"Love Actually"

I am currently on the outs with those I hold nearest and dearest due to my inability to appreciate said movie which I though horrible, boring and basically insultingly puerile.  They inform me that if I watch it three, four, fifteen more times I will learn to appreciate it but find myself selfishly unable to make that sacrifice.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-parry/59751/possible-motives-for-ousting-hagel

"Six years into his presidency, Obama still doesn’t seem to understand that just because some people have impressive credentials doesn’t mean they know what they’re doing."

And the search for a corporate approved hack begins.  

Dept, of No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslaus_I,_Duke_of_Bohemia

Peter Sellers Performs The Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” in Shakespearean Modehttp://www.openculture.com/2011/05/peter_sellers_performs_the_beatles.html

Pass the yellowcake please

How long before Mr. Anonymous-US-official finds traces of something that indicate someone somewhere is using/will use/dreamed of using gas-plague-farts.  Red line crossed.


http://news.antiwar.com/2012/12/05/anonymous-us-officials-syria-has-loaded-chemical-weapons-into-bombs/

From: The progressive case against Obama Bottom line: The president is complicit in creating an increasingly unequal -- and unjust -- society BY MATT STOLLER

"Obama has successfully organized the left part of the Democratic Party into a force that had rhetorically opposed war and civil liberties violations, but now cheerleads a weakened America too frightened to put Osama bin Laden on trial. We must fight this thuggish political culture Bush popularized, and Obama solidified in place."

Link here

From Freedom Rider: Not Voting for Obama by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

“If Democrats also believe in wars of aggression and bail outs and subservience to finance capital, Republicans are only left with abortion and gay marriage as issues to differentiate themselves.”

Link here

Debates

Lilly Ledbetter -- Drink
Big Bird -- Drink
Solyndra - Drink
Self-Deportation - Drink
Nixt factttidion -- snmindk

Drugs + Weapons + DEA -- what could possibly go wrong?

Mexican Diplomat Says America Pretty Much Invited The Sinaloa Drug Cartel Across The Border

Michael Kelley | Oct. 1, 2012

Leaked emails from the private U.S. security firm Stratfor cite a Mexican diplomat who says the U.S. government works with Mexican cartels to traffic drugs into the United States and has sided with the Sinaloa cartel in an attempt to limit the violence in Mexico.

Why is this Brokaw guy on my screen?

Ahh   Comes the Republican Infomercial with extra media circle jerk.  Democratic version used to come with bread. Now it is  just a contest between Dems and Repubs of Whose Uterus Is It? (Hint:  it is never 100% the property of the bearer.)

Planning on some retroactive blogging any day now....

Thursday morning

*Any ideas on how we can start a food fight between AIPAC and the NRA?

*How long before the Tea Party starts their IMPEACH ROBERTS drum roll?

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Omar Khayyam (143) “Religious zealots are all jackasses”

Posted on 06/19/2012 by Juan

Those religious zealots
are all jackasses, who’re
carrying a burden
of deceit.  And
most amazing of all,
under cover
of their self-denial
they sell their religion!
They are worse than
unbelievers any day.

Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 143

It is interesting watching POTUS, using nothing but Obamatalk, send the Repubs into a feeding frenzy – not realizing they are feeding on themselves.  Witness the Godsters making complete fools of themselves over the VERY IDEA of insurance covering birth control especially if those sluts are working for a nice Catholic businessman.  Discuss ad nauseum and at least a few of those undecided whores will be looking to vote for Obama.  Then the “personal” endorsement of same sex marriage, a position he held once and abandoned but then saw the light on the road to Term Two.  Apoplexy on the right and siphon off a few more indies to the Dem side. And now the watered down, carefully picked provisions involving undocumented young’uns and the Rs are in a very bad position.  How many little brown ones can they afford to piss off?  Just as POTUS is becoming more Bush than Bush, his political game is getting more Rovian.  I guess it is possible to have a little strangulating respect for that.

Kirby Ferris.

Eric Holder Appoints Prosecutors To Investigate White House Leaks...

Holder to investigate --who?  Obviously the culprits will be one low level WH employee and five journalists who will rot in jail for refusing to reveal their sources.  (Post Susan McDougal bondage pics here.)  The acts of POTUS revealed by the leaks are what should be investigated.  Which will happen right after Bush & Cheney are indicted. 
BTW -- when was the last time we had an AG who wasn't either a moron or a criminal?

Don't know how this will play out, but this Zimmerman guy is really a scumbag.

This cracked me up

Geithner Sees “Perception Problem” With Jamie Dimon on NY Fed Board of Directors

TRMS with G&Ts; dinner in my brother's smoker; all dogs and chickens accounted for.  Life is good.

 http://www.mothersdaycentral.com/about-mothersday/history/

Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamaition of 1870

The first North American Mother’s Day was conceptualized with Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation in 1870. Despite having penned The Battle Hymn of the Republic 12 years earlier, Howe had become so distraught by the death and carnage of the Civil War that she called on Mother’s to come together and protest what she saw as the futility of their Sons killing the Sons of other Mothers. With the following, she called for an international Mother's Day celebrating peace and motherhood:
Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts,
Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears
Say firmly:
 
"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of
charity, mercy and patience.
 
"We women of one country
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
  
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice!
Blood does not wipe out dishonor
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have of ten forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war.
 
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
 
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
 
Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God.
 
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality
May be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions.
The great and general interests of peace.