April 08, 2009 07:30 PM
Open Thread
from Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (WARNING: Strong language, NSFW)
Congratulations to Kal Penn, who has accepted a position in the White House Office of Public Liaison as a link to Asian-American and Pacific- Islander communities (spoiler alert at link if you haven't watched last Monday's episode of House).
Many of my friends who worked on the Obama campaign came into contact with Penn, who volunteered for Obama, including canvassing in West Virginia (considered a solid McCain state). To a person, they said that Penn was smart, committed and will be a great addition to the Obama administration.
http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/08/obama-had-e...
Demand Coleman's campaign contributors to get Coleman to concede the senate race !!
I found these company names on opensecrets.org as contributors to Norm Coleman's campaign.
I hope you will call these companies and tell the person who answers, "Your company has given money to former Senator Coleman who has refused to accept that he has lost the Minnesota Senate race and that I will not buy anything from you or do business with you until Norm Coleman drops his lawsuits and acknowledges that Al Franken has won and concedes the race." Pass this note around to your friends and fellow Democrats. Flood these companies with phone calls. Act polite but firm. Do not accept the argument that their pacs gave money and not the corporation. The company made it easy for their employees to give money to Coleman.
Target Corp Stores $174,855 Phone 800 591 3869
3M Co Scotch tape and supplies $62,254 Phone 888 364 3577
Marriott International Hotels $43,400 Phone 888 236 2427
Best Buy Electronics Computers Stores $41,350 Phone 888-237-8289
General Mills Cereals $34,650 Phone 800-248-7310
Also go to http://action.democratz.org to help enact progressive legislation.
Thank you!
highlarious vid
That is right freaking hilarious! I've heard about that movie and now I just simply have to see it.
Thank you, Nicole!
The dude who played Bush stole the show.
What's next, the giant bag of weed becoming Commerce Secretary?
of manure that was selected to head FEMA under Bush? At least this guy is actually qualified for his job.....
after the last 8 years of cronyism, nepotism, and fascism...it's nice to see some people in there that aren't idiots. So what if he's an actor who's made a couple of films that involve teh weed...he does seem to be quite qualified and very intelligent...which is more than can be said regarding ANYONE that was part of the bushco clusterfuck.
... it would be both: awesome, and an improvement over current and past nominees.
Win-win if you ask me...
Mr. Tyler Durden ladies and gents!!!
Tyler Durden for president?
"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.!!
QUESTION #33
david rockefeller once stated:
“for more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with castro to attack the rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over american political and economic institutions. some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the united states, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. if that's the charge, i stand guilty, and i am proud of it."
TRUE / FALSE
yes
Page 405 of Rockefeller's autobiography, "Memoirs", ISBN-13: 978-0812969733.
Link.
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
The Fed says the economy won't rebound until 2010. More potential electrocutions in Iraq.
Gerber introduces a new rocket fuel-flavored baby formula. Economist Nouriel Roubini 0wns Cramer. The UK and EU want to collect everyone's e-mails. Do drones really stop Pakistani terrorists? The Arctic ice level is the thinnest yet. The feds go after mortgage scams. Sonar can make sea mammals deaf. Leno tells it like it is at a complimentary Michigan show. Another gun-nut shooting just yesterday. Oh, and this, too. Cali's rivers are the most endangered in the country. Walgreens gives out free care to the uninsured.
Italy's got some shitty housing. Iran holds one of our journalists hostage. [Methinks it's because she's a woman.] One in five four-year olds are obese.
Fujimori is forced to do time for war crimes. Biden plays offense against Cheney. The Cali hospitals which dumped patients are forced to settle for $1.6 million. Are we still evolving?
QUESTION #6
amschel mayer rothschild once stated:
"let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws."
TRUE / FALSE
yes
...alas there is no actual confirmation that the asshole actually said that. But looking at his family's track record, I guess those words sort of capture the MO of the Rothschilds to a T. Even if, as I said before, Papa Rotchschild never said those actual words.
Virginia rejects $125m in stimulus
In narrow vote, funds for unemployed turned away by state's assembly.
Some stuff you can't make up!
The next attacks on US soil are going to be by people who are desperate, just as many overseas terrorists are. Poverty and hopelessness is the foundation of terrorism. The next terrorist attack we have will be home grown.
Did anyone see the guy who took his 9 year old kid too a mini-mart and held it up at gunpoint for a couple of hundred bucks? Out of work and desperate.
These politicians are playing with people's lives and they are going to get burned. It is going to get ugly.
I watced you girls slap around Glenn Beck this afternoon. Good job.
Just seeing the name bothered me. And he was trying to be an asshole.
He was a perfect asshole.
so the asshole wasn't perfect. It was amazing to see how he used it to talk. I wonder if he kisses his mother with that thing.
