I haven’t even paused yet to see what this post is about, though I doubt it’s about jogging. 🙄 Then again maybe it’s about jogging in the green, open fields.
‘Tisn’t. CC already told me aeons ago that she wasn’t able to master that. Anyways, as of this moment I’m cutting her some slack. Jogging she is, for her and me both. There!
/releasing the breath I’ve been holding/ I am? I really am? 😆 😆 Sweet!
Hello there, MP. I notice you are now quite comfortable with your name change. I also notice that you are cool in your space too. Good for you! One of these days I’ll answer you properly. 😉
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel has approved Mary Jo White’s nomination to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission and sent it along for a final vote.
The Senate Banking Committee approved White’s nomination on a 21-1 vote. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, was the only member to object. White is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate and become the first former prosecutor to lead the agency that oversees Wall Street.
The panel also advanced Richard Cordray’s nomination to continue as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But his nomination was approved on a 12-10 party-line vote. All Republican members opposed the nomination. They have also opposed the newly created agency and have expressed interest in curtailing Cordray’s power.
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Is that a light green shirt my President is wearing? Man! The man’s got it all together (with the help of…?) I would love to send offspring over for lessons – I can’t believe I’ve raised this child who seems to think it’s okay to wear jeans straight from the dryer WITHOUT IRONING THEM! Slaps forehead. I once told him that it seems I’ve failed, but he doesn’t see what the big deal is.
A little help please. I have two old computers, one a desk top and the other a lap top. Neither of them powers up so deleting any info is out of the question. How do I throw these out without damaging the environment. The web is WAY TOO FULL of useful and USELESS information.
Do I pack them up in boxes and stick them in the closet?
This. Also, Office Depot will take them…. You pay a certain amount to fill a large box which they will take off your hands and deliver to the right disposal site. I think it’s $50 for a fairly large box….
I think Best Buy has a program were you can turn in old CPU and get an upgrade w/ a credit. Or just pay them to dispose eco-friendly….
I will check later but am late to campus, let me know if that works out this evening…..
What is the matter with these so-called journalists? Do they hear themselves? Do they have any idea how stupid they sound? I can’t work up an ounce of sympathy for those young men. They brutally assaulted and raped a young woman and tried mightily to get away with it. They probably thought their “specialness” would protect them from ever getting punished. If they no longer have a “bright future” of further assaults and rapes, then too bad. I care more about the blighted future of the young women whose life will be haunted by this ugly and traumatic event. And since when does any reporter on tv care about future of young people. They don’t care about every day gun violence in schools and on the street, they don’t care about tuition grants and loans being denied because of the sequester, they don’t raise an eyebrow at our sub par high schools. But let some smart aleck kid be on a football team and all of a sudden he has a future that must be preserved at all costs.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is viewed favorably by just 35 percent of American voters, according to a Rasmussen poll released Monday. Fifty-four percent view him unfavorably.
A bare 52 percent majority of GOP voters gave Ryan positive marks, down from 83 percent when he was selected as the Republicans’ vice presidential nominee in August 2012.
Linda, I thought the absolute core group of insane Americans was 27 percent. Now it looks as if 8 percent more are suffering from temporary insanity or are just not paying attention. Ryan tried his turn on deck as a credible candidate for 2016 with his new (old) budget and seems to have gotten the hook. Next on deck is Rand Paul, who will stick a foot in it before long. We’re in for three more years of the crazy clown show.
CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS SEE SEQUESTER CUTS AS A ‘VICTORY’ FOR THEM.
Sequestration undercuts veterans, students
By Steve Benen
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What’s more, let’s not forget that it’s not just military servicemen and women and their families feeling the pinch. It’s the Head Start centers who are having to exclude kids, the furloughs for those who help keep Americans’ food supply safe, the hardship on low-income Americans who rely on housing assistance, and on and on.
For all of the Beltway assumptions that sequestration was a dud, that President Obama “cried wolf” when he warned of damaging consequences, and that “no one noticed” the effects of the policy, real people are facing real hardship for no good reason. Much of Washington appears to have largely moved on, but for those feeling the pinch, that’s not an option.
Thank you Pamela. I wish he wasn’t going to Israel. I never worry about his safety when he travels overseas but this time I am worried. Nut-n-yahoo and the people of that country should be kissing his ass, but instead, every “news” report about this trip is about how he is the one who has to prove himself to Israel and only 10% of the people like him. He needs many candles for his safety.
Debz – the reports you’re reading are probably written by right wingers. They are hosting a dinner in his honor and awarding him with a medal – first sitting US President to receive the Medal of Peace (I think that’s what it’s called). I also read another report saying that the people of Israel have been breathlessly anticipating his visit, and were panicking at the thought that it might be postponed if Netanyahu couldn’t form a government fast enough. Netanyahu doesn’t speak for the majority of Israelis – as evidenced by the last election results. And neither do many of the lobbyists that have loud voices and many friends in the US Congress. There are plenty of people in Israel who appreciate President Obama and his steadfast support of Israel – much of which has irked me, in light of some of the crap that Netanyahu and his extreme followers have pulled these past few years…
The arrogance of Nut-n-yahoo and his friends is outrageous. It’s like they say they can dictate the foreign policy of the United States of America. This has to stop.
The fact that the Speaker and Budget Manager both suddenly appeared on talk shows to unveil a new talking point is suspect to me. They have gone out of their way to disagree with the President and rebuff any and every idea he has ever had. The idea that they’ve suddenly seen the light and can freely admit the President is right, just doesn’t cut it with me. They always have an ulterior motive.
Is it the sequester? While the media has suggested the President cried wolf about the effects of the recent budget cuts, the truth is, it has left many suffering in it’s wake and it will only get worse as time passes. I suspect Republican’s constituents, Mayors and Governors are putting pressure on the Republicans to forget this budget foolishness, as their states, cities and counties adjust to the loss of millions of federal dollars.
I agree with you and that suspicion is based around Rand Paul, 2014 and 2016 and the Re-branding process. Never let the public forget what the Republican party is truly about and that is obstruction, oppression, control and steal. Better yet steal, kill and destroy, that is the Republicans party mantra. Their own motives make them liars
In the six months before the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and the six weeks after the invasion (culminating in George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech), I often compared my situation in Washington to that of Jeannette Rankin, the Montana congresswoman and pacifist who voted against entry into both World War I and II. Not that I would have voted against declaring war in 1941; the comparison was to her isolation, not with her isolationism.
There were, of course, people who opposed invading Iraq—Illinois State Senator Barack Obama among them—but within political Washington, it was difficult to find like-minded foes. When The New Republic’s editor-in-chief and editor proclaimed the need for a “muscular” foreign policy, I was usually the only vocal dissenter, and the only people who agreed with me were the women on staff: Michelle Cottle, Laura Obolensky and Sarah Wildman. Both of the major national dailies—The Washington Post and The New York Times (featuring Judith Miller’s reporting)—were beating the drums for war. Except for Jessica Mathews at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington’s thinktank honchos were also lined up behind the war.
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I found fellow dissenters to the war in two curious places: the CIA and the military intelligentsia. That fall, I got an invitation to participate in a seminar at the Central Intelligence Agency on what the world would be like in fifteen or twenty years. I went out of curiosity—I don’t like this kind of speculation—but as it turned out, much of the discussion was about the pending invasion of Iraq. Except for me and the chairman, who was a thinktank person, the participants were professors of international relations. And almost all of them were opposed to invading Iraq.
