tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59103192011-04-21T16:28:52.476-07:00<b>Out beyond ideas of<br> wrongdoing<br> and rightdoing,<br> there is a field.<br> I will meet you there.<br> Rumi</b>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09648702231258085970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1781100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910319.post-1139515871913829622006-02-09T12:11:00.000-08:002006-02-09T12:11:11.980-08:00

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.''The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.''The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass Chapter VISame question and same answer now:A close look

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This is a very articulate essay on what is wrong and what needs to happen: Reclaiming the American Consensus Emerging from moral bankruptcy requires that we properly reframe the issues: We must not surrender flag and faith to those who would use both to support a war which honors neither. To those who would attempt to silence Americans with the call that “We must support our troops,” we must

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[Snark Alert] Merry Christmas Boy, do I feel Target's pain. They exile specific reference to Christmas in their ads and store decorations in order not to offend people who 'don't celebrate it' (except perhaps as a secular exercise in demonstrating love through stuff), and then they get slammed for offending Christians, at least the Christians whose principal exercise of faith would appear to be

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"Micah 6:8: 'What does the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.'"...I keep coming back to those values of Jesus – tolerance, forgiveness, mercy, a sense of social justice and equality. Otherwise, a mass democracy of 300 million people simply will not work... ...I’m not "uncomfortable" with the way Jesus is being tossed around – I’m angry

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It can only be days before Fox News starts referring to white phosphorus as 'freedom dust. One of the many minor irritations about the War on Terror is that its architects are having so much more success vanquishing language than they are getting the psychopathic malcontents to put down their weapons... Marina Hyde: 'The war on the literal'

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Snark or irony.. or just an observation: President Bush earlier this month ordered refresher lectures on general ethics rules, including those governing the protection -- and leaking -- of classified information. Not that there was any problem, but it's always good to keep up on these things. As for the rest of the executive branch, we thought we'd check in with the director of the U.S. Office

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This is something that can be asked about a lot of newspaper 'filler' "Lots of people are traveling today. For some reason, even though this happens every year and we all know it happens every year, this is the lead news story everywhere - Fark" Progressive Review This isn't a stunning observation, just thought it was funny.. and so it goes..

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John Murtha (D-PA) has stepped in a fire ant hill. As a backer of the Iraq war, he has now come out for withdrawal. This has the republicans really upset, since he was a hawk and one of the 'good' Democrats. [possible parallel to Johnson losing Cronkite during the Vietnam war?].As important as this declaration is, I think his other declaration is perhaps more important in the broader picture..

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We were assured that the new laws of the Patriot Act would not be abused. That the information was secure and was only going to be used for security purposes... Well looks like that isn't true...DOUG THOMPSON, CAPITOL HILL BLUE - Spurred by paranoia and aided by the USA Patriot Act, the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and

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This editorial is focused on bringing Dick Cheney up short for his advocating a CIA exemption on torture:There was always a brooding, Hobbesian Cheney just beneath the misleading openness he learned in his native Wyoming. But this week, the vice president took a turn into the deepest heart of human darkness. This week, unprecedented in history, an elected vice president of the United States of

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Delay is reaching a bit here.. In a speech to a group of conservative academics and policy experts, DeLay blamed the runaway spending of recent years on minority Democrats. When he took questions, the first came from a senior official at the American Conservative Union, who asked DeLay, "How large does the Republican majority in the House and Senate need to be before Republicans act like the

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I have a collection of 'astounding quotes' from Pppundits. Some day I will post them, but that is for another time.Hands down, the terse summary [bold face] is one of the best examples of 'clear, concise, complete' LOL [notice that I did not say accurate!]...While McInturff thinks that Bush’s approval rating actually may actually hover between 40 and 45 percent, he says that’s still problematic

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Progressive Review POCKET PARADIGM: "If the Supreme Court is going to take up the issue of the morality of euthanasia, then more than a few of its members should recuse themselves for conflict of interest - Sam Smith" Interesting point..LOL

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Just for fun, I would like to point y'all to a site that features irreverent film reviews. Every Sunday, she rips into one of the oldies or one of the newies. ALERT: lots of snark, but that's what makes it so amusing doncha know.... It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Scientist Like Hollywood filmmaking, scientific research has grown prohibitively expensive over recent years; and mad science, once a

