .
Did you see the “placeholder candidate” AP article yesterday?
Re 63 in Bavaria after she went in for a leg operation and was
instead given a new anus. In her leg?
She’s lucky she didn’t go in for brain surgery.
# 51 marcat, figures it would be cerberus capital management.
See what I mean.
They’re changing the guard at Buckingham Palace
They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
Alice is marrying one of the guard.
“A soldier’s life is terrible hard,”
Says Alice.
They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
We saw a guard in a sentry-box.
“One of the sergeants looks after their socks,”
Says Alice.
They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
We looked for the King, but he never came.
“Well, God take care of him, all the same,”
Says Alice.
An Obama inaugural ball will be only for military
They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
They’ve great big parties inside the grounds.
“I wouldn’t be King for a hundred pounds,”
Says Alice.
They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A face looked out, but it wasn’t the King’s.
“He’s much too busy a-signing things,”
Says Alice.
They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
“Do you think the King knows all about me?”
“Sure to, dear, but it’s time for tea,”
Says Alice.
– A.A. Milne
Iraq gov’t gets control of Green Zone, US troops
Christopher Robin in the mod pod, I think.
Glenn Greenwald
Tuesday Dec. 30, 2008 05:33 EST
George Washington’s warnings and U.S. policy towards Israel
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/12/30/democracy/index.html
sorry IB
got two of yours out…
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Two Sides from Inside Israel
by Meteor Blades [the f’in hypocrite]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/1/1505/41433/151/679207
Where was he when people were trying to support a different point of view on daily kos [quoting the very papers HE is quoting now] from the Democratic platform??
Hiding…..
And piece of shit dhonig has pulled out of his ass, his Dog Whistles diary, again. Where was that racist pig when Arabs were fighting for self-determination and freedoms?
He comes to the defense, again, of killing Arabs.
Why do I even go there.
Some Laughs Here..
I call this a sticky icky bullshit beg. Hey, grovelling is currency.. .re the CKS’09 Ermine “Candidacy”, Err-MINE you knowwww..
Pathetic yes.But I figure- LOL- its at least a stab at the clusterfuck retail politics. But but OBAMA!
Like that should work well with the Wimmens and Teh Gayz.
LOL. It all congeals into one sloppy mess..
Like her ability to “work with” Obama
is of ANY concern to the PTB in New York. He works FOR THEM. LOL.
Like a little butt slap to Patterson matters..
Who, LOL, ALSO works for the PTB in New York.
I dunno, I offered my solution to Birthday Cake:
Don’t try to do this on the Cheap.
Spread. it. AROUND.
Grovel Big Time Early and Often
and FFS – Forget the Love of the Holy Father,
SPREAD THAT CASH AROUND.
LOL. .In other Stuff Still With Us from 2008
From that Harper’s Retrospective
Tom Jones insured his chest hair for $7 million.
Ironically, Tom’s Brillo was then RE-insured, Pooled and Equitized.
Then Leveraged –{whoops!}– for 70 TRILLION Dollars,
ultimately Credit Default Swapped in all currencies,
and Frankly – has astonishingly come to rest Now
as THE Central and Sole Financial Instrument
between US and Utter Collapse of the Western World Order.
Yes folks, THIS MAN, this unlikely Sung Hero,
This Man and His Chest Chair –
Is All the Hope We Have Left
So Stay Classy, Tom. .LOL.
Stakeholding EU Central Banker,
Emilio J.Cosmen, the “Spanish Tom Jones” Rushes in To Counter
Jones Chest Hair Influence on Markets.
BHHM two of yours out of Moderation… Sorry the filter has been extra lousy for weeks now it seems…
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years ago, in Blahg and The Blahg Boyz years, that is…about the only thing MB was really and actually good on was Israel. LOADED with facts and histories. Sounds like he went into hiding for years… 🙄 probably around the time of the Lebanon war?
Speaking of “Errr Mine”
Sorry the filter has been extra lousy for weeks now it seems…
Then it seems fine. I have my writing SET to Extra Lousy.
But Tomorrow, As Genocide against Gaza becomes Evident,
When the Predictable Israeli Killing Spree involves Tanks Rolling over uncooperative starving Refugees, I’m just going to go with what is.
Set the Writing and The Filters to Very Extra Special Lousy:
International Jewry.
Outrageous! Readeth the Jews..
How Very Distusting! recoil the lambsy , hardly Liberal,
yet liberal Apologists for Israel.
