If there’s a “valid” point here, it’s that I really wish some investigative bloggers would follow up on this and find out more about just who has the hard-on for Twink Love. I bet it’s a looong list of them in St. Paul. wonkette via Joe:
Via Wonkette, this latest in a string of Craigslist Twin Cities M4M ads:
Discretion Required - m4mm (Upscale Hotel)
ATTN: discretion is mandatory. must be willing to submit to background check and strip searches. absolutely no recording devices or wireless communication devices allowed. you will be examined and scrutinized by security before you make contact. Read more
I sincerely hope everyone is on the same page as I am. Which is to say: I’ve been thrown out of better parties than this. Seriously, is this Event an example of “the democratic process of a republic of laws,” or a great, big, dope consuming, cock-sucking extravaganza? It’s hard to tell from the “progressive” blog coverage. Hint: bloggers who are there should not be dazzled by ’exclusive’ party invites. They’re so easy to get if you’re Hip, and bragging of such reveals how lame one really is if one speaks of it. Real Players are otherwise oriented, discoursively. Figure that out, liberal bloggers, and the Powers will start taking you seriously. Until then, you’re nothing more than minor star-fuckers, and Little People bought off by cheap teevee-grade bbq. yo. Read more
According to Jim Hightower’s web site today, corporate ag-chem giant Monsanto has put its Posilac business up for sale. This is good, because it means the company could not force the American people to accept milk laced with an artificial sex hormone.
It’s news because Monsanto had unsuccessfully sued to keep farmers and dairies from advertising their milk as free of the product. Read more
And do, please, see Matthew 6:5 and consider it carefully. The historical Jesus, if any, does have strong views on the sale of religion in the public square.
Anyhow, I guess God must have shared a helping of rubber chicken with the rest of the Rules and Bylaws Committee, when they went out to lunch* and decided to give Michigan delegates to Obama who didn’t vote for him. Good to know. And how nice for everyone, that God worked a miracle like that. Read more
What was best about the Edward’s Plan, and Hillary’s plan—last I checked, Obama was going to be “figuring something out” but maybe he’s refined his position—was that they introduced competition between a national health care plan and the insurance companies, hoping that the national health care plan would serve as a Trojan horse for single payer. Or that was the rationale. DDay seems to agree this is a good idea:
Now, what HCAN[’t] actually* favor[s] is a public option being given the ability to compete with private insurance, making gradual the transition to a national health care plan [which I assume is single payer, but maybe not]
(See the note for what HCAN’t actually favors). DDay concludes:
I think that the goal ought to be single payer, but anything that helps 47 million people get health care is positive
So let me ask: If you think the goal should be single payer, then why not support it directly and explicitly, right now? Read more
And that really would make 2006 a progressive high-water mark, eh? Remember all the, er, hope for, er, change we had back then? Oh well, that hope died, even as far back as 2007.
And caving to the telcos and gutting the Fourth Amendment is a common factor here, between Obama, Reid, and Pelosi (and Daschle, too, I’m guessing, since he, like Reid and Pelosi, was also a member of the Gang of Eight). Read more
As you probably know, Obama gave an interview to “Relevant,” a Christian magazine in which he said that prohibitions on late-term abortions must contain an exception for the health of the mother, but that:
[He didn’t] think that ’mental distress’ qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term.
Given that the current law governing late term abortions includes mental distress mental health as one of the health exceptions, this would be a significant narrowing of abortion rights. Read more
“Bottom line, decreasing fossil fuel use in the developed world by 30% nets a total increase of carbon emissions of nearly 30% using current trends in India and China alone, not to mention the rest of the underdeveloped world.”
Please feel free to check my sources, assumptions and math. I will gladly revise accordingly.
So, my first post, and first blogwhore, all wrapped up into one! ;-)
From Riverdaughter, the quintessence of necessary advice: Turn off the media. Watch only CSPAN. Be careful what you read. If it feels like guilt, it’s probably David Axelrod upping the Haka. We have to stick together and not let anyone or anything get under our skin. Remember, this is the guy who wouldn’t campaign in Kentucky because he thought the Applacahian vote wasn’t worth his time of day. This is the guy who took delegates away from his opponent in order to “win”. This is the guy whose enablers have been screaming for Clinton to quit since Iowa. And most of all, this is the guy who LOST CA, NJ, NY, MA, PA, OH, TX, FL and MI. He LOST them. No other Democratic nominee has ever been allowed to fail so spectacularly. We do not reward failure. We do not reward sexism. We do not reward cheating. We do not reward disrespect.
