Mike's Blog Round Up
Greetings and salutations, minxes and mondains. Melissa McEwan, aka The Pink Petulance, coming to you from Superblogger Headquarters, where SuperKos is delegating responsibilities before taking off for Planet Newsweekia. It's busy busy busy at Superblogger HQ, and I've just been told that Captain Atrios needs to discuss staff rotation at Battlestation Alpha with me, so I haven't much time. Down to business:
Scout Prime takes stock of NOLA, two years after Katrina: On America, progress, empty lots and empty promises.
Coturnix has everything you ever wanted to know about Nigersaurus, the Mesozoic Cow, a fossil soon to be unveiled at the National Geographic in Washington, D.C.—and an "open access" dinosaur!
John Rogers contemplates life under robot overlords. Steven Perez, for one, welcomes them.
PSoTD has some advice for Comcast email users, which got me thinking: What's more annoying—spam, or the "arrogant and invasive" deterrence of it?
In the War on Christmas: Adorable Girlfriend reports that Lowe's has apologized for referring to Christmas trees in its holiday catalog as "family trees." Oh, the horror! Meanwhile, there's not going to be anything left for secular heathens to do if Christian hawkers of tacky shit continue to cheapen Christmas with garbage like Treetop Jesus.
Glenn Greenwald has the goods on what was an important day for FISA and telecom amnesty. Also, Jane. Libby would like to be encouraged, but is still searching for style over substance.
And some Quick Hits: 9/11 Tourette's: A Case Study … You're Not Terminated, F---ker … To Hell With Tiny Pants … and Nice Guys Redux.
Seeya tomorrow! If you've got any hot tips, email me at shakespeares_sister at Comcast dot net.
How many Billions of dollars are we going to throw down the rat hole before we dralize the War on Christmas can't be won?
*realize
What I want to know is why these people aren't upset by the WAR ON ThANKSGIVING that's going on right now. This All-American holiday is being marginalized by a horde of people who want us to skip over it and go straight to Christmas. Will this horror never end? Where is Loffa-Boy when you really need him?
For the life of me I cannot understand any of this silliness about the "war on Christmas".
Hell, I don't care what my neighbor wants to call the day or what anyone else wants to call it.
Just like the day I was born will always be my "birthday" to me while it's just another day to everyone else. That's fine.
December 25th will always be Christmas to me, but you can make it, call it, do it, not do it, celebrate it, not celebrate it, it doesn't make a damned bit of difference to me. Why should it to anyone else?
Scout Prime's post was really great
The only thing more fun than the war on Christmas is the war on Americans with each other.
Silly me, I thought this country's swing to the right was over!
What's a tree-top Jesus? Do you shove an asherah up his ass?
Sorry, His ass.
Blue Lensman @ 7:
tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-vgsn6d8IQ
Stores started putting Christmas decorations up here in SC the day before Halloween. I was busy and waited until Oct. 30 to do some last minute Halloween shopping and couldn't find anything. I could have bought a Christmas tree though. Ridiculous.
Btw,
Happy Yule.
Holee Sheeit, that Terminator thing looks totally lame.
And remind me again how fox is a paragon of maturely and respectfully presenting the female body? Feminist media scholars are going to have a field day with those promo posters.
Since TSCC will be airing on Fox, I can only hope that it fails miserably. Unfortunately, I have a feeling that it will be a big hit. I also get the feeling that the new terminator will be fighting the bad guys while dressed in very revealing outfits. Maybe part of her mission is to serve as eye candy for John Connor. Btw, would it have killed the actress playing Sarah Connor to hit the gym before filming began? She looks like a strong wind might knock her over.
If we institute a surge of another 20,000 troops we will win the War on Xmas in a couple more Friedmans
It’s busy busy busy at Superblogger HQ, and I’ve just been told that Captain Atrios needs to discuss staff rotation at Battlestation Alpha with me, so I haven’t much time.
Whatever you do, don't let Arianna off the mothership.
xoxo Liss you're doing a GREAT job at the round up.