Yeh. well. We’ll see Outrageous when that IDF Invasion Force masses along the border butchers its way through Gaza in a drive to Push Palestinian Corpses into the Mediterranean Sea.
and on and on ….and on and on..
Israel and its supporters have squandered
any meaningful legacy of the Shoah.
International Jewy, it’s Homeland, it’s Haven here in the U.S?
Indistinguishable.
From Mafiosa.
I was reading somewhere last night or the night before this is a replay of ’82.. Sabra and Shatilla …. so they will roll in and, not using the Christian Phalange but their own forces.. level or kill everyone in one refugee camp or another. I don’t know.
Ethan Bronner fo the NYT on TNH now. Awful man.
Of course it seems i read everything backwards and upside down…
77 LOL CKS, Shelly Silver signing off mehbe..
How Delightful, you knooo…
I wonder what Shelly Silver got or what Uncle Ted had on Shelly.
Or maybe they’re all just lining up to geld Andy Cuomo. No more squackin from Cuomo about Polo Players fucking his ex-wife KerryK or any other fucking that’s going on in New York..
Seems like the little jockey in the NY AG’ saddle is feeling the riding crop yet again…Mcat handicapped the race noting CKS ability to self fund in 012 could free up a lot of dough for NY Dems…
Anyways, the present State of the Horse (tooth) Race:
Comin around the bend it’s Birthday Cake! Birthdaaayy Cake-
That’s Birthday Cake In the Lead as we come down to the Wire!
it’s..It’s..It’s….
Allow me the insufferable practice of self quote:
“””You can see the Media Mosh Up coming ..
From Bill’s JFK photo
Hillary Passing the Torch, Returning it – Sniff,–
Never having Extinguished the Eternal Flame..
Hey what’s that Smell?? Is Something on FIRE?!??!?
So many metaphors , so many fires, so many volatiles,
they should just go with
It Takes A Village To Burn Down.“””
It looks like the Photo Finish Op and a bit of Birthday Cake amidst Bernie and Blaggo and on and on is just to irresistible a distraction to pass up::{Gack}. Oh and THE CASH.
Couriers: Silent AND Nude.
Might as well lie back… cause these folks are
Surely meeting In the Saunas of the cleanest ,
most respectable Bath-Houses in New York,
swept Daily if not Hourly for bugs..
No taps ,you knooo
.. ripe for congealment…
Not that it matters.. I nominated Barney the WH dog t the senate sometime ago, under the campaign motto, “it can’t be any worse”.
Plus, Barney the WHD doesn’t poop on the floor at the drop of a hat.
Maybe all they had to do was circulate BILL’s name – once! in a holiday news cycle! – to get everyone on board for Caroline.
Gawdddd.
OT – Some lady madonnas are getting uppity in the social networks:
Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms’ Ire.
Reaaally glad that first Tom Jones-related comment came out of moderation! (Not that I clicked the first link, having endured the second!)
Verry confusing, without context!
Happy? “New Year”……..gettin tooo old to to write all the names connected..to the wish?
thank you BooHooHooHooMan, ;0)…for the gift……I know I don’t remind you of Woody,……….and I think you don’t believe I would wittingly drive my car into a whole carload full of folks…please don’t tell it – would spoil the gift……………it’s very hard for all of us to fit in one another’s shoes……..I think you meant well hon….and that’s the bottom line.
At least Barney bites!
Sorry about that IB.. the filter is a mess. And from what I read their filter “Akismet” is their own. So they say. But (and almost anyone on earth would qualify) people who know more than I tell me filters are awful and leaky and so on…………………
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Plus, Barney the WHD doesn’t poop on the floor at the drop of a hat.
But when he does he hits his mark… Seems it was a couple years ago down on teh “grass” at Crawford… the usual walk out of Bush COndi Cheney and who ever. Barney got behind the crooks, and carefully turning sideways, did a rather quick and all things considered, elegant, deposit.
As in, I may be a hostage but I know what is up. And down. And I am not fully gagged!
LOL
For Afghans, a Price for Everything, and Anything for a Price
yeah Barney bites… and ti was Barney who was dropped on the tarmac by Bush.. that famous photo… and a few hours later he blamed Laura for doing it.
Truly we are led by dully mad.
……the very sad thing – at the end of the day……is to be left with the nagging thought…..that websites such as yours marisa, are actually vacuum cleaners for those who truly have somehow been conned out of their compassion…..
many kisses to ya hon…….carry on hon!
