Well, we didn’t get a Marc Maron Show yesterday, but, on the bright side, just four more days to Bill Maher! Whattya wanna bet his opening bit has something to do with quail hunting? Much as I’d like to see some good shit happen in this country – or this world – for a change, I must admit it’s damn fun to watch the White House Press Corps kick the crap out of Snotty McFelon. I also like hearing Cheney referred to as “the shooter” (“Scott, when did the President find out the Vice -President was the shooter;” how bizarre is that?). I only wish I could hear Sipowicz say “Ipsa this, you fat f*ck,” and then throw the scumbag in the cage. Hey, I miss NYPD Blue, what can I say?
Happy Valentine’s Day, honey! :love:
Ohayo gozaimasu!:gate: Good morning! I’m #1! 🙂 :banana:
:gate: …:fire:
Gaijinda, So are you Taoist or Buddhist (and if so what kind?) or… and if you didn’t see the other day, again I wish :gate: for you and others over “there” Happy New Year of the Dog. :fire:
It’s fuckin’ Valentine’s Day! :40: I’m starting to hate all holidays because there is so much commercialism involved. It’s always about the dinero. I don’t have any dinero or a Valentine.:fustrate: Yeah, I’m going to spiral downward into the vortex of…well, somewhere:40:
Anyway, happy Valentine’s Day:love: sheeple.
LOL i’m actually neither…. The torii gate is part of Shinto-the indigenous religion of Japan. I’m fascinated by it. Thank you for the new year’s greetings though! Here in Japan they celebrate the start on January 1st-they do their “spring cleaning” on the 30th of December before the new year starts! Talk about a bummer of a holiday! 🙂
Where is everyone?
I was very amused to learn that, in addition to shooting the guy, Cheney didn’t have a valid license to shoot quail! LOL Stupid! :rofl2:
V-Day is overrated anyway! Cheers Travis! :alc:
Yeah, instead of charging Cheney with a crime they’re giving out citations, like little toys in happy meals.
travisdem_04 :love: Happy :love: Day :love:
— If he does want to get me roses, I/WE get a rose bush, LIVING not cut and dead roses. — :fire:
Moning Evening
Just HAD to add something to this “VD Thread”
Well, thanks for the cheers. I have to take the dog out, so I’ll be back shortly.
Ahhh…. Shinto…. Blessings
I have a similar belief. Cheers :alc: … :fire:
Re :alc: My Bad — so sorry, I forget that this is morning for most (but for me :alc: hehehe)
:fire:
Mornin’ everyone…I’m pissed the Democrats pressured Paul Hackett out. What the hell are they thinkin’?
Stupid bozos! :doh:
Yeah, I don’t really know much about Hackett. I vaguely remember, what’s her face, who narrowly beat him in the election and that controversy about her remarks in the senate or something and how they had to strike them out of the record. O.K. I’m tired now. 2:30 here in Anchortown. I should have some pictures of this place on the blog pretty soon. So I’m spacin’ it now…
jasonwkinney , yes, I think the Dems are :fu:
I just went to a large meeting of local frustrated Dems (plus others) trying to walk as one — BUT IT IS THE SAME (BLOODY) :crap: with :sheep: saying the same :crap: since I was 14yrs. NEW GAME STRATEGY :sheep: :spank: :fire:
What? why’d they do that?
I don’t know…They wanted to stick with Brown. Over at Kos they’re saying he didn’t stand a chance. Hackett says he feels backstabbed, now not only by the current admin and their phony war but now by his own party. Aparrently they were calling his donors and asking them not to donate to Hackett’s campaign. Reid and Schumer I think.
:jerk:
It’s too bad. I think alotta people liked Hackett. I think it’s about the money. It usually is. Bastards!:rant1::fu:
If no one’s read this yet, Hackett got into the race late- Brown is a liberal- Hackett’s a conservative dem.
Supporting Hackett would have taken support away from a proven progressive, Brown.
’cause they’re on drugs, man.:40:
I don’t remember. Schmidt (sp)-I should know how to spell that- said something outlandishly stupid when that guy….um..what’s his face, wanted to withdraw troops. She slanderishly questioned the democrates patriotism or something.
Maybe my story is mixed-up:doh:
Thanks atnorton. Yeah, they were saying Hackett didn’t stand a chance. That shouldn’t mean he drops outta politics completely though…
Travis! Hey buddy what’s up! Yeah, she slammed Murtha. :doh:
Yeah, I need to sleep now. I’m all mixed-up. I can’t even read staight. Later sheeple
OK, so maybe Brown will turn out to be the more liberal candidate, but a) who’d do better in Ohio? (Wouldn’t a “conservative” fair better?) and b) its cool to support him all the way through or not at all, but to suddenly turn on him like that? NOT cool.
Then again, are we still trying to get the center or giving up on it and just going left? Wonder if it really makes any difference…..
She was wearing that god awful outfit at the time too. She’s a freak! :sammy:
I really don’t know Brown. Is he a career politician? That’s one of things I liked about Hackett too. He wasn’t like the others. It does seem a conservative Dem who has served in Iraq would be a better choice in Ohio…
Happy V-Day, Seditionists!
:love:
I agree with you, Travis. For most of my life, this day was filled with huge expectations and disappointment. But eventually I got engaged on Valentine’s Day (very original, I know), so that makes the day special to me outside all the commercial, everybody’s-doing-it hubbub.
Murtha, that’s right! John Murtha.
Oh, well, I saw my otolaryngologist today or yesterday (whatever) and I still have holes in my tympanic membrane. So I’m a little pissed about that since I spent…oh, I don’t know…all of my deniro. Besides that I’m all right.:billcat:
That’s kinda what I was thinking too…he may be an “outsider” but he’s one who’s served in Iraq.
Ok, English Grammar calls(damn grad school!)….I’ll be back soon :sheep: -le!
Yes, I remember that. Well, you have to dress the part of a patriot to smear a true patriot!
:love: Happy Valentine’s Day Boat People! :love:
:fire:
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i agree with Gaijinda….wouldn’t a conservative dem have a better chance in Ohio? (thanks artnorton for the explanation)
Good morning :sheep:le. Is Hackett out of the race? I just checked my e-mail and didn’t see anything. Hopefully Rachel will speak to this.
In any case, lay off Sherrod Brown. He is a progressive with a strong record and will be a terrific candidate, especially going against someone as lame as DeWine. Nothing against Hackett, but given the state of the Republican Party in Ohio these days, the voters might be in the mood for a sea change if the Dems can pitch it properly.
I wore BLACK for Valentine’s Day!!! 😡
That election had to be rigged. I don’t believe your average Ohioan would vote for Schmidt over Hackett. It’s like saying Bush won in the debates against Kerry. It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever…:doh:
true, and i don’t know a thing about Brown.
What can we do? — My Dems (and I am one) are caught doing fundraisers for local office — but I just thought of something. One way is a major letter writting campaign with goals and lil gifts for goals. This sound a bit ambiguous but translates better in the “Actions”.
