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bethy, good example of that is what bill moyers talked about last night in no uncertain terms. really layed it out about rotten ralph. so much so and so blunt that i fear for bill’s future (and pbs’ for running the program).
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-the-resurrection-of-ralph-reed/
and the last part of the show was just as fascinating with bill talking to mike lofgren, a life long repub turned indie, about his new book “The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.”
comment from that link by steve o
The Dream, as an Atlantic editor wrote in his magazine, Mr Obama has to gain the courage not to invite the white cop to the White House after he arrested a black Harvard professor for trying to enter his own house.
I keep thinking about poor old Howard Hughes. and Melvin.
He had to invite the prof and the cop because when it came up he ventured to say something which didn’t work right. after that they took the shortest distance between two points.
those Chicago guys are good, but they better keep a sharp look-out on them Mormians……
“In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”
Graham Greene http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/grahamgree139301.html#j72hOtSSTU0OQX8k.99
I guess next up will be a Jehovah’s Witness.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I have this sneaky feeling that most every dude who becomes spiritual leader of a bunch of followers does it purely for the sake of furthering his own sexual ambitions. At least the mormians were out in front with it.
The big political question of the day seams to be “are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?” Economic Surveys exist that gets politician liars out of the answer. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis University of Michigan: Consumer Sentiment (UMCSENT) for August 2008 was 63.0 and the August 2012 that was published last week from Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers was 74.3.
The answer to the question is a resounding YES!
Craig, I’ll not use URLs any more. What is it that makes their use intolerable? Is it their effect on specific browsers, or…
I’ve grown increasingly gun shy about opening links to non-specific locations. Sign of the times.
Sturg, sexually speaking, are you a Mormian?
I could never get the followers….I kept making up the wrong shit……
I think the President needs to have a long conversation with Mr. Koch
Favors gay marriage, tax increases, defense cuts
besides, followers make me nervous…..
The leader’s conundrum:
I listened for an echo but heard only praise.
-FWN
“Don’t make me nervous…..you wouldn’t like it if I got nervous.”
lol, the Hulk goes neurotic……
Five sure signs of impending Alzheimer’s:
1. Forgetting the proper names for common objects.
2. Losing your way among familiar places.
3. Telling that same old story again……every detail…..as if no one has ever heard it before.
4. Where was I?
This morning my mission is to find the chuck key for my 3/8″ drill. I’m scared to link Jacob’s Ladder.
Helpful hints for more pleasurable drillage:
you owe it to yourself to get a cordless drill which doesn’t require a chuck key…..either that or attach the key to the cord with electrical tape?
Except for the 6-foot drill press I haven’t seen a chuck key in 20 years……
flatus, me too. would it help if the linker of a non-specific link drops a hint as to that link source? iow, mention wiki/nyt/wapo/wsj etc somewhere in the post so that those of us on “cookie” free computer diets feel it’s safe to or not to pull up the link.
MadMustard says:
09/03/2012 at 12:00 AM
The Republican promise…
“We will do all of them… and the most important of all… the doing of them will not cost anybody, anything.”
Now FDR, that was a man who could speak to chairs that were occupied!
Mad,
Too funny and too true. If I could offer a dozen thumbs up I would.
Good on you.
The #1 political story should be voter suppression.
The MSM mostly ignores it. EVERYONE knows that the GOP is doing it, EVERYONE knows it’s wrong, but political reporters just can’t escape the simplistic idea that politics is just a “game,” and voter suppression is “just another tactic.”
It’s not. If we let this happen, our historic experiment in democracy will be over, because it won’t stop. As fewer and fewer people get to vote, we’ll become a one-party totalitarian state with rigged elections.
And that is exactly what the fascist billionaires who run the GOP want.
Patd, I saw part of that show with Moyers, too, and had the exact same thing -- this might mean trouble. However, since Abramoff, a convicted time-serving felon was speaking and making many of the charges, it’s hard to see partisanship driving it. Ralph Reed is one for the books. It doesn’t take
all kinds; there are jujst all kinds.
boss poohbah, the other day the link button kept producing a lengthy link so i nipped the offending part in the bud. in a case like that, is a partial link enough attribution to keep us out of trouble in plagiarism jail?
btw, most grateful thanks to tony and others who helped guide me successfully thru to link button land.
I will look forward henceforth to unfurling my url with a link to the brink…..no kink, no fink in the whole wide rink…..I think.
Nash,
Great point about voter suppression. Sadly the only time the courts take action in one of these cases it ends up being in a place like Texas, a state that Obama is not going to win anyway.
Holder could partially redeem himself in my eyes if he would go after these voter suppression laws with everything at his disposal right up to election day.
I can ‘dream on’ with the best of them.
I’ve had the drill since the very early 70s. And I did have it attached--then something happened--don’t remember what--they might have made me take it off for customs inspection.
My cordless drill also has a Jacobs chuck. Its key is on a long loopy piece off rubber. That’s what I can’t find. Every time I let someone else look at the tools, something such as this happens.
tinkers thinkers inkers and sinkers
linkers clinkers stinkers and chinkers
Winkers brinkers pinkers and…..Xinkers
that ink sure is in some interesting stuff.
bethy, let’s hope so; but even mitt the other day was telling scott pelley that npr was on his cut list. another one of the comments to the moyers program which helps allay some of those fears:
[leslie b]
Yep, it’s the Way of the Tool. A law unto itself.
And now since it’s labor day I’m going to work. See you all in the gloaming. Wear your gloaming clothes so’s I know’s ya.
sturge, you reminded me of a t-shirt i bought for a friend not long ago inscribed “there’s no tool like an old tool”
http://www.duluthtrading.com/store/product/longtail-t-mens-no-tool-like-an-old-tool-longtail-t-shirt-33543.aspx
Dreams are good and necessary things, and should never be discounted.
In 2008 we found out that Obama was a dreamer, and many of us shared his dreams. We learned also that HRC was something of a dreamer as well, but she lacked the dreamers rhetoric of Obama.What she had in abundance was the knowledge that dreams have to be fought for, and the willingness to do just that each and every day.
If Obama is now willing to fight for his dreams and vision, he probably wins. If not, then he deserves to lose.
He is in the final round of a championship fight. He can’t just dream about winning, he needs to put the other guy on the canvas.
Nash, what you articulated so well scares the shit out of me, too. I’ve never been a sycophant for any candidate or any party. Until this stage of my life where I know everything, I analyzed the issues and the candidates and to whom they were beholden. I treasured and wielded my vote as if it was the deciding vote in each election in which I cast it. Matter of fact, it still is and this time it will be cast for Mr Obama.
here’s an antidote for sublime Sunday…
rock’n'roll Monday…
song in honor of labor day
Sturg,
Enjoy the gloaming.
jace
d parton
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