Defense officials say lift military ban on gays
It’s time to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and allow gay troops to serve openly for the first time in history, the nation’s top defense officials declared Tuesday, with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff proclaiming that service members should not be forced to “lie about who they are.”However, both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen asked for a year to study the impact before Congress would lift the controversial policy.
(cuz it’s a totally new idea that nobody ever thought of before)
Giannoulias, Kirk declare victory in U.S. Senate primaries
Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias declared victory tonight in the Democratic primary for President Barack Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat.The victory for the first-term son of a banking family sets up a nationally-watched November contest with Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, who easily won the GOP primary tonight.
Quinn declares victory but Hynes won’t concede in Democratic governor’s race
The races for governor went down to the wire tonight with razor-thin margins separating Gov. Pat Quinn from Comptroller Dan Hynes on the Democratic side and state Sens. Kirk Dillard and Bill Brady among Republicans.
(As usual, the voters lost)
AIG plans to pay $100 million in another round of bonuses
American International Group plans Wednesday to pay another round of employee bonuses, worth about $100 million, said several people familiar with the matter, a year after similar payments at the bailed-out insurance giant infuriated many Americans and inflamed Washington.
Emanuel apologized for ‘retarded’ remark
A White House official emails that Rahm Emanuel has acknowledged calling liberal Democrats “retarded” and apologized for the remark.“Rahm called Tim Shriver Wednesday to apologize and the apology was accepted,” the official said.
Shriver is the Chairman and CEO of the Special Olympics, which has launched a campaign against what it calls “the R word.”
(He still hasn’t apologized to the people he intended to insult)
Dog shoots man in back during hunting trip
A 53-year-old man is recovering after a bizarre hunting accident Saturday that Merced County sheriff’s deputies believe involved his dog.
(Man’s best friend? Riiight)
Academy Awards nominations 2010: Which ones have a real chance?
The nominations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards, announced Tuesday morning, contained all the names Oscar watchers were expecting. The few surprises that slipped through were mild and mostly pleasant.The big change this year is that for the first time since 1943, 10 movies were nominated for best picture. A “lost” list is inevitable, so let’s get that over with, and then we’ll talk. These are the nominees: “Avatar,” “The Blind Side,” “District 9,” “An Education,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Inglourious Basterds,” “Precious,” “A Serious Man,” “Up” and “Up in the Air.”
Saints, Colts Hoping To Resolve Super Bowl Through Diplomacy
Team officials from the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts emerged from a tense, 12-hour negotiating session Thursday and told reporters that, while they had yet to reach a settlement that would prevent a massive on-field conflict, the AFC and NFC champions were committed to resolving the Super Bowl through diplomatic channels.“Playing this Super Bowl is our last resort,” said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who was flanked by the coaches and quarterbacks for the opposing teams. “Yes, there are some difficult issues that need to be hashed out, such as who will be the game’s MVP, the number of total passing yards for each quarterback, and which team will be named Super Bowl champion, but I think we made progress today.”
(RU paying attention?)
Filed under: General
Maxi iPads, for when your Aunt Flow visits.
I heard Apple will release a bigger version soon, so Maxi-Pad would be the obvious name. Silicon Valley is not a macho culture but boy is it male dominated and male centric.
I just don’t get it. “Pad” is used for zillions of non-menstrual objects. Landing pads. Paw pads. Tent pads. Mouse pads. Brake pads. Legal pads. Shoulder pads. Knee pads. Carpet pad.
Does anyone guffaw and think “knee tampons” seeing a carpenter or concrete worker wearing knee pads when working on a construction jobsite? No.
I’m female, and I think most of the snide innuendos come from males. (I know, it’s an over-generalization) But the whole fuss makes me think of a bunch of gradeschoolers going “Eeeeew” after the anatomy section of their biology class.
Thank you NWL. I’ve been wondering if it’s been ginned up by the one-upped Kindle owners to boost their morale(s) for no longer having the newest gadget.
