Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Happy Commie Day!
"No Peace, No Work” holiday
Aside from the No borders! crowd, there is a bunch of other outfits showing their red colors today.
I guess it’s considerate of them to poke their heads up and let us know who’s what…
Despite the fact that the union previously said participating in the protests was voluntary, Getzug said there was “increasing information that the [International Longshore and Warehouse Union] is telling union members not to show up for work."
Also, Oakland teachers will use this day to conduct lessons on the war, the budget crisis, the rights of immigrant workers and more to protest education and other social services budget cuts proposed by the governor.
Who sez there’s an International Socialist Movement?!?
May Day rallies are expected to draw thousands of protestors Thursday, and on the Seattle waterfront, longshoremen may join in. ...May Day when workers traditionally celebrate the labor movement...
MANILA, Philippines The unabated surge in the prices of basic commodities and the continued delays in awarding workers with the needed salary increase will be at the center of protest rallies slated for Thursday’s Labor Day celebration, a militant group said on Wednesday.
Uh oh. Trouble in Aztlanland?
[Michigan/Ohio] A divide in the Latino community over political strategy may lead to a smaller rally today for immigrant rights. Some key figures in the past two protests are backing out of this year’s rally, organizers say, over concerns that such rallies are creating a political backlash against their cause and might be counterproductive.
From Hamburg to Havana, workers march on May Day ...In Istanbul, Turkish riot police used clubs, tear gas and water cannon to break up crowds of workers and students trying to reach a main square for a Labor Day rally that had been banned by the government.
...In Germany, anti-capitalism protests in Hamburg on the eve of May Day turned to violence and vandalism, police said Thursday.
The night before May 1, known in Germany as Walpurgisnacht, is also an occasion for mischief. This year nearly 1,000 people attended a rally in Hamburg where protests against capitalism and in support of socialism quickly escalated into scattered violence and vandalism.
...Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, meanwhile, led a procession of red, hammer-and-sickle flags and portraits of Lenin and Stalin over a bridge toward the Kremlin.
...In Havana, hundreds of thousands of Cubans were expected to gather in Revolution Plaza for May Day amid hopes the government would announce more small changes to daily life on the communist-run island.
ToDaZeD What'll they think of next?!?
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May Day Cometh
whaa? too obvious?
Thousands of demonstrators are expected to clog city streets Thursday in support of immigration rights, just two days after [Our Little Town in The Country™’s] City Council officially drops all fees for large-scale free speech marches.
The cost to the city: $5,000 to $8,000.
Driving our town’s streets is akin to driving the New Jersey Turnpike [where I once saw a semi-tanker completely disappear into a pothole.]
The smaller of the two marches...500 to 1,000 Community College students…
The second march, sponsored by the May 1 Coalition, will begin at noon ... and will require the closure of several major intersections and a lane of traffic to accommodate the 5,000 to 7,000 marchers expected to participate along the 2.5-mile route.
Check your Hometown—they’ve got plans all ovah this country.
May Day 2008 the May 1st Coalition for Immigrant and Workers Rights will be marching once again on May Day, International Workers Day to say no to all the attacks against workers here and around the world.
We call on the progressive community, the anti-war movement, the women’s & LGBT movement, and especially the labor movement, to come out for May Day 2008. March for solidarity, because an injury to one is an injury to all!
Oh, yeah.
Guess this is what they’re fighting for?
Late last month Puente learned of another, little-known option for patients with certain healthcare needs. If she notified US Citizenship and Immigration Services that she was in the country illegally, state health officials might grant her full coverage through Medi-Cal, the state health services assistance program for the poor. Puente did so, her benefits were restored, and she is awaiting a fourth transplant at UCLA.
Wonder how “comprehensive immigration reform” will impact her case?
herramientas pobres…
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
How They Nail It Down
we’re so scrod
Good sense and science need not apply.
California is know for being on the cutting edge, so it may come as no surprise that there are people here trying to figure out how they can make money off the air we breathe.
There is a gold rush of sorts only it’s not in the hills, but in the sky.
$6 eggs and $20 Hangtown- Fry here we come!
