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Paul Krugman: Conscience of a Liberal
The Confluence
Suburban Guerrilla Ian WelshIs it just me? For the 3 minutes or so that I watched this video, I actually felt sorry for Britney Spears.
Over the top paparazzi? or just too bad for her? I must say I spent most of the time wondering WTH???
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If I was her I would hire a couple of big bruisers as bodyguards and guarantee to pay any judgments against them for beating the fuck out of paparazzi.
Is that ridiculous or what?
I could see if she was doingsomething newsworthy but it looked like she and her sister were just going into a store or restaurant.
It looked like she was going into the pet store. That bag was a small dog carrier.
It was hard to tell with all the pooperazzi in the way.
Don’t you wish that folks would give as much scrutiny to their elected leaders as they do their entertainers and sports idols?
We are so boned.
the media does give that kind of scrutiny when the elected leader is a Clinton or a Palin.
Agreed.
http://rawstory.com/2009/12/glenn-beck-christmas-sweater-movie-flops-big-cities/
The comments are full of references to incest and ‘inbred rednecks,’ gay jokes/slurs, and references to ‘Glenda.’ (*gasp* What could be more insulting?).
Please, progressives, stop seizing the high ground! It’s embarassing! Beck can trick them into joining on one of his commie witch hunts by prending he’s looking for gays, women, and rural people.
His fans are all in locked facilities.
I saw Beck once quite a while ago, before he got big and nuts. I gotta say, he was funny and showed no sign of being insane.
It’s mostly an act.
I love Britney. I always will. I love how the media tries to make her into the icon of the feminine and constantly criticizes everything about her, and she’s just like, whatever, you won’t stop me from doing whatever I want.
That mean person yelling was almost worse than the paps. People are so compassionate.
Agreed. I love how the tabs treat her and Angelina Jolie in particular. You can see them throw every sick female stereotype up against them in sequence just to which sticks and what sells more magazines. It’s disgusting, and these are just people living their damn lives.
She needs a better disguise.
PDS never sleeps:
Not exactly Watergate.
It’s pathological. It reminds me of the way they went after the Clintons.
By the time they actually found something (he lied about a blow-job!) nobody cared.
I knew it was from huffpo before I checked the link.
With all the things in the news the #1 story at Memeorandum all day today is Sarah’s comments on Obama’s birth certificate.
When you look at the whole thing even those comments were pretty innocuous. Her own explanation on facebook was fine. I just put it down to “they got nuthin”.
That never stopped them before. The most outraged will be Andy Sullivan, of course.
They are really going crazy over there. I’m convinced at least half are on drugs.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
At least that’s some excuse. If they’re not, then it’s padded cell time for them.
Unless memory fails me, I think they have filed that complaint before and had it dismissed.
Britney’s worst peformance ever
Oh, this is my absolute fave. 🙂
The Media: Brit, you’re a fat, ugly cow! You should be embarassed going out in the street looking like that! Hide and put a bag over your head, you’re a mess!
Brit: Eff you! I’ll do whatever I want!
The media: Who do you think you are? Your career is over!
Brit: Oh yeah? Eff you!
I wish LI, fellow Brit lover, was here. 🙂
It was quite the train wreck though. I watched it live and my mouth hit the floor. I said “someone didn’t show up for rehearsal I see…”
That’s unbelievable. Imagine living like that–just trying to go to a restaurant? It’s such a comment on the mentality of our society that following her like that is actually lucrative.
There really should be some type of constraints on that stuff. Celebrity or not, that is mentally damaging.
I needed a drink so I made a whole batch of Sangria. Help yourselves:
Does anyone else find this to be the creepiest song ever written and performed?
No. In my book that distiction goes to Jay-Z’s “I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one. ” Especially when used by Obama after his primary win in Iowa.
It’s from a time when it didn’t seem so creepy. Statuatory rape wasn’t really an item and he was much younger! It got ALOT of play at sweet 16 parties (back when people still had them).
He probably was one-upping (downing?) She Was Just 17.
the paparazzi that follows Brit is the creepiest shit. the whole “period pictures to prove she’s not pregnant” was one of the weirdest things I ever heard of.
She should have looked right into the video camera and said “can’t I just eat my waffles in peace?”
I’m glad I never heard of that. Sounds hyper creepy.
I used to read Margaret Cho’s blog during the primaries because she was all “I’m bi-candidate, I like Hillary and Obama, I like Obama and Hillary.” And, she posted about seeing the pictures and being horrified. I was horrified just hearing about it and not seeing anything.
I love Margaret Cho. I quit reading a bunch of people’s blogs, including hers, because I was afraid they’d be Failbots and I didn’t want to lose respect for them. Glad I was wrong.
She was a big obot. Endorsed what’s his face in PA.
