I posted Rahm Emanuel needs to go ... in March of last year.
I realize that someone who is lousy in one job can be outstanding in another. Sometimes it works out that way if one doesn't use Bush the Destroyer's administration as a model.
Instead of blocking and fouling legislation as a Congress Critter, ethically challenged Rahm Emanuel will be Obama's Chief of Staff.
There must be some irony in there somewhere ...
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008
McClatchy and Steven Thomma are at it again ...
Clowns like Thomma now want us to believe that even though Obama won, he didn't, you see, really, really win, like in WIN. Evidently these mindless robots believe that only Thugs WIN, even when they cheat [specially when they cheat].
If you are willing to believe these corporate controlled clowns [that McClatchy has been giving much space to since Obama's WIN then you will believe that in winning Democrats actually lose and should follow the direction of these overpaid corporate controlled clowns.
He just got elected to be President of the United States of America but he didn't really win and he better not do what the electorate expected when they voted for him. Oh, no, instead he should believe that he didn't really win and he should follow in the footsteps of the most hated White House resident in US history, George W. Bush, President of the Corporate States of America.
Here's another gem from the McClatchy/Thomma article: "The test for Obama, then, will be whether he can increase his support among his base while making inroads into those who are still suspicious of him if not hostile ...". Wonder if Thomma was similarly worried about Bush's lack of support with the populace. Probably not. After all, the corporate backed hacks all backed whatever Bush did. That was enough. Now their job is to get an Obama administration to toe the line to their corporate drum beat.
Democrats, specially in Congress, have not been very quick to understand that catering to the Corporate powers at the expense of the populace makes them very, very unpopular with the voters. It's actually a betrayal of the voters and of their oath of office. I hope Obama understands this.
If you are willing to believe these corporate controlled clowns [that McClatchy has been giving much space to since Obama's WIN then you will believe that in winning Democrats actually lose and should follow the direction of these overpaid corporate controlled clowns.
Barack Obama didn't get all the way there Tuesday — not yet anyway. However, he fell short ...Oh gee, he just got elected to be President of the United States of America, still the most powerful nation in the world even after White House resident Bush the Destroyer, with full corporate clown approval, spent 8 years attempting to tear the country apart brick by brick.
He just got elected to be President of the United States of America but he didn't really win and he better not do what the electorate expected when they voted for him. Oh, no, instead he should believe that he didn't really win and he should follow in the footsteps of the most hated White House resident in US history, George W. Bush, President of the Corporate States of America.
Here's another gem from the McClatchy/Thomma article: "The test for Obama, then, will be whether he can increase his support among his base while making inroads into those who are still suspicious of him if not hostile ...". Wonder if Thomma was similarly worried about Bush's lack of support with the populace. Probably not. After all, the corporate backed hacks all backed whatever Bush did. That was enough. Now their job is to get an Obama administration to toe the line to their corporate drum beat.
Democrats, specially in Congress, have not been very quick to understand that catering to the Corporate powers at the expense of the populace makes them very, very unpopular with the voters. It's actually a betrayal of the voters and of their oath of office. I hope Obama understands this.
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Friday, November 7, 2008
Worse and worser ...
Gurk! ZIRP! by Krugman: The unemployment rate has now risen more than 2 percentage points from its pre-recession low. In 1990-1992 the unemployment rate rose 2.6 percentage points. Given what’s happening to retail sales, manufacturing, and so on, it’s now a certainty that unemployment has a lot further to rise. So the “worst recession in 25 years” thing is now baked in. The only question is whether we hit “worst slump since the Great Depression” territory.and
Goldman forecasting biggest rise in joblessness since WWIIThanks BushCo, it's been loverly ...
Ah, bipartisanship ...
As the corporate hacks in the media are insisting that Democrats must be bipartisan because they, the all-knowing media hacks, know how the governed should think, the Republicans are preparing for war:
Rep. Roy Blunt, the House of Representatives' second-ranking Republican, stepped down from his leadership post Thursday as the House GOP moved quickly to reposition itself as more conservative, unified and eager to fight Democrats in the Obama era.Notice there is no call for the Republicans to be bipartisan. Whether in the majority or not the Dems are advised by the corporate media to be bipartisan and govern as the corporate establishment wishes. It the Thugs are in the majority no one expects them to do other than ignore the other party, the country and the world except where they can figure out how to corrupt, fleece or destroy it. If the Thugs are not in the majority no one suggest they should work with the other party for the good of the country. What a joke that would be! No. All out war is their motto and the corporate media hacks will ride the resulting political roller coaster for fun and profit.