It is a global concern - scientists increasingly say our planet is heating up largely because of carbon dioxide emissions.
I think that word “increasingly” does not mean what you think it does…
Now, many governments around the world are looking for ways to reduce a source of that warming, and California may be one of the biggest players.
Never saw that coming… CA has this weird mexture of gullibility and jaded cynicism.
Governments have a choice they can do two things - they can regulate things, or they can create a market that will try and find efficiencies in the reduction of a particular pollutant,” said Ricardo Bayon from Ecosystem Marketplace.
Ecosystem Marketplace: where they have an article with this pic on the front page
See what I mean?
Ricardo Bayon is a carbon market industry analyst in Mill Valley.
a what?
"What’s happened is that governments all over the world have found that markets may be a better way of achieving regulatory ends than the standard tax or command and control approach to regulation,” said Bayon.
Here’s how a market works: the government issues permits to industries that pollute; “capping” them at a certain level based on environmental regulations. ...Companies that emit less than their allowance can sell their leftover permits to brokers, who then sell to companies who exceed their pollution “cap."
At a fee.
Investment banks, hedge funds and investors then speculate on the value of those leftover permits and trade them on an open market—much like trading gold or oil.
Or pork bellies, or corn and wheat futures. Great way to lose yer shirt.
"The regulated markets are now huge. In Europe, the regulated markets transact about 40 billion euros, so that’s almost $60 billion,” said Bayon.
And which one of those market players is in the slightest open to the idea that their market is based on computer models which don’t even take into account precipitation, much less solar activity?
In 2006, the state legislature approved the California Global Warming Solutions Act. [Kalifornia Kyoto—tks, Ahnold] It calls for a dramatic [read: crippling] reduction in greenhouse gas emission by 2020.
“It commits California to emissions reductions. Now those emissions reductions are quite drastic, and there is no way the state’s going to do that unless the state finds creative ways of reducing greenhouse gases and the market is one way,” said Bayon.
And by “creative,” he means “bunkum twaddle.”
Mary Nichols chairs the board. She says her agency is looking at all the options including more regulation and even a tax on emissions to meet the 2020 goal.
“Some type of market is the mechanism that almost everybody who’s looked at the carbon situation has said has to be used because carbon is so pervasive in our society that you can’t pass enough regulation to deal with it in every one of its aspects,” said Nichols, herself a carbon-based life form.
Ok, I see why we need ignorant peasants illegals—these folks ain’t bright enough to run a weed-wacker.
"The question is - by trading carbon back and forth really the ability to pollute, are we going to bring down our greenhouse gas emissions fast enough and are the big polluters truly going to make the improvements they need to clean up,” said Sen. Kehoe.
“Fast enough” for what, exactly?
"San Francisco is certainly a breeding ground for innovation and entrepreneurs. There is a lot of activity happening now in Sacramento, so it’s a great proximity,” said [Michelle Passero from EcoSecurities].
It’s hard to reckon all this Doom-ocrat hue and cry about the horrors of the *ghasp* recession—which simply means 6 or more months of lack of growth in the economy—with the kinds of actual economic nosedive we would need to force ourselves to make—on purpose—to reduce carbon emissions.
AKA: the unrealistic ‘hair shirt’ approach
Exit Brain Refresher: The Relation Between Net Carbon Emissions and Income.
Regulators of carbon emissions should take great care not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. The results presented in this chapter indicate that net carbon emissions will decline if economies grow and people get richer. The analysis supports the view that higher incomes are associated with a better natural environment. Fascination with emissions controls and the Kyoto Protocol is somewhat hard to understand in this context.
One simple but profound fact remains. Even while U.S. and global total gross emissions are on the rise, there is little or no growth in total or gross carbon emissions per person in either the United States or the world. Moreover, taking sequestrations into account, there is even less of an issue with carbon emissions.
Oh, 'bama, please.
makin it snow
... I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened over the spectacle that we saw yesterday.
You know, I have been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ since 1992. I have known Reverend Wright for almost 20 years. The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago.
... I’ve already denounced the comments that had appeared in these previous sermons. As I said, I had not heard them before.
