Monday morning making it difficult to get out of bed? Dances found this photo and captioned it, “Morning After Rancho’s Birthday Party.” I was sleeping it off yesterday and forgot to post it.
Obama must be suffering from whiplash this morning. He’s being played from every angle. The instability in Iran makes him look like a loser on one hand since his candidate, the supposedly reformist Mir Hossein Moussavi, lost to the man everyone loves to call KRAAZY, President Ahmadinejad. So much for spreading the seeds of Hope and Change in the Middle East Mr. Lightbringer.
“After a rambunctious campaign, there’s a prospect that hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an antagonist to Washington for years, could actually be ousted by reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister who favors more engagement with the United States.
That, and the victory earlier in the week of moderates in Lebanon, is raising talk of an Obama effect for change — something the president is not dissuading people from contemplating.
“We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran,” Obama told reporters today. “And obviously, after the speech that I made in Cairo, we tried to send a clear message that we think there is the possibility of change.”
What? A boring and offensive speech by Mr. Wonderful was NOT ENOUGH to solve all the problems in the Middle East?Jeez, this guy is turning out to be so easy to laugh at it’s almost starting to feel cruel. Like laughing at a retarded person, which of course obama himself likes to do.
Also contributing to Mr. Wonderful’s neck pain today, if the theocracy in Iran, which is actually ruled by a guy no one thinks of as a reformer, Supreme Leader (what IS this — Star Wars for crying out loud??) Ayatollah Khamenei, decides to stand firm and recognize the (probably rigged) reelection of Ahmadinejad, obama will be hard pressed to walk himself back from his Let’s All Be Friends fairy tale speech in Cairo two weeks ago. His own naive words of conciliation and offensive moral relativism will require him to treat with a dictator who might have stolen the election. (Oh, and don’t you just LOVE all the news photos coming out of Iran of women lining up to vote in their jaunty chadors, showing how the wide variety of styles and colors of fetching “head scarves” demonstrates the natural right of women to “CHOOSE” how to wear their hair?)
Meanwhile, speaking of how dangerous the incompetence of naivete and the overblown hubris born of being the object of juvenile adoration can be when one is expected to play life-or-death politics (and make no mistake, the Israelis play LIFE OR DEATH politics every breathing moment of their lives) with the likes of Bibi Freakin Netenyahu, obama has been schooled like the in over his head, celebritician that he is. “Sure obama, we’ll give you Palestinian statehood like you asked, No Problemo! “ says Netenyahu:
“In his speech on Sunday night, Netanyahu said Israel would accept a Palestinian state if it recognizes Israel, has no army, if descendants of refugees ousted in 1948 never return, Jewish outposts remain in place, and Jerusalem could not be its capital.
The half-hour speech, seen as response to President Barack Obama’s recent address to the Muslim world and U.S. pressure on Israel to back plans for a Palestinian state, offered no real concessions on Palestinian statehood.
Western powers largely welcomed Netanyahu’s speech, but Palestinians reacted furiously, with President Mahmoud Abbas accusing the Israeli premier of destroying the peace process and the radical group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, branding the speech “racist.”"
Palestinians can have statehood any time they want it. IF. . .
The guy is so stupendously clueless it’s almost difficult to describe. I honestly think he believes he is so entitled to having his every wish granted (by the what? The Wish Granting Fairies?) that he can solve the Israeli/Palestine situation simply by WANTING it solved. I don’t know about you, but I always assume that celebrities who like to dabble in geo-politics (and I think most of them deserve credit for their efforts and the results they often achieve) are treated with bemused chagrin by the actual geo-political leaders. I bet Putin and Clinton and Bibi enjoy rubbing elbows with the likes of Bono and Angelina and Brad just like anyone would, and they put on their “Listening Seriously and With Empathy” faces when the celebrity hobbyists address their meetings, but seriously, when the red carpets are rolled up and the cameras have stopped clicking, I think the REAL power brokers smirk, close the doors to the private smoking rooms, and start dealing. Like Bill and Pooty-Poot:
“After hosting a reception at a local museum on opening night, [Clinton] wandered over to the Sheraton to a private party held by Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, who welcomed him as “our good friend” and toasted him with vodka shots. The two then retired to a private room, planted themselves at a table and talked deep into the night.
