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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I refuse to use the real names of the Repugs until they show some respect for their opponents, our election system, rule of law, constitution and nation’s founders. Their despicable decisions just keep getting more gross.
Thanks to Pedinska and Stephen Colbert, I saw exactly the kind of smug smile on E-Dung (Adam Brickley) that I had envisioned from reading his “reasonable” comments. I’m sure you’ve noticed that the one distinguishing characteristic of all Repug leaders, and most followers, is the smug, hypocrite smile where you know niceness and compassion does not reside.
And if the newer trolls think I am angry and vicious in the way I address them, for once they are right. I have an angry scowl on my face when I think about what they have done to my military, nation and the world and I sometimes let my face chose my words.
P.S. AI, really loved your last post.
@Anandamide (September 5, 2008 01:36 AM):
"RNC Protests end with a bang and pepper spray
"Over 100 people were arrested Thurday (sic) night in St. Paul, after being cornered by police on the Marion bridge over I-94. Journalists from at least 2 major local news stations were detained and put in plastic handcuffs, as well as medics and legal observers. Smoke bombs, pepper spray, and tear gas were used heavily on the group, who were not declared by the police to be violent in any way; they were guilty of unlawful assembly. Those carrying kerchiefs with vinegar for protection from tear gas may now be charged with federal conspiracy to commit riot charges, again with no evidence of commited (sic) violence, destruction or provocation. There were hundreds of cops swarming the area with the arrestees (sic) sitting on the ground, blocked in on both sides of the bridge. While everyone seems to be obsesseing (sic) over another unwed teenage pregnancy, the GOP turned St. Paul into a 'non-lethal' militarized zone."
If you've got a problem with a little innocent hazing and horseplay by the St. Paul constabulary, Anandamide, you should write a letter to the guy who sets the guidelines for police behavior, Mayor Chris Coleman, a Democrat. Or you can sign the 35,000-signature petition to Coleman and other city officials suggesting that the police tomfoolery may have gotten a little out of hand in a couple of instances. Here's the link to the petition: https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr012=h934z9d3n2.app44b&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=281
Some background on the petition:
"Targeting the New Press
" 'The list of those detained ranges from the well-known (Democracy Now's Amy Goodman) and well-established (Associated Press photographer Matt Rourke) -- to the bootstrapping bloggers and video makers who are covering local protests for TheUptake.org, Twin Cities Indymedia, I-Witness and other outlets.
Police -- with firearms drawn -- raided a meeting of the video journalists and arrested independent media, bloggers and videomakers. Journalists covering protests have been pointed out by authorities, blasted with tear gas and pepper spray, and brutalized while in custody.
" Democracy Now's Goodman reports that a U.S. Secret Service agent ripped her press credentials from her neck the moment she identified herself to him as a member of the media. Her producers emerged yesterday from their jail cells bloodied and scarred, reporting unusually harsh treatment at the hands of local and federal authorities.
"Mayor Coleman's Silence
"St.Paul Mayor Chris Coleman hasn't responded to repeated phone and e-mail requests for comments on the targeting of journalists. Instead he praised the work of Police Chief John Harrington and painted those arrested as a small band of outsiders and vandals intent upon committing felonies against the good people of his city. (my emphasis)
"In less than a day, more than 35,000 people have signed a letter from Free Press (my employer) to Mayor Coleman condemning the arrests and demanding that he and local prosecutors immediately 'free all detained journalists and drop all charges against them.'
"But when Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald pressed Harrington and Coleman to respond to widespread reports of journalist arrests, Harrington claimed ignorance while Coleman stood silent at his side."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/03-6
I don’t criticize her for attending six colleges/universities. AP couldn’t find people who can really remember her or find any leadership roles that she played. I guess a journalism career prepares her for how to get away with lies and hide embarrassing info. I do criticize a party and candidate that could believe she is ready to be VP and then think they can convince the voters she is more qualified than Obama. Maybe if the Rovian Repugs would have had less success fooling our M$M, their judgment might have improved for this election.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hjGaAjQoUCE3VQ4N3M852LEdOVtwD9307GG00
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hjGaAjQoUCE3VQ4N3M852LEdOVtwD9307GG00
That's why I always provide the link in the copy. My anger at the Repugs is getting to my brain again.
In the VP debate,
Biden should ask her how old the Earth is. - bungo pony
HA! He won't be allowed to ask her anything. It will all be carefully scripted and controlled to accommodate her total lack of knowledge and understanding of the world. She'll get the pass the RNC wants.
Its hard to believe this man is anywhere near Obama in the polls. The burial crypt smile, the tired lies, the horrible delivery, and the most absurd conception of teh Republican party that has ever been proffered. Actually, the man deserves kudos for being able to deliver that speech with a straight face. I like how he hijacked two Democratic rallying cries and made them his own--More of the Same Means Change you Can Believe In.
Obama Meets O'Reilly: No One Dies!
By JAMES PONIEWOZIK, Time, 9-4-08
Barack Obama sat down to an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly on Fox tonight and — shockingly — it looked like a TV interview. Though he was speaking with Democrats' most-reviled host on their most-disparaged network, no one Photoshopped his head on Osama bin Laden's body or produced Jeremiah Wright from behind a secret panel.
Instead — in the first of four segments designed to milk the interview — Obama had a combative but respectful back-and-forth with O'Reilly, tonight on the subject of national security. O'Reilly asked first if Obama believed we are in a "war on terror," a kind of semantic loyalty oath to see if he would hedge on the term. "Absolutely," he said.
O'Reilly led him through questions on Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq, occasionally bickering with Obama ("You're not going to send ground troops [into Pakistan], and you know it!") or making a pronouncement without asking a question. Obama pressed his case that the war in Iraq had misdirected America's resources, saying that the surge had worked "beyond our wildest dreams" but placing that in the context of the cost of the preceding five years of the war and reminding O'Reilly that the Iraqis have not yet stepped up to self-governance. (And, in what was probably an intentional dig at McCain, making the point that he knew the distinction between Sunni and Shi'a.)
The Democratic argument against "legitimizing" Fox News by appearing was as ridiculous as McCain's snub of softballer King and Palin's residency in the Candidate Protection Program — and politically counterproductive to boot. Is Fox Karl Rove's new home? Fine. Did it flog the Wright story, call Michelle "baby mama" and question the "terrorist fist bump"? Sure. Did O'Reilly get in a scuffle with an Obama staffer on a New Hampshire rope line? Hey, who hasn't? The fact remains that — according to Pew Research — over half of Fox News' audience are Democrats or Independents. Their votes are legitimate, whether Fox News is or not.
And to continue to freeze out Fox would go against one of Obama's most consistent messages: that people are sick of red-vs.-blue America divisions, and that we should be able to talk with people who disagree with us. In that sense, Obama made his strongest argument simply by showing up.
O'Reilly at least gave Obama props for that. In typical O'Reillian fashion, the host had two analysts on immediately after the segment essentially to assess how well he had interviewed Obama (verdict: great!), and O'Reilly praised him for coming on the show. "He's a tough guy, Obama... I looked at him eye to eye — he's not a wimpy guy."
Obama, after all, had stared down Papa Bear. And in the No-Spin Zone, that's the greatest leadership credential of all.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1838954,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily
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"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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