It’s Mac envy! All those Microsoftie snools who are no longer so kewl. {{hey, dudez, we’ll make the iPad into a — snicker — ladies’ product}}
Jezebel has more:
http://jezebel.com/5458338/that-time-of-the-month-the-best-period+related-ipad-jokes
Huh? The anti-Microsoft thing must be an involuntary reflex. Most of the ipad snarking has come from disgruntled tech geeks/Apple fans in places like engadget and gizmodo and so on who had high hopes for the ipad but have been largely underwhelmed by its release.
You are correct, as I rushed down to Apple headquarters and darn it, I have to wait for the ‘iPad’ to arrive in the store in a couple of months. I was ready to get one and carry in my purse.
ks ~ I would listen to valid criticism. Sophmoric pad “jokes” not at all.
jackyt – Well, it should be easy for you to find valid criticism because there’s been a lot of it the tech/electronic blogs. The implication that the criticism is being driven by sophmoric ipad jokesters or supposedly one-upped Kindle users or envious Microsoftie snools, as opposed to serious critics, is not true.
it reminds me of middle school when a group of boys claimed to always know when some girl was having her period and they would make crud jokes about it.
Thank you, NWLuna!!! I am equally amazed at the immaturity of turning the iPad (chosen, I’m sure for the electronic version of a notepad, or legal pad) into something to snicker about. The closest thing I remember to this was in 6th grade when the boys would try to peek in while the girls were being put through the movie on their developing bodies.
Twitter is hardly a scientific sampling, but the iPad’s weird (not offensive) naming observations have come almost exclusively from women not in tech. Zero men mentioned anything about the name until it became pseudo news, then they talked about how there’s a history of some women who over react to names that suggest their time of the month. The point about iPad is that it’s a brand name, not a common name like knee pad. When I first heard iPad, I thought Kotex, but I’m strange that way.
We should revisit that whole who shot JR thing. Maybe it was the dog.
I suspect the cat, but that furry felon ain’t talking.
What is up with the Maxi-iPad?
I always love those stories where things turn around and the hunter gets whacked by the bear he wounded, or gored by the elk. Take a dose of yer own medicine, there!
Me too! Though that is not what happened in that story. However, it is ridiculous to blame the poor dog. All he did was inadvertently step on a loaded gun left laying on the ground. It was up to the hunter to unload his gun or make sure it was in a safe place away from his dog before going off and doing something else. It wasn’t the dog’s responsibility. The poor dog could just as easily have blown himself away.
The dog claims it was an accident.
The dog has political ambitions. Look for his name in the VP slot on the Republican roster in 2012.
yup, I never blame animals for fighting back and indeed most hunters would agree that fair is fair. I know a lot of people who hunt and all of them are responsible, use the meat or give it to a poor family who needs it. I have no problem with hunters. I thinking hunting your food is a lot more humane that eating what comes from feed lots.
ummmm, I think not I thinking
Sgt. York is on TCM – the true story is almost as good as the movie.
Medal of Honor citation
* Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, Company G, 328th Infantry, 82nd Division.
* Place and date: Near Chatel-Chehery, France, October 8, 1918.
* Entered service at: Pall Mall, Tennessee.
* Born: December 13, 1887, Fentress County, Tennessee.
* General Orders No.59. War Department, 1919.
Citation:
After his platoon suffered heavy casualties and 3 other noncommissioned officers had become casualties, Cpl. York assumed command. Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machine gun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machine gun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns.
Rahm calls the left “retarded” whereas the wingnuts call the left “socialist” … Rahm and the teabots both need better vocabularies. That said…
Rahm calls the left “retarded.” Obama says Washington gets “wee weed up.” Joe Biden talked about “boy girls” and “girl girls,” among other things. Reid said Obama had a “Negro dialect.” Axelrod joked that “Miss California” was one of the final three choices for Obama’s dog.
Way to be well-spoken Washington outsiders. Sarah Palin is so clearly out of her league.
i.e. Reid said “with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.”
DC class warfare.
Excellent! And don’t forget Tweety “forgetting he was black for an hour”, Schumer wanting Obama to take a 2 by 4 to Hillary”
What the hell is Ford doing? Has a Republican even jumped in the race yet? She is somebody we need in the Senate. Pack Ford up and send him to Nebraska.
