HULK SMASH
Cripes!
the bastard will rot in hell (if hell exists,of course. If not...tar and feathers!)
Evil walrus.
Bonjour Snow, my sweet pussycat 
Curly, again.
[shakes fist]
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Friedman is very serious and shit like that.
Well, I said as much a couple threads back.
And, a pictorial of my morning, part one.
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Way ahead of you, my friend.
Sinfonian, in meeting hell | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 12:57 pm | #
OK, how about this one:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/...g/ s_522725.html
Bjorn,a poor young country boi | 08.18.07 - 1:00 pm | #
what. a. sick. fuck.
"We" could hit Australia. That'd be a lot of fun.
Poor Tom, he's taken abuse for his public support of the war!! I weep for him. But, he remains pure.
I'd hit Australia.
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what a nice man.
not a psychopath, no, not at all.
Jeffraham! Can i adopt Curly when you're done with him?
and i'm confused, you have 2 scooters now?
Pithy sum of the Bush admin I think: "Why did you do ___ Georgie?" "Because I can."
All signs point to "pretty hideous human being, one which all good people should shun."
preach it brother Atrios
That Charlie was what this war was about. We could've hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.
iraq - the sandy greneda
Atrios is doing some seriously good blogging today.
Bonjour, plum.
Friedman has too much of his previous writings invested in the war in Iraq.
He'd lose so much face if he admitted he was wrong, so he does what any egotistical prick would do.
He lies and says the fucking disaster that is Iraq was the wise thing to do.
I gotta go do things. Laters, all.
hey Moe! long time no see. Bush is in Montebello this week. The little Québec town is becoming a bunker. Lots of protests in perspective.
Atrios is doing some seriously good blogging today.
Alice
especially the gambas rojas
Let's just build a giant electric fence around the RNC and throw in food once a day:
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/sto...948161&
nav=0Ra7
That Charlie was what this war was about. We could've hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.
perfectly catches the spirit of a lynch mob.
plum p: Jeffraham! Can i adopt Curly when you're done with him?
It may be 15 years or so...
and i'm confused, you have 2 scooters now?
Yep -- a new, fast (when not broken down), broken-down Kymco scooter, and the used Vino that I bought in April, which has a top speed of 25mph on level ground.
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That's a good one, Bjorn.
I just sent the link to my DFH friend from Erie. 
Pithy sum of the Bush admin I think: "Why did you do ___ Georgie?" "Because I can."
tikistitch | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:03 pm | #
"we crapped all over the constitution because we could"
Michael Deaver has passed onto whatever awaits.
There is something truly f*cked up about American food. It's making us all fat. And unhappy. And Republican.
It's making some doctors rich. The highest paid medical profession on average (in the US) is gastroenterology, not far down the list are cardiac docs.
Both would have less work if Americans ate more of the kind of food Atrios has been showing us from his trip to Spain.
Doug | 08.18.07 - 1:05 pm
lichtenstien: you're next, muthafuckers.
In the immortal words of Brion Gysin:
"Man is a Bad Animal"
Roseanne Barr was on the Bill Maher show a couple months back. I'm not a big Roseanne fan, but she was awesome. When the panelists came up with Friedman-esque crap, instead of trying to be all nice, like everyone treats everybody on TV, even madmen like Friedman, she'd be all, "You're crazy!" It was incredibly awkward and wonderful. I want Roseanne on every single network news show ever to just irritate all those guys.
We" could hit Australia. That'd be a lot of fun.
Moe Szyslak | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:01 pm
How about New Zealand? I'd like to rule at least part of New Zealand.
I'd be benevolent. Really.
GOP police blotter, Michael Deaver edition:
"Deaver's own image suffered a setback in 1987. He was convicted on three of five counts of perjury stemming from statements to a congressional subcommittee and a federal grand jury investigating his lobbying activities with administration officials."
Friedman has the same "fist-pumping" male inadequacy issues as Lieberman.
According to Friedman, the US can do whatever it chooses to do because we're the SUPERPOWER.
Ergo: we are beyond morality, beyond trifling debate, we decide, others die.
But we'e excused cuz' we're trying to make the world "a better place!"
(For who?)
Let's just build a giant electric fence around the RNC and throw in food once a day:
Bjorn
great idea!
by the way, everytime i see you here, i start whistling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5...related&
search=
i love that track!
We needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take out a very big state right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble, and there was only one way to do it.
Yeah, "bet the house" is a fantastic foreign policy posture for the US.
It's making some doctors rich. The highest paid medical profession on average (in the US) is gastroenterology
Really? Funny. I work with gut doctors (they spend their days pulling cancers out of you don't wanna know where). I should ask 'em for a loan.
i love that track!
plum p, who loves Al Gore | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:08 pm | #
And they say kids today can't make music!
I knew Friedman was a very very bad person when his bletherings were recommended as "top shelf" by one of the Borg's up and coming managers.
Xan here?
I'll respond to your scooter question over at the other place...
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, she'd be all, "You're crazy!" It was incredibly awkward and wonderful. I want Roseanne on every single network news show ever to just irritate all those guys.
tikistitch | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:07 pm | #
roseanne doesn't beat around the bush.
(that would be rosie)
Makes me so sad to think people I like actually respected that prick.
"What's happening is very rational in a capitalist system."
- Idiot on CNN
It is not rational. Greed is not rational.
According to Friedman, the US can do whatever it chooses to do because we're the SUPERPOWER.
Not much different than what's always passed for loyalty to your king, or patriotism to your country.
You are not supposed to complain that your leaders have gotten their country stuck in another dumb fucking war, if you are one of the serfs.
And they say kids today can't make music!
Bjorn
i never say that! I have my own radio show every thursdays, since 1993!
That's not fist-pumping. That's wanking.
The Moustache of death is equal parts evil and stupid.
Plus, he's from Cockeysville:
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.c...ives/
120115.asp
ErinPDX
mrs g is in portland today.
*sigh*
time for a kitten break, from Lisbon!
http://www.dailykitten.com/
i never say that! I have my own radio show every thursdays, since 1993!
plum p, who loves Al Gore
I have my own radio show every Monday since ... July.
i never say that! I have my own radio show every thursdays, since 1993!
plum p, who loves Al Gore | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:11 pm | #
OK, call me ignorant, but post the link.
time for a kitten break, from Lisbon!
we should invade lisbon.
because we can.
Roseanne was always a so-so comedian to me in those sitcoms she was in. But turn her loose in a talk panel and she'll melt the ass of any moron or Gooper or others of their ilk, just like it was made of candle wax.
Twelve year-old Lieberman, stately senator:
Lieberman likes expressions of American power. A few years ago, I was in a movie theatre in Washington when I noticed Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, a few seats down. The film was “Behind Enemy Lines,” in which Owen Wilson plays a U.S. pilot shot down in Bosnia. Whenever the American military scored an onscreen hit, Lieberman pumped his fist and said, “Yeah!” and “All right!”
Roseanne was always a so-so comedian to me in those sitcoms she was in.
but hilarious on the standup circuit
I work with gut doctors
I don't have the stats in front of me (you can google for them if you like)
but I think I've seen 4 or 5 hundred thousand a year as an average income number. Not too bad for a stinky job.
I have my own radio show every Monday since ... July.
Fuck you, Sinf.
So you think Roseanne's comments about gays and lesbians being selfish was a valid point? Would you have accepted it coming from an evangelical--as it has? Just askin'?
roseanne is very smart and very funny.
doesn't mean she can act.
According to Friedman, the US can do whatever it chooses to do because we're the SUPERPOWER.
Guys like Friedman believe that the best model for US foreign policy is to follow how alpha-male chimpanzees behave in the jungle.
Wow. I just read that Brazil's healthcare system will now cover sex change surgery, for free.
Their constitution guarantees medical care as a basic right.
A panel of federal judges there has given the government 30 days to offer the procedure or face fines of $5000(US) a day, but the health minister was already planning to include the procedures.
The court's ruling said "from the biomedical perspective, transsexuality can be described as a sexual identity disturbance where individuals need to change their sexual designation or face serious consequences in their lives, including intense suffering, mutilation and suicide.
This was from the AP in my Tulsa World newspaper.
Can you even imagine a country like that?
I may be charged with misdemeanors, but at least they're not felonies. Vote for me!
http://www.mysanantonio.com/
news...od.332999c.html
Roseanne was always a so-so comedian to me in those sitcoms she was in. But turn her loose in a talk panel and she'll melt the ass of any moron or Gooper or others of their ilk, just like it was made of candle wax.
