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It's a beautiful day across the land and time to take a short walk and enjoy the sights, sounds and scent of nature.

Periodic DeBlog's will set you free. ;)

yes, sometimes I also wonder who I really am...

maybe someone that has a deeper connection or maybe just a multiple blog observer or...

was just called a NeoFacist who wants ethnic cleansing on CNN by Mustafa Barghouti.
I guess it runs in the Lieberman family...

- Atlantic

So I've got 3 bare root Wife of Bath David Austin roses coming. Does anyone know if it's best to put it in them ground when they arrive or should I start them in a pot first?

I voted for him Sam, based solely on the weight of your endorsement.

often or far enough!

Burn the churches! Let them pray while other people fuck and get high and laugh and dance and fuck and get high.

Did I mention fucking and getting high?

Object and embed tags function differently, so just renaming them doesn't work.

If I encounter any non-working code from the "embed" feature in a video player I do the following, it is essentially just taking the size values (height and width) and URL from the "non-working" code and placing them into a "working" code structure (YouTube):

First, I keep an embed code sample from a YouTube video (any one will do) handy in a text file. Open that, copy and paste it into the reply window above or below your non working code, but leave space between them so you don't mix them up.

Then, take note of the size (width and height)of the video in the non-working code and change those options in the YouTube code. (note that in YouTube code there are two identical sets of size values you have to change, one at the very beginning of the code and one at the very end)

Finally, I take the URL for the video in the non-working code and replace the URLs of the Youtube video embed code (again, there are two places you have to do this in the YT code). You can then delete the rest of the non-working code and preview it.

"this machine kills fascists"

Submitted by SEDER on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 1:10pm.
Tom Geohegan is running for the IL seat vacated by Rahm Emmanuel.... Geoghegan is a strong progressive, you can vote for him here to win Democracy For America support.

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Actually, why don't we just start a petition to return Emanuel to that seat?

...wish I were joking...

"If I had even a QUARTER of Dick Clark's money I would quit TODAY, and I would do NOTHING."
-Maron.
www.sigzone.blogspot.com

From 60th Street...
<embed src="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/49987d8896e0b8cb/4741e3c5156499a7/4a43301d/-cpid/351f444d6afd5e68"type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="384" height="283"></embed>

* Red represents where to paste the URL

Militants may sign Swat peace deal: officials

Militants battling for Islamic law in northwest Pakistan's Swat valley announced a cease-fire on Sunday and could sign a peace deal with the government this week.

A militant spokesman announced the 10-day ceasefire in the valley -- once a popular tourism destination in Pakistan -- as talks made progress.

The government of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) earlier held a final round of talks with a militant leader on enforcement of Sharia law in Swat and Malakand districts, provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told AFP.

"The talks were very positive and the people of Swat will hear good news soon," he said.

The leader and pro-Taliban cleric, Soofi Mohammad, whose son-in-law Maulana Fazlullah is waging a violent campaign for tough Sharia law in the region, said talks on a draft agreement had been successful and a deal could be signed on Monday.

"We had been holding negotiations with the government on a 22-point charter of demands for quite some time. There were differences on five points which have been removed in a meeting on Sunday," said Mohammad, founder of the Sharia movement.

Swat, once known for its scenic beauty, has turned into a battleground since radical cleric Fazlullah, who has links to Pakistan's Taliban movement, launched a violent campaign to introduce Sharia law in the valley.

Minister Hussain said the provincial chief minister has convened a meeting of political and religious leaders and tribal elders in local capital Peshawar on Monday and if a consensus is reached he will reveal details at a press conference later.

He gave no details beyond saying that the talks focused on establishing an Islamic system of justice in the troubled region.

Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan said militants would observe a 10-day ceasefire as a "goodwill gesture". The ceasefire could be declared permanent if the accord is signed on Monday, he said.

Taliban militants last year signed a peace agreement which collapsed as both sides accused the other of violating the deal.

Pakistani troops launched a major offensive in the area in 2007 but local residents say much of Swat has fallen out of government hands.

Fazlullah's men have executed dozens of state employees, torched some 180 schools, banned music and stopped barber's shops from shaving off beards.

The cleric has used his own FM radio station to promote his brand of Sharia, threaten his opponents and motivate his followers.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Militants_may_sign_Swat_peace_deal__0215200...

Meet Junior Johnson - NASCAR Hall of famer. who wrote:
That’s why I’m going to talk to my neighbors this week, and I’m asking you to do the same. This election in North Carolina is going to be one of the closest ever, and we all need to lend a hand.

I’ve been in a lot of races in my life. But this may be the most important one of all. So let’s all get in gear and win it together. - Triangulator

Know your driver/Root for your driver:
As a team owner, Junior worked with some of the legendary drivers in NASCAR history, including Darel Dieringer, LeeRoy Yarbrough, Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Neil Bonnett, Terry Labonte, Geoffrey Bodine, Sterling Marlin, Jimmy Spencer, and Bill Elliott.

Bobbie and Terry Labonte are racing today. They are from my home town of Corpus Christi Texas. Michael Waltrip is also racing today.

On December 26, 1986, President Ronald Reagan granted Johnson, a lifelong Democrat, a presidential pardon for his 1956 moonshining conviction. Johnson called the pardon, which restored his right to vote and hold a passport, "one of the greatest things in my life."

but almost as silly at 450 used.

http://charlottesville.craigslist.org/fuo/1035229159.html

and Cspan Player doesn't work well for you, it is also up on fdl YouTube channel now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mUoW3Q5a3A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwYgHBTfs5k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vIw6xXSeFA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUIVs9Ltzf4

HomeDepot car just bit it onto a wall.

Fuckers.

You just have to love these guys - OpenSecrets

They are in NASCAR - Business Times

Stewart is driving the # 14 car for Ask.com. Tony Stewart won the 300 at Daytona yesterday.

How can you not root for these folks? He's got AJ's ole number.

Ask.com sponsors the No. 96 Ford car driven by Bobby Labonte as part of a pact with the Hall of Fame racing. The Ask.com Ford car will drive in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series as well. - Pulse

present!!

here's one eggheads theory....

http://www.znak.fi/user/pdonner/meatball/

would be the priorities for me.

The order of priority would be a tossup, depending.

But the correlation between the two should not be that great. Or causation either.

http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?CyberSpace

but they do have a show today. :)

http://www.ktlk.com/main.html

boycott the Weather Channel
Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 8:18pm.

the owner and founder was just on a political ad on my TV saying that this President and this Stimulus bill will waste billions on silly renewable resources instead of focusing on "proven" methods. He emphasized that the green economy will contribute more to that kind of crazy talk wasting more money in the future.

The Weather Channel believes in a flat Earth. Sadly pathetic.

Fernando I'm not sure which owner of TWC you're talking about. I remember perhaps a year ago reading some things warning viewers to be on the lookout for a rightwing purge, or slant in environmental reporting, of this channel after NBC bought it--

On July 6, 2008, NBC Universal, Bain Capital and Blackstone Group agreed to purchase The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications.[2][3] Currently, NBC Universal owns NBC Weather Plus, a rival service carried by and featuring content from its local affiliates; that service announced its discontinuation three months later. It is currently unknown whether The Weather Channel will replace NBC Weather Plus on the approximately 90 digital affiliates that carried NBC's service, as some of its former affiliates have switched to other programming services.

As faithful viewer of TWC I've been watching their programming religiously. To date I haven't noticed any change.
One of their main reporters is an avid environmentalist and has received numerous death threats because of continual warnings about the threat on man-made climate change:

On December 21, 2006, Dr. Heidi Cullen reacted to this by posting "Junk Controversy not Junk Science" in a blog on The Weather Channel's web site.[6] In her blog, Dr. Cullen reacted by stating:

If a meteorologist has an American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval which is used to confer legitimacy to TV meteorologists, then meteorologists have a responsibility to truly educate themselves on the science of global warming . . . . If a meteorologist can’t speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn’t give them a Seal of Approval. Clearly, the AMS doesn’t agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns. It’s like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise... It’s not a political statement... it’s just an incorrect statement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weather_Channel

With a media owned by the rightwing, propaganda on any channel never surprises me. Honestly, to this point I haven't noticed any change with TWC.

he self identified on the tv. It all happened so fast that I couldn't get details.

I'll keep looking for it. I was shocked when I saw that ad.

Crazy talk link

thanks
of the Kos so see if they are still ignoring Bev. Eckhert.

SHERMAN FREDERICK: Shall we give Harry the boot?

Think about it this way: On Aug. 16, 2005, Harry Reid suffered a mild stroke. He recovered, thank God. But what if, as a result of that stroke, Harry had been forced to leave office? How would Nevada be different today?

Forgive me if this sounds morbid, but it gets to the heart of the dilemma facing Nevadans in 21 months. For all the power and prestige that Harry has earned, how has that translated into a better Nevada today?

My dinner companions and I paused for a long while and finally, we agreed, "That is the question."
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/39633332.html

That was mainly a value-neutral hmmmm. Anybody else got info or opinions?
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Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm's brother, tapped for White House health care policy advisor spot.
By
Lynn Sweet
on February 14, 2009 6:41 AM |

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/02/dr_ezekiel_emanuel_rahms_broth.h...

WASHINGTON--While the Obama White House is searching for a replacement for health czar Tom Daschle, policy work on health care reform--a priority for the administration--Is ongoing with one key advisor especially well connected.

The brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a noted bioethicist, is advising the Obama administration on health care reform.

Dr. Emanuel is the Chair of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health and a breast oncologist.

changes when reintroduced early this year and political outlook/chances.

http://healthcare.change.org/blog/view/checking_up_on_congress_health_ca...

you gotta be shitting me. What Tel Aviv wants Tel Aviv gets.

Howard Dean should join up with Bernie Sanders. Fuck the Dems.

(Fired from the Times, still a RCP headliner:
Obama's Train Goes Off the Rails - William Kristol, Weekly Standard.)

Deep thoughts from American Thinkers....

"Today at tennis, after I made a hard point, my partner offered the Obama fist bump.

2) I turn His face around. Whenever I'm standing in line in a store, and find coverboy Obambi staring at me, I turn the offensive magazines around to face backwards. During Inaugural week, there was commemorative ideoporn everywhere. Obama market penetration has receded somewhat, but it's still hard to visit a Target or a grocery store without having to look at The One. By hiding His image, I may be slightly interfering with commerce, but if I can prevent one more person from being suckered into socialism, I'll do it."

Great! You can start with Lindsey Graham.

"this machine kills fascists"

Crude oil is getting cheaper — so why isn't gas? (AP) - 5 hours ago
AP - Crude oil prices have fallen to new lows for this year. So you'd think gas prices would sink right along with them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090215/ap_on_bi_ge/gas_prices_unhinged

something else too. When the Rethugs are turning up the heat on Burris, and the loose cannon Blago is looking for any audience, just what we need: another Cook County Dem.

gave $2,000 from his personal pocket to the John Edwards campaign. - HuffPo

Driving way down too.

Gotta love that free market "supply & demand."

should've saved the dough for Stormy Daniels.

DeWALT, a leading manufacturer of industrial power tools, announces National Power Tool Battery Recycling Month. During the month of October, users who recycle any power tool battery at one of DEWALT's 87 service centers will receive a $10 discount on battery purchases.

The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC), a non-profit public service organization dedicated to recycling used rechargeable batteries and old cell phones, has provided DeWALT with recycling bins to place in each of its 87 service centers (www.dewalt.com/us/service/center_finder.asp). Users can recycle Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) and Lithium Ion (Li-ion) batteries from any battery manufacturer at service center locations nationwide. RBRC will then collect the batteries and recycle them for future use through its Call2RecycleTM program. - Utility Products

Green enough?

