Open Thread
By bluegal Monday Nov 30, 2009 8:30pm
If you love audio content and podcasts as much as I do, don't miss "In Bed with Susie Bright." In my opinion, her podcast on the Sarah Palin and Mark Sanford sex scandals (free excerpt at the link) should win best podcast of the year, if there is such a thing. (Her blog on sex, culture, and politics, etc. is great too, but like the podcasts, not necessarily work safe.)
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but Gov. Ahnold owes nearly $80,000 in tax liens.
This is the same repig that wanted Native Americans to "pay their fair share," as if California's Indians haven't paid quite enough already (oh, like the very land he gets to govern), and claims to sympathize with California's poor who are being turned away from certain Medicaid coverage. Such an a-hole.
The nutjob that killed 4 cops on Sunday in Lakewood, WA was shot and killed by Seattle police around 2:30am and reported at 4:15am that he was indead dead.
SCOTUS enables torture cover-ups. Gay couples also have problems getting married South of the Ecuator. The U.S. military actually bought its own cake-walk lie about Iraq. A Clipper is forced to apologize over his insensitive comment about an Iranian teammate. The Moore-haters once again try to take down his argument against further intervention in Afghanistan. The Swiss don't care about Muslim people. Oh, and Ahnie gets booed at the track. I remember when someone threw an orange at Pete Wilson, back when he was most unpopular.
I just feel so slimey after being at the anti-Moore site. It never ceases to amaze me how many totally brain dead morons there are in this world.
What could they have against someone who can turn the world on with her smile?
Oh yea baby...make me smile...
Swiss minaret ban may signal new right-wing surge
... doesn't it?
It's a clash of two right wings, a European and Islamic one. The Europeans were there first.
What do minarets have to do with beng right wing? That is just as silly as saying that all churches are right wing because of Jerry Falwell, so we should ban all crosses.
I'm not defending what I think is an over reaction by the Swiss but they are a small country and mostly secular and probably don't want that to change. I don't blame them.
One of the theories behind the recent train bombing in Russia is that it was done by right-wing nationalists hoping to incriminate Muslims and strengthen the case for excluding them from Russia.
Right wing fanaticism is most certainly not confined to the US.
control over the media as what our rightwing has gotten here, it;s a good chance that it will be believed by the citizens. Remember Pravda?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/...
wow when will we be done with AIG?
who killed 4 police officers in Washington state was "Not his fault." I wonder if it had been a Democrat who had released this man, if Billo would be saying the same thing?
I think not. Billo also goes on to blame WA state...which is a liberal state in general, but Lakewood is in a kinda conservative area.
Brings to mind "Willie Horton," doesn't it?
the killing of the officers goes to the perpetrator. The only blame Huckabee gets is that he was responsible for having him released. BillO will twist the information any way he can.
It was pretty sick to watch Billo lying about the Washington courts and making false equivalences. The guy's bail was $110,000, not $11,000. He was excusing Huckabee because of the "large number of cases that he had to review" without any mention of the number of cases that a superior or circuit court judge has to review. The judges here are just following the law and bail guidelines, Huckabee was on a strange crusade of some kind (releasing many times more people than any other governor in the area.)
There was also no mention of Huckabee's other star alum, a rapist who went on to rape and murder another victim.
I was also appalled that he posted the judges pictures and said that they will be "held accountable." That sounds a lot like a threat.
We have bail in this country because it is impossible to give people the speedy trial that the Constitution demands. It isn't like the judges let the guy go because they were sorry for him -- he had a GPS bracelet and a significant financial incentive to go to trial. Unfortunately the guy was not sane, and the legal system is not good at dealing with insanity.
In all of this the people I am most pissed at are those who are apprently helping the guy. They are accomplices after the fact, and under Federal law (don't know about state) they get 1/2 of the jail term of the defendent. If it is death, they only get 15 years so I'm suggesting that we sentence the guy to 400 years, 100 for each person killed.
a stupid, banal place.
Story.
Convention of the conspiracy theorists and some sane commentators as well, all thrown into a heap.
Anti Wall Street, anti oligarch, anti elite ranting and raving, but also anti green. Some of it sounds reasonable but much doesn't.
This will take an enormous amount of work to dissect and straighten out.
William K. Black and Brooksley Born are in there but are not enough to save the jumble.
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I haven't gotten through the whole thing but what is missing thus far is any discussion of American Imperialism or Peak Energy.