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This is hard to believe:War and Piece:: Dutch viewer Frank Tiggelaar writes:There was a striking dicrepancy between the CNN International report on the Bush visit to the New Orleans disaster zone, yesterday, and reports of the same event by German TV.ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food distribution point Bush

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Jon Carroll: "I had read virtually none of the books Wilson wrote about. I had heard of less than half the authors. It didn't matter. His prose was so muscular and matter-of-fact, even when he was discussing matters of high art. I knew I could never write like Shakespeare or Hemingway, but it seemed possible that, with application and time, I could write like Edmund Wilson. I still read

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This gets curiouser and curiouser..Think Progress: Corrupt Establishment: "Think Progress has created a comprehensive database cataloguing the connections of 21 administration officials to the outing of an undercover CIA agent. It will be updated regularly to reflect news developments on the case and will serve as a reference for anyone looking for the most up to date information on the

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In the past, I have made reference to a blog that I find funny. It has been a while so I thought I would point to it again, lest you forget. There appears to be an emerging theme of late: "Adventures of Cubicle Dweller, and his transcendant encounters with business. THE(tm) C "No... thank YOU" Friday, June 03, 2005 Sadly, I have to admit that today I lunched at the Scottish restaurant. I

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This isn't new. It has probably been said and thought during every war since someone picked up a stick and tried to convince a group to attack another. Still, the incongruity rankles...Parent-trap snares recruiters:Staff Sgt. Jason Rivera, 26, a Marine recruiter in Pittsburgh, went to the home of a high school student who had expressed interest in joining the Marine Reserve to talk to his

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Mark A. R. Kleiman: Abramoff goes down in flames: "The thing I hate fourth-worst about the Bush regime -- after the way they're screwing up the country, dishonoring the flag, and making the world a more dangerous place -- is all the ammunition they supply the tin-hat brigade. How am I supposed to convince my students not to believe in elaborate wicked conspiracies when we've got an elaborate

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Nick Burbules gets it right. I am ..... speechless!PBD - Progressive Blog Digest Saturday, May 07, 2005False piety: distasteful in anyone, but utterly gag-inducing coming from Tom DeLay From First draft:"Just think of what we could accomplish if we checked our pride at the door, if collectively we all spent less time taking credit and more time deserving it," DeLay told the 54th annual National

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A Nationwide Pay CutEven if your employer hasn't actually cut your pay recently, when you look at the economy as a whole, it's as if all of America has taken a pay cut. That's because, for the first time in 14 years, wages aren't keeping up with inflation . The cost of living is creeping upward while employees' take-home pay stays the same. One reason for this (and, I think, a good reason for

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Much has been written on the 'Schiavo case'. A lot of it has been coarse and purile. However Jon Carroll come through with a pointed and pungent piece. He puts forth an original proposal:I do not in this column want to talk about the right to die. I do understand that it's a complicated issue.. I want to talk about political grandstanding. I know that accusing a politician of grandstanding is

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In the 'Tempest in a Teapot category: David letterman sure risks a fire storm from the PPPundits [yes, this is a mixed metaphor! Tough it out..]:Condoleezza Rice has warned Iran to stop its nuclear program. They say stop the nuclear program or face the next step. ... And the next step being fabrication of evidence and then we march right in. --David Letterman And while we are at and on the

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Clear, concise, complete: The Big LieYou should recognize the pattern by now. President George Bush does not discuss any subject; he launches propaganda campaigns. Thus, he starts his campaign to cripple Social Security with the Big Lie that it will be bankrupt by the time 20-year-olds will be retiring.This is not true, though as with all propaganda campaigns, the Big Lie will be repeated over

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This is priceless..Poll: Nation Split on Bush as Uniter or DividerCNN PollThanks for the reference: Progressive Blog Digest

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More interesting and unrelated quotes for the file: Gene Lyons 19 January 2004 "A foolish consistency," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is the hobgoblin of little minds." An otherwise unreadable 19th century essayist who has driven more students out of American lit courses than James Fenimore Cooper and Alice Walker combined, Emerson became the patron saint of opinion columnists everywhere with that

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Someone over at Columbia University has done a very good job of pulling information about Tsunamis in general and specifically the current one. Not for the attentive impaired. Thanks to y'allInformation relating to the submarine earthquake inbetween Aceh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka of the 26th of December, 2004 has been compiled here. This compilation archives much of the readily available