We are all so busy in life 24/7, but many can both write letters and do emails from home en masse. See, I am still with the local dems cuz I think agitators are needed to INFILTRATE and demand changes:!: I am just trying to continue to help WAKE UP TO REALITY the local Dems. Some Hear:love: others will get a clue. Many even have problems with the GREENS :doh: …….:fire:
I don’t either and I don’t think anyone was attacking Brown. I just don’t know anything about him…I know more about Hackett. Well, I guess I better educate myself cause Hackett is out…
Dudes, I said schimdt was a senator. I’m just going to walk away and pretend nothin’ happen. I hope you do the same. :doh:
Later
I didn’t see nothin’ Travis…:paranoid:
DUDE-they’re ignoring the fact that there is WHITE DAY in March where the guys give BACK to the ladies! Boo! One-sided!
Ok…REALLY going now…
Sorry if I gave the impression of attacking Brown btw-I don’t know anything about the situation really…just giving general comments on the story…
Later Gaijinda! :gate:
I’m out to Seditionists! Later…:peace:
Kevin M 😎 re comment #32 :fire:
Sorry I’m late. What are we hunting today? Quayle again? I heard he got away.
About this :gate: thingy…
I demand equal time. Have any Celtic knots laying around?
:yawn: Happy Day of :love: :gate: G’Night, G’Day ONE and ALL:!::nod: :yawn:
:fire:
NC Blue 😎 re The Knot :nod:
Celtic knots? Then we’d HAVE to have Greek keys. i’m envisioning so many emoticons that there’s no room for posting. :tongue:
toilet water cleaner than the ice? ugh :barf:
Your home coffee maker can be dangerous too. I was staring into the grating where you pour the water in and it was brown inside so I figured out how to take the top off and found a whole lot of silt in there. It was easily washed out and I have been aware ever since.
I watched the other day while the guy at the Carls Jr’s put ice into the soft drink ice dispenser. They have an ice machine in the back room and take the ice out in 5 gallon buckets and pour it into the ice dispensers. I would have to wonder if they ever take the ice dispenser apart and see what is growing inside… I would bet the answer is not often.
Emoticons. I don’t use them often. And never the animated ones. It gets distracting trying to read something with ants crawling all over the screen. They also slow down the page load.
but NC, they add punch and expression to a two-dimensional form.
Flashing billboards beside an interstate interchange add spice to life, too. I avoid them as well.
LOL
Meat Puppets!
Bad news, Farmerkat. Those flashing billboards beside interstates and freeways exist. Dealt with them in Nevada, Texas and downtown Atlanta. In the Bay Area you can find a huge LCD television beside US 101, an eight-lane highway.
Good Morning Seditionistas, it’s happening again :paranoid: another day.:doh:
yep, there’s a giant flashing one in the little town where i lived in Eastern Wash. you can see the thing from everywhere, absolutely everywhere. the woman who owns it makes a fortune with it, from what i’m told. hate that damn thing. when you’re up high looking at the Columbia River below, there’s that damn sign.
Since we are communicating with each other and cannot read verbal, physical cues from each other I find that the emoticons help to convey the emotion attached to what I am saying. I might write something that I mean to be taken as humorous but without the emoticon can be interpreted another way.
Morning, Imperialism apologists.:omg:
morning to you all, too!
Ciao!
What’s the matter with Ohio (Dems)?:mad:
Hey Farmerkat or NCBlue, how much space do you think it takes to grow enough food to sustain oneself, mostly?
:rofl2:listening to malloy from last night he finishes ranting (for that segment) about fuddgate cuts to nancy sinatra “shot you down” lets it play for about 30 seconds then laughs maniacally over the track friggin golden
Spokain? Anywhere near Yakyma?
Yeah! We listened to Malloy’s rant.
What about Ol’ Buckshot Cheney?:rofl2:
huh? flashing billboards? those are great in traffic jams otherwise they are just causing accidents damn it:mad:
Hey. The machines will fix the senate election in Ohio, anyway. So what does it matter?:rofl2:
:fist:sent this short to the point e-mail to hackett
booooo booooo why step down? let the voters decide in the primary!
:rofl2:bow tie conservative super-hero!!!!!:rofl2:
:rofl2::omg::bow::nixon:Out Now!
ok have to get driving some more thought i would check in just fueled up the beast:fire: later peoples
Where is everybody?:shock:
Israel Shahak Articles
Israeli Land Seizure in the Occupied Territories
Israel Shahak
Dr. Shahak, Holocaust survivor and retired professor of chemistry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights.
The Israeli methods of land seizure in the occupied territories constitute a burning political question, especially since under the Israeli government’s autonomy proposals all such land will not be included in the area in which Palestinians will be granted a modicum of self-rule. This article will describe the methods and legal justifications used by Israel for land seizure, concentrating on the role of the person who is in charge of such operations, Ms. Pli’a Albek of the Israeli Ministry of Justice. Her most essential role has been in the occupied territories, particularly in the West Bank. Since the winter of 1977-78, she has been personally responsible for the supposedly legal seizures of West Bank land by the state of Israel, amounting to what the Hebrew press has variously estimated as ranging between 50 percent and 65 percent of the entire West Bank land area. These figures are rather obsolete, since the state of Israel keeps inexorably transferring land to its ownership there. I will therefore refrain from quantifying the process under this description, except for mentioning that my private sources estimate the proportion in question as having reached as high as 68.5 percent by the beginning of September 1991.
It should be recalled that even today only about 20 percent of the already confiscated West Bank land has been used for settlement. The rest is still unused by settlers. However, the political purpose of all confiscated land is the same. As explained by Benjamin Netanyahu, the deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, the situation envisaged by Israel in the West Bank is the following:
[a] sea of Israeli security with Arab autonomy pockets inside it. . . . The Palestinians will be granted cultural, municipal and domestic political autonomy, but only in defined geographic boundaries where the majority of the Palestinian population lives. These areas will not be connected one with the other, there will be no central authority linking them, and each area will be surrounded by Israeli military installations, roadblocks and Jewish settlements. (Yossi Torfstein, Haaretz, March 1, 1992).
The purpose of land seizures has been, since 1978, to create exactly such a situation, as will be shown below.
Since methods of land seizure used by Israel are different in the case of East Jerusalem, because of its annexation to Israel (in 1967), I will describe first the land seizures in the West Bank. Although the situation in the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights is essentially similar, it will not be discussed in this article. I will then describe the different methods used in East Jerusalem based on the land laws of the state of Israel itself.
http://www.mepc.org
driving :fire: 😯
Israel Shahak Articles
Interview with Israel Shahak
Dr. Shahak is professor of Chemistry at Hebrew University and Chairperson of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights. He emigrated to Israel after surviving the siege of the Warsaw ghetto and Nazi concentration camps. This interview was conducted by Anne Joyce, editor of American-Arab Affairs, in Washington, D.C., on June 12, 1989. AAA: You have been a relentless critic of Zionism and Israeli policy. Would you outline how this attitude developed.
SHAHAK: This came in two stages. At first I was a convinced Zionist by upbringing and a follower of Ben Gurion. I changed very rapidly in 1956, during the Suez war, when I was 23 years old, because it was a great shock to discover that Ben Gurion had lied, because I really believed when I was mobilized into the army that this was a war of defense. But then he comes and says that it is a war to reestablish the kingdom of David and Solomon, and that Sinai is not a part of Egypt. I saw that I would have to oppose this Messianic idea, which I still regard as the central feature in my opposition to Israeli policies.
