...and I believe it is, one can only hope Obama is smart enough to take advantage of the disconnect between McSame's "fear-mongering as usual" approach, and Obama's broader appeal to rationality.

Let's hope the SuperDelegates declare on June 3/4 (or whatever the date is).

Good enough?

Did Proximate Wanker make a funny?

bigot

"Charles Krauthammer makes Dr. Stranglelove look like Dr. Patch Adams."

Sounds like a bit of wheelchairist comment to me.

- Proximity Warning Friday, April 25, 2008 05:23 AM

That was a JOKE, right?

I have no idea who's on about what, BUT

DERBIG I laughed at 3 out of your 4 posts on this page! Are you on a roll, or what?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303249.html?hpid=moreheadlines

or click sig

http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/24/our-high-horse/#more-22413

or click sig, there's more

We sing many praises, Republican, Independent, Democrat alike about how we're the greatest country on earth because of our "freedom", the "last best, hope of earth" as it was said by Lincoln so long ago. We declare and praise our Constitutional due process protections. But this statistic, by itself stares us in the face and tells you all you need to know about how deeply we actually believe in the principals we so glibly espouse.

But sadly, tragically, and most of all embarrassingly, we are in no position to brag about "freedom" to anyone. We have, in many ways aggressively or passively allowed ourselves to be self-terrorized into a virtual police state. The term "police state" is not used lightly. It does describe how badly we have been manipulated by our politicians and media -- but mostly it demonstrates how blithely we all have allowed ourselves to be manipulated.

The United States comes in first, too, on a more meaningful list from the prison studies center, the one ranked in order of the incarceration rates. It has 751 people in prison or jail for every 100,000 in population. (If you count only adults, one in 100 Americans is locked up.)

The only other major industrialized nation that even comes close is Russia, with 627 prisoners for every 100,000 people. The others have much lower rates. England’s rate is 151; Germany’s is 88; and Japan’s is 63.

The median among all nations is about 125, roughly a sixth of the American rate.

Did AB just haul out the "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think" argument at the end there?

My "anti-war" programs were ratings losers so blame the audience?

http://www.theworldwidegourmet.com/?action=recette_show&id=1827&lg=en

click the sig

I had to look for a recipe.

I'm still listening, but judging from remarks AB made, I'm guessing you outlined for him the "General" thrust of the topics you wanted to cover, if not some specific questions.

Given that, I'll give him a h/t for agreeing to the interview.

Comment: I've never really noticed it before, but in this interview you really seemed rather... prosecutorial. Was there something else going on that I'm missing?

Do you know the PENALTY for bigamy?

Where's the photo of you "accidentally' spilling your drink on the person next to you?

And over here

http://humanityagainstcrimes.blogspot.com/

is a post by ondelette, on a tangentially related topic (how torture is treated by the movie/TV media)

"...sources deeemed too critical of the Government."

I believe that's, "deeeemed".

N/T

The media's monolithic cone of silence speaks volumes in and of itself.

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/jos-can-you-see-bush-s-trojan-taco or http://tinyurl.com/4yzsuf

or click sig for linky

Worth reading the whole thing.

While you Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania, the President has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of the NAFTA Three: the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico.

You’re not supposed to know that – for two reasons:

First, the summit planned for the N.O. two years back was meant to showcase the rebuilt Big Easy, a monument to can-do Bush-o-nomics. Well, it is a monument to Bush’s leadership: The city still looks like Dresden 1946, with over half the original residents living in toxic trailers or wandering lost and broke in America.

The second reason Bush has kept this major summit a virtual secret is its real agenda. More important, the agenda-makers, the guys who called the meeting, must remain as far out of camera range as possible: The North American Competitiveness Council.

Never heard of The Council? Well, maybe you’ve heard of the counselors: the chief executives of Wal-Mart, Chevron Oil, Lockheed-Martin and 27 other multinational masters of the corporate universe.

And why did the landlords of our continent order our presidents to a three-nation pajama party? Their term is “harmonization.”

Harmonization has nothing to do with singing in fifths like Simon and Garfunkel. Harmonization means making rules and regulations the same in all three countries. Or, more specifically, watering down rules – on health, safety, labor rights, oil drilling, polluting and so on - in other words, any regulations that get between The Council members and their profits.

Take for example, pesticides. Wal-Mart and agri-business don’t want to reduce the legal amount of poison allowed in what you eat. Solution: “harmonize” US and Canadian pesticide standards to Mexico’s.

Can they do that? Can Bush just say, “Eat your peas – even if they’re radioactive?” Under NAFTA, at least the way George Bush reads it (or has it read to him), he can. At any rate, he does.

The three chiefs of state will meet privately with the thirty corporate chiefs where they are also expected to legally erase more of our borders, to expand the “NAFTA highway.” Technically, the NAFTA highway is a set of legal rules governing transcontinental shipment. Some fear NAFTA highway expansion will allow a new flood of cheap Mexican products into the US and Canada. Not so. Their hunger to expand the NAFTA highway is to bring in even cheaper Chinese goods.