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It's rare that I get to note some good news.. a bit funny too if you think about being in a situation where you have to negotiate with an animal that weighs a ton or so and has a prehensile nose.. Thai herd redefines term 'rogue elephants' By Sutin Wannabovorn December 26, 2004 KHAO-ANG RUE-NI, Thailand – These pachyderms aren't just going after peanuts. Elephants in a wildlife sanctuary in

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Now the he has his 'man date', I guess he thinks he can rip off any ole thing that comes to his mind. These may seem like innocent remarks, however other folks take his remarks as guidance and policy. Sorry, but that is the price of leadership..keep your snarky humor for private sessionsLook, you can be smart, and snide – or you can be stupid, and humble. Neither is very good. But the worst of

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History is one of my hobbies. Usually it makes for interesting comarisons in the present. Sometimes it makes for dismal comparisons of the present. What stuns me is that no one seems to find this General's attitude remarkable, that is something to be remarked upon.. not a peep, except in an independent writers attempt to compare Bush with Don Quixote. ...No one even blinked when Fox News

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No doubt, this was an 'awkward moment for the both of them, but what is striking is the transparent attempt at civility..actually really really strained would be a better term. No grace, 'not a mindful' gentleman. Odd Behavior [aka churlish and rude].. insecurities showing?:At the dedication of the Clinton library last week in Little Rock, Karl Rove and President Bush received separate tours of

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No appeasement here..the radicals as bullies and abusers.Hear the cacophony of voices, crying out, "Why did they beat me?" And then ask anyone who has ever worked in a domestic violence shelter if they have heard this before... The answer is quite simple. They beat us because they are abusers [because they can rings true]. We can call it hate. We can call it fear. We can say it is unfair. But

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[satire] At the moment, though, one side of the great divide is being called upon for something closer to abjection than mere reconciliation. So, yes, okay, fine. I'm a terrible person -- barely a person at all, really, and certainly not a real American -- because I voted for the losing candidate on Tuesday. If you insist -- and you do -- I will rethink my fundamental beliefs from scratch

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Entry #324 Well, that sucked. Biomes Kerry concedes F==k. F==kity f==k f==k f==k. Sorry--that's all I've really got for you right now. Tom Tomorrow Sorry, George. No honeymoon. No mandate. No surrender. Peter Lee Cranky Guru

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Oh leaves, Ask the wind which of you Will be the first to fall. Soseki (1867-1916) Daily Zen Meditation Does a blade of grass care which cow eats it? Sun Yet Sin

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A 'jaw drop' moment: I didn't know this...not that it will effect anyone's belief system. This data will be great for disrupting political discussions..Just drop it in and flee.[y'all think those 'chats' will be less after today, NBL. Regardless of the outcome, hold on to the bar thrill seekers..but I digress]. This article gives the numbers. I know that most of you go into delta wave

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Although the position of President is important, the folks that are behind the scenes should be the real concern [estimated at about 1500]. These are the people to watch. Regardless of who is President, they do the real work. It is rare to have them be so candid in public forums. Guess he didn't think he would rise this high... Eight months before the White House appointed him the Homeland

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If you want a humor break from the barrage of PPPundit prose, go on over to Busy Busy Busy. He has a real knack for shortening the message. Some example from today:Shorter Nicholas D. Kristof: Pants on Fire? Mr. Bush deploys falsehood to convey truths that transcend conventional reality, which is completely different from lying. Shorter David Brooks: Thus Ate Zarathustra And then there's

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What makes Hannity's performances all the more hilarious is the fact that the Fox host does not appear to have the faintest inkling of how much his "interviews" look like a local television station's "remote" broadcast from the grand opening of a new car wash. When the session was finished, an excited Hannity greeted the Democratic guest on his "fair and balanced" program, U.S. Sen. Mary

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Oh sharper than a serpent's tooth..Froggy-bashing and the French flu vaccine The Anglosphere -- in the form of an American company with an English factory -- having let us down, our sole source of flu vaccine this year is a French firm, Adventis Pasteur. Will those who patriotically insisted on boycotting French wines now extend that boycott to cheese-eating surrender money vaccine? Dulce et

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Post-war planning non-existent Prior to this little war ,I guessed this to be true. Partial confirmation has come from watching the results and actions over the last 6 months. Here we have absolute confirmation: In March 2003, days before the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, American war planners and intelligence officials met at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina to review the Bush

