Open Thread
By John Amato Sunday Nov 08, 2009 8:30pmCongratulations to the Phillies for giving it a great try as defending champs and to my Philly blogger friends like Chris Bowers, d-day, Will Bunch and C&L's own Susie Madrak who were good sports with me as we all watched the World Series.
Jeter, Posada and Pettitte were on David Letterman Thursday night to celebrate #27. Matsui, who made all of Japan proud by winning the MVP came on, holding the trophy. The only one missing from the Core Four was Mariano Rivera, the greatest reliever of all time. He'll be 40 this month and no one has ever done it better. These guys play the game the right way and do not act like fools doing it as so many pro athletes do these days.
And the Yankees do really well with a Democratic President:
Since winning the 1958 World Series when Republican Dwight Eisenhower was president, all nine of the Yankees’ titles have come under Democratic administrations — 1961, 1962, 1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009. This bodes well for the Yankees for at least the next three seasons.
You may have wondered why I stopped posting about the series after my first one. Well, I'm kind of a superstitious sports fan (OK, I'm just a little bit obsessed) and when the Yanks lost Game One after I live-blogged it, I immediately gave that up.
It was a jinx, you see.
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I assume you're a transplanted New Yorker. Because rooting for the Yankees without some sort of geographical or emotional connection is kind of like going to a craps table and rooting for the House.
Kidding. Enjoy Yanks fans. I could be many months till your next one.
Signed,
Cubs fan
on a craps table is actually done pretty often, it's called betting the don't.
They bought it. They have an unfair economic advantage (You don't mind if the GOP spends as much as they want without restrictions next election, do you? I mean, if the dems want to spend more than the billionairs, what's stopping them?)
There should be no real joy in this victory, as they won it by buying it. Amato, your really a neo-con, admit it.
The Yankees have dominated their division since baseball turned to the current system and have spent to do it. It’s very simple math. The Yankees have the highest revenue stream and this will only increase (With the spending gap along with it) in their new Tax-payer funded stadium. To claim that this does not affect their ability to buy the best players, which translates directly into winning, is lying to yourself.
It’s a fallacy to say that the Yankees do not always win, when they’ve won their division 12 of the last 13 years.
As for simply replacing the Red Sox as the Championship team with the highest payroll, that’s simply laughable. The Sox didn’t even have the highest payroll that year; it was (Drum roll) The Yankees! Surprise! AND the gap between that Sox team and this Yankee team is about $80,000,000. So please, let’s use numbers with some relevancy here, and not statistical hocus-pocus.
Yes, this World Series win is tainted, not illegitimate because they played by the rules, just tainted. Until the business side of the game’s impact is addressed, anytime a team spends this kind of money, when NO OTHER TEAM CAN DO IT, and wins the World Series it will be viewed as tainted by everyone but that teams Machiavellian fans.
But I have no expectations that Bud Selig will lift a finger so long as baseball the business is making money. And THAT is why baseball is losing popularity. It’s all about the money.
Source(s):
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/salaries
http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/16/baseball-tea...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/opinion/03l...
rooting for the Yankees ( and I live in Brooklyn, but grew up in Philly) is like rooting for halliburton...
same bullshit, made on Gov't dollars, shitty rules ( google going to the bath room during god bless America) and they totally take away all your rights just walking into the stadium.
Yankees are what is wrong with America... end of deal with it.
corporate welfare... and can any real Yankee fan afford to go to a game? no. I just wonder when the luster dims will it catch up with them like the age of the players...
..but I was going to say Goldman Sachs instead of Halliburton.
Bloomberg and the City of New York pony up $$$$ to buy them a new stadium, which frees up capital for them to acquire every free agent in MLB. If those are the rules, why don't they just auction off the World Series trophy? Then they could avoid all the trouble of those thousands of games.
I mean I get its sports, and you'd like to keep it off the section A of the newspaper, but the Yankees make it so hard to do that...
and in all fairness I moved to NYC in 1996, the summer they won the series for the first time in a LONG time, I said to my Yankee friends this year, this was NO Wade Boggs on a horse moment.
But really, what I hate most is how you feel in the stadium. It just feels like hyper Bush world.... and why I just grew to hate them. and I used to go to 20 plus games a year.
sounds pretty much the same. Outrageous food, drink prices, no smoking, etc.