Global warming "underestimated"
John Aravosis (DC) · 2/15/2009 05:02:00 PM ET · Link
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Oh great.
Professor Chris Field, an author of a 2007 landmark report on climate change, said future temperatures "will be beyond anything" predicted.

Prof Field said the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report had underestimated the rate of change.
He said warming is likely to cause more environmental damage than forecast.

Speaking at the American Science conference in Chicago, Prof Field said fresh data showed greenhouse gas emissions between 2000 and 2007 increased far more rapidly than expected.

"We are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything that we've considered seriously in climate policy," he said.

Prof Field said the 2007 report, which predicted temperature rises between 1.1C and 6.4C over the next century, seriously underestimated the scale of the problem.

He said the increases in carbon dioxide have been caused, principally, by the burning of coal for electric power in India and China.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7890988.stm'

Associated Press Writer= MOSCOW (AP) — The crash of two satellites has generated an estimated tens of thousands of pieces of space junk that could circle Earth and threaten other satellites for the next 10,000 years, space experts said.

One expert called the collision "a catastrophic event" that he hoped would force President Barack Obama's administration to address the long-ignored issue of debris in space.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8360008

(Watching ESPN with the mute on. DID CHARLIE CHRIST GET booed when he started Daytona.?)

1.
FRONTLINE INVESTIGATES HOW THE ECONOMY WENT SO BAD SO FAST

FRONTLINE Presents
Inside the Meltdown
Tuesday, February 17, 2009, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS

www.pbs.org/frontline/meltdown

2. Bill Maher's "Religilous" out on DVD.
(Didn't see in theater, so don't know for sure. Anybody?)

w00t!

"this machine kills fascists"

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE51E12220090215

Quote of the Day
"I talk to Newt on a regular basis because he was in the position that we are in: in the extreme minority."

-- Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), quoted by the New York Times, on how House Republicans are following the Gingrich model of being in the minority.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/politics/15cantor.html?hp

I'm waiting to see that Frontline also.

I haven't seen Maher's movie but I want to also. I might just buy it.

Historians Rank the Presidents
C-SPAN released the results of its second Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, in which 65 presidential historians ranked the 42 former occupants of the White House.

Key findings: Abraham Lincoln received top billing among the historians, George Washington placed second, while spots three through five were held by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, in that order.

Of the more recent presidents, George W. Bush ranked 36, Bill Clinton was at 15, Ronald Reagan was 10, George H.W. Bush was 18 and Jimmy Carter was 25.

http://www.c-span.org/presidentialsurvey

They're talking about the loan market and how they made bad loans.

Will Chavez remain the leader of the New World's Southern Hemisphere?

Polls have closed in Venezuela
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7891806.stm

listened to that this morning on the CKlan. God that was funny. The wingers were lined to call (maybe they started dialing last night) to talk about how history will vindicated Bush, and scream about liberal academic bias.
Glad you reminded me of that. It was most excellent.

Building Consensus for Deficit Reduction
A White House aide tells Ron Brownstein to look for the President Obama "to convene his fiscal responsibility summit -- an effort to build consensus for long-term deficit reduction -- on the day before his economic speech to Congress on February 24."

Later that week, OMB director Peter Orszag will unveil the framework of Obama's first budget which is also expected to include the administration's approach to health care reform.

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/02/obamas_to_do_list.php

tonight on a repeat of Larry King show if anyone is interested.

50 would be greener

Bonus Quote of the Day
"I am an eternal optimist [but] that doesn't mean I'm a sap. So my goal is to assume the best but prepare for a whole range of different possibilities in terms of how Congress reacts."

-- President Obama, in an interview with the National Journal.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/nj_20090214_5045.php

I'm a fuck up.

in Columbia SA and Peru had an earth quake.

DALLAS (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration has received numerous reports of falling debris across Texas, which could be related to a recent satellite collision.

Some of the callers around midmorning Sunday reported what looked like a fireball in the sky.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8360025

Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner!

The Dumbest Thing I've Heard So Far This Week
"I talk to Newt on a regular basis because he was in the position that we are in: in the extreme minority."
Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia

Next time he's standing behind Boehner, look at the stoopid expression on his face.

just thought it was funny. Why do they drive around in the dirt?

The Horror Of The Bush Years

No matter how bad you imagine it to be, it ends up being even worse.

-Atrios 15:53

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004409

The latest deaths reported by the military:

— A soldier died Sunday by a roadside bomb in southern Iraq.

— A soldier died Saturday in a noncombat-related incident in Iraq. The latest deaths reported by the military:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8360020

widespread violence
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/212/story/62207.html

I just watched it.
There also was a segment about Caterpiller Inc.
I have a friend, (of former friend ) i should say,
he's a Rethuglican who supported Reagan, >:(
anyway he has worked for Caterpiller in Peoria since 1984.

Submitted by gloryoski on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 5:26pm.
Fucking and laughing would be the priorities for me...
...But the correlation between the two should not be that great.
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Killjoy.

nando
Submitted by AirBall on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 7:53pm.
just thought it was funny. Why do they drive around in the dirt?
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Yeah, Fernando. Answer that. I'll just wait over here with my arms folded.

Well, if you must know...

How does one select the driver for the moonshine inventory? You test them. NASCAR has it's roots in the delivery services.

On December 26, 1986, President Ronald Reagan granted Junior Johnson, a lifelong Democrat, a presidential pardon for his 1956 moonshining conviction. Johnson called the pardon, which restored his right to vote and hold a passport, "one of the greatest things in my life."

Shocking Development
CNN's Current Headline Story

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if McCain had lost.

Late Update: Seems like now CNN rules Mark Halperin's world. Or is it vice versa?

--Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/02/cnns_current_headline_...

Wheels Turning
There was a very odd moment on This Week this morning when Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Sen. Schumer (D-NY) both said they opposed bank nationalization only to be followed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who said that, painful as it is to contemplate, we need to seriously consider doing so.

Now, I've said before that I think the term 'nationalization' mainly confuses and obscures the issue. And since Geithner's speech last week there does seem to be a slow but steady movement in the direction of letting the big insolvent banks fail. But this contrast points to something I've been wondering about for a while, which is whether the idea might not end up getting some paradoxical support for more doctrinaire free market types. The idea has never been to nationalize the banking sector as a matter of on-going national policy. It's more like a highly structured and customized form of moving these institutions through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In fact, we have a whole system in place for how this is done by the FDIC. But as long as you have this unworkable hybrid of keeping notionally solvent banks on taxpayer life support with the pretense that they're still viable private corporations you end up with government-mandated salary caps and lots of other government intrusions into the running of these business. We're still working on this story. But recently we learned that just after receiving its TARP money, one of the mega-banks turned around and sent a whole bunch of stateside jobs to India to cut costs. If and when that comes out I'm sure you going to have a lot of calls to prevent TARP funded banks from doing that too. And why not? Notwithstanding a marginal company's need to cut costs, why should taxpayers from state X directly underwrite bank Y to put tens of thousands of state X's residents out of work?

Organized bankruptcy for failed companies is not a radical or left-wing idea.

Needless to say, this is hardly the most compelling reason to stop subsidizing failed banks and the failed bankers who run them. The current approach isn't working. It's amounting to a massive giveaway of taxpayer dollars. But I suspect this may end up pushing some people over the edge too.

Late Update: The whole "retention fee" issue seems like one very similar to what I was referring to above. In theory at least, there's a logic to these companies needed to make sure their best employees aren't poached by competitors. In practice, I'm skeptical there's such a great market out there for financial services wizards. I know a lot of them. And most are really glad not to have lost their jobs yet. But the whole problem is an artifact of the illogic of propping up the failed banks. Citi wants to protect the value of its shareholders' big asset, the company, the going proposition of Citigroup. But that's something they should have thought of before they let the board of directors and the executives drive the company into bankruptcy. It's not clear to me why taxpayers care if Citi's best brokers go to Morgan Stanley or some new bank that gets set up from the ruins of one of the failed ones. I'll admit I'm not sure I have as clear an answer to the idea that foreign banks could poach the best people, etc. So I'll defer to others who have a better handle on that issue. But you still end up in these unworkable situations.

--Josh Marshall

Video at link

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/02/wheels_turning.php

i didn't like Religulous

walked out of it, about 25 minutes into it; it just wasn't funny nor interesting, basically boring, and a little silly;

Frontline on the other hand, i'd like to see, i hope i don't forget to watch it

Submitted by Fernando on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 8:35pm.
NASCAR has it's roots in the delivery services.
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However, driving really fast on the beach at Daytona predates prohibition by nearly two decades.

Crank?

got a link for that
Submitted by Fernando on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 9:01pm.
Crank?
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Oh ye of little faith. After all of these years and you still don't trust me. I'm mortified.
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...The first timed run on the beach was a solo run by Ransom E. Olds. In 1903, rich automobile pioneers Olds (Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company founder) and Alexander Winton (Winton Motor Carriage Company) staged an unofficial event at nearby Ormond Beach; Winton beat Olds by only 0.2 seconds. The first organized event was sanctioned and timed by the American Automobile Association in 1903. The weeklong "Winter Carnival" event was organized by the Ormond Hotel. The top speed was 68.198 miles per hour (mph)...

http://www.answers.com/topic/daytona-beach-road-course

Venezuelan leader wins key reform

Venezuelans have voted to lift limits on terms in office for elected officials, allowing President Hugo Chavez to stand for re-election.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7891856.stm

Having It Both Ways: Republicans Take Credit for 'Pork' - In Stimulus Bill They Opposed
By Susie Madrak
Of course, no one's really surprised, right? I just wonder if the Democratic communications staffers will kick into gear and capitalize on this kind of story:

WASHINGTON — Rep. John Mica was gushing after the House of Representatives voted Friday to pass the big stimulus plan.

"I applaud President Obama's recognition that high-speed rail should be part of America's future," the Florida Republican beamed in a press release.

Yet Mica had just joined every other GOP House member in voting against the $787.2 billion economic recovery plan.

Republicans echoed their party line over and over during the debate: "This bill is loaded with wasteful deficit spending on the majority's favorite government programs," as Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., put it.

But Mica wasn't alone in touting what he saw as the bill's virtues. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, also had nice things to say in a press release.

Young boasted that he "won a victory for the Alaska Native contracting program and other Alaska small business owners last night in H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."

One provision would have made it harder for minority businesses to win contracts, and Young explained that he "worked with members on the other side of the aisle to make the case for these programs, and was able to get the provision pulled from the bill."

Yet later in the day Young — who recently told McClatchy that he would've included earmarks, or local projects, in the bill if it had been permitted — issued another statement blasting the overall measure.

"This bill was not a stimulus bill. It was a vehicle for pet projects, and that's wrong," he protested.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/having-it-both-ways-republicans-t...

that was very helpful.

Meet The Press: Gregory Repeats Healthcare Talking Points ALREADY Debunked By His Own Network
By Nicole Belle Sunday Feb 15, 2009 3:00pm

In the Russert days of Meet the Press, the Bush administration knew that it was the best venue for them to "catapult the propaganda" without taking those pesky follow-up questions or provide context. New host David Gregory didn't appear to be much of an improvement--at least when the administration in power were Republicans. Of course, now that the White House is inhabited with Democrats, Gregory seems to have found a journalistic need to question federal plans, even if it means reaching back to Republican talking points that were thoroughly debunked...by NBC colleague Keith Olbermann.