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Not sure why, but the NYT Magazine has a series of articles with food as the theme. Here are some of the quotes I found interesting and amusing: The Taste of Right Here By MATT LEE and TED LEE Every corner of America has its own perfect dish. If you drive across America via Interstate, you might conclude that the nation's palate has become smooth, homogeneous and accentless, one giant,

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At least someone has their priorities straight:The state Republican Party asked prosecutors in four counties to file charges against Moore for offering underwear and food to college students in exchange for a promise to vote. State law prohibits a person from contracting with another for something of value in exchange for agreeing to vote.... The harshest reaction came from the two Republican

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I have been wondering why no one had pointed this out sooner. I am really tired of the FF meme..Thank you Juan Cole! The simple question nobody is asking: what’s so bloody wrong about changing your mind? (When did this become “flip-flopping,” and is it really better to brag about NOT changing your mind when things go wrong?) PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

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Sometimes a picture captures it all: Statue of Liberty by artist T. Royal

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Excellent series of reports on Health Insurance issue. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation:Employer-sponsored health insurance costs have risen by more than 11% this year. Family health insurance premiums have risen by 59% since 2001, as there have been double-digit increases in health insurance costs every year during that span. At least 5 million fewer jobs offer health insurance in

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Pictures vs. words: States in red represent those where job growth has not been sufficient to match the Bush administration's projections JobWatch: State data and organizations

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This is the Organizational Development view [and the correct one of course]:This is the Tommy Corcoran column. Tommy the Cork, so dubbed by FDR, was a Washington wise man. His various biographers called him the ultimate insider, the super lawyer and the master fixer. He came to Washington in 1926 to clerk for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and became a fixture, an almost institutional source of

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On a lighter note.. I was having my morning coffee, and decided to take a short online quiz. Guess what Sci Fi character I am.. no suprise here to those in the know lol: Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You? Thanks Biomes [a great little Blog.. marine animals and stuff]

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Back in the fray again:New Rule: You can't run on a mistake. Franklin Roosevelt didn't run for re-election claiming Pearl Harbor was his finest hour. Abe Lincoln was a great president, but the high point of his second term wasn't theater security. 9/11 wasn't a triumph of the human spirit. It was a fuck-up by a guy on vacation. Now, don't get me wrong, Mr. President. I'm not blaming you for 9/

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Pithy pithy..this president sees America as we think about a 10-year-old child 10-year-old child in need of the sort of protection provided by a parent. [a 'critical parent' doncha know] Andrew Card How long can we pretend that the spit in our faces is rain? Gideon Levy in "Ha'aretz" It does not require many words to say the truth. Chief Joseph The Smirking Chimp

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A 'come to Jesus meeting' with class:To Sen. Zell Miller: You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats elected you as mayor [of Young Harris] and as state senator. Loyal Democrats, including members of my family and me, elected you as state senator, lieutenant governor and governor. It was a loyal Democrat, Lester Maddox, who assigned you to high positions in the state government when you

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WOC might run for Pres. 2008.. her acceptance speech is already written.Bush Gives Acceptance Speech; Local Woman Watches, Because Nothing Else On I watched the Bush acceptance speech. While I briefly fell asleep, I don't think this necessarily means it was boring. However, it was pretty boring. So, as a public service, here's a condensed version. [You can check it against the text posted

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I really respect Mark Kleinmans comments. Generally he is a reasoned, calm commentator. But sometimes even reasonable folks can lose their cool when discourse [coarse?] become purile. This 'swift boat' smear is disgusting. The collusion to produce and amplify the message is equally disgusting. Fire alarm in Bob Dole's pants Bob Dole on the Swift Boat Yada Yada: "Not every one of these

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A bit of sharp 'diplomatic' language:North Korea labels Bush an 'imbecile,' among other insults.. SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea called President Bush an "imbecile" and "a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade" yesterday, unleashing a stream of insults that seemed to rule out any serious progress on nuclear disarmament talks before the presidential election. In yesterday's tirade, North

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Go take this quiz to see how the new regulations will effect your take home pay. Could You Lose Your Overtime Pay

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Molly Ivins has been reading her history;To think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just another attempt to disguise one's unmanly character; ability to understand the question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action; fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man... Anyone who held violent opinions could

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Pesky thing, words. Playing with sharp implements doncha know. This campaign is a goldmine of examples for NLP practioners....Cheney went on rightwing talk radio to mock Kerry for backing a more "sensitive" war on terror. Laughing, he said, "It strikes me the two words don't really go together, sensitive and war. If you look at our history, I don't think any of the wars we've won were won by us

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I was really angry when I heard L Bush and her little 'anti-infomercial' on stem cell research. From a technical view, her grasp of the basis of scientific research is appallingly incorrect. It was really an 'anti science paradigm'. I was not suprized, this administration has a pattern of denigrating and corrupting science to put forth their policy agendas. What did suprize me was her tone.