Back in the '80s, we used to have a group from work (about 6-10 of us) who'd regularly drive up from Newport Beach for a night of fun us working folk could afford. We'd hit a little bar that was a couple of blocks away (and park in their lot for free), then have the ladies smuggle the booze and mixers in their purses (they didn't check women closely back then). We'd buy $4 tickets and sit way up in the back and drink, smoke, enjoy the view and watch the Angels lose.
Good times, never to return. Except, perhaps, the Angels losing.
I have fond memories of going to LA Kings games, doing blow in the $6 nosebleed seats and watching fights breakout in the Inglewood crowd.
Those days are gone. Now you pay $50 minimum and $12 a 12oz beer. But I must admit the coke has gotten cheaper and the pot is now legal.
I sometimes got to go with my Granddad to see the Kansas City A's in their old wooden stadium. He owned some real estate in the area, and I might have been 3(?) so was very impressed with the large black man's gold teeth, who parked the Cadillac for us (on one of the lots Granddad owned.)
At home, Granddad would turn on the TV to watch the game-- but with the sound down. He listened to the radio announcer whom he much preferred.
My mother's family mostly lived in St. Louis, and we moved there in '67 while I was in high school. Busch Stadium was new and an architectural wonder (so was the Arch.) I got to see Bob Gibson, Johnny Bench, Roger Maris at that time, playing together in arguably the Best. Team. Ever. Mom is still a fan but doesn't go to the Stadium any more.
I think you mean Tim McCarver. Bench played his entire career with the Cincinnati Reds.
And Best.Team.Ever? Then what were the '68 Tigers, who beat the Cards 4 games to 3 in the series that year?
;D
"You may have wondered why I stopped posting about the series after my first one. Well, I'm kind of a superstitious sports fan (OK, I'm just a little bit obsessed) "
Not because it is in poor taste to promote mainstream media on a blog who rants against mainstream media 24/7. No, it's because of superstition and obsession!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GI-CUVTfo&fe...
It's supposed to be tomorrow, but special people like me get Uncle Jay late Sunday evening. Pasted below.
Hi, Boys & Girls!
Here's a multiple choice news quiz. Keep your eyes on your own monitor!
TV REPORTERS WANT TO KEEP YOU:
a) informed.
b) up to date.
c) watching.
Last week they pretty much gave us the answer, didn't they?
But if you need to study more, Uncle Jay's got your latest homework right here.
Hugs, kisses, and only appropriate behavior,
Uncle Jay
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Are you going to be doing this until the next WS champ is crowned?
Yes, we all know the Yankees are a great and successful franchise, and that they've got some great players now. And, yes, some of us even like some of those players individually. But the constant reminders of all of those championships is a bit...grating.
But I do have to express my gratitude to the baseball gods that it was the Yanks this year rather than the Sawx. Their- the Sawx- fans don't seem to realize that they've become just as bad as Yankees fans, but at least the latter seem to acknowledge their own obnoxiousness.
/rant
The myth they are spinning.
For those of us who remember President Kennedy and the myth that was built around this clown prior his death would recognize the identical propaganda now. Kennedy was nothing but a drunkard and a Gigolo.
Obama is a Salesperson, just like George Bush or Kennedy was.
In the U.S. most of the auto sector jobs lost were being filled by minorities.
If it was not for a black president in the White House, the riots would of began already.
The minorities need to see the first black president succeed.
The minorities have "Confidence" in Obama.
He is being sold to us just like Lyndon Johnson. The same week that Martin Luther King got shot was when he agreed to team up with labour unions. That was the threat and Johnson gave the minorities Rights.
Today they are telling us that Obama is "Acting Strong" with Health Care .... but he has seriously cut Medicare and with this new legislation, he will have consent to rob the Medicare/Medicaid Trust fund which holds 500 billion dollars.
With this new health care legislation, Obama is going to rob the trust funds out of the "Locked Box" and finance more war and mayhem.
No part of this Health Care Law is paid for or even begins to take effect until 2016 at the earliest .... but Obama gets the key to the "Locked Box" holding the 500 billion dollars in Medicare Trust Fund cash .... and he gets this 500bln cash in his hands when the bill is signed into law ..... 2009, and not 2016 after Obama has left the presidency.
Obama is gonna take the cash and mail the middle class a cheque and call it a stimulus.
