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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Maybe it's my obliviousness but I've never noticed men noodling about the supposed war between the sexes (James Thurber aside). These talented women could get a lot more done if they dropped the whole subject.
There's no reason to doubt Larry's sincerity, but I doubt this comedy show will help. It's not a fund-raiser, it's a consciousness-to-action raiser, and why would a good show do that? Sure, on paper you can make the case, but I don't picture it making anything actually happen. If you read the blogs carefully on the result of recent rocks shows against globalization or whatever they were for or against, you'll learn that mostly nothing intended was accomplished. Do some research.
This is a fine analysis of reality, but misses the point, which is how this messes up the prosecutor's chances of winning Libby's jury trial. Jury trials can be won on confusion, and this is a wonderful gift for the defense. Harping on minutiae such as Fitzgerald's use of the word "known" as a qualifier (who was first to leak to reporter) aren't going to mean much to a jury. Woodward twist is not a guarantee for Libby, of course, of acquittal, but it sure helps him, provided the jury does not consist of 12 reporter/bloggers.
Sure, Sid Blumenthal knows his onions and can weave a nice factual polemic, but what here couldn't be said about most men who've clawed it to the top? It's funny to see Kissinger portrayed as some kind of good guy out flanked by a dirty fighter. I'll be Blumy himself has written someone about what a dark, conspiratorial lizard ol' Henry is. And Clinton: he became president because he was an excellent graduate student in Poly Sci?
Give me a break! You don't like Cheney's policies, that should be your sole topic. Spare me the argument that Machiavellianism is rare and evil in American (or French, Italian, etc.) politics. Sometimes I really do think liberals are naive: look at them mocking the prosecution of Padilla, as if he's Rosa Parks or something.
I never miss a chance to point out how egregious it was for Stone to make a hero out of New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, who at the time of the events was known as a cynical snake-oil salesman, a mountebank, untrustworthy, pathologically ambitious and an over-all slime. Yet probably most people under 40 (or is it under 50) have derived all of their "knowledge" of the assassation from Stone's movie, undeniably entertaining (but so is the original "War of the Worlds").
Blumie wrote laudatory articles about Pres. Clinton for the New Yorker...everybody knew he was on Clinton's team, and went directly to a job at the White House. Match me, Sidney.
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What is a good strategy for getting these tracks (plus the others suggested in the posts)? Are there super anthologies? Is this hopeless? Definitely don't want to but ITunes, don't know how to do it, don't have a nanopod or whatever the heck they call it, just have a DVD player (so 20th century).
Anticipatory thanks to all responders, and a politically correct "Happy Holidays" by way of season's greetings.
Oh please, you prisses. Does the US representative at that house of horrors have to explain, defend, justify things to every janitor wandering through the building? Give me a break. Had he answered in substance you'd say he was lying. Had he answered with a dodge you'd say he was....dodging. He job is to represent US interests, not be a kick dummy for the international hypocritical community. I say good for Bolton -- do you think he can make the UN worse than it is?
This is hysterical....the author blaming blacks for crying "racist" every time someone tried to fire a shirker or otherwise reform local government. Why leave out that the phoney cry of "racism" succeeded because stupid white libs encouraged and applauded same? Doesn't anyone around here have any historical memory? Phoney defenses of racism would never have succeeded without the idiots who claimed they were trying to help the blacks.
OK, maybe they bent some rules to try to prevent further 9/11s. What are you moaning about -- they heard you talking to your girlfriend? Was any thing done with this "illegal" information that led to any thing you don't like, or is it just that you don't like Bush? Do you think if the Dems get in this eavesdropping will stop? It did under Clinton (Gorelik's infamouse non-required "Wall" between surveillance and investigation), and 9/11 was our reward (yeah, I know, all Bush had to do was press a button to stop it). You people are alive today, for all you know, because of US spying, and then you complain. Drop next bomb on you.
"But Bush has built a secret system, without enabling legislation,...."
Right, Sidney, but also the National Security Agency was not created by "enabling legislation" either -- Harry Truman created it by executive order (1952)-- there is no statutory charter for the NSA. Blumie, if only you knew what you were talking about when you bash Bush, how much more effective you'd be.
I didn't see anything about rape, certainly something feminism changed in the criminal justice system. What a shitty interviewer.
Nobody can predict how the Supreme Court would rule in this case (esp. with Stevens, 86 this April, replaced by Pres. Bush), but one thing is reasonably certain: lower courts decisions in favor of the ACLU would not stop the program. Stays of injunctions pending the Government appeal to the Supreme Court would be granted. So we're looking at possibly two years (or longer?) before the Sup Ct rules. By then, maybe the Dems will be ready to take over Jan. 2009. What do you think they'll do -- shut down intelligence gathering, illegal or not? Surely you jest.
Great point about "unitary executive" not appearing in the constitution. Now I'm going to look for "abortion".
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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