No one can say Michael Moore doesn’t deliver a heartfelt plea to Pres. Obama. However, it’s not Barack Obama’s fault if Moore and a multitude of others thought Barack Obama was someone he isn’t. When we hit Afghanistan it was because of 9/11. Anyone who forgets that is just rewriting history, which I assure you [...]
Archive | November, 2009
Is Freedom Only for Men?
That’s the first question I’d ask the right. After all, they’re the ones that dragged us into this mess in the first place. …and by “right,” I mean both Republicans and Democrats, because women have clearly got enemies on our side these days. If the answer is no, then I’d say that ends it for [...]
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Talking Women, Health Care and Civil Rights with Rosie O’Donnell
updated Rosie read “In Pelosi’s House, 64 Democrats Sell Women Out” over at Huffington Post, enjoying it very much, which was the jumping off point for the interview with Rosie on health care. As an aside, Wednesday, December 2nd, is going to be a lobby and national action day in D.C. on the issue of [...]
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Happy Hanukkah, Mr. Netanyahu
Okay, so it’s not December 11th yet, but the news that Ahmadinejad is puffing up his presidential feathers is bound to make Bibi Netanyahu feel he’s got leverage that he didn’t when Iran’s president first said he’d accept to enrich his nuclear material elsewhere. From the Washington Post: Iran’s government will build 10 new sites [...]
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Jon Meacham Turns Newsweek into The Onion
In the quest to sell magazines, evidently Mr. Meacham thinks train wreck journalism is the way to go. So, he’s turning Newsweek into The Onion, with no offense intended to the far superior latter named, whose mission is actually purposefully on point. The title tells it all: Why Dick Cheney Should Run in 2012. But [...]
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Holiday Slackin’
Glenn Beck disses Sarah Palin. Seriously, could politics on the right get any lower? When asked about the whole Palin-Beck, Beck-Palin ticket, Glenn revealed his inner fundamentalism. No on around here is shocked. Via Think Progress: She’d be yapping or something, and I’d say, “I’m sorry, why am I hearing your voice? I’m not in [...]
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Thanksgiving, the Soldiers, and that Eleanor Roosevelt Quote
Sometimes Google search results from the Internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries. We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google. – Google If you want to know what powerful women are up against, this photo gives you an example. I’m thankful that [...]
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Right Wing Frenzy on UK Climate Scandal Begins
updated The latest is a UK report saying the scientist at the center of “climategate” has been told to quit. That likely won’t make a dent on the right, if Rush Limbaugh’s show yesterday is any indication. With Obama’s decision today to attend Copenhagen surely to ignite a wider furor (update to original post). Driving [...]
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Obama on Afghanistan: ‘It is my intention to finish the job.’
Reported live from the White House. “Our core goal is to achieve peace and security for all peoples of the region.” – Pres. Obama The most important thing Pres. Obama said about Afghanistan is that “It is my intention to finish the job.” For more see Jake Tapper, with ABC News having video. When Mark [...]
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Howard Dean: Dems will ‘Rue the Day They Didn’t Go To Budget Reconciliation to Pass This Bill’
Howard Dean this morning with Dylan Ratigan. It makes me think back to when this all began. Pres. Obama didn’t want to go down the Clinton road, understandably, to write the bill out of the White House. The first time ended horribly. So, he stayed out of it, letting Congress do its thing, committee by [...]
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All Out of Love
Coming after China “jammed” Pres. Obama with the “press conference” anything but a press conference, no questions, just monologues, James Fallows offers his continuing rebuttal of Obama’s “manufactured failure,” which is now in part 5. Meanwhile, Afghanistan questions continue, with a 9th meeting on AfPak scheduled for tonight in the Situation Room. Pres. Obama is [...]
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Tough Out There
The reviews on Pres. Obama’s Asia tour have been very mixed. But none were as harsh as Saturday Night Live, which channeled the feeling of many of us when it comes to where the White House has been on economics, particularly when juxtaposed against how people are experiencing the financial straights of this year. But [...]
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MSNBC this Afternoon
bumped I’ll be on after 3:30 pm today, subject is 9/11 and the trials A.G. Holder just announced. Will it be real or propaganda tool for the extremists? Nov. 23: Addressing reporters after a White House Cabinet meeting, President Obama says, “I will not rest until business are investing again, and businesses are hiring again.” [...]
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Murder at Dealey Plaza
The first time I saw Dealey Plaza was this past summer. It’s remarkable how unremarkable the area is after all of these years. You can visit the place of John F. Kennedy’s murder, which happened 46 years ago today, seeing it as close to what it was so long ago, with little but time having [...]
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Saddle Up, Here Comes Trigger
In the process of getting health care to move forward, truth broke out and so did a little nastiness between two seniors at the seat of power. One in the Senate, the other at the top of the elite Washington traditional press. We’ll get to that in a minute. First, the news that we get [...]
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TM Must Reads
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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