More Az Daily Star avoidance ...
The Star has an editorial called Thorns & Flowers --A roundup of actions good and bad
Each flower is awarded to a specific entity. The Tucson City Council. The parishioners at Holy Family Catholic Church.
But the thorn? The thorn is awarded to the "toll that the bad economy, and the housing downturn in particular, is having on our community." Bad 'toll.'
I can see why the Arizona Daily Star would not address the mistaken economic philosophies of Republicans as the Republicans just won a majority in the Arizona legislature. My guess is that Arizona has a lot more bad 'tolls' on the way.
Each flower is awarded to a specific entity. The Tucson City Council. The parishioners at Holy Family Catholic Church.
But the thorn? The thorn is awarded to the "toll that the bad economy, and the housing downturn in particular, is having on our community." Bad 'toll.'
I can see why the Arizona Daily Star would not address the mistaken economic philosophies of Republicans as the Republicans just won a majority in the Arizona legislature. My guess is that Arizona has a lot more bad 'tolls' on the way.
Scarpinato, the transcriber ...
... or the common journalist pretender who's real goal is a passive aggressive attack. Whatever the case Daniel Scarpinato does not elicit much information in Governor won't talk about the Cabinet does he?
But really were these questions meant to acquire information or to put Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano on the defensive:
But really were these questions meant to acquire information or to put Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano on the defensive:
- Does working on the transition team conflict with negotiating the budget?
- How does uncertainty about leaving for a Cabinet position affect those negotiations?
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Right, thanks for the lies and the hate, McCain ...
The Arizona Daily Star shows its complete lack of integrity, again. The press have lied to us for decades about McCain and now they thank him for making nice after he loses:
Without bitterness or animosity, McCain stressed the need to move beyond the election and work together to get the country moving again.McCain, like Lieberman and all the Thugs, know they can do any and every despicable act and their media enablers will still sing their praises.
Intimidation vs lobbying ...
I wonder if intimidate is a direct quote of what Joe Trippi said or if it was McClatchy's Frank Greve who selected the word intimidate over the word lobby? Wonder if Grevie would suggest that corporate lobbyists throwing around lots of money are trying to intimidate Congress?
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Intimidate: frighten, menace, terrify, scare, terrorize, cow, dragoon, subdue; threaten, browbeat, bully, pressure, harass, harry, hassle, hound, torment, tyrannize, persecute; informal lean on, push around, bulldoze, railroad, twist someone's arm, strong-arm.
Lobby: 1) seek to influence, try to persuade, bring pressure to bear on, importune, sway; petition, solicit, appeal to, pressurize. And 2) campaign for, crusade for, press for, push for, ask for, call for, demand; promote, advocate, champion.
Money lobbies. Masses of voters intimidate.Joe Trippi, the Internet politics guru whose computer geeks made Howard Dean a contender in 2004 and who went on to design Obama's socially networked campaign machine, offers a provocative and educated guess.
Trippi predicted that Obama would use his forces, first and foremost, to intimidate congressional foes of his agenda, rally his allies and forge "one of the most powerful presidencies in American history."
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Intimidate: frighten, menace, terrify, scare, terrorize, cow, dragoon, subdue; threaten, browbeat, bully, pressure, harass, harry, hassle, hound, torment, tyrannize, persecute; informal lean on, push around, bulldoze, railroad, twist someone's arm, strong-arm.
Lobby: 1) seek to influence, try to persuade, bring pressure to bear on, importune, sway; petition, solicit, appeal to, pressurize. And 2) campaign for, crusade for, press for, push for, ask for, call for, demand; promote, advocate, champion.
Yesterdays' QUOTES ...
... the sunshine-state Republicans have nominated an unrepentant torturer as their candidate for Congress. They view his readiness to torture an innocent Iraqi not as a source of shame, but as his prime qualification for office. This is American conservatism in the dying days of Bush – and it points out the direction that Sarah Palin would like to take it in 2012.