Oops, sorry you guys in Nebraska.
He is from Tennessee, actually. I believe I read somewhere about a GOP-er in the race – one who bored his own constituency to tears last time he spoke – not much of a chance in NY. But Ford is the Wall Street candidate, so, expect all the criticism in the media now to be on mute closer to election.
Ford doesn’t have a hope in hell; he’s already a joke
Huffington Post piece written by Amy Siskind and Marcia A. Pappas telling Harold Ford to get his “sexism out of New York!”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-siskind/harold-ford-get-your-sexi_b_445346.html
Go Marcia Pappas! She is an asset to NOW.
Kirsten has been really pushing hard on this since she joined the Senate, taking a leadership role where many more “seasoned” Senators have been sitting on their hands. The Story Project is a great way to personalize the issue too. Taking another year to “study” the issue is sheer nonsense. More words without serious action. Obama is nothing but a walking commercial for his own needs. *#!% DO SOMETHING ALREADY!
{Team officials from the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts emerged from a tense, 12-hour negotiating session Thursday and told reporters that, while they had yet to reach a settlement that would prevent a massive on-field conflict, the AFC and NFC champions were committed to resolving the Super Bowl through diplomatic channels.}
WTF
diplomatic channels???
“Playing this Super Bowl is our last resort”Roger Goodell,
i would hope they decided those things after the game’
im hopeing he was just jokeing.
and the last horse crosses the finish line
It’s The Onion, boogieman.
He he he
Clowns are sneaky.
Today’s tabloids
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/tabloids-everyone-hearts-dadt-obama-goes-jacketless/
The way the Saints hit, I might speak to Goodell too if I were the Colts. Get some clear definitions of roughing down on paper. They should call in Sotomayor. Actually the thought did cross my min during the NFC championship game with all those late game turnovers, maybe there is a bit of the WWF in the NFL too. The difference between a close game and a blowout in the Super Bowl for instance could represent 50 million or more in ad sales. Gives whole new meaning to saying, have a good game. But I will not believe it for the same reason I don’t believe in steroids.
I wish Kyle Turley was still there. I stopped being a fan after he left.
Walking Away:
Gee, didn’t one of the other candidates have a comprehensive housing plan that “she” intended to make a priority as soon as she entered office? They are STILL dithering?
(shakes head and walks away mumbling and cursing)
Best president we never had, she had a plan:
I was struck by the illustration of Obama’s disconnect on the front page of the NYT this am.
Obama Continues Policy Outreach to Republicans
and
In a situation without precedent in the modern era, millions of Americans are in this bleak position. Whether, or how, to help them is one of the biggest questions the Obama administration confronts as it seeks a housing policy that would contribute to the economic recovery.
seem so far apart to me that they could be mutually exclusive.
so right before I go to sleep I see all these online news headlines/articles on google about all WH security heads testified taht there will definitely be an attempted major terrorist attack on U.S. soil within the next 3-6 months, basically saying no doubt about it, all agreed.
this morning? spin about the primaries in illinois and obama’s push for green jobs? online news is very entertaining.
DADT recission could take years????? what a lot of hooey. Issues like medical benefits for partners? uhh, that’s been sucessfully implemented in most major and non-major workplaces in this country, why should that be an issue for our govt? issues like rooming/housing? ummmm, hasn’t been an issue with the DADT policy in place, why should it be one without it?
such hooey, all this is just pandering pandering pandering
the security stuff is still at the top of memeorandum. I would guess that it will be a cable news talking point.
if your house value falls below 75% of your mortgage why on earth would you not walk away?
For a lot of people, owning a home was a dream accomplishment – right up there with finding the ‘right person to spend your life with’. It is very hard to separate that dream from the practical reality.
There is also a middle class value of doing what you say you are going to do by honoring contracts. It is hard for people to separate these feelings from the mix.
If they can afford the payments, they mostly will stay.
If you are as old as I am, you know housing values go up and down. Many houses dropped that low in the late 1980′s in some markets (Savings & Loan debacle and the oil bust) and did not get back to their original prices until the early 1990′s. People who were able to kept their homes and paid down the mortgage kept building up equity. Thus they made more money if they sold when the prices came back up, as they did, eventually.