With this new health care legislation, Obama is going to use a huge majority of the 500 billion from the Locked Box to finance more war and mayhem.
Calm
what? even I don't think the Yankees did that...
get a life.
GBH?
Please.
I'm a lifelong Michigander, and while the percentage of minorities working might very well be disproportionately higher than the percentage of minorities living in the communities that are home to (formerly) Big Three plants, those minorities aren't a majority of the labor force on the plant floors. And those are the union shops. The non-union parts suppliers, from my experience, might not even have a sufficiently proportionate presence of minorities.
I'm out of the Zionist-cursed country so, healthcare isn't going to benefit me at all, but if Kucinich voted NO, that's enough for me. It's crap, again.
Just as an historical note, the American Revolutionary War was officially ended by the Treaty of Paris in 1782. Some Americans however seem to want to be in a perpetual state of warfare with the English Language.
Correct usage for the highlighted section would be, "would HAVE begUN." So I would HAVE to conclude either that you still harbor some hostility towards the mother country, or that you are just an ignoramus.
On second thought, the content of your comment as a whole would lead ineluctably to the second conclusion.
Never mind.
We know you miss Harding. He got a raw deal. And he still does not get crwdit for being the first mixed race President.
You mean, Harding was just a semi?
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism.
What's left after 1989?
Gregory made the claim that Brokaw was the only US anchorperson to cover the fall of the Wall live.
My memory is a little fuzzy--is this true? Where were Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, etc? Anyone know?
...the three broadcast network 6pm anchors at the time: Brokaw, Rather and the sorely missed Peter Jennings. It's a short list, ya know?
Indeed, quality has certainly been replaced by quantity...
but covered as in was broadcasting live from Berlin at the time.
So MSNBC says.
So glad we've evolved to where Fux nowadays can send entire crews to cover missing white women in Aruba and teabagger events...
...the days when an anchor earned the spot by proving their journalistic skill....not the bubble-heads who tell you about a plane crash with a gleam in their eye...
Sounds like a job for Biff Jenkins....the Super Tea-Bagger!
...country's Communist power structure went first, Czechoslovakia or East Germany. I'm thinking that it happened in Prague first, and Rather & Jennings may have been in Prague. But they could easily have been in Dresden, which was where the anti-Communist protests started in East Germany, iirc.
in Poland, and it was a Machinist Union that brought down the Warsaw Pact which led to the destruction of the wall.
Czechoslovakia in '68?
Nothing against any of those events, but we're talking about the beginning of the end, not the end of the beginning, or the middle of the middle, ya know?
You have me there, what was the catalyst that pushed the ball forward?
Who were the leaders of the scrum? People in E. Germany lived in absolute fear of the Stasi(MFS), and I have no idea how influential any underground movement was against the Stasi. Lech Walesa and his supporters were certainly instrumental but yes there were many people who sacrificed and died before the Free Trade Unions were organized as an opposition.
How much did nationalistic pride play in pushing the scrum forward?
Personal desire for the accumulation of wealth?
Terrible living standards in government imposed housing?
General quality of life?
Religious freedom?
Czechs and Slovaks had worked and/or fought for their independence from the Hapsburgs for a few centuries, gaining it after WWI, losing it just before WWII "officially" kicked off, and regaining it for about three years before becoming a Soviet satellite. The Polish fight for independence wasn't as long, but it was much more bitter, at least concerning their relationship with the Russians (as opposed the the Hohenzollern and Hapsburg Germans). Many, many 19th century Poles living under the Romanovs were shipped off to Siberia for their belief in an independent Poland; the Poles and Soviets fought an ugly war in the wake of WWI; the Soviets invaded Poland along with the Nazis in '39, which saw the Soviets execute thousands of military officers, professors, doctors- the Polish leadership class- in the Katyn Woods.
... that started the whole thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo7x-gBp8qQ
Ronald Reagans commanding voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFOC72DRPWY&fe...
"Archive of American TV Interview Collection / George Carlin - Archive Interview Part 1 of 7"
A long but interesting interview.
Enjoy :)
"It's all the same machine, right? The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police. If you do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon, and the next thing you know, it's two miles under the desert, the essential component of a death machine. "
YouTube clips of a particularly violent video game are apropos of what, exactly? I think your mommy's calling you. Even if not, could you please just go away?
Aww.
I thought it was kind of cool. It's only virtual violence. Only as real as the violence you and I accept in movies and evening television. Let alone the real violence that the news used to show.
