Speaking of Gail Sheehy, her husband, New York magazine founding editor Clay Felker, has died. He was 82 years old. He lost his battle against throat cancer.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
The Nattering Nabobs of the Nutroots.
Because the junior senator from Illinois shows his true colors, some of his most ardent supporters in the nutrootosphere seem shocked he is acting the way he has always acted:
“I don’t think there has been another instance where, in meaningful numbers, his supporters have opposed him like this,” said Glenn Greenwald, a Salon.com writer who opposes Mr. Obama’s new position. “For him to suddenly turn around and endorse this proposal is really a betrayal of what so many of his supporters believed he believed in.”
Jane Hamsher, a liberal blogger who also opposes immunity for the phone companies, said she had been flooded with messages from Obama supporters frustrated with his new stance.
“The opposition to Obama’s position among his supporters is very widespread,” said Ms. Hamsher, founder of the Web site firedoglake.com. “His promise to filibuster earlier in the year, and the decision to switch on that is seen as a real character problem. I know people who are really very big Obama supporters are very disillusioned.”
Too bad, so sad you dumb shits. There were far better candidates than Obama, but the nutroots fell hook, line, and sinker for this fraud and the 24/7 media propaganda, mostly because of some erroneously perceived idea he is against the Iraq War.
I will sure be glad when the Democratic Party can be purged of these idiots.
Miscellaneous News.
A cyclist's quick thinking saved Petra Davis' life.
She is the 15-year-old who competed in an Alaskan bicycle race and was mauled by a bear:
Basinger went to see Davis at Providence Alaska Medical Center on Monday.
"Luckily, she's going to be OK,'' he said. "She's a pretty tough kid.''
But she does face a difficult road ahead. She had to have three surgeries, including emergency surgery to repair a carotid artery that almost caused her to bleed to death. Her recovery is likely to be long and slow.
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With gas prices so high, some people resort to desperate means to get it.
Unfortunately, she got caught:
Police set up a sex sting at the Days Inn on Dixie Highway last weekend, expecting to arrest women who came there to trade sex for money.
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They also found something else: a woman accused of trading sex for gasoline.
While doing surveillance at the hotel, officers spotted a woman they knew because of her criminal history.
They discovered she was there for sex – and that she was allegedly paid with a $100 gas card.
“When people are selling their bodies for gas, that’s pretty sad,” said Ken Easterling, chief prosecutor in the Kenton County Attorney’s Office.
Angela R. Eversole, 34, of Fort Wright, is accused of prostitution and doing business without an occupational license.
Gail Sheehy,
like everybody else in the mainstream media, tries to explain why Hillary Clinton "lost" the presidential primary that she won. Of course, Sheehy uses every explanation other than the obvious and real ones such as cheating by the Obama campaign and the DNC, crossover voting by the Republicans to muck up the primary results, and 24/7 anti-Clinton media propaganda as the reasons.
It was Mark Penn's fault, it was Bill Clinton's fault, it was everybody's fault in this attempt to cover up what REALLY happened.
Example:
Bill’s response, acting the part of victim, only exacerbated the situation. “They played the race card on me,” he accused the Obama camp in a radio interview: “We now know from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along.” Obama was incredulous. Bill Clinton remained bitter and accusatory for the duration of the campaign.
He wasn't a "victim" and didn't act like a "victim"; he was pointing out what the Chicago Shitbag's campaign was doing, and playing the race card was one of the filthiest techniques his filthy campaign used.
If writers aren't going to tell the truth about the campaign, they shouldn't even write about it.
More Campaign Crap.
