"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it
with every weapon of communal stupidity." - Robertson Davies
Open Thread below...
UPDATE: John Amato: The Giants upset the Packers in an amazing game and go to the SUPERBOWL! Wow...23 below zero with the wind...Jimmy Johnson is a joke.
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My newest video - a new strategy for Obama...
Dammitdammitdammit!!!
(Just guess what team I wanted to go to the Super Bowl...) :-)
That game was hard to watch because it was soooooo cold!
Go Big Blue!!!!!!
Oops...
http://stranahan.com/2008/01/20/obama-and-your-mama/
liberalista @ 3:
Tell me about it!
(I live an hour's drive south of Green Bay.)
First!... to say that I wish it were the Redskins, but the Giants have the best shot at creamin' those snot-nosed, Beantown punks!
Not that you should take Chuck Norris seriously, but even he thinks McCain
isn't fit for the job. The U.S. is still trying to pin the insurgency on Iran.
Go Pats!
Hey I'm an Eagles fan, you can't expect me to root for the GIANTS!!
The Giants have won an amazing 9 games in a row on the road, and now they will play a Patriots team they match up well with, one they almost beat in the regular season. The animosity between NY and NE in baseball is now gonna be repeated in the SB.
The Pats are a team of destiny. They wont lose to the Giants, and they would not have lost to the Packers, either.
I'm pretty sure the Patriots will win the Super Bowl. They're a damned machine.
But kudos to the Giants for going into the ice box and beating the Pack.
Is there any home field advantage stronger than Lambeau Field in January?
wow the giants and the patriots in the superbowl. that's great! if you live in the frickin' northeast corridor...the rest of the country is just f*cked!
Geez, a Manning in the Super Bowl two years in a row, and it's not Peyton defending his title!
I feel sorry for Brett Favre, throwing that interception so quickly in overtime, but it was nice for that Giants kicker, Tynes, to be given the opportunity to redeem himself on a 47-yard try after missing that 36-yarder with 4 seconds to go in the 4th.
Either way, Go Pats! skippy's right; it's great for the frickin' northeast corridor. The rest of you can watch if you like. This will certainly pit neighbor against neighbor up this way, so it should be fun.
I'm not looking for Fox's Super Tuesday/Super Bowl melange, however, or Cleatus the Dancing Robot...
better luck next year AndK........look on the bright side.......(I know theres a bright side...it's just I can't think of it right now)....OH Yeah......you guyz did alot better than most teams.....and you have something to build on.And the Niners and the Packers play each other next year.....Farve ain't goin anywhere.......with the wind chill it was 24 below.................that had to affect his arm...
Ronald Reagan was an idiot and an asshole.
The myth was not the man, and this country suffered under that morons leadership.
His presidency opened the doors and set the stage for what we are having to endure today.
May his soul be lay trapped in his rotting stinking corpse for eternity.
I love the San Fransisco Giants!
What, they aren't from SF?
Never mind!
Oh, BTW:
The Pats are going to win again this year. Might as well get on with your lives know that you know... ;)
Big Pats fan here. I think the Pats will win, but its gonna be close.. probably 34-27, something like that.
While I'd love to see the Patriots lose (for their cheating, their arrogance, shear jealousy, etc), I think just getting the '72 Dolphins to shut up might be worth another N.E. win.
I'm still laughing at the trash can takedown at the cardinals match a couple of seasons back 8)
I wouldn't want to be in Packerville tonight.
All I've got to say is...
Go Patriots.
Alas for my Packers, but the Giants played superbly. Best of luck to them in the Super Bowl.
Ben @ 9:
As a Cowboys fan, I understand not wanting another NFC East team to win, but I'm not sure I can handle any more championships coming out of Boston
this yearever. If there are more annoying winning fans, I have not seen them. Having the Sox win, and be set up for years to come, and the Pats win combined with the way the Celtics are playing, I would be relegated to watching nothing but hockey (which is a sporting life not worth living).MonkeyHawk @ 11:
Baghdad?
As I said when Denver beat GB in the SB, there's nothing sadder than a sad cheesehead. :(
Symes @ 17:
You neglect to mention that the Patriots managed to beat the Giants during the regular season by three points, despite the fact that the Patriots were favored to beat the Giants in that game by 14 and a half points. The Giants will be going into the big game pumped up and will not be intimated by the Patriots.
The patriots have never had to play in such conditions. The Giants prepared well fot the game. The question is, who will prepare for the S.B. best?
I didn't think I'd ever say this but "Go Giants"!
Signed
A Disappointed Charger's Fan!
Explain the Jimmy Johnson part? I musta missed something.
Sour grapes one and all! :laugh:
Go Pats! The Giants are to football what the Red Sox have been for years in baseball, the guys who make almost all the way. :wink:
From Las Vegas Sun...
"Why wasn't anyone required to show ID? Not even people who were registered to vote had to show proof of ID."
If this is true, then we really are in 2000 again.
You know, I kinda like the New England teams. the Red Sox The Pats, The Celtics, hell even The Bruins.
I think it's their loudmouthed, know it all fans that bother me!
