Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Monday Apr 20, 2009 7:00amThe Reaction: American history is littered with scores of examples of doing business with tyrants but the GOP hypocrite brigade now has the unmitigated gall to claim that some handshakes are "irresponsible."
Mondoweiss: Palestinians don't have to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, US says
DownWithTyranny!: Publicity seeking, lunatic fringe, Republican, Chuck DeVore vs Don Henley
Truthdig: Female soldiers battle sexual violence
Whiskey Fire: Guns don't kill people, but sick cultures do
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: CNBC worried about image...Edmund Burke denounces George Will...Lights, Cameras, Mayhem!...Shoddy by choice...BillO's power in Spain...Escalate To Babble Tantrum...A different view of America...Your liberal media sets a new standard...Media fails America again...More WaPo horse pucky...Dems letting Net Neutrality die...Time Warner scraps metering trials...Swelling WH press corps...Then and Now...He said/She said Journalism...Certain facts omitted...
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With all the communication devices available to the commoners we're now beginning to understand how backwards and "insane" this country is and the true depth of our sickness and depravity.
a thousand times now, history doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes.
Check this one out!
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=h...
Very, very, very, very interesting, yes?
finish carpenters, realtors, pool installers, mortgage brokers, advertising account executives, Williams-Sonoma product demonstrators, showroom sales agents, doctors of liposuction, and so on? (Internet cable installers-leaf blowers and lawn mowers)
a wet blanket but the chances that the source you cite actually has access to NSA wiretaps is as close to zero as one could get. It's a little transparent though as a hatchet job. I'm pretty certain the Rep in question wouldn't have insulted herself with the term "waddle into". Gotta love those senior unnamed sources. They seem to know everything despite their shyness.
Your Dem party colours continue to show Peter. Have you noticed how the 20% or so undying Dem supporters sound EXACTLY like the Republican 20% or so supporters? I never until after the election.
I know, it can't be true. No way. Why she's a Dem dammit!!
Your obvious delight in fetching the most unlikely stories and presenting them like a terrier dropping a dead rat on the carpet betrays an eagerness to please but also a large measure of gullibility. I don't know whether or not any of the story you have linked to is true but I doubt it. The interesting thing is you have no greater reason to believe this slander is true but insist it must be treated as so. I'd be the first to admit that you've got cynical down pat but you really need to work on your skeptical.
as any good partisan hack usually is. Nowhere in my post was there any glee. You have admitted in your response that you don't know if it is true or not, but don't believe it because you are a partisan Dem therefore, like a Faux viewer or a Republetard, you don't need to think.
By the way, if you actually go to the website, you'll find that it is actually (gasp) an politically unbiased one. Thus it goes against everything partisans believe in. I'm sure though, if it's true, you'll be the first to offer up excuses as usual. As seems to be posted on many left/liberal blogs lately, "How much do they pay you to post?"
a little analysis to this story shall we. Two unnamed senior sources (it must be true, there were two of them!) who work for the most secretive intelligence agency on the planet decide to pass along wire tap evidence to a reporter knowing full well that they will be going to jail for doing so. Compartmentalization will make it impossible to escape identification and the NSA takes security breaches rather seriously. Of course, you could argue that this press briefing was authorized by the administration because they are so anxious to torpedo members of their own party. We also know that members of the secret Israeli cabal, recognizing their own inherent evil, always use pejorative language when referring to themselves although "skulk in" is the more usual phrase. FYI catering to your conspiracy fantasies does not constitute "unbiased" reporting. How much do we have to pay you to think?
the reason I don't believe your linked story is not true is not based on faith in any particular party but on the transparent foolishness of the story itself.
Just great! /snark
More colossal let downs from the Democrats. What's the point of voting anyway?
"circulation of elites," and in times of crisis it tends to take on a kind of downward spiraling flavor.
Maybe a mutual agreement between the cable companies and congress?
You'll stop your shit and we'll stop ours?
To be continued
It's to each his own.
He never heard of denim and the French mornarchy would never have gone for baseball.
in non-existent. Please Bloofah, stop the lying! For the sake of the children, stop th..oh wait, Bloofah don't care about children. Please Bloofah, for the sake of the wom..,wait a minute, what was I thinking?
Bloofah just keep believing you actually matter because in that little room inside your head, I'm sure you think you do.
But..you don't!
if they told the truth we wouldn't need the media.
If you don't like a particular TV program, you call their sponsors
and tell them you will boycott them until the program either goes
off the air or changes to your liking. This works similar with
parties, politicians and their sponsors.
I have a plan to get the EFCA enacted and more.