After this shock I had plenty of time to think during the period of 1957-67. Further opposition was then based on my American experience. Between 1961 and 1963 I attended Stanford University, and in the course of my post-graduate studies I discovered that, against all my upbringing and education, American Jews are neither abnormal nor in any way insane. I had really believed that Jews who were not living in a Jewish society were insane. This is what Zionists try to teach Jews to believe. Israeli-Jewish education is still based on the notion that only Jews in the Jewish society in Palestine are healthy human beings, and all other Jews are insane or at least half insane. Israelis who emigrate become so too, as Rabin frequently says.
Second, I was also taught to believe that all non-Jews are anti-Semitic by nature. And, since I didn’t see very many non-Jews until 1961 when I was 28, and since young people tend to believe what they are taught, I continued to believe this after 1956, with some reservations. Upon arriving in the United States I rapidly came to the conclusion that the second point was also a big lie. Therefore, to this very day, my basic opposition to Zionism runs much deeper than a reaction to what Zionism is doing to Palestinians or to Arabs. I would have opposed Zionism even if the Jewish state had been founded on an uninhabited island emerging from nowhere in the ocean because I think that their basic premises about Jews and about the whole human race are simply incorrect. My attitude about Palestinians and Arabs was formed only after 1967. The attitude toward the Arab world was actually formed first. In 1967, when I was 34 years old, I was, I can boast, a real member of the Israeli establishment. For example, I was a favorite friend and pupil of Professor Ernst David Bergman, the chairman of the Israeli atomic-energy commission. Our relationship was so close that in spite of developments we remained friends until he died in 1975.
http://www.mepc.org:sdavid::cres:
Kristapea, sorry it took me so long to get back. I was trying to find the title of a book about sustaining a family of four on limited acres. I don’t own the book but would like it. Don’t remember how many acres it would take.
Pick up one of Elliot Coleman’s books. He has been a truck farmer, writer and vegetable gardening show host. I have eight 4×8 raised beds I get most of my summer vegetables from. With successive plantings we eat beans, carrots, and other vegetables all summer long. With root vegetables we are still eating fresh parsnips, carrots and potatoes planted last April and later. And we have lots of herbs frozen and dried from the last two seasons. If I was using my coldframes properly I could have fresh salad practical for free tonight. Just couldn’t get into it last autumn.
Does any of this help?
ZNet | Israel/Palestine
Occupation Hazard
Professor Ilan Pappe on Norman Finkelstein’s Beyond Chutzpah
by Ilan Pappe ; BOOKFORUM ; February 13, 2006
Why is the history of modern Palestine such a matter of debate? Why is it still regarded as a complex, indeed obscure, chapter in contemporary history that cannot be easily deciphered? Any abecedarian student of its past who comes to it with clean hands would immediately recognize that in fact its story is very simple. For that matter it is not vastly different from other colonialist instances or tales of national liberation.
It of course has its distinctive features, but in the grand scheme of things it is the chronicle of a group of people who left their homelands because they were persecuted and went to a new land that they claimed as their own and did everything in their power to drive out the indigenous people who lived there. Like any historical narrative, this skeleton of a story can be, and has been, told in many different ways. However, the naked truth about how outsiders coveted someone else’s country is not sui generis, and the means they used to obtain their newfound land have been successfully employed in other cases of colonization and dispossession throughout history.
Generations of Israeli and pro-Israeli scholars, very much like their state’s diplomats, have hidden behind the cloak of complexity in order to fend off any criticism of their quite obviously brutal treatment of the Palestinians in 1948 and since. They were aided, and still are, by an impressive array of personalities, especially in the United States. Nobel Prize winners, members of the literati, and high-profile lawyers, not to mention virtually everyone in Hollywood, from filmmakers to actor, have repeated the Israeli message:
This is a complicated issue that would be better left to the Israelis to deal with. An Orientalist perception was embedded in this polemical line: Complex matters should be handled by a civilized (namely, Western and progressive) society, which Israel allegedly was and is, and not entrusted to an uncivilized (i.e., Arab and regressive) group like the Palestinians. The advanced state will surely find the right solution for itself and its primitive foe.
When official America endorsed this Israeli position, it became the so-called Middle Eastern peace process, one that was too sophisticated to be managed by the Palestinians and hence had to be worked out between Washington, DC, and Jerusalem and then dictated to the Palestinians. The last time this approach was attempted, in the summer of 2000 at Camp David, the results were disastrous. The second intifada broke out, and it rages on as this article goes to press.
The Zionist narrative is as simple a story as the history of the conflict itself. The Jews redeemed their lost and ancient homeland after two thousand years of exile, and when they “returned” they found it derelict, arid, and practically uninhabited. There were others on the land, but they were basically nomads, the kind of people you could, as Theodor Herzl wrote in 1895, “spirit away” outside the Promised Land. Still, the empty land somehow remained populated, and not only this, but the elusive population rebelled and tried to harm the Jewish returnees. Like any other narrative, this one too can be laid out elegantly and scholarly or conveyed coarsely and simply. It can appear as a sound bite on American television when a suicide bombing is “contexualized,” or it can dominate a book produced by one of the prestigious university publishing houses in the West. But however verbose or taciturn Israel’s advocates may be, the historical narrative they insist on broadcasting is a false representation of the past and present realities in the land of Palestine. . .
http://www.zmag.org
Thanks NCBlue. I am thinking if I do it right, I can eat fresh vegis most of the year here. I’ve been eating fresh spinach and broccoli the last couple of weeks and realized that the garden is a great way to save space in my little refrigerator because vegis take up the most space.
My Encounter with Sartre
Edward Said
Once the most celebrated intellectual, Jean-Paul Sartre had, until quite recently, almost faded from view. He was already being attacked for his ‘blindness’ about the Soviet gulags shortly after his death in 1980, and even his humanist Existentialism was ridiculed for its optimism, voluntarism and sheer energetic reach. Sartre’s whole career was offensive both to the so-called Nouveaux Philosophes, whose mediocre attainments had only a fervid anti-Communism to attract any attention, and to the post-structuralists and Post-Modernists who, with few exceptions, had lapsed into a sullen technological narcissism deeply at odds with Sartre’s populism and his heroic public politics. The immense sprawl of Sartre’s work as novelist, essayist, playwright, biographer, philosopher, political intellectual, engaged activist, seemed to repel more people than it attracted. From being the most quoted of the French maîtres penseurs, he became, in the space of about twenty years, the least read and the least analysed. His courageous positions on Algeria and Vietnam were forgotten. So were his work on behalf of the oppressed, his gutsy appearance as a Maoist radical during the 1968 student demonstrations in Paris, as well as his extraordinary range and literary distinction (for which he both won, and rejected, the Nobel Prize for Literature). He had become a maligned ex-celebrity, except in the Anglo-American world, where he had never been taken seriously as a philosopher and was always read somewhat condescendingly as a quaint occasional novelist and memoirist, insufficiently anti-Communist, not quite as chic and compelling as (the far less talented) Camus.
