Pace Pax Peace Pacem Paix 3 September 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Israel/AIPAC, Lie Down Fall Down Dems.trackback
Construction work in the Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim near Jerusalem. Officially there is a building freeze in force until September 26th. However many settlers are not complying with the ban. [AP via der Spiegel]
Peace… I don’t see any around, do you?
Peace in the Middle East? Not any century any time soon…
[T]he message is clear: After Hamas terrorists shot four Israelis near Hebron, the settlers no longer want to adhere to the 10-month construction stop that expires at the end of September. An army commander told the newspaper Maariv that the settlers threatened to “flood” the West Bank “with thousands of homes.” He said he was concerned that dozens of cement mixers would drive in at night to pour the walls and that there was nothing the military could do to stop it.
And why should they if they have the impression that the government doesn’t even support the moratorium? ….
Those 4 killings have been all thru the media for days and of course Bibi was happy to raise it yesterday as well… but over at Angry Arab I read of an Israeli court finding an officer not quilty of needlessly killing a 13 year old girl, in the Gaza…. even tho there was testimony from other mil that he was told, right then, she appeared lost and frightened and was no threat.
His commentary, he would have killed her all the same, had she been ”a 3 year old”.
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Seems the Christchurch earth quake did more damage than thought at first reports…
Marisacat 
Gayest foreclosure ever
oh that is a scream!
Reading that Orlando, or a good lot of it, began to go ”south” in the sense of a run down economy in the 90s…. obviously the East Coast of FL even with Disney (and decades of massive overbuilding) has been in trouble for a long time…
It was the “Saturday Night Frank” picture that won me over.
yeah that was great…
Frank. By now I wish he had wahsed out when the whole WH or congressional page with the ”commerce” in the basement was busted.
Instead we are stuck with Frank god knows how many decades later…
I have to wonder – with all of this fear-mongering about the Tea Party takeover of congress and the Repub party – if there’s a but of amnesia going on. We went through the same hysteria over the Christian right over social issues which, when it really came down to it, really didn’t get what it wanted out of Bushco. The Repubs like to use their extremists as tools to get them in power – just like the Dems like to use liberals. Then they throw them overboard.
I think the Xtian right gets plenty, from both sides. They have a major seat at the table, always. As much as Israel, they control seats in congress, both sides, both parties…
AND there is always loose skin left hanging to take a whack at, so everybody gets to run on the Social Issues:
-Take back the country! (works in the same edition for both sides, no rewrite…),
-Oh mi god! the gheys are coming and will rape and educate your child!!! (and the reverse: WE the educated people know better!) and
-Women just abort babies – when they should cook clean and submit, then climb onto the birthing table and wait …. (deep down, both parties buy into that last one)
Etc.
The Dems out here are already running against Carly on abortion… secondarily on “ghey marriage”… etc. And a big wallop of:
-She Off Shored JOBS! Only the Democrats will save you!!!! (what do you say?, they are not saving you? You are mistaken!)
Well, I mean the religious wingnuts haven’t gotten what they wanted in terms of constitutional amendments banning Teh Gayz from getting married (or even existing) or flat out denying women abortions. They get half-measures from the parties and think that if they keep pushing they’ll eventually get what they want – full stop. After decades of trying, that’s not working out all that well for them. Ironically, their only hope is the activist judges they claim to despise. But ignorant rulings don’t last forever and congress can change the laws anyway.
The tea partiers are collectively too fucking stupid to realize how they’re being used to push faux “economic populism” – unless they think the “populists” populate the mega-rich.
the game is to shrink access, it eats away at abortion rights without alerting a mass of women, f they went directly at Roe, many more women would know what a mess it all is. … and by now that group is mostly women over 40 – 50. Th e ultimate goal, from several angles, is Birth Control.
Witness the stem cell fight. It is a proxy for the entire mess, from BC, RU 486 to abortion… AND as they advance on bc, their sights for years have been on the case that gave married people, then single owmen.. the right to GET birth control, Griswold. It helped to frame privacy rights.
And privacy rights cut right across where a full frontal assualt across the decades is going on.
Most of the cases sent to the Kansas abortion dr (I cannot htink of his name) who was shot in the face n his church were referrels from a national board for genetic research and related issues (cannot remember the name) and they could not even issue a formal statement at his death. SILENCE. They desperately want to stay below the media bright lights.
Every body, too many of the everybodies, seem fine that there is one doctor who performs the type of abortions the dead dr did. ONE.
And now bit by bit, no insurance or hardly any is going to cover abortion, elective or otherwise. Obby gave away the store a few months ago…
On Tuesday an abortion clinic was firebombed in Madera CA… At eh same time, unpleasant mean signs got left at some mosqueria in Madera, it is called a hate crime… SIGNS…. oh such slobber and lvoe for how violated the mosque is, was. Almost near silence on the clinic, which was you know, firebombed, a Molotov cocktail was used… for now it is closed.