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It's the unspeakable solution to "the unsolved riddle of social justice." It's the unmentionable "ultimate solution" to the problem of full employment. It's the unutterable "preliminary condition without which all further attempts at improvement and emancipation must prove abortive."
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Our alien visitor finds all this extremely fascinating. It just pointed to me how this approach is in direct conflict with the fact that 50.7% of all Americans are female. Mostly earthlings think that having one woman on a committee or a couple of women in a movie or television show is plenty! A movie which reflects that 50.7% frequency from real life is at risk for being labeled a chick flick, something for women only. A movie with 100% male cast has a fairly good chance of being seen as mainstream unless it's about porn.
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Curious stuff. Now for the odd paradox of extreme visibility/invisibility: Because women are still often seen as Others, one or two representatives from that group both suffice AND draw our attention! This means that most women are invisible as people, but that the women in the public eye are extremely visible as spoonfuls of that amorphous substance called womanhood.
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... In other words, it was the very embodiment of Glorious Beltway "bipartisan" foreign policy tribunals -- numerous hard-core, right-wing ideologues sprinkled with a couple of like-minded right-wing Democrats and a neutral establishment technocrat or two, all endorsing a pre-ordained, flagrantly extremist, war-loving policy which is then deemed "the harmonious mainstream Center" which no Serious Person opposes.
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It's the unspeakable solution to "the unsolved riddle of social justice." It's the unmentionable "ultimate solution" to the problem of full employment. It's the unutterable "preliminary condition without which all further attempts at improvement and emancipation must prove abortive."
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Our alien visitor finds all this extremely fascinating. It just pointed to me how this approach is in direct conflict with the fact that 50.7% of all Americans are female. Mostly earthlings think that having one woman on a committee or a couple of women in a movie or television show is plenty! A movie which reflects that 50.7% frequency from real life is at risk for being labeled a chick flick, something for women only. A movie with 100% male cast has a fairly good chance of being seen as mainstream unless it's about porn.
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Curious stuff. Now for the odd paradox of extreme visibility/invisibility: Because women are still often seen as Others, one or two representatives from that group both suffice AND draw our attention! This means that most women are invisible as people, but that the women in the public eye are extremely visible as spoonfuls of that amorphous substance called womanhood.
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... In other words, it was the very embodiment of Glorious Beltway "bipartisan" foreign policy tribunals -- numerous hard-core, right-wing ideologues sprinkled with a couple of like-minded right-wing Democrats and a neutral establishment technocrat or two, all endorsing a pre-ordained, flagrantly extremist, war-loving policy which is then deemed "the harmonious mainstream Center" which no Serious Person opposes.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Ahhhh, I can breath again!
Rambo and The Challenged lost the White House.
And Arizona's Congress Critters are now comprised of 5 Dems and 3 Thugs as the fight in Northern AZ for Rick Renzi's congressional seat was won by the Democrat:
And Arizona's Congress Critters are now comprised of 5 Dems and 3 Thugs as the fight in Northern AZ for Rick Renzi's congressional seat was won by the Democrat:
Flagstaff Democrat and former legislator Ann Kirkpatrick rode a significant fundraising edge to victory over Republican Sydney Hay, a mining-industry lobbyist well-known in conservative circles. Kirkpatrick focused her campaign on the rural district's economic concerns, while Hay emphasized gas prices and conservative touchstones like abortion and gun rights.The rest of Arizona's Critters stayed in place.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Hypocrisy, stupidity or ignorance?
Or all of the above?
Isn't it always the way that when bigots are confronted with their actions they claim they are being discriminated against.
It's called hypocrisy, but it's unlikely that the people who involve themselves in the persecution of gays have the capacity to understand such issues. They just know they want to enshrine their beliefs in the law. Being free to follow their beliefs is not enough. They want everyone to suffer their hatred.
Isn't it always the way that when bigots are confronted with their actions they claim they are being discriminated against.
It's called hypocrisy, but it's unlikely that the people who involve themselves in the persecution of gays have the capacity to understand such issues. They just know they want to enshrine their beliefs in the law. Being free to follow their beliefs is not enough. They want everyone to suffer their hatred.
Monday, November 3, 2008
The Mormon Church deserved this ad ...