Ronald Reagan had alzheimer's Disease. There was no there there. When his biographer tried to follow him around to get a good idea of who he was, he couldn't find him because he wasn't there. He ended up writing a semi fictional book. Moreover, Reagan was a shallow, narcissistic man who lacked empathy. In many ways he was similar to Bush. He was a puppet set up by powerful, rich conservatives. I remember when he closed all the state hospitals in CA. and said the community should take care of the mentally ill. Unfortunately, he did not allocate sufficient money for this to be done and to this day, no community in this country has been very successful at providing coordinated, wrap around services for the mentally ill.I remember going downtown to city hall in SF to apply for a job in the 80s and being astonished at how many homeless people there were lying in the park across from city hall. Two years before, I saw very few homeless people in SF and didn't consider it a major problem.. After Reagan, it looked as if some kind of disaster had struck the city. I blame Reagan for the homeless problem. I blame him for 911 because he deregulated the airlines and I blame him for thousands of needless AIDS deaths because he refused to allow funds to be allocated for AIDS research. Obama should read up on Reagan's deleterious effect on the social umbrella of this country. He was a hateful creep. He also worked with the infamous HUAC and named names. What a prick!
I don't follow football, but I got up to the banana on Ms.Pack once.
Here is what Obama said wrt Reagan:
"I think part of what is different is the times. I do think that, for example, the 1980 election was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. They felt like with all the excesses of the 60s and the 70s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think he tapped into what people were already feeling [and what we are feeling today]. Which is we want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing.
"I think Kennedy, 20 years earlier, moved the country in a fundamentally different direction. So I think a lot of it has to do with the times. I think we are in one of those fundamentally different times right now were people think that things, the way they are going, just aren't working."
Obama is not comparing himself to Reagan, he is comparing the time when people were clamouring for change as now. Reagan brought in a lot of democrats because his rhetoric was appealing. Likewise JFK brought in some republicans. So what Obama was saying is that people are again ready for change and that moment is now.
Obama is tapping into what the country wants: "change, hope and optimism." Isn't that what Americans have been complaining about: no one listens to us in Washington?
I do want to note, too that we have are so accustomed to talking points -- after 7 years -- that jumping to conclusions rather than taking a moment to consider what was actually said is reflexive. Iam equally guilty. That, however, is the world [Rove and] Bush brought us. From day one they started using "talking points" to "dumb-down" the electorate.
They do not want people to think. They want us to react, rather than think, so they use e_motionally charged language. It is a tactic they employed, among others, to divide the nation. As long as we do not think they control the dialogue.
This administration has been and is waging a psychological mind-game (for lack of a better word) "war" per se against the public.
Isn't it refreshing to hear the candidates talk like grown-ups! They talk "to" us vs. "at" us.
when did reagan become a good president? he funded both osama and saddam, gave saddam WMD, and his administration funded terrorists throughout the globe.
he was also a union-buster, his economic policies were a disaster, and oh by the way, he was probably senile through most of his second term..
thats a "good" president???
Man, sorry I missed this game! STUCK AT WORK ALL DAY! Ah well. I am pretty amazed that the Giants did it, esp in Green Bay. Me hat's off to 'em!
Batocchio @ 22:
That was very gracious of you. The Packers will be back next year I'm sure. In the meantime, I'm from NY. Go Giants!!
Asian markets aren't impressed by Georgie's "stimulus" plan.
Overseas Investors Buy Aggressively in U.S.
Last May, a Saudi Arabian conglomerate bought a Massachusetts plastics maker. In November, a French company established a new factory in Adrian, Mich., adding 189 automotive jobs to an area accustomed to layoffs. In December, a British company bought a New Jersey maker of cough syrup.
A Flood of Investment For much of the world, the United States is now on sale at discount prices. With credit tight, unemployment growing and worries mounting about a potential recession, American business and government leaders are courting foreign money to keep the economy growing. Foreign investors are buying aggressively, taking advantage of American duress and a weak dollar to snap up what many see as bargains, while making inroads to the world’s largest market.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/business/20invest.html?em&ex=120106440...
“There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it
with every weapon of communal stupidity.” - Robertson Davies
Okay. I will challenge the dear readers to Defend the act of Mooning, Can it be defended as political commentary, or is it simple exhibitionism?
DANIEL ELLSBERG: Covering Up the Coverage - The American Media's Complicit Failure to Investigate and Report on the Sibel Edmonds Case
There are times when politicians transcend the political battle they are in..One such time was earlier on Sunday when Barack Obama spoke at Dr King's church in Atlanta.
For those of you who keep harping on about this man is not genuine and is like all the rest..Stop yourself for 25 minutes and listen to this speech all the way through and see if you don't change your thinking about this person. Don't worry..there is no pandering or Halleluyahs or show biz. It's all heart and very pointed towards every American who really wants to see us become what Dr King envisioned. Not only is he for real but he cares for real about all of us.
Go to C-SPAN site..it'll be there.
