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balloon juice: More on doing, versus doing well

feministe: Caitlin Flanagan in NYT: Pregnancy is punishment, but you should also be sure to regret abortion and adoption for good measure, you slut.

3 quarks daily: What to do about our democracy's obsession with sexuality

digby: Take the test, then go over to Roger Ailes for the answers

no more mister nice blog: I have a better idea...how about not running at all? For anything?

gristmill: McCain on climate and coal in Michigan

the opinion mill: Bookchat

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Sha_Rules's picture

Jorge Brush was here!

chris's picture

NBC to appeal to keep Kucinich out of debate
If the candidate is excluded, judge threatens injunction stopping debate

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22656153/

PBS still rules. So much for US democracy that's being spread around the world with the help GE (NBC parent company) laser guided peace enforcing missile.

L.A. Confidential's picture

30 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against investors seeking to sue businesses for scheming to manipulate stock prices of publicly traded companies.

Preacher Boob's picture

Conspicuously absent from PBS' review of the Kennedy assassination last night, 'Oswald's Ghost', was the REAL story of the assassination.

It turns out that one of the combined CIA/Mafia attempts to kill Castro, was to get him to smoke an exploding cigar. Johnny Meyer, Howard Hughes' pimp, and Richard Nixon's brother, known as 'The Idiot's Idiot', made regular trips to Havana to partake in the midnight shows of the only remaining underground girl/pony club. They took the CIA's rigged cigar to Cuba, but Che Guevara caught them at the Donkey Club, and threatened to send films he had made of their previous participations in the midnight shows to US MSM, unless they took the cigar back to the US enclosed in one of the boxes of Cuban cigars Kennedy was still regularly ordering from Castro, personally, even all during the Cuban missile crisis.

Close analysis of the Zapruder film, without any preconceived biases, shows that Kennedy was smoking a cigar during the Dallas ride, holding it down near his feet except when he puffed, and had just lifted his cigar to his lips when it exploded.

So Oswald was innocent. And the real assassins, behind the scenes, were Richard Nixon, Howard Hughes, William Colby (CIA Director), Sam Giancana (Chicago Mafia capo), and Che Guevara.

Case solved (FINALLY).

Che's Lounge's picture

Don't expect me to go to Balloon jiz. I'll go to the TV first.

That test was fun but when I got to who had been accused or convicted of what, I got totally lost. I didn't realize so many had been.

Preacher Boob's picture

Maybe we could start cutting down on abortions, if we started teaching girls what causes pregnancy.

Preacher Boob's picture

There are only two things we can do about the US's obsession with sexuality:

!. Fu*k

2. Su*k

Rusty Shackleford's picture

Preacher Boob @ 7:

Maybe we could start cutting down on abortions, if we started teaching girls what causes pregnancy.

No way man, all we need to teach them is that abstinence is the only choice! Let 'em draw the negative inference for themselves.

L.A. Confidential's picture

Don't worry. The Bush “Stimulus Package” is on the way.

"The biggest and most obscene hyper-inflationary swindle ever perpetrated on the American people. It's a $100 billion, taxpayer-funded, bailout that is being slapped together at breakneck-speed to forestall a collapse in consumer spending, an exodus of foreign capital, and a painful slide into recession."

$250 "freebie" for every taxpayer

Preacher Boob's picture

I ain't taking no more tests, and you shouldn't either.

The last time I took a 'political test', they cut off my phone, stole my hard drive, broke into my home at 2AM, rolled me in a carpet, stuffed me in the back of a U-Haul, and, thirty-two hours later, rolled me out in a D.C. alley.

'And, Punk', they shouted, as they drove off, 'This is just a warning. Next time, Gitmo'.

Che's Lounge's picture

Preacher Boob @ #4

You forgot the space aliens. If you look real hard at the Zapruder film, you will also see a spaceship floating just above the motorcade pointing their stupid ray at the car. But it was deflected by the CIA's secret Area 51 shield and hit you in the brain.

Stupid comment solved.