Gregory asked Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod about the part of the stimulus bill that will allegedly give the government the right to dictate medical practices to doctors, a outright fabrication conceived by Betsy McCaughey and furthered in the mainstream media by Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh. Heather did a post on Olbermann's dismantling of this particularly disingenuous slur against the stimulus bill at Video Cafe.

But even after his own network shows the falsity of the charge, Gregory still asks Axelrod to defend it...Hmmm...where is Gregory getting his sourcing for such a pathetic attempt at being a journalist? Drudge and Limbaugh? David, do you realize what this says about your credibility?

By the way, Betsy McCaughey has gone on record challenging Olbermann to debate her. While that isn't his typical format, I would so love to see that...

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/meet-press-gregory-repeats-health...

There's laughing and then there's laughing...depends.

Here is the headline he used when he posted the story about Rahm's brother and health care:

If You Might Ever Need Healthcare, This May Be the Moment to Really Start Worrying

Here's a LINK, even though it's the same article as above.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/39846

Submitted by gloryoski on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 9:55pm.
There's laughing and then there's laughing...depends.
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If you see me wearing nothing but socks, there will be laughing and then there will be more laughing.

I'm not sure I understand.

What's the issue?

trust Rahm and it would not surprise me if that extended to his family, and the guy also advised Clinton on health care. Also (and more rationally) if O is going be bringing new people into the health care mix, why not somebody with impeccable progressive credentials? That he has not would seem to be an indication that he's going in the same centrist direction on the issue.

Anyhow...I don't know. I am watching it. Now afterdowningstreet is worried. Maybe gd can provide clarification or I can find something elsewhere about more specific things to be worried about.

Military very bad, and tax cuts worse still....

The University of Massachusetts study is mentioned half way in this clip...

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&It...

February 15, 2009

Weapons programs re-branded as jobs programs
Military industry appeals to job-loss fears Pt2/2

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DON'T buy the twisted HYPE and LIES of the Pentagon -- they don't create jobs. Unless you're a soldier looking to step into the frontline as they carry out a casualty.

and a commenter presents further evidence from EE's book that he might be a good choice.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/14/183136/819/17/697639

Healthcare Guaranteed does a tremendous job of concisely explaining the whole range of issues at stake in our healthcare crisis as they affect all the parties involved. It clearly presents the pros and cons of all the various options that are part of the healthcare reform debate. For those of us who have stubbornly stuck to our belief that a national (single-payer) health system in the Canadian or British mold is the best option, or for those who believe that incremental change is the way to go, Healthcare Guaranteed presents convincing arguments for more comprehensive reform while still maintaining a market-based plan.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/7/142654/1705

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Sounds more like the work of CIA-funded cells and precursor Negroponte Death Squads.

Destroying girls schools "sells" well to Americans, so these attacks can be blamed on anybody the Militarists want to blame them on, serving as "justification" for MILITARISTIC FORCE and acts of destabilization against the entire local community, and by extension the region as a whole.

The Islamic 'extremists' would die on the vine (just as they did in Algeria) if they weren't given $upport. But who would gain by $upporting them? We don't have to look further back than 20 years when the CIA & Bzerzinski CREATED the Islamist radical movements using OUR tax dollars. Today's militarized jihadists --just like in the past leading to and continuing the Russia-Afghanistan Debacle-- are getting their $upport from the CIA or some other entity (Rightwing Shadow Government or Oligarchical Profiteers of Permanent War) because chaos and a mess serves the imperialists and war/disaster profiteers.

The Scam has been sold in the media and worked before and here it is again. And 60 Minutes is not asking one hard question about WHERE the Taliban and militarized jihadists get their funding!

Would it have been so hard to ask: Are the Taliban richer today because Bush allowed the Afghan opium business and trafficking to EXPLODE?

IMHO this sounds like the level of complication and ultimately pleasing no one that helped sink the Clinton plan. Maybe the Clinton plan had a lot of input from him in it. If he has the same ideas now, I don't like it.

http://www.pbs.org/now/news/315.html

Nope, the more I listen, the more I don't like it, or him.

Maybe she talked about it.

http://www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com/

Socialism! Socialism! Socialism!

(and mystery meat)

via Congress Matters

"this machine kills fascists"

Strait LSR

Breaking the 200mph barrier was the accomplishment
of Major Henry Seagrave. He drove the Golden Arrow
to a new record speed of 231.446mph (372.340kph),
at Dayton Beach, Florida. What made this car unique
is that it holds a special record of its own; the
least used car in history; having been driven a
total of onlyh 18.74 miles. Seagraves was later
knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his achievements.
Sir Henry also attempted to capture the water
speed record in his Miss England II boat,
when it hit a log in the water and capsized;
killing Seagrave and mechanic Victor Halliwell.

http://www.landspeed.com/classroom/classlsrhistory.html

Excerpt from another diary reviewing EE's book

Submitted by gloryoski on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 10:53pm.

Healthcare Guaranteed does a tremendous job of concisely explaining the whole range of issues at stake in our healthcare crisis as they affect all the parties involved. It clearly presents the pros and cons of all the various options that are part of the healthcare reform debate. For those of us who have stubbornly stuck to our belief that a national (single-payer) health system in the Canadian or British mold is the best option, or for those who believe that incremental change is the way to go, Healthcare Guaranteed presents convincing arguments for more comprehensive reform while still maintaining a market-based plan.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/7/142654/1705

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"Wheeeee. If it's GOOOOD for CORPORATIONS, then it's GOOOOD!" This must be the Emanuel Family Motto.

Disgusting profiteers! Profiteering from people's suffering and illness! Standing by while people SUFFER unnecessarily. These Coporatists willingly choose to negate humanity while embracing Corporate Profit! Counting their profit$ while children and mothers, the injured and the frail are in REAL PAIN and AGONY!

There are NO 'pros' to making people suffer unnecessarily--no matter how many books Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel wants to write, and his brother Rahm wants to promote, in an effort to PROPAGANDIZE against singlepayer healthcare delivery. To promote this tripe is to attempt to HIDE Corporatist profit motive under a tome's worth of meaningless amoral/immoral rationalizations!

ISN'T AN ARGUMENT AGAINST SINGLEPAYER HEALTHCARE SYNONYMOUS WITH BIGOTRY AGAINST THOSE WHO CANNOT PAY PREMIUMS? Folks, these Corporatists are BIGOTS!

Each situation becomes a situation that benefits the Militarist goals.

In this case, our lousy economy will benefit the Military because every choice made will benefit ONLY the Military.

Stimulus package not big enough to stimulate transportation, education, housing, infrastructure, and healthcare jobs? That's because the GOAL in a Militarist Society is to make the Military the "employer of last resort", and to Hades with every other category.

to serve the Biotech Industry. (The bioethicists were born wholly formed and with seats in universities, just on schedule to argue against the animal protection groups and revelations in outstanding books like Jeremy Rifkin's "Algeny", "Beyond Beef", and "Biosphere Politics".)

The Science Industrialists realized they could never argue amoral Industrial Science profit motives with the average person who is appalled by the inhumane, cruel, greedy, even sociopathic compromises involved in vivisection, genetic engineering, risk assessment, etcetera. So the Biotech Industry PURPOSELY created the institutionalization of a class of AUTHORITY figures -- The Bioethicists -- with whom the person on the street can hold no equality in a media debate on humane behavior on the part of Industrial Science, university studies which support industry (and through industry or directly, the military) whether funded privately or publicly.

That Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has this title is a RED FLAG from the git-go!!!

histerical. OMG what a fuck up.

In this interview segment (Part 2), the interviewer at The Real News points out that Obama has stated his roots are in the politics of Truman and Reagan. Does that mean Obama is, and always has been since he entered the national stage, in an open embrace with the "National Security State" that always needs an outside enemy (communism, terrorism, etc.)?

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&It...

(In the Part 1 of this interview vanden Heuvel suggests Progressives may need to disband from their current support-Obama state which they adopted during the election, and now, once again, take on positions devoting their full efforts to promoting their causes. I'm glad she said this, because what I see is Obama is not doing a very good job of showing the support Progressives gave him was completely deserved. He is not being INCLUSIVE in the construction of his Administration in regards to Progressives!)

referred to Nadya Suleman as 'Grand Cuntral Station'.

There. I have shared the joy he brings me.

February 16, 2009 - Roadblock Party Edition

This week the National Republican Senatorial Committee (1) takes top honors with its ongoing effort to prevent Minnesota from having two Senators. Elsewhere, The National Republican Trust PAC (3) is threatening to drive the final nail into the GOP's coffin, John McCain (6) is desperately trying to remain relevant, and The RNC (9) still isn't funny.

Cindy Sheehan's radio show today was on health care
Submitted by gloryoski on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 11:20pm.
Maybe she talked about it.

http://www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com/

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Thanks, Gloryoski, this was good!

Cindy Sheehan pointed out something that never occurred to me: The price tag on singlepayer (currently via Conyers' proposal HR 676) would not look so high if one considers that if all Americans get healthcare, no separate VA program will be necessary.

Historians Rank the
Submitted by toniD on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 7:28pm.

Of the more recent presidents, George W. Bush ranked 36, Bill Clinton was at 15, ***onald Reagan was 10,**** George H.W. Bush was 18 and Jimmy Carter was 25.

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Don't tell The Pseudo-Intellectual Titan Hartmann.

I actually agree with those rankings except for Chimp's ranking. I would put him at least in the lowest 3.

"If I had even a QUARTER of Dick Clark's money I would quit TODAY, and I would do NOTHING."
-Maron.
www.sigzone.blogspot.com

Aaaaarggggh. Never mind.

I just noticed that they put Harry S. Truman at #5. Utter bullshit. Truman is the most overrated president of the last century. I am tempted to write a book that decontructs the mythology that surrounds him.

"If I had even a QUARTER of Dick Clark's money I would quit TODAY, and I would do NOTHING."
-Maron.
www.sigzone.blogspot.com

Is it possible Obama will do to Social Security what Clinton did to Welfare?

This article also addresses the collapse of private pension plans and inadequacy of the 401(k) programs.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/126898/obama_will_fight_with_us_to_qua...

Obama Will Fight with Us to Quash the Campaign to Loot Social Security -- Right?

By William Greider, The Nation. Posted February 14, 2009.

Behind closed doors, powerful interests are pushing Obama to tap Social Security to pay for bank bailouts. How he responds will shape his presidency.

Governing elites in Washington and Wall Street have devised a fiendishly clever "grand bargain" they want President Obama to embrace in the name of "fiscal responsibility." The government, they argue, having spent billions on bailing out the banks, can recover its costs by looting the Social Security system. They are also targeting Medicare and Medicaid. The pitch sounds preposterous to millions of ordinary working people anxious about their economic security and worried about their retirement years. But an impressive armada is lined up to push the idea--Washington's leading think tanks, the prestige media, tax-exempt foundations, skillful propagandists posing as economic experts and a self-righteous billionaire spending his fortune to save the nation from the elderly.

These players are promoting a tricky way to whack Social Security benefits, but to do it behind closed doors so the public cannot see what's happening or figure out which politicians to blame. The essential transaction would amount to misappropriating the trillions in Social Security taxes that workers have paid to finance their retirement benefits. This swindle is portrayed as "fiscal reform." In fact, it's the political equivalent of bait-and-switch fraud.

Defending Social Security sounds like yesterday's issue--the fight people won when they defeated George W. Bush's attempt to privatize the system in 2005. But the financial establishment has pushed it back on the table, claiming that the current crisis requires "responsible" leaders to take action. Will Obama take the bait?