Go Giants...! What a great game, that's how football is supposed to be played - out in the cold on real grass, you can keep the domed stadiums as far as I'm concerned...Giants will take the Pats in the Super Bowl...27-20...you can take it to the bank..:)
Please, crooksandliars, please heed this worldwide cry for help! Please. You must take a stand against this barbarism. This has become extremely serious. This is affecting 1.5 million civilians: No bread, no water, no fuel, no electricity for the third day. This is national first-degree murder and manslaughter. This is like what Joel Steinberg did to his adoptive daughter Lisa, and we're Hedda Nussbaum as enablers, putting up with it, saying nothing, fearing that we might offend.
BREAK THE SILENCE ON GAZA! DON'T DELAY! TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!
J’ACCUSE TOUT LE MONDE (from an Israeli progressive blog)
People are dying, Help us!
Humanitarian crisis looms as Israeli siege throws Gaza into darkness
Israeli medical delegation condemns Israel's siege of Gaza
This will not stop unless there is real outrage and an outcry from the USA. Words will do it. And they need to come.
Surge to Nowhere
Don't buy the hawks' hype. The war may be off the
front pages, but Iraq is broken beyond repair, and
we still own it.
By Andrew J. Bacevich
Sunday, January 20, 2008; B01
As the fifth anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom nears, the fabulists are again trying to weave their own version of the war. The latest myth is that the "surge" is working.
In President Bush's pithy formulation, the United States is now "kicking ass" in Iraq. The gallant Gen. David Petraeus, having been given the right tools, has performed miracles, redeeming a situation that once appeared hopeless. Sen. John McCain has gone so far as to declare that "we are winning in Iraq." While few others express themselves quite so categorically, McCain's remark captures the essence of the emerging story line: Events have (yet again) reached a turning point. There, at the far end of the tunnel, light flickers. Despite the hand-wringing of the defeatists and naysayers, victory beckons.
From the hallowed halls of the American Enterprise Institute waft facile assurances that all will come out well. AEI's Reuel Marc Gerecht assures us that the moment to acknowledge "democracy's success in Iraq" has arrived. To his colleague Michael Ledeen, the explanation for the turnaround couldn't be clearer: "We were the stronger horse, and the Iraqis recognized it." In an essay entitled "Mission Accomplished" that is being touted by the AEI crowd, Bartle Bull, the foreign editor of the British magazine Prospect, instructs us that "Iraq's biggest questions have been resolved." Violence there "has ceased being political." As a result, whatever mayhem still lingers is "no longer nearly as important as it was." Meanwhile, Frederick W. Kagan, an AEI resident scholar and the arch-advocate of the surge, announces that the "credibility of the prophets of doom" has reached "a low ebb."
Presumably Kagan and his comrades would have us believe that recent events vindicate the prophets who in 2002-03 were promoting preventive war as a key instrument of U.S. policy. By shifting the conversation to tactics, they seek to divert attention from flagrant failures of basic strategy. Yet what exactly has the surge wrought? In substantive terms, the answer is: not much.
As the violence in Baghdad and Anbar province abates, the political and economic dysfunction enveloping Iraq has become all the more apparent. The recent agreement to rehabilitate some former Baathists notwithstand ing, signs of lasting Sunni-Shiite reconciliation are scant. The United States has acquired a ramshackle, ungovernable and unresponsive dependency that is incapable of securing its own borders or managing its own affairs. More than three years after then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice handed President Bush a note announcing that "Iraq is sovereign," that sovereignty remains a fiction.
A nation-building project launched in the confident expectation that the United States would repeat in Iraq the successes it had achieved in Germany and Japan after 1945 instead compares unfavorably with the U.S. response to Hurricane Katrina. Even today, Iraqi electrical generation meets barely half the daily national requirements. Baghdad households now receive power an average of 12 hours each day -- six hours fewer than when Saddam Hussein ruled. Oil production still has not returned to pre-invasion levels. Reports of widespread fraud, waste and sheer ineptitude in the administration of U.S. aid have become so commonplace that they barely last a news cycle. (Recall, for example, the 110,000 AK-47s, 80,000 pistols, 135,000 items of body armor and 115,000 helmets intended for Iraqi security forces that, according to the Government Accountability Office, the Pentagon cannot account for.) U.S. officials repeatedly complain, to little avail, about the paralyzing squabbling inside the Iraqi parliament and the rampant corruption within Iraqi ministries. If a primary function of government is to provide services, then the government of Iraq can hardly be said to exist...
Read the entire article @:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/18/AR200801...
Congratulations to the Patriots and the Giants.
I believe the Giants are going to be in a lot of trouble come Superbowl Sunday however. If we learned anything from the first game, it's that Eli Manning has learned to take what the defense gives.
However, when the Patriots started in with the exotic blitzes late in the game, they gave him happy feet and that is why the Patriots beat the Giants in the regular season.
I have a feeling that Bill Belichik is going to throw some crazy blitzes at Eli and Peyton Manning will have a flashback just watching the game.
I'm taking the Pats, but I don't think they'll cover the spread if it's any greater than 10 points.
