3 on a line… 23 September 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, DC Politics, Democrats, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Lie Down Fall Down Dems.trackback
Finalist for the Natural World group: Sandor Zsila’s picture titled ‘Argument’ which shows three Collared Aracari birds on a branch.[EPOTY.ORG / SPECIALISTSTOCK / BARCROFT MEDIA]
Took me a minute to find the third bird, he (or she) is on the left, facing away… as in: I am so not here, guys.
Tho possibly… the one in full open winged display is fending off the one on the right.
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Bloggers are so cute when they get all whupset. IIRC Susie Madrak is a sometime Dem consultant. Or whatever the word currently in use is…
Send the slave ship for them, closer to election 2010 and again in 2012, they will climb right on.
The fucking lot of them.
September 23, 2010
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Blogger throws metaphors at Axelrod
Top Obama adviser David Axelrod got an earful of the liberal blogosphere’s anger [whupset in Aisle 3!! – – Mcat] at the White House moments ago, when a blogger on a conference call directly called out Axelrod over White House criticism of the left, accusing Axelrod of “hippie punching.”
“We’re the girl you’ll take under the bleachers but you won’t be seen with in the light of day,” the blogger, Susan Madrak of Crooks and Liars, pointedly told Axelrod on the call, which was organzied for liberal bloggers and progressive media.
The call seeme to perfectly capture the tense dynamic that exists between the White House and the online and organized left: Though White House advisers in the past have dumped on the left, anonymously and even on the record, Axelrod repeatedly pleaded with the bloggers on the call for help in pumping up the flagging enthusiasm of rank and file Dems.
“You play a great role in informing people about the stakes of elections,” Axelrod told the bloggers. “One of the reasons I was eager to expend time was to enlist you.”
I admit, I had not heard “hippie punching” before.
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Marisacat 
Poooor Dems… always rather not do than do. Anything, that is.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42650.html
wondr what “working hard for a vote” really means. Prone and being serviced in some way, the ticket paid for by a lobbyist.
Someone call Velma Hart, LOL, Obby failed ya again!
Like Yoda sez:
Do or do not do. There is no try.
Pols do not do.
Yoda definitely gives better advice than any of Barry’s clowns.
more and more f whom will be leaving I would think. Seems I read chatter today that Rahm will go soon, before elections… and had a meeting today, I guess in Chicago, to suss out who is running and what the playing field is…
Axelrod to leave in spring to head up Re Elect Hopium from Chicago… I bet “spring” means February. I saw some chatter, no idea wht it means, that Gibbs might move to that job.
Send double lillies.. LOL
Volcker gave some speech today at the Chicago Fed that sounded aa lot more dire than the Obbies would like, fwiw.
I assume anyone leaving now can play the game of, well, by then we knew there were deep problms.
…better late than never, though I’m pretty sure nothing will be followed up on:
”Investor conspiracy theory grips Silicon Valley Blog claims ‘Super Angels’ collude to control cash to technology startups
love the piccy chosen to portray the gathering in the techcrunch post ….could almost be mistaken for a shot from the 1800’s …with the homogenous ethnicity and total absence of females …yup, THEIR BIG VALLEY.
(the “blogger,” Michael Arrington, was formerly an attorney with Wilson Sonsini. so actually, I’m amazed that he appears shocked by this (maybe he wasn’t there for too long?); but, if his heart was in it, good for him anyway ….. though he really might want to consider a new group of “friends”.)
here’s a Reuters link, if the msnbc link is freezing up (as it is on my computer.)
tech crunch won’t open fro me…
I was curious to see the pic…
But none of this is surprising, no matter the business/industry/etc.
the tech crunch is opening for me, maybe M. Arrington’s “author” page will work (scroll down a few stories).
I don’t think the picture was of the actual “angels,” though (why I used the words chosen to protray). I think it may have been from one of the Godfather movies, given the file name.
piccy link
while on the Reuters site – wow, hadn’t seen this one
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unidentified Aerial Objects
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby. Six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about these events at the National Press Club and urge the government to publicly confirm their reality.
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Declassified U.S. government documents, to be distributed at the event, now substantiate the reality of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites extending back to 1948. The press conference will also address present-day concerns about the abuse of government secrecy as well as the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons.
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{sinister snickering accompanied by handwriging}
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…several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby.
I see our Goose Mounted Popcorn Frizbees –
{Now with More EVIL!} are vehrking out perrrvfectly, Pehrrrvfectly.