Now they just show politicians raping people.
Dam flagged again, just go away......I might some day.
That video was awsome, the music, When they take everything away hold your colors on the wall.
I just thought now Democrats are pro-war, so that video would be fine?
http://www.techbanyan.com/6863/zenyatta-breed...
About as rare as a b*tch (female dog) winning at Westminster KC. The animal shows, racing prove it's still (mostly) a boy's club...
For those who haven't seen it, ESPN's got it up.
Gotta say that Bill Finley makes a good case for the other mare, Rachel Alexandra, for Horse of the Year:
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kalamazoo central maroon giants, but I'm from detroit, so I was a philly fan this year.
is rapidly becoming one of my favorite TV shows. The guys are finally getting into the tornadoes. I wish they'd go a little more in depth on the technology used, but it's still pretty damn good.
Now you, too, can do time for possession of child porn with the help of malicious software inserted into your unsuspecting comp. Will the Senate accept Obamacare? Another perp whose actions can be blamed on the suckonomy. I thought my mom was exaggerating when she claimed I had it tougher than she did during the Carter/Reagan years, but I was wrong. Graham crosses party lines to show support for green jobs. He's also apparently one of the few non-global warming deniers in the GOP. The end of the Berlin Wall, 20 years later. Gay marriage opponents play up fears of homosexuality being taught in schools, since kids can't possibly find out about it anywhere else. Jindal raids an ACORN office. A li'l old, but crack-pot dates like Y2K and 2012 aren't exactly new "predictions". "Bipartisanship", Honduras style. Inflating another bubble. SCOTUS will next tackle software patents. The shooter gets Reverend Wright'ed.
Scary sh*t. Thanks.
Hooray! Another reason for curtilingus to go off on intellectual property.
Good post about the examination of patents. Software patents could become null and void if the court rules that a process cannot be patented.
Open source and share ware will enable people to contribute to development and accelerate the progress and availability of technology.
I rent movies, copy them and have created quite a library.
and don't copy movies either, but BUY them. Some TV series are worth owning, like Dark Angel. And I bought at a yard sale, the ENTIRE 7 years of Deep Space Nine. Not even halfway through in a year...
I sure hope that people with kids in these times can purchase used items, such as clothes, toys, DVDs, etc for their kids from places like yards sales and thrift stores.
Something that is used does not make it useless! US kids need to learn this lesson early-on. The "need" to have the newest and best crap is a habit that needs to be broken in childhood, IMHO.
Any kind of spending 'supports' the 1%ers. I get everything I need used, (no not chewing gum hahah) It 'hurts' FACISM if you dont' BUY!!! Why do you think el stupido BoooooooooooooooshI had to take us on his shopping trip???? NO BUY, Rev. Billy in NYC even has a church of NO BUY!!! Google him.
What, is Sunday night the time for intemperate comments? This is a serious site, publishes serious people. Show some maturity, commenters.
I'm a Phillies fan too, and the Yankees deserve some respect. If you could really buy championships, the Mets would have won. I think it must be difficult to play well in the post-season, especially in NYC, with all the scrutiny. They won! There are a lot of Yankee-haters out there, but why not give it a rest, at least until the pitchers report to camp in February. It's only 3 months.
• An ultra right-wing Hannity/Beck fan who goes on a shooting rampage while screaming about how Democrat Nazi Commies are trying to take his guns is an inexplicable, unpredictable lone nut, but a Muslim who goes on a shooting rampage because he has serious psychological problems is necessarily a jihadi with ties to international terrorist groups.
• Corporations are persons with full Constitutional rights, but foreigners and undocumented immigrants are not.
• A president who advocates torture, warrantless wiretaps and other searches, abrogating the right of accused persons to speak with attorneys, suspending habeas corpus and who tells his citizens they need to watch what they say is a protector of freedom, but a president who wants to make enough minor, bipartisan-approved reforms to offer all of his citizens health care is the greatest threat to freedom in history.
• The replacement in the U.S. Congress of one Republican (whose seat the GOP had held for roughly a century and a half) and one Blue Dog with, respectively, a Democrat and an unabashed liberal is irrelevant to a Democratic president's federal agenda, but the simultaneous election of two new Republican governors in unrelated state elections is that agenda's death knell.