Excellent piece, AMK! Thanks for sharing it. I wish someone inside the media would write about the U.S. media’s dismissal and denigration of millions and millions of people throughout the world, including hundreds of thousands here in the U.S., who protested against the war on Iraq.
Whoever helps Pres. Obama with his tie choices – or it may be himself – I freaking loooooove you! The person has an eye for color, fashion, patterns, detail, texture. Just wow! It’s wonderful to see such attention to detail. Fashion lovers unite!
p.s. If you’ve never seen the movie, ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ you must, must, must, MUST see it. Google it, get the synopsis, find out when HBO is showing it again (they have multiple airings) or rent it, and watch it. It is a stellar movie with a top notch cast of Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton, Ronald Pickup, and Dev Patel.
SELF-DEPORTATION ADVOCATE JEFF SESSIONS ATTACKS TOM PEREZ OVER IMMIGRATION REFORM
by Matt Hildreth
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You can’t make this stuff up. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has been living in his anti-immigrant bubble for so long, he has no idea how much the world has changed. Further proof was provided today.
On the very day that the Republican National Committee tried to distance itself from its anti-immigrant record, Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions said of President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, Tom Perez:
His views on illegal immigration are far outside the mainstream. Mr. Perez previously served as the President of the Board of Casa de Maryland, a fringe advocacy group that has instructed illegal immigrants on how to escape detection, and also promoted illegal labor sites and driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants.
I would consider this nothing more than gossip and none of my business, not worthy of my time. Except Bill O’Reilly has been touting his Catholic cred throughout the fight over contraception, and he thinks he has the right to dictate how everyone in America chooses to become a family. Eff you, O’Reilly:
This is what happens when you turn “family values” into a political cause.
It’s none of our business how dirty O’Reilly’s divorce has become, but we know about it anyway due partly to the culture warrior himself making it an issue.
And what, pray tell, is the St. Johns Bayou and New Madrid Floodway Project? I’m glad you asked: it’s a $100 million slice of pork in Missouri that even internal Army Corps of Engineers memos have described as “swine” and “a bad project.”
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Michael Grunwald’s report on this is equal parts painful and hilarious, explaining why this project is practically a case study in boondoggles, complete with Corps reports, filled with “third-grade errors,” which were ultimately rejected by a federal judge.
And if the Obama administration doesn’t resuscitate the project to Roy Blunt’s satisfaction, the Republican senator intends to block the EPA nominee.
This has been the latest installment of “The Senate Confirmation Process Is Badly Broken.”
It’s not ok that the Senate ignores the will of the people. Isn’t that why they exist in the first place? Maybe if people could see the damage these assault weapons do to bodies – let alone the poor little bodies of those six year olds who were ripped apart – then they would weigh the need for those “proud gun owners” against the safety of the public and especially those little kids. It’s disgusting.
Chips, its great to see you back. I can tell by your banter you are feeling much better. Keep using LL, UT, LP, and AMK. They were very good. No one should work twenty-four/seven.
UT, if you are reading posts, I’d like to ask about transfering files from an HP PC to a new Mac? Can I do it? I have a cable to transfer from one PC to another but will it work with Mac? If anyone else knows the answer I would apprreciate the help. I’m not good at setting up computers. When they were simpler I could do it myself, but aging and technology has taken a toll. Is there a good book that writes about using the newest Macs? It’s much easier for me to read a book than the manuals on computer and the ink doesnt come cheap. We have a great printer and it miffs me off that it cant be used just because it’s out of date. bah humbug.
I believe it can be done. There was an instruction for it when setting up my Mac but I forget. What you should do is go to http://www.apple.com and see if they have instructions for that or you can call their customer service line. I believe you said there was no Apple store near you but if you have a Best Buy near you, their computer department will be another resource for you.
TY Meta. I don’t have the Mac yet. Trying to cover everything before I commit to buy. At least I was able to download my turbo tax to my old PC so I don’t feel the pressure to buy without checking everything I can think I might need.
Go to a web site called “manualsink” You can actually buy printed manuals for a lot of stuff. We got one for our Kindle Fire. Maybe you can get one for your Mac. You can even ask questions there too & get help. Good luck!
The people who sold you the mac should be able to help you transfer files, for free, from your PC, if it’s not too ancient, to your new mac. Normally they do the transfer at the time you purchase your computer if you bring your PC to them. At least that’s what they do at the Apple store where I bought mine. If they can’t do it, they may know some computer Wiz who might help you for a small fee. This what I love about my apple store because of the elaborate technical support. So, before you go somewhere else, call them and let them know what the PC you have and what you want transferred.
ABOUT THAT GOP OUTREACH TO MINORITIES, NEVER MIND.
With Attacks On Secretary Of Labor Nominee, GOP Latino Outreach Efforts End On Day One
By LOLGOP
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Perez in many ways activates the right’s “worst fears.” As the demographic realities that challenge the GOP as a national party become more real, he is a powerful, respected Latino who can use what is left of civil rights laws to prevent the right from waging its never-ending war on minority voters.
Nowhere in its “autopsy” was the right’s failed attack on the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor or the unprecedented voter suppression campaign that began in 2011 ever mentioned. But in these direct challenges to participation in our government, Republicans send their clearest message to the Latino community: You are not welcome here.
I just ‘love’ how media folk have such selective memories, or selective facts really. I saw this oh so innocent tweet of Chris Matthews that has over 190 retweets and does nothing to admit that Georgie boy had loads of media help carrying out his deception.
“MATTHEWS: What’s the importance of the president’s amazing display of leadership tonight?” (“mission accomplished” day)
“He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics.” (talking about w. bush)
“MATTHEWS: Ann Coulter, you’re the first to speak tonight on the buzz. The president’s performance tonight, redolent of the best of Reagan — what do you think?
COULTER: It’s stunning. It’s amazing. I think it’s huge. I mean, he’s landing on a boat at 150 miles per hour. It’s tremendous. It’s hard to imagine any Democrat being able to do that. And it doesn’t matter if Democrats try to ridicule it. It’s stunning, and it speaks for itself.”
it only gets worse at the link. matthews also said at the time w. bush should be on mt. rushmore. considering that phil donohue, keith olberman, and ed schutlz for that matter, all showed great positive gains in msnbc’s ratings while matthews shows are usually bottom-dwellers in ratings, yet they quickly hustle out those with rabid followers and positive ratings growth yet the guy with no real fan base and the worst ratings records stays, we know rating have nothing to do with it. people are paid to be on these channels to spread the propaganda of the billionaires. nothing more, nothing less. case closed.
and matthews stays for decades even. oh and he said he voted for w. bush in 2000 too. w. bush was a laughing stock even during the campaign with gore which is why he lost the popular vote to gore, and yet chris matthews found enough to like about him to vote over gore?!?! matthews the supposed liberal?!? what a joke!
Yeah he actually voted for GWB because of Clinton. This was around the time that I first started watching cable news. Matthews went after Clinton hard over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He detested the Clinton’s back then. Now he has Clinton as the “President of the World”. I swear the guy is bi-polar.
He was a big Bush supporter until the polls started showing his approval numbers were fading and David Shuster started reporting for him the lies that were coming out of the WH regarding those missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The guy has no core. He is just like Romney. He points out all the folks on the right who he thinks are being racist but yet spent all of the 2008 and part of the 2012 campaign telling us that white working class folks wouldn’t vote for PBO. He is borderline obsessed with race. Again, he is blind to the hypocrisy!
