socialist muslim, be fair
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
socialist atheist muslim
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
iirc
is there any other type rly
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
Russ Feingold's Progressives United group is joining with moveon.org to uh pressure the Prez with petitions:
If Wall Street gets investigated for the misdeeds that led to our financial collapse, they're very worried about what we'll find.
That's why they're eager for a sweetheart settlement deal that would give them broad immunity without an investigation. Thanks in part to the pressure thousands of fellow progressives put on state attorneys general, that deal is on hold.
But we don't just need to stop a deal that will cut off an investigation -- we need President Obama to take the lead and launch the investigation. That's why we're joining with our friends at MoveOn to petition the president to investigate Wall Street now.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
Hope there's a big Occupy/secular left turnout to protest at the DNC next September in Charlotte, cuz the religious right is a-comin:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-plan-protests-democratic-national-convention
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah there's one planned
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder which group will absorb most of the pepper spray?
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
there's one for mythbusters
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Would watch
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Hopefully it turns out better than their stunt with the cannon
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/court-oklahoma-cant-enforce-sharia-law-ban-011240179.html
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
"At some point we have to decide whether this is a country of, by and for the judges, or of, by and for the people."
Um, did you just move here or were you dropped on your head a lot as a child?
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
lol I did not really get the context of the legal argument until the very last sentence of the article
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like, on efficiency grounds, a progressive organisation should be threatening a response to the lack of action regarding wall st, rather than impotently pushing for a so not gonna happen long-belated enquiry into it. like surely they would get more traction saying "fuck you you should have investigated we're not voting" or w/e, over "let's keep the flame a burnin re: you suddenly 180-ing on resolving that shit three years after the fact"
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
By the way, today's anniversary makes the thread title true!
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
yep
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
libs never threaten Democrats, ever. they don't want to be Naderized by their neighbors.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
I thought this framework from a Weekly Sift article, The Four Flavors of Republican, was an interesting way to think about members of a party with very different priorities:
http://weeklysift.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/gopstructure.jpg?w=530&h=397
The article goes on to define the four archetypes, talk about areas of agreement and disagreement among them, and then closes with:
Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush unified the four flavors, but this year no candidate does. NeoCons can’t support Ron Paul, Libertarians can’t support Rick Santorum, and Theocrats can’t support Mitt Romney. That’s why Republican insiders keep having fantasies about some new candidate — it’s basically the same fantasy they had about Rick Perry before he turned out to be an idiot: a tough-talking, pro-business, Christian Reconstructionist who wants to abolish the EPA.Each non-fantasy candidate exposes a different fault line, so expect Obama to run differently depending on who the Republican nominee is. His increasing economic populism of late is evidence that he expects to run against Romney.
Each non-fantasy candidate exposes a different fault line, so expect Obama to run differently depending on who the Republican nominee is. His increasing economic populism of late is evidence that he expects to run against Romney.
― your pain is probably equal (Z S), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
keep it real America!
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
obama is having a 30k plate fundraiser 100 ft down the street from my boyfriend's building tonight, which dr. morbius nickname for bam should i use when i derisively heckle the attendees?
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
Buffet always bringin the lolz
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
which dr. morbius nickname for bam should i use when i derisively heckle the attendees?
Obamao
baroque o-bomber
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
bam will be there after he wraps one of his other private fundraisers w/ an ex-bear stearns exec
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
Obamoneybags
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
his other private fundraisers w/ an ex-bear stearns exec
this is more delicious than the dinner!
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:06 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
might have to paint this on a sheet and hang it from the balcony
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
this really depressed the shit out of me.
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
^ :(
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
was already feeling really low cause of this
http://nymag.com/news/features/danny-chen-2012-1/
but now, man
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
looking forward to asking my in-law (currently on TOD w State Dept in Afghanistan) about this
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
NOBAMNEY
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
btw you can tell those are Taliban cuz they're corpses, just like Vietcong
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
Greenwald on the assassinations of Iranian physics professors.
Is it just ME who didn't realize that 5 or 6 of these dudes have been MYSTERIOUSLY blown up or gunned down in the last 2 years?!? Does it not seem completely bonkers?
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
The NYT finally deigned to publish a story on the front page.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
assassinations are totally predictable imho. what did you expect Israel to do.
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
they're pretty well determined to be the only nuclear power in the area, and they have the means and the backing to make it happen
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
I disagree w/Greenwald and Sullivan. I thunk terrorism should be more strictly defined and not bandied about recklessly. It is an attempt to sway a government's policy or to bring about recognition for a cause or organization by means of terror. These are targeted assassinations that attempt less, I think, to sway the government of Iran than simply to kill important scientists who may be working at obtaining nuclear weapons. It's less terrorism than low-level acts of war.
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
It's less terrorism than low-level acts of war.
But Greenwald has said this.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Even the NYT story included a quote admitting as such.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
I can't tell how seriously to take this?
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
Shakey's next post puts it in context.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think Shakey is providing moral justification so much as (perhaps) pointing out that there's a long history of assasination in the region both by and against Israel.
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
And that it's the kind of think one would expect Israel to do to achieve its goals
What do people think are the chances of US involvement?
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
wd be unsurprising October Surprise by President Hope.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
The chance that we weren't involved is about as low as Obama's second term being the liberal one.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/01/201211244648837585.html
US officials have denied any role in the apparent killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist, and condemned the bomb attack which Tehran said was linked to Washington and Israel.
"I want to categorically deny any United States involvement in any kind of act of violence inside Iran," Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, told reporters on Wednesday when asked about Iranian allegations over the attack.
Tommy Vietor, a National Security Council spokesman, added: "The United States had absolutely nothing to do with this. We strongly condemn all acts of violence, including acts of violence like this."
ha ha ha.
― goole, Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Dennis Perrin tweet!
Israel is the 1972 Miami Dolphins of nuclear weapons. No one else in the region can match its record.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link