Open Thread
By bluegal Saturday Apr 05, 2008 11:30pmWatch it, kids, The New York Times reports that blogging can kill you. Good thing our Bollywood heroine got the tip:
Open Thread below....
Sister Sites
Awards
John Amato’s virtual online magazine…OK, It’s a blog!
©2009 Crooks And Liars
Login or Register to post comments.
The US is now in open combat with the Mahdi Army.
Blogging's worth the risk, since ya' still can't trust the MSM:
Here's the Real Final ‘Straw’ That Broke Mark Penn’s Back
One thing that astounds me is how rarely it is mentioned that US-funded contractors in Iraq are about as numerous as US troops. We hear all the time about the 140K to 160K troops, and never hear that the real number of US forces is TWICE that, if you include the private contractors.
That's astounding.
It costs a lot more to do it that way, but reduces the domestic (US) resistance to the occupation. Ask folks how they feel about their tax dollars funding a quarter of a million people in an occupation, and see how many are FOR it.
Imagine a true referendum on the US occupation of Iraq.
The poor have to settle for leftover medicine. Atlantic City is cutting down on freebies. We're in a lose-lose situation.
two best links i found this weekend:
vader sessions
college of coaches
(and don't get me wrong, i'm a huge fan of both the chicago cubs and star wars).
Blue Gal: Thanks for the great laugh on this sad night. It was good medicine!
Given the performance of the MSM the past 8 years, if blogging kills MSM, I say hurry up.
"Laborers" lol
tubino @ 3:
The MSM won't report much about the contractors because if they did, the public would be more outraged about the cost than anything else. I don't know if the cost of the contractors is even figured in as the part of the funding or is separate funding. We do know that they have contracted for billions up until now, but where does the money come from. I'll bet that it's not out of the funding for the occupation.
made me laugh.
So on a different board, I keep reading comments about how Moore didn't respect Heston's privacy or condition, and yet every time I bring up how Heston showed little respect to the privacy of the Columbine families, they keep ignoring me.
L O L ... aaah, that was wonderful...
hope randi liked it as much!
The NYT things blogging is dangerous?
They obviously haven't been trapped in a men's room stall with David Brooks and Billy Kristol.
Thanks for the laugh, Blue Gal!
If it's true that bloggers are experiencing stress, there's a simple explanation.
Bloggers, who have relatively little amounts of economic resources, have to MAKE UP FOR THE FAILURES OF MSM.
Bloggers are as popular as they are because they tend to produce FACTUAL and INVESTIGATIVE reports.
The MSM just reprints White House memos and specially selected reports that advance destructive agendas, and then they call THAT news. People are not stupid, and if the MSM won't report the real news, then bloggers will.
Geez, it's like the MSM has this permanent aura of self-righteousness entitlement, where they think they belong to this "upper class" of news reporting, and how they are more "official" because they are physically closer to policy makers, and they maintain this arrogance even as they are experiencing a slow death because of their own inadequacy.
You know, I don't like to wish bad things on people, but if the MSM dies completely, I truly hope that they realize that they were told, for almost 8 years on a constant basis from the public, to tell the truth. That's all we ever wanted. We didn't want lies, sugar coatings, or propaganda. Just the truth. They knew this, but they did not care, because they felt more important than truth just because they were so close to the government, a body that makes truth less popular than the plague.
This is not the first "attack" on bloggers, the REAL truth tellers in this country. I remember the MSM produced a piece that warned of internet "addiction", which is code-speak for "stop reading blogs and watch TV instead". Idiots.
They better not ever say they didn't know any better.
On 60 Minutes tonight, Douglas Feith was interviewed about his new book, which continues the "Loyal Bushies" pattern of telling America that even though the war has been a total disaster, they would still invade Iraq because it was "the right thing to do™".
Anyway, at the end of the interview, Feith mentions that all of the proceeds from his book are going to war veterans.
Call me cynical, but if some intrepid blogger (because the MSM won't do it) were to investigate this claim, something tells me that Feith won't actually be giving much money to veterans. Perhaps it's the fact that most of these Chickenhawk Administration officials never tell the truth about anything?
