Nov 03 2007
I just wrote a piece for ePluribus Media that I think you’d like to check out. It has embedded video, multiple links in “Wikipedia” style, a few footnotes and a couple great images.
It was a lot of work.
I’m not going to repost the whole thing, but I am going to provide the punch-line — the spoilers, the ending — but it won’t ruin anything for you.
Trust me on this: you won’t mind reading the full piece over there, ‘cuz you’ll still be cheering the spoilers from over here.
Nov 03 2007
Harrumph. Don’t have much to say for this pony party. I have a confession: I had a nasty thought yesterday after somebody shared some good news.
There is a nice young woman who “waxes” me for a pretty reasonable price. She cheerfully told me she is six weeks pregnant. I congratulated her, of course, but inside I was thinking, damn I am going to have to find a temporary replacement who will both be more expensive and a major drive away. OK, I suck….
Nov 03 2007
This an Open Thread: No wiretapping just talking
USA
At Army Base, Bush Boosts Iraq War
By Josh White and William BraniginWashington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, November 3, 2007; Page A03
FORT JACKSON, S.C., Nov. 2 — President Bush, invoking the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as he has many times before, contended Friday that Iraq is the central front in the struggle against extremism, telling a supportive military crowd at this Army post that it is imperative to continue fighting the increasingly unpopular war.
Bush praised the 1,300 newly minted soldiers graduating from Basic Combat Training here for volunteering to defend the country, urging them to “stay on the offense” and “keep pressure on the enemy.”
If you can help the victims of the Mexican Flood please do so
Nov 03 2007
Eighty percent of the Mexican state of Tabasco is under water, as is a significant portion of Chiapas, and there’s more rain on the way.
President Calderon has compared the disaster to Katrina — but on a larger scale. With over one million displaced, his oil industry crippled, his entire air force sent to the region and disease soon to follow, his claim may be valid, even though, by all evidence, his response to the crisis has been the opposite of Washington’s Katrina debacle.
Here’s The Environmentalist’s post on the floods, which includes a video sent from the region and information provided by colleagues working to track the storms’ paths.
More below the jump…
Nov 03 2007
For understandable reasons, most of us can’t stand to watch a Republican for more than a minute or two. I learned today that turning the channel quickly has been a big mistake, because it’s prevented us from formulating an effective counter-strategy to this rampage from hell BushCo has subjected us to for seven years.
My enlightenment occurred because of a malfunctioning remote control channel button, which left me no choice but to watch a replay of Cheney’s American Legion speech on C-Span. I couldn’t help but notice that after several minutes, his head started spinning around on his shoulders.
This rather revealing event occurred 11 minutes and 6 seconds into his speech.
If my math is correct, that’s 666 seconds . . .
Nov 03 2007
One of the breed of bonkers, I wouldn’t dare to lecture
I don’t know how to lead, there’s got to be somebody better
Weak in the kneesy species, dreaming of future faded
Seen where the suture stiches nitted, slipped? I’m with you baby,
Let’s get obnoxious with it, I wanna know what brave is
I’m tired of sitting here pretending I’m not fucking dangerous!~El-P, Run the Numbers
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
~Adolf Hitler
Most of us can agree that all signs point to coming electoral success at every level of the Federal government for the Democratic Party in 2008. The polls are there, the Republican incumbents are stepping down, and the money edge is nearly insurmountable.
At the same time, the current Democratic Congress, holding narrow majorities, is expected to confirm Michael Mukasey as Attorney General. This is after the nominee suggested he did not know what waterboarding entailed, that the President has the power to disobey the direct language of Federal statues, and that the Office of the Legal Counsel can advise that Executive Branch employees to disobey a Congressional subpoena and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia should refuse to obey a citation for contempt.
This compels us all to contemplate that no matter what the electoral fortunes of the Democratic Party, many dire threats to our liberty will persist.
Nov 03 2007
Did you ever meet someone you’d swear you’d never met before? Converse with them? Touch them? Know them? All in the first glancing contact of eyes, the first shake of hands the first exchange of words?
I ask this partly to answer a question for somebody else and partly for me. To see whether anybody else has ever experienced the strangest thing that ever happened to me.
Nov 03 2007
Memo to Netroots: Now do you understand?
Democrats are caving on Mukasey, and they will next cave on telecom amnesty. This comes on the heels of several other colossal capitulations. I hope you get it now: Democrats are no longer on your side. They no longer cooperate.
Nov 03 2007
Via the Philadelphia Bulletin by Joe Murray: http://www.thebullet…
Nov 03 2007
Oh, God, I’m tired.
Greetings from Fall River, MA, the new home of t3h k357r3ls.
now I have…an ANNOUNCEMENT to make ‘n’ shit, but I think I’ll save that part of it till tomorrow…..For now I’ll just say this:
Be careful what u wish for, u might get it.
In the meantime, here’s your Friday night funk bomb, specially designed to require the minimum expenditure of cerebral synapses.
Nov 03 2007
Let us talk about the problem of evil, Mr. Loran. Where do we read about evil as a separate manifestation, as a result of too abundant a growth of the quality of judgment separated from the quality of mercy?
–The Book of Lights by Chaim Potok
I read the NOLA blogs every day. I read blogs in the diversosphere every day. I read diaries and posts about undocumented migrants every day.
On all these subjects, I often find myself battling posters at Daily Kos who say things like “Oh well those folks in New Orleans shouldn’t have built their homes there, and they should just bulldoze the place, it’s environmentally unsafe!” Or “I’m not a racist, so really that doesn’t apply to me, those folks are just oversensitive, besides that boy in Jena was a criminal, and Martin Luther King wouldn’t have defended him.” Or “those illegal aliens are making it harder for those who are coming here legally and playing by the rules! Why should I care about them — and besides, they’re hurting labor!”
I’ve experimented with many different responses, from aggressive and even profanity-laden to understanding and kind. But those comments always hurt. I don’t even know if I could explain why, they’re just words on a screen, aren’t they?
Judgment. Well of course we are always using our judgment, from mundane things like choosing which toothpaste to buy to big philosophical and political decisions such as who to vote for, who to fight against and why.
And then there’s the judgment implied in the law. This is wrong — if you do this you will pay the consequences, whether it be a fine, jail time, or even execution, even death.
In keeping with Buhdy’s vision of a manifesto (or whatever we end up calling it), I am grappling with the problems of social justice in the United States today.