Fuckin UFO’s. LOL. Stuck in the 50’s. The year 50.
Use any calender.
On a serious note, what do you think they are, and why would Reuters put their neck out like that, with all that money to be lost if they’ve swallowed a hoax?
just my (perhaps crazy) opinion, but to me it seems insane to believe there aren’t living beings far more techy advanced than on Earth.
Well, on a serious note if we must, DARPA is developing micromachined “flies” for everything from, literally, fly-on-the-wall surveillance to electro-mechanical grid suppression to toxin delivery etc.
And of course, me here, 😉 , a man of many talents, I’m working on an attractive “potato salad countermeasure” that I hope to sell.
and as for intelligent life “out there”, I’d just like to find more of it than in Jersey. Then again, I prolly wouldn’t recognize it. 😉 I;m not exactly qualified, Senator Caroline Kennedy and all… LOL. I tend to come up with a few doozies.
Am aware of that, was just recently checking to see what Penn State might be up to on that issue (and whether as a consequence they were the assholes who inadvertently unleashed that recent PA stinkbug invasion), but thanks for the site link, as this was a “thrilling” read:
Goodbye Roll Call, Hello RFIDs
”….
…. Last month, a preschool in Richmond [gee why not Los Altos? – diane] , California installed a curiously expensive, high tech system to track the attendance of its students. And it could serve as a pilot program for others to come.
Upon arriving in the morning, according to the Associated Press, each student at the CCC-George Miller preschool will don a jersey with a stitched in RFID chip. As the kids go about the business of learning, sensors in the school will record their movements, collecting attendance for both classes and meals. Officials from the school have claimed they’re only recording information they’re required to provide while receiving federal funds for their Headstart program.
However, the story has caught the attention of both the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who have expressed alarm at the potential infringement of privacy rights. Together, they have submitted a letter of concern to school officials, including a request that they clarify what security precautions were put in place with the program.
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such a tender sweet thing that Cali wants to first bring it’s technological advances to one of its most poverty stricken, minority http://cityinfo.local.com/city-information/Richmond-CA-population>communities before sharing with those well off communities.
oh…snivel, ……where’s my hanky, tears of appreciation for those selfless benefactors running the Cali tech world…..
……let me know if that potato salad works ….
diane… oops
The headline link failed… and the one that goes to cityinfo (which I think is the last one)
I don’t think the RF chip is going t survive, myself… tho KGO was pushing it a couple of weeks ago…..
jeesh and sorry, …. corrected (hopefully):
Goodbye Roll Call, Hello RFIDs
communities [Richmond stats]
From the sounds of what I’m hearing and reading in the area, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Cali were the first state in the country, to allow every single thread of privacy to be outlawed as long as it’s given the monikers Green or Technological Progress …was listening to CBS news the other night when some asshole from Apple pretty much stated that Privacy was obsolete and that was a good thing, in so many words, when the creepy iPhone ID security was being discussed.
Idiots are pretty much willing to allow mega corps to have personal data they wouldn’t even give to a fairly good friend (speshully if the mega corp has a groovy, or infantile name and moniker), hate to be so negative but I think we’re fucking sunk on that issue (let alone all of the other “issues”).
oh thanks dear, no problem. WP should have a preview… but they don’t….
you’re welcome hon.
I really should have mentioned this also, from the ACLU/EFF letter:
Nice little rant they wrote, ………BUT, …….
pathetically, the ACLU/EFF letter, instead of demanding the program be shit-binned, far to politely, requested that parents be given the option to opt out. And as we all know, a large majority of those parents may feel highly uncomfortable about having those, PARENTS OPTED OUT OF COMMUNITY PROGRAM, Klieg Lights shining on their faces.
The ACLU is pretty much non-courageous. They do a few things… but…………..
indeed …
(and thanks for the quote indents, I really should review the html code for “block quotes,” though I’m sure glad there aren’t any HTML POLICE around here….)
blockquotes is easy:
[blockquote] and [/blockquote]
but use the little left right arrows, the ones that are over the period and the comma keys…
Thanks, I should have checked the comments earlier, I decided to finally look it up.
From over at NASA.
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You can try writing to the administrator. (0+ / 0-)
Maybe they’ll kill it for you.
The last time we broke a president, we ended up with Reagan.
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didn’t find it right away.