When I asked Clinton later what they discussed, he lapsed into stories about Putin and his own love for Boris Yeltsin but divulged little of what was said.”
Somehow, I just can’t see President LightBringerWeight as someone Bibi will want to close himself up in a room to discuss real politics and trade old war stories with eight four years from now.
PROWL coming up soon. Meanwhile, Pumas are talking about THIS story about a possibly political patronage firing scandal in Sacramento which has the potential to blow up bigger than President Squeaky Clean would like.
And, obama’s defense of the disgusting Defense of Marriage Act is not being ignored by teh BOIZ. Good. They’re still jackasses, but I’ll support them for standing up for a democratic principle or two now that their koolaid apparently isn’t providing the same Mindless MoJo it used to. Actually, Aravosis is on a veritable Hate Tour Against All Things Obama this week. Next thing you know he’ll be calling himself Puma.
(oh, and Hang in there Simofish! (she’s having a HELL of a Monday.))
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murphy 06.15.09 at 11:34 am
TT and Persephone, our resident political analysts who put the professionals to shame, called this one days ago:
“The election results in Iran may reflect the will of the Iranian people. Many experts are claiming that the margin of victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the result of fraud or manipulation, but our nationwide public opinion survey of Iranians three weeks before the vote showed Ahmadinejad leading by a more than 2 to 1 margin — greater than his actual apparent margin of victory in Friday’s election.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/14/AR2009061401757.html
Alice Rodham Puma 06.15.09 at 11:44 am
Well reading that puts me at a loss what to think. If that was a fair vote, then why are the religious and secret police trying so hard and violently to supress the protests?
repost from downstairs.
persephone yes, I know it is a theocracy, with a layer of “democracy” underneath and that the Ayatollah has all the power, but the people demanding free and fair elections is a first step back towards democracy, if they succeed.
Whether we are being fed propoganda and for what purpose, you might be right, but I don’t know why and I didn’t hear anything about ‘dinnerjacket’ winning in the polls last week… according to the Telegraph who got it from other sources Mousavi won and Amadinejad came third.
I ask myself why, if the elections were actually fair, are the secret police and the religious council supporting Army Dinner Jacket with violence against the people of Iran?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5540211/Iran-protest-cancelled-as-leaked-election-results-show-Mahmoud-Amadinejad-came-third.html
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Mr Mousavi’s cancellation of the protest came as sporadic disturbances continued around the Iranian capital, and reports circulated of leaked interior ministry statistics showing him as the clear victor in last Friday’s polls.
The statistics, circulated on Iranian blogs and websites, claimed Mr Mousavi had won 19.1 million votes while Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won only 5.7 million.
Alice Rodham Puma 06.15.09 at 11:52 am
video from Iran today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCQpSfH-LtQ
NikkisMom 06.15.09 at 11:55 am
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the PUMA picture, Murphy!!! ;b
Alice Rodham Puma 06.15.09 at 11:56 am
Anyway, didn’t a lot of opinion polls during the Primaries turn out to be wrong?
I am a little bit thrown off by the Washington post opinion poll but surely Ahmedinajad or however the heck you spell it is the chosen one of the religious council of Iran, and surely if there is election fraud (and it looks very much like there was) we should be supporting the right of a free and fair election, even in a country which does not have proper democracy?
Alice Rodham Puma 06.15.09 at 11:58 am
…continued
and that should go for even if the other guy is not much better than the last one. It’s about the people and their right to chose progress isn’t it?
Alice Rodham Puma 06.15.09 at 12:01 pm
http://twitpic.com/7gtbu
Alice Rodham Puma 06.15.09 at 12:05 pm
Well as for Obama, yeah he’s still a jackass and trying to make the whole middle-east thing about himself a dangerous fool to boot. President Lightweight indeed.
MKfromLA 06.15.09 at 12:09 pm
Senators held stock in bailed-out banks
Senators who oversee the $700 billion Wall Street rescue package held stocks in many of the banks bailed out towards the end of last year, according to financial disclosure reports released Friday.