...But when he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS, when he suggests that Minister Farrakhan somehow represents one of the greatest voices of the 20th and 21st century, when he equates the United States wartime efforts with terrorism, then there are no excuses. They offend me.
...I’m particularly distressed that this has caused such a distraction from what this campaign should be about, which is the American people.
...People want some help in stabilizing their lives and securing a better future for themselves and their children. And that’s what we should be talking about.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
He’s a politician, I’m a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician....He goes out as a politician and says what he has to say as a politician."
Monday, April 28, 2008
Fascism
creeping
...a black couple in Baltimore… had contracted with the Church’s Chicken restaurant chain to open a new outlet in Baltimore. Unfortunately for the entrepreneurial couple, as they were investing in their chicken outlet, Church’s Chicken was purchased by Crescent Capital Investments Inc., the US affiliate of the Bahrain-based First Islamic Investment Bank BSC. And, upon the restaurant chain’s purchase, these new Islamic corporate owners decided to institute Shari’ah laws upon their investments.
This caught the Beasleys new restaurant in a tough spot because pork products were on the morning breakfast menu for the Church’s Chicken chain. Because Shari’ah law principles had been imposed on the Beasleys’ new restaurant, they would be barred from serving their breakfast menu items, their corporate owners informed them. This barring from being able to serve their breakfast items, the couple maintains, contributed to the restaurant’s failure and their eventual bankruptcy.
... older Church’s Chicken establishments, stores already open and operating, were grandfathered in and allowed to continue serving the pork food products. The new corporate masters decided that only new establishments would be barred from serving pork....
...if an investment bank cannot allow its customers to operate under normal American custom, then they should not be lending money and doing business with American customers who are not interested in submitting to Shari’ah laws.
So I guess if they take over MasterCard they’re gonna disallow all charges from Victoria’s Secret?
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Wright Brained
settle back—it’s a Turtle Wax Moment
Aperitif:
Barasck [NMN] O’BuhBye: The fact that he is my former pastor I think makes it a legitimate political issue.
...And I think that, you know, people need to take a look at the whole church and the whole man in making these assessments.
Steak:
Africans and African-Americans are right-brained, subject-oriented in their learning style. ... They have a different way of learning.
[transcribed from video]Different is not deficient. Sometimes our haters cain’t get their heads around that.
I come from a religious tradition that does not divorce the world we live in from the world we are headin’ to.
[I would love to quote more of the exact text for you but RedLasso STINKS. The above is from Part 3 and I b’lieve the first is from Part 2 which refuses to load. [and yes, my flash player is updated. tried that already. *sigh*]]
Whereupon he mocks the reserve of honkey ofay caspers WASP tradition.
Make way for the “pedagogy of the oppressed.”
My impression thus far is that Wright’s argument boils down to “Different is not necessarily Deficient”—which he promptly blows out of the water as he makes fun of white folks. Therefore, you can say nothing about what I’ve preached because it is in my **different** religious tradition.
Religious tradition, as well as linguistics, musicology and a host of other -ologies he references, are different based on biology. oops. Only thing is.... I think I recall that a black brain and a white brain are indistinguishable once removed from the brain pan. These things are cultural.
And this is the culture in which Osbama chose to steep himself.
More as it becomes available.
[and If, upon further investigation, I learn my guesses were wrong, I’ll post that, too.]
UPDATE:
Found it:
In the past we were taught to see others who are different as being deficient. We established arbitrary norms and then determined that anybody not like us was abnormal. But a change is coming because we no longer see others who are not like us as being deficient, but as being different.
Over the past 50 years, the scholarship of dozens… we have come to see just how skewed, prejudiced and dangerous our mis-education has been. ...
...demonstrated 40 years ago determined that different does not mean deficient. ... In comparing African-American children and European children we were comparing apples and rocks. And in so doing, we kept coming up with meaningless labels [educable/trainable mentally handicapped]... and even more meaningless solutions. [reading, writing and ritalin]
[In comparing pedagogical methodologies of African-American [AA] children to African children and European-American [EA] children to European children]
The two different worlds have two different ways of learning. European and EA children have a left-brain, cognitive object-oriented learning style. And the entire educational system in the US ... was based on left-brain, cognitive object-oriented learning style.