It all depends if you have a job in the area and can stay in the home. If one has lost one’s job or has to move for some other reason, giving the home back to the mortgage company makes more sense.
What is more distressing here is the question of which markets will come back. Are there places where revival is just not possible?
djmm
Good point of course. If you can’t afford it, then sadly you have to walk away. I know many who have done that. Just breaks your heart.
The housing bubble hurt a lot of people. As all bubbles do. Some of course are lucky and know how to ride those bubble waves, but not most people. Most people are the victims of those. Which I guess is the whole point of an artificially manufactured bubble, ride the wave on the backs of the middle class. I guess it’s a big joke for some in the bonus class, laughing all the way to the bank.
Because it’s your “home”, your neighbors, family, schools, etc. If you put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into building your home and working the garden and building relationships, then that’s something you can’t put a price on.
love the drunken puppy pic!
That’s one soused up hombre!
If I understand correctly, the integration of gays in the military is now a common practice in most of Europe, Israel and who knows where. Obviously, they must all have procedures for this. But true integration would mean simply that there are no barriers, rules or procedures special to gays in the military. They are the same as anyone else.
I would think that “transparency” and openness would be in everyone’s interest. And I would hope that the military would have rules about harassment and abuse of anyone. But then we know that females in the military are subject to sexual abuse throughout the ranks. Clearly sexual identity and sex itself are military issues. Maybe they need to deal with the reality of the whole scene and stop acting like the gay issue is some isolated event.
No, gays in the military is a communist plot. Didn’t you know. /snark
So, what else is new?
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/batchelor-cult-of-disappointment/
Emma Ruby-Sachs :
The blog Liberal Rapture is no more. But John south of Melrose is still blogging at: http://johnwsmart.com/. (h/t Uppity)
What happened to liberal rapture?
Somebody bought the domain name out from under J-som.
http://johnwsmart.com/2010/02/end-of-liberal-rapture.html
Ouch. I really don’t like that practice.
Apparently you can camp on a domain name and if the owner lets it lapse for even a second, the domain is offered and snatched up faster than you can say what they hell happened to my domain. Sucks completely, and frankly can damage your business or blog or whatever tremendously. We really need some consumer protection on this.
In the mean time, watch those domains carefully. And if it’s important, please register a trademark on the name (brand) so that if something happens, you’ll have a much easier time with a legal a take back of the domain.
Sadly usually the domain camping is about holding the domain for ransom because the usual outcome is that the former owner then goes to the new owner and asks for it back, at which point they learn there is a price. It’s a business believe it or not to camp on domains like this. This should be illegal in my mind.
Well, I liked his writing as he is very sharp and writes very well but I took his blog off my bookmarks last month. The blog nomenclature just wasn’t appropriate anymore even though they had this huge ado about being liberals and took a test to prove it. They are center to right and there is nothing wrong with that at all. I wish him well in all he does. He is an excellent writer.
Interesting point about the name and the current state of politics. Perhaps a good time for him to change the name anyway. He’ll just have to contact everyone who has him on their blogrolls to switch and perhaps do a bit of an advertising campaign. Maybe a silver lining.
Obama feels your pain? :
I hate it when he does that fake folksy crap. Here’s more:
Stumping for Jobs Plan, Obama Pushes Health Bill
“Suddenly everybody says, ‘Oh no, it’s over,’ ” Mr. Obama said in mocking tones. “Well, no, it’s not over. We just have to make sure that we move methodically and that the American people understand what’s in the bill.”
The strong emphasis on health care came a week after he did not mention it until deep into his State of the Union address, and he seemed intent on erasing any doubts about his commitment.
“We had to go into overtime,” Mr. Obama said. “But we are now in the red zone. That’s exactly right. We’re in the red zone. We’ve got to punch it through.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/us/politics/03obama.html?ref=politics
Didn’t he say yesterday that he would keep his campaign promise to air on C-span the next time around?
Dear Mr President:
It is not that we are too stupid to understand what is in the health care bill. The problem is that we DO understand and we don’t like it. Not those of us on the left and not those of us on the right.
