So, Clinton will officially drop out tomorrow, if you can believe the news stories. I say we all get over whatever animosity we’ve built up (on either side), and work to make sure John McCain doesn’t wind up being preznit.
Posted by pjsauter on June 5, 2008
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So, Clinton will officially drop out tomorrow, if you can believe the news stories. I say we all get over whatever animosity we’ve built up (on either side), and work to make sure John McCain doesn’t wind up being preznit.
the gang at sams is
in post primary depression…
(some of them are still paying attention to the kerfuffle)
congress and the senate the logical place to focus now that thats settled.
If you need a reason to drink a :40: today, here’s an anniversary to celebrate-
http://axisofevelknievel.blogspot.com/
Today is Brooklyn Day. No one is sure how this holiday got started. There is speculation that it actually celebrates the opening of a Protestant Sunday school. Until recently the schools in Brooklyn closed on this day and the school year in Brooklyn was one day shorter than the rest of NYC.
Then the powers that be decided to give all NYC kids the day off but all the teachers have to work.
None-the -less it is Brooklyn Day so you can all start celebrating.
Good morning :sheep: le.
Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors
A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.
The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political effect in Iraq. Iraqi officials fear that the accord, under which US troops would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law, will destabilise Iraq’s position in the Middle East and lay the basis for unending conflict in their country.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/revealed-secret-plan-to-keep-iraq-under-us-control-840512.html
This has to go through the Iraqi parliament but emperor Bush thinks he doesn’t need the US congress to do the same.
Hard to believe it’s been 40 years.
RFK
🙁 :gate:
Vern- if you want to cheer up a little, catch ‘Bama’s speech to AIPAC yesterday. My presidential IQ went up about 100 points. He’s not any progressive but then JFK was a little bit of a hawk. He talked a lot about aggressive focused DIPLOMACY if you can imagine that.
From a Gail Collins editorial about McSame’s townhall debate plan:
“I have a few years on my opponent, so I am surprised that a young man has bought into so many failed ideas,†McCain said. Pause. Smile. McCain has only a couple of versions of smile. And for speeches, he tends to employ a kind of scary, humorless teeth-baring.
“He doesn’t trust us to make decisions for ourselves and wants the government to make them for us. And that’s not change we can believe in.†Pause. Smile. It was Pavlovian, really, as if some handler had run McCain through his paces over and over, administering an electric shock each time he ended a sentence without revealing his dental work.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/opinion/05collins.html?th&emc=th
I have to watch that but as the “anti-Semite” that I am, I am not expecting to be very happy unless I can see that O’Bama is ‘laying it between the lines‘.
I hope he is doing one hell of a tapdance :tap: :dancers: .
Ms. P,
Someone needs to freeze one of those McCain ‘smiles’ for me. They are so scary.
Palemale and Lola share a few smooches:
http://www.palemale.com/
That McSame smile reminds me of Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams cracking a smile for the snotty girls at Camp Chippewa. :omg:
That’s not change we can believe in
😀 🙂 😆 😛 :nixon: :hubba: :ear: 😮 :omg:
Now Hillary has e-mailed her ppl that Saturday is the day (not Friday) so it seems to be set. Of course, if she had done it Tuesday night or even yesterday she would not have outlasted the RFK assassination anniversary. I guess she added in the extra day in good taste.
Saturday she will have a weekend dump and a maybe a new Triple Crown winner (GO, BIG BROWN!) to diminish her announcement’s impact. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
Alton Kelley passes
Psychedelic poster creator
can Palemale come to NJ to take care of the bunnies in my yard? They’re destroying my lettuce. I have chipmunks, too.
I’m finally giving in and signing up for OnDemand, just to get last week’s Maron. I know a week’s time delay is not good, but I haven’t been able to find the podcasts anywhere else.
anastasi, hang on. They are around somewhere.
See if these still work. Maron v. Seder links yesteray
http://bluerootsradio.com/maron_5_28.mp3
http://bluerootsradio.com/maron_5_29.mp3
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yy2cqg
Well this is interesting.
The Mic in Madison, one of the VERY few affiliates that hung on to the AAR
stream after Randi left, has decided to fill her slot with Hartmann. They play Schultz during Hartman’s usual slot. They made their decision based on listener feedback – they heard from Randi lovers and haters and didn’t hear much enthusiasm for Kuby (I’m guessing). But there’s been ongoing interest in Hartman, so that’s the choice they think will please the majority of their audience.
And they are usually right. So…who will be listening to Kuby? Had AAR picked Seder or Maron, I am certain the Mic would have hung on.
Ooooh, that smile 🙂 😀 😆 😛 😉 :nixon: :omg:
He’s pretty creepy, isn’t he?
