Open Thread
By bluegal Thursday Jun 04, 2009 7:45pm
"...when he came to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said "BE STILL!" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once and they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all..." - Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are.
Obama sails away a night and a day from the FOX Wild Things: Beck, O'Reilly, Coulter, Hannity, and Kristol.
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Those 5? What a sad joke.
actually, they kinda look cute with their faces plastered on the wild beasts from that book... :P Less hideous.
thanks
now i will have nightmares
and rip mr caradine
One of my favorite books as a child is still a well known classic today. Amazing.
this is on the book list. It's a grad class in Graphic Art/picture books and will probably be heavily influenced by ideologies, knowing the professor and what she assigns. Yes, there's a lot of propaganda fed to our children in some rather innocuous places.
...I wouldn't blame him.
I'm one of your faithful 20% followers who will do everything I can to change your percentage of followers. Keep doing what you do and we are guaranteed to get the changes we deserve.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
NH approves gay marriage. Does the U.S. really plan to start withdrawal from Iraq @ the end of June? Barry just had to ruin the "bipartisan" fun and bring up public health care. McCain's on the same page with Obama on nuclear disarmament. The U.S. broke its own rules of engagement on its recent bombing raid in Afghanistan. The jobless rate will continue to go up in May. The feds reveal the locations of sensitive nuclear sites online. A Chicago officer gets a light sentence for beating a female bartender while drunk. A Gitmo detainee dies of suicide.
And N. Korea is applying the same methods to prosecute our journalists. Rape is a problem in Darfur.
...considering subjects in the topic, I'm surprised some of our more imaginative frothy-mouthed neanderthals on the right haven't tried to make the argument that America's growing embrace of gay marriage isn't something that makes terrorists target us. Doesn't that seem like something insane that Beck or Limbaugh would say, oblivious that they are identifying with radical extremist terrorists?
is that means they would have to admit to agreeing with the terrorists on the subject of homosexuality.
If there is anything I learned during the bush years, 6 degrees of separation still count!
another black person who died at the hands of whites and they go completely free. Par for Amerryka!
So what are you talking about?
When? I totally missed this!
I fuckin HATE that shit!
They really are like out of a story book aren't they. Hey, story books end, right?
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/sto...
Of course the Rush/O'Reilly/Beck/Hannity/Cheney cabal don't want Obama to succeed because it will underline forever how massively they failed.
That makes sense.
They are just cowardly idiots.
republicanism is a mental illness. hahahahahahahahaha!
Those of you who'd followed my last blog may remember that I did a series called "Boolean Bozoism", a list of some of the most incomprehensible and insane search engine phrases that were used to find my blog.
Well, a year after I started up my current one, I began doing a search phrase safari and it looks like teh unwashed masses of the internets at it again. This time I went back six months and chose only the best and worst for posterity, with a running commentary, of course.
Personally, I'd love to see more people do this with their blogs.
Cheney and bin Laden need each other to exist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyRU0fKHAY
ACTION ALERT!! Tell the FCC What You Want from a National Internet Plan - http://www.freepress.net/node/58150
The Federal Communications Commission is busy crafting America's first national broadband plan, and they're asking for your input. Now's your chance to tell the FCC to support an open, fast, affordable and people-powered Internet without corporate gatekeepers.
You really, really, really, really, really don't want corporate monopolies telling you what you can and can't have access to....do you? If so, China is ready when you are....
U.S. states to lead in creating high-speed rail: Biden - http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/reuter...
VP Biden tells governors to plan for rail-line stimulus money - http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20090604...
Citing the creation of jobs and other "long-term economic and environmental consequences," Biden said a national effort to build high-speed rail lines could transform national transportation much as the building of the interstate highway network did in the 1950s and 1960s.
"Obama cracks the code to reach Islam" - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0e8e6b2c-512c-11de-84...
S.E.C. Accuses Countrywide’s Ex-Chief of Fraud - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/business/05...
Angelo R. Mozilo, the Bronx-born businessman who built Countrywide Financial into the nation’s largest mortgage lender before it was knocked down by the credit crisis, has been charged with securities fraud and insider trading in a civil suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Note: Why do we not see more of these companies, including the bank CEOs being charged with securities fraud? Something is rotten in zee ole Denmark.
Another free marketeer, 'captain of industry' con-servative defrauding millions....what else is new?
Obama's "interference" in Israeli politics - Glenn Greenwald - http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/0...
Identically, if Israel wants to be free of what it and some of its U.S. supporters call "interference" from the Obama administration, that’s very easy to achieve: Israel can stop asking for tens of billions of dollars of American taxpayer money, huge amounts of military and weapons supplies for its various wars, and unyielding American diplomatic protection at the U.N.
But as long as Israel remains dependent on the U.S. in countless ways, then Obama not only has the right -- but he has the obligation -- to demand that Israel cease activities which harm U.S. interests.
The ABCs of antiabortion activism - http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/?last_sto...
The murder of Dr. George Tiller has opened up a Pandora's box for pro-lifers, giving rise to all sorts of troublesome questions about the culpability of lenient law enforcement and the movement itself.
They certainly won't find salvation from Pandagon's Amanda Marcotte, who got her mitts on a disturbing antiabortion activist handbook from Justice for All that lays bare some of the lies, deception and cynical manipulation that might have led to Tiller's assassination.
It's now online for your reading displeasure.
Chinese Company's Hummer Buy Raises Questions - http://www.economyincrisis.org/articles/show/...
Tengzhong is just a four year old company with under 5,000 employees and no experience in manufacturing passenger vehicles. .... Hummer, which exemplified American overindulgence for nearly a decade, was sold to a little-known Chinese machinery company yesterday as part of General Motor’s restructuring plan, paving the way for the entry into the U.S. auto market by a Chinese company for the first time ever.
SO, now all you morons driving hummers...you're not only killing your kids future off, you're financing the 'chi-coms'..... Proud to be an american? Still got that 'support the troops' magnet (also made in china) on the back?
HUMMER: Soldiers dying in theirs, so you can drive yours....
Public defender offices are in crisis nationwide - http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/200...
Bleak state budgets through 2011 - http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?c...
Health care for all - http://www.makingpeace-in-austin.blogspot.com/
What Makes Sense for Health Care Makes Sense for Autos, Car Industry Needs Public Option Too -- Dave Lindorff
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/lindorff/244
The number of people on the unemployment insurance rolls fell slightly last week for the first time in 20 weeks, while the tally of new jobless claims also dipped, the government said Thursday
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/business/ec...
AUDIO: Randi Rhodes vs Randall Terry - http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009...
Here's the text of Obama's speech at Cairo University in Egypt - http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/natio...
E.J. Dionne: By dragging the media to the right, Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich are winning. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
Corporate Media = Corporate shills....4th Estate was lost in late 70s and finished off in mid 90s...
Net Neutrality is the only thing keeping the 1st amendment afloat....
Profiles in right wingnut 'courage': AP: Federal prosecutors have charged a man with making threats against President Barack Obama after he allegedly told a bank employee in Utah he was on a mission to kill the president.
- http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBA...
Murray's whereabouts are unknown. A court affidavit says Murray is from New York and has recently been in California, Utah, Georgia, Oklahoma and possibly Texas.
The U.S. Secret Service says Murray has at least eight registered firearms, the Tribune reported.
When we find this POS ship it directly to Kabul....leave it about 50 miles outside city limits with its 'guns'....and lets see how far it gets....eh?
Republican 'priorities' on display again: Luddites all the way: GOP Budget Cuts Take Aim At Educational Opportunities For Women, Bike Paths, And Technology Innovation
- http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/04/gop-budge...
Termination of the Women’s Educational Equity program. Elimination of the Safe Routes to Schools program. Elimination of the Technology Innovation Program.
Well remember...we did ask them for 'their' plan....and what do we get.....gee another corporatist/white male elitist agenda-action plan....shocking!
"Former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld could soon be in trouble for the role he played in human rights abuses committed in the Guantanamo prison, a United Nations expert said Wednesday."
- http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/...
Chuck D and DMC on hip-hop and America - http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com...
Climate action game changer, Part 1: Is there a lot more natural gas than previously thought? - http://www.grist.org/article/climate-action-g...
"I have been researching what may be the single biggest game changer for climate action in the next two decades — U.S. natural gas supply"
Tales from Spain: baseload renewable energy means hope in the fight against global warming - http://www.grist.org/article/tales-from-spain...
Hurray! Judge Orders Hyper-Polluting Indiana Coal Plant to Shut Down 40% of Units - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/india...
Political Irony: http://politicalirony.com/2009/06/05/the-piata/
Guess what I won't be talkin about today?
speech...
Check out this mental giant...
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/06...?
shot 6/5/68
died 6/6/68
One hell of an actor.
I don't think he committed suicide. It sounds more like an auto-erotic asphyxiation accident.
their passwards not working this AM and have to re-log into the site?
everything worked okay for me
I had to re-log into the site a couple of times yesterday too. For the past couple of days, I've noticed that the comments and videos are very slow in loading.
getting treated like a criminal...in jail of all places!
Wow...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/04/scot...
I met an American girl today that told me about her Baptist family in small town Ohio. Last time she was home she told them she is not a Christian. I told her that took a lot of courage. She doesn't feel at home in America anymore. It's too scary. She's much happier in Korea.
The American diaspora.
If things continue to spiral downward with no hope for free thinkers.
I will move to Europe. And try to take my family with me.
We're going to keep in touch. She was so happy to meet a sane and extremely liberal person, that's way outside the box.
I'm moving to Europe (from Seoul) in August. One day I might get back to Canada, but the world is so damn interesting, especially once you get off the 'ferris wheel'.
Good lord the guy was ugly before. It looks like a train hit his face:
http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/2009/06/05...
Looks like a more effeminate version of Eric Roberts!
Check out Tori Spelling's cleavage ... Yuck!
I don't WANNA!
Some things are just too painful to look at!
:)
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