Get people to Send a free prewritten fax to Sen. Minority leader Mitch McConnell telling him to STOP EVERY REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTER, get the Employee Free Choice act enacted into law, along with single payer universal health care, a fix for the Medicare Prescription drug benefit, a 10 dollar an hour minimum wage, an end to the Iraq war and until that happens you will boycott some Republican campaign contributors.
You can go to http://action.democratz.org and send Mitch McConnell a free prewritten fax. This web site appears completely noncommercial. I don't sell anything there.
We have to hit the friends of the GOP in their wallets. Oh and if you only send your fax, this will fail. You need to get friends to send the fax and have their friends send the free fax and so on.
Thank you!
PS the prewritten fax reads thusly:
Hello
I want the following actions taken
and legislation enacted into law.
Congress and the President must
enact HR 676 single payer universal
health care and set up a new
prescription drug benefit in
Medicare Part B covering 80% of the
cost of all drugs with no extra
monthly premiums, no extra yearly
deductible, no means tests, no
coverage gaps, and remove the means
test for Medicare Part B and until
that happens, I won't buy ANYTHING
from Republican contributor
Rite Aid Pharmacies.
The President must end the war in
Iraq and until that happens
I will not buy any products from
Republican contributor and War
contractor General Electric
Corporation.
Congress and the President must
enact a $10/HR MINIMUM WAGE
into law and until this happens
I will not go to any Republican
contributor Wendy's Restaurants.
In 2008 Brown-Forman of Kentucky,
the maker of Jack Daniels Whiskey
and Southern Comfort gave Mitch
McConnell money for his campaign.
SENATOR McCONNELL MUST NOT
EXECUTE ANY REPUBLICAN
FILIBUSTERS FOR 8 YEARS
DURING THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY
AND MUST GET THE EMPLOYEE
FREE CHOICE ACT ENACTED
INTO LAW AND UNTIL THAT
HAPPENS I WON'T BUY JACK
DANIELS WHISKEY OR SOUTHERN
COMFORT OR ANY OTHER OF THEIR
PRODUCTS.
Thank you.
No doubt McConnell's staff is instructed to "file" any critical input from citizens outside his district.
Only crony's have access to working email and fax numbers. The public's goes right into the email or fax trash bin filter.
boing!
Filibuster all you want Mitch.
sure i am pro President obama. he's a major contrast/difference than BUSH. so that's out of the way. i watch cNBC and i definitely noticed the anti-obama chatter. hey i am not so "in love" with obama that i can't take some criticism but this is daily/routine. if it's NOT obvious it's story/pieces regarding BANKs,
TAXes,unions,carbon trade and the price of "socialized medicine". some of this negative is reasonable opinions but i rarely ever hear a positive obama comment. that doesn't seem rational to me. sometimes i watch bloomberg it seems less anti-obama. well the market has made nice gains over 6 weeks and nothing/NOT much. i don't recall this much negativity during the BUSN corruption years.
over 6 weeks.
yes that could be one way of looking at it. that being said there are those that made money from the
6 week rally. i thought it was weird also about wells fargo that's why i sold the stock.
It interferes with the Corporate/State media's misinformation campaigns.
The truth is pouring out of them internet tubes and our corporate masters do not like that!
- ON THIS DAY -
On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 500. (Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and executed.)
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthi...
- ON THIS DAY -
On April 20, 1971, the United States Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthi...
I raised by women and I always respect them. It's shameful that men throughout the world treat women like trash. Until we educate boys at children that the world is not theirs to pillage, we'll always have mysogyny.
and you end the problem
it's the people who subscribe to it that are the problem.
and gold diggers prancing around in a Miss USA Pageant to understand there is another way to live other then whoring.Although they may be beyond help.
In 4 to 8 years, the Republicans will probably get back in again. They will do stupd things again. By the end of their orgy of looting and warring (which will be even worse than Obama's) the country is going to be extremely damaged. Right now things could be fixed. They probably won't be, because Barack Obama has no intention of fixing main street, but they could be. By the time the US gets its next real chance, well, this hole is going to be mighty mighty deep.
was dead on arrival January 20th. Even the kindest physicians don't put corpses on life support.
The Jay Rosen piece is excellent.
Thanks Mike, that was a great revelation. Corporate control of the propaganda ----sure sounds like what USSR, used to be. And, the funny thing is that after Afganistan, gee, they, too went belly-up. OILMAFIA, do you think?? Seems we found out that this wonderfully totalarian country was rich enough to pillage, loot, and sack, a country which seemed pretty powerful. On to China, maybe??
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