I think in order to be a pundit on any TV show, you should first have to spend an hour on live TV in front of a panel consisting of John Stewart & Roseanne.
Not too bad for a stinky job.
Doug
Plumbers make good money.
I have my own radio show every Monday since ... July.
Sinfonian
and i haven't had the chance to listen, bad moi.
OK, call me ignorant, but post the link.
Bjorn
click on my link, and then top left "écoutez la radio en direct". It's on thursdays at 11pm, Montréal time. British indie is my format.
was it this blog or another where the guy posted about seeing tom friedman on the street & saying 'youre tom friedman" & friedman freakin out & screaming "who the fuck are you?!?!?"
plum p - For you.
NTodd, start your own show. I'll listen, as I'm sure many of us will.
I'll even call in.
Also, fuck you.
Roseanne was always a so-so comedian
Yeah... but I love the line from her early stand up days when she said:
"Some people say I'm not very lady-like.. well those people can just suck my dick."
*sigh*
dirk gently, sociopathetic©
neat! Might be a little shower but refreshingly cool. A conference?
Can you even imagine a country like that?
Sure. I've seen pictures of carnival.
I don't have the stats in front of me (you can google for them if you like) but I think I've seen 4 or 5 hundred thousand a year as an average income number. Not too bad for a stinky job.
My colleagues work at a VA hospital, so prolly take in less. But the guys who have a little cottage industry giving colonoscopies? Yup, I totally believe it.
So you think Roseanne's comments about gays and lesbians being selfish was a valid point?
didn't see the show but a) i've heard it from gay comics (and kathy griffen) and yes its different than hearing it from falwell
and b) every person or group is either good or evil is the bush way of thinking. if friedman ever says anything intelligent, i'll agree with it. iirc, he did once back in the 90s.
I think in order to be a pundit on any TV show, you should first have to spend an hour on live TV in front of a panel consisting of John Stewart & Roseanne.
tikistitch
Hear! Hear! I'd pay to see Bobo or Georgie Will tell their usual stupid lies to those two!
nuncamas--brazil's healthcare system may cover sex change operations, but it is an inefficient element of an inefficient social system. their pension systems are some of the most generous in the world--but studies show they benefit the wealthy more than the poor or middle class; their education system is slanted solely toward the wealthy, with underfunded primary and secondary education (where the rich send their kids to private schools) but free higher education for those who qualify--which is the wealthy. the poor in brazil must pay for private, substandard high education. they have policies that limit competition to keep the wealthy rich and the poor poor. they tax more than most countries but give so much to the upper classes through "social" programs that they have no money for roads, for hospitals, for infrastructure. brazil also has a human slavery problem that they have been relatively unwilling to address.
Edwards calls Ann Coulter 'she-devil'
"Former Sen. John Edwards on Friday fired the latest round in his ongoing verbal feud with Ann Coulter, calling her a 'she-devil' at a public event before quickly adding that he shouldn't engage in name-calling," according to a blog post at ABC News. Excerpts:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/
Ed...devil_0818.html
Deaver's brain has been removed and will be surgically crammed into Rove's capacious skull.
Rove will be back tapdancing at the next DC Politico-Infotainwhore Dinner-- no flash photography allowed.
dirk--as a gay man, i wasn't offended by roseanne's comment. in factg, i think it's a bit true. i'm by no means a log cabin republican but at least i give these guys a bit of credit for having more than a monolithic approach to being gay.
personally, i love roseanne, her stand-up (saw her years ago opening for suzanne sommers in vegas along with father guido sarduchi), and her show.
neat! Might be a little shower but refreshingly cool. A conference?
ErinPDX | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:18 pm | #
no, pure vacation. she was visiting our grandkids in sacramento, timed it to when her friend from burkina faso was going to be in portland, where my brother lives too.
she forgot to bring warm clothes tho - it's been hovering near 100 here - when i talked to her this morning she had goose bumps that were not of my making.
iraq - the quicksandy greneda
dirk gently, sociopathetic©
fondled your topiary
I must add Freidman to the list:
"Everthing that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Freidman, et al prophisied that would come to pass in Iraq, hasn't.
Everthing that Howard Dean prophisied would come to pass in Iraq, has.
And they call Dr. Dean, 'The Crazy One'?"
did anyone se the end of my tag? i seem to have misplaced it.