[via C&L]
I don't know why LDS'ers decided to make enemies of those of us who don't agree with them on important life style issues, but they have. As the video makes clear if the LDS'ers will go after gays like this they will go after the rest of us also.
If they should succeed in trampling on the rights of gays then women will be next. After that what would they choose to do? Turn themselves into the FLDS?
I used to respectfully disagree with Mormons, even admired some aspects of their community. But now they have chosen to be an enemy of my rights as an individual and therefore of me. It was their choice, not mine.
I don't know why LDS'ers decided to make enemies of those of us who don't agree with them on important life style issues, but they have. As the video makes clear if the LDS'ers will go after gays like this they will go after the rest of us also.
If they should succeed in trampling on the rights of gays then women will be next. After that what would they choose to do? Turn themselves into the FLDS?
I used to respectfully disagree with Mormons, even admired some aspects of their community. But now they have chosen to be an enemy of my rights as an individual and therefore of me. It was their choice, not mine.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Tucson 'quietly?' makes city even more unlivable ...
Mortgage problems? Employment problems? Not to worry. Cut service for thems that need them.
City quietly cuts services used by many residents
Next month Tucson City Council members will start discussing what public programs they're willing to sacrifice to make up for a looming $51 million budget shortfall. They told City Manager Mike Hein to bring them suggestions by then.But even before that public discussion, city departments have started quietly cutting services and eliminating part-time and seasonal workers.The cuts are not part of the $10 million Hein told the council it needs to slash, but are listed in city budget memos as departmental cuts — although many are services residents use daily, not administrative belt tightening.
These change apparently include the following [the article is rather sketchy and of the he said/he said variety]:
- shutting down most year-round swimming pools for the winter, closing recreation centers on weekends and cutting hours on weekdays.
- elimination of the free Downtown shuttle
- stop providing Parks Dept staff workers for distributing food from the Community Food Bank
I would like to know where the money is going. Our Tucson sales tax is horrendous. My property tax goes up significantly every year. Wages are depressed. But services are constantly cut back or charged for or both.
The only thing Tucson seems to be able to do is cater to the real estate industry and build highways with artwork along the edges.
The only way to view the US is from inside an automobile (or be rich enough to have a house on a hill)? There are cities in this world that are a pleasure to be in, but few of them are in the US.
Oh, we do still have some beautiful National Forests, even after eight years of Bush. But if McCain should win we probably won't have those for long either.
The only thing Tucson seems to be able to do is cater to the real estate industry and build highways with artwork along the edges.
The only way to view the US is from inside an automobile (or be rich enough to have a house on a hill)? There are cities in this world that are a pleasure to be in, but few of them are in the US.
Oh, we do still have some beautiful National Forests, even after eight years of Bush. But if McCain should win we probably won't have those for long either.
My sentiments exactly ...
From John W. Dean:
That there is even any question, given the facts available about these two individuals, which would be better as president boggles the mind. The closeness of the polls certainly makes one question the country's sanity and intelligence as a whole. But the entire Bush years have shown how little 'representative' government is left in this country.
Frankly, the fact that the pre-election polls are close - after eight years of authoritarian leadership from Bush and Cheney, and given its disastrous results - shows that many Americans either do not realize where a McCain/Palin presidency might take us, or they are happy to go there. Frankly, it scares the hell out of me, for there is only one way to deal with these conservative zealots: Keep them out of power.And the kicker:
If Obama is rejected on November 4th for another authoritarian conservative like McCain, I must ask if Americans are sufficiently intelligent to competently govern themselves. ...Obama doesn't inspire me as he does so many others, but he's a rational human being where McCain is [from Dean's list]:
- dominating
- opposes equality
- desirous of personal power
- amoral
- intimidating and bullying
- vengeful
- pitiless
- exploitive
- manipulative
- dishonest
- cheats to win
- mean-spirited
- militant
- nationalistic
- tells others what they want to hear
- takes advantage of "suckers"
- specializes in creating false images to sell self
That there is even any question, given the facts available about these two individuals, which would be better as president boggles the mind. The closeness of the polls certainly makes one question the country's sanity and intelligence as a whole. But the entire Bush years have shown how little 'representative' government is left in this country.
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