Monday, August 03, 2009
ToDaZeD ∅Change
*eye roll*
OR *clicky*clicky*
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Teh Not-Shiny Object
RoP
Six Christians were burned alive in Pakistan yesterday when hundreds of Muslims attacked and looted their homes, sparked by rumours that pages from the Qur’an had been desecrated.
The dead, including four women and a child, were killed when Christian homes were torched by hundreds of supporters of a banned Muslim organisation in the Punjabi village of Gojra, in eastern Pakistan.
...Television footage from the area showed houses burning and streets strewn with debris and blackened furniture as mobs ran at each other. There were reports in the local media of exchanges of gunfire between Christian and Muslim communities and that rioters had blocked a railway line.
Sounds less like a “riot” than a “war” to me. But whadda *I* know?
Cram it
in order to go to a townhall meeting, call you “over-emotional” and “unruly” and then leave in a small blue huff
Tell me that’s not the strategy. G’head. Tell me.
...Democratic caucus...these Congress persons ... had to sit there and listen. They had to sit in these little folding chairs in the House basement, and listen to their staff members tell them what exactly is in this health-care reform bill, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. And they had to figure out what is it that we’re [“we" ?!?]going to vote on here.
... they couldn’t even ask questions for two-and-a-half hours. They had to just listen. And they could write their questions down on a piece of paper and then later they went through all the questions one by one.
...vocabulary cheat sheets ...actuarial equivalent, ... adverse selection,... capitation, ...the F map ...
“F map” for the F Troop.
...all off the record.
With no [R]’s… hm…
The one thing that jumped out at me [Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post] is just how proud they were that they sat there and listened to their staff for so long...
*face palm*
More from the Brew-HaHa
oh. me. ow.
Elizabeth Gates, Skippy Gates’ daughter ["a graduate of The New School University, where she cultivated her love for fashion and writing"], shares her insights from the Brew-haha.
As our family rounded the corner to the White House library and I first caught sight of Sgt. Crowley’s lovely daughter; she was wearing an appropriately heavy and charmingly untrained amount of green eyeliner on her lower lashes, and I saw my former self in her.
Ok, guys, this is Guurl Speak. Defused with “lovely” she goes straight to the “appropriately heavy” eyeliner ["appropriate for trash"] which was worn in a “charmingly untrained amount” ["amateur trash” “but I’m so sweet and generous and superior that I find stupid, ‘tarded and amateur child whores to be charming"]. I won’t even go into “eyeliner… on her lower lashes.”
It’s the kind of statement many women know someone oughta be punched out for—or at least cut dead on the spot - but find it difficult to get a toe-hold on cuz the words seem so “complimentary.” Old tactic. Old because it works.
This is a straight-up class attack, Liza spends her summahs on Mahthah’s Vineyard, donchanooo, where Daddy rides his tricycle ‘round to see the neighbors. I doubt Sgt. Crowley’s kids do. Gotta giver this; it’s tough to carry off condescension from the tender age of 20-something.
Leaving this snippy quip aside, Liza has more to say.
... like most issues that make their way to TMZ, the reference point had shifted...
Well, I’ll give ya that, child…
She reports what her father [Skippy Gates] had to say.
I asked my father what the President had said during their chat and as he slipped off his shoes and reclined his chair [1st Class seats?], he said: “The president and the vice president are great men, Liza. They did the right thing to invite us there to talk, but it’s up to us now to extend this conversation. We have plans to meet in private and discuss things. You know, Crowley’s not a bad guy. He’s not a Joe the Plumber who wants to represent the Right. He would be horrified to be considered a racist.”
Little Liza sure has a way of packing a sentence full, doesn’t she? As soon as she gets over her fascination with ingenue references to cars “swooping” and “snaking” her way through airports, she might grow into a pretty good writer. *cough*
Here’s her cliché-spangled finale:
Discrimination is the single greatest wound in American history and could never be solved over a beer. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. There are more black men in prison than in college and literally thousands of black men are arrested across this country each day. And while I might agree with the president’s initial statement that the “Cambridge Police Department acted stupidly,” my father is not the first nor will he be the last black man to be arrested for no reason—in his own home or elsewhere—and Sergeant Crowley isn’t the first officer to fudge a police report [link in the original]. They are simply pawns in the rebirth of unfashionable intolerance in a world that likes to think our dashing brown-skinned 44th president has emerged to make nice with the past, present, and future. It’s an impossible task for the president and speaks more to our nation’s vulnerable value system than the unfortunately common situation my father and the Cambridge police found themselves embroiled in. As my father said on the plane yesterday morning on our way to the White House, “there are approximately 800,000 black men in prison and on July 16, 2009, I simply became one of them.”
oh *eye roll*
I’m really not sure—after multiple re-readings—what her point was, there [and things are really so much more interesting when they have one, don’t you think?] She managed to toss around a bushel of talking points, excuses and victimhood enough for all, so I guess it’s alright, then.
Does Ambiguity Poll Well
or what....
Most American’s aren’t Birthers or anti-Birthers, but we are beginning to wonder why the president doesn’t put this one to rest once and for all. Every day he allows this circus to continue is another day that he behaves less like the President of the United States facing weird accusations from fringe groups and more like a strange politician flying to Argentina to visit his soul-mate while pretending to be hiking the Appalachians.
...The state official in Hawaii who manages such things has reiterated that there is indeed an original birth certificate on file which would confirm President Obama’s having been born in Hawaii and that she has seen it, but state law won’t allow her to release it unless the president authorizes it.
I remember reading somewhere that the original had been “lost in a fire,” or it had been dumped when HI went to electronic record keeping—both ridiculous. Also ridiculous: “Father’s Race: African"." In 1961?? uh, no. The term at that time was “Negro.”
I mean srsly.... The question is not so much “where was he born,” [though that is of interest] but “whyinhell is he jerkin’ folks around leaving this flaming issue to erode his credibility?”
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