DANIEL ELLSBERG: Covering Up the Coverage - The American Media's Complicit Failure to Investigate and Report on the Sibel Edmonds Case
-- Guest BRAD BLOG Op-Ed by Daniel Ellsberg
In an Exclusive BRAD BLOG Op-Ed, the Legendary 'Pentagon Papers' Whistleblower (Daniel Ellsberg) Calls on the Media to Perform Their First Amendment Obligations, on Congressional Leaders to Perform Their Oversight Duty, and for Insider Sources to Come Forward to the American Public...
For the second time in two weeks, the entire U.S. press has let itself be scooped by Rupert Murdoch's London Sunday Times on a dynamite story of criminal activities by corrupt U.S. officials promoting nuclear proliferation. But there is a worse journalistic sin than being scooped, and that is participating in a cover-up of information that demands urgent attention from the public, the U.S. Congress and the courts.
For the last two weeks --- one could say, for years --- the major American media have been guilty of ignoring entirely the allegations of the courageous and highly credible source Sibel Edmonds, quoted in the London Times on January 6, 2008 in a front-page story that was front-page news in much of the rest of the world but was not reported in a single American newspaper or network. It is up to readers to demand that this culpable silent treatment end.
Just as important, there must be pressure by the public on Congressional committee chairpersons, in particular Representative Henry Waxman and Senator Patrick Leahy. Both have been sitting for years on classified, sworn testimony by Edmonds --- as she revealed in the Times' new story on Sunday --- along with documentation, in their possession, confirming parts of her account. Pressure must be brought for them to hold public hearings to investigate her accusations of widespread criminal activities, over several administrations, that endanger national security. They should call for open testimony under oath by Edmonds --- as she has urged for five years --- and by other FBI officials she has named to them, as cited anonymously in the first Times' story...
Read Daniel Ellsberg’s story @:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5583
Hey, how about that? Two "liberal" and two blue states in the Super Bowl!!!!!!!!!!!
How about that Middle America? We love football in the East too!!!!!
New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick is a graduate of the very liberal Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, and Tom Couglin is a former head football coach at Boston College.
For that matter, the Yankees and Celtics--two of the most storied sports franchises ever--are in blue states, and so-called "liberal states." Even Larry Bird had to go play for the Boston Celtics before he won any significant basketball championship.
Go Giants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We Are Screwed @ 42:
This could not be a more important story and really needs to be pushed. Sibel Edmonds should become a household name this year in this country. Demand coverage of stories that matter: coverups of treason, torture, election fraud...Hey! Lookie there! It's Britney's hoo-ha!
yes, it is the third time I have used this joke, but I wanted to spell Britney's name right this time.
Sibel Edmonds is credible, courageous and and quite photogenic. If MSM in America wants to ignore her maybe she should consider wearing less underwear and/or getting a DUI. Just don't go all Mel Gibson on us or the treasonous truth about dual/citizens serving in our government will be tainted.
Hey, fans of the winning team are always annoying. Anybody that cheers when your team has just lost is an evil jerk.
I agree that Obama's offense against reason was non-existent. Reagan did change the game. But Obama's time-scale was off, probably deliberately, in saying that the Republicans were the "party of ideas" during the last 10-15 years. Kind of deliberately saying that Bill was kind of canned meat.
"Obama is tapping into what the country wants: “change, hope and optimism.” Isn’t that what Americans have been complaining about: no one listens to us in Washington?"
That's the part I have difficulty with. Aside from electing a black man -- great -- what's the change Obama would bring? It's just not enough to recite these words and say, "That's me." What the hell would he do that isn't to the right of Edwards and Clinton, and deliberately so? I'm in California, and the Obama campaign already sent me a letter telling me how, if I'm an Independent or Republican, I can register as a "Decline to State" and get a Democratic ballot to vote for Obama. And that radio ad that Obama ran in rural Nevada, urging Republicans to be a caucus Democrat and vote for him, that's not sharp-elbow politics and only politics?
Symes @ 30:
The Giants have already won two Superbowls in my lifetime. The team that most closely relates to what you're talking about is the Buffalo Bills of the early 1990's.
I will say this though - fuck the New England Patriots. They are going to make it to the Superbowl after cheating this year, and still end up with one of the first picks in the draft - even after being stripped from their cheating early in the year.
Plus, lets face it, any town too stupid to realize that the Mooninites were not IED's planted all over their city don't deserve to win diddily shit out of sheer stupidity. I mean, come on already!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/index.html
While I do mock their foolishness for that event, and despise the Patriots for being so brazen in their cheating and smugness (even though I can stand the Red Sox winning) I don't necessarily hate the town as much as I hate anything out of Dallas. At least with Boston the country has benefited from their historical significance/way of thinking for hundreds of years, and continue to do so. Dallas and "AMERICA'S TEAM" (like all the other teams are Canadian or something?) on the other hand... well... that's a story for another time.
Big Blue is going to the Big Dance YEAH! And I can't stand the Pats. I really really can't stand them lol
GO Gaytriots
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stand up, America.
Cheeks @ 41:
That all depends on what slogan is written on the "moon".
Two years ago I worked at Overstock.com, and they released a White Sale - on all bedding - specifically for MLK day. It was incredibly racist and designed to anger some - but very little was heard about it.