• The corporate sponsored transportation of tens of thousands of Americans to a protest demonstrates that most Americans are afraid of President Obama's agenda, but polls that consistently show that between 60% and 70% of all Americans want a public option for health care means that the public option is unpopular.
• Deficit spending to fix a health care system whose continued status quo threatens the very foundation of the American economy is fiscally irresponsible, but squandering a hard-earned trillion dollar surplus to fund unnecessary wars that create that deficit is fiscally sound.
• Terminating a pregnancy in the first month of the first trimester is murder, but lying to convince Congress to send thousands of Americans to their deaths in a foreign land is mere policy decision with which one might reasonably disagree.
• It is within the enumerated federal powers to pass laws that imprison medical marijuana users for a decade per offense in states that have legalized the practice, but enforcing federal hate crimes or anti-discrimination statutes interferes with the states' respective jurisdictions over their own residents.
• The Bill of Rights must be interpreted strictly and narrowly in order to prevent judicial tyranny unless judges are interpreting the Second Amendment, which must be interpreted as broadly as possible.
• The fact that America's founders were born into families of Christian descent trumps those founders' explicit proscription of laws respecting the establishment of religion.
Keep up the good work.
I'm sure there are a few more bits of Republican
ironyhypocrisy we could find, too.We are descending into the era of the Corporate-Super Citizen.
The only dichotomy seems to be which party gets to manage control of the sub-citizen for the benefit and exploitation of the Corporate-Super Citizen.
in "The Time Machine":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine...
grand leader Rupert Morlock
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said keep up the good work , my regret my mind is 2 pages ahead of my fingers ( one machinist used to tell me those arent fingers , their sausages lol ) enjoy your posting . My friends grandaughter types over 120 words a min , its amazing to watch her , me im lucky to type 12 words a min .
dn
. . . to all.
My partner will no doubt consider each of you an accomplice in inflating my already ballooned ego, but I thank you nonetheless. :)
pointing out the obvious ?
Here's a point to deflate that ego just a tad. ;-)
But, but, but.. under Bush the Lesser if you reasonably disagreed with policy, especially that policy, you were branded a traitor.
So I see a factual inaccuracy there.
Ahh, but now that they're out of power, and were (for a brief moment, at least) facing the prospect of prosecutions for war crimes, their actions were just "policies" the Obama administration was seeking to criminalize.
Great Post, America needs people who think clearly like you.
have i missed your postings ( yes ) ? , you seem to of been MIA for awhile .
The World According to
RepublicansRepublicrats…Fixed it for you.
In my book there is only a handful of Democrats worth more than a bucket of warm spit…
When will the hoi polloi awake?
...........just a suggestion.
Joe Lieberman is stating he will make sure he will kill the Public Option.
The following transcript is from an interview of Glen Ford, executive editor of BlackAgendaReport.com, on The Real News. The conversation concerned the role racism plays in the opposition to President Obama's health care plans, but, at a fascinating juncture, digressed into a discussion about Obama's overall political philosophy. (The segment of the transcript begins at 9:27 in the link.)
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Paul Jay: In terms of the basic positioning of the Obama Administration, the health care debate's been very instructive. Obama makes a deal with pharma: Essentially, the deal is that, more or less, you stay out of this health care debate, pharma industry, and we'll take on the insurance companies, and get a public option, and in exchange for that, you're gonna get price protection, more or less, for ten years with some small concessions . . economy of scale savings you're gonna make for us. And now it winds up, it looks like there virtually is no public option in what's gonna come out of this process, so, this deal with pharma seems to have been for nothing. So, essentially what we end up with, if I'm right, pharma gets what they want, and the insurance companies get what they want.
Glen Ford: Yes, pharma gets what it wants, and the insurance companies get a captive consumer base that they never had before. With the full faith and credit of the United States. It is a win-win for all of the bad guys. And I am not one of those who thinks that Barack Obama stumbled into this. I mean, he moved-- he put all of the power of the White House into the project of isolating the progressive part of his own party, isolating the people who actually represented a majority opinion in the United States, and an overwhelming majority of the opinion in the Democratic Party, who wanted some kind of single-payer, not just an amorphous public option, but single-payer. He invested the first seven months of his office in defeating them and accommodating the big drug companies and the insurance companies. Having defeated his own party, now the big drug companies and the insurance companies have no opposition to worry about. And so now they can actually take advantage of their partner, Barack Obama. I don't feel sorry for him, and I don't think that he wandered in here, into this morass mistakenly.