America simply does not need the [GOP] as … currently constituted. If it cannot reform itself, it needs to die. – Brad DeLong
by billlaurelMD on Thu Sep 23, 2010 at 05:32:15 PM PDT
well…… whooopsie.
I find the whole breathless “just emailed” bit they do a real hoot. I had a few extra chuckles at the line preceding the… D’oh! slefouting?
What the Senate has decided to do is not only cowardly, but stupid as well.
Surely Harry is reading it while fleeing town.
I mean, if he didn’t already see it , ya know, reading kos daily.
well the scam they will all run, from Susie Madrak to Fire In the Ass Hamster to Bua to whoever else… is that …
I suffered the long dark night of disappointment with Obster… but I know my duty… I HAVE suffered and I endured! I WILL do my duty!… and ti is to truth! reason! and the Hopium Pipe of our Founding Fathers!!!!!. So with great self-importance I will pull that lever for our current and future Pretzel, O bah MAH!!
Crescendo of bad orchestral muzak.
Etc.
Fuck it. We’re gonna make a bundle.
Just ta let ya know, I moved the whole portfolio into Popcorn , Kleenex, and Pampers. LOL.
Hey, I’m down with Marx and Engels and all, but seein’ as how Post Recession Sparkle Ponies are flying out of asses everywhere now, the fantastic winged steeds themselves shooting coin and golden opportinities out of Their asses, I figured it was too good to pass up. LOL.
Netflix and Campbell’s Soup too.
Forgot how much Nflix is up year over year… as cable is losing customer numbers fo the first time.
Bank of America forecloses on a man who has no mortgage
Well Volcker said today our mortgage system is broken. And foreclosing on a house with no mortgage, he paid cash from what I heard, is a sure sign.
When Did They Build a Time Machine in Washington?
Florida panther population triples in size with help from Texas ladies
that is a wonderful story…
But it reminded me of a Chinese man, thankfully IN China, who got a hold of 3000… three thousand…. cobra eggs and quietly commandeered an abandoned school, left them to hatch. Which apparently plenty did do…
The Chinese are running around like mad trying t catch them all.
the bus and train stations over there all have huge graphic photos on the wall saying “do NOT bring these animals on the bus/train!” talk about your phobias, after one look at that i’m eyeing everyone’s bags.
the mere thought gve me the willies
In NJ, the Dems have the Senate AND House.
So For anyone following this and that reporting…
Christie lops off 7.5 mil in funding to Planned Parenthood. Follows thru with veto threat despite passage with GOP support in the state Senate. Part of “across the board” cuts, Christie gets to croon.
Dems, seeking overide, {Sure, they are. 🙄 } Just.Can’t.Get.It.Done™ despite their legislative control in the perennial Cut a Deal to Sell Your Liver State , nonetheless vow to get the money out of Prescription Drug subsidies. ( another wedge play)
ALL by design. ALL engineered.
Useless shits ALL.
The whole “defund PP”, anti abortion, recruit the fucking religionists, finagle to ban not only abortion but Birth Control as well…. it ALL speaks for decades, long long decades, of war being planned.
Expanding war.
War forever.
One of the things I used to love about actual newspapers, lousy as most were, was the little filler items. A few lines tucked in, to fill space. And way way way back, in the early 70s I read one in the SF Chron, a quote all the way from an “America watcher” in China… that our big hoopla over abortion was all about making certain to ensure a future underclass for war.
THAT, pardon the expression, is a Killer comment.
Spot on comment.
And The same sheeple who are “shocked” to find lying over casus belli, “shocked” at habitual police state abuses, shocked to find the DoD and CIA torture as policy, “shocked” at the running of death squads and covert wars as a matter of course…. shocked …how they maintain their level of incredulity wrt to MIC interests in assuring cannon fodder well into the future is beyond me.
While many Leftishers might admit economically coercive factors, the social, ,cultural, and political measures you cite are are as ominous if not moreso: Even the capitalists need large amounts of money on the plebian streets from time to time.
But by turning their many calibrated designs towards the underclass, they secure both cannon fodder and the Thanks Be to Jesus, I’m Saved (from it) flag wavers alike.
Plus I believe it is mutually agreed among the two parties that the wimmens need to be controlled. One way or the other…
One way or the other…
Yup. Sticks and carrots. More sticks, fewer carrots.
Makes for lots of desperate rabbits.
It is as fucked up… as it is by design.
As there is no such thing as benign neglect.
Heading offline, here.