79 – No “identity group” has a corner on the mafia concept, do they?
89 – Regarding the filters. No problem – except a few minutes slack-jawed watching Mr. Cosmen perform Delilah! on Spanish TV, and about 30 seconds on Google to confirm he wasn’t a Central Banker!
92 – vacuum cleaners for those who truly have somehow been conned out of their compassion
Not sure what you mean by that, diane, but I see heaps of compassion here every day.
…and then,……compassion for what…..bombing GAZA…….destroying the Fertile Crescent?………….it would be so eeeezy if all of us had our own personal calipers that measured whether we were on on the right path….to what?
tolerance for anything seems passe……
I dunno .. my last vacuum cleaner – think I bought it in 2002 – is still sealed in its box. About 30 years ago I threw a stand up model across the room … somehow managing not to hit or break anything nor gouge a wall. ugh.. never ever got along with that piece of equipment.
Well I can name a few that, overall, might fit this
that websites such as yours marisa, are actually vacuum cleaners for those who truly have somehow been conned out of their compassion…..
but I don’t think this tiny corner qualifies. I take Chris Hedges dictum very seriously: try to stay human, it may be all you can accomplish. His other wise warning is that by doing all you can, by the time you are worn out, the situation may be WORSE, thru no fault of your own.
Posted that interveiw with him a few times over the 4 years or so since he gave it.
BTW, if anyone is reading him in TruthDig.. his mood is especially dark. I don’t blame him.
…well the whisk thingy probably does as well a job……….and where does as all that crap end up at…at the end of the day anyway…..likely in someone’s backyuad who can ill afford the damage from inhaling it every day any…I.don’t have a clue …..
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The vid embedded in this
London Times piece
is quite illustrative midway…
WRT the CyberPropoganda efforts employed by the IDF…
There is no doubt they will continue their Spiel on Youtube while attempting to map and stamp out dissent…
Given DK’s positioning and,
–Hello?!? AeroDefenseIndustryAds!??!- ..
I have no doubt that efforts there lead to Israeli coffers ..
Frankly
Livzni came off as a bit unprepared in her propoganda retorts.
They clearly are under Siege tho –
as world opinion is markedly turned against them.
They know damn well the only favorable press they get
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The Challenge Israel faces is unlike other countries whose continued existense can be justified Legitimatly without an insatiable demand for continued Military and Financial Life Support::
No Israel is well and truly fucked given present circumstances, what they have done to others, they have inevitably done to themselves…
…because The Global Economy..
..the patronage of the US Economy certainly…
for all intents and purposes- the Economy has Ground. to. a. Halt.
Ironic,
given that nothing else on the Ground has come to a halt except for the Lives, Senses, and Functioning Limbs of War Casualties.
So, they better make what they stole from World Markets LAST
because there’s very little left to loot (in the West at least) that people aren’t presently nailing down or stashing in their mattresses..
I also think they underestimate the inclination of the Non Jewish Manageriate and the Lesser Corp Class in the US to give a fuck about Israel or Jewish “concerns” as they, too,
proceed Bourgeois Flesh then Bone through the wall…
Oh God. How many ‘TD Jakes” can there be? Some ad for a new release movie floated by on TV, I was not paying attention, til I heard “story by TD Jakes” and looked up for a quick take of the credits… and there was his name at the top.
It’s all about marketing. Nothing else. And caging the wealth.
93….truth be told, intermiittent I see anger hate and unforgiveness EVERFUCKIN WHERE, and folks jumpin out windows all the way around…and sadly, here, is no exception for my small speck……AND I”M NOT CONDONING THE FUCKING “RAPTURE”
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and sadly, here, is no exception for my small speck…
People are human diane. Here, too. In the polish on the mud wallow, as Meteor Blades called it.
Rather proud of that one, I am. Happy to be the mud wallow or the polish or whatever the dumb thugs call it….
I’ve been called a few things. Not like it MATTERS.
NBC news is lovely. Did you know Ashdod is ONLY 15 miles from Tel Aviv?… and people in the Israeli street screaming NO CEASEFIRE. Another protestation that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza… and a replay of the Great Obama and his damend shitty propaganda, his daughters, the bombs I’d do what Israel does.
Oh but later he said it was ”poorly chosen”. A self apologist.
Martin Fletcher says there will be a short hard ground war.
Talk about whipped up blood frenzy.
Neue thread…
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sad fact…
but it is true……….
you can not possibly know pleasure….
until you’ve been made aware of pain…