Then, as with many things French, the fashion began to change back, or so it seemed at a distance. Several books about him appeared, and once again he has (perhaps only for a moment) become the subject of talk, if not exactly of study or reflection. For my generation he has always been one of the great intellectual heroes of the 20th century, a man whose insight and intellectual gifts were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of our time. Yet he seemed neither infallible nor prophetic. On the contrary, one admired Sartre for the efforts he made to understand situations and, when necessary, to offer solidarity to political causes. He was never condescending or evasive, even if he was given to error and overstatement. Nearly everything he wrote is interesting for its sheer audacity, its freedom (even its freedom to be verbose) and its generosity of spirit.
There is one obvious exception, which I’d like to describe here. I’m prompted to do so by two fascinating, if dispiriting discussions of his visit to Egypt in early 1967 that appeared last month in Al-Ahram Weekly. One was in a review of Bernard-Henry Lévy’s recent book on Sartre; the other was a review of the late Lotfi al-Kholi’s account of that visit (al-Kholi, a leading intellectual, was one of Sartre’s Egyptian hosts). My own rather forlorn experience with Sartre was a very minor episode in a very grand life, but it is worth recalling both for its ironies and for its poignancy. . .
http://www.lrb.co.uk
NickiRose, how the hell do you manage to be up before I am? Or are you just not asleep yet from last night?
Judy Gold keeps a kosher kitchen? Who knew? So does this mean that once I marry her (don’t ask. Just don’t ask…) I can make kasha varnichkes to my heart’s content?
Okay, I’m better now that I made that joke.
Has anyone (other than Ed Schultz) been speculating that the delay in contacting the authorities regarding Cheney shooting a lawyer was to let the veep sober up a little? Just wonderin’…
And what’s hitting the mainstream media about the Katrina survivors having to hit the streets today? I probably should check for myself but I have to get myself ready for work now.
Recipe to follow, blog sibs!
In honor of Valentines Day, here is a recipe I wouldn’t make for myself under almost any circumstances (I detest bean sprouts) but if I were in love I might consider it. Consider it. I don’t think I’d end up doing it, though.
Dr. Weil’s Stir Fried Bean Sprouts
Serves 4
Ingredients:
1 pound fresh mung bean sprouts
1 tablespoon canola oil
3 scallions, split lengthwise and cut into 1-inch strips
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh gingerroot
1/2 teaspoon light brown sugar
Salt to taste
Red pepper flakes, natural soy sauce or rice vinegar
1. Wash, drain and dry the bean sprouts in a kitchen towel or paper towels.
2. Heat the canola oil in a wok or skillet; add the scallions and ginger, and stir-fry over high heat for a few seconds. Then add the bean sprouts and stir-fry for 1 minute. Do not overcook; sprouts should remain crunchy but lose their raw bean taste.
3. Add the brown sugar and salt to taste. Mix well and serve. Add pinches of red pepper flakes or dashes of natural soy sauce and rice vinegar for additional flavor.
Well, count me FURIOUS about Hackett. If you go to my blog today, you can see a link to a Mother Jones article which rebuts what Markos has said, that Hackett waited too long until Sherrod Brown was already in the race. The reality is the other way around.
I am FINISHED, FINISHED, FINISHED with the Democratic Party. Would I put up with a spouse who treated me the way this party has treated its base? No. So why on earth should I continue to support a party that sells me down the river for their own hacktocracy time after time after time. And all this because they are afraid of a president who’s up to his eyeballs in scandal and has a 39% approval rating to boot.
:fu::fu::mad::mad::mad::mad::fu::fu:
Morning Everyone,
The local Dem party here SE Pa. did the same thing to Bryan Lentz that they did to Hackett in Ohio. They pushed him aside for someone they thought had a better chance. Actually bryan was running as a second candidate against Paul Scoles who was also pushed aside for some retired vice admiral that I’ve never heard of. Lentz was a Fighting Dem as was Hackett. Hmmm, methinks I see a pattern emerging.
great question. hummm are you a vegetarian? do you want meat, eggs, fruit trees in addition to a garden?
NICKIROSE -> Wenatchee (more central than eastern, but politically very eastern washington)
PONCE, Puerto Rico – People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn’t change with society are “idiots,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says.
In a speech Monday sponsored by the conservative Federalist Society, Scalia defended his long-held belief in sticking to the plain text of the Constitution “as it was originally written and intended.”
“Scalia does have a philosophy, it’s called originalism,” he said. “That’s what prevents him from doing the things he would like to do,” he told more than 100 politicians and lawyers from this U.S. island territory.
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“That’s the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break.”
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“They are not looking for legal flexibility, they are looking for rigidity, whether it’s the right to abortion or the right to homosexual activity, they want that right to be embedded from coast to coast and to be unchangeable,” he said.
More:
http://tinyurl.com/82wpk
Isn’t it wonderful that we now have at least three justices that have their heads up their A*
Not only are they evicting the Katrina refugees from their hotel rooms but ….
According to CNN The house trailers you and I bought those people are deteriorating so badly most will have to “disposed of” That was like a 300 million dollar expenditure down the drain.
What the Ohio Dems and those in DC did to Hacket happens all the time. In Colorado the party will first look at the candidates ability to raise funds or pay for his campaign himself. Only centrists will ever make it far enough that the public hears anything he has to say unless perhaps he is a local politician with a record already. Any one that tells you to get politically active is not speaking from much experience unless all they want you to do it knock on doors and hand out leaflets.
:rofl2:
Did you all see the Jon Stewart video, about 10 minutes, on Dick Cheney. Funny, funny, funny!
http://www.crooksandliars.com
ha thats exactly how i plan on running my campaign lol
I think this is worthy of passing on from Environmental Action.org about the censorship of NASA climate scientists
sweet terrorist ports yay
“Doctors: Man Cheney shot had minor heart attack, birdshot lodged in heart”
http://www.msnbc.com
:rofl2:fuddgate lol
:fist::fire:i drove around a fist the size of a semi trailer for wrestling lol what a waste of money that thing is
friggin if al franken’s cd is worthy of a grammy nomination a marc maron cd is worthy of winning one
Do you think the late night comedians were too tough on Vice President Cheney?
Yes 11% (the whiney people)
No 89%
:fist:i :love: this fist
farmerkat, did they take the poll down or am I clearly deficient when it comes to figuring out cnn’s website 😯
I just sent an email to DG about the launch date for TMMS :roll:and it was promptly rejected. Returned. Has that happened to anyone else?
email DG? no way i couldnt be nice about it i would just have a little fit on my keyboard writing to him so i dont bother!
Isi–
I always have problems with CNN polls from my home computer. I just did it from a client’s, though, no problem. So it’s still up. (It’s toward the bottom of the page, on the right.)
I’d love to email Goldberg and let him know how dissapointed I am with his AAR Premium podcasting service. Sadly I don’t have his email, help me out?
:fire:
Mine was short and to the point asking as a loyal listener for updated information on the launch date for The Marc Maron Show. What a $*#% that he wouldn’t even accept my email.
My feelings about the Democratic Party changed a lot today. I see that Rahm Emanuel and Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid all have been setting about to stamp out any non-Clintonista power centers in the party.
