February 08, 2010 09:30 PM
Open Thread
Talk to the hand. (Just FYI, the annual Blog Against Theocracy blogswarm is April 2-4.)
Open thread below...
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British-run Iraq probe may seek to interview Bush, aides
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/blair-dismisses-i...
'Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us' in March Issue of Hustler Magazine (Now on Newsstands).
U.S. Counterterrorism Officials Insisted that Crotch Bomber Be Let Into Country
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/us-cou...
And some sad news... (by the great Nicholas Kristof)
The brutal war in Congo has not only lasted longer than the Holocaust but also appears to have claimed more lives. The 'Never Again' joke is exposed as being exactly that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/opinion/07k...
Just like the 'Remember 9/11' B.S. and heroism propaganda are exposed when the first responders are dying without healthcare from the dust in their lungs.
And some Financial Realism..
The OTHER Reason that the U.S. is Not Regulating Wall Street
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/other-...
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Jon Stewart had a crib note on his hand tonight. It said "make weird face" and "curse". haha Then Cobert noted that palin said it was OK for rush to use the r-word because it was satire. So then he used satire by saying "sarah palin is a f**king retard" to thunderous applause from the audience. lol
... fickle fingers of fate ...
Run for your lives, people!
We gravitate towards similars to feel less alone,
And yet we crave our privacy, a space that’s all our own.
But not all humans manifest this dissonance the same,
For liberals and conservatives in fact have different brains.
The former tend to judge a person solely on his mind,
The latter cannot overlook the looks of other kinds.
Conservatives maintain the sense that we should think the same,
While liberals think diversity’s the main rule of the game.
And so they go their separate ways, to let each other be,
For even though it may seem odd, they each want liberty.
But, sadly, since they can’t escape each other altogether,
They do conclude, and then they brood, that all their lives are tethered.
And then they talk, and talk, and talk to maximize their freedom,
But neither speaks the other’s language. Translators? They need ‘em!
Liberals think that “freedom” means one should be left alone,
To gravitate towards similars completely on one’s own.
So minds that seem to think alike can seek each other out,
Without regard for race or sex, since that’s what life’s about.
Their rivals think that liberals want perverse impunity,
That rights belong not just to persons, but communities.
When they say “freedom” they don’t think, “Oh well, to each his own,”
“The people” not “the person” is the one to leave alone.
Conservatives believe the state can only interfere,
With local customs and traditions that they hold quite dear.
Strengthening the state, they feel, will only bring them pain,
Since tradition's what they really want the freedom to maintain.
Liberals on the other hand consider a strong state,
Something freedom-loving folks should really celebrate.
Efficient states can guarantee a certain minimum,
Of access to necessities for each and every one.
By doing so, the liberals say, the state can set the stage,
For happy individuals to feel they're not caged.
But, when one side speaks of freedom, well, the other does not hear,
Instead they see a contradiction, and they learn to fear.
Eventually, each side regards the other as a threat,
And once they do, on freedom's death becomes the way to bet.
Frightened people don't maintain their liberty at all,
They panic to protect their kind, and let their freedoms fall.
For what both really crave is just to feel less alone,
In privacy among the folks they like to call their own.
I think Barack Obama sees as much as head of state,
I just hope his style of leading's not too little and too late.
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Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
That was cool to see--thanks. I remember when I used to be able to write fairly well, and at 47, I vacillate between admiring people for still practicing the art of writing and beating my self for remembering another thing for which my peak has been overshot.
Now I'm lucky if I proofread blog posts before sending. But given that Palin can successfully woo many with Cliff Notes on her palm to dolts who pay to hear her drone, SOMEBODY has to keep writing alive.
Better you than her. Or me.
Keep it up.
(BTW-- FUCK Blogspot and Google ID mgmt. I just don't know...)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Her far-left hand says, "Somebody Kill Obama for Jesus," and "God hates fangs."
most of these republicans are the least educated people in the world. I still haven't seen any real numbers on the attendance of the tea party convention. Usually they are out there early with their fake numbers. I've seen estimate from 600, 800 to 1100. I'm still curious.
Nobody knows for sure, because they can not count above twenty with any accuracy.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
that the MSM would report it except I think the numbers were really low. ABC reported Friday that there was about 600 there. It should be easy to find out how much space was rented for the main events and how many people could fit into the allocated area.
...the fire marshal wasn't too concerned about them.
"Nobody knows for sure, because they can not count above twenty with any accuracy."
Make that ten. It's winter, and too cold to take their shoes off...
should burn upside down into her forehead
an image of what is shown on her palm
The Brown Man is back on YouTube.
The blog post I re-posted from July last week, titled "Racial Discrimination: The Reality Show" has joined the rest of my recent pieces on the Brown Man Thinking Hard channel on YouTube.
Perspective is one of the items that is missing from the national conversation on race. It is the lack of interest in fully appreciating the African American point of view when it comes to racial issues that has so many Americans clamoring for a "post-racial America", where they can conveniently ignore or sidestep many of the truths that Americas history of discrimination contains.
It's had me kind of hot lately.
So you know me - I had to say something about it.
Enjoy.