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Federal budget analysts try to brush aside these facts by claiming the government is merely "borrowing from itself" when it dips into Social Security. But that is a substantive falsehood. Government doesn't own this money. It essentially acts as the fiduciary, holding this wealth in trust for the "beneficial owners," the people who paid the taxes. This is the bait and switch the establishment intends to execute.

...

Peterson's proposal would essentially dismantle the Social Security entitlement enacted in the New Deal, much as Bill Clinton repealed the right to welfare. Peterson has assembled influential allies for this radical step. They include a coalition of six major think tanks and four tax-exempt foundations.

Their report--Taking Back Our Fiscal Future, issued jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation--recommends that Congress put long-term budget caps on Social Security and other entitlement spending, which would automatically trigger benefits cuts if needed to stay within the prescribed limits. The same antidemocratic mechanisms--a commission of technocrats and limited Congressional discretion--would shield politicians from popular blowback.

...

The real crisis, in any case, is not Social Security but the colossal failure of the private pension system. Most people know this, either because their 401(k) account is pitifully inadequate, or their company dumped its pension plan, or the plummeting stock market devoured their savings. Obama can protect himself with the public by speaking candidly about this reality and proposing a forceful, long-term solution. He should expand the guarantees that ordinary people need to get their families through these adverse times. Instead of taking away old promises to people, the president should make some new ones. Healthcare reform is obviously an important imperative, but so is retirement security.

...

Another great virtue is that a national pension would confront the country's glaring economic weakness--the collapse of national savings. As the economy digs out of its hole, restoring household savings will be crucial for ultimate recovery and for reduction of our dangerous dependence on foreign capital. Obviously, any system that adds a new payroll tax cannot be introduced at the depth of a recession, but the work of constructing it can begin right now, with the new system phased in gradually, as economic conditions permit. Instead of second-guessing the past and destroying its accomplishments, this reform would look forward and create conditions for a more promising future. Nobody gets a free lunch, and everybody has to take personal responsibility. But unlike what the governing elites are attempting, nobody gets thrown over the side.

[end excerpt]

How many more Afghans will die because of U.S. imperialism?

A look back on the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Soviet Presence in Afghanistan (1979 to 1989)...

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=91&task=vide...

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4363.shtml

The oligarchy’s bailout ball
By Michael Winship
Online Journal Guest Writer

Feb 16, 2009

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“Like spoiled, petulant children,” is how Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein described them. “These guys won’t be happy until the government agrees to relieve them of every last one of their lousy loans and investments at inflated prices, recapitalize every major bank and brokerage and insurance company on sweetheart terms and restore them to the glory days, so they can once again earn inflated profits and obscene pay packages by screwing over their customers and their shareholders.”

Pearlstein was reacting after the 5 percent dive that stock prices took following freshly minted Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s announcement of the Obama administration’s Financial Stability Plan. It’s the latest iteration of the bank bailout plan intended to go hand-in-hand with the economic stimulus package. Combined, as much as three trillion dollars may be at stake.

The plan immediately was attacked by many as too vague and ineffective. Part of the trouble, critics say, is that Geithner isn’t part of the solution, he’s part of the problem -- former head of the Federal Reserve in New York and a protégé of Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who last month retired as senior counselor at Citigroup. That’s the bank the government agreed to insure against projected losses of $306 billion, on top of bailouts totaling $45 billion. In other words, Geithner’s a player.

The New York Times reported that in preparing the Financial Stability Plan, Geithner opposed tougher conditions on investment firms sought by others in the White House. Geithner, the Times wrote, “successfully fought against more severe limits on executive pay for companies receiving government aid . . . resisted those who wanted to dictate how banks would spend their rescue money. And he prevailed over top administration aides who wanted to replace bank executives . . .”

This week, on The Baseline Scenario, a blog he co-founded, MIT professor of global economics and management and former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson wrote, “[snip]...Can this person, your new economic strategist, really break with the vested elites that got you into this much trouble?”

[end excerpt]

Rhodes, Nova M up in the air (updated)

After a vague, unexplained standoff that has seen Randi Rhodes absent from her syndicated Nova M Radio show for the past week, without explanation, her future at Nova M Radio is unclear.

From Nova M's site:

To all of Randi's listeners;

You are all correct - I have not had the option to disclose what has been happening between Randi and Nova M...

You see, it's in her contract that she has total control, but, after Wednesday night, I want you all to know that Nova M has done everything we can to get her back on the air.

All this is her choice; if she wants to tell you all what the issue is, then I hope she does, but I can't according to her contract rules.

But I can tell you this - I have wanted her back on the air. She's an amazing talent and needs to be heard.

Thank you all for all of your support.

Randi now has to make her decisions as to what she must do with her career...

Anita Drobny

There are conflicting stories (and a heck of a lot of rumors that have popped up in my email box but I won't disclose at this point) regarding the motives behind Rhodes' absence. However, the consensus is that her flagship station, Clear Channel-owned WJNO in West Palm Beach, FL, has been making preparations for her to return to a local-only show. It will likely not be syndicated.

Other rumors claim that Rhodes has cancelled her show until further notice, due to personal issues.

UPDATE 2/15: Rhodes sent out a statement to her affiliates, in response to the Nova M statement. From Green 960's blog:

Nova M Radio has not yet corrected the problem that has kept me off the air despite my strong desire and readiness to broadcast my show. Respecting the employer-employee relationship that has existed between Nova M and me, and expecting the solution to be quickly achieved, details of the disabling event were withheld in good faith. But I can tell you this much: You should not beleive any statement implicating me as being in any way responsible for the disruption in the Randi Rhodes Show. There is no truth to any such message. In fact, I did everything in my power to help Nova M make it possible for me to return.

In light of the most recent developments, my show will be seeking a new home. I would ask for your continued patience and indulgence in respecting my rights during this time. Your unwavering support is cherished. Thank you.

Randi Rhodes

Whatever happens between the two parties, and if and when and if Rhodes returns, it will likely be only via WJNO for the time being.

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/02/rhodes-nova-m-up-in-air.html

Diary addresses the need for whistleblower protection and repeated assaults on atempts to get it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/15/12933/8495/854/697827

Despite this being joked about in the Netherlands, the fact remains, it seems no indictments were issued against Americans; so, did they feel intimidated afterall?

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http://www.alternet.org/rights/127080/time_to_dump_that_bush-era_law_per...

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The US did not sign the ICC-enabling Rome treaty in 1998. President Clinton did sign at the end of his term, but President Bush repealed it. The Hague invasion act, passed under Sen. Jesse Helm's Foreign Relations Committee, calls for "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any US or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by … the International Criminal Court."

Richard Dicker, of Human Rights Watch in New York, says the act was part of an "ideological jihad" inside the Pentagon. "Passing a law enabling America to invade an ally was a … belligerent but not realistic posture; the meaning of The Hague act was more symbolic in its virulence against the ICC."

A symbolic law's lingering impact?

It is not lost on diplomats here that in recent years the Netherlands has been one of the most resolute states not to accept detainees now housed at Guantánamo. Some speculate if this position could be due in part to lingering resentment from the 2002 law. It is also unclear whether Dutch troops will stay in Afghanistan past 2010.

One controversial offshoot of the invasion law is called "bilateral immunity" – a policy requiring all states except Israel, Egypt, Taiwan, and those in NATO to sign a waiver stating that they will contravene the ICC if any Americans are arrested. Countries that don't sign the waiver forfeit US military assistance. The policy pressured small states to comply – whether or not they felt it proper.

...

Ellis suggests that Obama, a constitutional scholar, "realizes what this law means…. But we will have to wait to see how quickly [the new administration] can backtrack."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21906.htm

So, if we all got this, would we vote for Jeb Bush in 2012?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145777/Pill-erase-bad-memories-...

Pill to erase bad memories: Ethical furore over drugs 'that threaten human identity'

By David Derbyshire
16th February 2009

A drug which appears to erase painful memories has been developed by scientists.

The astonishing treatment could help sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder and those whose lives are plagued by hurtful recurrent memories.

But British experts said the breakthrough raises disturbing ethical questions about what makes us human.

They also warned it could have damaging psychological consequences, preventing those who take it from learning from their mistakes.

[end excerpt]

Consumer Prices May Post First Annual Drop Since '55:

U.S. Economy Preview Consumer prices in the U.S. probably posted their first annual decline since 1955 and new home construction fell further in January, economists said before reports this week.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aB0ulIeI8LxA&refer=e...

When I went grocery shopping the other day, I didn't see that food was that much cheaper. Some stor brands were cheaper but the name brands were more expensive.

Stimulus Plan Would Alter Depression-Era U.S. Unemployment Benefit System

The stimulus legislation would revamp the 74-year-old U.S. unemployment compensation program by encouraging states to give benefits to those who quit their jobs to care for ailing relatives.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=ahxW3gEcF8fM&refer=p...

we are facing a fork in the road: choose socialism or choose freedom.

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great clip 60th. its hard to understand why this man is allowed to stand on the floor of congress and spout this crap.

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in the middle of his spiel is the real gem. rollback taxes even furthur, get rid of capital gains, and eliminate the death tax. long live royalty.

did anyone catch the sam donaldson soundbite where he declared matter of factly that fdr and the new deal did not get us out of the great depression. of course that right wing canard went unchallenged.

clearly its been field tested for a while. it would explain why people still vote for conservatives.

if you had any doubts about the need to prosecute the bush crime family, then go read about how anal rape was a sanctioned part of their interogation scheme of "detainees"

Dems Fed Up With McCain: "Angry Old Defeated Candidate"ompr

Democrats are growing increasingly frustrated with the brash political attacks Sen. John McCain has launched against Barack Obama in the weeks since the new president took office. No one expected the Arizona Republican to be a legislative ally for this administration. But it was widely assumed that Obama's overtures to McCain in the weeks after the election would dull some of the hard feelings between the two. Now, they are realizing, it has not.

"He is bitter and really angry," Bob Shrum said of McCain in an interview on Friday. "He is angry at the press, which he thinks is unfair. He is angry at Obama and angry at the voters. He has gone from being an angry old candidate to being an angry old defeated candidate."

Indeed, during the debate over the economic stimulus package it was McCain, as often as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who spearheaded the opposition. The Arizona Republican denounced the proposal as pure pork on the Senate floor and introduced an alternative measure comprised nearly entirely of tax cuts.

On Sunday, McCain wouldn't let the fight die, even with the legislation through Congress. Appearing on CNN, he described the $787 billion measure as "generational theft" and said that the bill's authors should "start over now and sit down together."

Meanwhile, appearing on ABC's This Week, Sen. Lindsey Graham -- McCain's chief ally in the Senate -- said of the process by which the stimulus was forged: "If this is going to be bipartisanship, the country is screwed."

That two Republicans Senators who consider themselves prudent compromisers would forcefully condemn the president's top legislative priority is noteworthy in and of itself. That it comes after President Obama made overt gestures of reconciliation to both McCain and Graham raises questions as to just how long it will take for this era of post-partisanship to arrive.

Not to mention that, as other observers pointed out, McCain isn't being entirely consistent.