Paul Jay: Why? What do you mean? Do you think the intent was to make this kind of deal with pharma and the insurance companies?
Glen Ford: Sure. That, in fact, is his philosophy of government. He clearly imagines that he is going to create some kind of grand consensus -- not just in the nation, but in the world -- in which those forces that are really irreconcilable somehow are reconcilable. So there will be no cost to the insurance companies' and the drug companies' health care plan. That is an impossibility if one is going to serve all of the people and cut down on costs. You can't get a consensus and achieve those stated goals. But that is what he was trying to do, get a consensus. So, he pushes on with his fantasy consensus goal, and everything else falls into its logical place. The guys with the money -- the status quo -- win.
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I am sure one could take issue with many things Mr. Ford says, but I think he has the president nailed here.
I've posted before that Obama is "made of Clay," a reference to Senator Henry Clay, the man of so called great compromises. I don't think Obama is totally corrupt or completely doing the bidding of corporate masters. I think he genuinely believes that a great leader forges consensus among otherwise warring factions. He considers consensus to be wise.
He needs to learn that consensus is impossible. His position is not wise; it is hopelessly naive. And we all should probably have seen it coming. (Review his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention.)
Mr. President, you must stop seeing all sides. You must stop seeing the good in everyone, and you must put your foot down for what you think is right. In order to help your country, some domestic political interests are going to have to lose. If you can't figure that out soon, you really should not be the president.
My view is of pure woe on this.
I happen to believe Obama was manufactured for this very purpose. His is complete subservience to the Financial Robber Barons, the Congressional, Military Industrial Complex Robber Barons and with this health care abomination the Health Care Troika Robber Barons.
He is the League of Robber Barons Madison Avenue marketers DREAM come true.
There is little question that Bush delivered the goods for the Robber Barons, but he was such a buffoon.
Obama has style, he hypnotizes the hoi polloi into chanting yes we can as he hands their very future over to the fat cats, funneling trillions to the oligarchs unimpeded.
I agree, totally, and Zionistwhore Rahmie is his keeper. What are all these flaming ZIONISTS doing in what used to be 'our' gov????? No one asks this question. LIEberman, Kissenger, Rahmie, etc. etc. etc. The USofBLOODYISRAEL has been infiltrated and taken over by the ZIONSITROBBERBARRONS. Good by Camalot.
And those KKKristian ZIONISTS are the worse lot, they 'support' BLOODYISRAEL's Empire because of their own sick, sick, sick, sick agendas, for their GAG Rapture!!!! So glad I left. I keep up because I can't stop congratulating myself for getting the f**k OUT!!! Everyone said, 'You're crazy to leave.....'blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm where I dont' get propaganda 24/7
Do they have coupons for spam?
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The other...other red meat.
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Well, that sure depreciates the humor-value of my response. ;)
I'm guessing that it was likely a case of deceptive advertising...
"The point is that the takeover of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here — and it’s very bad for America."
.................for America FACISM propagandized in your face, nite/day. THAT is what is very bad, bad, bad, bad for USofBLOODYISRAEL and for their foot-soldiers the PUKIES!!!
Chavez certainly likes instigating war...
Alvaro Uribe, President of Colombia [one take here] is a right wing stooge and puppet of the US Imperialists. His death squads are notorious.
War is an abysmal prospect anywhere it occurs but the CIA is expanding its bases in Colombia and that cannot be good news for anyone in South America except for the CIA stooges.
You need to do more thorough research than Yahoo news for views from the region.
Yahoo is liable to be a propaganda tool for the imperialists. Don't be a sucker.
I've been follwoing him since the PUKIES decided to demonize him. My rule of thumb is, 'If the PUKIES hate it, it must be good. Chavez is protecting vast OIL supplies. Chavez is a LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE, and successful, so must be demonized. Don't swallow the kool-aid, Tequila. Stick to the blue agave, Tequila, the authentic, real stuff. Yahoo is Koolaid all the way.
the revolution will not be televised.
Superstitions: It was a jinx, you see.
"I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run."
Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)
Ah Yes, in the good ol' US of 'merika a Muslim man losses his head and the redneck christian religious community is out to kill all Muslim's.