One thing that I am grateful to Matthews for is he is one of the main reasons I know longer watch cable news. He proved to me that it what goes on there is primarily infotainment and my time would be better served pushing the President’s agenda.
Chris Matthews is superficial and a bit dumb. His only strength is his experience in politics; sometimes he can give interesting assessments of how the “game” is played in Washington, because he has been there. But outside of that, what does he have ?… No analytical skills, no real logic, NO JUDGEMENT, a vulnerability to propaganda and artifice, and on and on… And he DOESN’T WORK. Well at least that’s the impression he gives me. I can’t help thinking he doesn’t inform himself. He probably checks Politico and Drudge (!) from time to time, and has many chats with people on the cocktail circuit. And that’s it. Wanna bet he doesn’t check the White House website, hasn’t read a Bill in years, doesn’t watch congressional hearings, unless there is something juicy that has been reported.
And by the way, I think Chris Matthews isn’t the only guy on TV who hasn’t any deep knowledge of the subjects they are “opiniating” about.
Message to Chris Matthews: The scariest thing about Iraq war is how you and your friends in the Washington media bubble didn’t do your jobs and just accepted the propaganda of the Bush-Cheney operation without questioning anything.
That’s it, LP’08, and now he has the nerve to disparage the American people from whom he and his ilk withheld facts, as if he himself wasn’t majorly sold on his ‘effective commander’. The fact Matthews is nervy enough to now refer to his idol as ‘a president with limited gifts’ as if that’s how he always felt about him is just infuriating.
Well done, VC! These unethical media people must not be allowed to re-write history and cover up their cheer-leading role for the U.S. war on Iraq. Matthews is very good at that. Recently he has been in love with Bill Clinton. Yet he was one of the most severest critic of Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky affair; and even supported his impeachment.
Charles Pierce voices anger re Iraq War ‘anniversary’
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That is, of course, all bollocks. Keller still writes a column. The Times is playing this on the downlow precisely because it never truly has atoned for its role in a fiasco. The op-ed page still welcomes submissions from people whose work on this most grotesque foreign-policy blunder should have been as definitive a career-killer as were Joe Hazlewood’s navigational abilities.
I can hardly wait for this week to end. If it’s not Dean Baquet, copping a cheap alibi for his newspaper’s unforgivable malpractice, it’s Richard Perle. who should be displayed in a pillory outside Walter Reed for the next 10 years, being allowed to vomit blood all over the op-ed section of USA Today.
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And let us not forget Perle’s onetime co-author, David Frum, who’s mysteriously been allowed through the tradesmen’s entrance back into the discourse conducted by decent people.
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this is a righteous rant of an article, full of the fury of one who has been paying attention. excellent, necessary read– skewers the media darlings who were complicit in selling the iraq war, then roasts them on a spit.
VC, Thanks for sharing Charles Pierce’s righteous anger! I hope Chipsicks features this piece on the front page. It’s truly a must read! These mfs, like Bill Keller, who have been after President Obama, were the enablers of the war on Iraq.
yes! what part of ‘we deserve a vote’ did reid not hear? so he can’t get the votes for the assault weapons ban, how about letting us see just who refuses to vote for it? quit covering for them!
Thanks for the tweet Japa. I am going to send an e-mail to my two Senators, Diane Fienstein and Barbara Boxer, urging them to demand a vote on a separate bill banning assault weapons.
Before I go computer hunting for a computer online, I’d like to vent about my experience yesterday. I haven’t read any threads since Sunday so this may have been discussed and debated, but I need to put in my measly two cents; I need to clear my head. I turned on Martin Bashir and what did I see – a Sarah Palin snippet of her speech to CPAC. I sat there and gasped and wondered what she meant by “he has a gun, but I have the rack” then takes a drink of her big gulp. My husband explained what he thought she meant by the POTUS gun reference. They show a few other snippets, and I’m soon crying about the disrespect shown by CPAC to our President. My iPad isn’t working, and it’s inconvenient to come into the office and type on the main pc. It just doesn’t work that way. What I wanted to say wouldn’t have been appropriate. I needed a time-out. Thanks for being here to listen. It breaks my heart.
She was talking about what she and her husband gave each other for Christmas…..he gave her a gun rack and she gave him a gun.
It has nothing to do with the President…..she was making an off color remark that she gets a “rack ” which is a trailer trash comment indicating her breasts .
She went Joe Wilson on the President–shouting in that squeaky and annoying voice of hers: “Barack Obama, you lied.” Now how in the world am I supposed to take this vile person seriously?
One thing I could never understand was this image of her as a sex goddess. Trust me, I am a straight guy who appreciates beautiful women (I think you have figured that out). But I never had one iota of attraction towards her. And when she speaks any attraction I might have had definitely disappeared.
For the record I didn’t find her sexually attractive either. 🙄 Is the orange box not working again or is it because I’m on my PC and not my usual iPad?
Palin looks anorexic. Her large head and hair do not fit her body. Forgive me for criticizing someone’s looks, but Palin is a bad seed who criticizes PBO and anyone who gets in her way. She has an ugly soul and that makes her unattractive.
I too thought she had had a few cocktails! Besides, who actually knows what was in that “big gulp she took?’ After she took the “big gulp” she seemed more giddy than before.
Sarah Palin is like a girl I knew many years ago, about whom a friend of mine said: “When she opens her mouth, her brains fall out.”
Just to be a masochist, I watched LOD’s video of SP’s “comedy” routine. It was embarrassing. Yes, the “rack”line came after a little bit about what gifts she and Todd bought for each other: “He got the gun, I got the rack.” with a knowing smirk to the audience. I don’t want to insult anyone who lives in a mobile home, but she is what we call here “Texas trailer trash.”
You make a good point, Tally. This reminds of that National Review guy (I forgot his name) who couldn’t control himself during the 2008 Vice Presidential debates because he thought Sarah Palin was winking at him personally.
Steve Kernacke (sp) gets the job to host the week-end show on MSNBC ‘Up”, that was hosted by Chris Hayes, who’s been given the weekday evening slot formerly held by Ed Schultz. The weekend show will be called ‘Up With Steve Kernacke’.
She is my Senator. I’ve sent her an e-mail, along with Senator Boxer, urging them to do exactly what you are proposing. It’s time to know the Senators who are opposed to the ban on military style assault weapons that usually end up killing innocent people, including precious children. We need their names on record!
True Confessions….I only use that email addy for things involving this site. So yesterday I checked out my emails and was cleaning up things and found a whole slew of your emails in my spam folder. I’m not sure how you got there but they were going to my junk mail. I’ve changed your setting so I’ll be seeing them in my regular inbox from now on. Your stuff is priceless 🙂
Nope. I haven’t rec’d any emails from you since just before the Inauguration. Can you send me a test email so I can see if it comes through? This is weird 😦
Hiya everyone, will be back in a bit, just want to check, has anyone had any contact with Joan Shaw recently? Trying to make contact, but no success yet. Thanks.
Great tweet, Bob! I think it’s time for the majority of Americans to make sure their voices are heard by members of Congress. It’s not enough to cite polls. This is a time for some sustained and meaningful direct action from the majority of citizens.
We really must come up with a different strategy to effectively counter the NRA lobby! How about a massive campaign with petitions,
e-mails, faxes, tweets, etc., to let all law makers know that we are angry that they are not dealing with a ban on assault weapons? Why can’t we organize massive protests at offices of Senators and Congressmen demanding action on the assault weapons ban? At this time, I really don’t want to know what the NRA is doing. What I want to know is what we are doing to counter the NRA.