"During the Senate debate, 36 of the Senate Republicans voted for an alternative that would have cut taxes over the next decade by $2.5 trillion, [and] reduced the top marginal race to 25 percent," said the Atlantic's Ron Brownstein on "Meet the Press." "For John McCain -- who voted for that alternative of a $2.5 trillion tax cut over the next decade -- to talk abount generational theft, I mean, pot meet kettle."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/15/dems-growing-angry-with-m_n_167...

its only theft when you take from the rich is what they are really saying.

it is beyond belief that the party that ran up deficits that eclipse the stimulus package would now all of a sudden be against deficit spending as a way to get the economy back on the rails.

when is obama going to address the real issue? its time to rollback tax cuts for the wealthy and start funding government on a pay as you go basis.

that clip was a trip, hard to believe that guy was for real (who wrote his "rancid meat non stimulus" speech, the SNL team?) at one point he says "dr. doom deems them..." would sound cute in a song

conservatives keep saying they want to be treated seriously, that they have something to contribute to the dialog, and then they spew this type of nonsense...

did you catch olbermanns anatomy of a smear which deconstructed the dr. doom / universal health care will kill old people message, and traced it back to big pharma lobbying? just one more reason to regulate these companies out of existence.

..when Republicans are in power, they can't govern and when they aren't in power they make sure no one else does either.

...well it was something like that.

fdl - attaturk has a good post about choosing between being a socialist or a member of the republican taliban.

http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/16/keep-on-creepin-on/

somebody mentioned messaging yesterday and the need for the dem's to improve on keeping the message out there and in everyone's face as that was the key to the rethuglicans keeping and expanding their power over the past 30 years.

the idea that the republicans would fashion themselves as the party of the taliban shouldn't be allowed to quietly fade away.

dan yeah i know, i heard keith and how it was all debunked, and besides, consider the source

at the gym they had the screens on and fox was showing them all round table atwitter and up in arms about the fairness doctrine; this issue must scare them shitless the way they were going about it, with a pinch of the perpetual whineyness, ah and wahhh, the unfairness of it all, the fairness doctrine is unfair! (and did i mention even "fascist" as well?)

and just hire a bunch of good comedians to do what tina fay did with palin, just repeat verbatim whatever the party of cookoos comes up with during the week, wouldn't that be a good idea - sound "fair" to me

fairness doctrine fairness doctrine fairness doctrine

Galactic 10 (8-0.0.3.7)
Week 30/52
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yellow cosmic seed
~ kin 37 ~

ENDURE in order to TARGET,
TRANSCENDING AWARENESS
seal the INPUT of FLOWERING
with the COSMIC tone of PRESENCE.
guided by the power of ELEGANCE.

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◄ 12.19.16.1.16 ≈ can cib ►

tell the gym you want real news or the cartoon network or mtv, anything but fox.

fox provides the visual (not by choice)

where's everybody this morning

gotta go to work

see ya later

Had to take a nap because I was awake most of the night.

Good thing is I slept through Morning Joe.

And thank god I did, from what he just said about renaming the show.

What an arrogant ass he is!

Nuclear subs collide in Atlantic - 15 minutes ago
A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French submarine in the middle of the Atlantic, the MoD says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/7892294.stm

A nation of junkies hooked
on media-fabricated outrage

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Americans are so lazy that they won't check out the facts for themselves, falling heavily for media-fabricated outrage.

http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/126709/we_are_a_nation_of_junkies_h...

Chavez calls Venezuela vote
mandate for socialism

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President Hugo Chavez says a referendum victory that removed limits on his re-election is a mandate to intensify his socialist agenda for decades to come. Opponents warn of an impending dictatorship.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090216/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_refer...

I have been lurking. Toni, did you see Carl Bernstein on Joe Scar talking about how horrible it is to work in the senate? I found that pretty interesting.

Listened to Krugman on the span thanks to Glory's links thanks...pretty scary.

Love the John Dean quote MB....perfect!

om mani padme hum

Study: 'Astonishing richness'
in polar sea species

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The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all. A marine census released Monday documented 7,500 species in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic, including several hundred that researchers believe could be new to science.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_antarctica_bountiful_sea;_ylt=AulimjE6Vt1k...

Livni says 'no' to joining
Netanyahu-led coalition

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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni wrote in a private note captured by cameras on Sunday that her centrist Kadima party would not join any coalition government headed by right-wing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090215/ts_nm/us_israel_election;_ylt=ArtfP4...

Submitted by Bob Fertik on February 15, 2009 - 11:07am. Bush Prosecution

It's all about precedents, as nonny mouse writes so beautifully:

Those in our government who have committed war crimes must be aggressively prosecuted; not simply because we are legally obligated to under our own laws, and under laws and treaties our country was instrumental in establishing for the entire world. Not because this country’s reputation has been devastated by such acts of barbarity and inhumanity on the part of our leaders we would instantly condemn as those more apposite to tin-pot dictators and tyrannical madmen. It isn’t because we are morally obligated to pursue the ideals of justice on principle. It isn’t even because preventing such prosecutions would in turn make us all accessories after the fact, a position that fills me with a sense of both loathing and outrage.

It is vital for our survival as a nation, as a people, as a society, and even for the future of our entire world that we do so. Because in the words of Hannah Arendt, ‘it is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past’. She wrote that in 1963, and was speaking about the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, but what she wrote then, about a different time, a different nation, a different crime, hold true today. ‘It is essentially for this reason: that the unprecedented, once it has appeared, may become precedent for the future, that all trials touching upon “crimes against humanity” must be judged according to a standard that is today still an “ideal”’.

For if we do nothing, if we protect those accused of war crimes from investigation out of a misguided, even perverse ‘respect’ for the offices these individuals held, if we allow those who have abused the power of their office in order to commit war crimes to escape from being judged, claiming immunity for reasons of exigent circumstances, we establish a precedent. It isn’t enough to remember, it is necessary to also act, if we are to prevent history from repeating itself. The Dick Cheneys and Donald Rumsfelds and George Bushes will return, again and again, with different names, and different faces, but the same lust for violence and disregard for the rule of law that should be enforced to protect us all from crimes against humanity, and it will be those of us who established the precedent of bestowing immunity on the perpetrators of today’s war crimes from their acts who will be responsible for tomorrow’s crimes against humanity.

Link

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

the only thing surprising is that its british and french. traditionally we have two types of subs, ballistic missle subs and attack subs. the role of the missle subs is to go hide somewhere in the ocean and popup and fire their missles if we are ever attacked. the role of the attack subs is to find other subs that are hiding and dog them, being prepared to blow them out of the water before they have a chance to fire their missles.

That was, in fact, a huge
win for Obama last week

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Obama mowed down the GOP with a stimulus bill victory last week. The biggest mistake he can make now is to be too timid.

http://www.alternet.org/story/127082/that_was_in_fact_a_huge_win_for_oba...

Cheney Dunk Tank Raises $800 Billion For Nation

February 2, 2009

WASHINGTON—Organizers reported Sunday that the 44th White House Carnival was a rousing success, raising a record $800,000,066,845 for the federal government—$800 billion of which came from a dunk tank featuring former vice president Dick Cheney.

Cheney tells more than 200 million Americans to "throw or get the hell out of [his] sight."

According to Secretary of the Treasury and carnival volunteer Timothy Geithner, the 5-foot-deep tank has provided a much-needed boost to the nation's flagging economy.

"We expected a big turn out, but this is unbelievable," said Geithner, adding that it's tradition for the outgoing vice president to work the dunk tank. "More than half the country has already gone, and there's still about 20 million people stretching all the way to Maryland waiting for their chance to sink Cheney. We'll be leaving this booth open for as long as it takes for everyone to get a turn."

According to carnival sources, a visibly irritated Cheney, clad in sandals and a white cotton robe, arrived at the one-day event shortly before 10 a.m. After removing his robe to reveal a black, 1940s-style bathing suit, the vice president reportedly touched his hand to the water, muttered something to himself, and was then helped up the tank's ladder by several members of his Secret Service detail.

"All right, you candy arms, let's go," Cheney shouted at the line of people, which consisted of Americans, non-Americans, out-of-work autoworkers, teachers, luminaries from the science community, gays, lesbians, military personnel, members of Congress, children, and the entire Arab-American population. "Hey [former British prime minister Tony] Blair. I see you back there. Think you'll be able to stop crying long enough to throw the ball?"

Added Cheney, "You bunch of pansies couldn't hit a barn door if you were sitting on the handle."

Records show that the first dunk of the day came at the hands of Iraq War veteran Ben Hunter, whose throwing technique, Cheney repeatedly said, was reminiscent of his own grandmother's. After being goaded by the former vice president for several minutes, Hunter reportedly struck the tank's target on his third turn, plunging Cheney into the pool below and eliciting wild cheers from the roughly 150 million people on hand.

"That felt really good," Hunter told reporters. "I mean, really good. I'm going to get back in line and do it again."

Established in 1797, the White House Carnival was the brainchild of President George Washington, who wanted to raise funds for the burgeoning new republic. That year, citizens paid two cents apiece to watch Vice President John Adams jump into a nearby pond, an act that ultimately led to the dunk tank tradition.

Although past carnivals have raised anywhere from $50,000 to $60,000—just enough to pay for the carnival itself—tallies indicate that, thanks to Cheney, this year's record-setting proceeds could help steer the nation out of a deepening recession.

"The water's great," Cheney said moments after being dunked by third-grader Sean Biller, who traveled all the way from Denver for his chance to meet the former vice president. "Hopefully your unemployed dad can afford to give you money for another turn."

Unlike Biller, who carefully threw the ball at the bull's-eye, many citzens opted instead to aim directly at the head and chest of the 67-year-old politician.

One contestant who struggled to hit the target was Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). After nearly 20 unsuccessful tries, several of which involved Kerry standing well ahead of the thrower's line, carnival officials finally allowed Kerry to just walk up and press the button with his hand.

Other carnival highlights included "Crazy Rahm's Guess Your Weight" game, President Carter's face painting station—which raised $52.75—and Laura Bush winning her third consecutive demolition derby. Still, the main attraction was Cheney, who several times sprayed the crowd with a Super Soaker, suffered an estimated 1,396 assassination attempts, and once suggested that participants with weak arms be sent to Afghanistan "to toughen up."

"I think that son of a bitch was actually having a good time up there," said attendee and former press secretary Ari Fleischer. "Much different than in 2000 when Al Gore refused to take off his T-shirt."

While the dunk tank remained busy throughout the evening, reports from the other side of the White House lawn were less favorable, with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice having not yet received a single customer at her kissing booth.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/cheney_dunk_tank_raises_800

..more of "paraphrased with the best of intentions" kinda quote.

;-)

California legislators try
again to reach budget deal

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California lawmakers are still trying to pass a massive $42 billion budget-balancing plan after a marathon weekend session that produced some last-minute fireworks but no agreement on a key part of the plan -- $14.4 billion in higher taxes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090216/ap_on_re_us/california_budget;_ylt=A...

Cash-strapped U.S. patients
may be skipping drugs

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Americans with financial worries because of the ailing economy may be skipping needed prescription drugs in a wrong-headed attempt to save money, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090211/us_nm/us_usa_drugs_consumers;_ylt=An...

In practice, however, the policies currently on offer don’t look adequate to the challenge. The fiscal stimulus plan, while it will certainly help, probably won’t do more than mitigate the economic side effects of debt deflation. And the much-awaited announcement of the bank rescue plan left everyone confused rather than reassured.

There’s hope that the bank rescue will eventually turn into something stronger. It has been interesting to watch the idea of temporary bank nationalization move from the fringe to mainstream acceptance, with even Republicans like Senator Lindsey Graham conceding that it may be necessary. But even if we eventually do what’s needed on the bank front, that will solve only part of the problem.

