http://www.babychums.com/?p=2120
Given all that has been going on this is a truly superficial post, and given that I haven't posted for a while, this should surely bring me shame, but I can't help myself. The other day I heard a story wafting across the news about the totally creepy Alphonse D'Amato. I shook my head and thought what I heard could not be true, but sadly it is. At seventy one he is about to have fathered another child and he couldn't be happier. I guess he hasn't read all those gloomy articles about ancient sperm and what problem children it can produce. It isn't just that he is old, nothing wrong with that - I no spring chicken myself, but he was really creepy when he was young and the thought of more of his progeny is deeply disturbing no matter what the age he was when he produced them. I find it truly horrifying that he was in fact a senator from New York State. How on earth did that happen?
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Bush enablers
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=hsnews-000003098436
Jane Harmon has been a great disappointment for the last eight years, but I must admit to surprise when I read this article. Shocked not so much about her cozy relationship with APAIC or her willingness to intervene of behalf of AIPAC, but her dealings with the Bushies was a little horrific. One detail that jumped out at me in the article was the brief mention that she agreed to pressure the NYT not to release the story about warrant less wiretaps before the 2004 election. I don't really think that the wiretap story would have changed the outcome of the election, after all the repugs are pretty expert at voter suppression, just look at Ohio in '04, and most people don't get too exercised about wiretaps because they don't think anything they say would merit scrutiny. But clearly somebody thought that the story might have some sort of impact otherwise they wouldn't have tried to stop the story. Jane Harmon's support of Bush policies gave repugs cover, and therefore she has to live with the fact that she was a prime Bush enabler. I do think it is one of life's delicious ironies that the information of Harmon's dalliance with AIPAC was heard on a wiretap, although it was legally obtain. And in the Stupidity of Arrogance category, did she think she was immune from wiretaps? Good for Nancy Pelosi denying Harmon the post as head of the intelligence committee, and she didn't even know that Harmon was so dirty.
Jane Harmon has been a great disappointment for the last eight years, but I must admit to surprise when I read this article. Shocked not so much about her cozy relationship with APAIC or her willingness to intervene of behalf of AIPAC, but her dealings with the Bushies was a little horrific. One detail that jumped out at me in the article was the brief mention that she agreed to pressure the NYT not to release the story about warrant less wiretaps before the 2004 election. I don't really think that the wiretap story would have changed the outcome of the election, after all the repugs are pretty expert at voter suppression, just look at Ohio in '04, and most people don't get too exercised about wiretaps because they don't think anything they say would merit scrutiny. But clearly somebody thought that the story might have some sort of impact otherwise they wouldn't have tried to stop the story. Jane Harmon's support of Bush policies gave repugs cover, and therefore she has to live with the fact that she was a prime Bush enabler. I do think it is one of life's delicious ironies that the information of Harmon's dalliance with AIPAC was heard on a wiretap, although it was legally obtain. And in the Stupidity of Arrogance category, did she think she was immune from wiretaps? Good for Nancy Pelosi denying Harmon the post as head of the intelligence committee, and she didn't even know that Harmon was so dirty.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The luck of the Irish...
It is pretty bizarre to hear the rescue of the captain of the hijacked ship was the first test of Obama's foreign policy. I am very glad he was rescued, but it seems to me this was pretty much a police action, not a triumph of military might of as some gas bags put it, His First Big Test. Not to say there wasn't a tremendous amount of skill that went into the rescue, but a certain amount of luck entered into it, as there was so much that could have gone wrong. I am sure the right wing nut jobs were getting increasing gleeful at the prospect of a humiliated and impotent America held hostage by a bunch of Somali pirates. No doubt at Fox they were fantasizing about headlines reading "Day 10 - America Held Hostage" and are now gnashing their teeth.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Reel Stupid
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/04/01/2009-04-01_marshals_seize_ponzi_schemer_bernard_mad.html
A few days ago, I tried to think of what Bernie Madoff's boat should be named. After hearing that the contractor who bribed the judges in PA to incarcerate kiddies named his boat Reel Justice, my husband and I tried to come up with a fitting name, but failed. In the you can't make this sh_t up/irony is not dead department, I found out that Bernie actually owns a boat, and the name of the boat? Bull. Now that is a name to ponder. Maybe the feds don't need to do lengthy investigations, and what they really need to do is go down to every harbor and check out sketchy boat names.
A few days ago, I tried to think of what Bernie Madoff's boat should be named. After hearing that the contractor who bribed the judges in PA to incarcerate kiddies named his boat Reel Justice, my husband and I tried to come up with a fitting name, but failed. In the you can't make this sh_t up/irony is not dead department, I found out that Bernie actually owns a boat, and the name of the boat? Bull. Now that is a name to ponder. Maybe the feds don't need to do lengthy investigations, and what they really need to do is go down to every harbor and check out sketchy boat names.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Michelle part deux
The Michelle frenzy continues... on NBC news last night, I heard her compared to Jackie O, Princess Di, and surely Mother Theresa is next. Even the dreaded MSM seems to be changing their meme about her, although they floated a trial issue of her breaking protocol and touching the Queen's back. The video of the Queen and Prince Phillip organizing themselves to have a photo with to Obama's is truly something to see. One wonders what the Princeton, Harvard Law educated Michelle O thinks of all the fuss that important issue, her clothing.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Michelle Ma Belle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/30/AR2009033003332_2.html?sid=ST2009033103841
An interesting phenomena is afoot. During the primary and run up to the election, the MSM constantly asked the question was Michelle Obama too angry, too black, not black enough, etc? Guess what, she is incredibly popular. This article in the Wapo makes out that she used to be barely tolerated but now she is loved. I am not sure that she was ever so unpopular, but I do grant that she is extremely well liked, no thanks to the MSM. Remember the flap over whether or not she should wear sleeveless dresses? The end result of that idiotic press meme is that now everybody want Michelle arms. Remember when she was portrayed as an Angela Davis wannabe? Turns out, most people's point of reference is Claire Huxtable not Angela D. Remember when she was excoriated for saying that for the first time she was proud of her country (not the exact quote, but how it was reported)... After having endured eight years of having a buffoon and a master criminal in the White House, those words might have some relevance to many. What I wonder, is has the MSM lost its ability to create a lasting meme? After a fair amount of pounding in the press Barack has high approval ratings, while Congress/Wall Street/Auto Industry see their approval steadily sinking. Poor Al Gore, even though he invented the internets, they came too late to save him.
An interesting phenomena is afoot. During the primary and run up to the election, the MSM constantly asked the question was Michelle Obama too angry, too black, not black enough, etc? Guess what, she is incredibly popular. This article in the Wapo makes out that she used to be barely tolerated but now she is loved. I am not sure that she was ever so unpopular, but I do grant that she is extremely well liked, no thanks to the MSM. Remember the flap over whether or not she should wear sleeveless dresses? The end result of that idiotic press meme is that now everybody want Michelle arms. Remember when she was portrayed as an Angela Davis wannabe? Turns out, most people's point of reference is Claire Huxtable not Angela D. Remember when she was excoriated for saying that for the first time she was proud of her country (not the exact quote, but how it was reported)... After having endured eight years of having a buffoon and a master criminal in the White House, those words might have some relevance to many. What I wonder, is has the MSM lost its ability to create a lasting meme? After a fair amount of pounding in the press Barack has high approval ratings, while Congress/Wall Street/Auto Industry see their approval steadily sinking. Poor Al Gore, even though he invented the internets, they came too late to save him.