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Can someone correct me if I’m wrong on this – my understanding was that the AWB wasn’t simply dropped (as has been reported in the MSM), but will be brought to the floor for a vote as a stand-alone bill, separate from the base bill with all the other provisions like background checks, etc.?
It’s the way its being reported. All the headlines say ‘Dems drop assault weapons ban’. Folks aren’t reading the story. There is cause for concern though because universal background checks might not make it either and that’s actually more important than assault weapons ban.
I say forget what’s being reported! We the people must start demanding action. period. I am sorry, gobrooklyn because my response is not aimed at you for accurately reporting reality. Rather, it’s aimed at all of us, including me. Most of what I’ve been reading here is what the NRA is doing, or what the Republicans are doing, or how Reid and the Democrats are caving, etc., etc. My question is what are we doing in response? How have we answered the President’s call to us to reclaim our citizenship and act accordingly? To be honest, I don’t have an answer. All I know is that I am going to bombard my U.S. Senators, and Representatives to demand serious action on guns. There are more Americans who are non-gun owners than there are gun owners. There also many gun owners who don’t support the idea of allowing ordinary citizens to posses military assault weapons. And, as our Bobfr has been relentlessly trying to teach us, the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms is premised on the idea that it’s necessary to have “A well REGULATED militia” to ensure “the security of a free state….” No where in the Second Amendment does it say that the people have unlimited right to own all types of arms. If that were the case, then we would have no problem with billionaires owning tanks, stinger missiles, or even nuclear weapons.
It is to be offered as amendment. I would prefer stand alone bill. I can understand why it was pulled from the buill, as it would have doomed the overall bill which does have some good stuff. However, I want there to be a vote and preferably as a stand alone. I want the GOP and certain Dems to be forced to take a side. As mentioned in my tyweet to Feinstein, even in red states, people are for it.
Ok – thanks gobrooklyn and Japa for the clarification. I do prefer a standalone bill and I hope Feinstein and Reid see the necessity of doing it that way even if they know that the GOP (and certain DEMS) will vote it down.
I just saw on that piece of crap channel MSNBC, that the Easter Egg Roll will go ahead on Republicans Day, April Fool’s Day. April 1st. And let me say that is good to hear.
The Obama Diary 
😆 What?
If I am first, this is really funny, as I was coming back to respond to Japa.
On the subject of Chips jogging. 😆
I haven’t even paused yet to see what this post is about, though I doubt it’s about jogging. 🙄 Then again maybe it’s about jogging in the green, open fields.
So do I have to go back to the previous thread to see your response?
Yep. 😀
Read it. I find it so depressing.
/muttering & whistling softly (I wish I could whistle)/ All i’ll add is ‘min can be so territorial, even vis-a-vis unclaimed territory’. 🙄 😆 😆
Maybe it’s the Irish jig?
‘Tisn’t. CC already told me aeons ago that she wasn’t able to master that. Anyways, as of this moment I’m cutting her some slack. Jogging she is, for her and me both. There!
HaHaHee! You are first, deal with it gurl! 😉
/releasing the breath I’ve been holding/ I am? I really am? 😆 😆 Sweet!
Hello there, MP. I notice you are now quite comfortable with your name change. I also notice that you are cool in your space too. Good for you! One of these days I’ll answer you properly. 😉
No worries, no hurry, VC, still scouting out work, still practicing not being afraid there is no work….. Seems to be part of this current cycle…
Maybe Mighty Pamela could be Proud Pamela or Prepared Pamela or Prolific Pamela or prestigius or prominent …..
Congrats funny VC
TY. It’s a real treat being on top of the TOD podium as you well know.
Congrats, VC!
Y, TY, T! 😆 😆
You all are amazing.
Hi VC. Congrats!
See you all later 😉
TY and have yourself a good afternoon, Nena!
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel has approved Mary Jo White’s nomination to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission and sent it along for a final vote.
The Senate Banking Committee approved White’s nomination on a 21-1 vote. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, was the only member to object. White is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate and become the first former prosecutor to lead the agency that oversees Wall Street.
The panel also advanced Richard Cordray’s nomination to continue as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But his nomination was approved on a 12-10 party-line vote. All Republican members opposed the nomination. They have also opposed the newly created agency and have expressed interest in curtailing Cordray’s power.
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What is Sherrod Brown’s beef with Mary Jo White ?
typical boneless dems “standing up to their own party & prez” and yet let the loony rethugs have their way ?
I think she indicated that how prosecutions of the banksters and Wall St. would affect global finances, etc. was an okay metric to factor in.
Is that a light green shirt my President is wearing? Man! The man’s got it all together (with the help of…?) I would love to send offspring over for lessons – I can’t believe I’ve raised this child who seems to think it’s okay to wear jeans straight from the dryer WITHOUT IRONING THEM! Slaps forehead. I once told him that it seems I’ve failed, but he doesn’t see what the big deal is.
Let’s not carried away. No one wears a green shirt. Even the friggin’ irish.
Grouchy, are we? Green tinted/toned, maybe? Teeheehee.
http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_last_letter_20130318/#.UUiNVpa6Tyk.mailto This needs to go viral, please.
this is so powerful and true.
Sorry, Sunday was the wearin of the green day. Today should be wearin of the red day.
They are Irish, Japa, green is worn anytime or all the time by them Irishmen (and women!) 🙂
So any news from LL about his better half ?
Surgery went well – Mrs should be going home today if she handled the night well. Haven’t seen any updates yet for today.
Glad to hear it. Thanks VC
HHS Secretary Sebelius put this out yesterday w/ a link to what has gone into effect and what is to come….for everyday americans
A little help please. I have two old computers, one a desk top and the other a lap top. Neither of them powers up so deleting any info is out of the question. How do I throw these out without damaging the environment. The web is WAY TOO FULL of useful and USELESS information.
Do I pack them up in boxes and stick them in the closet?
Check your local community and see if they have a recycling program for electronics.
This. Also, Office Depot will take them…. You pay a certain amount to fill a large box which they will take off your hands and deliver to the right disposal site. I think it’s $50 for a fairly large box….
I think Best Buy has a program were you can turn in old CPU and get an upgrade w/ a credit. Or just pay them to dispose eco-friendly….
I will check later but am late to campus, let me know if that works out this evening…..
You need to remove the hard disks and mount them to an external drive and delete all that stuff.
Or you can just torch them.
Your choice. 🙂
I was just going to say – you need to dismantle the hard drives in some way.
The Onion 2011
CNN Friday
What is the matter with these so-called journalists? Do they hear themselves? Do they have any idea how stupid they sound? I can’t work up an ounce of sympathy for those young men. They brutally assaulted and raped a young woman and tried mightily to get away with it. They probably thought their “specialness” would protect them from ever getting punished. If they no longer have a “bright future” of further assaults and rapes, then too bad. I care more about the blighted future of the young women whose life will be haunted by this ugly and traumatic event. And since when does any reporter on tv care about future of young people. They don’t care about every day gun violence in schools and on the street, they don’t care about tuition grants and loans being denied because of the sequester, they don’t raise an eyebrow at our sub par high schools. But let some smart aleck kid be on a football team and all of a sudden he has a future that must be preserved at all costs.
Im dead ~~~~~~~~~
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is viewed favorably by just 35 percent of American voters, according to a Rasmussen poll released Monday. Fifty-four percent view him unfavorably.