Turn off the media. Turn off Claire McCaskill. Turn off Barack Obama.
She’s absolutely right.
The time has come to stand up for principles.
The time has come to recognize what Democrats are about.
The time has come to stop pretending otherwise.
The time has come to say, “We don’t want the next W.”
The time has come to say, “We’re not buying the media hype.”
The time has come to say, “We’re not going to take this anymore.”
The time has come to say, “We saw what you did and we know who you are, Read more
Legal standards and their arguability aside, voices round the world have heralded yesterday’s triumph of the theocratic pedophilia cult over the State of Texas. Yet some courts in the state — even in Austin — and other voices advocating child welfare are holding out hope for the 400 minors found at YFZ ranch outside Eldorado, Texas, and calling for changes in the laws. Read more
Keith Olbermann, the sportscaster-turned-pundit often lauded for his “progressive stance,” openly calls for physical attack, if not murder, upon Senator Hillary Clinton.
Barack Obama is hemmorhaging support against John McCain in states where Democrats can/should win in November.
In the last six weeks, Barack Obama has been losing support, while Hillary Clinton has gained support, when matched against McCain. Much of Clinton’s additional support is from voters who were undecided in late February, and Clinton essentially “split” the “recent deciders” with McCain; as a result there is little change in her margins against McCain. But people who were undecided whether they preferred Obama or McCain are also making up their minds – and choosing McCain. As a result, Obama’s margins against McCain are looking much worse.
This is true among all major demographic categories that were available for comparison – if Obama improves in a category, Clinton has shown greater improvement in that category. And in categories where Clinton is not doing as well as she was in February, Obama is doing consistently worse. Read more
Via Big Blue, I came across something so Zen and perfect that I just had to post on it. Concerning some Villager I never read and a piece he wrote on BHO:
Number of references Tapper made to himself: 14
Number of references Tapper made to Obama: 16
That’s really it, isn’t it? They can’t understand that it’s not about them. Celebrity is a great evil, and clearly it’s utterly corrupted our press. But the next time you need an excuse to get drunk like a frat boy during pledge week, just count the number of times the Villager you’re reading makes reference to himself, and take a drink for each one.
What astounds me is that I think a lot of them believe that America gives a crap about their lives. Newsflash: we don’t. Bloggers should also take note of how little America could care for Insider Squabbles of the Moment, and the personal relationships relating to them.
He’s a lawbreaker. That’s the fucking language we need to be using. If our Blue Laird is correct, and the battle this fall is “against the media,” let’s start with stuff like this. “John McCain is a lawbreaker and hypocrite who thinks the laws he writes only apply to other people.” You can come up with a shorter way to say that if you like. Correctly focused Jane:
Having accepted public financing last fall for the primary, then deciding to thumb his nose at it when it didn’t suit his purposes, John McCain is now laying the groundwork for accepting public financing in the general. Aided by reform groups like Democracy 21 who have hammered Obama for not accepting it but have uttered nary a peep about the fact that McCain is breaking the law, he’s obviously looking to play the “holier than thou” card in the fall — confident that a compliant press and the wouldbe watchdogs will all take a nap while he does it.
And do go on to contrast and compare Jane’s direct speech to the timid and weak writing of the Boston paper of record at the link. It’s pathetic. The press so loves this man, it’s kind of gross and sick. It’s like they are a thousand sycophantic twinks, all aiming to nail the ultimate Power Daddy. Ick.
As the MSM largely ignores what is truly occurring in Iraq, the bumper-sticker tactics of the Republican Party (and their minions) seem to be working. Read more
H/t MS. Just for shits and giggles, check this out. Heh, it seems Corrente isn’t the only place to go for naughty, spicy language about today’s economy:
GMAC Bank is suing mortgage company HTFC for selling improperly secured loans, which lead to the hilariously blue and aggressive deposition from HTFC CEO Aron Wider. Wider dropped the f-bomb 73 times, frustrating the opposing counsel’s attempts to get him to answer difficult questions like “Where are you currently employed?” Some of the more colorful and creative expletives from the testimony of Mr. Wider, who, according to his company website, serves as company Coprorate Information [sic], CEO / Senior Underwriter, and Radio Engineer, inside…
Q: My question is where are you currently employed.