But on the other hand all those christian religious fanatics who blew up abortion clinics and killed doctors or set off bombs that maimed.
Their the "good" people of the USA.
Irony in these things is so thick but it still cant get people off their apathetic asses.
Where is the Outrage?
Hello to all you old time C&L r's too many to mention. Good to see you all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9mwELXPGbA
How are you? Still in Thailand?
Hope all is well with you. I'm sure many here would like to see you post more often, myself included.
ff.
I'm in the USA atm for medical. Having a tumor removed from from my brain at UCSF. Right now though I'm in Langley VA. teaching a course on encryption.
Good to see you also. Does POP still come in to voice her opines? I see Muddy up there and a few others.
PoP is usually here in the AM (EST). If you can stick around, she'll probably 'PoP' up here shortly or make her first post at Mike's Round-Up (up at about 9AM EST). I'm sure she'd love to say "Hello".
Best of luck with your surgery. How long are you stateside?
about your surgery. I have to call my doctor today because I had a reaction to Crestor. I wonder if they are trying to kill us. It's the republican plan.
they wish for all of us "non-'mericins" that didnt fall in step with Rush to just die and blow away.
Nice to hear you're back. Sad that it's for a couple of unwelcome reasons.
If there was equality in legislation there would be no laws written for one gender or the other?
What if there was legislation that prohibited ANY medical proceedure for men - would it pass?
(Of course not)
The Stupak BS is gender discrimination. IMO
Initial reports from Thursday's shootings at Fort Hood indicated some of the shooting victims may have been hit by friendly fire. That made sense, considering when we first heard about the shooting there were reports of 3 suspects, 2 of which were dead, etc.
But a few days later, and we're being told there were no victims of friendly fire.
No friendly fire at Fort Hood
...............trigger-happy, stoooopid.
Apparently the Major hit everyone he aimed at, and quite a few were officers.
OTOH, of course the Army would scrub anything that resembled a Pat Tillman action.
redux
in my opinion is one of the best economists out there. Here he touches on a more serious subject.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09k...
Morton Downey and Wally George?
Good op-ed. And I'm afraid Krugman's right; if Wall St continues to benefit at the expense of Main St and job creation, the streets will be crowded, both with teabaggers and just plain old downtrodden. I may well be there myself.
I may need to print up some "I'm NOT With Stupid =>" t-shirts to distinguish myself from the 'baggers (and supply much-needed cash for my dog food and generic cigarettes).
back in the day, I didn't watch too much TV, I read the newspaper. Now neither one is worth anything. I see more TV now but will stick a dvd in rather than watch most of their news or the programming. It's all crap. Good on the internet.
While I didn't watch that much TV then either, I used to catch this moron's show late at night, as I was often awake then because of excessive stimulant consumption.
I have to say that he's somewhat responsible for my political "awakening" (for what it's worth), despite the fact that much of his show was simply bluster. I was too young to really appreciate that at the time.
the Yanks could've played the Baghdad Bombers, heh, heh.
right before the series.
Me and another guy on the tour tried putting a hex on Jeter's bat.
I guess my hexing powers pretty much so suck.
per CNN.
.............no doubt, and not by 'accident'...........I'm with Iran esp.since BLOODYISRAEL is their 'neighbor'. Zionist, too, want to bet??? CNN Propaganda channel.
"These guys play the game the right way and do not act like fools doing it as so many pro athletes do these days."
yeah, apparently you have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to get people to act like grown-ups. and this is also representative of our society today. if you pay the most money, you win. goldman sachs paid the most in campaign monies and they survived the banking catastrophe.
Watching all the flack he's getting now for coming clean about his drug use. The pundits really seem to be trying to bust his balls, but as a former (regular) user, I give the guy props for holding his own and discussing his problems rationally. The guy seems like he's got his head screwed on now. Good for him.
I just went to try to ship a package out of the UPS Store here in Orlando with my company's valid UPS account number and was told that as of 01July2009, the UPS Store could no longer ship using UPS accounts!!!
Un-FUCKING-believable!!
Go to Hell, Brownshirts!
sucks. Of course if you ive in one of the large metro areas it's ok, but what a joke, the money the yanks can spend to field a team vs the majority of others like Kanas city, Mpls/StPaul. it s a tribute to those teams and the manager if they ever make it all the way.
Competition; Frickin Joke
Anybody who has a clue knows that's what had to be done.
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