At least I'm not the only one who thinks like this:
http://www.first-draft.com/2008/04/debunking-dougl.html
Being East-Indian myself, wouldn't have never though I would see a clip of bollywood on C&L, nicely done, especially about Randi Rhodes [my favourite talk show host]
First they have to cover the cost ofprinting, publishing and distribution of the book. I don't know of many people buying right winger books. The war vets get nothing.
No luck for lower oil prices.
Tequila @ 19:
Do you feel like you've been raped yet? The fascists are reaping the benefits, for now.
i hope jimmy carter endorses obama this week.
for that matter, it'd be nice to see a walter cronkite obama endorsement.
GNA.
nsr @ 1:
So it seems that another cease fire has fallen through. This is just another indication that the so called "surge" was nothing more than a farce as if everyone didn't know that already. What this latest bout of fighting will bring clearer into focus though is General Cody's recent Congressional testimony regarding U.S. ground forces readiness. The U.S. simply lacks actual combatant forces now (I.E. infantry, armor, artillery) to deploy elsewhere due to its current commitments around the globe.
Everyone thinks that the U.S. military and its branches of service are composed of nothing but combatants. That simply is not the case. Most, are support troops who are only active combatants as a last resort. The actual MOSs who's only job is to close with and destroy the enemy are in serious short supply.
kos w/ the zinger:
"for clinton, all's fair in pursuit of victory—even destroying her party from within. her campaign has adopted a bizarre "insult-40-states strategy," which has belittled states small, liberal and red. apparently, the only states that matter are the ones she coincidentally happens to win."
of course the times, which will find itself out of the newspaper biz in 5-10 years would print a story saying that blogging is dangerous to your health
fuck....sometimes you gotta get up from the puter and get some excercise
one more thing b4 i hit the hay:
now that it's april, be glad you or your kids aren't ever gonna have to live through another full winter under neocon jackboot rule as long as you live.
.
.
.
.
I AM BULLFROG. HEAR ME RIBBIT!!
Cool Picture Only a Fool or A Fraud cartoon.
Obama, say it ain't so!
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.6698/title.snoop-dogg-criticizes-b...
"The New York Times reports that blogging can kill you."
If reading Bill Kristol at the New York Times doesn't get you first...
The times is just mad that there is another source of information that at least has a shred of truth to it no longer are people spoon fed the information
unsurebtwilling @ 30:
they're also upset that their treasonous lies are regularly being exposed.
bullfrog @ 24:
Didn't I see something about Big Billeh saying that if she lost SC, she'd lose?
Hmm...
bullfrog @ 26:
Is the HypnoToad a relative by any chance?
Dang these have been boring open threads as of late.
That was awesome!
The Clinton Campaign Must be Reading the BuzzFlash Editor's Blog. Senator Clinton Finally Gives Mark Penn the Heave-Ho After He Gets Caught Talking with the Colombians Who Just Happen to Then Attack Obama, While Penn is Also Getting Paid to Promote a Free Trade Pact with a Country in Which Union Members and Leaders are Being Murdered by the Dozens.
BWAHAHAH! The NY Times has really begun to post some seriously stupidific shit. Did you know that *not* blogging can kill you to? Shit, I could sit here and watch TV and READ blogs and die!!! OMG NYTimes!!! Why don't you report on people who die from that? Some of the "news" they come up with could kill me too... from laughing too hard!!!!!
Switchboard: Hello, Crisis Center. How can I help you?
Caller: Yes, I need an ambulance.
Switchboard: Is this an emergency?
Caller: I just got home from a weekend at my brother in laws.
Switchboard: Excuse me?
Caller: He painted nascar numbers on his kitchen chairs.
Switchboard: So why are you calling the Crisis Center today?
Caller: He thinks Glenn Beck is an intellectual.
Switchboard: Well that is funny but how can we help you?
Caller: His kids have drawings of Jesus with dinosaurs as farm animals on the fridge.
Switchboard: Well as disturbing as all that is how can we help you?
Caller: His daughter is 7 months pregnant and hasn’t seen a doctor yet.