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This really bugs me too. STU PED™ It feels good™. Monday, August 09, 2004 On my drive to work today, I saw an ad on the back of a bus. It was for "JugoJuice", a chain of juice bars, and it showed a woman with a delicious-looking cup of orange juice with the caption in giant bold print: "It feels good.™". Although I'm sure that the cup of juice does feel good (unless you've misunderstood how

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A good rule for the road: Someone asked me if I was afraid of physical attacks because I write a controversial column, and I said, "No, because I'm careful not to insult nonverbal people."Let's face it: Journalists are not popular. The last time I saw one of those lists of how the public rates people, journalists were down in the basement with undertakers and used-car salesmen. If you're a

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Your history lesson for the day:They stab each other in the belly and the back. Any defamation is treated as legitimate. Every blow is good, as long as it staggers the enemy. He who invents an effective slander proudly struts … . A good faith observer has no idea how to analyze a battle in which everyone considers it legitimate to campaign in bad faith. .. The evil was very grave: the

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I will not comment..Unhappy Workers Should Take Prozac --Bush Campaigner Thu Jul 29, 1:50 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A campaign worker for President Bush (news - web sites) said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones -- or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better. "Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?" said Susan

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Lots of commentary on Barack Obama's speech at the convention. Since the TV folks deigned to broadcast it, I located a complete text' [but first a break for commentary] Jeff Fleischer July 28 , 2004 Barack Obama MotherJones News The American public – or at least those with cable who chose to tune in – got a glimpse Tuesday night of why Barack Obama has come so far so fast in Illinois politics.

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Conventions are usually carnivals.. however it is the news type that provide the humor [pathos really]. Read this summary of the coverage. The article ends with this:I'm heading to C-Span land.Where smart people are allowed to speak without interruption.Whoah, Nellie! The No-Clown Zone.ROTFL (Don't) Send in the clowns'

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San Diego is usually associated with vacations, biotech and perfect weather, but for us locals, it is the Navy ships. The first thing I look for when I get to the bay, are the carriers. I was raised here and still get excited about the arrival of a ship..Yesterday was exceptional: USS Reagan Comes Home San Diego often throws a party when the crew of one of the region's three carriers returns

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The word for the day is: disingenuous..Ms Ronstadt was hustled off stage and out of the building and told she would not be welcome back, now or ever again. She was not even allowed to return to her hotel room to pack. Hotel employees checked out for her instead. "We needed her off the property," hotel spokeswoman Tyri Squyres told local reporters. "She wanted to incite the audience, and she

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As a friend of mine used to say "..tedious and tawdry":...In his Marquette speech, Bush ignored the Sodom of San Francisco and focused instead on the Gomorrah of Hollywood, some of whose prominent performers — particularly comic Whoopee Goldberg — had used ribald humor at a Kerry-Edwards fundraiser. "The other day my opponent said, when he was with some entertainers from Hollywood, that they

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Just in case you're trying to decide whether you should attend the Democratic National Convention (website: boston04.com) or the World Science Fiction Convention (website: boston2004.com), the WorldCon folks have created a handy comparison chart.We're not $10 million over budget. We don't even have a $10 million budget Our promises for the future are supposed to be fiction You don't have to

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LOL...Chris matthews outtalks molly ivins 144 words to 14 on subject of men talking too much: MATTHEWS: Molly, let me ask you about gender, because I love to get these fights going, because it reaches home when I make these comments. Men-and I've known this-I've been trying to stop-tend to shout when they're on television or at public events. And they get away with it. IVINS: Chris, no.

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Time out for more humor-lite:INTERNET WARNING Send this warning to everyone on your e-mail list! If someone comes to your front door saying they are conducting a survey on deer ticks and asks you to take your clothes off, do not do it! IT IS A SCAM; they only want to see you naked. I wish I'd gotten this yesterday. I feel so stupid and cheap now... Busy Busy Busy.. and so it goes..

