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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Wear a Smokey Bear hat.
Every time `devil food fool,
mush mouth cake, YKW, ay.
Jebbie say:` hit cig, ignore him
and go to www.Smokeybear.com
l recommend that, and no come bare.
Ayuda a Smokey a prevenir incendios.
en areas naturaes. Jebbie smokes weed?
Jebbie puffs dead acorn leaf and walnuts.
Ack!
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-pinsker18-2008nov18,0,1022347.story
Lincoln and the myth of 'Team of Rivals'
President Lincoln's Cabinet was far more dysfunctional than Doris Kearns Goodwin's book would have us believe.
By Matthew Pinsker
November 18, 2008People love Doris Kearns Goodwin's book on the Lincoln presidency, "Team of Rivals."
[...] "Lincoln basically pulled in all the people who had been running against him into his Cabinet," is the way Obama has summarized Goodwin's thesis, adding, "Whatever personal feelings there were, the issue was how can we get this country through this time of crisis."
That's true enough, but the problem is, it didn't work that well for Lincoln. [...]
[...] Lincoln's Cabinet was no team. His rivals proved to be uneven as subordinates. Some were capable despite their personal disloyalty, yet others were simply disastrous.
Lincoln was a political genius, but his model for Cabinet-building should stand more as a cautionary tale than as a leadership manual.
- - Matthew Pinsker, author of "Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home," teaches Civil War history at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-pinsker18-2008nov18,0,1022347.story
Goodcelery smokes dried parsnips seasoned with a pinch of ramps.
Pedinska wears Tufu in Duval St. bars?
Purple see throughs and hanging trees
noseeums and iguanas lurk
Lincoln: A novel, by Gore Vidal
http://tinyurl.com/6ay84e
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When Jebbie say:`smoke dry brow silk in a corncob pipe,
visit wwwwalnuthillcollege.com * I know a Fire Ranger named Mr. Leaf.
Honest. His daughter id named Heather Leaf. She's @ The Restaurant School. Phil.,PA. Ms. H. Leaf is the Student Success Advisor.
Holy Joe grin remind Jebbie of what?
Lieberman's drunk skunks pals buts.
No smoke beer, or a lit bare behind.
The KOS tagline 'more and better' Democrats needs to be changed to 'better.'
Beating Republicans only reinforces the status quo if there is no consequence for DEMS supporting corporatist, neo-con, neo-fascism.
Think about Kent State. They only had to murder five students in cold blood to cool the whole anti-war movement. Mexico was a little more brutal and obvious, but Tlatelolco put the government back in control.
No, I'm not advocating murder. Please. Just take them out (of Congress).
(Digression: I am waiting to see what forty years of advances in crowd control technology (hard and soft) will visit on citizens if any large number wakes up and takes to the streets in divers locations.)
Until the progressive left can visit ruin on identified DEMOCRATIC enablers of the Village Centrists, look for real change in your pocket. In the meantime maybe Obama can tone down the bellicose rhetoric, move the quagmire from Iraq to Afghanistan, and give us a watered-down health care reform that preserves corporate piracy of the health-care system.
Primary challenges. Pick your battles. Win them.
I'll say it again: The Democrats are the new Republicans.
Change of corporate parties, and change of the guy sitting in the White House means very litttle without a partisan agenda.
Can we all agree that there is too much money in Politics and find a way to pass a Constitutional amendment that says "Money does not equal free speech"? (Of course, this concoction came from a Nixon appointee to the Supreme Court.)
I do not believe that our government was founded on the principle that the rich and powerful should have a greater level of freedoms, such as freedom of speech, than the less powerful.
When Barack Obama decided to forsake public financing, which is something that he used to believe in, and when he signed on to the FISA bill, he was telling us all what level of change that we should expect from an Obama administration. There should be no surprises.
I guess the hope we were asked to keep was the hope of electing Democrats over Republicans. This is just the first disappointment, there are many more to come. A whole slew of closet and open neo-cons are getting ready to "serve" as Obama's national security team. Gitmo may be closed, but a whole new system is being devised to keep Gitmo alive here in the mainland. Iraq war may recede slowly, but will not go away. More civilians in Afganistan will have to get ready to die. If HRC becomes SOS she will get a chance to keep her promise to nuke Iran. Well, at least we will not have any partisan rancor. Keep hope alive, keep hope alive, and elect more Democrats to do the same old thing. Change has come in the form of who is going to do the same old thing.
What people crave is civil discourse that presents the "clash of ideas" in an informative, reasoned, and civil manner, rather than by demonizing those on the other side. Many Americans think -- and I am one of the them -- that however great our challenges are, and however much we may disagree as to both the nature of the problem and the solutions, there is often common ground to be found and that common ground should be occupied and extended whenever possible. -- wbgonne
Pedinska has already highlighted the unsupported nature of this sweet assertion, but it's always worth another good shot here in Partisanland.
If you must speak broadly about Teh People, at least make some effort to ground your assertions in their observable behaviors. What do they enjoy watching at the movies? What sports do they favor? What activities do they prefer to engage in in their spare time? But, doing that would leave you in a bit of a pickle wouldn't it?
There is nothing in the mass behavior of the American people that suggests we are averse to conflict at the highest levels of government. We love "conflict" in almost every other arena; why then would this most important one be so different?
It is unlikely that the sight & sound of politicians truly fighting for different agendas disgusts most Americans. Rather, it is all the fake, "partisan" Kabuki "reported" in the newsmedia that disgusts them. Real politics is and should be a contact sport played on a public field, but at present it's nothing of the sort.
As pow-wow mentioned (yesterday?), almost nothing of substance is decided in open debate anymore; it's all back room, all the time. The American public has been subjected to media-massaged political sound-and-fury for years now, but all that breathlessly "reported" partisan infighting never results in substantial changes in governance. Because it's fake. It's fake and it stinks of bad acting (our elected officials are not exactly Leonardo DiCaprio).
Do you think that Americans would sleep through a "Prime Ministers 15 Minutes" type of weekly debate if we were only allowed the pleasure of watching one? I don't. I think we generally love a good fight. We are never given one, however.
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
Salon headlines in your mailbox