If you want to see what it really takes to boot the economy out of a debt trap, look at the large public works program, otherwise known as World War II, that ended the Great Depression. The war didn’t just lead to full employment. It also led to rapidly rising incomes and substantial inflation, all with virtually no borrowing by the private sector. By 1945 the government’s debt had soared, but the ratio of private-sector debt to G.D.P. was only half what it had been in 1940. And this low level of private debt helped set the stage for the great postwar boom.

Since nothing like that is on the table, or seems likely to get on the table any time soon, it will take years for families and firms to work off the debt they ran up so blithely. The odds are that the legacy of our time of illusion — our decade at Bernie’s — will be a long, painful slump.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/opinion/16krugman.html?partner=rssnyt&...

om mani padme hum

Hospitals Scramble to Fend
Off Nursing Shortage

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US hospitals are running short of nurses as the high-pressure work pushes many to walk out, the AP reports.

http://www.newser.com/story/50904/hospitals-scramble-to-fend-off-nursing...

Is Jeb Bush criticizing
Rush Limbaugh?

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In an interview with Fred Barnes for the Wall Street Journal, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) advised Republicans to "avoid personal, partisan attacks" on President Obama.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/15/is-jeb-bush-criticizing-rush-limbaug...

Japan Pledges To Halt Production Of Weirdo Porn That Makes People Puke

February 10, 2009

TOKYO—Acknowledging its embarrassment over worldwide outbreaks of violent, uncontrolled regurgitation, the Japanese government apologized Wednesday to the millions of viewers who have been sickened over the past three decades by the revolting depravity of the nation's pornographic exports.

The response came after leaders of the world's 20 largest economies signed an accord threatening sanctions against Japan if international distribution of the nauseating materials did not immediately cease.

"We honestly had no idea people did not enjoy this stuff," said Cultural Affairs Minister Kazuhiro Nakai, expressing regret for the thousands of hours of bondage porn, rape porn, utensil-rape porn, food-rape porn, frozen-food-rape porn, vomit-enema porn, elder-care-coma-patient-rape porn, and the kind of a porn in which a nubile youth is kidnapped, stripped, tied down in a wading pool and raped. "We are deeply ashamed for whatever it is about these films that has made people around the world vomit so vigorously. Please know that the content was only intended to entertain and arouse."

Sources inside the Ministry of Cultural Affairs said Nakai, shocked by the recent development, is seeking to recall many of the products, including an estimated 27 million copies of select bukkake (splash), gokkun (gulp), and tamakeri (testicle-kicking) videos.

Officials have already met with leaders of Japan's $5.5 billion adult entertainment industry in an attempt to develop regulations that conform to some small standard of basic human decency. Attending the talks were the heads of several major studios, including WoundSexerCo, Maid Molest Universal, Innocent Schoolgirl Despoil Youngest Daughter Lips Plunder Incest Distribution, and Sunrise-Rape-Rape-Nihon.

The proposed new measures include a 50 percent reduction in live-eel anal insertions, and a requirement that portrayals of group sex involving seven or more individuals feature at least four human participants. Also under consideration is a zero-tolerance policy covering all "prurient uses" of colostomy bags.

In what may signal a chastening within the industry, leading film producer Golden Dawn Global issued a press release this week voicing its "humility and bewilderment" and offering to cease international distribution of its blockbuster series Pregnant Ladyboy Sodomized Facedown In The Rice Bowl, a 23-part epic that has reportedly left thousands of viewers feeling repulsed, defiled, and forever doubtful about the inherent goodness of mankind.

"I've seen about a million of these films, and each one is worse than the next," Portugal's José Randulfo told reporters after receiving treatment for dehydration, caustic chemical burns, and fractured ribs—the result of a 45-minute vomiting spell he suffered after renting Naughty Ginza Maids Drink Cocktail Of Refuse And Bile. "The doctors say it may take months before I remember what normal genitals look like, and even longer before I remember how they are intended to function."

"An apology from the government is fine, but how will they address the trauma I've already suffered?" asked Dallas resident Carter Landismann, citing the film Let's Underwear Shop In Chinbo-Sho Medical District. "This stuff is disgusting. Like this scene here, with the latex-covered girl and the wolf and—oh, God, I'm gonna be sick again!"

Although none of the studios would discuss paying reparations to those violated and debased by their offerings, they were eager to hear feedback from viewers.

"I feel just awful that our work was received in this fashion," said Takuya Ishiyama, creative director of Shonen Young Forcible Jump. "But I know we can generate content more suitable for an international audience, perhaps by removing some of the characters who get off by choking on vomit they've drunk from a rubber tube inserted into their partner's stomach."

Culture minister Nakai told members of the press Wednesday that his office would continue working to understand what other nations find objectionable about his country's pornography.

"So just to be clear: even the cartoon tentacle-rape stuff?" Nakai asked. "Even though it's only animated and the probing tentacles are clearly not real?"

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/japan_pledges_to_halt_production?ut...

I caught the end of the show when I got up, too, Toni. That renaming the show was a "hate email" suggestion from someone named Felix.

I rewound the Tivo so I could quote it.

Felix says Scarborough should rename the show to:

"Morning Round Up of Barack Obama's Most Recent Failures, With Special Emphasis on How He Renegged on His Promise of Bipartisanship and Was So Mean to the Blameless Republicans Who Tried So Desperately to Unite the Nation."

I think Felix is onto something!

"this machine kills fascists"

Republicans Shell Out
to Fight Franken

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After President Obama slipped a bill through Congress with just three Republicans’ support, the GOP is digging in to prevent a 59th Democrat from taking Minnesota's contested Senate seat.

http://www.newser.com/story/50865/republicans-shell-out-to-fight-franken...

I can't believe he even repeated it. What an ass Joe is.

Michele, I didn't see Bernstein, I just caught the very end of the show.

More Like Gandhi
Hendrik Hertzberg has a great piece on Obama's use bipartisanship as a political strategy:

"Fifty years ago, the civil-rights movement understood that nonviolence can be an effective weapon even if -- or especially if -- the other side refuses to follow suit. Obama has a similarly tough-minded understanding of the political uses of bipartisanship, which, even if it fails as a tactic for compromise, can succeed as a tonal strategy: once the other side makes itself appear intransigently, destructively partisan, the game is half won. Obama is learning to throw the ball harder. But it's not Rovian hardball he's playing. More like Gandhian hardball."

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/02/23/090223taco_talk_hertzbe...

A Party Fractured
CQ Politics: "Many of the right's grass-roots activists say the current political landscape offers little for them to get excited about. The GOP has no leader who's clearly capable of restoring the magical Reagan alliance of fiscal and social conservatives that fueled the party's strength for the better part of three decades."

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003052605

was a total fraud

and now that it has been exposed, reviving it is out of the question; they will have to come up with a new fraud (read mythical narrative) with which to bamboozle their stupid followers

Quote of the Day
"Look, once a decision was made by the Republican leadership to have a party-line vote -- a decision that I think occurred before I met with them -- then I'm not sure that there was a whole host of things that we were going to do that was going to make a difference."

-- President Obama, in an interview with Clarence Page, on "bipartisanship" in passing the economic stimulus bill.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/02/obama_im_an_opti...

Wow! If you think it gets a little dramatic between posters around here sometimes, check out the insanity over at DKos!

Apparently a disgruntled Kossack (DavefromQueens) started outing the idenities of Kos admins who he felt were unnnecessarily policing the threads and went off the rails in a fits of apparent obsessive rage that eventually got him banned for "outing" posters real names. This also resulted in weird spin-off anti-Kos and Kos reject protest blogs, a campaign to continue to "out" prominent Kos front pagers, apparently stalking Markos and his family, and the ultimate death of this guy from a heart attack. There are three posts on the rec list about it!

I had no idea it was so nuts over there. I read it just like any other blog, and, like any other blog, has it's pros and cons, but dayum!

He's Gone (updated, w/mucho meta)

Missing My Friend DaveFromQueens and His Passion

RIP DavefromQueens--Updated

Just a sample from the last one:

"It is now reported that he has just died of an apparent heart attack. [some people suspect foul play, but I don't think anybody has evidence of that at present]"

Foul play!!?!? You have got to be kidding me! ITS A BLOG!

**group hug**

"this machine kills fascists"

Huge,Huge.. ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

anybody see the article at snoozeweek:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/180043/page/1

by david frum.

don't sweat the small stuff...its all small stuff. Love, m

om mani padme hum

And,if you say as much on my blog,Your Outa Here !

You do alot of good stuff dude but,on Election Fraud
Get ya head out of ya ass,Markos..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

on Keynes? It was the podcast from the Monday before last Monday (show 373, "Meet the New Boss").

I just got around to listening to it last night. I'd love to hear what people who actually know about such stuff think of TAL's take on it. Theory and politics, not sex life. I can figure the last out myself. ;)

www.thisamericanlife.com

Hannity: "Illegal aliens are fleeing back across the border. Maybe they're afraid of socialism also."

(Never ceases to amaze....)

These are great songs and a nice mix!

Some I know, some I don't, but howabout spreading around a little L-U-V during these turbulent times.

"The Indie Rock Fag's" Top 17 Homo Love Songs

"Of the many annoying things about growing up gay — isolation, prejudice, having to wait until college to experience oral sex— I consider one of the most lasting injustices to be the queer inability to relate to popular love songs. While all your friends got to swoon over the latest top 40 radio hit — say, "My Heart Will Go On" or some similar drek — you couldn't quite get into it because it was a woman singing to a man. Or a man singing to a woman. Or any combination of genders that would eventually lead to someone's penis going in someone's vagina in the most hetero way possible.

Luckily, as my musical knowledge expanded I got the pleasant surprise of discovering that a lot of gay love songs did, in fact, exist. Most artists have a couple love songs in their repertoire and many artists are gay. Ergo, it is possible for the discerning queer music lover to make a mixtape this valentines day and not feel that they're bowing to straight privilege. So in my humble opinion these are the top 17 gay love songs: Each has either a queer singer or writer, or explicitly queer content. Feel free to add some (or tell me how wrong I am) in the comment box."

"this machine kills fascists"

Almost all nations south of the border are Socialist.

What a moron.

Huh ? :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

World.

Maybe Cheney's asinine comments were after his head hit the side of the dunk tank too many times at the white house carnival. ;)

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Axelrod: Cheney can't deal with the verdict of the American people

David Edwards and Joe Byrne - Published: Sunday February 15, 2009

The Obama administration is making it clear that Cheney and Rove are not in a place to criticize.

President Barack Obama's senior advisor, David Axelrod, was on NBC's Meet the Press earlier today, speaking both about the president's new stimulus package and responding to criticism from Dick Cheney.

Cheney has criticized the new administration's plans to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. "When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al-Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry," Cheney told Politico in an interview near the beginning of the month. "The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy." Cheney's full interview can be found here.

Axelrod hit back at Cheney this morning on NBC's Meet the Press. When moderator David Gregory first mentioned criticism from the former administration, an audible sigh came from Axelrod.

"If respect in the world is what we're after, I'm not sure that cause was advanced by some of the things that the [ex] vice president has said and done over the last 8 years. What he said here is really irresponsible," said Axelrod. This is not the first time the former campaign manager David Axelrod has had to respond to comments by the former administration. In an interview with the Washington Post on Friday, he said he was "disappointed in the vice president," adding that his criticisms were "tasteless". He also responded to Karl Rove's comments on fiscal ethics. "You know, the last thing that I think we're looking for at this juncture is advice on fiscal integrity or ethics from Karl Rove. I mean, anyone who's read the newspapers for the last eight years would laugh at that."