Apparently the idea that people on both sides would not like something, for different reasons of course, is way too complicated for many to understand.
More “down home” wisdom for Obama:
““”When times are tough, you tighten your belts,” Obama said, according to a White House transcript of his appearance Tuesday at a high school in North Nashua, N.H.
“You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage,” Obama said. “You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices.”
I think that Obama is trying to make the defeat of Reid a certainty.
Yup.
Las Vegas mayor is hopping mad.
Wasn’t it a young Mr. Obama who took a trip to Bali (!) when he hit a writing block — presumably when he was still paying off those student loans? Hmmm.
djmm
Oh, great. Welcome to Hokey-um Theatre. This nimrod should have a one man show instead.
The good and the bad from the Illinois primary:
Good: It looks like Pat Quinn will be the Dem candidate for Governor over machine candidate Dan Hynes. Quinn is a long-time citizen activist who is truly committed to both campaign finance reform and getting the state back on track economically.
Bad: Alexi Giannoulias won the Dem primary for U.S. Senate in a close race over Hoffman. Looks like I’ll be voting for the Repub, Mark Kirk, who is giving up his seat in Congress to run. Look out MA–here comes Illinois.
Mixed: Dan Seals won the Dem primary for Mark Kirk’s congressional seat, winning out over Julie Hamos by a few percentage points. Hamos has been a superb State Rep, and is considerably more liberal than Seals, although I’ve met Seals and he’s a pretty good guy. It’s a tough district to represent, including some of the wealthiest and poorest residents in the state.
On local referenda, voters are still saying no to any increases in school funding that don’t directly relate to education (i.e., new cafeteria facilities, saving after school programs). There were also a couple of referenda asking the legislature to fix the state problem with bloated pensions.
Turnout in my county was just 21%. Pathetic.
Thanks grayslady, your one comment has told me more than all the spin I’ve come across so far.
Well, it’s an interesting state. In spite of Chicago’s machine, if you get outside the city, Dem votes can be very different. In my county, Dem voters went overwhelmingly for Hoffman rather than Giannoulias. If I were Giannoulias, I’d be concerned.
Also, we actually have some pretty good Repub Illinois state representatives in the northern part of the state–people who represent their constituents rather than their party.
As for Quinn, he moved up from Lt. Gov once Blagojevich resigned, but in IL the Gov. and Lt. Gov. run independently; the Gov. candidate doesn’t choose a “running mate”. Consequently, it’s even conceivable that we could have a Dem Gov. and a Repub Lt. Gov. No voter in this state has to declare affiliation with any particular party, except that in primaries you have to choose Repub or Dem ballot.
Interesting rundown. I always celebrate when the machine candidate takes a fall.
it gives me hope for Paterson in NY.
It’s difficult for me to know whether Paterson is on the side of the angels or not. He seems to have a mind of his own, which I always consider promising. But I don’t envy him his job–the NY legislature is nothing short of a disaster.
Internet surfers caught in a web of depression
A “dark side” to the internet suggests a strong link between time spent surfing the web and depression, say psychologists.
But it was not clear whether using the internet causes mental health problems, or whether people with mental health problems are drawn to the internet.
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Internet-surfers-caught-in-a.6034994.jp
I wonder why they don’t try to correlate addiction and depression, in general, with the incidence of internet addiction and depression.
Maybe they should think about the content – if surfers are reading “the news”… who wouldn’t get depressed?
If you’re not depressed you’re not paying attention.
It is interesting that while studying people who have a pipe attached to their brains that facilitate a giant flow of information as well as multi-way communication, the information being consumed is not even considered in the study.
I’d think it would be interesting to differentiate among the types of consumption. As well as to try to figure out if it’s just time spent so for example there would be no difference than if you spent the same amount of time reading books.
I haven’t ready the study though, so maybe they get to some of that.
This explains so much.
Jezebel:
nitwits
Obama talked about Malia’s grades one time, too.
Why not just teach poor Malia to stick her finger down her throat after meals and get it over with?
Thanks to psycho-mom she’s a bulemia case waiting to happen.