I get more insight from you –
and your ilk – 😉 in a few comments than I was ever able to arrive at on my own, for like, oh, some 30+ years as one
“meat and potatoes”ignorant Dem.Welp, I’m Not ratifying it anymore, not with a vote at least.
Going to work is bad enough. Anyways…
LOL…. the WH, as usual, will be taking this lying down.
Vote for us!
With a cap on Hope!
“…than, as I said, most of these families could ever have hoped for,…glub glub gurgle”
(Couldn’t let that one pass.)
Well Gibbs can hope for lips.
I g u e s s…
He’ll be disappointed.
I continue to read that last paragraph and it still does not make a lick of sense. One gargantual run-on sentence with no conclusion.
If he had lips he’d do better…
🙄
The Senate Hates You, and All Your Little “Rug Rats” Too, Bill (SHYAYLRAT), S3307:
A good child nutrition bill would make those improvements without taking help from the poorest Americans.
There is a straightforward truth.
But look, over there!! Palin is sure to run for pretzellina! Scream! Shriekkkk! Be afraid, be very afraid.
Good bills would make improvements without taking help from the poorest Americans.
I think Ben Franklin may have said something like that.
I admit, I had not heard “hippie punching” before.
Over at L’Orangistan, it’s all the rage.
example:
Stop punching hippies!
You’re no hippie. You weren’t even alive then!
I’m a hippie in spirit.
Well, I actually was a hippie and I love Obama and nobody’s punching me.
That’s because you’re a suck-ass status quo sellout boomer.
Oh – so now you’re punching boomers?
etc.
Happens at least twice a day over there.
Obama DOJ defends DADT.
Aravosis… poor sod. Trying to keep collecting a check. I guess.
Hard to miss what is going on, the WH and its DOJ are playing the stupids against themselves.
What else is new: Vote for Us Again, We ARE better than we look to be! Ignore what we do!
And so on.
http://www.americablog.com/
hmm i have not heard from madman, he is probably busy at work, but dropped an email… due to the rains and flooding in Milwaukee…
Madman surfaced… rained on but not flooded…
the worst of it is west of us … bad for them, lucky for here. Milwaukee County homeowners just this past week or so finally found out they’re getting FEMA money, after initially being denied.
I thought maybe you were on higher ground – possibly… or, as it turns out, East of the worst of it.
😉
yup, meetings and training all week!
All to the good, these days…
😉
yup!
Crumble City. IMO he has made less and less sense, of any kind, since 2004… but you know…
I also doubt that anyone was dangling him over the Niagra Falls by his shoe laces… to force this scheisse out of him.
Poooooor Ralph. Catch the light – hat – hurry – door – ass.
And so on.
One of Marshall’s TPM “editors”? – David Kurtz-
in true to a month before election fashion, had one of those “C’mon People” posts…
imaginatively entitled, LOL,
C’mon People.
LOL, the reception was not so receptive.
No doubt taking a cue from BillC’s slobber the other day that Obbie should embrace ALL THOSE tomatoes, rocks, and garbage lofted the Llama’s way, (as Clinton was delighted to point out)
TPM did give the whupset a little vent time –
Oh no- Not the retractable Dana Milbank gauntlet. 🙄
He’ll be back. Anyways-
I think this debate has shown that the Democrats are just as beholden to their rich benefactors as the Republicans.
The Blink tho –
“”””Their benefactors might be lots better on some issues. But to me, this was a very, very core issue.”””
Somehow they will bear the shame, the trauma the turmoil…….. and see the light! And the Rapture! and vote back in the Historic Unprecedented Jerk the Dems put up this time around.
Etc.
Their benefactors might be lots better on some issues
The fuckin moron still believes in GOP Goldman Sachs and Democratic Goldman Sachs. GOP CitiBank and Dem CitiBank. GOP Robert Gates and Dem Robert Gates.GOP MIC and Dem MIC.
Don’t miss Ralph Nader’s piece, linked in my comment above. Poooooooooor Ralph.
For my sins today I also read, to the end to my shame, the latest Ishmael Reed at Counterpunch. Lordy.
People sold their brains. They really did.
😯 Well don’t I now feel like Ralph did me and left me at the motel. LOL
Fuck you, Ralph, you bastard! LOL.
{Sound of Nader’s car pulling away}
What was that thing last year? How he was pushing noblesse oblige? WTF?
oh the rich were gonnna save us… hell he even wrote a book about it.