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My bookshelves are filled with the works of:
Corelli, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Tartini, Leclair, JS Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, CPE Bach, Hadyn, Mozart, Beethoven, Spohr, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Tckaikovsky, Saint Saens, Fauré, Albeniz, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinksy, Bartok only to name a few off the top of my head. I play them all in between bouts of modern fare. If I read through them eight hours per day, which I do at times, I could not go through them all in one year.
Mickey Spillane, Ian Fleming, Aristotle, Aeslepius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fran Striker, Norvell Page, Don Marquis, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Clive Barker, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Dr. Elizabeth Miller, William K Everson, Charles Squire, Jeffrey Gantz, Jonathan Tasini, Søren Kierkegaard etc etc etc...
And of course:
http://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/i...
I also grok on Sun Tzu, E A Wallis Budge, the translators of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, but I can't see to find my copy of Mein Kampf.
That's no surprise since my bookcases are so overloaded the shelves are sagging, so some of the books have to be moved to the bulk of my collection, which are in boxes and in the closet.
And my porn stash is pretty heavy too.
Really? I love hard boiled crime fiction: Hammet, Chandler, Thompson, etc. I was stuck in an airport once and bought a book of three Spilane novels. I made it through two out of three. Spilane's hero is just so over the top I couldn't take it anymore. He would rather hit someone than talk to them, every woman that sees him instantly starts to drop her panties, ... The only Mike Hammer that I kind of liked was the movie version of Kiss Me Deadly which I just rewatched recently, what a great little noir movie.
Some of my favorite authors: P.K. Dick, Raymond Chandler, Dashell Hammett, Richard Dawkins, Milan Kundera, Noam Chomsky, Doris Lessing, Michael Parenti, Jim Thompson, Elaine Pagels (facinating books on Gnostic Christians), Nietzsche, Brian Green (physics and string theory), and Martin Fowler (nerd books on software development)
Which version? There was one in 1955 with Ralph Meeker I've seen with Cloris Leachman in an early role, as the torture/murder victim that sets off the case. Hammer was upscale LA type, instead of lowscale New York, and even had an early version of an answering machine, and it ended up about the bomb and uranium smuggling a'la James Bond about 10 years later.
Than there was one in the 1980's with Armand Asante as Hammer that's not listed in IMDB.
Than there was one in 1988 which was a TV movie that had nothing to do with Hammer.
I've read some Chandler's Sam Spade books and was a fan of Hammett's The Thin Man, the book and the movie series. Myrna Loy was a HOTTEE...It was probably this movie series that took her off the stereotype of playing Eurasian Femme Fatales.
I got my interoduction to Kiss Me Deadly,in Jean Kerr's book Please Don't Eat the Daisies, where she did a take-off of both readers theatre and Mickey Spillane in a hilarious piece called Don Brown's Body, and then a passing reference to reading it under covers at night on Happy Days.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/lorien/reading3....
This was the original with Ralph Meeker and Choris Leachman. I love the nuke angle and the mysterious glowing brief case (I know they weren't in the book) which came back in Repo Man and Pulp Fiction.
Kiss Me Deadly is on YouTube. Just checked, and favourited to watch later.
Very disappointing. He was going on about how great what we are doing there is NOW as opposed to before because now we are doing nation building. Talking to Mullahs, building fences, ... Its so sick that getting some money to build infrastructure HERE is equated to socialism or communism but going half way around the world to build them is something where we don't even consider the cost. Rather also did admit that this "new" policy is something that we did in Vietnam. And how did that work out. The fact is that the great majority of the Afghans don't want us there and we should be getting out ASAP. I'm disappointed (although not very surprised) in Obama.
Intrastructure HERE is socialism.
Infrastructure THERE is Imperialism (hence good).
We must continue providing reasoned intelligent response on every and all avenues of discussion so that we make this come true. At Rolling Stone, there is a very good interview of Al Gore, titled "Citizen Gore", which talks about the following,
"The Internet is now getting close to the stage where it will be possible for it to eclipse television, making it possible for people to really participate in representative democracy. But we're not there yet. We're still at a stage where TV is completely dominant in our political culture, which enables those with a lot of money to exercise enormous influence in the political system."
CAN WE PLEASE begin discussion/participation in CANCELING PAY TV?
WE ARE FEEDING THE MONSTER HERE. Forking over our heard earned dollars to the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. Imagine if you gave your $80 a month EN MASSE to LIBERAL RADIO/LIBERAL INTERNET?
WHAT A CHANGE in the world we could create if we took our money AWAY FROM TV and fed it to the internet. Can we get on board here?
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