Cindy McCain has to pay back taxes on a San Diego condo:
San Diego County officials, it turns out, have been sending out tax notices on the La Jolla property, an oceanfront condo, for four years without receiving a response. County records show the bills, which were mailed to a Phoenix address associated with Mrs. McCain's trust, were returned by the post office. According to a McCain campaign aide, who requested anonymity when discussing a private matter, an elderly aunt of Mrs. McCain's lives in the condo, and the bank that manages the trust has not been receiving tax bills on the property. Shortly after NEWSWEEK inquired about the matter, the McCain aide e-mailed a receipt dated Friday, June 27, confirming payment by the trust to San Diego County in the amount of $6,744.42. County officials say the trust still owes an additional $1,742 for this year, an amount that is overdue and will go into default July 1. Told of the outstanding $1,742, the aide said: "The trust has paid all bills shown owing as of today and will pay all other bills due."
It's the Republican way.
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In Case
you missed Keith Obamamann, and I did bother to miss his show, he actually criticized the American Idol himself:
"He damned well better take it," meaning a second chance at FISA.
Well, you idiot, Obama ISN'T a Democrat. But you were too busy trashing Hillary Clinton to notice.
Obama is not going to take your advice about FISA.
Campaign Follies. [Updated]
Now convince me, Obama supporters, your candidate is something other than a ringer for the GOP.
This guy is NOT, repeat NOT, a Democrat. Now he wants to expand "faith-based" programs:
Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and - in a move sure to cause controversy - support their ability to hire and fire based on faith.
Yeah, give these outfits federal money and allow them to discriminate. That's REAL progress.
[Edit: According to Lynn Sweet's column, Obama addresses the discrimination aspect and says groups would have to comply with federal anti-discrimination law:
The new partnership will not endanger the separation of church and state, so long as a few basic principles are followed. First, if an organization gets a federal grant, it will not be permitted to use that grant money to proselytize to the people it serves, and the group will forbidden to discriminate against them on the basis of their religion. And groups will be required to comply with federal anti-discrimination laws in their hiring practices—including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Second, federal dollars that go directly to churches, temples, and mosques will only be allowed to go toward secular programs. And Obama will ensure that taxpayer dollars only go to those programs that actually work.
Regardless of the clarification, it's still dangerous pandering.]
This is supposed to be an attempt by Obama to appeal to the South's "evangelical" voters. They aren't going to vote for him no matter what. The AA vote isn't even the majority vote in that region, so he can just forget it.
Get a clue, Obama supporters: The GOP is now controlling BOTH of our major parties.
Blogger Follies.
PUMA responds to the DOS attacks against bloggers who had Blogger accounts and who were in the "Just Say No Deal" coalition.
According to them, it appears it was a coordinated effort to shut down blogs the perpetrators didn't like.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Jimbo Eruptions.
Whether or not Jimbo had sexual relations with either of the two women he's been recently linked with, there is something seriously, SERIOUSLY batshit about a guy who texts hundreds of messages to somebody regarded as just a "friend" and would actually witness the birth of a child of a woman NOT his wife and WITH his wife.
It's nuts. Totally nuts:
So, given Gibbons' contention that friendship contains a romantic component, his protests that Kathy Karrasch is a friend don't preclude the possibility of a romantic relationship. The same would be true for Leslie Durant, but he's seen her all gross and giving birth. But why was Gibbons holding Durant's hand during delivery? Here's the answer from Gibbons' spokesman Ben Kieckefer:
"The Governor and Mrs. Gibbons were friends with Leslie, who was about to become a single mother. They were together one day late in her pregnancy when she went into labor. The Governor and Dawn went with her to the hospital and stayed with her during the birth to help out their friend. Nothing else to it, really."
Nothing sordid about it. Jim Gibbons is an officer and a gentleman. We hope to have Leslie Durant on soon to discuss the governor's chivalry.
And that's not even mentioning the chivalry Gibbons allegedly displayed to Chrissy Mazzeo when he helped her to her vehicle in the parking lot.
Campaign Follies.
The New York Times blog asks who is responsible for the shutting down of a number of anti-Obama PUMA blogs.
Google says it isn't the "flag" function that is the problem:
If so, that would be an embarrassment for Google. On its Web page explaining the “flag” feature, Google says that “it can’t be manipulated by angry mobs. Political dissent? Incendiary opinions? Just plain crazy? Bring it on.”