A bare 52 percent majority of GOP voters gave Ryan positive marks, down from 83 percent when he was selected as the Republicans’ vice presidential nominee in August 2012.
Linda, I thought the absolute core group of insane Americans was 27 percent. Now it looks as if 8 percent more are suffering from temporary insanity or are just not paying attention. Ryan tried his turn on deck as a credible candidate for 2016 with his new (old) budget and seems to have gotten the hook. Next on deck is Rand Paul, who will stick a foot in it before long. We’re in for three more years of the crazy clown show.
yes, but if one gets thin while the other is still thick, the friendship can get chilly. 🙂
CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS SEE SEQUESTER CUTS AS A ‘VICTORY’ FOR THEM.
Sequestration undercuts veterans, students
By Steve Benen
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What’s more, let’s not forget that it’s not just military servicemen and women and their families feeling the pinch. It’s the Head Start centers who are having to exclude kids, the furloughs for those who help keep Americans’ food supply safe, the hardship on low-income Americans who rely on housing assistance, and on and on.
For all of the Beltway assumptions that sequestration was a dud, that President Obama “cried wolf” when he warned of damaging consequences, and that “no one noticed” the effects of the policy, real people are facing real hardship for no good reason. Much of Washington appears to have largely moved on, but for those feeling the pinch, that’s not an option.
Greg Sargent hasn’t forgotten.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/19/17372837-sequestration-undercuts-veterans-students
For PBO, safe journey there, and safely back again. http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PBO
Thank you Pamela. I wish he wasn’t going to Israel. I never worry about his safety when he travels overseas but this time I am worried. Nut-n-yahoo and the people of that country should be kissing his ass, but instead, every “news” report about this trip is about how he is the one who has to prove himself to Israel and only 10% of the people like him. He needs many candles for his safety.
Debz – the reports you’re reading are probably written by right wingers. They are hosting a dinner in his honor and awarding him with a medal – first sitting US President to receive the Medal of Peace (I think that’s what it’s called). I also read another report saying that the people of Israel have been breathlessly anticipating his visit, and were panicking at the thought that it might be postponed if Netanyahu couldn’t form a government fast enough. Netanyahu doesn’t speak for the majority of Israelis – as evidenced by the last election results. And neither do many of the lobbyists that have loud voices and many friends in the US Congress. There are plenty of people in Israel who appreciate President Obama and his steadfast support of Israel – much of which has irked me, in light of some of the crap that Netanyahu and his extreme followers have pulled these past few years…
Thanks theo67, It’s good to see there have been other reports about PBO’s visit, it just the ones I have seen lately have all be rather depressing.
The arrogance of Nut-n-yahoo and his friends is outrageous. It’s like they say they can dictate the foreign policy of the United States of America. This has to stop.
Mighty Pamela, hope you saw my thank you on the other thread.
{{{{MissPat}}}}. I’m pretty much in awe of you, MP……
Oh thank you. This means a lot to me.
THIS IS VERY SUSPICIOUS
Boehner and Ryan’s Debt Crisis Flip-Flop
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The fact that the Speaker and Budget Manager both suddenly appeared on talk shows to unveil a new talking point is suspect to me. They have gone out of their way to disagree with the President and rebuff any and every idea he has ever had. The idea that they’ve suddenly seen the light and can freely admit the President is right, just doesn’t cut it with me. They always have an ulterior motive.
Is it the sequester? While the media has suggested the President cried wolf about the effects of the recent budget cuts, the truth is, it has left many suffering in it’s wake and it will only get worse as time passes. I suspect Republican’s constituents, Mayors and Governors are putting pressure on the Republicans to forget this budget foolishness, as their states, cities and counties adjust to the loss of millions of federal dollars.
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Read more here…..
http://thepoliticalpragmatic.blogspot.com/2013/03/boehner-and-ryans-debt-crisis-flip-flop.html#more
I agree with you and that suspicion is based around Rand Paul, 2014 and 2016 and the Re-branding process. Never let the public forget what the Republican party is truly about and that is obstruction, oppression, control and steal. Better yet steal, kill and destroy, that is the Republicans party mantra. Their own motives make them liars
via bj
In the six months before the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and the six weeks after the invasion (culminating in George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech), I often compared my situation in Washington to that of Jeannette Rankin, the Montana congresswoman and pacifist who voted against entry into both World War I and II. Not that I would have voted against declaring war in 1941; the comparison was to her isolation, not with her isolationism.
There were, of course, people who opposed invading Iraq—Illinois State Senator Barack Obama among them—but within political Washington, it was difficult to find like-minded foes. When The New Republic’s editor-in-chief and editor proclaimed the need for a “muscular” foreign policy, I was usually the only vocal dissenter, and the only people who agreed with me were the women on staff: Michelle Cottle, Laura Obolensky and Sarah Wildman. Both of the major national dailies—The Washington Post and The New York Times (featuring Judith Miller’s reporting)—were beating the drums for war. Except for Jessica Mathews at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington’s thinktank honchos were also lined up behind the war.
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I found fellow dissenters to the war in two curious places: the CIA and the military intelligentsia. That fall, I got an invitation to participate in a seminar at the Central Intelligence Agency on what the world would be like in fifteen or twenty years. I went out of curiosity—I don’t like this kind of speculation—but as it turned out, much of the discussion was about the pending invasion of Iraq. Except for me and the chairman, who was a thinktank person, the participants were professors of international relations. And almost all of them were opposed to invading Iraq.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112673/iraq-war-10-year-anniversary-what-it-was-oppose-it-2003#
Chips, this deserves a separate thread. Just to remind americans how the neocons fucked up their minds and their country.
Excellent piece, AMK! Thanks for sharing it. I wish someone inside the media would write about the U.S. media’s dismissal and denigration of millions and millions of people throughout the world, including hundreds of thousands here in the U.S., who protested against the war on Iraq.
I am fucking pissed off. Gunnite folks.
Good night, AMK. Don’t let things get you down.
Whoever helps Pres. Obama with his tie choices – or it may be himself – I freaking loooooove you! The person has an eye for color, fashion, patterns, detail, texture. Just wow! It’s wonderful to see such attention to detail. Fashion lovers unite!
p.s. If you’ve never seen the movie, ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ you must, must, must, MUST see it. Google it, get the synopsis, find out when HBO is showing it again (they have multiple airings) or rent it, and watch it. It is a stellar movie with a top notch cast of Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton, Ronald Pickup, and Dev Patel.
I loved that movie!!
I LOVE Bill Nighy. Will add it to my queue.
SELF-DEPORTATION ADVOCATE JEFF SESSIONS ATTACKS TOM PEREZ OVER IMMIGRATION REFORM
by Matt Hildreth
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You can’t make this stuff up. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has been living in his anti-immigrant bubble for so long, he has no idea how much the world has changed. Further proof was provided today.
On the very day that the Republican National Committee tried to distance itself from its anti-immigrant record, Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions said of President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, Tom Perez:
His views on illegal immigration are far outside the mainstream. Mr. Perez previously served as the President of the Board of Casa de Maryland, a fringe advocacy group that has instructed illegal immigrants on how to escape detection, and also promoted illegal labor sites and driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants.
Where to begin?
