Mike's Blog Round Up
Rounding the final turn towards the finish line of this week's round up, it's Alex from Martini Revolution.
Left and Right Blogostan were girded for a Battle Royale between Young Ezra Klein and Fraulein Konzentrationslager, after Ezra offered to debate her on the merits of the S-CHIP in a venue of her choosing, but the raging Malkintent declined Ezra's offer, with a curious mixture of rage, insanity and cowardice. Wonder why she's afraid? Perhaps it's better she didn't accept the challenge, since it appears Malkin and the other members of the Batshit Crazy community who jumped little Graeme Frost may have been mere sockpuppets for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. And here's a Malkin Haiku to go with it all.
When Wingnuttia is done with the Frost family, Seeing the Forest eyes who's next.
Another shock – it would seem that Ann Coulter is a religious bigot, and she's not alone, either.
Speaking of Coulter, here's an excellent read on why Coulter is better than Malkin.
We mentioned Bush pressing for immunity for Telecom companies lawbreaking in yesterday's roundup, but the blogosphere now is buzzing about some Democrats seeming willingness to give Shrub what he wants, and efforts to stop them.
If you've been looking for Pam Leavey's Democratic Daily without success, try its new web address.
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The rich get richer.
Gap between rich, poor seen growing
Income disparity reaches highest since 1920s, paper reports, with recent Wall Street boom partly to blame.
October 12 2007: 9:56 AM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The income gap between the wealthiest and poorest Americans grew to its widest level since the 1920s, according to a report published Friday.
Citing Internal Revenue Service data, the Wall Street Journal reported that the wealthiest 1 percent of all Americans earned 21.2 percent of all the nation's income in 2005, up from the previous high of 20.8 percent in 2000.
If you turn on CNN Headline News right now you can see a rerun of last night's Larry King Live show and the guest is Colbert.
Coulter is better than Malkin because she's less confusing. Both of them are horrid excuses for human beings, but Malkin is the only one who runs the risk of ending up on the business end of my di........
Concerning the proposed retroactive immunity to the telecom companies:
If the Dems cave on this one, that's it. I will NEVER support this pussy party again. Caving in to a fratboy president with a 27% approval rating because they're scared the Republicans are going to go "BoogaBooga, it's the terrorists" again. Don't they understand that even if they DO give Bush everything he wants the Rebubs are STILL going to use the terror card, because it's all they have left, and they're even losing that, since the majority of Americans agree that the telecoms should NOT be given immunity. Look, I don't agree with this bullshit that we have to vote for the Dems because we don't have an alternative. I have an alternative - I am going to stay home and party on election day in 2008, as I watch the stupid Dems lose their ass to the Republicans because they won't do the things that we elected them to do. We helped those mother-fuckers retake the House and Senate last year, and now they piss all over us. Well, fuck them. I hope they choke on this vote. Every left-leaning Dem blog should constantly ream the asses of all these traitorous Democrats for selling out our constitutionally-given civil rights because they lost their backbones after 9/11. I have voted Democratic since 1974, when I turned 18 years old, and I have never hesitated to support my party. But now I don't think I can, because they have turned their backs on me. This isn't just the Blue Dogs either - it's nearly ALL of them. Why are they so afraid when the people of this country want to see real change and not just a rubber stamp for Bush and the Republican Party? The logic is so twisted it borders on the moronic. And now that we have the revelation that the head of Qwest Communications was railroaded into a conviction because they wouldn't agree to give the government illegal wiretaps- even BEFORE 9/11- makes this vote even more inane. I originally was born and raised in Chicago, so I know what a fighting Democrat is, and it looks like about the only ones left are on this and other lefty Dem websites. I guess I will have to start trying to find a way to get enough money together to move overseas somehow, because I don't think I can live in this country anymore, and I love my country more than any of these phony "patriots' do, who are constantly trying to scare our citizens with their false terror alerts and dire predictions of flaming office buildings and dirty bombs. But I have a feeling that even if this bill is passed that the anger from us will become so great the the idiots in the Democratic party will have to realize what a colossal mistake they have made. They cannot ignore us any longer. Funny, Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right-wing nutjobs seem to realize how powerful we really are, because they are truly scared of the Dem netroots, since they saw what we did in the last election and also what we are doing to the lies and half-truths they broadcast (re:the Frost family, phony soldiers,etc.). But the Dems just can't seem to get it. It has been said that the next national election will be for the Dems to lose, and it looks like they are headed down that path. If this is what has become of my once-beloved Democratic Party then goodbye and good riddance. Fuck them all! If I want a Republican I'll vote for a real one or I'll just stay home and not vote at all, since it looks like voting isn't doing me, or the rest of us, much good anyway
Dom, line breaks are cool. It wears the eyes out to read paragraphs with no breaks.
Here's another segment with Lynn Cheney.
Weaseldog@6:
Sorry, but I'm so pissed about this subject I just can't worry about line breaks. I can barely keep from throwing my PC across the room - and I can't afford a new PC!
Dom @ 7:
I feel your pain.