Martin Luther King Jr. day here in Salt Lake City, and it's completely white outside due to a snow storm last night. Mother Nature is a cruel, but ironically funny mistress.
I guess I have just really become somewhat immune to racial humor.
Enjoy the day off for those of you that celebrate his holiday. Here in Utah - MLKj day is known as "Monday" so it's off to work for me.
Mr. XXXX @ 47 linked to an article by Andrew J. Bacevich; as an addendum, his book "The New American Militarism" is more than worth the time it takes to read it (and it isn't a tome) in order to understand the big picture. It looks, particularly, at the evolution between Vietnam and today.
As to the football...while i never mind seeing the Packers lose (long story full of geographical quirks and irrational sport's fan behavior), New York/Boston sports domination is getting a little old. Ah well, pitchers and catchers report soon enough and my Tigers are looking like the modern incarnation of 'murderers' row'.
Great football game, no matter who you're rooting for, but what is your problem with Jimmy Johnson? Do you have to throw in all of life's little annoyances into every conversation. You give Dems a bad name. Report good stuff in your blog and leave the petty partisan bullshit out.
Russo @ 54:
The Dallas Cowboys and the New York Yankees are the ONLY teams deserving of unbridled, open, mocking, total contempt. CHEATING??????? For stealing SIGNALS. Get bent. Oh, yeah, I forgot the ducking Fodgers, but that betrays my obvious Northern California sympathies. Dallas and New York (not YOU Mets fans) should be destroyed by Neutron Bombs. Trouble is the diaspora of Yankee and Cowpuke fans means they are EVERYWHERE. We must fight together as a people to stop YankoCowbofascism.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5583
Daniel Ellsberg speaks out on sibel edmonds again.
Paris Hilton @ 61:
People named Paris Hilton shouldn't throw stones at other people giving ANYTHING a bad name. Hating Jimmy Johnson is just one of those things that all right-thinking (that is in the sense of CORRECT, not fascist politics) MUST do in order to keep sane. The hair alone is reason enough, not to mention his "success" with the Hurricocaines and the Cowbunks. You know damn well Jimmy won by getting his teams SOOOO zonked on blow that they felt no pain, and he showed them movies of total annihilation so they would be inspired to commit murder and mayhem on the field. The evil that is the Cowboys so infused Jimmy Johnson that he is irredeemable. And if you believe all that, I have a condo in Miami to sell you.
Daily Reading pt 1...
Water Wars (showing now); Siphoning the Globe: Water Exhibit Exposes Worldwide Crisis - http://www.alternet.org/environment/72376/
Water stores in U.S. will fall as lakes, rivers, creeks, etc dry up - losing volume/evaporation due to extended warmer cycles (you'll have freezing shorter winters - but higher temps in Oct, Nov, Dec, & Mar)
Conservation is essential (its beyond time to tear down the stupid wasteful lush golf courses in the Arizona/New Mexico/Nevada deserts, palace & corporate fountains, etc), you can't make more water...
From light bulbs to clothes washers, the energy law passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in December will change many of the appliances in the average American home.
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/01/19/ST20080119...
THE REPUBLICAN 'GREAT ECONOMY' UPDATE: Foreigners Buy Stakes in the U.S. at a Record Pace - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/business/20invest.html?_r=1&ex=1358485...
For much of the world, the U.S. is now on sale at discount prices. With credit tight, unemployment growing and worries mounting about a potential recession, American business and govt leaders are courting foreign money to keep the economy growing. Foreign investors are buying aggressively, taking advantage of American duress and a weak dollar to snap up what many see as bargains, while making inroads to the world’s largest market.The most conspicuous beneficiaries are Wall Street banks ...
For when the idiotic con-servatives/free marketists/corporatists deny their policies had nothing to do with the economy: The Construction Site Called Saudi Arabia - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/business/worldbusiness/20saudi.html?re...
The monarchy of Saudi Arabia now owns you & your debt. They are constructing petrochemical plants over the shortest period in history. They are building housing, universities, offices, mass transit, golfcourses, retail, etc. in four architectural/ engineer designed cities. One city is being constructed out of 40 square miles of desert. They are construcing the tallest building in the world. Their population has nearly doubled to 25 million, 40% is under the age of 15.
The #1 exporter of terrorism....owns the con-servatives in a way you'll never know...don't believe??? Check out the board members...follow the money trails...check out the majority holders...
Sibel Edmonds Update: The FBI has been accused of covering up a file detailing government dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article32167...
Check out the first comment....a Brit that nails it...
Ask Rockridge: Is ExxonMobil the Kind of Person You'd Like To Have a Beer With? - http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/rockridge/012
The reality is that corporations have been given many of the same rights as individuals.1 Early decisions by the Supreme Court that denied the notion that corporations had personhood have been gradually eroded. From the Gilded Age of the late 19th century forward, courts have recognized more rights for the "corporate person."
The problem is that the courts and legislatures have not imposed commensurate responsibilities upon corporations. Possessed of constitutional rights without their attendant responsibilities, corporations have become enormously powerful and largely unaccountable social institutions. We need a public debate about the appropriate balance of corporate rights and responsibilities.