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Funny funny stuff...
as with most crimes, the victims are usually local. the rich will be living in gated, walled and hjeavily guarded communities more and more. most of our government buildings are externally fortified and heavily guarded. the tools of the rich will be protected.
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...but THEY are not the ones who will get burned - unless you mean they'll lose their jobs... It will be the people and the police and military folks sent into the streets. The pols would be happy if some home-grown or any other kind of 'terrist'
started the next big CRISIS - all they need/want is an excuse.
The politicians and the corporo-fascists will retreat to their bomb shelters and safe houses and gated communities, while the poor folks will get their tents smashed and get tased and bombarded with magnetic waves (or whatever that machine shoots that they had on 60 Minutes a month or so back). They'll turn off the power grid and withhold the food deliveries.
No, if it ever gets to that point - which I surely hope it doesn't, the people who've created this infernal mess will not be the ones who suffer.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
You are right, those are microwaves, I believe.
I'm pissed.
Part of my family would benefit from that stimulus. The part that is jobless with two kids to feed.
GOP RIP muth********ers.
I wish you all the best.
I cannot imagine what these people are thinking. It is completely unconscionable.
I appreciate that. It's my brother, and ya know how family can punch ya in the gut!
I think that these particular conservatives, of which I am learning that Virginia is abso-effin full of, are so consumed with their own ideology that they cannot see the forest for the trees. On the one hand a fascinating look at sociological behavior, and on the other hand completely infuriating.
And yea, anyone posting under 'Glenn Beck' is either comic or asshole. That did provide a very small bit of entertainment this afternoon.
since so many families are affected, like yours, but I can't help but wonder if these people are going to get voted in again in 2010.
Do you know the pulse of your state? How do the average Virginians feel about it?
where's it gonna come from?
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It's basically the same pulse as anywhere esle I imagine; rural areas are extremely conservative here but so are the urban areas. Chesterfield is a fairly large urban area and it is more conservative than I thought. I grew up there about 30 years ago. It was just the woods then, now almost every inch is urban, but it is just as conservative.
Obama won the state and he's the first dem to do so in four or so elections. Kerry actually came pretty close.
I also think the politics here are split by age group; young = dem, older = repub. That's in general as I'm in the older and have always leaned left.
Is that going along the same lines...even for people who are out of work?
include the part for unemployment and the part for education.
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I can't speak on that definitively, I really don't know.
I think it's a wait and see game here in Virginia. This is a solid red state that finally turned blue this past election. I'm guessing that many people here will feel abandoned by the GOP, especially if the economy continues to weaken. I don't think turning down the stimulus is going to help the GOP, but if you think about it - that's the GOP.
it's been a while since I had the time. you and ron and peterG be well.
and whoever sees xoites, say "day day" for me!
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It has been far too long. I always love reading your posts.
I haven't seen X in a while now.
He's the one that got me hooked on this site.
you and PoP whomped that *&^*% today in the frank thread. fantastic stuff in that thread.
I am up too late. long day tomorrow and then travel. be well.
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Yea where has X been hiding, he or she scared?
I only say he or she because it isn't clear to me.
I've spoken with him.
Well tell him next time you talk with him to bring it back over to C&L. I will take it easy on the Christian hate for now. The things they support "unknowingly", drive me bat shit crazy.
I think the tides have changed in my area? I hope. At least local christian groups are beginning to be kind to my family that is a start, now I just need them to vote with humanitarian rights on their minds. Maybe in the future I can help them understand, my views about killing people in different country's and suppressing the rights and lives of others from with in our own country.
As a side note, I find Cantor completely ridiculous and childish, yet many people here take him very seriously. That's the pulse I guess.
until they put a mike in front of him and let him bury himself.
the same will happen if cantor gets exposure. the media makes him appear smarter by paraphrasing him and cleaning up a lot of the stupidity in his remarks.
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Cantor has presidential ambitions.
BUT - as you point out, his eagerness is overriding his already deficient ideas.
I fart in their general direction.
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Both of them are right up there with Palin in the polls...
I'm listening to NPR and they just ran a story on Palin's ENORMOUS legal bills during troopergate. Something like 1.5 million if I heard correctly.
gonna get that money?
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I think that's why it was a story.
Google "Doogan AKMudflats"
You'll get enough stuff to keep you busy for a while.
BillO is chipping in a grand. That should keep the attorneys at bay for a minute or three.
or a thousand loofahs?
:<[)
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It is a never ending soap opera up there in AK, you betcha.
I think I am going to turn in. Night night, babes.
GNA!
