I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
gungulla
i even read the post/article...
Christmas of 2015?
How 'bout a week from Tuesday?
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Well, pack it up everyone. The war's over!
The half-FU comes off like a full FU in half the time.
Politicians lie. Water's wet.
That one never gets old.
I mean, 
Lindsay Graham Cracker depends upon media alzheimers
Get used to insurance companies in some form. Unfortunately they are here to stay. NCLB and privatization will not fare well under HRC. Educators will have a strong voice and these are the two main issues for them (us).
Tralfaz
And you believe in: The Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and what else?
I understand the illusions, I just don't understand WHY.
What year is this?
Is Lindsey still in the closet?
My, my, to be a Republican.
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Good morning from Chicago, peeps!
He'll demand withdrawal from Iraq right around the time he comes out of the closet.
a repost from below
corporations don't exist freely from the state, because they rely on subsidies
as Kevin Carson pointed out in his post, just look at how many politicians move from 'private' employment to political appointments and back again
they are both in it together
WASHINGTON — With the help of Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Congress has blocked a Medicare rule that would have forced rehabilitation hospitals nationwide to turn away thousands of patients recovering from heart or lung ailments or joint replacements.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u...&
u_sid=10219465
Apparently, good for him.
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From below:
Get used to insurance companies in some form. Unfortunately they are here to stay.
Funny how I don't have to deal with all this "mandated insurance" and such. It is true that my provincial government hires out the collective insurance pool-- to Blue Cross, which here is still a non-profit-- but the obscene insurance industry policies and profits south of the border are not an issue.
You see, a comprehensive and relatively inexpensive universal health insurance program exists just north of the border, and yet you Americans have convinced yourselves that there's no solution that doesn't cave in to the big insurance companies. "Get used to it..." because, well, because.
It could be the next 29th of february...which is coming up...that seems like a good next deadline...or maybe groundhog day. If the groundhog sees his shadow that means Lindsey will call for a withdrawal!
Lindsay Graham Cracker depends upon media alzheimers
It isn't the media he needs to be worried about.
Enjoying Chi-town, ror?
Love that place.
nothing now, there was never going to be a now because in this country it's as easy as saying: wait till XXXXXX and the sheeple forget and move onto shopping at walmart
you Americans have convinced yourselves that there's no solution that doesn't cave in to the big insurance companies. "Get used to it..." because, well, because.
Moe, tree killing fairy
They are unfortunately too moneyed and powerful to disappear. They can however be fairly regulated with the right govt. policies. That's American life.
Kristol will become a weekly columnist in 2008
Make them go away.
He followed that prediction with a promise: "If they don't deliver in 90 days, I will openly say the chances for political reconciliation are remote."
So what happens then? No one gives a shit what you say, Lindsey, openly or from the depths of your closet.
That's American life.
That's the spirit.
Enjoying Chi-town, ror?
Love that place.
Zap Rowsdower | Homepage | 12.29.07 - 10:43 am | #
It ain't bad, I have to say. Good streets for wanderin'.
Tell me more about this "accepting ambiguity" trick, it sounds strangely fascinating
And I am leaving for a while but before I do I will offer this small grain of wisdom: people do not change after they succeed. In fact, they often become much worse than you ever dreamed they could be. George Bush ran on the policy of being open to all and kinder and gentler: what did we get?
You tell me that Hillary does not mean what she says and I ask you for proof because I think she is stretching to say that because if and when she is elected she will forget her kind words and turn into a shrill corporate stooge. You say you are right. I say I am right. I ask you for proof. You offer feelings. You ask me for proof: I offer history.
You pays your money and yous takes your chance.
Good morning from Chicago, peeps!
Say "Hi" to Mayor Daily for me, would'ya?
And the ferrets...yes, the ferrets....
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And you believe in: The Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and what else?
I understand the illusions, I just don't understand WHY.
DWD
The things I believe are not as preposterous as utopia. They are actually practical and achievable with candidates who have a chance to win in 08.
I should have know that diatribe was so long it would get totally short-sheeted, so here it is again:
I can't believe there are so meany here who feel it is actually a worthwhile excercise to complain day in day out about how weak and co-opted our Democratic candidates are, and how what we need is a "true progressive". Have you not lived in this country for the last 20 years? It is in large measure the most pathetic collection of superstitious, ignorant, bigoted, and fearful untermenschen to ever to somehow claim the collective status of Great Nationhood. We have seen Borat and he is us!
