Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Good to Hear This Voice Again
Good Stuff from Steven Den Beste
It’s easy to let yourself go in despair and start thinking things like “We are well-and-truly fucked” or “This is the worst of all possible outcomes”. But it isn’t true.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Porch Consolation and Regroup Thread
Meunkees ‘n’ Hammahs
Since the Front Porch is out of commission, here’s the Side Porch.
My thoughts on this ...suauspicious night:
Do not grieve, PMs—we have just been shown what is our work to
come. Let’s tighten our resolve, re-ground in our Values and roll up
our sleeves.
Cuz all those who thot The Big O is gonna fix all their ills are,
real shortly, gonna be PISSED.
[heh...]
Let’s come together and get crackin’!
Monday, November 03, 2008
Fawlty Mammaries
cue way-back
Wasn’t there some kerfluffle years gone by wherein some nooz outfit called some election for one guy in the East and folks quit voting in the West and some other guy won? ...or something?
And wasn’t that when we started to not report vote counts until the last poll closed in Hawaii?
Are we still doin’ that?
Or was that some Cosmo-and-puppy-chow induced dream?
Oy...
hysterical [and not in that ha ha sense]
Tough Day
OR *clicky*clicky*
Sunday, November 02, 2008
What a Difference A Year Makes...
almost like nooz
LAT [September 08, 2007 in print edition A-1
Fresh face or old-school player?
He managed to burnish a reformer’s reputation while swimming in the muddy waters of special-interest- infested state politics.
He worked on a nice-guy image while practicing the hardball and brawling tactics of Chicago-style politics.
...Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has to contend with his own history.
... his past is filled with decidedly old-school political tactics – a history of befriending powerful local elders, assisting benefactors and special interests, and neutralizing rivals.
Obama may be packaged as something new among presidential contenders, but in this town where politics is played like a blood sport he fit right in.
Including the tales of Alice Palmer, Antoin Rezko, Al Johnson, Emil Jones Jr., Alfred Ronan, Yesse B. Yehudah,
Cynthia K. Miller, who ran his district office, recalls an incident shortly after Obama’s election. [to state senator] She had taken a longer-than-normal lunch break and returned to find an impatient state senator waiting for her.
He didn’t raise his voice, she said, but he turned stern as he explained the importance of time management and the need to focus on goals. Then he shared his own goal: “I plan to be president.”
“When he said it, he wasn’t just whistling Dixie. I believed,” Miller said. ...
Uhm… what tapes?
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Plus ca change...
Interesting, the similarities...
OR *clicky*clicky*
"Liberal" - Moron County Style
not the good, selfish clinger kind ‘o moron, neither
Redwood High School student Cyrus Massoumi said he plans to continue publishing his online conservative newspaper, even after receiving a five-day suspension from the school district.
...He admits there are articles in The Deadwood Barf - a parody of the school newspaper The Redwood Bark - that many people might find offensive. But the Larkspur teen believes school administrators went too far in their response, sending a security guard to remove him from class and asking him to undergo a psychological evaluation.
“They asked me to sign a ‘no violence’ contract, saying that if I refused they would call the police and have me declared a physical threat,” Massoumi said. “It’s ridiculous.”
...Both Massoumi and his newspaper - which can be downloaded from ...[this] Web site - take issue with the political climate of both Redwood High School and Marin County, which he describes as “only open-minded enough to accept liberal views.”
“In the act of trying to refine our fine town, we have become that which we so greatly wanted to avoid - a mass of ignorant people,” Massoumi wrote in his newspaper. “This is not a school of diversity so much as a school where we have someone of every type of liberalism."
I can’t manage to read the paper - weird format. I understand he thinks Israel is bad and anti-Zionism is cool, so he had rather a bit to learn about being conservative. ...given half a chance. Maybe, being a teen, his contrarianism will kick in now that he’s had his hand slapped. And he’ll learn to spell…
Cyrus Massoumi - scapegoate
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