Ciao everyone.
don't forget how he is set it up to interupt the jr. congress critters.
they are fascists. In germany, any person who was not of means or was of a chosen minority could be victimized with public support or indifference. we may be pushing back on the gay front, but the blacks are already lost, as demonstrated by the continued indifference to the plight of the Katrina victims.
the media has ramped up the din against minorities and has heightened the anger and fear and now people are looking for targets. are pogroms next? who knows?
but there is a concerted effort to destroy this country now that the choice was made by the people themselves to try to better their own lives.
now we can see that the repuglyKKKans don't want to ever see an enabled, intelligent and capable citizenry. and the people we elected are not lifting a finger to fix things.
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Also from the article:
I imagine it's because most people taking guns into those places wouldn't need to be drunk to pull off a robbery.
the things they try to write into law.
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Lawmakers: Stimulus saved Virginia jobs
Monday, March 30, 2009
By GINNY WRAY - Bulletin Staff Writer
Federal stimulus funds saved an estimated 90,000 jobs in Virginia, according to state Sen. Roscoe Reynolds.
“Thank goodness for the stimulus package,” Reynolds, D-Ridgeway, told about 60 people at the Piedmont Democratic Women’s Club’s legislative breakfast Saturday at Forest Park Country Club.
Both Reynolds and Del. Ward Armstrong, D-Collinsville, said the $1 billion in stimulus funds the commonwealth received prevented the budget shortfall from being worse than it was. The money was in the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by President Barack Obama last month.
While Reynolds said the funds saved 90,000 jobs throughout the state, Armstrong said they prevented the layoffs of 7,000 state employees.
“The stimulus money was a breath of fresh air” that helped legislators get through a difficult General Assembly session, Armstrong added.
The state faced an estimated $3 billion budget shortfall at the start of the session in January, and declining revenues cost the state another $1 billion before the session ended in February, he said.
The shortfall forced cuts in core services such as primary and secondary education, Armstrong added. But, Reynolds said, without the stimulus funds, jobs would have been lost in every school district and every constitutional office, as well as for vital services such as Medicaid and mental health.
He noted that the economic problems did not result from decisions made in Virginia. The commonwealth, he said, is rated the best state to do business and the best run.
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Donny Deutsch Confronts Mark Sanford on Morning Joe
By Heather Wednesday Apr 08, 2009 6:30pm
From Morning Joe April 8, 2009. Mark Sanford is confronted for his political posturing by Donny Deutsch. From Sam Stein over at the HuffPo:
VIDEO
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take these asshats seriously?
Thats a cool clip, is Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay actually the title of the movie? Who thinks wall-mart would have this in stock without the bad words bleeped out.
What nobody wants to acknowledge is that they didn't torture to get information. They tortured to create false confessions to justify the illegal wars and the other crimes they were committing.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/040809a.html
QUESTION #233
on may 1st, 1776, adam weishaupt establishes the illuminati.
TRUE / FALSE
yeth!
According to a new Newsweek poll, 62 percent of Americans consider the U.S. a Christian nation down from the 69 percent at the end of former President George Bush’s presidency last year. Another 68 percent say religion is losing its influence on American life. Family Research Council’s Ken Blackwell and Vanity Fair’s Christopher Hitchens discuss.
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QUESTION #11110
many believe president john f. kennedy's executive order allowing the secretary of the u.s. treasury to isuue $4.29 billion in silver certificates, issued six months prior to his assassination, was an attempt to reclaim from the federal reserve the power to issue currency.
TRUE / FALSE
true
ty, i believe you earned a perfect score.
go to the head of the class, gramps.
thnx froggy but i allways was ahead of the class!
What are you guys - conspiracy theorists or sumthin'??!!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Hu? How bout truth seekers, freedom fighters.
I forgot the smiley face......#:)
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Too, too, true!! Kennedy wanted to abolish mafias, too, like infamous BUSHCRIMEFAMILY! Pappy/Cheney were the leaders of that incident which set the stage for FOOLKING, only it was supposed to be Jeb not FOOLKING. That's why Pappy cries.
Konami to produce game based on said event.
http://kotaku.com/5204550/konamis-iraq-war-ga...
They had a commercial they continually played during basketball games last year, where a kid sits on a plane and in an extremely agitated fashion starts screaming "Use your cluster bombs! Use your cluster bombs!" then cutting away to the sounds "Get your own game"
I told them in a letter (not an email) how incredibly insensitive it is to make light of the use of such a ghastly weapon, especially to teens during a time of war. They sent back a reply basically saying they didnt give a shit what I thought.
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
http://corridornews.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-s...
Apparently up to 65% of the Fed stimulus dollars for Texas DOT are earmarked for toll roads.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
why are there tolls anyway. is it because the state has no income tax?