According to the reports detailing senators’ finances in 2008, nearly half of the members of the Senate Banking Committee had holdings in financial institutions that have taken funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The panel has jurisdiction over the bailout fund and other relief efforts directed by federal regulators to save the nation’s financial system.
more here … http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/senators-held-stock-in-bailed-out-banks-2009-06-12.html
scarlet 06.15.09 at 12:09 pm
First lady extends her reach at the White House
Washington took note when first lady Michelle Obama suddenly sacked her chief of staff in favor of her old boss from Chicago at the beginning of June.
It was widely seen as a sign that the first lady wanted to start pumping up policy as well as her biceps.
The new chief of staff, Susan Sher, had helped Obama move from an unsatisfying job as a corporate lawyer grinding out billable hours to a lush, $317,000-a-year community relations job at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Sher, Senior White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett and the first lady are close friends. They were all lawyers with political clout in Chicago Democratic politics, and they all learned how to make public service pay — for themselves. Obama is the youngest of the group and the only one with a husband, but they have long been close allies.
The woman booted from the East Wing in order to get the troika back together was Jackie Norris…Jackie Norris was made the head of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees government-run programs like AmeriCorps.
But there may be more to the Jackie Norris move than getting her out of the way and then providing sinecures for her and her husband.
The first lady has long nurtured a deep interest in AmeriCorps and the other programs Norris is now overseeing.
And the president made clear he shares his wife’s passion last week when he summarily fired the Corporation for National and Community Service’s inspector general, Gerald Walpin.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/First-lady-extends-her-reach-at-the-White-House_06_15-48031422.html
murphy 06.15.09 at 12:13 pm
Alice, no question it’s a muddle. Reports on whether the election was in fact rigged are now coming out piece-meal.
No matter what, though, obama’s been played. Either by being so stupidly hubristic as to think Iran (and Israel) would be his Wish Granting Fairies if the election results are valid. OR by being obviously unprepared for a turn of events in which the powers that be in Iran rigged the election.
He set the stage for unicorns and rainbows in the Middle East with his Cairo Speech. So when no unicorns or rainbows fall from the sky he looks like the idiot he is.
murphy 06.15.09 at 12:14 pm
scarlet! connecting the dots. nice work.
Alice Rodham Puma 06.15.09 at 12:17 pm
this is an interesting read from someone (anonymous)inside Iran
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/15/tehran_two/
murphy 06.15.09 at 12:17 pm
MK, yep. and reports on the financial statements from legislators and government officials failed to mention the amounts of CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS from regulated industries to the politicians who are in charge of regulating them. It’s off topic I know, but relevant to the whole story of our Bought And Paid For government.
http://pumapac.org/2009/05/06/the-pay-for-play-us-senate/
Alice Rodham Puma 06.15.09 at 12:20 pm
Oh, I totally agree with that. He is very naive and/or egotistical to make out as if he has had influence on any of this.
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murphy 06.15.09 at 12:13 pm
No matter what, though, obama’s been played. Either by being so stupidly hubristic as to think Iran (and Israel) would be his Wish Granting Fairies if the election results are valid. OR by being obviously unprepared for a turn of events in which the powers that be in Iran rigged the election.
murphy 06.15.09 at 12:21 pm
As Molly Ivins used to say, just when you think there’s not a damn bit of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you wrong:
http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/06/15/again-this-time-mrs-obama/
actually I think that statement no longer holds true. The Democrats who have taken over our party are just as bad. at least. but it’s good to remember how friendly the Grand Old Party is to ugly, old-fashioned racism.
murphy 06.15.09 at 12:28 pm
Uppity Woman on her blog, and BostonBoomer at the Confluence have been doing GREAT work aggregating and covering the news out of and about Iran
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/new-media-covers-iranian-riots-in-real-time-u-s-cable-channels-not-so-much/#more-21121
Alice Rodham Puma 06.15.09 at 12:30 pm
Watch the video on here, the slogans remind me of something…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8101098.stm
Alice Rodham Puma 06.15.09 at 12:34 pm
Here is a pic in case you can’t see the video. Does it remind you of anything?