This morning, Axelrod explained that Obama "has announced a very methodical system for evaluating how we're going to close Guantanamo, how we're going to deal with those detainees...we can protect the American people and be consistent with the values that have animated this country."

Axelrod finished his discussion about Cheney by giving President Bush credit for being supportive on his way out of office, and repeating the remark used in the Washington Post interview about a memo for generosity not getting to Cheney.

This video is from NBC's Meet the Press, broadcast Feb. 15, 2009.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Axelrod_Cheney_having_hard_time_dealing_02...

President Barack Obama is refusing to be rushed into his first decision to send troops into combat, an early sign he may be more independent-minded than U.S. military leaders expected.

The new president's methodical decision-making offers an early insight into how the new commander in chief will approach the war in Afghanistan and has surprised some Pentagon officials, who had predicted repeatedly in the past two weeks that Obama would decide within days on additional forces, only to find the White House taking more time.

Rather than sign off quickly on all or part of a long-standing Pentagon request for three Army combat brigades and Marine units, totaling over 10,000 troops, Obama and his aides are questioning the timetable, the mission and even the composition of the new forces, officials familiar with the deliberations said.

The latest sign of crossed signals occurred Friday, when White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Obama "hasn't made a decision on augmenting our force structure in Afghanistan," three days after Pentagon officials said he would likely do so that week. Defense Secretary Robert Gates called Obama's deliberate approach on his first troop decision "entirely appropriate."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18888.html

Yesterday I heard this said: "It was really unreal."

Sure, I know that "really" is conversational English for "very" but I'd like to think that anyone who says "really unreal" would eventually have the thought, "Really unreal? How can that be?"

I found another definition for "really" which is "in truth." This definition probably applies to "really unreal" as often if not more often than the definition "very" applies to "really unreal".

I really don't know but I'm really curious.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/obamas-next-challenge_b_167...

President Obama managed to get a decent economic stimulus bill through Congress, despite nearly wall-to-wall Republican opposition. However, this victory was easy compared to the challenges that await the president and the country. There are three big ones: passing a second round of economic stimulus spending by late spring; stopping the epidemic of home foreclosures; and getting the banking system functioning again.

If Obama were being graded on these three challenges, he'd get an B-plus on the first stimulus package, and an incomplete on the other two.
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Grade inflation?

i hope it never happens to me!

i can see how people can get emotionally invested, even a little addicted, but ehm (dayum) not to that extent

something must be wrong with the person in question to begin with, independently from the blog, that's clear (maybe mhappe can make this a topic for her radio show)

i think the most violent we ever had was lucille threatening knifings or shootings if we ever get close to her and hers

contrast that to sederville niceness! and we were so gushy sweet on valentine's weekend

the real issue here is that limbaugh, hannity, oreilly, beck, savage, etc are never held accountable for their bullshit.

the reason immigrants are leaving is that the conservatives have killed the golden goose with the incompetence and greed.

Republicans Playing Catchup With Technology

From republican Melissa Clouthier's website via rightwingnews.com -

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RNC Changes Direction With New Technology Approach

Dr. Melissia Clouthier(what is her doctorate in?) - February 16, 2009

After getting our behinds handed to us throughout the last few election cycles, it’s evident that the Republican Party has many opportunities to grow and improve. For me, watching the Obama campaign win over and over in the technology arena was especially frustrating. The tools to influence and encourage, teach and reach out, raise money and awareness were there and our side simply couldn’t effectively utilize them.

Some things worked better than others. The McCain camp seemed very effective at getting a video response to some of the more egregious misinformation coming out of the Obama camp. Still, that is just one small part of technology as it applies to winning elections.

In addition, the message of the Republican party just didn’t resonate, either. So not only were the methods underutilized, the message just wasn’t cohesive, proactive and rooted in core principles. For a long time, some Republicans have felt increasing alienation from the party.

Well, the party leadership is changing under Chairman Michael Steele. Many of us are cautiously optimistic. Already, though, Chairman Steele demonstrates an understanding of these two issues–the message and the methods–being key to winning and he’s doing something about it.

On Friday, he held a Tech Summit in DC. Over the weekend groups were formed to put together the best ideas to help move the party in the right direction. Your help is needed. Your ideas will be considered and shared. You are welcome to comment here if you’d like to leave anonymous ideas. I will pass them along to the people who will be making the decisions.

If you would like to become more a part of the discussion, please consider joining these groups:

The GOP TechSummit(has promise but pretty lame so far)

http://goptechsummit.ning.com/

The GOP TechSummit Grassroots

If you’re a member of Facebook, you can participate in The GOP TechSummit Facebook Group

Part of the problem, of course, is that only 11% of the people on the internet read blogs, only a couple million are on Twitter, millions more are on Facebook and MySpace. Technology isn’t just online, though. Nearly everyone has a cell phone and can receive a text.

How do we get the newbies–grandma and grandpa, mom and dad, who have the time and inclination but not the education–involved? They can be part of the technological revolution, too, but will need help.

Those outside the blog-social media world need their voices heard, too. I encourage you to email your friends and family this blog post and get their ideas and forward them.

Winning elections means winning in the world of ideas, first. But the best idea, insufficiently shared will die alone. Technology is, at its essence, a means to share information. We Republicans need to do it better. This is a start.

http://www.melissaclouthier.com/

George Will's Bogus Climate Column: Where Did He Get His Data?
In a weekend WaPo column on climate change, George Will cited the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center in asserting "global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979." But the center immediately posted a response saying it's baffled about where Will got his data.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/where_theres_a_george_...

why? doesn't she have anything better to do here?

Newsweek: Blistering DOJ Report Calls Out Torture Memo Authors
A draft report by the DOJ's internal watchdog "sharply criticized" the work of John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and another lawyer, authors of legal memos approving torture, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports,<.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/184801

I love the Trump "Huge" thang..

But,I'm easily amused &/or horrified by the right-winged Buffoons..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

2. Slang So remarkable as to elicit disbelief; fantastic.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/unreal

I.e, "It was really/truly unbelievable/remarkable."

Unhinged On The Blog

Submitted by mire on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 12:03pm.

"i hope it never happens to me!

i can see how people can get emotionally invested, even a little addicted, but ehm (dayum) not to that extent

something must be wrong with the person in question to begin with, independently from the blog, that's clear (maybe mhappe can make this a topic for her radio show)

i think the most violent we ever had was lucille threatening knifings or shootings if we ever get close to her and hers

contrast that to sederville niceness! and we were so gushy sweet on valentine's weekend"

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A couple of people posted last year about some really paranoid whacked out mentally ill hermit in the northwest that used to be on this blog that was convinced that he was being tracked/watched by people on this blog & his neighbors in addition to the federal, state & local authorities.

My friend who does some professional work with people that have this type of paranoia says that they usually have a hugely inflated ego of their importance when the truth is that hardly anyone really cares what they do. In their mindset all the people watching/tracking them confirm their own egotistical hyper-inflated sense of importance.

Study Harder
I'm not sure what other ways he's going to follow in Newt Gingrich's steps. But GOP House whip Eric Cantor seems to have the megalomania and ego front down pat. He's been putting out word over the last few days that he's modeling himself off Newt and now apparently Winston Churchill too. And now there's this from the Post ...

But Rep. Eric Cantor (Va.), the House minority whip who led the fight to deny Obama every GOP vote for the plan, is studying Winston Churchill's role leading the Tories in the late 1930s, a principled minority that was eventually catapulted into power over the Labor Party. He calls the stimulus bill "a stinker."
Now, I guess it's possible this is the Post's error and not Cantor's. And even if it's not you'd think they might have corrected this point. But Cantor's handle on his new hero seems pretty thin.

In the late 1930s, of course, Great Britain didn't have a Labour government with a principled Tory minority. It had conservative Tory government with a Labour minority. And Churchill was on the outs with both, although on some fronts he was beginning to make common cause with some Labourites on his key issue, which was foreign policy. When Churchill eventually came to power it was in a national coalition government for the purposes of fighting the war. And when he eventually went to the voters as head of the Tory party toward the end of the war they got crushed by Labour in a landslide.

I say all this as a big Churchill fan. But, I mean, not only is Eric Cantor no Winston Churchill, I'm not even sure he's read a book about Winston Churchill.

--Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/02/study_harder.php

Representatives of the Bush White House are no longer advising former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove that he is protected by executive privilege as regards testimony about the alleged political prosecution of an Alabama governor. - Raw

and in a related story...

An internal Justice Department report on the conduct of senior lawyers who approved waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics is causing anxiety among former Bush administration officials. H. Marshall Jarrett, chief of the department's ethics watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), confirmed last year he was investigating whether the legal advice in crucial interrogation memos "was consistent with the professional standards that apply to Department of Justice attorneys." - Newsweek

Pork - the other white meat.

Rove not covered by executive privilege in political prosecution case, lawyer says

Exclusive by John Byrne - Published: Monday February 16, 2009

Lawyer: Rove won't take the Fifth if he testifies

Representatives of the Bush White House are no longer advising former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove that he is protected by executive privilege as regards testimony about the alleged political prosecution of an Alabama governor.

In an exchange with Raw Story, Rove’s Washington, D.C. attorney, Robert Luskin, also said Rove won’t invoke his Fifth Amendment right to protect himself from self-incrimination, if and when he testifies about the firing of nine US Attorneys and the prosecution of the former governor.

There's “been speculation that he would decline to answer questions on Fifth Amendment grounds,” Luskin said. “That's a personal privilege; he will not assert it.”

Asked if he had a comment on Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-VT) proposed “truth commission,” in which Bush officials would be offered immunity in exchange for testimony, Luskin said, “No.”

STORY CONTINUES:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Lawyer_Rove_wont_take_Fifth_if_0216.html

rancid meat

This is a great story with lots of information in it. :)

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Scientists celebrate dawn of Barack Obama's age of reason

Mark Henderson, Science Editor, February 16, 2009

Opening on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, the 175th conference of the world's largest science society was always likely to have a celebratory feel to it.

There was indeed a palpable buzz yesterday in the subterranean conference rooms of the two downtown Chicago hotels where the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is holding its annual meeting. The real excitement, however, has had much less to do with Darwin than with the most famous former resident of America's second city — Barack Obama.

This AAAS meeting has been a coming-out party for American scientists after eight years in which they have felt marginalised and ignored. Few sections of American society found George W. Bush's presidency quite as dispiriting as its scientists. From climate change to stem-cell research, the White House was at odds with researchers over virtually all the issues they most cared about.

President Obama has changed all that. With an extra $65 billion (£45 billion) promised for energy and research in his stimulus package, with new policies on global warming and stem cells, and above all with a list of appointments that includes some of the most glittering names in American science, he has transformed the mood of the nation's laboratories — and the mood of this conference.

Debates and lectures that would until recently have been ignored by the White House now stand a real chance of influencing policy. Al Gore, for example, was due to give the keynote address last night. The climate change campaigner and former Vice-President is an insider again now, and many scientists attending the AAAS conference are starting to consider themselves insiders too.

In his inaugural address, President Obama promised to “restore science to its rightful place”. When announcing his science team, he said that “promoting science isn't just about providing resources — it's about protecting free and open inquiry. It's about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology.” US scientists feel that they finally have in Mr Obama a president who not only supports and values what they do, but who also understands them.

“This Administration is looking at science very differently,” said James McCarthy, the AAAS president. “He [President Obama] sees the value of science not just as a way of keeping those strange members of our society employed who want to go off and do quirky things. It plays a really important role in decisions this Administration has to make. He is really valuing the product.”