Switchboard: Perhaps family counselling. Can I connect you?
Caller: My husband invited them for a week this summer.
Switchboard: I’m sending an ambulance right over. Please stay on the line.
Ouch my frigging my ankle hurts. I knew that bartop was too wet to dance on.
When I got home and looked in on mom and Dad both fast asleep, mom still had her new pearls on. As I tried to gently unclasp and slip them off without waking her she suddenly and without warning grabbed my wrists and shouted “your not getting these Vicky” then smiled and went right back to sleep.
I can only imagine she is referring to my aunt Vicky who I only knew for a couple of years while mom was sick. She taught me how to shop.
Sweet dreams little gray ones. Being first blond is going to be awesome.
Megan McCains Blog @ 37:
Dang. You were blogging weren't you?
Haha.
/www.bloggernews.net/114971 New story to be followed up very close to Andy Card
Newspapers were originally like blogs: extremely slanted to the publisher's viewpoint.
Political blogs need to evolve from partisan spin machines into more balanced news providers.
I GUESS HE'S JUST NOT HATEABLE ENOUGH:
Anti-McCain groups lag in fundraising.
Instapundit
posted at 06:57 AM by Glenn Reynolds
"Democratic talk of an early, hard-hitting campaign to "define" and tar Arizona Sen. John McCain appears to have fizzled for lack of money, leading to a quiet round of finger-pointing among Democratic operatives and donors . . . . Despite the millions of dollars pooling around Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, anti-McCain funds have fallen far short of the hopes set in November, when a key organizer, Tom Matzzie, reportedly told The Washington Post that the 'Fund for America' would raise more than $100 million to support the activities of a range of allied groups. "
Lefty blogs: "Money??? We don't need no stinking money."
posted at 7:25 AM EDT by dennis
Tequila @ 11:
I think it was shameful how Wayne LaPierre and NRA leaders used Heston knowing that he was not all there for their own gains.
How much does W.P. make from NRA members anyway?
Friends in America, Many ex-pat communities here are buzzing with disturbing news that it looks like McCain has a good chance of winning the Pres Election.
Say it isn't so!
Is this the real feel for what is going on over there? Please fill me in. Word is that he is more organized than the Democrats on the issues.
Our little neighborhood of about 150 American Ex-Pats here in Chiang Mai have almost to a house, put out signs in front of our homes, placards for either Clinton or Obama (about 75% are for Obama). Is not this the same feeling as back there? Do people have signs out on their lawns or front window voicing their political wish?
It would be sad to think that that at such a crucial election time that apathy and lethargy can exist.
Please tell me people are wearing their affiliation on their sleeves (so to speak).
Daily Reading pt 1...
The Eye of the Storm: Global temps may drop this year but, alas, world still warming - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329799.stm
Global temperatures for 2008 will be slightly cooler than last year as a result of the cold La Nina current in the Pacific
Mr Scaife told the BBC: "What's happened now is that La Nina has come along and depressed temperatures slightly but these changes are very small compared to the long-term climate change signal, and in a few years time we are confident that the current record temperature of 1998 will be beaten when the La Nina has ended."
An inspirational kickoff from David Suzuki - http://www.desmogblog.com/an-inspirational-kickoff-from-david-suzuki
A room, bursting with 250 Inconvenient Truth trainees gathered in Montreal Friday afternoon for the opening of the first Canadian (and the first bilingual) Al Gore Bootcamp.
Self proclaimed 'White House Gossip' Matt Drudge Links His Way to Global Warming Fantasy Land - http://www.desmogblog.com/matt-drudge-links-his-way-to-global-warming-fa...
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/04/04/drudge-sells-false-headlines/
Debunking the idiocy of Lindsey Graham "McCain better than Gore on climate" - http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/4/3/14303/56940
The key point for me is that unlike Gore -- and unlike Clinton and Obama -- McCain doesn't support the policies needed to successfully address catastrophic climate change without devastating the economy (and without an absurd over-reliance on nuclear power).
See...McBush...'the maverick'...will 'use' the green revolution in a way that decimates the economy...to 'prove the con-servative' mantra that renewables & sustainables will 'hurt the economy' for which there is zero evidence or credibility...just ask UK, Germany, Finland, Norway, etc, etc...