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There are tolls because Gov. Rick Perry is corrupt. We already paid for these new toll roads in Austin with tax dollars ages ago, I've watched them being built for most of my life, and then at the last moment they declare they will be toll roads. They were suppose to fix Austin's traffic problems, and instead they are empty because most of us cannot afford to spend extra money to save some time and traffic headaches. They've even "upgraded" existing highways that were toll free and now they are tolled.
Perry is being challenged by Kay B. Hutchison and Tom Schieffer this next time around, hopefully they will beat him (no chance for Dem gov in TX anyways).
...what was the "one thing" Kumar wanted from the Prez.?
BTW, that was a great clip (Alabama kush...lol) and congrats to Obama choosing some voices from across the spectrum to start having a say in our government, more diversity truly benefits all of us.
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
While ASU is too stingy to give him an honorary degree.
WATBs
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if he liked banging little boys and dropping bombs on brown skinned people, they word give him sainthood
if Obama were a nazi, like the pope.
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to ratify the Martin Luther King Holiday.
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can't be given because it is a state-sponsored school? Just wonderin'...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Was funny too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diQvKYwi630
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...
A secret recording reveals the Army may be pushing its medical staff not to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder. The Army and Senate have ignored the implications.
Should military spending be seen as a 'jobs program'?
for american workers.
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Demand Coleman's campaign contributors to get Coleman to concede the senate race !!
I found these company names on opensecrets.org as contributors to Norm Coleman's campaign.
I hope you will call these companies and tell the person who answers, "Your company has given money to former Senator Coleman who has refused to accept that he has lost the Minnesota Senate race and that I will not buy anything from you or do business with you until Norm Coleman drops his lawsuits and acknowledges that Al Franken has won and concedes the race." Pass this note around to your friends and fellow Democrats. Flood these companies with phone calls. Act polite but firm. Do not accept the argument that their pacs gave money and not the corporation. The company made it easy for their employees to give money to Coleman.
Target Corp Stores $174,855 Phone 800 591 3869
3M Co Scotch tape and supplies $62,254 Phone 888 364 3577
Marriott International Hotels $43,400 Phone 888 236 2427
Best Buy Electronics Computers Stores $41,350 Phone 888-237-8289
General Mills Cereals $34,650 Phone 800-248-7310
Also go to http://action.democratz.org to help enact progressive legislation.
Thank you!
It is truly a badass fuckin fighter/bomber...
Can outfly, out maneuver and out gun damn near everything in the sky short of UFO's and maybe even of those too...
OTOH....it is crazy expensive...and we need to spend our money wisely right now...maybe it should be put on the back burner for awhile.
I assume the new sign in deal is the same for everyone this morning here at C&L. I came to the site and was freaking because everything had changed and then I just happened to see the sign in block over beside the ads on the right. Whew! Early morning freaking-outs are tough to deal with for me. :)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Some exciting changes coming up that we're laying the infrastructure for.
:)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
haveing studied military history the notion that a plane like the f 22 raptor valued at 140 million dollars is worth manufactureing and would save our ass in a major conflict with say a country like china is rediculess , the raptors to expensive and the ammount of raptors we can build at that price is small compared to the jets china can engage us with, if an enemy has a large fleet of air craft that outnumber you ten to one you are bound to lose ,its much smarter to develope a cheaper jet that can take on an enemy with better weapons and superior numbers! the ods are on the side who has the largest air force !
The George W. Bush Presidential Library Theme Park:
http://www.goodnightbush.com/librarium/
what has changed in afganistan that obama believes that american forces would be able to defeat the afgans when the russians with 500.000 troops couldnt win in that country? the us militarys been building its forces on street to street fighting ever since bush decided to send our troops to invade iraq, and afganistans nothing like iraq, the afgans hold the high ground and are dug into the mountains just like they were when the russians were fighting another war of agression, this governments not showing you the real difficultys of fighting in such a mountinous country the us militarys still a road bound lashup, and just as in iraq the forces who want us out of the mid east are gathering to destroy our troops that are being recycled by obama from iraq to afganistan, as this fools errend goes on the combat deaths will more then exceed the deaths from iraq, and in the end it will become another vietnam with the same outcome, the hills are alive with the sounds of gunfire!oh did i mention obama?
If you have to have a warning of Harold and Kumar's language on this site, wouldn't you also have to for the guest commentary?
That's like packaging Chinese toys with a label saying do not swallow.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
thier really is very little hope for america as long as the herd mentality prevails ! sooner or later you wind up on the fringes of the herd after the stronger force you from the protection of the inner circle, thats when you become meat for the preditors , whos your daddy!
that this group "of VERY liberal" politicians was the wrong group of people to send to Cuba to talk to the Castros. Un-fucking believable!!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Does it count as an Asian & Pacific Islanders issue to ask President Obama about his DoJ's continuing lawlessness and totalitarianism?
http://jonjayray.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/a-g...
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