Lemme help you wit’ dem 50¢ words: Left brain is logical and analytical. [*points to left side of head*] From the solitude of the cradle with objects being hung over his or her head to help them determine colors and shapes to the solitude in a carrel of a PhD program stuck off somewhere in a corner in absolute quietness to absorb from The Object. From a block to a book—an Object. That is one way of learning. But it is only one way of learning.
African and AA children have a different way of learning. They are right-brained, subject oriented in their learning styles. Right brained [*points*] that means means creative and intuitive. Subject oriented means they learn not from an object from a subject. They learn from a person.
But since he is speaking from an “aural, oral” culture and tradition, perhaps you ought to hear it for yourself. Much more is communicated in the non-verbal, dare I say ‘non-Object’, content than can be gathered from the above.
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Side Note: when I wanted to bullshit my way thru skool or snow my way through a debate, one of my favorite tools was to go on and on about differing methodologies. It often worked, too…
Or as the aural, oral tradition might put it, “Don’t try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs, Sonny.”
Culture War
Culture War
Declared! ...again.
I must admit I haven’t had a great deal of experience with the Northeast. It always reminded me of those rat experiments psychologists were so fond of around the middle of the last century, where overcrowding led the poor beasties to chewing one another’s little feetsies off. Kinda like those Big Brother-type, crowd - everyone - into - a - tiny - house - with - 24 - hour - video - cameras shows. It engenders odd behavior.
So, Mr. Hirsh, who built your house, grows your food, fixes your indoor plumbing - and your car Pious, ... Must be kind of an odd feeling, as a Pragmatist, to look down your nose on someone who can kick your ass best you in any contest of practical skills…
In the summer of 1863, Robert E. Lee led an ill-advised incursion into Pennsylvania. ... One hundred and forty-five years later, the South--or what has become the South-Southwest--has won another kind of Civil War. It has transformed the sensibility of the country. It is setting the agenda for our political, social and religious mores--in Pennsylvania and everywhere else.
You mean those poor dumb bastards clinging to their guns ‘n’ Bibles out of bitterness at the inability of bureaucracy to make their lives Utopian? They’re setting the political agenda?
Hirsh then points to the cultural influences that kicked a girl off American Idol simply because she sang “Jesus Christ Superstar”—not because she sang it badly, but for the choice of the song, itself.
In the delicate balance of forces that have always defined American tastes--nativism and yahooism versus eagerness for the new and openness to innovation--art, or at least high craft, it seemed, had triumphed. But our national common denominator of taste is so altered today that the blasphemous dimension of “Jesus Christ Superstar” now trumps the artistic part. And somehow, no one is surprised.
I’m surprised. But, then again, I’m no American Idol fan, so I have no rational guesses at all.
But the phrase that sticks with me is this one:
nativism and yahooism versus eagerness for the new and openness to innovation
Guess I’ll hafta change my tag to “Nativist Yahoo from The Country™,” because I can see a great deal more daring and belief in the potential for human innovation in than those who set out to explore frontiers than in those that stayed behind in comfort and consistency.
In part this is a triumph of demographics. ... the nation’s population center has been “moving south and west at a rate of three feet an hour, five miles a year."
Makes ya wonder: are they leaving for a reason?
... the “radical nationalism” that has so dominated the nation’s discourse since 9/11 traces its origins to the demographic makeup and mores of the South and much of the West and Southern Midwest--in other words, what we know today as Red State America.
No pissed-off, nationalistic folks in NYC on September 12? Oh, yeah—I must’ve just seen those yahoos who make up the PD, the FD and the plumbers, truck drivers, and other ‘simple folk’ to be found doing the work the elites refuse to do.
This region was heavily settled by Scots-Irish immigrants--the same ethnic mix King James I sent to Northern Ireland to clear out the native Celtic Catholics.
Ya mean Rednecks?
