BTW, I hope everyone has been enjoying themselves arguing with my manifold identities. I thought signing in as "Edelbrock Offenhauser" would give the game away, but nobody noticed.

I noticed.

Wait, so did I!

Bamage, help me (us)!

you always forget the main group - Obama voters who have absolutely no problem being critisized by the crazy right and the crazy left.

the name was 'Friedensreich Freudenberger'!

... *Commentaries on the Five Wonderful Precepts*...

Somewhere in the book, and itis a thouht from a respected thinker/

It may be a thought from Maxine Hong Kingston, Gary Snyder, I forget.

Jack Kornfield, Chan Kbong, Annabel Laity? (Annabella, my best friend.(?).

*For A Future To Be Possible* The flower do need manure compost to grow.

How Blago viewed Senate:

Throughout the intercepted conversations, Blagojevich also allegedly spent significant time weighing the option of appointing himself to the open Senate seat and expressed a variety of reasons for doing so, including: frustration at being “stuck” as governor; a belief that he will be able to obtain greater resources if he is indicted as a sitting Senator as opposed to a sitting governor; a desire to remake his image in consideration of a possible run for President in 2016; avoiding impeachment by the Illinois legislature; making corporate contacts that would be of value to him after leaving public office; facilitating his wife’s employment as a lobbyist; and generating speaking fees should he decide to leave public office.

Now we know what the Senate is actually good for.

http://chicago.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/dec09_08.htm

Then I guess that I'm too damned sensitive. :-)

I think that's all going to get dropped now. The much better game is going to be to tie the current shitstorm in Illinois to Obama.

-- casual_observer

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I don't assert that Barack Hussein Overdrive is bulletproof, but I don't know if this Blago deal will do much to discredit #44. My impression is that Blago will crash and burn pretty much by himself. Like Spitzer did.

The rethuglicans, on the other hand, seem to like to commit felonies in groups (Keating 5, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Scooter-Cheney-Addington-Abramoff and others).

I opened to my friend, Maxine Hon Kingston's chapter.

I forgot Maxine Hong Kingston gave me the signed book:`

It's signed: `To Art, with peace and love. Maxine. (I'm sorry.)

Forgetfulness.

In Maxine's essay:`*Precepts For The twenty First Century. *Thay* has named the precepts "wonderful" because the *Five Wonderful Precepts* have survived for more than 2,600 years through holocaust and devastation. Wonderful because they are a practicable, useful map and working plan for our lives in the real world. They teach us to effect the world with reasonable, logical, ethical-no impossible magic here. Wonderful because they can protect us, and show us how to live a joyous life, an interesting, adventurous, deep, large life, and how to live with animals, plants, and all the Earth and universe. Wonderful because if we practice the precepts, we existentially become human, we embody loving kindness etc.,

The she goes on and on - to tell about her home burning in a firestorm in Oakland-Berkeley hills. She and her husband were bereft of a Place. A home, and a neighborhood. Her father had recently died, and suddenly she felt great emptiness. She stood in the midst of ruins. She was glad she was introduced to the precepts. I always remember Maxine's birthday. She remembers my birthday. Her home burnt to ash on my birthday. Howdy Maxine. Say hello to YKW. Bless you.

What wild days.

Blago called Obama a motherf...er and do lawyers really use the f word that much? - Ups!

I would be mildly Overwhelmingly surprized if Obama kept Gen. Hayden on @ the Central Intelligence Agency (i like to spell it out.), Glenn.

Imo, Gen. Hayden would be one toke over the line. I listened intently to his testimony on *illegal* spying (this year?) and the time it took to interpret his linguistic gymnastics was more valuable [to me] than the edification it provided.

bah.

~Mooser. I like the updates too. But the Links go well with a crust of bread and such. (*u r wise to be Leary of Timothy3.)

~bop o. Speaking of infestations: got a new virus scannermajigthing and found 16 virus, 9 bots w/ cots, 196 Threats, 2 turntables and a microphone. yip. *also, found two messesges in a bottle that were deleted... but i read them anyway. :)

Blago called Obama a motherf...er

Will you admit that you think this is the worst crime he -- or anyone else -- could have committed?

Remember, we're talking about wingnuts here, not actual sentient beings.

'Will you admit that you think this is the worst crime he -- or anyone else -- could have committed?' -

For everything else you just hire a good lawyer!

The real danger isn't from the far right or left, but from the corrupt, incompetent, self-interested and/or outright stupid "wing" if the broad "center", which encompasses the center-right, center, and center-left. I.e. those elements within this segment of the establishment and electorate who are either too stupid, too unprincipled, or too cowardly--or all three--to be entrusted with setting and implementing Obama's agenda. I.e. all those politicians, pundits, journalists, think tankers, even voters, who either advocated for, or allowed to happen through their weakness or inaction, all of the horrible policies of not only the Bush era, but of the conservative era itself, going back to Reagan (and sure, there were bad policies prior to Reagan, but the shit didn't really start hitting the fan until he took over--even Nixon wasn't nearly as bad, in retrospect).

It's not just the actually corrupt and incompetent within this broad "center" that we have to worry about, but also those who through their stupidity and/or weakness enable and support them, effectively. Which includes corrupt AND weak Dems, as well as actual and effective Obamabots. An effective coalition of the shilling, clueless and weak stands in the way of moving this country forward, and must be resisted. It's not just about Obama and what he does or does not intend to do, but about all these other people as well, with their own interests to advance.

Still, those pesky far-right and left types can be quite annoying.