Mike's Blog Round Up
By bluegal Saturday Aug 25, 2007 10:00amMike Finnigan here. Back layin' in da cut for the first time in three months. I want to thank the intrepid bloggers who stepped up and took care of the Roundup so spectacularly while I was away:
The Vagabond Scholar, Batocchio; Cernig at The Newshoggers; Simbaud of King of Zembla; Joe Ivory Mattingly, The Heretik; Lambert at Corrente; Jon Perr from Perrspectives; the Satirical Political Report's Don Davis; Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; William Wolfrrum; Mark Hoback of The Aristocrats; and my "go-to" sub on many prior occasions, the versatile, always charming, sometimes enigmatic, but consistently fabulous, Blue Gal. That's an All Star lineup, folks. I'm gonna spend the next couple days rounding all of them up! I would be remiss if I didn't also express my gratitude to our fearless leader John Amato and the hardest workin' woman in the blogosphere, Nicole Belle.
Vagabond Scholar: Congratulations on your blogiversary, my friend! Two years in blog years is like five years to a regular human.
The Newshoggers: Re-Framing, Iraq Style
King of Zembla: Right-wingers, disgusted by government waste-and-fraud, seek reflexively to replace it with corporate waste-and-fraud -- at a substantial markup.
The Heretik: Welcome to 'dumb all over again'
Corrente: Lambert's blog
The Satirical Political Report: Al Sharpton claims Michael Vick was framed by a white pit bull
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How's Obama working out for y'all?
Obama names Republicans he'll work with
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070826/ap_po/obama_ap_interview;_ylt=AulRI7...
Taliban Raise Poppy Production to a Record Again
By DAVID ROHDE
A record crop in Afghanistan is likely to renew debate on the United States' troubled counternarcotics program.
[how about the whole fucking war thing?]
obamma just another waste of space!
hadenuf @ 1:
Obama lost me when he supported LIEberman over LaMont. He also proposed nuking Iran. So , just like hillary, I vote him out in the primary.
Democrats Take a Tough Line on Florida Primary
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
The Democratic National Committee voted to refuse to seat any Florida Democrat at the 2008 convention if the state party did not delay its primary.
[I think Adam has it wrong - again! the DNC doesn't want florida to move-up the primary date.]
Welcome back, Mike! How was your tour with my man Joe Cocker? I would do almost anything to be able to tell Joe how much I love his music. He is one of my all time favorites. When I want to be in a party mood, I always crank up Joe's music.
All the people you mentioned did a fine job of dealing with the roundup, but still, we all missed you a bunch. :)
Beijing Air Raises Questions for Olympics
By JULIET MACUR
Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, said some Beijing Olympic events might be postponed if the pollution would put the athletes at risk.
"China is making decisions today that will affect its energy use for the next 30 or 40 years. Unfortunately, in some parts of the government the thinking is much more shortsighted."
- NOUREDDINE BERRAH, an energy expert at the World Bank.
only the chinese will be adapted to the pollution. that is, if one CAN adapt to pollution.
The Sharpton link has it listed as a correction (the blog that Al Sharpton was quoted from was "determined to be a hoax", just thought you might want to know.
Welcome back, Mike!
MSNBC quotes from a blog named The Satirical Political Report and they don't think maybe the site is a joke site? That's funnier than the pretend story on the satirical site.
How many other times have they quoted from a site before checking out the info before printing it and they didn't catch their mistake? That's the not funny part of this.
Mike's back!
WooHoo!!!
:)
(HillCountryGal)
Mike:
Welcome back from your tour!
It's really not "my blog," though. Could you change the link to just Corrente?
And looking at the lineup... Yes, that is pretty spectacular, isn't it?
Obama doesn't have the necessary experience to be the Prez.....maybe in a few more years ...but not now.The guy is smart....he's just inexpeirenced....at this level..The last thing we need is another inexperienced politician at the helm.
Hey Mike, welcome back!
You know we would all do it again for ya. But we'd all rather you did it :-)
Regards, C
Great to have you back, Mike; hope your European tour was all you had hoped for. And thanks for inviting me to help out during your absence.
pissed off patricia @ 10:
Patricia, Do you by any chance have a copy of the link to the original version that mistook my satire for real news (before their correction)? That truly is unbelievable.
Welcome back to the best B-3 playa' on the planet, not to mention the best blog rounder-upper!
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Shame on C & L, linking to something that Satirizes Sharpton like that--implying that every time he opens his mouth he's "playing the race card" to damn whites and defend undeserving blacks. That kind of simple-minded, knee-jerk comedy ignores the many good points Sharpton makes about the ongoing realities of white supremacy, as well the many other good points he makes that don't relate to racism.
Welcome home, Mike honey. Next time you go on tour with Joe I'm sending you a bigger stick with which to beat off the groupies. Glad to have you back even for a bit and you know you can depend on the depth and versatility of your back-up singers of the blogosphere. xo
willie mink @ 19:
Agreed. And sure perhaps Sharpton should have apologized for the Twana Brawley incident but you don't see Bush's base throwing him under the bus and satirizing him for not apologizing for a lie based war that has cost countless innocent lives and trillions in our tax dollars....not to mention Katrina, lawlessness, incompetence and rampant politicalization and cronyism.
Leave the Sharpton bashing for the reich wing blogs. We have bigger fish to fry.
I apologize in advance for going off topic (well, sort of), but I think that this is news that should be listed in the next blog roundup.
I have some Truth Videos and Music available online and my downloads are being disrupted by someone or some group that is making an attack called "poisoning the torrents". What they do is they make fake seeds and fake peers - this "poisons the torrent" because it can bring the downloads of others to a crawl.
I'm not sure what if anything can be done about this, but I betcha this kind of activity is going to pick up in the future - so the progressive community needs to address it.
Here are the links to two of my poisened torrents:
Redneck Paradise Nero Format/643mb
DJ RCG's Rebel Music for Hip Hop Patriots - Bin-Cue Format/562mb
If some of you can patiently download these and help seed these files then it will help to fight this attack. Thanks.
welcome back, mike, and thanks so much for the opportunity to fill in for you! i enjoyed myself, and a free skippy t shirt is yours for the asking! alas, medium only! that's all i have left!
You're too kind. Welcome back! Umm, afraid I don't have any T-shirts, though. ;-)
Oh, and we all get by with a little help from our friends. ;-)
"Leave the Sharpton bashing for the reich wing blogs. We have bigger fish to fry." I told my wife that there were sure to some who wouldn't find this funny. Apparently, satirizing lefties is off limits. I like Rev. Al, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna ignore his checkered history put him or any other political figure on a pedestal. That's what wingnuts do.
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Mickey Finn @ 25:
Amen, Mr. Finn, and thanks for your support.
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