Hackett is a moderate who speaks plainly enough for lefties to trust and that is the reason why lefties found him acceptable, compared to waffling Sherrod who looked at the polls Hackett was pulling and demanded the Michelle Kwan bye from the Democratic national party.
I’m done with it.
megmca, PJ has contact information for some of the people at air america under the heading PAGES on the right side of this blog. Maybe DG has changed his email address. But it’s there if you want to try it.
This is simply outrageous!
U.S. Has Royalty Plan to Give Windfall to Oil Companies
The rethugs and big business have been looting this country since Ronald Reagan defiled the White House on January 20, 1981. It is time we held these people responsible for their actions. This is absolutely treasonous!
:fire:ok back on the road again away from the faux news channel before i mess up my ear like travis’ peace out homies
i almost dented my head because of friggin ann coulter earlier today grrrr
well, it’s valentine’s day and it sucks, like usual:mad::spank:
but my gift to myself? i’m going to go see tim burton and danny elfman tonight at a Corpse bride signing :love::love::love::nixon:
Well, I’m glad that dubya, Jebby, and McFelon are all yucking it up while this guy has a heart attack with birdshot in his heart. Pretty funny stuff.
Too bad the irony is all lost on the wingnuts, who continue to worship these assholes, even as they get the equivalent of both barrels to the face at the gas pump, and in their pay envelopes.
isi, it’s at the bottom right of the page
nc, read that this a.m. disgusting. this admin., every single day, tries to out do the disgusting item from the previous day.
waffling Sherrod who looked at the polls Hackett was pulling and demanded the Michelle Kwan bye from the Democratic national party.
Comment by skiddlybop — February 14, 2006 @ 2:40 pm
Do we know this to be true, or is this conjecture? Anyone have a source?
Personally, I was hoping for both of them to stay in the race, give us a spirited primary, then unite behind the victor to take down DeWine. I’m with the rest of you who are tired of the inner-circle power plays.
Sorry if anyone took my post this morning the wrong way. It just seemed like Brown was getting stomped on in the rush to praise Hackett. Just looking out for my Akron homie. 😀
I know Hackett says he’s through with politics, but who’s to say he can’t oppose Voinovich two years from now? The extra two years would give Hackett time to build a base and better funding. IMHO, Voinovich will be a lot tougher to unseat than DeWine, given his years of service as governor and Cleveland mayor prior to his Senate service.
Two years ago I was positive Dennis Kucinich would run for this seat, so WTF do i know. :doh:
Any truth to the rumor than Cheney shot Michelle Kwan in the groin last weekend? :rofl2:
isi, it’s at the bottom right of the page
On my cnn website it has “How will you spend valentine’s day” 😉
Back in Ohio I was a fast-food manager, and I will guarantee you that the toilets are cleaner than the ice machine. The only time the main machine in the back room gets cleaned is when it’s not working and all the ice is melted away. The toilets get cleaned every night.
Granted, people are not dumping piss and shit into the ice machines all day, but you would be surprised at the number of micro-critters that can thrive in such a cold environment. :barf:
Killer Cheney! Yahooie!:omg:
:fu:Cheney!
Sean…re: the Coulter dude. Just say no, pal. Step away from the radio and drink coffee if you need a jolt.
Just say NO to Coulter!
Arrest that man! Wouldn’t have been great is the local sheriffs had taken Cheney in for questioning?
:nixon::fu:Cheney!
Where is the Elmer Cheney emoticon?
We’re calling. We’re Calling the hunter. Oh where can the hunter be?:omg:
:fu:Rove!
The mainline Dems always come up with ways to ensure their man (Dukakis!) wins the nomination. This Hackett incident is but the latest example.
“We “support” the war effort, Paul. Wouldn’t look bad if you ran for senate in Ohio, and were against the war?”
You are not a teamplayer, Paul!:omg:
:fu:clintonoids!
Ed Schultz is supposed to have Hacket on his program later this afternoon.
How is Randi spinning this?
“He got in the race too late!” Be a teamplayer, Paul.”
DiFi and the Royal Democrats
The Curious Withdrawal of Cindy Sheehan
By DON SANTINA
Last week, that noble antiwarrior, Cindy Sheehan, declined to challenge Senator Diane Feinstein in the upcoming Democratic primary. Ms Sheehan reiterated that Party officials had not pressured her against running. It reminded me of how the Party had so thoroughly squashed the stridently anti-war candidacy of Howard Dean in 2004, that every time the good doctor surfaces now to speak, he’s looking over his shoulder.
Feinstein should be challenged. Feinstein is one of the “Royal Democrats,” those Democrats like Clinton, Lieberman, Biden and a host of others who live in privilege and serve the privileged.
Historically, the Democratic Party has been composed of two camps, the “People Democrats” and the “Royal Democrats.” The present day Royal Democrats are not that much far removed from the old Jim Crow Democrats who became Republicans when the Democratic Party embraced civil rights legislation. They like Business; they like War; they like military/industrial dollars in their states. They’re lukewarm on social legislation.
The war on Iraq–like Vietnam–is unconstitutional, illegal and immoral. Thousands upon thousands of civilians have been maimed and killed on the basis of lies told by the Bush administration. Torture of prisoners is widespread; extra judicial kidnapping and secret prisons are the order of the day, and the Bill of Rights has been suspended. Geneva Convention? Fahgeddaboutit! Constitution? Fahgeddaboutit! Phosphorous, napalm, cluster bombs and depleted uranium projectiles? Fahgeddaboutit!
From the beginning, the Royal Democrats have been foursquare supporters of the preemptive war on Iraq, a country that was not threatening us. Even now, facing growing popular opposition to the war and an increasingly sociopathic White House, they continue to brownnose the president, dragging their feet about withdrawing our troops from their ghastly mission. . .
http://www.counterpunch.org
Schultzie is having Paul on; Randi is running her mouth about fuddgate!:omg:
The Cartoons and the Neocon
Daniel Pipes and the Danish Editor
By JOHN SUGG
Let me tell you a few things about blasphemy. Been there, done it. Got expelled from high school for it.
That was a few decades ago, and for those seeking titillation, I’ll give you the details at the end of this screed. First I have to tell you about a massive propaganda coup. You’ve been had by some of the most bigoted people in the world — and I’m not talking about Muslim fundamentalists.
The big news about blasphemy today is in the Muslim world. A Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, in September published 12 cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad. It took four months for that fuse to reach the powder keg of religious sensibilities — the flame was relentlessly pushed along by the right-wing, neo-conservative press until it exploded. The dumbed-down media depiction was free speech versus intolerant Muslim fanatics. That’s not entirely wrong, just very incomplete. Ultimately, crowds erupted in protests in Muslim cities. The picture of the burning Danish consulate in Beirut is the icon of the day.
I have to admit a severe conflict of principles here. On the one hand, I want to shout: “I am Danish! Cartoons don’t kill, bombs do!” I don’t countenance any prior restraint on freedom of expression, and when I first read of the Muslim outrage over cartoons — such as one depicting Mohammed’s turban as a bomb — I sighed a deep sigh of regret. There’s no dialogue in burning embassies.
http://www.counterpunch.org
One of the things that worries me about our import security in general is that a lot of the freight that comes from Asia by UPS and FedEx is supposed to be screened at the point of origin. FedEx and UPS both have offices in Tehran as well as Saudi Arabia. A “device” is probably about the size of a big propane tank so you can ship it via UPS or FedEx. You could even request an email indicating it got delivered..