Currently, corporations exist to serve a single purpose: to make money for their shareholders. This single-mindedness of purpose is not characteristic of a human being. In fact, it is wholly inhuman.
Scott Ritter: Is US on Brink of War with Iran? - http://www.dailytribune.com/stories/012008/loc_n4001.shtml
Daily Reading pt 2...
Wexler Petition to Impeach Cheney hits 210,000 - http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?p=4516
Impeach Vice President Dick Cheney? Go to www.WexlerWantsHearings.com and add your name to the nearly quarter million already signed on.
Democratic Montana Governor Foments Rebellion Against REAL ID - http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/montana-governo.html
Civil libertarians say the new licenses must have all the information encoded into a machine-readable bar code that will be read by retail stores, hotels and other companies, creating intrusions of privacy.
Gee...this under 'states rights' Republican 'no big gov't' rule...hmmm....
'Nonexistent' Veterans Respond to Bill O'Reilly; - http://foxattacks.com/vets
BS 'Surge is working' Update: Five Months Later, US Military Reveals Shocking One-Day Death Toll from Iraqi Bombings - http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANW026756.htm
Robert Parry: The Bush Debacle, One Year to Go - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/012008.html
Dark side of a hot biofuel: In Indonesia, oil palms feed world thirst for clean fuel, but forests, climate and species pay a steep price - http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/647848.html
Safer & Better alternatives to this include cellulosic ethanol, and biodiesel from Recyled oil & Algal Oil...which have minimal impact & good productive value
Seven Jewish senators sign letter deploring "false and malicious" attacks on Obama - http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/01/sweet_eight_jewish_senators_si.h...
This week, Cambridge (MA) City Council member Denise Simmons was unanimously selected by her peers to serve as Mayor. Simmons, who is a member of the Bay State Stonewall Democrats, becomes America's first African American Lesbian to serve as mayor of a city.
- http://stonewalldemocrats.org/
What's Next for Edwards? - http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/usa/2008/01/what_happens_to_edwards.html
How the MSM is taking the two 100 million dollar 'media celebrity' candidates and leaving 'we the people' behind for 'we the corporations expect favors for big donations & keep big media consolidated/deregulated'
Robert Parry: The Lamentable Reagan Legacy - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/011908.html
Why Obama's ill-timed remark will cost him votes, persona points, and possibly the nomination
Daily Reading pt 3...
This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots - http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/322
Did Big Oil canals worsen Katrina's effects? - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080120/ap_on_re_us/katrina_oil_canals;_ylt=...
Why you shouldn't have more kids: From India to Indiana, shortages and soaring prices for palm oil, soybean oil and many other types of vegetable oils are the latest, most striking example of a developing global problem: Costly Food. The food price index of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, based on export prices for 60 internationally traded foodstuffs.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/business/worldbusiness/19palmoil.html?...
Pentagon Report On ‘Real Toll’ Of Iraq War: 1 In 5 Vets Are Affected By ‘Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries’ - http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/20/iraq-brain-trauma/
Although...the GOP/Bush crime family slashed the funding for research & care into this very real epidemic
Historians fear MLK's legacy being lost - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080121/ap_on_re_us/mlk_legacy;_ylt=Ap_pssSG...
She needs to go: Pelosi Reconfirms that She Will Not Allow the Impeachment of Cheney and Bush - http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-...
I'm working on a superbowl too. Waffle batter.
Now back to the circus....
Paris Hilton @ 61:
Paris,Paris,Paris................don't you have a car to wash,and a cheeseburger to sell.
Congrats to the multimillionaires on each side of the ball who won yesterday, although I am sorry to see that none of the losing multimillionaires cried. A day without overpaid jocks crying is like a day without sunshine.
Professional sports, in particular NFL football, are brought to you by the folks all of you on this site supposedly are against. All of the teams are highly susidized by billions of your tax dollars - building statiums and infrastructure to support privately-owned teams, instead of public housing or repairing bridges - so a few owners and a couple of jocks can get filthy rich. If I'm not mistaken, that's how GWB made his first millions.
I've been an athlete for most of my life, and it sickens me to see what has become of athletic competition on all levels. The only value kids learn in sports now is to win at all costs. We even have 3 year-olds involved in competitieve sports because their parents think they'll get rich on their kids.
The whole idea of athletic competition has been bastardized and utilized, especially on the professional level, as another of those marketing ploys to pacify and distract the masses.
The Patriots were caught stealing signals earlier this year and are now 18-0. How do we know that they are not stealing signals still?
I like Bill Billichick and his maverick style, and I think that Tom Brady might be one of the best and smartest Quarterbacks ever, even though he is a Repug.
However the Patriots are a business, and consistent winning is a more lucrative product that mere entertainment. Cheating has been a part of sports and politics alike, and cheating will always be a part of sports, politics, and business,because the payoff is worth the risk of getting caught........apparently.