I equate the tea partiers with the likes of the Kos orange mutts, on the other side. Noisy… the cirtical loud mouths, etc…
I mean look at how Hamsher, others, playing the loyal, but not too loyal (cash under the table imo), noisy, ethical, take our country back (utter vomitus) slobber and bullshite… is so loved for her hard work to liberate the Democratic party from all the meanies. And the ”emptywheels”, her great works on the WIlson Plame utter bullshit, a contrived Democratic “story”, that filled months of ink and paper and blogs and weeping and whining …
hell lambert is all but a “access blog in waiting”, others like it… Talk Left another one.
Oh those meanie weenies. They stole votes at the Democratic Rules Commmitee meeting! GAVE them to Obby!!
Righ tin front of the Cspan cmaeras too! With Howard AND a grandson of FDR, right there!
When Hillayr would have SAVED us.
yeah right.
It is all paid for, both sides. IMO no difference.
I agree there’s no difference between the sides. (Naderite!) My point was that the parties won’t give into the extremists to the extent they’re lied into believing that they will every election cycle even though they throw out crumbs of assurance that they will. These tea partiers are just the latest distraction and another excuse to move America more to the right.
My point was that the parties won’t give into the extremists to the extent they’re lied into believing that they will every election cycle even though they throw out crumbs of assurance that they will.
yes but that is just retail politics.
And I actually defend Hamsher, Cenk and Greenwald over at dkos (not that I agree with all of their opinions and I certainly don’t condone continued support of a morally bankrupt party like the Dems which they all push for in the end, regardless) because the game the Obamaites play over there is that those guys are soley responsible for “destroying” the Democratic party. They’re handy scapegoats. Obama is blameless. “The left” is just as guilty as the screaming tea partiers for the mess the country’s in, as far as the Loyalty Brigade is concerned.
Foreign policy extremism is another matter. You’re right that both parties are in on that game.
Nepetia and BoHOo,
…got a kick out of the surfer video tidbits……….
…Little GTO..was the unsolicited soundtrack I was hearing……………
..despite the potential sand in your face, not all that bad to really be a whale …as the true poets will adore you, ….Levithian …………….
(and,…well we don’t have to talk about what the rest of the MOFO’s (and we do mean their actual birth mothers (heading the long list of those they’ve fucked), heartbreakingly enough will do to ya…… it is Friday after all,….isn’t it?))
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(and,…well we don’t have to talk about what the rest of the MOFO’s (and we do mean their actual birth mothers (heading the long list of those they’ve fucked)), heartbreakingly enough will do to ya…… it is Friday after all,….isn’t it?))
Whilst I’m slamming “High Tech’ ….I may as well throw this link out also:
Big Brother Inc. Implications of Google Getting No-Bid U.S. Spy Contract
(since I despise Google and all that it seems (to me) to stand for). Would prefer that the article weren’t so vaguely creepy weepy mamsy pamsy about: WE MUST HAVE SECURITY AND KILL EVERBODY WHO WANTS TO IMPART SOME WISDOM TO THE EQUATION …..but, …so be it …..can’t have everything (let alone, anything) ………………….
FWIW moiv sent this tonight… it will be appealed to the US 5th district… and Tejas is in the same district. She expects it, the law that Jindahl signed, to sweep west to TX:
From moiv:
I’ve always seen abortion as tied to everything. It’s tied to war (fodder) freedom for women, autonomy, everything. Privacy. Privacy of the family as a whole, medical freedom and rights… freedom FROM religion, the imposition of religion.
This whole hoopla over “partial birth abortion” is about .9 of the abortions carried out per year.
Or close to that. Cali soemtimes did some things right. We hve never kept statistics on numbers of abortions.
Must drive the religious idiots nutz.
Disgusting.
I think the jig, the game, was up when the Council of Bishops, the Catholics, had direct imput in the SC ruling on “pba”. There is religious language in the ruling.
Aside from wording that instructed mothers to bond with their babies in utero. We don’t force caged zoo animals to bond with their offspring. We cope iwth a very real, common aspect of life. Things don’t go perfectly in the real world.
As Democrats run all over the horizon assuring Democratic women voters that nothing will overturn Roe. Barry, who really IS a “mother fucker”, is blithely described as both “pro choice” and god help us, a “feminist”.
Over the years, Brown v Board of Education has simply ceased, for all intents and purposes, to exist. Specific public schools that 20 years ago were integrated, no longer are. The two cases that reached the SC 3 years ago, one arising in Louisville and one in Seattle (the North loves to propagandize that their hands are so clean in race) challenging the local schemes for school integration, was the last nail. But BvBofEd stands, it just has no effect, means nothing anymore.
BAR reported at the time that Black Leadership, those paragons of energy and hope, were not even discussing what to do, they were discussing ways to make “separate but equal” better than it used ot be.
god help us, a “feminist”.
But but but, “Lily Ledbetter!!” and “post-racial!!”