ZNet | Human Rights
The Political Uses of Free Speech
by Mahmood Mamdani ; February 14, 2006
I empathize with those baffled by the rapidly spiraling controversy around the series of cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad.
The cartoons were first published in the Danish paper, Jyllands-Posten, nearly five months ago, in September. The initial protest was limited to Denmark’s Muslim minority but was brushed off by both government and civil society. This is when some of the ultra- conservative Danish imams took matters into their own hands and set off for Saudi Arabia and Egypt, with a dossier containing the inflammatory cartoons. Last week came the diplomatic explosion: Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador in Denmark and Libya shut its embassy. There followed the boycott of Danish goods, demonstrations, strikes, flag-burning, and now fires set to embassies in Damascus and Beirut.
All this before the disclosure that a Danish illustrator had in April 2003 submitted a series of unsolicited cartoons dealing with the resurrection of Christ to Jyllands-Posten, only to receive an email from the paper’s Sunday editor: “I don’t think Jyllands-Posten’s readers will enjoy the drawings. As a matter of fact, I think that they will provoke an outcry. Therefore, I will not use them.”
One wonders about the intensity of the protests. Especially since 9/11, Prophet Muhammad has been vilified in print by several public figures, from Reverend Franklin Graham — son of Billy Graham and spiritual advisor to President, George W. Bush — who has publicly called Islam “an evil and wicked religion” to Reverend Jerry Vines, past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, who called Prophet Mohammed “a demon-possessed pedophile” during a keynote address. But none evoked the tide of public protest as have the cartoons.
When the paper at the centre of the controversy apologized on its website because the cartoons had “indisputably offended many Muslims,” the right-wing European press, outraged by this “caving in,” took up the cause. Led by France Soir in Paris and Die Welt in Berlin, they began to re-print the cartoons, sometimes on the front page with the original frame blown up. Other papers, including the left-leaning Der Tagesspiegel in Germany, joined. “It’s the core of our culture,” Die Welt’s editor-in-chief told the British Guardian, “that the most sacred things can be subjected to criticism, laughter and satire.”[…]
http://www.zmag.org
What did Franken have to say about the axing of Hackett?
Now Randi is running the recent Dean clip.
Aaron Burr shot Capiitalist Dog Hamilton. Cheney now has more in common with Burr.
Give Texas back to Mexico. Get out you pied noir!:rofl2:
Laura Flanders! She will be good on the Hack-Sack!:omg:
From reading Al’s blog I would say he didn’t have much to say about Hacket. He had a lot to say about Cheney though.
Thank You
Today I am announcing that I am withdrawing from the race for United States Senate. I made this decision reluctantly, only after repeated requests by party leaders, as well as behind the scenes machinations, that were intended to hurt my campaign.
But there was no quid pro quo. I will not be running in the Second Congressional District nor for any other elective office. This decision is final, and not subject to reconsideration.
I told the voters from the beginning that I am not a career politician and never aspired to be – that I was about leadership, service and commitment.
Similarly, I told party officials that I had given my word to other good Democrats, who will take the fight to the Second District, that I would not run. In reliance on my word they entered the race. I said it. I meant it. I stand by it. At the end of the day, my word is my bond and I will take it to my grave.
Thus ends my 11 month political career. Although it is an overused political cliche, I really will be spending more time with my family, something I wasn’t able to do because my service to country in the political realm continued after my return from Iraq. Perhaps my wonderful wife Suzi said it best after we made this decision when she said “Honey, welcome home.” I really did marry up.
To my friends and supporters, I pledge that I will continue to fight and to speak out on the issues I believe in. As long as I have the microphone, I will serve as your voice.
It is with my deepest respect and humility that I thank each and every one of you for the support you extended to our campaign to take back America, and personally to me and my family. Together we made a difference. We changed the debate on the Iraq War, we inspired countless veterans to continue their service by running for office as Democrats and we made people believe again. We must continue to believe.
Remember, we must retool our party. We must do more than simply aspire to deliver greatness; we must have the commitment and will to fight for what is great about our party and our country; Peace, prosperity and the freedoms that define our democracy.
Rock on.
Paul Hackett
I am sure that Springer had nothing to say about the DLC’s nix of Hackett. The AARTriumvirate are loyal DLCers, it seems.
:omg::fu:
Rachel said something like “Sherrod is a good, liberal candidate…”and that she would be withholding judgement on the whole affair. I don’t recall what Riley had to say. I’m Sure that The Majority Report and Malloy will have lots to say on the subject.
Fucking dems.:omg::fu:
Did anyone hear Hackett on Schultz’s show? What did he have to say?
(202) 224-3542 Harry Reids direct dial DC office phone number
(202) 224-6542 Schumers direct dial DC office phone number
Suggest that you call them and give them a peace of your mind
Current users on line: 1
:omg::rofl2:
Schultz just said Hacket would be on at 5:30 EST
“What did they have to say?” I am overusing that phrase. Did Janeane go into a heated rant against the DLC/DNC for their tactics?
:rofl2: (We shall see.)
I would interpret the cartoon riots as an indication of “see how pissed off we can get over something trivial just visualize what will happen if you nuke IRAN. All your middle east, and east Asia holdings will be in flames . All Americans will be targets”
That’s it. Logic and rationality don’t seem to work with great powers. Only violence and the threat of violence.
Janeane hasn’r been here yet … Not on until 7:00 est.
We shall see what Janeane has to say. I am certain that she won’t toe the Triumvirate’s line.
Schultz has had several other “Fighting Dems” on so far the Centrist dems are in big trouble…:mad::omg::fu:
What did Franken have to say about the axing of Hackett?
Comment by NickiRose — February 14, 2006 @ 4:24 pm
I don’t recall him mentioning Hackett at all, now that you ask. He was busy working in his latest Cheney material.
Hey everyone…Good Matthews show with Dee Dee Myers on Pig Boy McClennan. How many times does this administration have to hang himout to dry before hes had enough. They must be promising him a very soft landing because his job performance is just a disaster.
Mahr is appearing later in the show to talk about this and if its anything like his blog on it on HuffPo then it will be good.
With no Marc we will have to take Mahr (and the first part of Stewart was great last night (I fell asleep before the guest.)
My usual disclaimer is that I dont like Matthews but I do check who is on if I’m around…and I got in a one minute to 5…its repeated at 7 EST.
hey Hackett is on Schultz show right now!
Well Hacket seems really depressed over what has happened. He said he saw the emails that told donors to hold their funds. The system is RIGGED :mad::crap::fu: not that we didn’t know that already. :fu::fu::fu: the dems.
Once again it comes down to the $$$$$$$.. The system is broken :fu: the system :mad::spank::growl:
if he needs money, there were a lot of listerners who said they would help raise money for Hackett.
damn Dems!!!:rant1::fu:
Shall we send some funds to Hackett?
If the Dems who called Schultz that have worked on Hackets and other campaigns in Ohio were any indication this is a case of you don’t get who you want but who we want. This is kind of like what happened to Dean in the presidential primaries.
i think the cut off day is in 2 days. so if 2 million can be raised in 2 days, the i guess Hackett can still run.