http://twitpic.com/7h0fk/full
scarlet 06.15.09 at 12:35 pm
Durbin cashed out during big stock collapse
WASHINGTON | Asset sales came after meeting with Fed, Treasury chiefs
June 13, 2009
As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares and used much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
The Illinois senator’s 2008 financial disclosure statement shows he sold mutual-fund shares worth $42,696 on Sept. 19, the day after then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged congressional leaders in a closed meeting to craft legislation to help financially troubled banks. The same day, he bought $43,562 worth of Berkshire Hathaway’s Class B stock, the disclosure shows.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/1620776,CST-NWS-durbin13.article#Comments_Container
scarlet 06.15.09 at 12:36 pm
Did David Letterman get a free pass?
If there was any question that a stubborn strain of old-school sexism persists in Obama’s America, one has only to look at certain leaders of what the right wing loves to call the “liberal media” but which is sounding and acting, recently, more like the frat-house media. There, like a virus hiding in the body before, perhaps, staging a comeback, misogyny has found a place to lurk almost undetected, at least by the usually sharp eyes of progressive feminists.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/06/12/letterman_palin/index.html
Cape Hatteras 06.15.09 at 12:49 pm
Scarlet , ever notice how the Hollywood (TV/ movie industry ) claims to be politically SOOOO “pro woman and feminist ?
But notice how many of the positions of power in the business are held by women .
How many producers ,directors , editors , people with the power to say who and what gets filmed are women? What are the percentages? I suspect the same as they were 60 years ago .
KWynne 06.15.09 at 12:58 pm
The election in Iran is a reflection of what happened during the primary and the GE here in America with the selection of Obama. I, along with hundreds of citizens who participated in the caucuses, witnessed the election fraud perpetrated by the obama camp and how they blatantly gamed the caucus system.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves. You cannot achieve a centralized government with fair and honest elections.
There is one big difference between Iran and America though. The Iranian people know what it’s like not to have freedom and to live under a cruel dictatorship. Perhaps, it will take the total loss of all of our freedoms before the American people will finally wake up to what’s happening right here and be willing to take to the streets, as they have bravely done in Iran, and fight for our own freedom. Surely, we aren’t naive enough to think that the power elite are going to give us back our power (i.e., our elections).
We’re going to have to take it back.
murphy 06.15.09 at 1:03 pm
Thanks Scarlet. I just sent this letter to Amanda Fortini, the author of the Salon piece you linked to.
Amanda,
the Democratic supporters of Hillary Clinton are not at all surprised by the so-called Liberal Left’s silence on rampant sexism and misogyny by left-leaning entertainers, public officials, and writers. We’ve been blogging about the sexist abuse for over a year now. First the Blogger BOIZ tried to silence us with ridiculous accusations of Racism and being Republicans, our life-long Democratic Party affiliations nothwithstanding. When that didnt work and we wouldnt sit down and shut up, then the REAL ugliness began. The level of pure misogyny and hatred spewed by obama supporters at women who failed to share their enthusiasm for their lightweight candidate is beyond belief.
Dont believe me? Check out these links:
http://pumapac.org/2009/06/02/if-the-left-isnt-dead-yet-somebody-should-kill-it/
http://pumapac.org/2009/06/11/pig-and-prowl/
For example, a lovely Democrat weighs in on August 29:
“DEATHTOPUMA
gibbsale@gmail.com 10.3.57.86
Attention McCainiacs!
We will prevail! I promise you that are efforts are not in vain! In time, our cunt licker will triumph! If you doubt me, look to past victories. We have conquered the cunts before and we will conquer the cunts again! There is no cunt who can stand in our way! Even McCain’s cunt is by our side! Our efforts to transform the Democratic Party will NOT go unnoticed! We shall overcome, and the real voice of democracy will be felt in November, when McCunt’s platform reigns over these United States!”
The bloggers at Democratic Underground thought the Sarah Palin Voting Machine, which showed an OB-GYN table complete with stirrups morphed with a voting booth, was HILARIOUS. The image was directed at Puma women who refused to support Obama’s illegitimate primary “win.”. The caption on the photo got the most appreciation: “You Vote With Your Vagina, So Why Not Let Your Vagina Vote For you? The 2008 Palin Vaginal Voting System! Order Yours Now and Help SNATCH Defeat From the Jaws of Victory!”