Melting Ice Caps May Trigger More Volcanic Eruptions - http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn13583-melting-ice-caps-may...
A warmer world could be a more explosive one. Global warming is having a much more profound effect than just melting ice caps – it is melting magma too.
Bush/GOP Economy Just Keeps Getting Worse -- What's Next? - http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2008/04/economy-just-keeps-getting-worse.html
Gas and food prices are at record high levels. Housing starts have dropped by 36% and foreclosures are at a record level. Over a million more people will lose their homes this year. Food banks can't keep up with the ever-increasing demand. Bush keeps telling us the economy is strong -- that we're just experiencing a little downturn and everything will be alright. After everyone gets their $600 checks, they'll run out and spend and the economy will bounce back. I'm beginning to think the man is a simpleton.
P.M. Carpenter: The Fifth Columnist for Monday, April 7, Only on BuzzFlash.com: "In short, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, is systematically delegitimizing the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. I have never seen anything like it -- and it is genuinely fascinating in all its paradoxical squalor."
- http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/carpenter/036
Fighting Erupts In Baghdad After Week Of Calm, 'Cease fire' over again - http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSL0434078820080406
raqi troops backed by U.S. forces battled gunmen in Baghdad's Sadr City on Sunday, a return to heavy fighting in the capital after Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr pulled his militiamen off the streets a week ago.
Daily Reading pt 2...
NAFTA Makes Rich Richer, Poor and Middle Class Poorer - http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?13245S
If you read any Canadian newspaper, you’ve been treated to the same refrain: NAFTA has been good for Canada. It has led to economic growth and jobs for Canadians. And given that it’s been so wonderful for Canada, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) could only make things better, right? What proponents of deep integration are not telling you is this: the notion that NAFTA has been good for average Canadians, Americans and Mexicans is a lie. The truth is that NAFTA has been responsible for growing poverty...
'Free Market'...is the biggest crock of (insert word here)
Brent Budowsky: Clinton Superdelegates are Easing to Obama - http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/04/04/clinton-superdelegates-are-easing-...
Behind the scenes there is private movement among some key superdelegates who support Clinton but recognize the inevitable. Public comments are starting to seep out, making the suggestion that if Hillary is behind in elected delegates and popular vote they reserve the right to switch to Obama.
Stay tuned — this is much closer to over than the pundits suggest. Obama 08
Here's One Endorsement McCain Should Run Away From: Alan Greenspan - http://www.americablog.com/2008/04/greenspan-endorses-mccain.html
And if you 'love' this 'great economy Greenspan has perpetuated....then vote McBush...and we'll have our next depression in no time....
Kerry: Obama Won't Be Swift Boated - http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/04/kerry_obama_won....
Scott Horton: Worst President Ever - http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/04/hbc-90002804
“It would be difficult to identify a President who, facing major international and domestic crises, has failed in both as clearly as President Bush,” concluded one respondent. “His domestic policies,” another noted, “have had the cumulative effect of shoring up a semi-permanent aristocracy of capital that dwarfs the aristocracy of land against which the founding fathers rebelled; of encouraging a mindless retreat from science and rationalism; and of crippling the nation’s economic base.”
McClatchy: A recent Gallup Poll found that 53 percent of Americans think Clinton isn't "honest and trustworthy." Just 29 percent said the same of her Democratic rival Barack Obama, and 27 percent said it of Republican John McCain.Gallup analyst Jeffrey Jones called the credibility gap between Clinton and McCain "the largest between any two candidates for any dimension tested."
- http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/32711.html
Talk about an issue that will be hard to overcome in a general election....
Why John Edwards Can't Endorse Hillary (In His Own Words). Caught on YouTube. Edwards, "Will she be the person that is going to bring about change in this country? I believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy but I really don't think that is going to happen. I really don't. I think that if people want the status quo, Senator Clinton is your candidate."
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7CAIsSd44
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama said Democrats will be united behind the party's eventual nominee, even as he acknowledged voters' concerns about the contentious campaign.
- http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=anDVe5sqFa4E&refer=home
Rove and 60 Minutes -- The Siegelman Injustice - http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008315807176&source=email&template=printart
ABC NEWS: "In Oregon, Clinton Makes False Claim About Her Iraq Record Vs. Obama's...The misrepresentation of the record is symbolic of the re-writing of history Clinton has attempted on her record regarding the war in Iraq."
- http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/in-oregon-clint.html
Daily Reading pt 3...
St. Petersburgh Times: Sen. Barack Obama says the war costs each household about $100 per month. We do the math and find he's right.
- http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/apr/01/iraq-war-100-month/
The Clinton Campaign Must be Reading the BuzzFlash Editor's Blog. Senator Clinton Finally Gives Mark Penn the Heave-Ho After He Gets Caught Talking with the Colombians Who Just Happen to Then Attack Obama, While Penn is Also Getting Paid to Promote a Free Trade Pact with a Country in Which Union Members and Leaders are Being Murdered by the Dozens
- http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/06/penn_out_as_clintons...
Bill O'Reilly heart attack alert: Tommy Lee, Ludacris go Green star in new A&E reality show highlighting green issues - http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983172.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=...
As for "Battleground," skein will feature Bridges and Lee criss-crossing the country competing in various challenges designed to highlight green issues. Skein will culminate with the two artists converging in Los Angeles to co-headline a concert at the Greek Theater with proceeds benefiting Griffith Park.
Planet Green has already announced several skeins, including a gabber hosted by Tom Bergeron, an Emeril Lagasse showcase and a series devoted to green renovations.
"These are people who have been dedicated to this space for some time," she said. "They're excited to have a green megaphone."
Dennis any anti anything campaign is disingenuous when money gets behind it.
The ideologically bankrupt criminal enterprise running the country and media have been exposed to all but the most profoundly impaired.
Try not to project the hate thing so much.
Dont sweat it Bob. Their bilge pumps can't keep up.
what did you think when the news whores shut out the anti corporists like kucinich gravel and edwards? that they were sheltering you from bogus candidates? they fucked you plain ans simple!and you ate it up like a bunch of slop hogs!say hello to four yrs of watching a drooling maggot as your president!!!!!!!!!!!!
I forget sometimes that Americans used to live in something called a democracy and protesting was a frequent way of asserting rights of us and others around the world. Reading about the the Olympic torch protests in London and now Paris makes we wince. Americans don't protest about anything anymore. Where is the outrage over torture? TORTURE????????????? It's as if the complacent sheeple are just waiting for Bush to to leave office and everything, including the economic recession and the shredding of our Bill of Rights and Constitution, will be restored overnight. Yeah right. We've been dumbed down and don't even react, almost robotic. Maybe there'll be an awakening if there is economic collapse with justifiable blaming of the neocons, all too late of course.
mccinsane is a WARMONGER allways was a warmonger and he,ll die a warmonger!
BlueGal - That is awesome!!!!
bluegal,
From one Southerner to another (you are from/in B'ham, right?), "I don't care who you are, that's funny right there." The only thing funnier would have been if the heroine would have said something along the lines of having Randi Rhodes open a can of whoopass on the jerk.
In case you're wondering, Ocean Springs, MS, currently on business travel in Marinette, WI.
where is the dancing?
Excising A Political Cancer
Looks like a clip from a foreign "art-house" porno film of the 70's.
Blue Gal
I'll be sad if you decide to move to India to pursue a new career in Bollywood. But after viewing this masterpiece, I'd understand it.
Read this:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard40.html
It was written in 1967. It definitely was prescient.
haha loved it blue gal...but these are old 70's bollywood movies...some new bollywood movies for your subtitling consideration- here's one on youtube called the Race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-_X-HaS9Lo&feature=related
All taxpeyers are funding the trolls and propaganda machine. How ingenious, we pay for getting lied to and we pay military to attack targets that move, did you all know the target is on our backs.
[Deleted-Sitemonitor]
The clip ended before the funny part came on.
Were can I pick-up one of those cool blue suits ?
Login or Register to post comments.