I think the analysis in Lambert's post is excellent. We came to this pass via a steady advancing of the window of acceptable policy rightwards over a period of more than 30 years, through a sustained, well-financed effort on the part of most of the socioeconomic oligarchy. The mind of our nation, such as it is, has been corrupted. If we want it back, we have to KEEP PUSHING, SLOWLY AND STEADILY in the other direction for a number of decades, just like the other side did. The idea that some perfectly pure progressive messiah is ever going to come and sweep all the money changers out of the temple is childish. It's time to get over it.
The only candidate in the whole race who would in his or her wildest dreams try to do one single thing that I might regard as too far to the left is Kucinich, and that's only on a tiny handful of issues, mostly relating to technology. And yet day in, day out, I defend the candidates who are well to the right of me and tainted with various unseemly deals, because they, and not some non-existent Savior of America, are what we have to work with. They are the ones who can get elected, and they are the ones who can start the window's painfully slow creaking back towards the left.
We can hope, DWD. People here are realistic but still hopeful.
Otherwise we all can just kill ourselves now.
i'm less hopeful
in fact its very hard for me to find any hope these days
Bill Kristol is going to get a job as a journalist soon. Maybe he can ask Graham about it.
And I am leaving for a while but before I do I will offer this small grain of wisdom: people do not change after they succeed.
As insightful and well-written as his most recent novel.
Feelings are as valid a piece of evidence as is history.
The Diana-isation of Benazir Bhutto begins
What's the definition of insanity again?
Good streets for wanderin'.
Yeah, the Loop's great for that. So many beautiful buildings.
They are unfortunately too moneyed and powerful to disappear.
So was the slave trade.
Someone noted in a previous thread that Bank of America said there would be no more soap in the restrooms. Weird cost cutting measure.
I work for another largish financial institution and the cost cutting was to replace the cheap Dixie plates in the lunchroom with even cheaper generic picnic plates (the ones with ridges around the edge, ya know?). I just take three of these plates when I need to warm something up in the microwave. Oh yeah, and the water cooler is going bye bye in the new year. And we had no holiday celebrations. At least I don't work in home equity or mortgage...those departments have been just decimated over the last year.
and yet you Americans have convinced yourselves that there's no solution that doesn't cave in to the big insurance companies. "Get used to it..." because, well, because.
Moe, tree killing fairy
MOE'S BEEN ASSIMILATED, EH!
"you Americans"
Ha.
Kristol will become a weekly columnist in 2008
Didn't Time just fire Kristol for being wrong about everything?
Feelings are as valid a piece of evidence as is history.
Snow
Feel *this*
Good streets for wanderin'.
Yeah, the Loop's great for that. So many beautiful buildings.
Zap Rowsdower | Homepage | 12.29.07 - 10:48 am | #
Yep, and I am right smack in the middle of it. Monroe and State. I'm thinking about heading down to the aquarium today.
I love being at the MLA convention and not having any interviews or ANYTHING that I have to do.
The credit crunch and dire predictions of job losses and a new year economic slowdown seemed to have little effect on bargain hunters yesterday as shops across the country reported no let-up in the frenzied pace of sales.
The rush, which started on Christmas Day, when armchair shoppers spent £84m online, continued with thousands of people joining the singer Lily Allen for the opening of the Harrods sale in central London.
Earlier, the Lakeside shopping centre in Essex said the number of people through its doors was up 29% this year, with the House of Fraser tills ringing up £1,000 a minute in the first hour of trading. A similar picture emerged at the Trafford centre in Manchester, where about 500 people queued for the start of the Next sale.
But the battle to find a bargain was not without its casualties. Ambulance crews were called to shopping centres in the West Midlands after two shoppers collapsed and another woman, in her 20s, suffered a hand injury when she became trapped in a door on her way to the shelves at Fort shopping centre in Birmingham.
On Wednesday - the busiest shopping day of the year - high street sales peaked 45 minutes after the shops opened as the first customers reached the tills. John Lewis reported average sales of £1,000 a minute and double that figure during the morning peak.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/
...streetretailers
New deadline:
St. Patrick's Day
and yet you Americans have convinced yourselves that there's no solution that doesn't cave in to the big insurance companies
If all of those massive health insurance companies just evaporated overnight, it would be an economic catastrophe on the order of Big Shitpile. We have to wean ourselves off the insurance companies. We're in too deep to go cold turkey.