Preacher Boob's picture

The current US goverment is just like a slot machine.

You put a lot of money in, and every once in a great while, you get a little back.

And when you get a little back, it's made into a REAL BIG DEAL, with bells ringing, buzzers buzzing, lights flashing, all kinds of cheers and congratulations. In other words, a big Con.

The question is, Why? Why aren't there rehab centers for those addicts who participate in this travesty?

With this administration and the billionaire club mob, make no mistake...
everything is premeditated, nothing is by accident.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against investors seeking to sue businesses for scheming to manipulate stock prices of publicly traded companies
--> While China, Saudi and the Bush Foreign mob continue to take control of our banks, infrastructure and public institutions

Wholesale inflation shot up in 2007 by the largest amount in 26 years.
--> Making it difficult for struggling american families and their ability to donate to candidates.

On the race.....Watch out and monitor
...those who are behind the presidential candidates:

John McCain
Henry Kissinger
Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state, covert operative and lifelong Bush ally
Robert “Bud” McFarlane, Reagan/Bush national security adviser, Iran, Contra
William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard (neocon)
Alexander Haig, Reagan/Bush secretary of state
George Shultz, Reagan/Bush secretary of state, Hoover Institution, Bechtel
Brent Scowcroft, Ford, George H.W. Bush's national security adviser
James Woolsey, former CIA director
Lawrence Eagleburger, George H.W. Bush's secretary of state
William Ball, Reagan administration Navy secretary

Rudy Giuliani
Kim Holmes, former George W. Bush assistant secretary of state, Heritage Foundation
Louis Freeh, former FBI director
Stephen Yates, former deputy assistant to Dick Cheney
Norman Podhoretz, Hudson Institute (neocon)
Kenneth Weinstein, Hudson Institute
Numerous individuals connected to the neocon Hoover Institution and Heritage Foundation

Mike Huckabee
Huckabee has been secretive about his team. Among the names floated so far:
Ed Rollins, Republican operative
Frank Gaffney, neocon
John Bolton, George W. Bush U.N. ambassador?

Mitt Romney
Cofer Black, former CIA and George W. Bush state department counter, terrorism officer, vice president of Blackwater USA
Alberto Cardenas, lobbyist and former chairman of Florida Republican party
Roger Noriega, George W. Bush assistant secretary for Western hemisphere affairs
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R, Mich.), ranking member, House Intelligence Committee

Preacher Boob's picture

McCain's innovative solution for the US coal business, the auto industry AND solving the 'green' problem:

Build cars out of compressed coal dust, and when they become obsolete, burn 'em.

VOILA! Nothing left for the landfill.

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earl's picture

#14 Smiths:
You missed David Frum as RudyGhouli's "Foreign Policy" advisor ...

and why is one Network (MSNGE) trying so hard to keep one candidate out of a debate? This is beyond bizarre ....

L.A. Confidential's picture

Preacher Boob @ 13:

The current US goverment is just like a slot machine.

You put a lot of money in, and every once in a great while, you get a little back.

And when you get a little back, it's made into a REAL BIG DEAL, with bells ringing, buzzers buzzing, lights flashing, all kinds of cheers and congratulations. In other words, a big Con.

The question is, Why? Why aren't there rehab centers for those addicts who participate in this travesty?

I'm just calmly, and sadly I might add, waiting for the stock market crash. Waiting for the wave to hit.

Paul D's picture

Want to see debate clips from all the most recent debates? Want to have access to all the debate clips the morning after each debate?

http://debates.redlasso.com/dbt

kathleen's picture

Edwards closing in in Nevada...even though the corporate media has been ignoring him for over a year
http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/15/is-an-edwards-surprise-looming-in-nevada/

kathleen's picture

earl @ 17:

#14 Smiths:
You missed David Frum as RudyGhouli's "Foreign Policy" advisor ...

and why is one Network (MSNGE) trying so hard to keep one candidate out of a debate? This is beyond bizarre ....