On Monday, Google would not explicitly rebut the idea that it had been tricked but said that the cause of the temporary blockage appeared to be elsewhere. “It appears that our anti-spam filters caused some Blogger accounts to be blocked from creating new posts,” Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich said in a statement. “While we are still investigating, we believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the ‘Just Say No Deal’ network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam. We have restored posting rights to the affected blogs, and it is very important to us that Blogger remain a tool for political debate and free expression.”
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Wesley Clark should have kept his big mouth shut.
Criticizing McCain's military experience is about as bad as making racist remarks about Obama.
You just don't do it. It isn't done.
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More Lola Montez Lake Pictures.
Here are more wildflower pictures I took on the way back to the car:
Lola Montez Lake.
What is a Susan hike without pictures of wildflowers? These red ones are really interesting. I need to get a wildflower book to be able to identify the flowers that I come across on my hikes. I found out these guys are snow plants.
This is a creek near the lake. I took a picture of it on my way back. It was MUCH faster coming back than going up to the lake.
Despite being eaten alive by mosquitoes, I was able to enjoy the beautiful meadow near the lake.
One more picture of the lake. It was seven miles round trip.
Another picture of the lake.
Another shot of the lake. The sky was pretty good overall. When I returned to Reno, there were thunderclouds.
One sad thing to note was that on my way to the trail, near Mogul or Verdi, there was a dog that had just been hit and nobody did a goddamned about him. He was dead. It looked like a Bernese Mountain Dog. Not only does it piss me off that the person who hit it just drove on, but that the owner of the dog didn't keep it confined. So often people go to work and leave their dogs in the backyard, not realizing the dogs can get out.
I also saw a deer up at Donner Pass that was trying to cross the freeway. It was a buck, and I hope he didn't get hit. The traffic was one lane up there because of construction, so people were slowing down.
I spent much of the day hiking on the Lola Montez Lake Trail, located just off the Interstate 80 freeway exit at Soda Springs in California. It took me perhaps 1 1/2 hours to hike the 3 1/2 miles one-way to the lake. One thing I forgot to do, though, was take insect repellent. Good God Almighty the mosquitoes about made mincemeat out of me. I learned my lesson. Next time I go to a lake I will take repellent with me. This lake is Lower Lola Montez Lake. I did not go to Upper Lola Montez Lake because of the mosquitoes. I understand it is even prettier than the lower lake.
Before
there are thunderclouds coming in, I am going to go out and attempt to hike the Lola Montez lakes near Truckee, California, today. I don't know why there are TWO lakes there named after the famous dancer, actress, and mistress of Franz Liszt and Ludwig I of Bavaria. They could have named one of them after actress Maria Montez (1919-1951), the Queen of Technicolor of 1940s films and one of the worst actresses ever to grace the screen.
Actually, Paul,
Obama is most like George McGovern, and the election is a mirror image of 1972 but without the illegality by Republican operatives.
Obama will NEVER be president.
Miscellaneous News.
Since I can't afford to go any distance right now, I will be here through the month of July attending many Artown events. The festival starts tomorrow.
Last year I didn't attend many events because I was out of the country a good part of the month and stayed in Oregon for an additional week or so.
Unless I somehow get money before the hearing in mid-August, I am stuck to staying here.
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Blogger Follies.
Blogger, meaning Google, had BETTER get on the stick about this spam issue. In fact, the spam or flag function should simply be deleted or disabled, and anybody who has complaints simply email Blogger.
The locking out of several PUMA blogs on Blogspot has caused many to think there is a coordinated effort by Obama supporters to suppress dissent. This should not be allowed.
I for one do not want to move this blog, with around 34,000 posts and millions of words since December of 2002, over to WordPress or to my own hosting service. I have a WordPress blog, but there are already some bugs there with uploading images.