I never voted for him, but he was interesting over the years. I saw a major break/breakdown tho when he went to Burlington and asked Dean to put him on the ticket. IF he could do that (and he did), it had all been a sham. Just my opinion… he was interestingi n the late 90s and in 2000.
About it in terms of his flingola with electoral politics.
It’s to the point now that the only way I’d be interested in voting for someone is BECAUSE they didn’t have an American birth certificate.
As in, Oh, you ARE Constitutionally qualified? Sorry, I’m looking for something a little more …exotic.
oh very funneee.
But Barry swears he is A-OK. And a Xtian too ya know. I must say Axelrod sounded a bit frantic over all of this sort of thing over the pst few days..
He is SO A CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!! HE IS NOT A MUSLIM.
Religious wars, we are having them now.
Axl Rose, I mean Axelrod ..is he even still around?
Fuckin Barry. So Historic.
With the Jewish Diaspora he’s got on his hands.
Rahm set to part the waters of the Potomac on the way out. Larry Summers to meetup with fellow Larry Tribesmen at Harvard. DavidA and Rahm setting off for Chicago where their best ass and mewl train will follow.
did you read that Ploufeee is coming back “sooner”…. and Gibbs may move to Axelrod office.
And some poor lonely hearts think this is the “chance for a turnaround” for Obby.
that was a sad, sad read.
People sold their brains. No other way to put it. Opened up the cranium and sold the matter
I’d rather howl into the darkness than embrace that happy horseshit that Nader and others are insisting that we do.
Frotunately I have two discs in from NFlix… the last of season 2 of Breaking Bad…. and The Prophet, an Italian movie on Corsica, Mafia and the prisons.
I think Obby has been running aorund with his mouth open too much for a few days, then mix in Bill C also with his mouth open…. Mahmoud of Islamic Persia too, and all our 5th rate pundits.
no body light a match. The atmosphere is gaseous.
That Nader piece Why Say Yes to the Party of No?…very shifty.
99 percent Dem casemaking with the GOP Ooga Booga-
to this paltry close.
There is much more, but enough has been cited to ask again—how are Republicans seen by the polls as front runners in the upcoming election?
The answer my friends, is not in the stars. The answer is in the clueless and spineless Democrats, busily dialing for the same corporate campaign dollars.
It should have been entitled Why Care?
The Prophet was an amazing film. Breaking Bad is pretty awesome, too.
Just coming up on the last episode of Breaking Bad, season 2… The morning after the overdose….
so good, so brutal. Awesome storytelling about how broken this society is.
I love the camera angles…
Apropos of the sudden urge to find, and “post,” a goodsized, fairly clear picture of a flying squirrel:
a picture of a flying squirrel
saw one as a child, in Illinois, so wonderful ………..
(ergo this is not an extension of the Canadian flying TERRERISTS …though…we COULD make it out to be that …if that’s the desire du jour to avoid the very real reality of murderous bot drones!!!!!!! …in which case …..fuck you blood drained monsters in DC, …et al.)
Well, thanks TPM.
Steven Colbert’s Testimony Before Congress.
Note the sourpuss on the face of CNN’s Dana Bash to the right of Colbert’s shoulder.
Not that any testimony affect policy, but I certainly enjoyed Colbert slapping the Congress around. I welcome anything that illustrates the rot.
he’s not wrong about mechanised farm work. The Central Valley here is the most machine based farming on earth. There are still migrants, there are still farm workers…. but not what it once was.
the midwest/great plains corn/wheat belt ag is even more mechanized. a good proportion of central valley farming is fruits and veggies – mostly tomatoes, melons and wine grapes out here – that don’t lend themselves to mechanization. since it’s getting towards the end of the summer harvest, you see a lot of workers in the fields picking crops. most of the rest of the year, the ploughing and cultivation are a lot more mechanized, though.
Very very funny. the creative division of the 2008 white boy ad men that handled the Obby account is losing..
losing….
losing………………..
Can you guess!
HOPE.
An ”exclusive interview”, no less. And don’t worry too much, he rallies himself to say the Republicans are……..
WORSE.
The script is very tired.
Sea snot explodes near BP spill disaster site, threatening marine ecosystem
why do I get a whiff of the end of the world off this story. Or the end of a large slice of the world…
We won’t go in fire, we will go weeks months after whatever horror makes the fire. We will go in some huge pile of SEA SNOT.
New
LINK
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