After succeeding at that, they then settled the American Frontier, suffering Indian raids and fighting for their lives every step of the way. And the Southern frontiersmen never got over their hatred of the East Coast elites and a belief in the morality and nobility of defying them. Their champion was the Indian-fighter Andrew Jackson. The outcome was that a substantial portion of the new nation developed, over many generations, a rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores.
Is “Savage, Unsophisticated, Jacksonian Nativist Yahoo Moron from The Country™ Clinging to Her Guns and Freedom” too long?
Traditionally, it has been balanced by a more diplomatic, communitarian Yankee sensibility from the Northeast and upper Midwest. But that latter sensibility has been losing ground in population numbers--and cultural weight.
The coarsened sensibility that this now-dominant Southernism and frontierism has brought to our national dialogue is unmistakable. We must endure “lapel-pin politics” that elevates the shallowest sort of faux jingoism over who’s got a better plan for Iraq and Afghanistan.
erm… I thought that symbols were sophisticated vessels of Cultural Values and “words have meaning.”
Barack Obama seems to be so leery of being identified as an urban Northern liberal that he’s running away from the most obvious explanation of his association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weatherman Bill Ayers: after Obama graduated from college he became an inner-city organizer in Chicago, and they were natural allies for someone in a situation like that.
Oh, I dunno—even this Savage Yahoo™ got this natural alliance.
We routinely demonize organizations like the United Nations that we desperately need and which are critical to missions like nation-building in Afghanistan.
I’ll pause here until you can stop laughing. ...until *I* can stop laughing.
On foreign policy, the realism and internationalism of the Eastern elitist tradition once kept the Southern-frontier warrior culture and Wilsonian messianism in check. Now the latter two, in toxic combination, have taken over our national dialogue, and the Easterners are running for the hills.
Ok - back that truck up. Ya mean Woodrow Wilson? The one who bragged that his WWI efforts contained “not a single selfish element?” Whose War Industries Board, Committee on Public Information and American Protective League worked diligently on the “transvaluation of values” for which war provided the opportunity?
That’s the Wilson you attempt to lump in with “frontier warrior culture?”
The younger Bush went to Andover, Yale and Harvard, but he rebelled against the ethos he learned there. The transformation is complete, right down to the Texas accent that no one else in his family seems to have. Bush is a Jacksonian pod person.
To those with “diplomatic, communitarian Yankee sensibilities,” to whom multi-culti tolerance is a rallying flag, this is the “sophisticated” level of compassionate comprehension for someone who disagrees with you? “Pod person?”
Still, something deep and basic has changed in our country. ...I dipped back into the Adams-Jefferson letters. ... What does seem foreign to us today is the dedication to free thought and, even more, free moral choice that so dominated the correspondence between those two great minds.
Oddly Predictably enough, I see it differently. From out here in The Wild West, it seems that those pursuing the “chilling of dissent” using invective, personal attack and attempts at outright gubbmint censorship are the Progressives scoffing, mocking, name-calling and Fairness Doctrining the Conservatives—excuse me, The Redneck Yahoos—into silence. This article exemplary among those efforts.
Another well worn tool in their bag is that most confusing, Projection. While shouting the loudest about “restrictions on my Free Speech” [then, how can I hear you shout?] they work the hardest to stifle others’ speech. While clamoring that we are “an intolerant nation, and that’s what gets you elected” they seem completely incapable of respecting that theirs is not the only valid opinion in the world. In fact they work overtime [at union time an a half wage] to make sure any differing opinion is not met with rational, fact-based argument but with emotion-based derision that corrodes the very concept of free thought. It makes the head spin.
The addiction of the “patrician, diplomatic, communialist Yank-ees to self-praise makes the floor sticky, as well.
...this change is also attributable to the rise of the mass media and the eclipsing of the patrician culture that produced both Adams amd [sic] Jefferson. “Both the New England Yankee and the old Southern colonel are gone,” he says. “It’s a battle between folk cultures, and it seems the Jacksonian is the more dominant.” It’s not a clear-cut victory, but the South has won the day.
I think it’s clear he is not referring to the MSM/nooz media, of whose bias I am sure he would approve, but the prevailing ‘pop-culture’ media. It comes down to the “patricians” vs the “rubes.” Again. But this time, the Marxists consider themselves on the other side.