We stand up for Sarah Palin and protested Ciambalo’s DISGUSTING piece in Playboy, as well as Letterman’s offensive “humor” not because we support Palin political views (we don’t) but because sexism and misogyny by the mainstream media against ANYONE is ALWAYS wrong. Hillary Clinton last year, Sarah Palin this year. Next year who will be the target? If we dont oppose sexism ALL the time we will NEVER succeed at banishing it from acceptable political discourse.
Real Democrats who are sick and tired of so-called Liberals and Democrats getting a pass on ugly misogyny and sexism should join us at
http://www.pumapac.org
–Darragh Murphy.
murphy 06.15.09 at 1:24 pm
Al Quaeda likely to blame for murders of three foreigners in Yemen. A German doctor and possibly his wife and three children have been killed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/world/africa/16yemen.html?hp
airforcehusker 06.15.09 at 1:25 pm
Funny how those who probably supported the one are now being screwed over by the one……more hope and change being forced down our throats….
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090615/ap_on_go_ot/us_stimulus_food_stamps
airforcehusker 06.15.09 at 1:32 pm
Nominate | ReportPosted: Today 12:02 PM
Foreign demand for US financial assets falls…..
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign demand for long-term U.S. financial assets fell in April as both China and Japan trimmed their holdings of Treasury securities.
The Treasury Department said Monday that net purchases of stocks, notes and bonds obtained by foreigners fell to $11.2 billion in April, from $55.4 billion in March.
China, the largest holder of U.S. Treasury securities, trimmed its holdings to $763.5 billion in April, from $767.9 billion in March. Japan, the second largest holder of Treasury securities, reduced its holdings to $685.9 billion, from $686.7 billion a month earlier.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner traveled to Beijing earlier this month to assure the Chinese government that the Obama administration is determined to get control of an exploding U.S. budget deficit, which is projected to hit a record $1.84 trillion this year.
China’s holdings of Treasury securities represent about 10 percent of America’s publicly held debt.
The administration has said while its aggressive moves to fight the recession and a severe financial crisis will push up the budget deficit temporarily, it intends to reduce the deficit as soon as the economic situation permits.
With the government’s borrowing needs soaring, there have been some concerns that foreign interest in holding U.S. debt might falter, causing interest rates to rise.
The administration contends that recent increases in the interest rates for U.S. Treasury securities were not a sign of investor unease but a reflection of improving economic conditions.
persephone 06.15.09 at 1:43 pm
Alice, was so glad to see you and then my system went kaput! Sorry.
Still watching Iran-MSM is reporting people are being fired upon, one dead.
Two observations:
1-Female protesters are far outnumbered by males. So far I have not seen a single female protester without the headscarf. Some are in Chador. That is FEAR.
2-The O administration has said little or nothing about Iran since yesterday (?)
Going upthread to catch up!
persephone 06.15.09 at 1:56 pm
Neyanyahu’s long awaited speech was impressive.
He is no lightweight.
Full text here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/Iran/idUSLE167971
Anyone interested in learning about the I/P conflict would be interested in this speech.
As murphy noted in her post above, the Palestinians have already rejected the speech and the peace terms it contained.
lionpuma 06.15.09 at 1:56 pm
murphy, I sent you mail about making a donation through email… Did you receive it?
RememberNovember 06.15.09 at 2:45 pm
White House firing an Inspector General FISHY
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There is too much going on this morning. Sorry this is off topic too but came from Scarlet’s link above about the consolidation of MO’s lawyer buddies in the article:
First lady extends her reach at the White House
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/First-lady-extends-her-reach-at-the-White-House_06_15-48031422.html
Apparently [the president made clear he shares his wife’s passion last week when he summarily fired the Corporation for National and Community Service’s inspector general, Gerald Walpin].
When I went to check out who Walpin is at a dot gov site the page was no longer available (surprise)!
However the story was explained in depth in:
Gerald Walpin speaks: The inside story of the AmeriCorps firing:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Gerald-Walpin-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-AmeriCorps-firing-48030697.html
[Walpin had a high-profile showdown with Kevin Johnson, a former NBA basketball star who was elected mayor of Sacramento, Calif., last year.