The Patriots will win and will avoid an asterisk by their Super Bowl Title, and cheating will be a subjective argument between interested parties, and we can all have ice cream and sponge cake at halftime and believe that myth is greater than reality.
the Reagan circle jerk at GOP debates are amusing. They are celebrating a fiscal conservative who's economic policies backfired.
By the time George H.W. Bush #41 became President, the damage of Reagan's Reaganomics were a stern reality that create the late 80's, early 90s recession.
Trickle down economics never worked without balance. The goal of a corporation is to make profit, if that corporation benefits from more tax cuts, they will just end up making more profit.
IMO, universal health care is the best way to relieve the burden off employers and businesses. Especially small businesses. Nationalized Universal Health Care would take the burden of business and will grant every citizen equality of accessing health.
Big corporate tax cuts are not the solution.
Nationalized Universal Health Care is. - Remove the burden from employers, grant health equality to all.
More Americans are becoming savvy about the economy. As far as the election and who knows best about what is good for America. It’s a fair conclusion the Clintons not only know what is good but will educated the electorate about what is a challenge in the economy for the future. This is exactly what the Republicans are afraid of. The economics are simple, cut taxes enough and the general public services can get deteriorated to the point of difficult return, or collapse realized were money can not save the system immediately. Cutting taxes enough times results in a choked economy, simple straight forward. Handing off this type of economic disaster is precisely what the Republicans wanted to do, but the timing fell off the mark.
Greed, power, and profiteering are so prolific and permeate the very fiber of the Republican Party, absolutely influenced and consulted by the Saudi-Bush business partnerships, and well connected to corporate America today. Its attraction is manifest in the over whelming complicity to bias, deceit, cover-ups, Intelligence manipulations, And most of all on a daily basis Journalist fraud, through, snit, snide, smear, with occasional dignity spread thick to make it seem ok, across the public electromagnetic spectrum.
Where all channel mediums are filled with hatred bias, and long hard relations to immediate changers like Lieberman, and Obama. Here America is witness to extremes at both ends in new and old timers. Lieberman, changes from the Democratic label to support a Republican candidate McCain. Actually, many now think Lieberman was and is a Republican all along and finally came out of the closet. Obama is even more spectacular, now, supporting the Reagan platform which included wild deficits, overspending, and an incredible secret war that Reagan essentially supported Osama Bin Laden. If you ever get chance to read Obama’s book called “Audacity of Hope”, Obama make a momentous statement were “Obama offers no unifying theory of American Government”. A very idiotic statement to say by someone who taught the Constitution and law at the University of Chicago for eight to ten years.
A statement that supports Charles Rangel, when Rangel called Obama stupid about his argument referenced to Martin Luther King, were King needed no help to make the civil right movement practical, meaning it was not necessary to sign into law by President Johnson at the time. Here, we know America is based on laws of the Republic. Yet, whispers of the Anti-Constitutional reasoning is pronounced here by Obama in his book, with a periodic notion that he Obama does not know how to change government, but carries a banner in his campaign “Change you can believe in”. The worry is by both sides, Republican and Democrat is that the seed of Islam buried deep in Obama is now surfacing even though Obama rants that he is a Christian, hard to believe by not completing his conversion to take the leap to a Christian name. It’s as though Obama is on the fence and playing both sides. Who knows Obama may surprise everyone and run on a Republican ticket? The best of all cut and run candidates; here America knows the Republicans have trashed the Constitution ever since they have been in power. They love the Saudi money. As George says “Money Trumps Everything”.
I watched that game last night, and I'm still cold. It was like watching a Dr. Zhivago marathon.
And as much as it pains me (as an Eagles fan) to say it, go Giants.
Gawd, how I hate those Patriots.
Waiting To Exhale
How the races are shaping up.
oh god the bullshit on cnn , oh god cnn is all bullshit,this elections a farce !!!!!!!! hillarys going to be the next bush , were in deep shit folks , we need edwards , better yet kucinich , doesnt anyone know that obama and clinton are just more of the same weve had for the last 7 yrs? i dont put much stock in americans being smart enough to figure that out , i dont think thier will be much joy in the next president he ,she will sell us out !
90+ Percent of the wusses who are whining about "Oh dear, those awful Patriots, those overpaid jocks" couldn't take ONE hit from a pro football linebacker without going to the hospital for a month. And Yes,, These guys make lots of money. They earn it. After 15 years in the NFL, half of them can't even bend their knees any more. The Pats won because they are good at what they do. Knowing the other team's signals or not didn't make a damn bit of difference.
Shut up and enjoy the game.
In a different life, I carried mail for longer than I can remember in NY. About 30 days were as bad as Lambaeu's weather yesterday. I had no building or vehicle to take cover in for 5 hrs straight, and had to use my hands, mostly without gloves.
I know how that weather gets to you. I still feel the pain. Even with that, I can't imagine how they did it!
GO GIANTS!!!
Sure some NFL players last as long as Farvre, (20+yrs), but the average career span is about 4 years, and no matter what their huge saleries say, the money is not guaranteed, contracts are 95% nebulous. When you stop, it stops.
G-men!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah baby!!!