Heat up the iron and pass the board. It’s gonna be a looong, wrinkly August.
I don’t give so much attention to this article for it’s supposed brilliance: this self-styled patrician is so ignorant he couldn’t find the floor with his hat. I think it’s noteworthy because it states all the elements that we’re bound to be beaten over the head with all Summer long. It’s The Narrative.
And it ain’t exactly new:
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
She's Ridin' Dirty!
more macho than thou
Hillary’s Proposal:
Senator Clinton and Senator Obama will participate in a 90-minute debate in an open public forum. Just the two of them — no questioners, no panelists, no video clips. One candidate would speak for two minutes, then the other, alternating back and forth all the way through the debate. Their discussion – not any pre-set rules – would determine how long they spend on one subject before moving on to another. Such a debate would range across all of the challenges, large and small, we face as a nation or it could focus on the most significant issue we face today, — the economy.
Barack [NMN] O’Bambi’s response:
Reaction vs Response
Reaction vs Response
limbic gush
Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to “close this city down” to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.
“We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians,"...Sharpton urged people to return for a meeting this coming week “to plan the day that we will close this city down"
Whassa matter, Al—getting old? The White Night riots were that same night. The Rodney King riots, the same day. You gotta clear your calendar or something?
Ponder Material: How many of your people are gonna die in the riots this time, Al?
[this dolt couldn’t spell “responsible” if ya spotted him everything but the “r."]
oopsie…
"It's a Judgement Thang"
"you wouldn’t understand..."
“Distractions! Squawk!! Distractions!! Profound Issues!!”
Barry NMN really is an O’Bambi in the woods if he believes what he has on his verra own website: AYERS AND DOHRN BECAME RESPECTABLE FIXTURES OF THE MAINSTREAM IN CHICAGO [screamer-caps in original]
Remember, here’s the REALITY: OBAMA WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN THE WEATHERMEN WERE ACTIVE
And here’s some “mainstream” from 2007
Amazing how mundane ...how downright boring it is to listen to her flapping around about living “in the heart of the monster” in Imperial Amerikka.
Cultural Dis-intigration
Olber-doosh still a tool
I know this is tedious: yet it’s still a popcorn moment. So here’s the quickie of it:
SCENE: Talking heads show discussion on MSNBC and the ultimate resolution of the “Democrat Party Contest” [these folks cannot take even a moment of uncertainty or conflict...]
[I know—“Head-On” commercials scoff at MSNBC ratings. nevertheless, we press onward.]Howard Fineman: [...it’s going to take] “some adults somewhere in the Democratic party to step in and stop this thing, like a referee in a fight that could go on for thirty rounds. Those are the super, super, super delegates who are going to have to decide this.”
Keith Olbermannnn: “Right. Somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.”
Yeah… hokayfine. Classic “I’m so intense” Olberdoosh rhetoric. whatever. But. the Moonbat reaction? [I say reaction because a response involves some actual skull-sweat. This crap is straight limbic chemical gush.]
Maybe I could talk about it in terms of the times I have been in that situation, alone with a much stronger and violent male, and what a man suggesting putting [Hillary] in that position does to me.
...the demands that she be eradicated from politics, a symbolic honor killing.
Nice similie, Miss AllAboutYou… Though the multi-culti ironing is a tad thick…
there’s an ugly strain of misogyny running through Hillary Clinton’s media coverage
...Really, it can only mean one thing: Beating the crap out of Hillary Clinton, to the point where she is physically incapable of of getting up and walking out. At minimum. We know this. We know this because we have all seen movies ...
Movies. Reality. Movies...reality. movingreality…
If 2 white guys suggested that “somebody” take Obama into a room and Obama doesn’t come out, how would that sound to you?
If it sounds more...um, outrageous to say such a thing about Obama than it is to say it about Clinton, then you need to take a long look at your personal beliefs about human rights.
Can you imagine if a bunch of white guys suggested that “somebody” take another white guy [Rove, say… or Cheney or Dubya] into a room and he doesn’t come out?
