Glenn Beck\’s just Jealous of Keith Beck goes after Olbermann. It\’s not a fair match, because Beck isn\’t armed. He\’s just jealous, because Rolling Stone didn\’t interview him. An unfamiliar viewer tuning in to Keith Olbermann\’s prime-time news program on MSNBC, Countdown, might, at first glance, assume he was watching a highly traditional broadcaster. Olbermann [...]
Archive | February, 2007
A License to Kill
A License to Kill guest post by Mash On April 16, 1993 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 819. In it the Security Council demanded: …that all parties and others concerned treat Srebrenica and its surroundings as a safe area which should be free from any armed attack or any other hostile act A [...]
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Walter Reed to Wounded Soldiers: SHUT UP!
Walter Reed to Wounded Soldiers: SHUT UP! –updated below– That was a quick about face. If you don\’t like the press you\’re getting, muzzle the messenger. Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready [...]
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Paralyzed
Paralyzed –updated below– cross-posted on Huffington Post Iraq Bill Vexes Democrats? It\’s hard not to quote an article with a title like this one, because unfortunately Congress\’s actions match the message. Putting Iraq war legislation on the table, fighting for and voting on it \”vexes\” Democrats? Awww. Well then, I say we put uniforms on [...]
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Bush Recession Looming
Bush Recession Looming –updated below– Danger signs everywhere. Biggest slam since 9/11. Trading curbs were in place today. Dow plummets 416 points on huge China sell-off. Shares of Chinese Internet stocks plunged Tuesday amid market declines around the world, over concerns about economic slowdowns in China and the U.S. Chinese stocks tumbled nearly 9 percent [...]
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Tap Dancing into Talks
Tap Dancing into Talks As Afghanistan gets more dangerous, Kissinger\’s influence is felt. The Bush administration has agreed to sit around a negotiating table with official representatives of Iran and Syria next month — as part of a planned regional conference in Baghdad to discuss ways to stabilize Iraq. In joining the Baghdad conference, the [...]
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Harry’s Huddle
Harry\’s Huddle People need to quit referring to Joe Lieberman as a \”Democratic hawk.\” He\’s simply a stubborn jackass who can\’t admit the plan for Iraq is wrong. Period. Just because you won\’t turn away from a war dragging your country down doesn\’t make you a \”hawk.\” It just makes you dumber than dirt. James [...]
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Disgruntled America
Disgruntled America There\’s this poll out today showing that the majority of Americans think Mr. Bush\’s leadership on Iraq just plain stinks, with 53% wanting a deadline for troop withdrawal from Iraq. But an article earlier this morning on WashingtonPost.com offered a cold reality for Democrats as well, especially those leading us in Congress. With [...]
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A Case for Withdrawal from Iraq
A Case for Withdrawal from Iraq –bumped– guest post by Mash The Bush Administration has been very successful in controlling the debate on the Iraq war. In a remarkable bit of political jujitsu the Administration pivoted from the findings of the Iraq Study Group that the United States should withdraw from Iraq to a debate [...]
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Record Defense Spending, Less Security
Record Defense Spending, Less Security Expert guest post by Charles V. Peña Straus Military Reform Project Adviser As many have expected, President George W. Bush has asked Congress for an additional $93 billion in supplemental funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for this fiscal year, on top of the $70 billion already approved. [...]
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Al Gore is a Winner
Classic. He started talking then the orchestra interrupted. The announcement that was never going to come was on everyone\’s mind. It still is. Al Gore\’s exciting win at the Oscars was such a feel good moment. I hope a lot of people head over to Climate Crisis tonight. Then, of course, came Scorsese. But it [...]
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The New Sunni-Shiite Cold War
The New Sunni-Shiite Cold War VIDEO of Hersh on Iran We can only hope it\’s a cold war. Think Iraq, only imagine the religious, tribal and sectarian carnage expanded throughout the Middle East. Got that picture? Welcome to Mr. Bush\’s long-term plan for the Middle East, pitting Sunnis and Shia in the hopes of allying [...]
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And the Winner is…
As far as I\’m concerned, movies are America. I\’ve made no secret about it. I love them and simply cannot imagine life without them. Even when they\’re bad it\’s always fun to watch them. My life today would be so different if I hadn\’t discovered the movies when I was young. They\’ve been a passion [...]
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Bush and al-Hakim: Master Slave Dialectic
Bush and al-Hakim: Master Slave Dialectic guest post by Mash Iraq is being torn apart while George W Bush and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim enable each other. As the Hadley memo points out, Mr. Bush is counting on Mr. Hakim to deliver an Iraq that can \”govern itself, sustain itself, and defend itself.\” Mr. Hakim, for [...]
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Fear & Loathing in the Las Vegas Political Jungle
Fear & Loathing in the Las Vegas Political Jungle –updated– a guest post by citizen activist and Nevadan, veteran Johnathan L. Abbinett FoxAttacksBEWARE! There’s danger and political duplicity in the desert. There is a new urban jungle political war being waged in Nevada, largely in Las Vegas and Clark County and political animals of every [...]
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TM Must Reads
IN AN amazing interview with the Guardian on Sunday titled, appropriately, “Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus,” the movie star does the biggest public service message for HPV and sexually transmitted diseases that’s been done in a generation. The Internet exploded with shock at what was taken as a revelation. It’s like thinking giving head to a man infected with HIV won’t leave its mark, too, though that’s more commonly talked about.
Ms Garraway, 46, is fronting a campaign to encourage young women to think about fertility and giving birth much younger than “her generation”. As part of the campaign, Ms Garraway spent a day being transformed into a heavily pregnant 70 year-old by Adrian Rigby, a prosthetic make-up artist, to “shock and provoke debate about how old is too old to have a baby”. [UK Telegraph] LOOKING at relationships, I find it telling that casual writers on the subject give marriage advice that hinges on bringing back the feminine mystique years and suggesting marrying younger would solve the problems that only better and smarter choices can conquer.
THE 21st century world offers ways to tweak your appearance, or alter it altogether, with women finally able to combat directly the comparison that’s always been around. Men look distinguished as they age, while women look old, unattractive, or to use Rush Limbaugh’s favorite comment, who wants to look at a woman with wrinkles? The 2012 plastic surgery statistics are out and the American Society of Plastic Surgery tells the story.
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been going on.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
“Norma Rae is a survivor and for the first time in her life she’s got a chance to become something more… a winner.” – Promo for “Norma Rae” CRITICS like Anne-Marie Slaughter, but especially Maureen I-Love-My-Pearls Dowd, and others [most of whom didn't read the book or do their homework] who are blaming Sheryl Sandberg for being a billionaire Ivy League graduate, while accusing her of letting corporations and government off the hook, are missing a major point.
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle or two, and queue up a sexy playlist on your iPod.
“You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song.
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the times.
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what nobody in Congress or either political party has shown in decades. Leadership without regard to anything but his own duty to the people, which included the cops in the eye of volcanic carnage.
“Rick Doblin has done a lot for the field, but he is more of a populist,” Grob says. “We need careful and controlled scientific studies showing the efficacy of these drugs so funding can continue.” Broader awareness of these sorts of end-of-life psychedelic studies could be good for everyone, the researchers say.
*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature.
**UPDATED** Would we be any worse off with Stephen Colbert as president? I doubt it. Politifact has watched the video “(repeatedly!
Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%). – Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits This is starting early, so it’s time to revisit the facts.
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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