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It has been in the ninetys here in the sleepy back country of San Diego... Campaign humor is warming up too...Billionaires to Defy the DNC John Kerry is a class-traitor who wants nothing more than to scrap the incredible progress our nation has made over the last four years and return America to the grubby hands of the unwashed middle-class masses. It is our sacred duty as guardians of

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It is called by the sociologists 'Social Reciprocity'. When it is lacking, the going gets tough.You've probably heard by now that the vice president, Dick Cheney, used the "F-word" in the Senate, addressed to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy. Cheney has refused to apologize and, on the contrary, said on national television that it made him feel much better to tell Leahy to go F-himself. Call me

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"Any girl can be glamorous," Hedy Lamarr once said. "All she has to do is stand still and look stupid." The film star belied her own apothegm by hiding a brilliant, inventive mind beneath her photogenic exterior. In 1942, at the height of her Hollywood career, she patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was two decades ahead of its time. Female Inventors: Hedy Lamarr

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I usually don't propogate email 'wismotics', but this is too good to not pass it on:REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE CONVENTION SCHEDULE New York, NY 6:00 PM Opening Prayer led by the Reverend Jerry Falwell 6:30 PM Pledge of Allegiance 6:35 PM Burning of Bill of Rights (excluding 2nd Amendment) 6:45 PM Salute to the Coalition of the Willing 6:46 PM Seminar #1: "Getting Your Kid a Military Deferment

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It hasn't taken long for the rhetoric to heat up... I hope our San Diego pattern isn't an indicator of things to come [our hottest month is September!]. Has the administration 'jumped the shark?'.. The establishment turns on Bush Jack Lessenberry, Detroit Metro Times Bush is a barely legitimate president, if that. Not long ago, one of my students came to me, perfectly baffled. "How can anyone

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If these reports are true, we may need to get worried. I have seen these reactions from upper management in companies when a plan is failing. The project's problems are heightened by a leadership that folds in on itself... a case of 'personal melt down' [a nuclear implosion if you will]. For the employees, there are few options, duck and cover, or bail out.Gary Leupp: 'On obscenities and

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Just thought a reminder would help celebrate 'Freedom Day'.The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. [1834] Henry Clay Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the

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Regular readers know of my fondness for Molly Ivins. I like the 'Texas' in her writing. Of late, she has been a little tame and 'cityfied'. This article is a real plain speaking, put it out there, don't take no stuff rant. In short, an authentic Texas 'come to Jesus meeting'. Best quote: Drag God into politics, and you'll ruin His reputation in no time. Excerpts:...When it comes to

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I won't do this often, but I thought I would give you a sample of the kind of thinking and writing spewing forth from the loyal opposition.. I apologize but the devil made me do it [at least that is how they see it]"Treason", Ann Coulter puts it clearly: "Conservatives believe man was created in God's image, while liberals believe they are gods. All of the behavioral tics of the liberals

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How did your mother feel about being ushered to her seat by President Bush? Well, he did a better job than Dick Cheney did when he came to the rotunda. I felt so bad. Cheney brought my mother up to the casket, so she could pay her respects. She is in her 80's, and she has glaucoma and has trouble seeing. There were steps, and he left her there. He just stood there, letting her flounder. I don't

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"People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' Politics is the business of being governed and nobody can escape being governed, for better or worse. ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in

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As quotes go, this is pretty good. Compare this with the ones from the last post.JOHN KERRY - Our tax code has gone from 14 pages to 17,000 pages. Do any of you have your own page? Enron got its own a page. . . . And it looks like Halliburton got a whole chapter. UNDERNEWS

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Those wacky politicians. There are 5 meta messages here, 10 extra points if you identify the speaker correctly. 20 extra points for additional quotes [0 points awarded if the examples are from GWB..too easy]"Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears." --British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher "He has the ability to make statements that are so far outside the parameters of logic that they

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This is late but still timely. Best quote:While few wars are just wars, all are profitable — though, of course, not to the lads and lassies who fight and die in them. They are profitable to the military-industrial complex. ... ...If there were any sense of decency in the corporate world — which is to say, if frogs could sing opera — the corporations would all cut checks to the families of those

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Satire or snark, you decide:Limbaugh, third wife getting divorce So, Rush broke up Marta's marriage. No wonder Ronald Reagan called Rush "The number one voice for conservatism." ...The two were wed May 27, 1994, at the Virginia home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who officiated. Attendees included former Education Secretary William Bennett, another family values advocate who