It Doesn't Take
a Ph.D. in political science to see the Republicans (with the media) having had everything to do with ratfucking the Democratic presidential contest this primary season; to point out the obvious does NOT make one a Republican shill, as I am among many totally opposed to the idea of supporting McCain.
The danger of having Obama as the nominee, even knowing he can't win squat in the fall, is the damage he will do in downticket races. That's the worry. McCain could well win every single state and Democrats could actually lose their slender majorities in the House and the Senate. THEN we will be really be screwed.
But we will be screwed anyway if Obama actually gets in there and does the bidding of Wall Street and other interests intent on privatizing all kinds of government functions.
I can't believe the whole thing.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Jimbo Eruptions.
The governor could have used the days before the special session to silence his critics, but instead his personal and other antics overshadowed it.
You ain't a-kiddin' it was a "dead-cat bounce."
More Miscellaneous News.
Bite my carnivorous ass, you animal rights wackos.
This is all about abolishing animal domestication, period. It will NEVER fly with the public.
The Peta attacks are seen as a sign of the radicalisation of some vegetarian groups. They claim eating meat causes environmental destruction, damages human health and contributes to global hunger, as well as inflicting suffering on billions of animals.
They are full of shit and hide their true agenda.
If You Were Any More Full of Shit,
Amanda, you'd need a Roto Rooter to do an enema on you.
The PUMA "movement" has little to do with Hillary Clinton, though many if not most of the bloggers supporting it did support Clinton. The movement is a reaction to the outrageously rigged primary/caucus season, which was most likely ratfucked by the GOP via loopholes in state laws/rules which allowed for crossover voting and also by the GOP-leaning media which crowned Obama the nominee MONTHS before Clinton decided to suspend her campaign (under DNC pressure, I might add, just as John Edwards was forced out earlier). The movement is also a reaction to the Obama campaign itself which engaged in the vilest campaign in the history of the Democratic Party presidential contests in painting the Clintons as racists, and with their bloggers using every filthy lie about them to further a candidate they knew ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT AND DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT. These are the same vile hypocrites who shit on Joe Lieberman by promoting and running an idiot against him back in the 2006 Connecticut Democratic primary because they called Lieberman (also called LIEberman or "Holy Joe," the latter nickname thinly-veiled anti-Semitism, in my opinion) a Republican for his Iraq War stance and basically forced him out of the party because of their filth. Yet most of these same people backed the Mouth of Montpelier for president in 2004 who was little more than a Rockefeller Republican but had a minor talent at demagoguery and now they back this total fraud of a "liberal" or "progressive" for president with big Wall Street and corporate backing who has the same type of economic philosophy as the people who are already in charge of the government but who could NEVER get away with the stuff Obama would pull if he were elected.
So don't hand me this shit, Amanda, about PUMA being some kind of Republican front. You will NEVER, EVER read ANYWHERE that I back McCain, only that he would be better with a Democratic Congress keeping him in line than Obama with a Democratic Congress who just might pull privatization shit on the public with the party's approval. We cannot afford that.
I was a Democrat LONG before you were born, Amanda, so don't you DARE tell me that because I refuse to back a crook, a liar, a GOP ringer, that I am NOT one. I am NOT going to condone what was done in this primary by the GOP, the DNC, the nutroots, and the media by giving this guy my vote. I will either vote "none of these candidates" or leave the presidential part of the ballot blank.
Obama will lose, and lose big, which was the goal all along by Big Media and the GOP in promoting him. It's not my fault people like you are so gullible as to fall for their propaganda. Maybe, just maybe when he does lose we REAL Democrats can finally the purge the party of the Moulitsases, Huffingtons, Marcottes, Marshes, and others who have sent the party down the goddamned river with their ignorance and divisiveness and finally take it back.
HT to Joseph Cannon at Cannonfire for getting my blood pressure up this time of night.
Because There
isn't a whole lot to blog about tonight, and my hits are way, way down, I thought I'd post from GUBA Charlie Chaplin's The Kid (1921), undoubtedly a public domain movie:
What is good about this particular site is you don't have to have multiple parts to watch the video.
More From the Boston Globe
about Obama's charitable help towards those in need of housing in Chicago.
You were warned, Obama supporters, about what he really was.
Jarrett, a powerful figure in the Chicago development community, agreed to be interviewed but declined to answer questions about Grove Parc, citing what she called a continuing duty to Habitat's former business partners. She did, however, defend Obama's position that public-private partnerships are superior to public housing.
"Government is just not as good at owning and managing as the private sector because the incentives are not there," said Jarrett, whose company manages more than 23,000 apartments. "I would argue that someone living in a poor neighborhood that isn't 100 percent public housing is by definition better off."
Oh, sure the private sector is better. And the mess in Chicago is living proof of it.
Considering
Obama's rather shady and undistinguished career as a state senator, Newsweek's writer shouldn't be boasting of that, either.
This is what the writer says:
During the years that Obama served in Springfield, 1997-2005, he was forced to wrestle with the minutiae of health-care policy, utility deregulation, transportation funding, school aid, and a host of other issues that are vitally important to America's coming years, but that U.S. senators are usually able to dispose of with a quick once-over. State legislators have to do this largely on their own, without ubiquitous staff guidance, because staffing is not lavish even in the more professional state capitols. They enter into day-to-day bargaining relationships over the details of legislation with colleagues of both parties; there is no one else to do it for them. At the end of the session, they are likely to know the strengths and quirks of nearly everyone who serves in their chamber.
Well, that may have been true for legislators in general, but Obama was known for being "present" for votes much of the time he was there. The only thing anybody remembers him for is his shady connections with Rezko and the like.
Jimbo Eruptions.
From the "JedReport" on YouTube is this clip featuring our governor and the "other woman," Leslie Durant:
Miscellaneous News.
Last week's gun nut ruling shouldn't have been a surprise: Anthony Kennedy has been the deciding factor in these decisions, even those decisions arrived at by pulling their arguments out of their asses.
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Thanks mostly to economic factors, fewer Europeans are having children, which could have some long-term negative consequences.
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Maybe the two of them will knock each other off and put us all out of our misery.
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Larry Sinclair needs to explain this or he can just forget it:
Sinclair, who has been making charges about Obama involving sex and drugs, allegedly was taken away at the conclusion of his remarks by U.S. marshals on an outstanding warrant from Delaware.
Some -- perhaps only those on Sinclair's Web site -- suggested this was concocted to embarrass Sinclair because there had been no record of a Delaware warrant after a detailed background check in January.
Well, yes, but no.
There was no warrant in January because it was issued in February after an October incident at a New Castle hotel involving Sinclair.
According to the Delaware State Police and Delaware Superior Court records, Sinclair allegedly paid for a three-week stay at the Rodeway Inn with $2,400 in money orders. The hotel manager later found they were counterfeit and called police.
In February -- long before Obama became the presumptive nominee -- a New Castle County grand jury indicted Sinclair for felony theft and a warrant was issued.
According to state prosecutors, Sinclair was released on $8,000 unsecured bond this week and is due back in court in July for an arraignment.
He does respond to the piece citing what he calls blatant inaccuracies.
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A bear decided it didn't like a bike racer on its property and mauled her:
Police officers with shotguns escorted medics into dark woods to retrieve the girl, who underwent surgery at Providence Alaska Medical Center.
“One of the EMS supervisors on the scene said that in his 24 years of doing this, these were the most extensively traumatic injuries he’d seen,” Anchorage Fire Department spokeswoman Cleo Hill said this afternoon.
She is expected to live.
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The Fergusons were at a loss when they heard the news their son had been hideously killed at the Six Flags park yesterday.
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Dogs can be used to find rare species.
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Campaign Follies.
A group of Ron Paul supporters in northern Nevada held a "renegade" convention.
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If Kucinich hadn't been so busy shitting all over John Edwards during the campaign on behalf of Obama, maybe he would have known Obama was no liberal.