Walpin said Johnson’s charity for “at risk” kids was a slipshod operation that had soaked up more than $800,000 in federal money to no discernible benefit beyond helping Johnson do political favors and keep his car clean.
But Johnson is still mayor, and Walpin’s report and public statements about it came to little effect — beyond making sure Johnson was ineligible to ever again receive federal grant money.
But Walpin’s more recent work had much bigger potential. He said there was $75 million in federal funds unaccounted for at the City University of New York. The money was from the teaching fellows program, which provides scholarship money for qualified AmeriCorps volunteers and is the largest expense in the whole organization.
Walpin was just getting warmed up when he was given an hour to quit or be fired Wednesday. He had already started turning up the heat on CUNY, which he said might be double dipping on grant money by taking AmeriCorps cash for kids who already had free rides.
One could easily see the probe expanding to other schools and jeopardizing the goal of making government-run public service a precondition for free higher education.
As Michelle Obama and her reunited team of Chicago friends look to expand the first lady’s portfolio, government-run public service is the top area of interest. Her specific agenda for AmeriCorps is unclear, but during the 2008 election the Obama campaign’s plan for “universal voluntary public service” was her favorite.]
SENATOR Obama was a co-sponsor of legislation to prevent Inspectors general from being summarily fired. Legislation allows for a 30-day period for Congress to investigate. The White House tried to get around this by giving Walpin one hour in which to quit. He refused. Foiled by his own legislation.
RememberNovember 06.15.09 at 2:47 pm
Sorry the long quote was from the first article. For in depth see second article.
Whare did everyone go for over an hour?
Shadowfax 06.15.09 at 2:48 pm
This site on Youtube has lots of video of the riots in Iran too…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zTF1isERI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fuppitywoman08.wordpress.com%2F&feature=player_embedded
These people are really ticked off and makes PUMA protests look timid.
How is Iran going to put this Jeannie back in the bottle?
RememberNovember 06.15.09 at 3:01 pm
EDITORIAL: Walpin-gate
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/15/walpin-gate/
[Congress ought to open an investigation, New York Times editorialists should be in a state of apoplexy, and MSNBC hosts ought to be frothing at the mouth. Without appropriate documentation or good reason, President Obama has fired a federal investigator who was on the case against a political ally of the president's. Mr. Obama's move has the stench of scandal.]
More important news in Iran – can discuss above later.
RoBoTech 06.15.09 at 3:17 pm
IMHO, Iran is a verified Police State. And Obama is jealous. He is try to make America one as fast as he can, before Americans wake up.I don’t think he’ll do it.
Oh and I did receive a response from Olive Garden.
“Thank you for expressing your concerns about Olive Garden and allowing us an opportunity to respond.
We understand your concern about Mr. Letterman’s inappropriate comments. Olive Garden screens network television programs whenever possible. Some shows, like The David Letterman Show, are taped on a daily basis and there is not an opportunity to review the content prior to airing. The content of the dialogue on the June 8th show is not consistent with Olive Garden’s standards and values. We have joined many of our valued guests in voicing our concern to CBS, and we will adjust our plans accordingly as we have done in the past when such situations occur.
Going forward, guest feedback, such as yours, will certainly be taken into consideration as we review our future advertising schedule.
Again, thank you for contacting us with your comments, and we hope you will continue to think of Olive Garden as a place to visit with your family and friends.
Sherri Bruen
Guest Relations Manager”
And my reply.
“Thank you for your response, Ms Bruen.
We should ALL be concerned about how ANYONE with a Public microphone treats our mothers, sisters and daughters.
Letterman’s words, even as Comedy, resonates in our Society, in many ways.
As Husband, Father of two Daughters, and the memory of my wonderful little Mother, it was appalling to hear such obscenity on a International broadcasted show.
I was… no, I AM STILL angry about the slurs.
I love Olive Garden and have good memories with my wife and children there, but I will be watching to see how this plays out. I CAN’T support a Company that ignores such behavior of their advertising figure heads such as CBS.”
we’ll see.
michelina 06.15.09 at 3:25 pm
Nice Letter Robo:
Puma’s rock even if it is a little quiet
here today.