*crickets*
This is clear a threat of violence.
As a woman, who has been in the unfortunate circumstance of being alone in a room with a male who was physically larger and more powerful than myself, and fearing for my safety, Olbermann’s comment struck a nerve. ...
This is disgusting and deplorable. “Professional journalists” should not be advocating violence against a Presidential Candidate ...
[bolding reproduced from original which was exhausting]
Could it be that these HuffPo-ops didn’t even get the Thunderdome reference? Dealing with these kids is like trying to have a nuanced conversation with a buncha illiterate peasants. Though illiterate peasants would not be so hampered by the expectation of a perfectly safe and bubble-wrapped world. This is not an outcry for a return to ‘gentlemanly and Civilized political process: it’s more along the lines of a lament against Nature Red in Tooth and Claw. Welcome to the Real World, Kiddies; now, wash your hands before you’re lunch.
The tyranny of the right of [bad] personal choice trumps natural and logical consequences as the idea “Why would you put yourself in a room with a violent male more than once?!?” morphs from everyday common sense into a startling revelation.
Cultural references are right out—we share no culture. Metaphors, similes and other linguistic symbology *p00f* gone; no one gets the referents.
Pretty soon we’ll all be reduced to simple, declarative sentences with a [federally mandated] menu of 247 subtitle languages.
Meanwhile, clumsy references and erstwhile subtleties lie in forgotten heaps, “it was a joke” is a thoughtful defense and “what’s a meta phor?” becomes a serious question. ...and this is an actual sentence in a “serious” essay:
I can already hear the outcry of those who can’t believe I’d equate the gender card with the race card.
*walks quietly away*
Olberdoosh responds in the [now] classic style of the “bitterness” bait ‘n’ switch:
It is a metaphor. [note the simple, declarative sentence] I apologize: the generic ‘he’ gender could imply something untoward. It should’ve been ‘only the other comes out — from a political point of view.’
Oh. well… If it’s a Guurl Super-super-super Delegate… okay, then.
Will there be JELL-O?
Friday, April 25, 2008
Let's make the rubes fight
bitter clingers
This headline says it all:
U.S. Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs; Second Amendment to Blame?
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Meanwhile, back at the 10,340 sf *crib*
think he has a lawn ...ornament?
Ya think he’d just settle back, play a little ...golf[?] take in some videos, but no. Retirement for the Wrong Reverend Jeremiah Wright incudes a PBS interview with Bill Moyers and a speaking date and the national Press Club—and that’s just this week.
Wonder what his plans for August are…
Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, told PBS host Bill Moyers that inflammatory statements from his sermons were taken out of context, but he said he didn’t begrudge the Democratic candidate for denouncing them.
“He’s a politician, I’m a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they’re two different worlds,"
waiddaminnit. Did he just call BarryO a lyin’ sack o’ hooey?
Wright told Moyers that he didn’t talk politics with Obama. “He goes out as a politician and says what he has to say as a politician. I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God."
Why, yes. I do b’lieve he did.
[Critics] wanted “to paint me as a fanatic.”
“I think they wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ and ‘by the way, guess who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint.’ “
“God Dayum America!!” “...chickens… are comin’ hoo-ooome ...to roost...”
”...or as the learned journalist from the New York Times called me, a “wackadoodle.”...
Wacka Doodle Do as Wacka Doodle Does
I got yer Change right here, Kid.
Here’s a quarter—go buy a clue.
This is why da HelldaBeast don’t feel in no way tahred...*
...The truth is Obama has no secret plan for Iraq. Interviews with nearly two dozen foreign policy and military experts, as well as Obama’s campaign advisers, and a close review of Obama’s own statements on Iraq, suggest something more nuanced. What he is offering is a basic vision of withdrawal with muddy particulars, one his advisers are still formulating and one that, if he is elected, is destined to meet an even muddier reality on the ground.
... the leader of the Obama campaign’s working group on Iraq had authored a think-tank paper proposing to leave a whopping 60,000-80,000 American troops in Iraq through 2010.
Tollja this was a rerun. Now The Plan: Next The Hat
*tarded, otoh...
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