Barbour to announce pick Monday
Saturday, December 29, 2007
By BRAD CROCKER
GULFPORT -- Gov. Haley Barbour will announce on Monday the person he has chosen to replace U.S. Sen. Trent Lott until a special election is held.
Despite speculation by many political pundits that he would be a favored selection, recently retired U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering -- who served as a Lott aide before being elected to six terms in Congress beginning in 1996 -- said he asked Barbour on Friday to remove his name from the list of potential appointees.
Barbour, a Republican, will make his announcements at two separate press conferences -- at 11 a.m. at Conference Center East in Jackson and the main lobby of the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport at 1:30 p.m.
Barbour said he wants to hold a special election Nov. 4, but State Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, said this month that the election must be held within 100 days of Lott's resignation, which was Dec. 18.
http://www.gulflive.com/news/
mis...26940243600.xml
Probably won't be a caretaker, rather the coming electoral incumbent candidate. Some people say that makes Rep. Roger Wicker the likely R.
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Sheets.
Owls.
Et cetera.
That's the problem I see with a lot of the Democrats. Sure, compromise is necessary, but from my perspective, you stake out a strong position and compromise as political reality dictates. In the Clinton world, you compromise *as your position,* then when political reality pops up, you compromise again, and again, and again. Pretty soon you start adopting policies that look a whole lot like your "opposition's", but you lack any real conviction at all.
MOE'S BEEN ASSIMILATED, EH!
Heh, It happens. My S.O. sometimes interrupts me to ask "Who do you mean when you say 'we'?" and I realize I mean all the locals who live around me.
The only candidate in the whole race who would in his or her wildest dreams try to do one single thing that I might regard as too far to the left is Kucinich
The guy who talks to space aliens and wonders about "chemtrails"?
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ror,
Don't forget < cringe > Macy's < /cringe > on State.
The 12-story atrium is spectacular.
I imagine Moe's killfiled his stalker, so allow me to say what an utter twat Econ 102 is.
def. n. Graham Unit: 90 days
see also: n. Friedman Unit: 180 days
His name is LINDSEY for crissakes.
including spending 11 days in August on duty as a reserve Air Force officer
who the hell gets an 11 day deployment?
Lindsey will probably win in my state, but not with my vote. The fruit loop is a total embarrassment with his "five rugs for five bucks" imperialistic arrogant idiocy.
What an asshole. He's been wrong from the beginning and he continues to be wrong. He is a Bush suck up to the very end.
"you make goalpost moving sexy!"-sunday show bookers to Graham
I've said it elsewhere that as the primaries start, some of the Republican Senators that are blocking everything are going to get very scared. Where can Lindsey Grahm get a job like the one he has now? Nowhere! Other things are taking the headlines now, but the fact is, Iraq is bankrupting our country just like Afganistan bankrupted the USSR. These guys see the writign on the wall and know they have way too many seats to defend and are just hoping they can stay in office, even if they are irrelevant.
They will begin abandoning Bush as soon as the primaries are done and they can't face any primary challenger from their own party. then they will start showing their "independence" and begin to let popular programs through. Mitch McConnell is a sucky Minority leader and looks just like your old fussy Aunt Marge. Bet he dresses that way in his closet, too. The tide is getting ready to surge and there will be a major change. The only question is, will Harry Reid keep his position as Majority Leader or will he be challenged by a more progressive and ballsey Dem who will move forward aggressively to work with the new Democratic President and strong congressional majority to reverse the damage the Bush II administration has done. Like sending Bill Clinton around the world to talk to our allies and assure them America is back on track. And a pox on the House of Bush forever.
"Sen. Lindsey Graham, a pivotal Republican vote in the U.S. Senate on Iraq policy, is willing to give the government of Iraq until Christmas to get its act together."
"But not much more."
-Riight.
Way to go, Lindsey!
Blame the Iraqis for Dubya's fuckup!
What's he gonna do if the Iraqis don't "get its act together"?
Why, he'll give them another six months, and another six months, and another six months, and another six months...
Stupid motherfucker.
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