Been happening all year Dan Abrams

earl's picture

kathleen @ 21:

earl @ 17:

#14 Smiths:
You missed David Frum as RudyGhouli's "Foreign Policy" advisor ...

and why is one Network (MSNGE) trying so hard to keep one candidate out of a debate? This is beyond bizarre ....

Been happening all year Dan Abrams

Yeah, I realize that (ignoring, marginalizing with UFO questions ...) but trying to overturn a judicial ruling is even beyond that ... I listened to DK for a half hour on
national radio up north here, he made perfectly good sense ... much more than the freaks and blowhards in Corporate Media who are trying to stifle him ... I jsut dont get why they bother pretending its a 'fair democratic' process when it so clearly isnt ...

CoIntelPro's picture

L.A. Confidential @ 10:

Don't worry. The Bush “Stimulus Package” is on the way.

"The biggest and most obscene hyper-inflationary swindle ever perpetrated on the American people. It's a $100 billion, taxpayer-funded, bailout that is being slapped together at breakneck-speed to forestall a collapse in consumer spending, an exodus of foreign capital, and a painful slide into recession."

$250 "freebie" for every taxpayer

then I guess I'll be going shopping really soon, so I can save walmart. NOT!

Batocchio's picture

Love that quiz!

jr's picture

the feministe post is really good

peaceful easy feeling's picture

earl @ 17:

and why is one Network (MSNGE) trying so hard to keep one candidate out of a debate? This is beyond bizarre ....

Possibly because that "one candidate" has already thrown his support to Obama? ;)

CoIntelPro's picture

Bill Clinton Supports Disenfrachising Minority Union Voters in Nevada Only AFTER the Culinary Union Workers Supported Obama 1/16

CoIntelPro's picture

chris @ 2:

NBC to appeal to keep Kucinich out of debate
If the candidate is excluded, judge threatens injunction stopping debate

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22656153/

PBS still rules. So much for US democracy that's being spread around the world with the help GE (NBC parent company) laser guided peace enforcing missile.

and they have no shame about suppressing democracy, even though they have diebold.

Preacher Boob's picture

Bush in Saudi Arabia this AM, 'Some people view me as a warmonger'.

But, he protested, he's not. He's a 'Peacemaker'.

Then he got down to business, trying to get folks on his side to Nuke Iran, ignoring all the facts in the NIE, as part of his

'Peace Through Unilateral, Pre-Emptive, Nukular Strikes' program.

Wonder what his 'plan' is for the de-radioactivation of the world? He'll make it up as he goes along.

Preacher Boob's picture

L.A. Confidential @ 10:

Don't worry. The Bush “Stimulus Package” is on the way.

"The biggest and most obscene hyper-inflationary swindle ever perpetrated on the American people. It's a $100 billion, taxpayer-funded, bailout that is being slapped together at breakneck-speed to forestall a collapse in consumer spending, an exodus of foreign capital, and a painful slide into recession."

$250 "freebie" for every taxpayer

This plan is contingent upon the Chinese approving the credit rating of the US consumer, before they make the loans. Despite the outstanding negative credit balances of the US public, they were going to approve the 'pity' loans, until they considered the financial record of the financial manager of the American public, the US Treasury, which is 'Deplorable', according to the Chinese auditors. So, as usual, everything's 'Up in the Air'.
(Bush may talk King Abdullah into putting the recovery program on his personal Visa)

Preacher Boob's picture

L.A. Confidential @ 16:

F.D.A. Says Food From Cloned Animals Is Safe

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/business/15cnd-clone.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

One of the cloned, GM-altered animals is a horse, and the horse said, 'The F.D.A. is full of sh*t'.

Preacher Boob's picture

I'll bet the churches would approve a plan to genetically modify each little girl born so that she grows a penis, which is retained until marriage, at which time the religious person performing the wedding ceremony bites off the penis, revealing the glorious, virginal delight awaiting the hairy-palmed, unfortunately sanity-challenged, groom.

actor212's picture

Heartbreaking Credit Stories

Poor people literally die for their credit cards.

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