Anyone have the phone number for Child Protective Services in DC?
The Obamas are complete assholes.
Lack of boundaries between parent and child is typical of narcissist parents, I think. The child is an extension of themselves — the child accomplishments bring glory to the parent, the child’s failures… well, they are not allowed to fail such perfect parents.
Hasn’t Obama spoken about his own weight related insecurities? I think I remember something. It’s common for parents with these kinds of issues to scrutinize their kids way too closely without realizing how it’s affecting the kids. Also, the fact that no one in the East Wing ever said hey about this, maybe not, is kind of worrisome.
The Obama’s using their daughters in order to relate to the dirty masses. Hm, that reminds me of something.
Remember the “pimping” thing Shuster threw at Hillary during the primaries? Has anyone accused them of doing same? Course not.
Quite frankly I don’t want to hear this private stuff. Esp. if kids are involved.
btw. The One must have had to think long and hard to find any imperfections at all with himself. Bet he stands on the scale morning, day, and night.
Who hasn’t had weight related issues. At least once in his/her life?
Yep, and I also remember Palin being accused of using her kids as props for the crime of taking them to the RNC like every other politician. It’s completely wrong, no doubt about it. If she had to “personalize” it, she could have used herself as an example. It’s not like the Washington Post would launch an investigation: “Major scandal! Michelle lied! She was a skinny kid!” lol This stuff never goes away, and the poor kids will still be asked about it years from now, so add public ridicule to the possible trauma of having their parents’ issues foisted on them, if that’s indeed happening.
I’m so glad that this is what Versailles consider a modern First Lady – someone who plans to dedicate her time in office on gardening and criticizing children’s weight when they are pressured more than enough from their peers and the media to look thin. Being healthy is an important issue but MO seems to place more importance on weight and outer beauty than on inner health and happiness. I would prefer a person to be normal sized (what is considered chubby these days) if they feel good about themselves. I personally think the Obama’s older daughter is very thin and tall like her parents. Their younger daughter is adorable and looks like a healthy, normal sized child with a bit of baby fat. It’s horrible that the Obama’s seem to have already placed pressure on this small girl to be thinner even before her teen years. With little kids it’s always better to not discuss issues of weight and focus more on making exercise and outdoor activities fun and enjoyable so that it becomes more of a lifestyle change than something mandatory to look thin.
Rahm’s apology makes B0bots heads explode
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/sorry-i-called-you-retarded-should-have-said-idiots-with-b0bots-head-explosions/
Oink oink:
Thank you for slumming, myiq, so we don’t have to.
djmm
On China, Obama says US must address currency rates
Wed Feb 3, 2010 10:43am ESTWASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Wednesday China and Asia would be a huge market for U.S. exports going forward but it would be importantant to address currency rates to ensure American goods were not facing a disadvantage.
“One of the challenges that we’ve got to address internationally is currency rates and how they match up to make sure that our … goods are not artificially inflated in price and their goods are artificially deflated in price,” Obama told senators from his Democratic party.
“That puts us at a huge competitive disadvantage.”
Politico:
With Obama all things are possible.
Even the most optimistic of republican strategists wouldn’t have thought it at all remotely possible until last month. I truly doubt it is possible but the democrats can certainly kiss their huge majority goodbye in november.
He wants to unite us all by putting the republican’s back in charge. All part of his 11 dim chess. /snark
Mother Jones:
Kool-aid springs eternal.
This Andrew Young video on the View is something else. Elisabeth Hasselbeck (who I think is better than her co-hosts when she’s off the right/left talking points and just goes by her own thinking) just told the Youngs off and said wtf if you really care so much about Elizabeth don’t you think you are standing in the way of Elizabeth Edwards’ ability to heal? And, Andrew Young went off on some poor sob story about how the Edwards were mean to David Axelrod.
whoops not video, Andrew young interview*
Kinda funny how Axelrod seems to be involved in all these tabloid stories.
Makes me wonder if that’s why Edwards stayed in the race so long…if he had dropped out sooner, Hillary would have been the nominee. Maybe some sort of backroom deal w/Axelrove?