*sighs* Yeah, I was pretty she’d done something during the campaign that gave me a negative impression but I’d forgotten exactly what. Oh, well…
you can imagine how Cho reacted to the Evil Palin
*sighs* It doesn’t have to be like this. Is anyone following the discussion over at Reclusive Leftist? I wish them all the luck in the world, but I bet at the first disagreement over Palin everything falls to pieces and everyone’s at each other’s throats.
Ruh roh…
“Jesus Christ dumped from jury pool”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091202/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_jesus_jury_duty
From the article:
Unlike the major religions, they didn’t make up some quotes after the failed attempts to contact Jesus.
I’m with myiq on this Britney thing. Some nice professional mercenaries from Blackwater could do wonders for that crowd of paparrazi.
The law of supply and demand. They can sell those photos to mags that cater to the fly-overs, so why not?
I think the idiots who read those mags are present everywhere – from major cities to the “fly-overs”.
Rural America does not have a monopoly on “dumb and shallow”. Urban America is just as full of shallow morons, and the west coast may have the largest percentage.
I beg to differ — the EAST coast has the greatest number of dumb & shallow ass h*les!
Most hateful people I’ve ever met in the whole world live on the east coast. NY voted against the ERA –and I’ve been ignoring that set of in-laws ever since.
One of my all time favorites songs from high school:
That song is about drugs!!
Sarah Palin and Barney Frank to speak at the Gridiron Dinner Saturday night in DC. Bet it could be fun.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/palin-frank-to-speak-at-gridiron-dinner/
Now that’s a pair
Pair of what?
Uh oh. I’ve never seen Barney refrain from being brusque and condescending with other Dems. I would not try that with Palin.
My absolute favorite 70s band — still going strong
More Doobies…in a doobie state of mind tonight
I hate it when everybody and their dog quotes poll numbers on how much Americans love the “public option” and it all is a big fucking lie Thompson-Reuters Poll Details.
Note the “like Medicare for everyone” in the poll question. As I have stated before, that’s the only way people support health care reform. The generic public option and other BS being considered by Congress is a waste of time and effort.
This whole fucked up process needs to be killed and started from scratch. When it’s started from scratch, Medicare for All should be on the table since it is what the American people support.
Have I mentioned lately that I hate all the DC politicians and their pets. Every one of them.
not lately…
there was a poll at the beginning of the year that showed something like 60% of Americans support single-payer… we never hear about that poll.
Here it is:
It’s amazing that a clear majority of the American people support Medicare for All and it can’t event get up for debate in the Congress.
Ever since I became convinced of that some months ago, this process was dead to me. Massive corruption is the only answer.
Did backtrack do the same finger gesture in Allentown as his did to Hillary? Hot Air has a post with pictures.
I did not see or hear his speech and only saw this on Hot AIr.
If this is true, he is the most ignorant, arrogant,useless, pos ever in office.
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
I saw that yon outube too. Interesting that the politician he was speaking about at the time was a Hillary supporter, and he did the little smirk after the finger.
How long are the American people going to put up with the insults, the lack of doing his job, and his redistributing the wealth to his wall st owners?
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
Don Henley tears my heart out every time with this song…
And it’s not the Eagles without “Hotel California”
The Doobies, Eagles, and Steely Dan prove the 70s had the best music ever
Oh Gawd! can’t forget Elton…
Elton trivia — he never intended to sing his and Bernie Taupin’s songs but no one wanted them, so he decided to sing them himself.
Our great fortune!
Ask me any EJ trivia! (I went “steady” with him in high school. Of course, he never knew.)
OK…the song Skyline Pigeon was song at whose funeral?
Ryan White.
I have a 30-year request in with my best friend for Funeral for a Friend at my funeral. I’m thinking of switching to this one: (Ray Cooper is awesome).
Better EJ:
Yes…fab. Here’s my all time favorite. Makes me weep
I’m going to see him in March with Billy Joel (Was supposed to be July, the Dec, now postponed until March).
My hubby bought me 5th row tickets a few years back — center. I just about cried the whole time. It was his tour with just him and his piano.
Uneffingbelievable.
I saw him at Radio City last year: the benefit concert for…HILLARY!!!!
wow! I wanted to go but had another commitment. Cool!
I want to see his Las Vegas Red Piano show. We wanted to go last summer but he was gone by August.
Sweetie and I went to see him in Reno on that tour. Three hours of Elton and his piano. I was in heaven.
Eagles 2007. they’re still at it.
The Eagles rock. I posted my favorite Eagles song upthread “Wasted Time” from the Hotel California album. 2nd favorite is “New Kid in Town” simply for the awesome harmonies.
Went to the Hell Freezes Over concert in Dallas. They are just great and fun.
I’ve only seen Don Henley live (at a Democratic rally/tribute to Mel Carnahan.) Love the Eagles, though.
Elton John’s Texan Love Song
My other favorite Elton song, from Tumbleweed Connection (the four-part harmonies are fab)
my favorite CC song:
Oh, I LOVE that song. LOVE IT.
One of the best love songs ever written.