Yeah, we could have picked Saudi Arabia, but for some odd reasons, we didn't.
plum p - For you.
GWPDA
oh merci! I would love one of them! But Henriette is not interested.
For the record, Brazil has the largest Catholic population in the world.
Law and order, publican style:
"City Councilman Dennis P. Gallagher has been indicted by a Queens grand jury investigating rape allegations against him, the councilman and his lawyer confirmed yesterday. The indictment remained sealed yesterday and Mr. Gallagher, a Queens Republican, said he did not know what charges were handed up."
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/
ab...DA10894DF404482
fondled your topiary
Lumpenprolitariot
hey - no stroking my bush without permission.
"Well suck on this." He actually said that? Macho must be the last, desperate pose of the effete.
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For the record, Brazil has the largest Catholic population in the world.
Sinfonian, in meeting hell
some of them are nearly seven feet tall.
Okay, lunchtime.
Talk to you patriotz laterz.
Fuck you, NTodd.
another pro-war Arab-hating Jewish American. How many does that make?
Perle, Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams, Scooter Libby - am I forgetting anyone?
"She-devil" is mild compared to what I call Coulter. Mine is more like a four letter word and it rhymes with "runt."
brazil has the largest catholic population, but polls show that most of them are non-practicing. it is just about the least catholic place i've been to--at least the major cities. there is nothing holy about rio, which is why it is so damn fun.
Edwards is way off base here. Coulter should be referred to as a "he"-devil only.
"Bye 'bats! Gotta go excavate our living room so the French people will have some place to sit down. (Wonder if this qualifies me as a 9/11 rescue worker, should ask Rudy.)
I feel like I should spend this day pooping and sleeping.
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i will do something unheard of: praise Dell!
they've chosen "the w.a.n.d." by the Flaming Lips for their autumn tv ad campain. It plays every 10 minutes here on local tv. I love The Lips with a passion. And that song is political as well! So Dell: right on!
here's roseanne's blog...
she's hip to the sitch.
http://roseanneworld.com/blog/index.php
"She-devil" is mild compared to what I call Coulter. Mine is more like a four letter word and it rhymes with "runt."
I think the word is "bint" not "bunt".
I've read recently however about Lula's reforms which are now benefitting a whole lot of the poor in the Northeast. They get a monthly stipend and the schools have been improved for the poor.
I haven't been there in a long time, but the gap between the very rich and the unimaginably poor has been ever thus.
I feel like I should spend this day pooping and sleeping.
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:25 pm | #
I do them simultaneously
/Vitter
plum p: they've chosen "the w.a.n.d." by the Flaming Lips for their autumn tv ad campain. It plays every 10 minutes here on local tv. I love The Lips with a passion. And that song is political as well! So Dell: right on!
Is that the one with the babes putting a red and black engine into a notebook? I thought that tune might be an old Devo tune.
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Gotta go do stuff.
Laters.
dirk--as a gay man, i wasn't offended by roseanne's comment. in factg, i think it's a bit true. i'm by no means a log cabin republican but at least i give these guys a bit of credit for having more than a monolithic approach to being gay.
sorry - then i don't understand the point of your initial post (unless it was to be provacative/pick a fight) and i'm not sure i know what you mean in this one. "a monolithic approach to being gay?" as if sexual orientation has anything to do with approach to fiscal policy?
i only have two issues with log cabin republicans. 1) they are republicans and 2) they belong to a party whose official platform is to treat them as less than full citizens.
(i like lists)
nuncamas--lula's social programs are marginal at best. where he has most helped the poor is by adopting conservative fiscal policies (in the sense that he hasn't been running bigger deficits) and in having a central bank that controls inflation. people are now investing in brazil, which is helping growth and helping the poor. businesses are more willing to hire people now, even with some of the most restrictive labor laws in the world, because things are a bit more stable. still, brazil has one of the worst income inequalities in the world and that isn't changing.