I’m guessing it was Axelrove that dropped a dime on him in the first place (and probably convinced him it was Hillary whodunnit)
I was convinced during the primaries that Trippi was on the Obama pay roll.
yeah, I saw them on the View. I was reminded again that I neither like nor trust either Edwards. I can never forget all the things Elizabeth said about Hillary and how her marriage was better and more happy because she made different choices than Hillary….
and at the time she knew two things, that she has end stage cancer and that her husband could not be trusted to tell the truth.
I do not know where they got off taking down Hillary. Were the really delusional to think John was going to win the nomination?
forgot to say that I found the Youngs equally distasteful.
Bill Clinton had his problems with sex and power for sure, but he and Hillary worked it out in their marriage, and it’s nobody’s business.
Plus, I’d wager that most women would love to have a partner who is so in love with women, and people in general. That’s a very special quality, and part of what made him a great president, imho.
The Obamas lack that empathetic love, so his coldness, and her harping on Malia’s weight are no big surprise.
How low can he go? New York Post:
Their source is the National Enquirer, which so far has been pretty accurate on Edwards.
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards_beat_wife_elizabeth_bones_broken_cops_called/celebrity/68090
Last time I was over my friend’s grandma’s, the Enquirer had him trolling the bars around their vacation home and creeping on the bartenders, who were pretty disgusted even before they realized who he was. They allegedly had voicemail to back it up.
Salon:
The article is by Max Blumenthal, whose credibility took a hit with his hatchet job on SP
But O’Keefe seems to be a real scumbaag.
Blumenthal still shows a “villager” bias in this piece, but I don’t doubt his facts. I’m glad O’Keefe has been exposed. Thanks, myiq.
Why is this not a surprise?
WTF?
What century is this?
19th
do they have to play half court Basket ball too just like in the early sixties?
Wait until you see the swimsuits.
My mom played half-court, and always resented that she was not allowed to play full court. She also attended Episcopal seminary at the same time as my dad, and made better grades than he, but of course could not be ordained in the 50′s. My dad was a mediocre priest. My mom would have been an amazing priest, but went into social work instead, since they accepted girly parts. So many frustrations for women of a certain generation.
Hillary talked about playing half-court ball on the campaign trail. It was cute, and a good reminder, too.
I mentioned this a while back. Can’t recall if it was here or over at RL. But there were several interesting comments in response. One commenter (sorry, I can’t recall who) mentioned that figure skating wasn’t separated out into gender divisions until a woman beat all the guys out for either Olympic gold or a world championship.
The truth is that the large majority of men (around the world, not just in the US) don’t like being beaten by girls in a sports competition. So in the case of the female ski jumpers, they just exclude them. (Lindsey Van holds the hill record for men and women at the Olympic venue.) Such is the effort to make sure that male egos, and the patriarchal myth of male superiority, remain intact.
Gender Barrier Persists At Vancouver Olympics
INDIANAPOLIS – Informed and reliable sources are telling Howey Politics Indiana that former U.S. Sen. Dan Coats will announce Wednesday he will challenge U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh.
Ambinder:
So the evangelical christian is the one who tried to get a woman on the supreme court and a woman vp.
And the dems are the one that used sexism to attack both. (Yeah, I didn’t recognize it at the time, but a lot of the “unqualified” attacks on Miers were using sexist frames, which is how we ended up with Alito. Way to go, Dems.)
And bay, iirc, was BO’s top pick for VP.
I don’t trust any of “the family”
Personally, his affiliation with Palin is not a plus for me.
I was considering the irony of it.
Or maybe it’s not ironic anymore, simply fact, that the right is less hostile to women than the left.
I wouldn’t want either of them as my senator, though.
(Not that I have a much better choice in Nov since I’ll probably be picking between Arlen Specter and Pat Toomey).
Yikes! Concept implosion. When you mentioned “the family,” I thought of Charles Manson. It took me a moment to sort it out.
Coats was Indiana’s junior Senator for 10 years, before Bayh defeated him in 1998.
If Coats is running, I suspect that means Rep. Mike Pence ( R-IN ) will not oppose Bayh in November.