Crumbs. Some Dems are complaining that they got a “shit sandwich”. An entire sandwich would be an upgrade!
And all Lily Ledbetter did was extend the time in bringing a case. But, Jesus, quel drahma.
LOL.
Anyway… I am up to Season 3 of Mad Men and just having a sort of MM festival this weekend, all 4 discs of S 3…
😉
Mike Allen has a use, snagged from his Politico email:
AFP: “Protestors in [Dublin] Ireland pelt Blair at first book signing.”
Daily Mail:
Read more: Daily Mail
That’s a waste of perfectly good eggs. Now if they’d been recalled American eggs, that would be different.
hmm a lot of blood in the water… via Mike Allen
😆 … 👿
–“Meet the Press”: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe; roundtable with CNBC’s Erin Burnett, Cook Political Report’s Charlie Cook, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne and National Review’s Rich Lowry
–“This Week”: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; roundtable with ABC’s George Will, New York Times columnists Tom Friedman and Paul Krugman and the Washington Post’s Mary Jordan
–“Face the Nation”: Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors Laura Tyson, Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi and New York Times’ Gretchen Mogenson; roundtable with CBS’ Nancy Cordes and Politico’s Jim VandeHei
–“Fox News Sunday”: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); DNC Chairman and former Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA); roundtable with the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes, NPR’s Mara Liasson, Fox News’ Chris Stirewalt and NPR’s Juan Williams
–CNN’s “State of the Union”: AFL-CIO President Richard Traumka and National Small Business Association President Todd McCracken; roundtable with National Journal’s Ron Fournier, Time Michael Duffy and the New York Times’ Elisabeth Bumiller
–C-SPAN: “Newsmakers”: (10am ET / 6pm ET Sunday): U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Robert Papp, questioned by the Baton Rouge Advocate’s Gerard Shields and Defense News’ Christopher Cavas … “The Communicators” (6:30pm ET Saturday): Showtime Networks Chairman & CEO Matthew Blank and Sony Pictures Technologies President Chris Cookson … “Q&A” (8pm ET & 11pm ET Sunday): Financial Analyst Meredith Whitney.
this week looks painfull
RFLMAO:
5,000 people?
hoo boy. The day has passed. What was that Rahm said about the UAW….
That he wanted to meet them nekkid in the shower?
LOL.. well he said Fuck UAW, or some version.. which goes well with nekkid in the shower.
I guess………………
30 False Fronts Won Contracts for Blackwater
Sure, just like BP cleaned up its act after the hundreds of violations it had.
Drill, baby, drill. Kill, baby, kill. It’s all part of the same game.
Ruh roh, Krugman is crying.
the children’s table:
How pathetic.
I noticed Krugolla has a typo in the first graf… he has “we” when he truly does mean “me”.
sigh.
He’s got a couple typos in that one. Maybe the tears washed away some of the ink.
Rahm is climbing the walls if he is listening to PK on This Week. Very tough language used about Obby…
I slept thru wahtever part of TW Blair was on, but nothing to see, Bomb bomb bomb Iran. They’ll eventually love us for it.
I almost cannot believe it… they only have the Library of Congress at their fingertips — and any archivist, much less the very best at the government itself, and any historian of the period they wish to employ as consultant…
I am even wondering if just flipping open a Bartlett’s would have saved them…
NPR had a interesting interview with a historian about how phrases get recycled like that. He claimed that MLK paraphrased Parker:
I’ve read previously about connections of lines in the Gettysburg address to a speech given earlier by a minister… but had not heard it about Martin…. tho DM pointed out that Obby claims long standing love for the Martin quote… and thatMartin was open about attribution of source.
It’s nto a big deal – ideas and lines get recycled all the time – EXCEPT these fckers hold themselves out as TEACHERS. By now they have instructed us on everything. From race to veggies.
I am so tired of the lecturing.
I think the most tiresome thing about them is that they’re so LAZY, they assume that no one is going to check up on what they’re doing, and then shrug when someone does.
All they really had to do was note the original author of the lines in whatever press release they blasted the earth with. Include a short bio and background on Parker as the original inspiration, historical references making the connection…
That would have done it, and left the more famous names on the rug as fine.
link via Balloon Juice: A Chaplain and an Atheist Go to War
Of course, it’s no surprise the the Chaplain is a fucking moron:
snip
I saw an interview w/ Penn Jillette once. The interviewer asked what book Penn would recommend to someone interested in atheism, and he replied, “the Bible”.
hmm I think Lt Moran has failed at evangelism. Wasn’t it his DUTY to bring Chute to Gawd.
yup, and abject failure all around.
The Invisible Wall
Poor Wobby:
Nouriel:
Read more: Link to BI
BI draws fom the Uk Telegraph
Woe is Wobby.
ugh. Thi is the close of the Telegraph article:
President Obama Speaks to New Orleans From Planet Zarg
Madman, moving this link forward… 😉
New:
LINK
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