Reagan was never a true conservative. He was a failed and bitter former liberal. All he brought to the table were fine words, good timing, an easy, affable manner, and a cynical disdain for the people, which is what government, at least in America, is supposed to be.
MLK Day
January 21, 2008
Obama Was Fortunate He Wasn't Busted During Bill Clinton's Administration ...
Playing the Race Card
By KEVIN ALEXANDER GRAY
Counterpunch.org
I hesitantly step into the Hillary Clinton - Barack Obama family scuffle over South Carolina's black vote. Both candidates are products of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the conservative wing of the Democratic Party. Clinton is a DLC star, chair of its American Dream Initiative touting free markets, balanced budgets and middle-class know-how, while Obama's political action committee, the Hope Fund, has raised money for half of the DLC's representatives in the Senate. This is how America measures progress: the DLC, founded as a vehicle for pro-business Southern white men, is now the arena advancing a black man and a white woman who talk as if the more populist Southern white man in the race were invisible.
The "controversy" over Clinton's Martin Luther King comment ("it took a president to make the dream a reality") was, if anything, a set up to push Obama to talk race, something he has taken pains to avoid beyond the occasional King quote he tosses into the mix. Talking race in a white media echo chamber works to Clinton's advantage. First, it is a subtle nod to subconscious and not so subconscious racism. Secondly, it gives her the chance to expound upon the Clintons' fictional race history with blacks.
What Bill knows, Hill knows. And Southern politician Bill Clinton has always played race politics to perfection. Many have perhaps forgotten about Bill, speaking in the last pulpit King stood in, telling blacks in 1993 how disappointed "Dr. King would be [in them] if he were alive today", because of black on black crime. "Crime" has long been a white politician's code to signal, "I can stick it to blacks." In his first presidential race Governor Clinton supported the death penalty at a time when the country was split almost down the middle on the issue. For good measure, he made sure to oversee the execution of convicted killer Ricky Ray Rector, a brain-damaged black man, in the heat of the primaries...Then right in time for the Southern primaries in 1992 he posed with Georgia Senator Sam Nunn in front of a phalanx of black inmates in white prison suits at Stone Mountain, Georgia, second home of the Ku Klux Klan. That picture appeared in newspapers across the South the day people went to the polls. It was Clinton's way to reassure racists.
Now, I have no expectations of Obama taking up race issues or attacking policies that have disparate negative racial implications. I have no expectation of him highlighting his blackness. He isn't running to be "president of black America" (at least not yet). His message is of the elusive and metaphoric "one America" as opposed to John Edwards' "two Americas" divided between the "haves and have-nots." Yet, as Clinton discovered before she started appealing to women and ripping off some of Edwards' with-the-people rhetoric, looking ahead and tryin g to run a general election campaign in the midst of primary battles can bring problems. For Obama, it has meant ignoring what should be his natural base black voters. That is, until he needed them....In politics you start with a base. Yet either the Obama campaign is attempting to reverse the process, or he doesn't see black voters as his base, or he thinks the majority of blacks will vote race without courting. Of course he can't openly appeal to black people to vote for him solely on race, although several of his supporters on black talk radio have demanded that blacks do just that. The irony is that Hillary Clinton is openly appealing to blacks to vote for her solely on Bill. One of the reasons the battle between Clinton and Obama seems so personal at times is that Clinton considers black voters her natural base, and Obama the upstart usurper who didn't wait his turn. It's almost as if, like a disappointed patrician, she were saying, "After all we've done for you people" Meanwhile, neither she nor Obama is taking on the weighty substance of our issues....It would be perilous for Obama to respond to "Friend of Bill" Bob Johnson, founder of BET, on yet another insinuation about his past drug use. It only keeps the drug-using (and, implied, dealing) black guy stereotype alive. Johnson's comments were deplorable -- especially coming from a person who made his money on the exploitation of rump shaking and rap music while simultaneously removing news and public affairs from BET...
Read the entire article @:
http://www.counterpunch.org/gray01212008.html
Bill and Hill have thrown both Black Americans and Gay&Lesbian Americans under the bus when politically expedient.
But Hillary makes such a nice alligator purse for Bill doesn't she.
Am I the only one who thought it was very bizarre to see a photo of Mike Huckabee autographing The Bible?
It was on the front page of the Saturday NY Times.
This seems incredibly vain, almost blasphemous. What kind of man would be comfortable doing such a thing?
bob @ 62:
What about the Lakers? Can we get them in the tripartite evil empire?
The problem with looking to dilute Obama's hugging of the Gipper by saying that he (Obama) isn't buying into Reagan's rhetoric is precisely that the "change" Reagan offered (or represented, if you prefer) was only that--rhetorical, as in, not real. By snuggling-up to Ronnie's image in the American psyche, Obama shows his message of change to be more of the same hollowness. You don't climb into bed with the beast and then ask him not to be rough. Lovely to see a quote from the delicious Robertson Davies, though....
Tim in Japan @ 48:
that's a crock-o-scheiss! two penalties on phantom fouls called on Toomer were the difference.
Mr. XXXX @ 82:
this exposes the implied threat to Obama by the media if he fairly responds to the race-baiting by billary's black billionaire friend.
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