Sean Carroll, a geneticist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Wisconsin, who gave last night's plenary lecture at the conference, said that the mood had changed overnight. “We haven't ever seen a president talk about the role of science in our culture quite in this way before,” he said. “It's a sea change, and an inspiration.

“The past eight years have been a dark period. Very well-established science, like that of climate change, was denied. There was pressure to alter the work of government scientists. The promotion of areas such as stem-cell research was thwarted. In the realm of science education, intelligent design got a lot of attention, and even encouragement, from the President. That is ridiculous and also demoralising. These were horrible errors, and sent a terrible message to young, aspiring scientists.”

That message is already starting to change. Just three days after President Obama's inauguration, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first human trial of an embryonic stem-cell therapy, which had been held up for months.

He has allowed states to impose strict fuel economy regulations, which Mr Bush had blocked. The US is now expected to lead, rather than to obstruct, efforts to negotiate a new world climate accord in Copenhagen at the end of the year.

There is also great excitement at the President's choices to fill key scientific roles in his Administration. As the AAAS conference opened on Thursday, the Senate began confirmation hearings for John Holdren, the nominee for chief scientific adviser to the White House, and Jane Lubchenco, the nominee for head of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Both are eminent environmental scientists with impeccable academic credentials. Professor Holdren is a former president of the AAAS, and Professor Lubchenco is a marine biologist. Her predecessor, appointed by President Bush, is an admiral.

As Energy Secretary, the President chose Steven Chu, a Nobel prizewinning physicist who is among the world's most creative thinkers about renewable energy.

“The appointment of talent is spectacular,” Professor Carroll said. “He's not just got good people; he's got some of the best people who walk the planet to join his team.”

Professor McCarthy, an oceanographer at Harvard University, said that he was particularly impressed with the speed with which this team had been assembled, and that so many stellar scientists agreed to serve. Both were signs of the seriousness with which Mr Obama takes science. “Obama picked and announced it during his transition period. That is, to my knowledge, unprecedented.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5728204.ece

Crank: I think they mean this _unreal_
Submitted by gloryoski on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 12:24pm.
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There is a maxim shared among professional linguists that says that spoken language evolves toward more easily articulated sounds.

"Really" is a more easily voiced adjective/adverb than most of the options that it replaces.

You gotchyer voiceless bilabial fricatives on the one hand and you gotchyer voiced coronal lateral fricatives on the other hand...but I keed the gloryoski.

After you read and understand the following, you can explain it to me.

http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-phonetics-topics

You're going all Dale Ernhart Jr. on us. Your all over the road wrecking half the field just to make ass of yourself.

O - snafu... Nevermind.

Economy Hurting Bush Legacy -- Literally
By Eric Kleefeld - February 16, 2009, 12:07PM
The lousy economy is now hurting George W. Bush in a pretty direct way: U.S. News reports that fundraising has slowed down for the Bush library, making it difficult to meet the $500 million goal.

The situation is so bad that Bush has had to personally make phone calls to raise money, along with his father and Karl Rove, in order to meet the deadline of a 2013 construction.

Bailout, anyone?

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/02/14/george-w-bush...

Git ur guns & holsters ready for goen 2 church!

"nuttin like fondlin my warm gun durin services"

(now think of or play the banjo theme song from the movie 'Deliverance' when reading this story)

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Arkansas considers allowing concealed weapons in churches

by Muriel Kane - Published: Saturday February 14, 2009

A bill moving through the Arkansas state legislature would allow worshippers to bring concealed weapons into churches if the church has approved that as its policy. At present, holders of concealed weapons permits cannot bring guns into bars, schools, government facilities, athletic events, or houses of worship.

The controversial legislation, which passed the Arkansas House this week and is now pending before a Senate committee, was introduced by Rep. Beverly Pyle in response to several recent church shootings. However, its most active supporters insist that their primary concern is upholding the separation of church and state and that the state does not have the constitutional right to prevent churches from setting their own rules.

The bill's strongest opponents appear to be the pastors themselves, One minister, Ken Burton, suggested there were political motivations behind the legislation, telling the Baxter Bulletin that "he’s aware of staunch political affiliations between candidates for public office, elected officials and the National Rifle Association’s pro-gun platform."

Several ministers are concerned about the negative effect that concealed guns could have on the peace and tranquility of church services. Pastor Ron Rector suggested, "Some places still need to be sacred, and that is one place I hope would remain sacred."

Rev. Mark Lenneville similarly noted, "It’s not in line with what we believe theologically and has not been the tradition for Christianity through the centuries. Often, the church is viewed as a sanctuary where the government does not have power and authority, a place where people could seek sanctuary from the government and other outsiders."

Law enforcement officials are already permitted to bring weapons into places of worship, and Rev. Jim Freeman, in an op-ed for the Arkansas Times, suggested, "If the safety of those attending worship is the real issue, then uniformed security personnel -- armed or not -- would be a far greater deterrent to violence than the possibility that someone with a permit to carry a concealed weapon might actually have done so at any given service of worship. Further, if there were to be an incident inside a place of worship, what would someone with a concealed weapon do? A confrontation between armed individuals could put bystanders at far greater risk."

Pastor John Phillips, who was shot in the back 23 years ago by a relative of a parishioner, agreees that the carrying of guns by parishioners would not necessary be helpful in that kind of situation. He stated to the Associated Press, "People are not going to react the way they think they're going to react in the heat of the moment. It was utter chaos when I was shot."

Freeman concluded his op-ed by noting that "Christians worship a God who, in the person of Jesus Christ, died a horrific death for the sake of the world. For this reason, Christians are called to live lives of greater vulnerability to the world, not greater safety from it. As long as anyone is at risk from gun violence -- students, teachers, doctors, law enforcement officials, elected leaders, cultural or ethnic minorities -- the church has a share in that risk and an obligation to demonstrate the resolve for love over violence."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Arkansas_considers_allowing_concealed_weap...

"Happiness Is A Warm Gun" - John Lennon

Oh no. No no no. Once I got out of Historical Linguistics with a B, that was the end of that shit.
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Add: Not fer nuthin' does that same prof teach vampire courses. (Don't ask.)

Hillary Warns North Korea -- And Slams Bush
During her overseas trip to Asia, Hillary Clinton simultaneously warned North Korea about their nuclear program -- and blasted the Bush Administration for creating the conditions that have helped it get this far. "There is no debate that, once the Agreed Framework was torn up, the North Koreans began to reprocess plutonium with a vengeance because all bets were off," said Clinton. "The result is they now have nuclear weapons, which they did not have before."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/15/AR200902...

YouTube Begins to Kill Off Video Download Tools

Sunday, February 15, 2009 - by Michael Santo

When we wrote about YouTube's paid download initiative, currently being tested, it should have been obvious that there are plenty of ways to download YouTube videos for free, so why would anyone pay for this? Thing is, when we wanted to download a video earlier, the downloader I tried (TechCrunch's, which has been around for years, and which pops up at or near the top when doing a Google search) didn't work. Uh, oh.

We wanted to download the video from YouTube because the YouTube video kept sitting there, with a apinner, rather than playing. It was probably due to the traffic, but it annoyed us. So, the desire to download it.

While other sites seemed to work (yes, we used another one), TechCrunch's failed. TechCrunch seemed to think it had been singled out, saying:

It’s possible that YouTube was just disabling a certain technique of creating links to their video files that we happened to use, but it’s more likely that they singled us out (our tool has become very popular, and ranks second when you run a Google search for “download YouTube“).

When asked why our tool was being disabled, A YouTube spokesman referred us to this portion of the site’s Terms of Service (the company had a similar response when they sent us a Cease and Desist back in 2006):

Section 5. Your Use of Content on the Site

Part B. You may access User Submissions for your information and personal use solely as intended through the provided functionality of the YouTube Website. You shall not copy or download any User Submission unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the YouTube Website for that User Submission.

It's not surprising that YouTube would begin cracking down. In fact, I wasn't aware of that ToS clause listed above. So will downloading YouTube videos now become as frowned upon (to put it mildly) as BitTorrent? Hard to believe that YouTube could close all the holes to downloading (there are so many ways, and many of them free, and still working, when we tried recently).

It's not even clear that people are going to want to pay for user-generated videos from YouTube. While Google continues to try to monetize YouTube, it's also true that Hulu, with far less traffic than YouTube, is reportedly catching up to YouTube in terms of revenue --- and fast, due to the fact its content is movies, TV shows, and the like.

http://hothardware.com/News/YouTube-Begins-to-Kill-Off-Video-Download-To...

Report: Obama To Form Auto Task Force, Drop "Car Czar" Plan
President Obama will reportedly appoint a special task force, co-chaired by Tim Geithner and Larry Summers, to oversee the restructuring of the auto industry, replacing the prior proposal to appoint a single "car czar." This comes as General Motors and Chrysler face a deadline tomorrow to submit a business plan for how they can become viable again after receiving $13.4 billion in aid from the Bush Administration.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/02/wrapup_3-obama_forming_aut...

Cornyn: Coleman Knows How Important Keeping The Seat Is To Us
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), the chairman of the NRSC, told the Politico that Norm Coleman will keep contesting the MInnesota Senate race "however long it takes" -- and it's important to the GOP. "I encourage him to see it through the end," Cornyn said. "He feels like he owes it to the voters of Minnesota and his colleagues here. He realizes how important retaining that seat is to us."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18832.html

...specifically, "rancid mystery meat"...and, more specifically, rebranding rancid mystery meat......and, even more specifically, Eric Cantor.

Imagine what it must be like to be a young impassionate Republican trying to successfully patch together and repackage stone age ideas with new technologies.

I read a piece or two somewhere last night (I'll try and hunt them down, but so far, no luck) about how the Republican "whips" are the new stars of the party. The post even went on to say that Cantor was ripping off Obama on his new website (below). It is pretty similar in overall structure, though definitely not as nice. Repubs are certainly still flailing in trying to come up with ways to make themselves seem more culturally and pop-culturally relevant. Considering how far behind they are and how little competent effort they really expend however, it is difficult for them to succeed in doing anything beyond lazy plagiarism and cheap tactics.

To me the following seems to be more of a rip off in the vein of the brazenly pathetic "Steele Democrats" campaign. Note the overwhelming use of blue and lack of the typical GOP branding.

You be the judge:

Republican Whip

Barack Obama

I'll bet that within the year we start seeing GOP infommercials.

"this machine kills fascists"

I just ran into this one:

http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/IMPASSIONATE

Verb: impassionate - im'pa-shu-nut

To affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of

Adjective: impassionate - im'pa-shu-nut

1.Without passion or feeling

2. Strongly affected

huh?

"this machine kills fascists"

This week will see the release of the third benefit CD for the War Child organization, dedicated to providing aid to children in regions affected by conflict and poverty. This latest one, entitled War Child: Heroes, consists entirely of covers with the musical legends such as Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson and David Bowie choosing one of their songs and an artist to cover it. The resulting collection of talent involved is breathtaking.

Con't

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

NEW THREAD UP HERE:

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/4425#comment-308208

NEW THREAD UP THERE

More word paradoxes, Crank...
Submitted by 60th Street on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 1:20pm.
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You cite an excellent example of two different (albeit similar) sounds having different etymologies eventually melding into the same sound while the etymologies remain different.

It's no wonder that some people are impassionate toward English while other people are impassionate toward English.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6DVeyKyL-Q

http://www.algonet.se/~poby/Single1970-Labio-Dental%20Fricative.htm

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