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Read more here….
http://americasvoiceonline.org/blog/self-deportation-advocate-jeff-sessions-attacks-tom-perez-over-immigration-reform/
Congressional Lies are Propagated by the Media
http://thepoliticalpragmatic.blogspot.com/2013/03/congressional-lies-are-propagated-by_8.html
I would consider this nothing more than gossip and none of my business, not worthy of my time. Except Bill O’Reilly has been touting his Catholic cred throughout the fight over contraception, and he thinks he has the right to dictate how everyone in America chooses to become a family. Eff you, O’Reilly:
http://gawker.com/5990571/bill-oreillys-divorce-is-so-ugly-god-got-involved
This is what happens when you turn “family values” into a political cause.
It’s none of our business how dirty O’Reilly’s divorce has become, but we know about it anyway due partly to the culture warrior himself making it an issue.
“THE SENATE CONFIRMATION PROCESS IS BADLY BROKEN”
Blunt vs. McCarthy
By Steve Benen
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And what, pray tell, is the St. Johns Bayou and New Madrid Floodway Project? I’m glad you asked: it’s a $100 million slice of pork in Missouri that even internal Army Corps of Engineers memos have described as “swine” and “a bad project.”
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Michael Grunwald’s report on this is equal parts painful and hilarious, explaining why this project is practically a case study in boondoggles, complete with Corps reports, filled with “third-grade errors,” which were ultimately rejected by a federal judge.
And if the Obama administration doesn’t resuscitate the project to Roy Blunt’s satisfaction, the Republican senator intends to block the EPA nominee.
This has been the latest installment of “The Senate Confirmation Process Is Badly Broken.”
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Read more here….
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/19/17373191-blunt-vs-mccarthy?lite
Five reasons why immigration reform is moving forward
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/19/five-reasons-why-immigration-reform-is-moving-forward/
Steve Kornacki is getting Chris Hayes weekend show.
It is difficult to tell the difference.
One wears glasses. Both are ivory tower, context- and consequences-challenged ‘intellectuals’.
Steve Kornacki is even more of a right wing apologist than Chris Hayes. What a disgrace for MSNBC.
GOP Senators Applaud RNC Election Postmortem — But Reveal Tensions Just Below The Surface
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/gop-senators-applaud-rnc-election-postmortem—-but-reveal-tensions-just-below-the-surface.php
Assault weapons ban won’t be included in Senate gun bill
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/19/assault-weapons-ban-likely-to-die-in-full-senate/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
I’m sickened by this. Yes, I know the politics, but it’s a real disgrace that our country is held hostage to the small minority of gun nuts.
It’s not ok that the Senate ignores the will of the people. Isn’t that why they exist in the first place? Maybe if people could see the damage these assault weapons do to bodies – let alone the poor little bodies of those six year olds who were ripped apart – then they would weigh the need for those “proud gun owners” against the safety of the public and especially those little kids. It’s disgusting.
Time for a massive campaign by we the people to let the Senators and Representatives know where we stand.
Chips, its great to see you back. I can tell by your banter you are feeling much better. Keep using LL, UT, LP, and AMK. They were very good. No one should work twenty-four/seven.
UT, if you are reading posts, I’d like to ask about transfering files from an HP PC to a new Mac? Can I do it? I have a cable to transfer from one PC to another but will it work with Mac? If anyone else knows the answer I would apprreciate the help. I’m not good at setting up computers. When they were simpler I could do it myself, but aging and technology has taken a toll. Is there a good book that writes about using the newest Macs? It’s much easier for me to read a book than the manuals on computer and the ink doesnt come cheap. We have a great printer and it miffs me off that it cant be used just because it’s out of date. bah humbug.
I believe it can be done. There was an instruction for it when setting up my Mac but I forget. What you should do is go to http://www.apple.com and see if they have instructions for that or you can call their customer service line. I believe you said there was no Apple store near you but if you have a Best Buy near you, their computer department will be another resource for you.
Thanks UT, but Best Buy is about 160 miles from my town. 🙂
If you have a new Mac, then you have the Mountain Lion Operating System. There’s a built-in assist there. Here’s more info:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1408
Opps, sorry, I meant to add that it’s called Migration Assistant.
Hope this helps.
TY Meta. I don’t have the Mac yet. Trying to cover everything before I commit to buy. At least I was able to download my turbo tax to my old PC so I don’t feel the pressure to buy without checking everything I can think I might need.
Go to a web site called “manualsink” You can actually buy printed manuals for a lot of stuff. We got one for our Kindle Fire. Maybe you can get one for your Mac. You can even ask questions there too & get help. Good luck!
The people who sold you the mac should be able to help you transfer files, for free, from your PC, if it’s not too ancient, to your new mac. Normally they do the transfer at the time you purchase your computer if you bring your PC to them. At least that’s what they do at the Apple store where I bought mine. If they can’t do it, they may know some computer Wiz who might help you for a small fee. This what I love about my apple store because of the elaborate technical support. So, before you go somewhere else, call them and let them know what the PC you have and what you want transferred.
ABOUT THAT GOP OUTREACH TO MINORITIES, NEVER MIND.
With Attacks On Secretary Of Labor Nominee, GOP Latino Outreach Efforts End On Day One
By LOLGOP
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Perez in many ways activates the right’s “worst fears.” As the demographic realities that challenge the GOP as a national party become more real, he is a powerful, respected Latino who can use what is left of civil rights laws to prevent the right from waging its never-ending war on minority voters.
Nowhere in its “autopsy” was the right’s failed attack on the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor or the unprecedented voter suppression campaign that began in 2011 ever mentioned. But in these direct challenges to participation in our government, Republicans send their clearest message to the Latino community: You are not welcome here.
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http://www.nationalmemo.com/with-attacks-on-secretary-of-labor-nominee-gop-latino-outreach-efforts-end-on-day-one/
I just ‘love’ how media folk have such selective memories, or selective facts really. I saw this oh so innocent tweet of Chris Matthews that has over 190 retweets and does nothing to admit that Georgie boy had loads of media help carrying out his deception.
my god, these people are sick in the head. seriously. pathological in the purest sense. look what this guy was doing back then/
http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/04/27/mission-accomplished-a-look-back-at-the-medias/135513
a small taste…
“MATTHEWS: What’s the importance of the president’s amazing display of leadership tonight?” (“mission accomplished” day)
“He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics.” (talking about w. bush)
“MATTHEWS: Ann Coulter, you’re the first to speak tonight on the buzz. The president’s performance tonight, redolent of the best of Reagan — what do you think?
COULTER: It’s stunning. It’s amazing. I think it’s huge. I mean, he’s landing on a boat at 150 miles per hour. It’s tremendous. It’s hard to imagine any Democrat being able to do that. And it doesn’t matter if Democrats try to ridicule it. It’s stunning, and it speaks for itself.”
it only gets worse at the link. matthews also said at the time w. bush should be on mt. rushmore. considering that phil donohue, keith olberman, and ed schutlz for that matter, all showed great positive gains in msnbc’s ratings while matthews shows are usually bottom-dwellers in ratings, yet they quickly hustle out those with rabid followers and positive ratings growth yet the guy with no real fan base and the worst ratings records stays, we know rating have nothing to do with it. people are paid to be on these channels to spread the propaganda of the billionaires. nothing more, nothing less. case closed.
and matthews stays for decades even. oh and he said he voted for w. bush in 2000 too. w. bush was a laughing stock even during the campaign with gore which is why he lost the popular vote to gore, and yet chris matthews found enough to like about him to vote over gore?!?! matthews the supposed liberal?!? what a joke!