I saw Aerosmith in 1977 — I wonder if they were this wasted when I saw them.
super 70s flashback — Steve Miller Band, the Joker
“singers” today could not do such unaided, pure, vocals… Sting today
This was my senior class’s “song” — now that I look back, what a morose choice.
mine was Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)… rather bitter choice if you ask me, could have been a 2008 anthem for dems-in-exile.
That’s hilarious! You must have gone to an interesting school.
my school was/is the personification of Whole Foods Nation.
Lol Well, in a school context, there’s got to be good as well as bad with that, I guess?
ok I should have said Whole Foods Nation in a conservative area… (Obamacans)
Oh. Well then. 🙂 I always kind of envied those WFN schools where they have school activism days picketing downtown and picture books about accepting everyone’s families and all that.
That was my daughter’s school song in like 2002. (K-8th)
Speaking of morose … Naughty Max Baucus
Oh fer cryin’….
friday night news dump
Is he providing her health insurance?
{{{bangs head…rolls eyes}}}
I can’t stand Baucus, but it’s not really as bad as it sounds. They call it an “affair”, but he and his ex had been separated for awhile before he started seeing her. And she voluntarily withrew her name from consideration, and also left Baucus’ employ when it became apparent to them both that the relationship was going to be more than casual. (They are still together.)
She had worked with Baucus for years before they got involved, and by all accounts was good at her job, so the nomination may have been in good faith. Yeah, there was a few months overlap there, but it looks like they tried to do the right thing – and since none of this was public at the time, it’s not like she was forced by public opinion to step down or remove her name.
I think this one is one of those “gray” areas, not blatant scumbucketery.
Southwest captain, crew enjoy ‘early Christmas present’ with baby born on airplane
http://www.idahostatesman.com/boise/story/997474.html
Eagles trivia. What singer put together a session band and then added a couple more members for a summer tour the result being that the singers band then later formed themselves into the Eagles.
I think I’m channeling Casey Kasem. Remember kids, Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.
Dude…Linda Rondstat!
That’s right (in the voice of Casey) 🙂
Next I’ll be channeling Wolfman Jack.
Clap for the Wolfman.
What movie did they work with another 70s musician on a major soundtrack hit? With who? and what song?
Bozz, look what you’ve done to me (urban cowboy)
Yep. The hubby was a huuugggee Boz Scaggs fan. Silk Degrees baby…Silk Degrees.
Next up, Mr. No Legs Trivia. The reason I saw it, a friend was a student of a guy who played I think a waiter in the movie. Anyway, god that was bad.
I was FORCED to go to the “premier” Mr. No Legs was there himself.
Ain’t I cool?
I think he died from “no legs disease.”
((hubby just said I’ll rot in hell for saying that.))
I saw the movie in PA as well. For the life of me I don’t remember the town. But it wasn’t the premier. Sigh. Not so cool I guess. 🙂 Still bad even when you know someone in it.
Somehow became a cult classic
What a great voice Boz had..too bad he did not keep going. Guess disco and punk did him in, like Elton, but Elton came back. Think cocaine really got to a lot of people.
1974 souped up Dodge Charger, 8-track in the dash and Boz Scaggs.
Things really happened in that car. 😉
Margaret Cho explains why she chose Obama over Hillary, from USA TODAY (click more next to her name):
More:
Well that’s as good a reason as any. {{thud}}
I gotta say, that’s actually the most coherent reason I’ve ever heard. Most Obots trying to explain why they support Obama sound like Obama trying to answer a debate question.
LOLROTF. You’ve got that just right.
Is she really that shallow?
She’s an Obama supporter, ain’t she?
Sigh. Yup.
In PA she said she had a nightmare she was a Hillary supporter. So I wonder if she’s being facetious.
I find Kathy Griffin funnier anyway.
I can’t really stomach her since she started dating Ricky Hollywood 🙂 but I don’t hate her the way I hate Tina Fey.
I can’t bring myself to hate Tina Fey. But I’ve been permanently turned off Margaret Cho, though. She lost me when she went Obama.
I miss Luther. {{sigh}}
Where the Golden Sacks bankers should be:
or this
Cuz they’ve been:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Calamari/Detail.aspx
Good times.
I think I was only like 13 too. Jeebus! The “rules” were really different back then.
Great song. One of the best ever.
70s rocked.
One of my all-time favorites. I wore this damn album (Yes, ALBUM) out:
I saw them once in concert. They had lasers before lasers were common, and Ian Anderson jumped and pranced all OVER that stage with his amazing flute for 3 solid hours. It was freaking incredible.
Album covers were brands.
Supertramp was awesome!
I was supposed to see Thin Lizzy and Queen in 1977 but the concert was canceled.
This was the #1 band for the second half of the 70’s:
I saw them in concert with Cheap Trick.
This was the first rock LP I ever bought:
What a classic.
Speaking of Brittanys..a commercial break.
OT BBC World is fabulous today-one climate change programme after another, and all of them fascinating.
Ethical Man on “Can Obama Save the Planet?” is a hoot!