Received this reply from Jon Sinton today in response to my email regarding The Marc Maron Show launch date.
“We are working out a studio issue in Burbank, CA. We hope to announce the launch in the days ahead.”
JS
A short quote from the great James Wolcott’s latest post.
Andrew Sullivan quotes an eloquent chastisement from Matthew Scully, author of Dominion: The Power of Men, the Suffering of Animals, and a Call to Mercy, regarding the callous disregard demonstrated by Vice President Cheney.
“Birds are not skeet. They are living creatures, ‘the fowl of the air,’ and it is unkind and dishonorable to treat them this way. The sportsman shoots in jest, to paraphrase a saying, but the creature dies in earnest.”
Well the discussion over at DU seemed to be mostly that Reid, Schumer and the DLC were morons for what they did to Hacket. ( I think we knew that also especially the part about the DLC):mad::eek::crap::fu:
Come to think of it, Malloy did mention the Hackett hatchet job on his show last night. He was “not impressed” with the dems. Will Majority Report follow suit?
Yeah! The dems “deaned” him. Deaned him good.:omg:
WoooWeee! Deaned ‘im real good, eh Billy Sol?
(s.) Big Jim McBob
(Hurok, not Estes)
Janeane has not said a word about Hackett. However, her blog is on fire about the issue.
:omg:
I recall not being fond of Dean in Summer of ’04. He seemed to be pandering; besides, I really wanted Kucinich. But then…he was Emma Goldman compared to Kerry.
:rabbi::nixon:
Hackett. Talk about how the dems “deaned” Hackett.
Posted by: niro at February 14, 2006 07:10 PM
The Ohio Democratic party pulled Hackett from the ticket because: 1. Theres the possibility of having two good democratic reps. Why destroy one of them when we have the potential of having both in Washington. The GOP in Ohio know “mean Jean” is a fuck-up. They’re just going to run Hackett back up against her again in 2 yrs and win. Sherrod Brown is LOVED in Ohio. More than Hackett.
2. Money: Brown’s war chest is the largest of all big name democrat candidates.
Posted by: cubejockey
Taken from Majority Report blog
Why didn’t they tell Sherry Brown to drop out?:nixon::rofl2::sheep:
Here’s a picture of a what a 28-gauge shotgun loaded with birdshot did when fired at a paper target from 30-yards (same distance as Cheney shot the lawyer at).
Evenin’, mornin’, all. Just stopping in before I leave work and cycle home. I’ll try posting first and then reading the blog, as someone suggested yesterday. Catch up with you all later tonight and/or tomorrow, been busy today. 166 posts so far, and I begin to see the problem – reading down the posts, I want to respond to so many, which starts off a chain of replies, and trying to keep track of all the threads of discussion while starting a new one…how do you all do this?!? 😮
Later.
PJ, thanks for that horrifying reality check. I just forwarded the link to most of the folks in my address book.
Now that we see how he treats his friends, the rest makes a lot of sense.
:omg:
Of all the Cheney/Fudd cartoons, this is my favorite so far.
Cheney was drunk!:40::omg::rofl2:
Good Night!:rofl2:
WHITTAY: PEPPERED HEART FOR VALENTINE’S DAY!
:love:
Has Malloy said anything about Hackett?
Has the DG/DLC Freezeout taken effect? No mention of the Ohio strategy.:omg:
:love: Happiness is with one-time stray in lap, with other one-time strays around me (also with other strays under house), Danu stretched in hallway near office, and just getting (was waiting since December) THE RAT MANSIONS with them running on wheels in both — and, of course, with husband calling me from LA, throughout the day, saying something “mushy”.:love:
Merry :love: to ALL:!:
Get plants or rose bush LIVING!
Next post will be my usual :rant1: :rofl2: 😉
They posted info, “Where is Maron?” Kinda funny.
:roll::fire:
Here we go….
http://www.airamericaradio.com/
Read the top center section …… They are alive !!
Yay! AAR heard us! Thanks Canuck!:banana:
Hi Ex,
The blog has been really busy lately and I’ve had a hard time keeping up with it too. Skimming a lot and getting to the bottom and replying to whatever I remember or whatever was posted directly to me. I still like this format better than seperate threads. It’s like a big noisy dinner table.
Woah, was that Cheney/Fudd cartoon published before Whittington’s heart attack? ❗
via The Mike Malloy Show and yahoo!news
Gary Hart: Pressuring Paul Hackett To Abandon Campaign is Old Politics at its Worst Gary Hart
Tue Feb 14, 4:31 PM ET
Based on news reports alone and knowing nothing (thank goodness) about behind-the-scenes politics, the pressure brought on Paul Hackett, the bold Iraqi veteran, to abandon his campaign for the U.S. Senate from Ohio is deplorable.
This is simply old politics at its worst. There is a party which hand-picks its candidates, decides who can and cannot run, directs money to the favorite candidate, and dictate terms. Up till now, that party has been the Republican party.
Now, it seems, my Democratic party is once again imitating the Republican party in a desperate effort to regain power. With the McGovern democratic reforms in the early 1970s, political bosses were diminished and grassroots voters were elevated. The theme was, Let the people decide.
Telling Paul Hackett that he cannot run for the Senate, and purportedly calling contributers to dry up his funds, is the worse kind of old politics. It will drive voters away from the supposedly “open” party, the Democrats, and further add to public cynicism about how politics in America is played in the early 21st century.
Shame on us.
Hi Kristapea, hi all (now able to satiate hunger with some dinner at my side on the computer table – is there an icon for eating noodles with chopsticks?). I’m not complaining about the format, I don’t know any other anyway. Still so dazzled with the array of animated emoticons.
Ahhh, Mike Malloy is reading tonight’s passage from 1984, but my frikkin’ dial up here at home keeps cutting out (gasp! she has dial up!! Big confession – my one attempt to install dsl was so incredibly frustrating I gave up. May try again when my mac guru is back in town next month). While I was making dinner, Mike said what I’m thinking about the Dems: THIS IS WHAT DEMS DO. No surprise.
And I add: stop voting for them, it only encourages them. Give up on these shits, stop encouraging them! 😡
Look, I was a Dem myself way back when (when Jesse Jackson ran for Prez, and then goddess help me I was duped into voting for Bill send-em-back-to-Haiti welfare-deform bomb-Iraq-every-day-and-call-it-sanctions f***head Clinton).
Help me hold down this late dinner and don’t make me puke it up :barf: by wringing collective hands over Hackett, or strategizing how a ‘conservative’ Democrat vs ‘liberal’ Democrat, ad nauseum
:barf: They’re all stupid greedy fucks, period. Get the fuck over them, they’re as bad as Ann Coulter in their own way 😡 How much punishment do you need from these a-holes?? :fustrate:
Step away from the Dems. Go Green, go Peace and Freedom, go fucking Delcine to State, (the fastest growing ballot designation so I’ve heard), and free yourselves:!::!::!: You have nothing to lose but your illusions and enthrallment to fake saviours:fist: We are our own saviours, secularly speaking (does that make sense?).
