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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
LaurieNY
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If I were male, or otherwise able to legally avail myself of the ability to marry whomever I chose, I'd steal this incredible woman from you, Gene. And I'm not even gay.
A woman who "gets" the supreme magnificence that is Greg Maddux, and tells Barbara Bush's televised countenance to shut up. Doesn't get a whole better than that.
Nothing against people with kids, but why can't I demand the same thing? Why can't I cut the channels I find offensive? The hunting/fishing channels. The evangelical nutbag channels. Fox News. The YES Network.
Offensive is in the eye of the beholder. And those of us without children also have legitimate preferences and tastes. Why are we not similarly catered to?
For five years now I've listened to a steady stream of right-wing racist crap about how all Arabs/Muslims are potential terrorists, we should keep them all out of our country, they're subhuman, they're all out to get us, etc. etc. It's been the LEFT fighting against this kind of ethnic profiling that has seen countless Arabs and Arab-Americans and anyone who even LOOKS like they might be an Arab get detained, assaulted or killed. All that unforgivable evil is on the conscience of the right, for helping to fuel the hatred.
Now suddenly WE'RE the bigots for questioning this deal? You know what, you moronic, corrupt, pseudo-cowboy puppet? I'm not so much questioning the deal as the MOTIVES behind this abrupt about-face... not to mention the careful avoidance of the customary due diligence. It's just a little odd to me that the two countries who boasted 17 of the 19 9/11 hijackers are the two countries treated with the most delicate of kid gloves by this administration, while a country that had nothing whatsover to do with anything has been cruelly and senselessly devastated by this administration. Things that make you go "WTF?!"
I wouldn't care WHO the deal was with. I'd still expect to see reviews, investigations and TRANSPARENCY where this sort of thing is concerned. This deal is just more corrupt cronyism at work, and the swiftness with which it went through is more than a bit suspicious. I don't distrust the UAE any more than I distrust anyone else. But I DO distrust this administration and its motives.
Geez, lighten up!! Is there a Salon Manifesto somewhere to which you refer, that states everything on the site must be "serious"?
You're a real charmer, aren't you? A barrel of the proverbial laughs. Take your cigar and brandy snifter and head to another site if you think only "serious" literature should ever be discussed or experienced. Some of us actually enjoy a healthy balance between serious and lighthearted.
Geez.
Michelle Malkin suggests that now that he's been caught red-handed, we all ("the left") cease our "sick gloating" and leave the poor baby and his family alone.
Yes, much like those on the right ceased their sick gloating and left Bill Clinton and his family alone when he was caught doing something not too nice, but not exactly illegal. Oh, that's right. THEY'RE STILL AT IT TO THIS DAY.
The blatant hypocrisy employed by these "crooks and liars" knows no bounds. But the eerie part is that they really do believe their own lies, even when the truth is staring them in the face.
Endless repeats of Golden Girls, Designing Women and The Nanny, not to mention 15-year-old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries. And of course who could live without more Will & Grace and Frasier? I mean, these two haven't been shoved down our throats nearly enough by other channels in the last few years.
And contrary to popular opinion, most of us don't particularly enjoy the over-the-top "women in peril" flicks, where women are kidnapped and held in mountain refuges, or stalked by split-personality asylum escapees who think we're their long-lost high-school sweetheart. However, so many of us have been lied to, cheated on, manipulated, abused (physically and emotionally), sexually harassed and stalked by garden variety losers, that yeah, we DO relate movies with storylines that reflect that. As long as they're realistic. Too many on Lifetime are not. While most of us have been cheated on, not many of us have been cheated on by a devastatingly handsome pilot who has three other wives in Paris, Miami and Maui, whom we somehow get together with and create devilish plots to bring him down.
Lifetime now has three separate channels, most of which have become a waste of space. Lifetime Movie Network--which seemed like a good idea at the time--repeats the same movies over and over in a loop all week. Fall asleep watching one and there's a good chance it will be on again when you wake up. Lifetime Real Women... ugh. What a load of unwatchable rubbish. "Girlfriend" game shows, "style" shows and big favorites such as Caroline in the City, Suddenly Susan and Laverne and Shirley. Not to mention MORE repeats of Any Day Now (let it go, already!) and Intimate Portrait.
If Lifetime wants to be more relevant to women, forget redesigning the logo and tagline. Try listening more to what we actually want to see, instead of simply buying the cheapest, often most excruciatingly dated programs you can find and repeating them incessantly, figuring that as long as there's a woman somewhere in the show, we'll want to watch it five times a day.
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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