It’s too damn hot here. Unfortunately, it’ll be even hotter tomorrow and through the weekend. Like, 90’s and shit. We’re not supposed to be subjected to that kind of heat around here. Not in the beginning of June, at least.
The fourth Texas electric company in two weeks is showing signs of failing in what is a growing crisis in the state with one of the nation’s most deregulated retail electricity markets, officials said Thursday.
The company, Houston-based Riverway Power, has filed for bankruptcy, according to the Public Utility Commission. Operators of the Texas power grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, were preparing to shift its customers to the high-cost default electric company, but then stopped that process after Riverway came under the court’s bankruptcy protection.
In the past two weeks, three other companies have failed to meet financial obligations to the grid operator and so have had their customers switched to high-cost default providers. Those companies include Bridgeport-based PreBuy Electric, Houston-based National Power and Denton-based Hwy 3 MHP, which also does business as Etricity.
As a result, more than 35,000 customers have been switched to high-cost default providers or other electric companies. Some customers who get switched to a high-cost default provider could see their costs double.
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/684636.html
Evening all, finishing up another spyware infestation tonight. I had to wipe this disk though, these things are becoming tenacious.
Sorry, I couldn’t link to this:
A Transformational Moment
Jim Wallis
When the historic legislative milestone of the Voting Rights Act finally passed in 1965, I was still a young teenager. Until then, black people in America didn’t have the right to vote. And until the Civil Rights Act passed the previous year in 1964, black Americans had to drink from separate drinking fountains, eat at separate lunch counters, ride at the back of buses, and watch movies only from the balconies of theaters. Then there was all the violence. I remember a civil rights worker from my hometown of Detroit, named Viola Liuzzo, who traveled to the South in order to help black people win the right to vote for the first time. She was murdered for doing so.
I was still in the U.K. on a book tour Tuesday night, just having finished speaking to a forum at the British Parliament with ministers from all three parties about the relationship between faith and politics. Then I stayed up until 4 a.m. to watch Barack Obama claim the nomination of the Democratic Party for president of the United States. It was my birthday the next day, and I recalled those days when the relationship between faith and politics for many black and a few white Christians was that if you stood up for civil rights — especially the right to vote for black Americans — it could get you killed. So I was not only blurry-eyed but also more than a little teary-eyed as I watched a young black man announce that he was ready to run for president of the United States, and for most of America to assume that he had a chance to win.
Race was the issue that led to my own confrontation with the church that raised me. It was my “converting issue,†though the conversion led me out of the white church of my childhood, not into the church. A church elder bluntly told me one night that “Christianity has nothing to do with racism. That’s political and our faith is personal.†I was only about 15, but it was the night I think I left, in my head and my heart. And a couple years later, I was gone altogether.
The little evangelical church that my parents had started and that was my second home was simply wrong about race — completely wrong. Race was the issue that fundamentally shaped my early social conscience. What I saw in Detroit and in the country I had grown up to love seemed fundamentally wrong. I learned there were two Detroits and two Americas, one white and one black. And it seemed contrary to the religion my family had taught me to treat people in a fundamentally different way because of the color of their skin. But the church didn’t agree and we parted company for most of my student years, with me only coming back to faith after a fresh encounter with the radical gospel of the New Testament. I came back with the realization that God is indeed personal, but never private, and exploring what that means has shaped the rest of my life.
So watching Obama, a black man, win the nomination of a major party for the presidency brought back a virtual flood of memories and feelings. That Barack is a friend of 10 years made it all the more personal. This morning I heard several interviews on NPR with black Americans about their response to Obama’s nomination. One older woman said, “A black man running for president, did you hear what just I said? A black man running for president of the United States ….†She just kept repeating the words, and succinctly captured my own personal feelings.
Yes, it is truly historic, and the U.K. newspaper headlines captured that sentiment, as did papers around the world. Nothing could change the image of America more than this. But it is more than historic; it is very personal for many of my generation. A new generation just sees this as natural — he’s an inspirational leader who happens to be black, which matters little to them. But for my generation — I’m dating myself now — this is a transformational moment, one we didn’t think would come in our lifetimes. Race was the issue that changed us, shaped us, determined our path, and even defined the meaning of our faith. Now a black man is running for president of the United States. Amazing grace.
Marc if you didn’t get the e-mail
This is why Maron and Wolcott hold forth a mutual admiration society:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/blogs/wolcott/2008/06/in-the-spirit-o.html
“inadequately defrosted”
“.. just the thought of McCain ..”
That is Oscar-worth material under the category of Ibsen in under 6 minutes.
On Technicolor Web of Sound, UK’s Neon Pearl from 1967 sounding indistinguishable from Stereolab w/o the French chanteusse.
http://www.techwebsound.com