The RNC is clearly deserving of RICO status:
Cooper started crafting the scheme in September 2004 after winning the Republican primary for the Missouri House,
http://www.semissourian.com/stor...ry/
1245892.html
Is that the one with the babes putting a red and black engine into a notebook? I thought that tune might be an old Devo tune.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
well maybe that's an exclusive canadian tv ad campaign. This is The Flaming Lips song i'm talking about. Listen to the lyrics, it's a call for pitchfork! (or in this Harry Potter world:wands)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9...h?
v=9fcheMyNsN4
i liked this post on roseanne's blog.
http://www.roseanneworld.com/blo.../
in_english.php
dirk--
most gays who are at all political (and few of my gay friends are--which may be why they are my friends) have only one thing that matters to them--issues relating to gay rights. i'm not downplaying this importance--it's very important--but i rarely hear them talk about the poor, talk about the war (unless it is don't ask, don't tell), the environment. they want all this pro-gay legislation but think they have no other responsibilities in the world. i think it's not the most attractive part of the community. that's all i meant by monolithic. most gays think all gays should only think of gay rights. some of us think of other issues, too, issues that may even be more important to us than same sex marriage.
they've chosen "the w.a.n.d." by the Flaming Lips for their autumn tv ad campain.
my son is the artistic director of a little avante garde theater here, and they put on a dance show to "the pink robots" album. it was amazing.
they got there just in time, b/c about a week after they got the rights someone decided to do it on broadway. don't know if that came off, but it would have prevented them from doing it.
plum p: well maybe that's an exclusive canadian tv ad campaign. This is The Flaming Lips song i'm talking about. Listen to the lyrics, it's a call for pitchfork! (or in this Harry Potter world:wands)
Yep; different commercial, different tune. I'm not even sure if the one I'm talking about is for Dell, as opposed to HP, etc.
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don't know if that came off, but it would have prevented them from doing it.
dirk gently
soooo coool!
now it's my turn to abandon you to go light bulb and food shopping. Yes, i'm buying Al Gore light bulbs, don't worry!
see ya lot later
Armstrong to buttonhole candidates.
story @ 11.
Michael Deaver, one of Ronald Reagan's closest advisers, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 69.
Freeze the brain so we can document the atrocities later.
As for Friedman, he's a sick rich white fuck and if there's any justice he shits his last shit alone on a cholera cot under the blazing sun.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story....an/
5061221.html
PEARLAND — Korean War veteran Nyles Reed, 75, opened an envelope last week to learn a Purple Heart had been approved for injuries he sustained as a Marine on June 22, 1952.
But there was no medal. Just a certificate and a form stating that the medal was "out of stock."
"I can imagine, of course, with what's going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, there's a big shortage," Reed said. "At least, I would imagine so."
The form letter from the Navy Personnel Command told Reed he could wait 90 days and resubmit an application, or buy his own medal.
After waiting 55 years, however, Reed decided to pay $42 for his own Purple Heart and accompanying ribbon — plus state sales taxes — at a military surplus store.
Did I miss something - why did this come up? I mean, it isn't like we don't know the mustache tickles the Bushies' privates, but did he do/say something today that I missed?
most gays who are at all political (and few of my gay friends are--which may be why they are my friends) have only one thing that matters to them--issues relating to gay rights.
i don't find that to be true at all. in fact, the opposite. because i have friends who are politically involved and just happen to be gay, i guess, instead of friends that are gay who happen to be politcally involved.
not to say i don't believe you - i certainly know gay people whose only political interest is gay rights. i just don't consider them really 'politically interested,' any more than the guy trying to build a walmart who shows up at every town meeting.
As for Friedman, he's a sick rich white fuck and if there's any justice he shits his last shit alone on a cholera cot under the blazing sun.
Stunt Woman | 08.18.07 - 1:35 pm | #
Depends on the prenup with his billionaire wife.
crawdaddy's again.
that's all i meant by monolithic. most gays think all gays should only think of gay rights. some of us think of other issues, too, issues that may even be more important to us than same sex marriage.
Maybe they could watch that episode of The West Wing where the gay Republican congressman explains to Josh how he can be a gay Republican. I didn't buy his argument, but at least it was a rational explanation.
most gays who are at all political (and few of my gay friends are--which may be why they are my friends) have only one thing that matters to them--issues relating to gay rights.
You are a lying asshole.
To answer A's question: yes, Friedman is a very, very bad person who already has his space in the Duck Pit. (where is gf/apprentice, anyway?)
so, let's just say then that a majority of gays are one issue oriented...
and, why is that a problem? it's not like everyone else is jumping on their cause or anything.
The form letter from the Navy Personnel Command told Reed he could wait 90 days and resubmit an application, or buy his own medal.
After waiting 55 years, however, Reed decided to pay $42 for his own Purple Heart and accompanying ribbon — plus state sales taxes — at a military surplus store.
We are making our veterans BUY their own purple hearts??????? WTF? If they have the at the store, then they're not out of stock. This is just beyond the pale.
You are a lying asshole.
Stunt Woman | 08.18.07 - 1:37 pm | #,
no, i wouldn't say that. i think it's more a matter of identification.
like i said above, activists who are gay rather than gays who are active.
at a politcal rally or event, how do you even know who is gay or straight? hmmm? unless that is the primary way they self-identify and present themselves.
personally, i believe if it wasn't for all this homophobic anti-gay crap the pugs/fundies/islamists push around, "being gay" would not be such a major part of anyone's life. when i stand up for universal healthcare, no one asks me which positions my wife and i prefer, or who is on top. with gays, it's only an issue because it's an issue.
n69n -- I loved that one, too.
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It is not rational. Greed is not rational.
Snow, Liberal
As I recall it is one of the seven deadly sins...
and, why is that a problem? it's not like everyone else is jumping on their cause or anything.
fokowi at lake cabin | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:40 pm | #
i am.
so is catholic kucinich, btw. because human rights and dignity are the real issue, regardless of the details.
This is just beyond the pale.
It certainly is.
And now I'm kinda down on Edwards because of his silly answer on health care (see tpm). crap. No John, the private sector is not really doing that well at providing health care. Sorry.
when i stand up for universal healthcare, no one asks me which positions my wife and i prefer, or who is on top. with gays, it's only an issue because it's an issue.>I think that's right. Sort of like the old rules that said gays couldn't hold security clearances because they were subject to blackmail. Well, then quit making an issue out of who sleeps with whom. Plus, when your entire life is politicized, it's understandable why you might want to get away from politics.
And now I'm kinda down on Edwards because of his silly answer on health care (see tpm). crap. No John, the private sector is not really doing that well at providing health care. Sorry.
ErinPDX | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:45 pm | #
And now I'm kinda down on Edwards because of his silly answer on health care (see tpm). crap. No John, the private sector is not really doing that well at providing health care. Sorry.
ErinPDX | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:45 pm | #
SLANTIES! try again:
exactly what i've been screaming about for months.
kucinich is the only one who is right on this issue. and a bunch of others (like the aforementioned gay marriage issue, or national security, or the real ways to confront terrorism)
why oh why do people support the best candidate instead of the person who would make the best president?
and, why is that a problem? it's not like everyone else is jumping on their cause or anything.
fokowi at lake cabin | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:40 pm | #
i am.
so is catholic kucinich, btw. because human rights and dignity are the real issue, regardless of the details.
dirk gently, sociopathetic© | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 1:44 pm | #
i know some good people are out there such as yourself... i was merely suggesting that there are not enough people outside the gay community really being advocates for equality.
In Unprecedented Order, FISA Court Requires Bush Administration to Respond to ACLU's Request That Secret Court Orders Be Released to the Public
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/
spy...rs20070817.html
Friedman is married to Ann Bucksbaum, an economist and a graduate of Stanford University.[13] Bucksbaum's father, Matthew Bucksbaum, is the chairman of the board of General Growth Properties, a real estate development group he co-founded with his brother in 1954. The Bucksbaums helped pioneer the development of shopping centers in the United States.[14] As of 2007, Forbes estimated the Bucksbaum family's assets at $4.1 billion, including about 18.6 million square meters of mall space. (Wikipedia)
I always figured his daddy in law had to be powerful to have catapulted him to success.
From TPM...
Edwards is also careful to temper his progressivism with more centrist positions. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Edwards ... even demonized single-payer health care: "Do you think the American people want the same people who responded to Hurricane Katrina to run their health-care system?"
i was merely suggesting that there are not enough people outside the gay community really being advocates for equality.
true on all too many issues, i'm afraid. like people on medicare who don't care about universal healthcare. i forget who was commenting yesterday about a town meeting where her rep/senator said we shouldn't mess with the healthcare system, because people with employer plans were pretty happy with it.
but that about sums it up for me.
"Do you think the American people want the same people who responded to Hurricane Katrina to run their health-care system?"
d'oh!
we don't want the same people who responded to katrina IN government.
what a stupid thing for edwards to say. he sounds like ron paul.