Joel Pett / Lexington Herald-Leader (June 7, 2010)
June 9, 2010 archive
Jun 09 2010
Kick Your Own Ass Mr. President
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday he’s been talking closely to Gulf Coast fishermen and various experts on BP’s catastrophic oil spill not for lofty academic reasons but “so I know whose ass to kick.”
Ooh. You scared yet? Obama’s going to kick some ass. You know how he does. You know how he kicked those insurance and pharmaceutical company asses to get us all Universal healthcare. How he kicked those Bankster asses of Goldman Sachs et al to regulate casino capitalism and bring the Looters to justice. How he kicks the collective ass of the Military-Industrial-Complex to stop the siphoning of trillions from the treasury better spent on the health and wealth of America and stop the illegal, immoral and irresponsible war crimes of aggression. And on and on…
Frankly, Obama’s ability to kick ass is limited to a game of horse against an oil-soaked pelican.
Jun 09 2010
Muse in the Morning
Jun 09 2010
Dystopia 22: Gerry Revisited
Invictus (Unconquered)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
A favorite poem of Nelson Mandela
Jun 09 2010
Election Results: Arkansas is Hopeless, Nevada Boots its Gov, eMeg wins her bid
I’m listening to the Primary election results on television and watching on the internet. Here are the current leads or projected winners for some of the races nationwide. The polls closed in CA an hour ago. HuffPo also has a header banner up with this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
First, the biggest suck disappointment of the evening- Democrat Senate Plantation Blanche over Bill Halter in Arkansas , 52 to 48%.
Blanche Lincoln (D, “there isn’t going to be a public option” Walmart, Koch Oil, Arkansas)
Bill Halter
There’s been a lawsuit filed over the closing of polling places, but Halter has conceded.
Jun 09 2010
The Week in Editorial Cartoons – The Cheney/Halliburton Connection
Crossposted at Daily Kos
THE WEEK IN EDITORIAL CARTOONS
This weekly diary takes a look at the past week’s important news stories from the perspective of our leading editorial cartoonists (including a few foreign ones) with analysis and commentary added in by me.
When evaluating a cartoon, ask yourself these questions:
1. Does a cartoon add to my existing knowledge base and help crystallize my thinking about the issue depicted?
2. Does the cartoonist have any obvious biases that distort reality?
3. Is the cartoonist reflecting prevailing public opinion or trying to shape it?The answers will help determine the effectiveness of the cartoonist’s message.
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Cheney Spews by Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune, Buy this cartoon
Jun 09 2010
“to love this world, no matter how it appears”
I was reading Tenpa over at Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar. A few days earlier he made a call to action over an important Buddhist monument, a stupa in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that the National Parks Service was about to demolish.
I was happy to discover that along with Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar, other folks in the “Buddhosphere,” (not my invention!) managed to get the Parks Service to back off and the stupa was saved!
I followed the links in Tenpa’s post and discovered several other Buddhist blogs with links that led me on and on.
I paused at the above linked The Reformed Buddhist and through its blogroll came to Dangerous Harvests, whose round-up of interesting posts in the Buddhosphere led me, finally, to Ox Herding.
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