Watchdog of C.I.A.Is Subject Of C.I.A. Inquiry
By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE
The focus is on the work of the agency's inspector general, who led aggressive investigations of its detention and interrogation programs.
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Can it get any more bogus than this!
Turks Angry Over House Armenian Genocide Vote By SEBNEM ARSU
Turkey recalled its ambassador and threatened to withdraw its support for the Iraq war in response.
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It's getting even messier.
I just read some of Malkin's rant about Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize, and no surprise there. But take a look at the comments. YIKES! Malkin is bad enough, but when every single post (OK, I found one pseudo-science "I am a scientist" comment, but I read over half of them before puking) is about how they hate Gore, his weight, and their take on the NPP.
No useful dialog at all. None. Interesting how the NPP is now useless in their minds, and yet Rush had his staff "nominate" him for the very same. (Note to readers: Rush was never nominated... you can't get your 5th grade class to officially nominate you.)
Where do the comments from the right, like "Liberals don't want to talk about the issues" come from? I read C&L, MMFA, Democratic Underground, etc and see mostly dialog. I venture over to Malkin, or Town Hall and see nothing but hatred and crap writing.
Where can I find useful conservative dialog?
Dom @ 7:
Dom, you're a dude after my own heart. Can we stand in the airport security line together? Where are Americans still welcome, Canada? Australia?
Just today I'm freakin about this very insidious threat to our freedom called data mining. Thanks for reaching out and ranting. BTW loved the "pussy party" term!
And good on Qwest for having a major brass pair on 'em. Heroes!
Hi Scott, as tempting as it might be to say there isn't any useful conservative dialog, my real response is that you will have to identify who is a paleo conservative or goldwater conservative to get close to what you are looking for. Or was your question rhetorical?
two cents.
scott...Where can I find useful conservative dialog?
Nowhere!
Telecom immunity is not about the Dems giving the Shrub what he wants...it's about giving the big money contributors what they want.
C'mon...you think the politicians represent the people.
Why oh why do we cover these topics with the same level of navel gazing over and over again.
I was glad to see the ADL come out and condemn Coulter's comments (see link below). Many like myself, were wondering if the ADL would just ignore it. I'm glad to see that they have not. It looks like Annie is pissing off a lot of people these days. If this does not prove to everyone what Coulter actually is about then nothing will.
ADL Condemns Ann Coulter's Comment That Jews Need 'To Be Perfected'
"Ann Coulter may be a political pundit but she clearly knows very little about religious theology and interfaith issues. Coulter's remarks are outrageous, offensive and a throwback to the centuries old teaching of contempt for Jews and Judaism. The notion that Jews are religiously inferior or imperfect because they do not accept Christian beliefs was the basis for 2,000 years of church-based anti-Semitism."
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/5149_12.htm
Regarding the Coulter article, Deutsch seems unable to comprehend that Coulter actually believes what she says concerning Christians and Jews [and anything else, for that matter]. As Deutsch says a number of times, she is educated and should know better. But the point is, which Deutsch seem unwilling or unable to accept, is that Coulter does NOT know better. Not only does she believe it, she is quite upfront about it and sees no reason to apologize for her hate-filled rhetoric. This is why, despite what so many people seem to think, Coulter should not be ignored because if she is, her statements will go unchallenged and be accepted as being true.
Whenever the demagogues like Coulter, Malkin, O'Reilly, et al continue to spew their venom, it then seems to confirm what Sinclair Lewis said which, and I am paraphrasing, that fascism will appear in this country waving the flag and wrapping itself around a cross.
do-si-do @ 13:
Close to rhetorical, and yes, I think they would have to be paleo. I'd still really like to know where the smart conservatives write or comment. It makes me ill to read anything on the recently discovered (by me) Town Hall, where racists, sexist homophobes are the majority of the posts. Of course they are responding to racist, sexist homophobic writers, but still, WTH?
Their heroes are draft dodgers at best and war criminals at worst. Why do they hate real science so much that they have to hate Al Gore winning a NPP? Every time some con mentions Junk Science, I have to let them know that their favorite web site is owned by big oil.
scott @ 11:
Try the men's room.
scott @ 11:
Conservatives and Liberals have more in common than Conservatives and Neocons do.
Neocons have taken over the Republican Party have turned it fully into a Corporatist Party. Now it doesn't even pretend to push a Conservative viewpoint. Its spokes-things simply regurgitate the word conservative, as though they understand the meaning, and this fools the 29 percenters.
I think you'll find that most real conservatives have been pushed left, and can be found on blogs like this one. I think of 'Liberal' as meaning 'Freedom Loving', which is of course a curse, in neocon speak.
I used to think I was a conservative. Then one day I discovered that the Republican Party doesn't seem to believe in any of the ideals that I consider to be conservative ideals. Like adherence to the US Constitution and Rule of Law. A Government For the People, By the People and that Fiscal Responsibility stuff.
I guess that because I believe that The People should have more rights than the government, I am now a liberal.
"The Raging Malkintent." Perfect.
scott @ 11:
Here is one:
Eric Margolis - a gentleman who brands himself a conservative.
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