This WALPIN can be a potential time bomb,
if the media does it’s job.
Of course another crisis will occur and
it will die.
RoBoTech 06.15.09 at 3:25 pm
I don’t know how most feel about Glenn Beck, but while I was searching for news on Letterman and Palin, I came across this.
I really thought it was a good assessment.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/201/26685/
goofsmom 06.15.09 at 3:26 pm
RoBoTech
#35 – Excellent follow up note… May I use parts of it in my follow up? (still waiting to get response from OG)
goofsmom 06.15.09 at 3:28 pm
michelina
Agreed… Watch the MSM start focusing on the Iranian protests more…. that will be their crises cover up of the Walpin fiasco…
RoBoTech 06.15.09 at 3:38 pm
#36 Michelina
“if the media does it’s job.”
And there’s the rub. They won’t.
It’s up to us to keep pushing this.
And it’s not the first time Obama has done this.
It was HIS decision to dismiss the case against the NBPP in PA. The case was won. TNBPP members dind’t even have enough respect for the law to show up at their indictments. The case was won, but Holder dismissed it.
And have you seen ANY Media wondering WHY? Have you seen ANY explanation from the Obama Admin?
We don’t know squat about it. Transparency, my buttocks.
As a Post Racial Pres, I truly believe the NBPP case is, as Janeane Garofalo says, “racism, Straight Up”. And there will be those that will call the IG firing the same, even tho I think it’s more of a Cronyism and an ILLEGAL act by Obama. But the guy that was investigated was black. And there’s been rumors that Michelle was behind the firings as it was a personal family friend involved. But it will NEVER be brought out.
All I can say to you guys is, be careful at the Fed Election polls the next time around. Obama and Holder, by dismissing the NBBP case, has all but assured violence at the polls. And it may me you or your Family that gets caught up in it. One of the last rights Americans have is to get a fair vote. And it won’t be tread on, easily.
And, remember that Civilian Security Force Obama has mentioned? I believe the NBPP is at the core of that group. Black, White, Yellow, or Brown, a Jack Boot is a Jack Boot.
RoBoTech 06.15.09 at 3:40 pm
#38 goofsmom (luv it,LOL).
Absolutely.
murphy 06.15.09 at 3:41 pm
p.s. I forgot to say HI TRISH!! to trish in canada, sorry about that.
I also owe a hello to my dear 2PumaSisters.
nice to see you RoBoTech. welcome.
Cape Hatteras 06.15.09 at 3:43 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8054053.stm
Now ANOTHER country move ahead of USA.
Downcast look icon
murphy 06.15.09 at 3:43 pm
or should I say, Welcome Back RoBoTech!
persephone 06.15.09 at 3:49 pm
Sarah In Italy on more women hating women from our *friends* at The Daily Beast:
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/06/13/margaret-carlson-writes-dumbest-article-ever/
The New Agenda puts articles on the Daily Beast.
Does Amy Goodman know about Tina and Margaret? Jeez.
RoBoTech 06.15.09 at 3:51 pm
Murphy
that’ll work!
murphy 06.15.09 at 3:55 pm
Actually it’s all coming back to me now RoboTech. Lord, June 2008 feels like a lifetime ago. Sorry about that.
Thanks Persephone. Great find.
LionPuma, checking my email now. Thank You.
DancesWithPumas 06.15.09 at 3:58 pm
Does Amy Goodman know about Tina and Margaret? Jeez.
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perseph
did you mean Amy Siskind (New Agenda)?
RoBoTech 06.15.09 at 4:08 pm
#45
persephone
My God. This lady nailed it. It’s not about Sarah Palin, although SO FAR, she has been an easy target. I believe that’s about to end.
It’s the ease that she and her children has been attacked, and the pile on by
1. men who actually thinks this way about women (usually not out in the open, but make no mistake, in the backrooms, bars, cocktail parties, where ever people let themselves go).
2. Women who like to SAY they are for Women’s rights to be human and sucessful, but in their hearts have terrible inferiority complexes and actually believe they are NOT worthy.