Ok, I had to good rant in there. Thanks, I feel better. Ah, lovely Italiano music with Malloy singing along…
Thanks Doug and Jon and the other folks behind the scenes at AAR. Thanks for having the confidence to just keep us informed. (If Cheney, et al, had responded that way the backpeddling would be less painful.
Great Where’s Marc cartoon – I like gun toting kids who are aiming at the hiding Maron. Now, who is that standing just to Marc’s left? Hmmm….
Is it just me, or did “Lt. Columbo” on Mike Malloy tonight sound a tad like Gilbert Gottfried?
I’m so frustrated seeing good people waste their time on the Democratic Party, both on this blog and amongst my own friends. :fustrate:
Some conciliatory words for the good Dems here (kinda like good Christians, if you’re religiously inclined):
Locally I can tolerate them much better. Believe it or not some of my best friends are Democrats.:nod: 🙄 No, really! It’s when they get to the regional and national level that they become the good cop to the Repubs’ bad cop. Some of my socialist buddies won’t vote dem ever, ever. If there’s no Green or P&F running for a particular office, and the Dem who’s running is a closet socialist or closet Green, I vote for the Dem. This only happens in local office, in my experience. Listen, we have one of the most hateful war-mongering Congress members out here, Tom Lantos, a vicious arch-zionist Arab-hating bigot, who manages to get some liberal cachet because of some liberal social positions he takes (not sure which, might be immigrant rights – mostly favoring European immigrants; and possibly animal rights, but then he wouldn’t be the only rightie who loves animals – and please folks, Hitler was a vegetarian for health reasons only, not because he was any kind of animal rights advocate – as a vegan, I’m always having to refute the “hitler was a vegetarian, so there, you stupid vegan!” epithet. Anyway (yes, there is a point to this rant, bear with me :grin:), this nice young energetic Arab (either Lebanese or Palestinian) ran against him couple of years back, on the – are you sitting down? – on the Libertarian ticket! What a dope. Next time around he ran, or was going to run, as a Dem. He’s disappeared from the political scene since then. And now we’re still stuck with this bigoted dinosaur Lantos. Talk about frustrating. Thanks for nothing. I hope that nice young man makes a comeback as a Green or P&F, or even Independent (no, not American Independent – they’re rightwing whackos), a la Bernie Sanders. I was thrilled to have an Arab run against Lantos. Now that’s a win we need! :cres: Ok, maybe he was Christian Arab :jesus: That would be cool too, as long as has profound respect for separation of church and state.
I have a dear friend who I would trust with my life, who is in elected office locally, as a Democrat (see, I mean it. I have tremendous respect – but this person is a closet socialist, and several of our comrades are in other elected offices in the Democratic Party locally – yes, we are everywhere, heh heh hah hah hee hee. yeh right). He asks me from time to time why he’s still in the Democratic Party, I try to get him to change his registration to P&F, but will settle for Green. Decline to state is ceding the field to the Democan/Republicrats, why should we do that?
Sigh. I’m tired. What if Whittington dies? Then what? Jon Stewart says it’ll go from slightly funny to Brechtian. This is all distraction for the press and public consumption. Never mind all the Justice Dept. indictments against the huge long list of Republicans for impeachable offenses.
Ok, I’m done writing this mammoth post, thanks for reading this far if you did so. Oh no, Andrew Young shilling for capitalism on the Clear Channel commercial in between Mike Malloy’s broadcast on the local radio. I am sick of that commercial, saying how we have to teach the children to be good capitalists. Barf (forget the icon).:evil::fu:
Forgot I wanted to say —
My closet socialst Dem friend and I go round and round, where he bemoans the Party, and I gently push him to go left publicly, a la Matt Gonzalez. And we go round and round, year after year.
I totally forgot to mention Happy anti-commercial Valentine’s Day to one and all here :love::love::love: As in true love for humanity, for yourself and for whomever you love or lust for. I’m recently partnerless by choice, not bitter (we’re stil friends), and VDay has somehow given me a huge case of the hornies (what icon would that be?) for an unattainable person (slightly famous and controversial political writer) who doesn’t even know me, but I want it that way, so I’m happy with that. After all of progressive San Francisco got over our frustrated love affair with Matt Gonzalez (and I kid you not, we all had – some still have – massive crushes on him, boys and girls alike, straight and gay, he is dreamy there’s no denying it, though his politics have moved Dem-ward, though he’s a cagey one and we’re still waiting to see if he’s going to run for office again soon.)
Ok, I guess the blog is dwindling down. Columbo is about to come on Malloy’s show, I’m catching it on the delayed broadcast in SF. Goodnight and pardon my bile and diarrhea of the keyboard fingers.:doh:
Wow, I’ve just now gotten around to reading through today’s blog more closely, and I am so gratified to see the Israel Shahak and Ilan Pappe articles, those are good excerpts NickiRose. They’re kind of out of the blue, I don’t see any discussion preceding or following them, but I’m sure glad to see them. DId anyone else catch Norm Finkestein debating the Israeli ex-foreign minster Shlomo Ben Ami on Democracy Now Tuesday morning? (confession for VDay: Finkelstein is my crush after seeing him speak in Berkeley a few months back:love:. Don’t tell him, I’m shy :love:) He was magnificent, as always. Sigh.
Malloy: “If the Democratic Party’s dead, kick it to the curb…I’ve had my belly full of Harry Reid and the rest of these people…cowardly bastards.” How he keeps from spewing the cursewords I tack on after his excellent epithets amazes me. Paraphrasing a popular saying: from my mind to Malloy’s lips, it’s like he opened up my head and read my mind off a tickertape sometimes, minus the Seven Dirty Words.:rant1:
I can’t tell from the way the Shahak and Pappe pieces are posted if anyone else here besides me find them agreeable friendly material Shahak is vilified by certain still-deluded sectors of the Jewish left as a self hating Jew. My good anti zionist mentors say it’s a typical smear campaign. Pappe is a political poet, wonderful writer, he debunks the hoax of the two state solution in a talk in Berkeley a month or so ago (heard in on KPFA the other night, blew my mind with its’ succinctness and dead on relevance). I finally, after maybe a year (:!:) finished Finkelstein’s portable epic The Holocaust Industry (Third Edition), and am waiting to start Beyond Chutzpah. Before I ever heard of him or his book, I was telling people we had a holocaust industry. Imagine my surprise to find a book of the same title, wow! What a thrill to find reality based thinking, instead of the Straussian fake reality that’s warped every aspect of discourse in this country. If you’re wondering who this Leo Strauss guy was and why you should care, search The New Yorker’s archives for an excellent good long article about him and his wide influence on the neocon PNAC crowd.
Anyone here manage to plow through Lenni Brenner’s 51 Documents? I haven’t. There’s another book he wrote, I understand, that is kind of like the key to the 51 Docs. So many books so little time (need bookish nerd icon).
Norm o Norm, why must you have the same name as my Dad, why? It’s too weird. Happy VDay to you, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing…(kissy lips icon)
ex-ny’er, Hi the other post started. I need to research most of what you wrote :rofl2: 😉 :fire:
Uproot Bush!:rofl2:
Why does the Pigman run his mouth about the Hackett situation?
Go hunting with Cheney, Limbaugh!:rofl2: