November 29, 2009 08:30 PM
Open Thread
From Paul Hinrichs at The Aristocrats:
Hey! - Let's all stick corncobs up our butts and march around the White House, stiff-legged, butt stuck way up in the air, white as can be, with signs that say "9/13 - yo' mama!" and "Where is Reagan's Death Certificate?" We'll call ourselves the "cornholers" and we're gonna take back America from the Russians who crossed the Bering Straits while Palin was out signing books.
Open thread below... And happy birthday to our Video Cafe maven, Heather!
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I've never seen change without a fire
Happy birthday, Heather! Cheers to you!
I had a nice day today. The thoughts are appreciated.
two ewes.
Some stuff you can't make up!
"Hey! - Let's all stick corncobs up our butts and march around the White House, stiff-legged, butt stuck way up in the air,"
A lesson on how to get a strong public option enacted into law and get other progressive legislation enacted by Nov 2010 so you can go to the polls and vote for a Democrat. Right now I will go to the polls in 2010 and 2012 and vote for dog catcher and that appears it.
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Yes, your corporation gave huge amounts of money to conservatives in both parties, so unless you get your CEO to get HR676 enacted as a strong public option covering everything with no out of pocket costs funded only by tax money, forget about me and many of my friends and acquaintances and progressives and liberals going into your pharmacies to buy anything.
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TYSON FOODS CORPORATION, how can I help you?
Yes, your company gave a lot of money to conservative Democrat Representative Mike Ross and conservative Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln both who oppose a strong public option so until your CEO gets Mike Ross and Sen. Blanche Lincoln to get HR676 as the strong public option covering everything with no out of pocket costs funded by taxes only then you can forget me, my friends, acquaintances, liberals and progressives buying any Tyson Chicken, Tyson Turkey or any other Tyson Products.
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American Express Corporation, how can I help you.
Yes, Your company gave a lot of money to Max Baucus who has a health care bill that looks like a Giant version of Medicare Part D. Get your CEO to get Max Baucus to support HR676 as the strong pubic option that covers everything with no out of pocket costs funded only by taxes or you can forget me, my friends, acquaintances, liberal and progressive using an American Express Card and I will cut it up and send it to Max Baucus.
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After you read this blog, go here http://WWW.DEMOCRATZ.ORG and you can take your righteous anger on the corporations that hire conservatives in both the Democratic and RepubliKLAN parties.
STOP complaining and do something about the real poorbashers and the hate mongers in America, the companies that fund conservatives, or as I like to say KLANSERVATIVES.
He let the guy out so he could go to Seattle and kill four cops who were sitting in a coffee shop doing paperwork!! Thanks for being so tough on crime Huckabee!!
"In 1989, Clemmons, then 17, was convicted in Little Rock for aggravated robbery. He was paroled in 2000 after then-Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted Clemmons' 95-year prison sentence. Huckabee, who was criticized during his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 for the number of clemencies and commutations he granted, cited Clemmons' age at the time of the sentence."
Story
evangelical buds said the rapist had gotten saved (and because the victim is a distant cousin of Bill Clinton), and then the rapist went on to rape and murder women, but now this.
Huckabee for president never!
I've never seen change without a fire
Parole Officials: Huckabee pushed rapist's release
I've never seen change without a fire
Nice. Deflected to WA. And HuckPAC fails to recognise the deal with TRIALS. While the guy had several of the in AR, he's had none in WA, so he COULDN'T be incarcerated, after he made bail last week. And I guess it wasn't Huck's fault that as guv, he knocked more than 75-80 years off the guy's sentence. But for AR's actions...
me-oww!
Hallelujah, Jay---sus is prouds!
Look at the headlines on the various websites so far. The "liberal" MSNBC doesn't mention this fact in their story, CNN buries it, and Fox of course just has a picture of the flag. Our local paper headlines it, not surprisingly because we are all now royally pissed at the Huckster. (If he runs for President I wouldn't bet on the boys in blue providing him security in this state.)
earlier but it wasn't confirmed that the guy was the suspect, only a person of interest. I did hear he was pardoned by Huckabee though. I will have to watch the late news to follow up.
Go to the comments section for this story in seattletimes.com, komotv.com or king5news.com. Up until this latest twist it was all Obama's fault, of course. They are now calling Huckabee a RINO, which is pretty hilarious.
to purge him from the party!
I've never seen change without a fire
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me-oww!
Speaking of the purity test;
My wife was reading a book doing an assignment on Sunday when she read this. She sent to a few blogs and I am posting it below.
Here's something I ran across in reading "The Last Knight" by Norman Cantor.
Cantor quotes from the writings of an English Monk in the 14th Century:
The Cloud of Unknowing:
So for the love of God be careful and don't put any great
strain on your mind or imagination. For I tell you
truthfully, you cannot achieve it by any such strain, so
leave your intellectual and your imaginative skills
strictly alone.
When I use the word "darkness" I mean an
absence of knowledge as when you say that the
things you don't know or have forgotten are "dark" to you
because you cannot see them with your inner eye...
And for the same reason this "cloud" is no cloud in the sky
but a "cloud of unknowing" between you and your god..
If you want to stand fast in virtue and not fall prey to
temptation, never let your intention fail. Beat constantly
against the cloud of unknowing between you and be loath
to let your mind wander on anything less that God. Don't
give up for anything, because this is absolutely the only
work that destroys the ground and root of sin.
Translated by Karen Armstrong in "The English Mystics"
Cantor, Norman. "The Last Knight." Free Press: New York. 2004. pp 146 - 151.
So, rid your mind of any knowledge or independent thought,
as only through absence of thought and perfect obedience
will you be able to know God's will.
This is what many Christian people of today believe.
According to Cantor, it most likely was written by a Carmelite friar.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
I am a tiny bit conflicted as the guy is a suspect at this point, which is not the same as being known for a fact to have done it. However, the guy's history makes it a lot more likely than it would for most of us and I do find releasing prisoners with violent crime charges against advice to be irresponsible. Especially since this seems to have been a trend with Huckabee.
the guy is a person of interest.
let the process play out.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Yes, "innocent until proven guilty" and early news reports are frequently wrong (so are late ones). Right now they are surrounding a hosue in Seattle, he is inside, and he is bleeding. (Apparently one of the officers shot at the suspect during the incident.)
It would be interesting to know if suspect #2 (who is a white guy who seems to have been purged from the news reports) is the one who dropped him off at the house. Whoever it was, they have some 'splaining to do.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localne...
if he was just going through his monthly period. Just joking folks.
the only picture I saw is of the black man. IUPG wasn't my argument. assinine press and kneejerk reaction is my concern. if the police get happy with one guy when there are more than one, or if the press only focuses on one guy when there is more than one, then we are not only poorly served, we are also at risk.
Some stuff you can't make up!
to catch pics of robbers. He walked up to the cash register. They had a picture of him they were showing around about 6 hours after.
He cut off the GPS bracelet he got as a condition of bail last week and did a runner, and they think he's pinned down about 4 blocks from where the Seattle cop was ambushed on Halloween.
me-oww!
I wish these Senators cared about doing something about health care reform and war as readily as they are willing to act against a couple of gate-crashers. Chavez has more willpower against banks than Obama. No net and no harness, what did you fucking idiots expect?! The WHO believes HIV-infected people need treatment sooner. Thanks, NRA, for the killing of four off-duty cops. Even our own Iraq-experienced soldiers are having trouble in Afghanistan. Meet the new boss, Pakistan-style. Obama tries to stop more foreclosures. Think this apology over an improper comment about an Iranian b-ball player will get much attention on Fox? The Swiss don't care about Muslim citizens. The one that got away. Your rigged "liberal" media polls at work. Still, JFK ends up being more popular than Raygun, while Beckula barely registers, and is only slightly more popular than Cheney the Dick and Palindrone.
No mam, no corncobs for me. It ain'nt the corncob so much but how stupid I would look. Someone might mistake me for a republican.
I was thinking... um, I have better things to do with my time. Do we look like wingnuts? (even though you can't see us)
Happy birthday Heather.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Palinista standing in the snow all night to get to see Miss Alaska runner up quitter for 2 seconds for $29.95 when all you had to do was subscribe to NoiseMax and git 'er done free!
cornholio!
Some stuff you can't make up!
days back at the farm when they would save the corncobs for the outhouse. Didn't work so well when they moved to the city. Damn things kept pluggin the toilet.
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Some stuff you can't make up!
made a killing.
That's a cheeky crack.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Over air pollution.
A Chinese plastics plant suing an Ohio School?
US lawmakers behind Ugandan push to execute gays
The Family runs US foreign policy? Those fucking bastards.
Some stuff you can't make up!
I saw this earlier. There are no words to express the disgust.
Let's not mince words: The Family supports genocide.
I think that anyone who supported this effort should be rounded up and tried for attempted murder.
These people are so god damned dangerous! I'm not scared of any of my Muslim neighbors I meet. I'm scared to death of the fucking fundamentalist Christians in power, who have already done a lot to try to ruin my life and my partner's. (I'll not belabor the full story, as a lawsuit is soon to come.)
If the government wants to profile anyone (and it shouldn't at all) it should start with anyone who thinks The Family has a rightful place in our government.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
c-street house?
Some stuff you can't make up!
yup.
or was it another aipac/MilIndusPlex trial baloon?
I am sick of the media. they obviously report every word from the bush operatives who keep trying to corner Obama on every issue. I think many need to be fired, especially all who worked for booshchainey.
http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=2704
Some stuff you can't make up!
Justice Department Says Acorn Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Published: November 27, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group.
The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, adds a new wrinkle to a sharp political debate over the antipoverty group’s activities and recent efforts to distance the government from it.
Some stuff you can't make up!
and Rash Slimebaugh will go ballistic over this.
Canada bill clears way to sue foreign torturers
(AFP) – 3 days ago
OTTAWA — An opposition lawmaker unveiled Thursday proposed legislation that would allow victims of torture to sue the perpetrators, including foreign states and officials, in Canadian courts.
"Our present legislation criminalizes torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide -- the most heinous acts known to humankind," said opposition Liberal MP and former justice minister Irwin Cotler.
"But Canadian law does not allow a civil remedy for the victims of such horrific acts.
"This legislation will: address the evil of such international crimes; target the impunity of those states and officials that perpetrate these crimes; remove the state immunity that operates to shield the perpetrators of such crimes; and finally allow Canadian victims to secure justice."
after the bill passes, maybe chainey and boosh can visit toronto.
Some stuff you can't make up!
More than just beer, hockey, CAPRI PANTS, beady little eyes, and flapping heads so full of lies.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Fraud hits disabled veterans
A government investigation found that fraud and abuse are diverting millions of dollars in contracts intended to go to businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.
BY JIM WYSS
jwyss@MiamiHerald.com
Millions of dollars worth of government contracts designated for service-disabled veterans are being siphoned off by fraud and abuse, according to a recent government report.
In a case-study of 10 firms, including one Florida company, the Government Accountability Office found ineligible companies had won about $100 million worth of contracts earmarked for service-disabled veteran-owned companies.
The ``program is vulnerable to fraud and abuse, which could result in legitimate service-disabled veterans losing contracts to ineligible firms,'' according to the report, which was presented to Congress last week.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Chinese firm wins $100m contract in New York
Middle East North Africa - Financial Network (MENAFN) - 24/11/2009
(MENAFN) China State Construction Engineering Corp., the largest contractor in China, said that it has won a subway ventilation project worth $100 million in New York's Manhattan area, China Daily reported.
The deal marked the construction giant's third order in the United States' infrastructure space this year, the newspaper said.
In the first three quarters of this year, the Chinese construction giant signed more than $2 billion worth of contracts in the U.S. market. It was also the contractor for a high school, a railway station and the Chinese embassy in the U.S.
Nevertheless, the domestic market is still the largest contributor to China State Construction's revenue, mainly due to strong property sales and infrastructure sector projects, said the newspaper.
I'm sure there are enough new yorkers available to do the work! Why again did they elect bloomey?
Some stuff you can't make up!
in the streets! Where the Hell are labor unions now?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
a sign saying
"Your tea is weak"
And tepid.
And bitter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2d-qTZSdSI&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Another exciting Grey Cup finish!
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
There's certainly no joy in 'Rider Nation.
I think I just wet myself from laughing at this!! Oh wait, those are tears from when I cried because the insanity of a sizable portion of our country made this post necessary.
I saw a report on the google that the suspected shooter in Parkland, WA had his 95 year prison sentence commutted by then Gov. Huckabee (he was jailed in AR)
Refresh my memory but I seem to recall another incident involving Huckabee granting a commutation that didn't go well, I beleive based on a religous thing? Do I remember that right?
born again?
Some stuff you can't make up!
Patrick Porter is a lecturer in Defence Studies at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Kings College London, in a very informative interview.
Podcast here
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
That corn cobber must be from Wrongco Corporations
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...what run all them fancy free-market-based prisons?
Happy B-Day Heather!
And . . .
BIN LADEN ANNOUNCES DECISION TO SEND 35,000
ADDITIONAL SUICIDE BOMBERS TO AFGHANISTAN
more at ...
http://www.ironictimes.com/
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
The Merchant Who Thought He Was God--a political allegory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb221ijfDbw
Why does that picture make me want to cross my legs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn49iMUs3EU&fe...
(approx. 5:35)
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
If we can't use this to paint his fat, sweaty, greay face as the face of all Cons then we suck!
Don't laugh...back when I spent more time working with physicians one of them actually had to remove a corn cob from some guys butt. He, the patient, was very uncomfortable.
Anyway, all I can say is that secretly Palin is a comedian and when she reveals that truth to all you will feel foolish.
I wonder if the Seattle shooter used one of those FN Herstal Five-seveN's that the NRA thinks we should all have, even though with the right ammo it will go right through body armour. I wonder what bullshit they'd trot out then.
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