A: I’ m not. I just told [you] I work for free.
Q: OK. You’re not employed by the HTFC Corporation?
A: Hit That Fuckin’ Clown. That’s what it means. Read more
Actually, one of the diaries is really interesting, and you can see why it got recommended; it illustrates the “casual poetry” of the Obama campaign so well. It’s the one around the middle, titled “Hardball, What does Hillary want?”
Just give me a moment to slip into my scrubs and pull on my surgical gloves….
There! Follow me below the fold. (I added yellow highlighter to the best part.) Read more
Your new commenting tech sux. Like, a lot. It’s killing your comments and discouraging your readers from leaving replies. Please look into Drupal, and call Lambert if you need help with that. Smooth, silky, effortless- that’s our goal here in the blogosphere.
when you played marbles, did you change the rules midgame, when you were winning (but by not enough), or losing? prolly not.
so again, i ask: what (were) the rules? before all of this started? i know what they (were). why are we talking about changing them, “midstream?”
1. This is an election, not a game, of marbles, or otherwise. It has real life consequences.
2. This system is a much more complex system than marbles, in that:
3. There are rules to change the rules*, and:
4. Fairness and legitimacy count too, and they are not the same as the rules; see point 1. You might think of them as the “soft power” that any functioning institution ought to have, and of “the rules” as hard power.
FWIW, let me try to review the bidding. This is my take. I’m not an expert in either MI or FL, so please correct me. My perception is that the DNC, correctly in my view, wanted a stable primary calendar. (Also, I had trust in Dean at that point, and that’s what he wanted to do.) The state political establishments in FL and MI tried to jump ahead on the Calendar, and the DNC, again correctly in my view at the time, punished them by depriving them of their delegates. [On FL, I believe MBW would register a dissenting view; the Republicans combined a bill moving the Democratic primary forward with a poison pill that implemented a paper trail for voting machines. Given the givens, the FL Dems couldn’t vote against a paper trail, so they voted to move the primary up as well. However, they planned to appeal the decision, and told the voters that. The voters then proceeded to vote in record numbers.] Read more
Speech-acts don’t impress me so much anymore. Nor do websites. Or rallies. Cucking Stool reminds us of the real cost of the continuation of the clusterfuck that is Iraq, and it’s hefty:
Nobel Economics Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz and his co-author, Harvard professor Linda Bilmes, have estimated the total cost of the war, just to the United States, to be three to four trillion dollars. The rest of the world will pay similar amount. They wrote a book called The Three Trillion Dollar War, but that estimate is apparently out of date, although the book just came out:
All of the war-price tallies include operations in the war zone, support for troops, repair or replacement of equipment, reservists’ salaries, special combat pay for regular forces and some care for wounded veterans — expenses that typically fall outside the regular Defense Department or Veterans Affairs budgets.
The highest estimates often include projections for future operations, long-term health care and disability costs for veterans, a portion of the regular, annual defense budget, and, in some cases, wider economic effects, including a percentage of higher oil prices and the impact of raising the national debt to cover increased war spending.
The debate raging on Capitol Hill, on the presidential campaign trail, in research institutes and in academia touches on such esoteric factors as the right inflation index for veterans’ health care costs; the monetary value of nearly 4,000 soldiers killed; and what role, if any, the war has had in higher oil prices.
Some economists who track the war expenses say they worry that politicians are making mistakes similar to those made in 2002, by failing to fully come to grips with the short- and long-term financial costs.
“The relevant question now is: what do we do now going forward? Because we can’t do anything about the costs that have already happened,” said Scott Wallsten, an economist and vice president of research with iGrowthGlobal, a Washington research institute. “We still don’t hear people talking about that.”
In discussions about the economy, the elephant - boy, is that an apt metaphor - in the room is the war. The national debt has soared, as has the price of oil, and the dollar has plunged. The Fed keeps throwing “liquidity” on the fire; it seems to help for a little while - at least in terms of buoying the stock market - but only for a little while. As the Fed accepts dodgey-er and dodgey-er debt as collateral, the prospect that the taxpayer is going to foot the bill becomes more and more inevitable.
Privatize the profits and socialize the losses! Read more
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