Poor Are Lagging in Hurricane Aid From Mississippi
By LESLIE EATON
The state is the only one for which the Bush administration has waived the rule that 50 percent of its federal grants be spent on low-income programs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/us/16mississippi.html?th&emc=th
CoIntelPRo @ 17:
You expected something different from the poo flinging Chimpy McFlightsuit?
Taking a broad view of this topic of fascist corporatist spying on the American people by the Bush gangsters since they stole our Democracy in 2000, here are a few more words:
Broaden yourself beyond bird-watching and try the exciting new hobby, fascist-watching…
In the back of the last two issues of The Bird Watcher’s Digest, there were articles that suggested the filling your car’s trunk with a variety of natural history guides, including books on variously, insects, mammals, reptiles, wild flowers, shrubs, trees and even rocks and minerals and geology. All to equip you for any natural history questions of identification or understanding which might come up on your driving bird-watching field trips. The articles were trying to broaden the horizons of many traditional bird-watchers, who often watch only birds, and ignore other life forms.
This is all well and good, but I have a modest suggestion on how bird-watchers can really broaden their horizons: by getting into the exciting new world of fascist-watching. Fascists have been springing up in 21st century America like wild mushrooms after a heavy spring rainstorm. Actually, fascist-watching is very easy; you don’t need any binoculars, spotting scopes or field guides; you don’t even have to go outdoors at all; you simply turn on your cable or satellite-fed television set and you will see many fascists, squawking and screaming, fussing and fuming, sliming and smearing, jiving and lying. These fascists can be often spotted on three major corporate propaganda channels, Fox, MSNBC and CNN, which masquerade as “news” channels. If you care to go further afield (so to speak) you may visit some of the many so-called “religious” channels, which are mostly just spewing christo-fascist intolerance and hate for any and all that don’t agree with their every pronouncement… If this doesn’t satisfy your urges for fascist-watching, you can always turn to CSPAN most any afternoon and listen to Ms. Dana Perino, the cute new blonde secretary for the fascist Liar-in-Chief, El Supremo Busho.
As you will soon discover, there are many different kinds of fascists to be seen, beard, identified on television and then added to your “life list.” Christo-fascists, fearmongering-fascists, corporatist-fascists, imperial-fascists, neocon-fascists and war-fascists. Seen ‘em, identify ‘em, collect their images, take some field notes and soon you will be an expert fascist watcher. You may even spot a clucking chickenhawk or two. Then you can give ‘em “the bird”…
Nobody Asked Me, But...
james k. sayre @ 19:
The Jesus tree topper! Bahahahahahahaha!! Thanks C&L!
Missed email that is undelivered without viewing by spamfilters has the potential for a much higher cost to organizations than spam. Spamfilters are a necessary evil, but they shouldn't be set very aggressively and should allow the recipient to review what is being undelivered on their account from time to time. Failure to do that is not a benefit of the email recipient, but a cost savings for the ISP.
The FISA bill is most important...but also most depressing. The Christmas thing is at least amusing. The Christmas tree was, of course, a pagan feature that slipped into Christianity despite great opposition. (It got to England as late as the 19th century thanks to Victoria's German husband; it got to the Vatican City late in the 20th century only when a Polish Cardinal was elected pope; for a long time the USA's colonial Christians forbade, not just Christmas trees, but even the celebration of Christmas itself.
After all, the vernal equinox had always been a pagan celebration. December 25th was chosen as the day for celebrating Jesus's birthday (no one knows when he really was born) only because it had previously been celebrated as the birthday of Mithras, and Rome's Christians wanted to sway allegiance from the pagan's redeeming god to theirs. Think of it as Karl Rovian dirty tricks of the politics of religion.
This being said, we all know how Republicans like Haggard, Craig, Allen, Gannon feel about sodomy. So it makes perfectly good sense that they would want to jam an image of Jesus down on the erect pinnacle of a pagan Christmas tree. They'd probably consider it, not an insult and sacrilege, but a tribute and a gift.
The Biggest Problem Of Them All
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