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These kids say the darndest things."When I went to the White House to meet the president, I was introduced to the secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton. I said, 'I really like what you've done with the place.' I had no idea she was a member of the Cabinet, not an interior designer!" – Jessica Simpson makes her civics teachers proud in Teen People magazine. Public Eye

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Wow.. Should have done this research much much earlier [envy]..[/envy]A German sociologist Werner Habermehl says regular sex can help university students pass exams and get better grades. Habermehl from the University of Hamburg said he and his team had tested students before and after sex. They found that regular sexual activity significantly increased mental capability, but they found

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James K. Galbraith: Amusing Reagan's economists could be; coherent they were not. Supply-side economics held that the rich would work harder if they were taxed less, while the poor would work harder if they were taxed more. Salon.com | The rich got richer

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The news is full of irony these days. Pundits of the left are waxing eloquent:..Having said all that, beside the possibility that the White House's favored Iraqi exile was an Iranian agent, that the spy chief just got canned, that the OSD is wired to polygraphs, and that the president has had to retain outside counsel in the investigation into which members of his staff burned one of the

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I was reading this article, and along came a quote that summed up the whole DC picture about the 'payoff's play' that started way back in October. The lead in was this understatement: Not being a Washington reporter myself, I can only read the tea leaves from afar. There appears to be a significant split between the military and both the Bushies in the Pentagon and in the White House. This

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I am always being suprized by the creativity of bloggers. Here we have the blending of art and protest: There are a bunch more by Bart Cop.. An ad firm couldn't have done better. BTW the issue is electronic voting. Diebold makes the machines [one of the companies]. There has been lots of discussion about their security and software. Go google "black box".. PS. They also make a lot of

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Polititians like to reduce problems and solutions to the most simple of catch phrases. We the people appear to be too Stu Ped to understand the complexities of the real world. The latest example of this PooP, is the term 'stay the course'.. I think Kerry penetrates the fog on this one:J Kerry: Speech May 28, 2004 ..Over the last year, we've heard from the president that our policy should be

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We knew this remark was coming: President Bush is going to establish elections there in Iraq. He's going to rebuild the infrastructure. He's going to create jobs. He said if it works there, he'll try it here. — David Letterman Progressive Review

Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09648702231258085970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910319.post-1085592793863570692004-05-26T10:33:00.000-07:002004-05-26T10:35:46.500-07:00

This twit applies a cost benefit analysis to our schools. It reminds me of Swift's 'Modest Proposal'. Educational triage would acknowledge that there are black youngsters who cannot benefit academically no matter how many educational resources are spent on them. They have little or no family support. Their very presence in school, through disruptive and criminal behavior, makes education

Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09648702231258085970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910319.post-1085500966666968612004-05-25T09:02:00.000-07:002004-05-25T09:02:46.666-07:00

I was asked whether I had listened to the speech on the new, new plan for resolution of the war. My response was NBL. Repeated communication with no change in data is a form of hypnotism. There is a pattern to communications from our leader. It parallels his official policy on toxic waste. Matt Yglesias has a short description:..I'm consistently shocked by the ability of conservative

Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09648702231258085970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910319.post-1085333316972716982004-05-23T10:28:00.000-07:002004-05-23T10:28:36.973-07:00

In October, I outlined an idea that the gang would be taken down from the inside for having treated the civil service folks with contempt, and in the case of the Wilson revelation and the war, have exposed some of them to extreem danger. Essentially, a violation of the unwritten rules in DC. There have been incidents that I felt indicated that what we had was payback 'by a thousand cuts". Now

Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09648702231258085970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910319.post-1085159874592227882004-05-21T10:17:00.000-07:002004-05-21T10:17:54.593-07:00

The prose here has a little more of the hot sauce.. It is long, but suggest you go and read the whole article.. [from 'up the road a piece', Orange County!] "A lot of so-called conservatives today don't know what the word means," Barry Goldwater said in 1994, when the current cult of right-wing radicals and "neocons" had begun to define and assert themselves. Goldwater was my first political hero

Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09648702231258085970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910319.post-1085157766757025622004-05-21T09:42:00.000-07:002004-05-25T10:31:38.366-07:00

I wish I could say that "I never thought that conservatives would turn off on 'W'", but that wouldn't be accurate. I assumed that they would, but not so soon and not so 'out in public'. Charlie Reese is one pundit that stays 'reasonable', in his comments, that is why I post him today:By Charley Reese, King Features Americans should realize that if they vote for President Bush's re-election,

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