Makes it easier for whites to listen to for some reason. Anything helps IMO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-IkulPFMxs
they (r) want us to hate palin. i'm just bored with her. she serves no purpose but to spew her prefabricated linguistic nonsense. she's one of the prime example's of what's wrong with this country opportunistic klown's. tell people what they think they want to hear to justify their ignorance. personally, i'm sick of palin.
I've been sick of her for a long, long time. If she only had about 600 people there, why all the MSM coverage?
600-1000 PAYING mostly elderly white people in Nashville is a fuckin' seminar at the convention center for work-at-home business scams, NOT a political movement!!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The MSM forces her on us 24 / 7 , nothing at all but a simpleton / fake who's speeches and book are absolute drivel , draws crowds of maybe 400 , people that are even simpler and dumber than she is . It's madness. I'm sick of it too , I think most people are .I've been saying that the Repugs have only one "virtue" , greed , I was wrong , they have two , greed and stupidity .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
She's another corporate whore.
the notion palin will be the president of this country is ridiculous. actually, i believe she's fully aware she will never run for the highest office in the land. palin is just (bread and circus) a cheerleader that provides the raw meat for people that don't realize they are being had.......like the rest of us. palin is just another neoCON/opportunistic klown. palin is being used to help maintain the two party/dualism system while "we the people" are losing are freedoms/democracy. palin is an example that government indeed may be the problem.
... no one would re-elect that simpering buffoon named W.
Ooops.
If the Democrats don't learn from W, and from Scott Brown beating Martha Coakley, we're damn well gonna end up with President Wasilla.
we elected wubble-u either time, first time there was massive disenfranchisement of people in Florida along with butterfly ballots made with bad card stock. Ohio was a simple "we count the votes so you don't have to" routine.
In honor of Caribou barbie aka Sarah Handjob, I'd like to dedicate this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkoH1HmYKE8
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Really! I Just now saw a weather report about the blizzard in DC on the Weather Channel. They told how the Fed Gov was giving their employees not one but two Snow Days! And it's costing millions! Later, when the bimbo was waving at a US map and talking about storms, she wondered aloud if the Fed Employees in DC would get another million dollar "Snow Day" when the next storm arrives on Wednesday.
That's the corporate message: Our country's recession and employment problems are due to the Deficit, and the Deficit is due to Social Security and Medicaid, and other "entitlements" (that people pay for, btw).
God, they make me sick.
As Canadians coming back through Arkansas from a visit to Texas a few years ago we were puzzled that what, in Toronto, would be categorized as a light dusting of snow, had the capacity to shut down one of the state's main traffic arteries. We were frustrated and cursing Arkansas' unreadiness and remarking on how much it would cost the state's economy till we gained some perspective and realized that the cost of having the snow readiness infrastructure of a northern climate would be far greater than the cost of waiting a day for the snow to melt on its own.
National debt a set-up for future shock
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35303...
Print, print, print, we're f****d
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
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Let a Media monkey bang away at the keyboard, just long enough...
... And every once in a while it will type a word or two.
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Great link!
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
"The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the U.S. We have a branch in almost every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T, and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the U.S. Government."
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"I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble.... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property." [Ulysses S. Grant]
PS. The eight plaintiffs identified six former priests as their abusers. Three of those priests had not been named in previous court filings: They are: Richard Ginder, George J. Parme and Robert Castelucci.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
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"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
From 1988.
Funny how history seems to repeat itself?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gi0lZ4uB1M
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
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What George W. Bush learned from Bill Clinton:
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
Anyone want pancreatic cancer from sugary soft drinks? Considering they're so paranoid about Obama wanting to reform health care out in the open, you'd think Republicans would at least want to check him with a better solution. Murtha ended up being a victim to the "best" health care in the world. The U.S. covered up letters which would have detered them from pardoning members of the infamous Japanese Unit 731 bio-warfare unit of WW2. The Dow's down. Sebellius demands answers' on Blue Cross' recent attempt to price-rape consumers. Iran's new deal. Shelby finally relinquished his blocks, but only in exchange for some pork. Some hospitals are charging Haitian . Why is the U.S. suddenly cutting off AIDS-related funding to Africa?
Just died recently from getting the best healthcare in the world also. It was the evil staff infection.
I worked at hospital remodeling for a few years, it scared most of us half to death because any cut we received while working took forever to heal, it seemed.
Does that make her a palm reader? Why that dirty heathen. ;)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Saw in the paper this morning where Queen Esther gave a speech here in California. She spoke to a convention of loggers (wonder how much she got paid?) anyway, she held forth on her expertise on global warming. My God, this woman is such a fucking idiot. I hope to hell they get some kind of an investigation going up in Alaska on her secessionist son of a bitch of a husband's role in her brief tenure. If Federal money was involved why isn't the FBI up there?
I have an honest question:
Obama just threatened to make recess appointments if Congress didn't start getting people through the confirmation process. My question is that Congress was able to prevent Bush from making recess appointments after the Dems won back Congress by keeping a skeleton set of Senators in the Senate to prevent Bush from appointing anyone.
What is to prevent the Repubs from doing the same thing? Or is it a factor that the Dems are the majority party and the minority party can't do the same thing?
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
Vampires get a bad burn when they handle a cross.
The same thing happens when the Cross is seized by the Whore of Babylon.
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