Yeah he actually voted for GWB because of Clinton. This was around the time that I first started watching cable news. Matthews went after Clinton hard over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He detested the Clinton’s back then. Now he has Clinton as the “President of the World”. I swear the guy is bi-polar.
He was a big Bush supporter until the polls started showing his approval numbers were fading and David Shuster started reporting for him the lies that were coming out of the WH regarding those missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The guy has no core. He is just like Romney. He points out all the folks on the right who he thinks are being racist but yet spent all of the 2008 and part of the 2012 campaign telling us that white working class folks wouldn’t vote for PBO. He is borderline obsessed with race. Again, he is blind to the hypocrisy!
One thing that I am grateful to Matthews for is he is one of the main reasons I know longer watch cable news. He proved to me that it what goes on there is primarily infotainment and my time would be better served pushing the President’s agenda.
Chris Matthews is superficial and a bit dumb. His only strength is his experience in politics; sometimes he can give interesting assessments of how the “game” is played in Washington, because he has been there. But outside of that, what does he have ?… No analytical skills, no real logic, NO JUDGEMENT, a vulnerability to propaganda and artifice, and on and on… And he DOESN’T WORK. Well at least that’s the impression he gives me. I can’t help thinking he doesn’t inform himself. He probably checks Politico and Drudge (!) from time to time, and has many chats with people on the cocktail circuit. And that’s it. Wanna bet he doesn’t check the White House website, hasn’t read a Bill in years, doesn’t watch congressional hearings, unless there is something juicy that has been reported.
And by the way, I think Chris Matthews isn’t the only guy on TV who hasn’t any deep knowledge of the subjects they are “opiniating” about.
Ouch! That’s gotta hurt, Tweety.
Message to Chris Matthews: The scariest thing about Iraq war is how you and your friends in the Washington media bubble didn’t do your jobs and just accepted the propaganda of the Bush-Cheney operation without questioning anything.
That’s it, LP’08, and now he has the nerve to disparage the American people from whom he and his ilk withheld facts, as if he himself wasn’t majorly sold on his ‘effective commander’. The fact Matthews is nervy enough to now refer to his idol as ‘a president with limited gifts’ as if that’s how he always felt about him is just infuriating.
Well done, VC! These unethical media people must not be allowed to re-write history and cover up their cheer-leading role for the U.S. war on Iraq. Matthews is very good at that. Recently he has been in love with Bill Clinton. Yet he was one of the most severest critic of Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky affair; and even supported his impeachment.
Back soon!
Thanks, Chips, for all of the beautiful videos and photos and new posts! Welcome back!
This 16 year old girl is an amazing human being.
Charles Pierce voices anger re Iraq War ‘anniversary’
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That is, of course, all bollocks. Keller still writes a column. The Times is playing this on the downlow precisely because it never truly has atoned for its role in a fiasco. The op-ed page still welcomes submissions from people whose work on this most grotesque foreign-policy blunder should have been as definitive a career-killer as were Joe Hazlewood’s navigational abilities.
I can hardly wait for this week to end. If it’s not Dean Baquet, copping a cheap alibi for his newspaper’s unforgivable malpractice, it’s Richard Perle. who should be displayed in a pillory outside Walter Reed for the next 10 years, being allowed to vomit blood all over the op-ed section of USA Today.
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And let us not forget Perle’s onetime co-author, David Frum, who’s mysteriously been allowed through the tradesmen’s entrance back into the discourse conducted by decent people.
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http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/
this is a righteous rant of an article, full of the fury of one who has been paying attention. excellent, necessary read– skewers the media darlings who were complicit in selling the iraq war, then roasts them on a spit.
Susanne, I like your imagery. 😛
VC, Thanks for sharing Charles Pierce’s righteous anger! I hope Chipsicks features this piece on the front page. It’s truly a must read! These mfs, like Bill Keller, who have been after President Obama, were the enablers of the war on Iraq.
yes! what part of ‘we deserve a vote’ did reid not hear? so he can’t get the votes for the assault weapons ban, how about letting us see just who refuses to vote for it? quit covering for them!
Thanks for the tweet Japa. I am going to send an e-mail to my two Senators, Diane Fienstein and Barbara Boxer, urging them to demand a vote on a separate bill banning assault weapons.
Before I go computer hunting for a computer online, I’d like to vent about my experience yesterday. I haven’t read any threads since Sunday so this may have been discussed and debated, but I need to put in my measly two cents; I need to clear my head. I turned on Martin Bashir and what did I see – a Sarah Palin snippet of her speech to CPAC. I sat there and gasped and wondered what she meant by “he has a gun, but I have the rack” then takes a drink of her big gulp. My husband explained what he thought she meant by the POTUS gun reference. They show a few other snippets, and I’m soon crying about the disrespect shown by CPAC to our President. My iPad isn’t working, and it’s inconvenient to come into the office and type on the main pc. It just doesn’t work that way. What I wanted to say wouldn’t have been appropriate. I needed a time-out. Thanks for being here to listen. It breaks my heart.
Carol….
She was talking about what she and her husband gave each other for Christmas…..he gave her a gun rack and she gave him a gun.
It has nothing to do with the President…..she was making an off color remark that she gets a “rack ” which is a trailer trash comment indicating her breasts .
Linda, How lady like, what a lady. If FLOTUS talk like that of what ugly things the right wing haters would be saying about her.
I didn’t hear the part about Todd. I only heard her talking about the president.
She went Joe Wilson on the President–shouting in that squeaky and annoying voice of hers: “Barack Obama, you lied.” Now how in the world am I supposed to take this vile person seriously?
Yes, I heard that part and I thought I heard her say, he may have the gun, I have the rack. Then took a big gulp.
She was talking about her BOOBS, which seems the only part of her that isn’t borderline anorexic right now.
One thing I could never understand was this image of her as a sex goddess. Trust me, I am a straight guy who appreciates beautiful women (I think you have figured that out). But I never had one iota of attraction towards her. And when she speaks any attraction I might have had definitely disappeared.
100% agree.
I’ll sail with you on that japa21.
For the record I didn’t find her sexually attractive either. 🙄 Is the orange box not working again or is it because I’m on my PC and not my usual iPad?
Palin looks anorexic. Her large head and hair do not fit her body. Forgive me for criticizing someone’s looks, but Palin is a bad seed who criticizes PBO and anyone who gets in her way. She has an ugly soul and that makes her unattractive.
My orange box works fine. I just stepped away for a few minutes.
What did the big gulp have to do with his gun and her rack?
She was jabbing at Mayor Bloomberg and his campaign against big sodas.
She sounded like a drunk horr. Pardon my language.
It is what it is! 😆
😉 ya betcha.
Also, too! 😆
😎 Good Morning.
Hi there. You’re up early I see.
Yes, I awoke at Sunrise. Beautiful morning here. Happy Spring! 🐞
It an ice box in Chi-town. There ain’t no spring here.
Oh, I have crocus blooming.
I HATE YOU! 🙂
I too thought she had had a few cocktails! Besides, who actually knows what was in that “big gulp she took?’ After she took the “big gulp” she seemed more giddy than before.
Guess she thought Rubio was great. Why bring in Bloomberg by using the big gulp, when your entire speech roar down POTUS? Dimwit!
Sarah Palin is like a girl I knew many years ago, about whom a friend of mine said: “When she opens her mouth, her brains fall out.”
Just to be a masochist, I watched LOD’s video of SP’s “comedy” routine. It was embarrassing. Yes, the “rack”line came after a little bit about what gifts she and Todd bought for each other: “He got the gun, I got the rack.” with a knowing smirk to the audience. I don’t want to insult anyone who lives in a mobile home, but she is what we call here “Texas trailer trash.”
It’s typical Alaska. I sometimes watch the Alaska Highway Patrol and those folks up there are about 5 minutes ahead of Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty.
Sarah Palin is attractive to Tweety, Howard Fineman and Pat Buchannan and a fella on Old Orange known as BrooklynBadBoy.
Why am I not surprised?
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Some people apparently like Trailer Trash.
You make a good point, Tally. This reminds of that National Review guy (I forgot his name) who couldn’t control himself during the 2008 Vice Presidential debates because he thought Sarah Palin was winking at him personally.
Hey, Japa, thanks for courageously speaking up for some of us men! Sarah Palin to me is more annoying than attractive
Excellent tweets today by our President. I’m retweeting them all. Thanks UT!
All hands on deck…
Put it in Wayne LaPierres bed! 😉
Steve Kernacke (sp) gets the job to host the week-end show on MSNBC ‘Up”, that was hosted by Chris Hayes, who’s been given the weekday evening slot formerly held by Ed Schultz. The weekend show will be called ‘Up With Steve Kernacke’.
(Who said run on sentences aren’t your friend?)
Good. These lineups give me a lot more free time, here in the “real world.” #NotMyCupOfTea
(Your sentences are fine with me! Ha!)
I guess MSNBC wants to up its viewership and dissemination of Libertarian propaganda – what better way to undermine Democrats for 2014.
Roland Martin is out at CNN
She is my Senator. I’ve sent her an e-mail, along with Senator Boxer, urging them to do exactly what you are proposing. It’s time to know the Senators who are opposed to the ban on military style assault weapons that usually end up killing innocent people, including precious children. We need their names on record!
aye aye Mr. Yardarm
Hey you. R U getting my e-mails?
True Confessions….I only use that email addy for things involving this site. So yesterday I checked out my emails and was cleaning up things and found a whole slew of your emails in my spam folder. I’m not sure how you got there but they were going to my junk mail. I’ve changed your setting so I’ll be seeing them in my regular inbox from now on. Your stuff is priceless 🙂
DD4O, did you see the stuff I sent for CK?
Nope. I haven’t rec’d any emails from you since just before the Inauguration. Can you send me a test email so I can see if it comes through? This is weird 😦
Test email sent…..over and out! 😉
Thanks. I was beginning to think I was a dud. 🙂
Hiya everyone, will be back in a bit, just want to check, has anyone had any contact with Joan Shaw recently? Trying to make contact, but no success yet. Thanks.
Now that you mention it – haven’t seen her in a while. Hope she’s okay and just very busy. Hope you (or someone) hear from her soon.
Great tweet, Bob! I think it’s time for the majority of Americans to make sure their voices are heard by members of Congress. It’s not enough to cite polls. This is a time for some sustained and meaningful direct action from the majority of citizens.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/03/19/1741971/how-the-nra-secretly-protects-people-who-commit-crimes-with-guns/
We really must come up with a different strategy to effectively counter the NRA lobby! How about a massive campaign with petitions,
e-mails, faxes, tweets, etc., to let all law makers know that we are angry that they are not dealing with a ban on assault weapons? Why can’t we organize massive protests at offices of Senators and Congressmen demanding action on the assault weapons ban? At this time, I really don’t want to know what the NRA is doing. What I want to know is what we are doing to counter the NRA.
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Oh, thank you meta. My orange notify box isn’t showing. The sight is very hard to navigate on my PC. I really appreciate your advice.
You’re very welcome. I hope it helps.
Can someone correct me if I’m wrong on this – my understanding was that the AWB wasn’t simply dropped (as has been reported in the MSM), but will be brought to the floor for a vote as a stand-alone bill, separate from the base bill with all the other provisions like background checks, etc.?
It will be offered as an amendment but really its probably dead. GOP won’t vote for it.
But it’s the same idea..bring it to a vote and let the Republicans vote against it. Why is this cowardly?
It’s the way its being reported. All the headlines say ‘Dems drop assault weapons ban’. Folks aren’t reading the story. There is cause for concern though because universal background checks might not make it either and that’s actually more important than assault weapons ban.
I say forget what’s being reported! We the people must start demanding action. period. I am sorry, gobrooklyn because my response is not aimed at you for accurately reporting reality. Rather, it’s aimed at all of us, including me. Most of what I’ve been reading here is what the NRA is doing, or what the Republicans are doing, or how Reid and the Democrats are caving, etc., etc. My question is what are we doing in response? How have we answered the President’s call to us to reclaim our citizenship and act accordingly? To be honest, I don’t have an answer. All I know is that I am going to bombard my U.S. Senators, and Representatives to demand serious action on guns. There are more Americans who are non-gun owners than there are gun owners. There also many gun owners who don’t support the idea of allowing ordinary citizens to posses military assault weapons. And, as our Bobfr has been relentlessly trying to teach us, the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms is premised on the idea that it’s necessary to have “A well REGULATED militia” to ensure “the security of a free state….” No where in the Second Amendment does it say that the people have unlimited right to own all types of arms. If that were the case, then we would have no problem with billionaires owning tanks, stinger missiles, or even nuclear weapons.
HF, I was trying to find more on this across the web. No clarity yet.
It is to be offered as amendment. I would prefer stand alone bill. I can understand why it was pulled from the buill, as it would have doomed the overall bill which does have some good stuff. However, I want there to be a vote and preferably as a stand alone. I want the GOP and certain Dems to be forced to take a side. As mentioned in my tyweet to Feinstein, even in red states, people are for it.
Ok – thanks gobrooklyn and Japa for the clarification. I do prefer a standalone bill and I hope Feinstein and Reid see the necessity of doing it that way even if they know that the GOP (and certain DEMS) will vote it down.
Malala Yousafzai attends first day at Edgbaston High School in Birmingham
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-21846817
I just saw on that piece of crap channel MSNBC, that the Easter Egg Roll will go ahead on Republicans Day, April Fool’s Day. April 1st. And let me say that is good to hear.
PAUL RYAN’S ROMNESIA PROBLEM
The man with the worst memory in American politics
By Steve Benen
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It’s not just today, either. Ryan keeps reinforcing suspicions that his memory is alarmingly bad.
Ryan doesn’t remember that he used to refer to his own plan to end Medicare as “vouchers.”
Ryan doesn’t remember taking credit for the sequestration policy he later condemned.
Ryan doesn’t remember learning about Democratic alternatives to the sequester.
Ryan doesn’t remember what happened with the 2011 “super committee.”
Ryan doesn’t remember Bill Clinton’s tax increases.
Ryan doesn’t remember the times he condemned social-insurance programs as “taker” programs.
Ryan doesn’t remember all of the times he appealed to the Obama administration for stimulus funds for his congressional district.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/19/17374249-the-man-with-the-worst-memory-in-american-politics
Time to start calling Senators again. We can’t just blast Harry Reid.
Any word from LL about Mrs. LL?
I don’t think we’ve had any word today.
President Obama looks like a nice piece of peppermint/spearmint dipped in chocolate. Sooooo cool and refreshing.
I’ll take him on my pillow any day.
Yeah, I said it.
Mr. Yardarm, your naughty mat services are urgently needed over here….
Heads up!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/03/19/heads-up-the-st-patricks-day-reception-at-the-white-house/