It’s a real toss-up ( as in “hurl” ) whether Coats or Pence is worse.
Pence said last week he wouldn’t challenge Bayh.
yuck! so the choice for Democrats is a conservative or a conservative. How awful is that.
It feels like the winds are coming up and blowing over the Democratic house of cards.
I keep thinking if the Dems had stood up and fought Obama on all the cr@p he pulled during the primary, we’d have a President with integrity and the Dem brand would be stronger than ever. They are paying now for their spinelessness in 2008.
Not all of them are spineless.
Some are corrupt.
A few are okay.
(When in doubt, vote them out)
(When in doubt, vote them out)
myiq the rhymer!
Yes, I’d say most of the DNC leadership were corrupt. Not to mention many of the superdelegates.
Ambinder:
Why does Sarah need to “defend” her appearance? I’m no fan of the mad hatters but they aren’t exactly al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda paid their last keynoter a goat and a subscription to Poppy-a-Month club.
She is reportedly receiving a $100K speaking fee.
Good for her.
But she said she’s giving it back to the cause.
That’s her choice to make.
What’s controversial about it?
Nothing is controversial about it – for some reason the press thinks it is though
The press love to manufacture outrage., It’s a hobby with them.
I’m glad I don’t have to attend. I think I might hurl hearing how our fascist government is soooooo socialist.
It’s a damn shame someone won’t give it to these people straight and explain that the only socialist in Congress right now has pretty much opposed most of what is purported as socialist programs.
She may -gasp-use the money to buy dresses!
Or shoes!
Feminine hygene products! O the humanity!
Sarah Palin’s buying an iPad?
I was just over at Reclusive Leftist and watched that Hillary in 2012 video. It made me wonder when that dirty not-so-little secret about May 31, 2008 is going to be told to all of America – people keep saying that Hillary lost the primary, lost to Obama, etc.
She didn’t loose and people deserve to know how they were disenfranchised.
It’s not so much that it was Hillary – it was that they gave my vote to someone I didn’t intend it for.
Exactly. The obots have never understood that it wasn’t only about Hillary. It was how my vote was disregarded, thrown out like garbage; and I was told to go away, the party didn’t need me anymore. Why on earth would I stick around after getting that message?
This is an example of why KO’s show is on a deathwatch:
I thought KO was the world’s Foremost Taker of Umbrage. But that was legitimate stuff like Hillary’s RFK plot and not foolish ginned up controversies like jokes about her child being raped and so on.
Speaking of skeevy……….
Yuck-o Can someone let mke know when he puts on his leather jacket and jumps the shark already.
KO is no Fonzie.
But would that make Karma Bites Pinky Tuskadero?
(Karma Bites being the woman KO used his show to pick up, texting her over the on-air address, who then dissed him and spilled dirt about their hookups)
He is so hard to watch. What a smug little smearmeister he is.
And I was just reading Bercovici’s piece on KO’s blunder last night
Sludge Report claims Katie Couric is facing a big pay cut.
(that sound you hear is Sarah Palin laughing all the way to the bank)
I remember hearing she was on her way out and the Palin interview saved her job. Perhaps the underlying problems whatever they are haven’t been fixed. I guess she can thank Palin for having lasted this much longer.
I’m not going to weep if mainstreet media has one less twit.
It’s too darn bad Olbermann and a whole host of others can’t join her.
I’m sure with her pay cut she will still be vastly overpaid when considering the “value” people get out of CSM(CORPORATE SPONSORED MEDIA). The sooner people use TV for entertainment the happier I’ll be.
Couric has had the crappiest ratings of the three major networks since she started hosting the nightly news on CBS. I wouldn’t be surprised if CBS decides not to renew her contract. She should’ve stayed on the Today show with the other not so serious journalists/talk show hosts. Does anyone else miss the days of Jennings, Cronkite, Brinkley and Brokaw? There has to be better female journalists out there who could take Couric and Williams’ place too.
Greta.
I liek Diane Sawyer -she seems real
ooops, “like”
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/03/las-vegas-mayor-obama-is-a-real-slow-learner/
backtrack can not help himself. He always find a way to put his foot in his mouth.
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE