Weekend… 19 February 2010
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
Birds gather around a feeder in Nashville, Indiana [David Snodgress/AP]
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Birds gather around a feeder in Nashville, Indiana [David Snodgress/AP]
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An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
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Super picture – even has the feel of Nashville IN
I really liked the little bird pavillion… certainly not a bird “house”…
ONLY thing better than a crazed loner is a dead crazed loner.
FP NYT
Better than “solving” a case is just shutting it closed.
Might as well laugh laugh laugh.
Justice Department Will Not Punish Yoo and Bybee Because Most Lawyers Are Scum Anyway
MSNBC just reported that Al Haig just took charge of a slab in the morgue.
At last.
Well. We know Al Haig won’t be on….
NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’: Commander of U.S. Central Command General David Petraeus; Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN); roundtable with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, U.S. Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
ABC’s ‘This Week’: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) and Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA); roundtable with ABC’s George Will, the Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington, former Bush strategist and independent political strategist Matthew Dowd, and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile
CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell
‘Fox News Sunday’: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); RGA Chairman Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) and Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI); roundtable with the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, NPR’s Mara Liasson, the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes and NPR’s Juan Williams; ‘Power Player of the Week’ segment with You Tube Head of News and Politics Steve Grove
CNN’s ‘State of the Union’: Gov. Jim Douglas (R-VT) and Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA); Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN), former U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY), former Gov. and Sen. Jon Corzine (D-NJ)
C-SPAN — ‘Newsmakers’ (10am ET / 6pm ET Sunday): U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), questioned by Politico’s Patrick O’Connor and The Hill’s Jeffrey Young (topic is upcoming health care summit) … ‘The Communicators’ (6:30pm ET Saturday): National Cable and Telecommunications Association President and CEO Kyle McSlarrow, questioned by The Hill’s Kim Hart … ‘Q&A’ (8pm ET & 11pm ET Sunday): Ted Morgan, author of ‘Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America Into the Vietnam War.’
Dutch government falls over Afghan troop mission
….all but guarantees that the 2,000 Dutch troops will be brought home this year and will eventually prompt new parliamentary elections.
SOMEBODY please pull out.
Belgian coma patient can’t communicate after all
Sheesh. Whatever happened to the idea that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof?
According to the article, his mother proclaimed that he was writing a book!
…the patient supposedly directs the hand of a speech therapist who typed out his thoughts.
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According to the article, his mother proclaimed that he was writing a book!
yes it often seems to be relatives that are the loudest town criers of a breaktrhu… can’t blame them I guess, but a mess.
“directed communication” is such an old scam.
I am watching NOW, on PBS… a local – “County Executive” – election on Long Island that the Democrats did not look closely enough at… the Democrat, Suozzi, fell to the challenger, a R, Mangano. Suozzi failed to get out the vote, left millions in unspent campaign funds and lost after a month of recounts by some 360 votes.
Property tax in Nassau Co is about $10,000 annually and a very high sales tax. So many of the national issues, jobs, cost of living, people out of work, residents forced to move… etc.
It PRE DATED the MASS election and no Democrats analysed how Suozzi lost.
Tea partiers were active for Mangano.
snatch/jaws/victory/defeat and so on. Always trust the Democrats.
Dana Milbank hearts Rahm.
ugh i found just the snippet i read in the politico plybook email to be vomit worthy. 😛
Honey ti won’t get the R to vote for you, the second time around.
What a fucking oxymoron.
our finest warrior-diplomat tradition…
Like right out of Oxymorons-for-Morons ~ oxymoronic.
🙄
Nice to see Al go, tho.
Maybe I should send a Mass card.
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Nah. Fuck ‘im.
I thought it was awful. Excessive.
I mean, one COULD say he tried to seize the government in the wake of Reagan Bang Bang.
No, it all makes sense. And when somebody of the likes of Jimmy Dimond or Lloyd Blankfein (sp?) dies, they will be similarly eulogized by Obama XXX Exemplified our finest thief-philanthropist tradition.
LOL. Wait till he get’s to do Benny 16.
Beloved by all – well – almost all- A leader in the …
~ PedoNazi Papal Tradition. ..
I was on the road in Hell for a few weeks, Rural Radio Jesus Land, about a 200 mile stretch of Bunker Your Family sponsored by Survival Foods. Ya know, the Absolute full spectrum dominance of shows like The Loin Girder and others, REMINDING ALL that The Libs, Commies, and Homo’s Are A’ Comins For Yer Quiverfull of Behbies. …
Oddly, ~ In Central Hell, perhaps due to some atmospheric anomaly, a weak pulse from NPR bleats through for an instant , and only an instant in the 110 mile an hour driveby, ( the wholly rational speed to drive while attempting escape).
Momentarily grateful , as one is for the monotony breaking
Gas Leak during the Fires of Hell Hour
( negative 89.5 FM on your listening dial)
NPR interrupted my tuned-to-radio-static channel to say that Obama’s Offensive in Helmand Province is
unwinding, predictably into a bloody morass on the windswept plains of AfghanistanNO! They say it’s “not going as fast” as McChrystal and the Obama Administration would like.
War Forever.. Everyone saluting.
Goldman Sachs could create Credit Default Swaps on the outcomes of the wars.. A new revenue generating instrument that GS could sell to … the US government and Afghanistan and why not… to the Taliban.
probably in formulation… offered in some private sale….
PedoNazi tradition
pedo in Spanish means “fart”. Perfect. Or Pedofect.
everytime I think he can’t possibly make me respect his ass less, he manages to hit new lows.
Only 2 years and a lot of months to go. I think we will need oxygen tanks and miners lamps before it is over.
I am watching Branagh’s Wallander series, from BBC… and I must say they are dark and brooding enough for the moment we are in.
I heard those were good.
They are… So far, at least at Nefflix, there are only two discs, which have a total of 3 – 90 minute episodes… I just watched the one disc with two… The stories are dark, psychological mysteries… beautifully shot in Sweden. Wonderful interiors as well…
I keep meaning to read some of those books.
it is so long ago that I read one or maybe two of them… and I know I have seen other Wallander episodes, by other actors, but it too is so long ago. Branagh is better than I had expected, actually…
Welfare Recipients Forced to Sell Food Stamps to Buy Basic Necessities
haha
No response…as crickets chirp…
stumble…
LOL
“PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE SOCK PUPPET BEHIND THE CURTAIN!”
“Pragmaticus” – sounds like something Harry Reid would call himself in his little Roman fantasy world. ;0
Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs
I don’t know what is happening in other states, but at least here, I have read, people wait a few weeks between each extension. Which has to be impossible. Congress sure did not care right before christmas… the extension lanquished while they stayed at home.
it’s really horrible.
I see that article is riding at the top of the column on the FP………
Dmitri Orlov is starting to look more prescient than ever when he scoffed at the notion of “jobs” in his book Reinventing Collapse.
“Jobs” are merely the embroidery on the fabric of society. For this large and growing underclass, it becomes about “favors” and “protections.” The “jobs” of the future will be about making nice with your neighbors (the more powerful your neighbors, the better) with whatever you have at your disposal (alas, for many women they have only their own bodies at their disposal).
It’s not the same thing as barter, though. The notion of barter is basically about substituting other stuff for devalued dollars. What Orlov was talking about was the use of neighborhood social capital – where you do favors for people out of largesse and then other people do favors for you. It’s going to take a long time to get Americans accustomed to reestablishing actual social bonds on that level.
Many “unmarketable” skills will become valuable on a person-to-person basis in an America with a large unemployed underclass – but of course, anyone in Soweto or Haiti could tell you that already.
Sigh. Where to begin with this Oxymoronic lede-
Here’s the deal.
I’m running over the next reporter (Sorry – no private plane )
that checks off the cliched “could prove a pivotal moment” box in their word processor. I didn’t drive through Hell and survive Rural Radio to put up with that shit. LOL.
So it makes makes no Neva Mind to me if it’s about Health Care Reform, the Israeli Occupation, Our Endless Wars, or a reference to Brad and Angelina. The next MSM journo who scheisse~peddles the same ol’ “could be a pivotal moment” crap is a goner. 😉
The real compromised joke is w/r/t Obama “pushing” …..for anything.
I just read a headline that said the NEW PLAN is to make the R the “party of obstruction” AFTER Ob puts them on the spot.
Can this get emptier? Historically empty? Unprecedented in the emptiness? (the jokes write themselves)
I am guessing it can.
not only emptier, but a big vast sucking vacuum.
well it’s running on fumes. Rendell (on TW) said Obama is a “great communicator” who “did not communicate”.
Hard to get emptier.
hmm think it was catnip who linked to the Wapo Milbank article but I just saw this at Ben Smith. Id say, look for leaks to continue and accelerate.
GOOD LUCK!!
My latest: Assassination Politics
Law limiting release of gun-trace data blasted by chief, D.A.
Well here is a plan, the COPS should be exposing this. But I would be surprised to see them do that.
It is so ridiculous and so rigged, it is almost laughable.
Local cops have been making a big deal of it …. of course it helps that a lot of them and the prosecutors are Republicans and the local pols responsible are national Dems.
It’s interesting, since the city Republicans have to fight not only the dems they’re going after, but the suburban/rural Republican gun nuts in this state. They’re cooperating pretty closely w/ the Dem mayor on this.
A reader flags this from a new book about Gordon Brown:
oh that is just funny! (.. and the dream shall never never die!)
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Cenk Uygur at dkos:
No doubt.
kiss kiss
The thought of Dana and Rahm kissing………………….. oh no.
yikes… hold on to your hats. ABC will air an interview tomorrow (GMA, I guess?) with Stack daughter (step daughter, maybe…) calling him a hero. Tho she does not agree with his last act…
gah.
noo ooo ooo
LINK
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They seem to be having a
Hitler in the Bunker Night on Dailykos.
Moving Imaginary Men around etc…
LOL. Lookey Here! The Whitehouse.gov site!
I think Obama is having a Fire Sale.
Or something. yard sale.
Tag sale.
More from Hitler in the Bunker Night on DK:
And …em….ah…….this one.
So “Progressive.”
So different from Bush supporters and Republicans.
😯
So very VERY fucked up.
I’ll move this to the noo ooo oo thread… 😉