All humans are “worthy”. It’s time to let them show what they are worth.
We know what people like OlberMANn and LetterMAN, are worth.
I am as self centered as it gets, but I respect all until I am proven wrong. And my wife, daughters (26 and 34, and seven grands, three girls, 4 boys) have NEVER proven themselves unworthy of respect, or my love for them. My wife has an IQ of 183, Mensa. My daughters are also very intelligent. I have had two IQ test in 35 years. 124 and 18 years later, 134. I KNOW what a genius is, I married one. So when I say I’m not a genuis, but not stupid, I think I have the proof. Point is, it’s WHO my girls are, and I am outraged that ANY father/brother/son needs to hear this tripe from these so called “progressive Men and Women”.
RememberNovember 06.15.09 at 4:08 pm
Murphy
So sorry. Did you have the Walpin story in your post all along?
Sometimes I read from the bottom up but today I don’t have that excuse!
Oh well, it’s an important story and we shouldn’t let the press bury it!
I will try to pay attention next time!
RoBoTech 06.15.09 at 4:09 pm
Murphy
No problem. I think we all had to recharge after the Election. But Obama is not going to let us relax for long. It’s going to get brutal.
michelina 06.15.09 at 4:22 pm
Robo: sounds like a beautiful family.
michelina 06.15.09 at 4:25 pm
As a reference to the genius in the family:
How does she feel about PUMA??
RoBoTech 06.15.09 at 4:56 pm
#54
To be honest, she isn’t like me (surprise!). She very rarely is proactive Politically. She just retired from NASA in Northern Alabama (34 years) And we travel a lot as our grand kids are in two OTHER States from us. But she DOES agree with the purpose of PUMA. Genius or not, educated or not, competent, or not, she has been the victim of sex discrimination. But you know what? It never lasts. It doesn’t take long for her carve her niche, and people respect her.
She knows most didn’t have her opportunities and her “way” about her. Imagine a Southern belle sitting out on the veranda, drinking mint juleps, not liking to sweat, and rarely does, but has a hugh library in her den, with project material scattered about that most (including me) can not fathom. She has a slow Southern drawl and a soft voice. She was born in Baton Rouge LA in 1957 to fairly wealthy folk. And never lost the accent, or attitude.
Me, I was born in the Appalachians to poor dirt farmers. Good people. Hard working and ambitious. My may have started out poor, but didn’t die paupers, and I think them for their values.
And I have to admit, I sometimes forget I am an intelligent, tool using human. Opposing thumbs or not, the testosterone scent can get thick and I thump my chest like a Silverback. Time to kick ass! Figuratively or literally. But she always calms me. And my children and grandchildren give substance to all “this”.
My wife just doesn’t think like normal folk. 2 + 2 for you and I is 4. Sometimes, I even need few more fingers to figure it out. She gets to 4, alright, but the way she figures it out is so foreign that it’s scary. But it sure makes for long, fascinating discussions. She seems to know EVERYTHING, and can have a conversation about it all. And never gets confused or feels the need to be confrontational during that conversation. She states her “opinion” and is rarely wrong. But she loves to find out why anyone does not come to the same conclusions. It seems the conclusion doesn’t matter to her so much as how we got there. I guess life is more interesting when you look at it that way.
She knows she’s not the same as I am. Luckily, it doesn’t seem to matter.
Sorry for the long post, but one more thing I need to say about my wife of 39 years. It ain’t been easy, but it’s been wonderful.
Sunshinelvr 06.15.09 at 5:05 pm
***Warning, waring!***
***Caution!***
***This is a drive-by posting! Read at your own risk!***
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I did all the prowls again, because one more time won’t hurt!!
And thanks to all the Pumas who look up and post the REAL information on this board! Excellent work!
Sunshinelvr 06.15.09 at 5:07 pm
A typo! geez!!! And I was trying SO hard to be cute!
Should read *warning, warning*.. Have a good afternoon All You Wonderful Pumas!
murphy 06.15.09 at 5:07 pm
no problemo remvem! I got the story from NikkisMom this morning.
what a nice story RoBo!
Lying Back Thinking of England, and PROWL, posted
take it upstairs!
bring links!
persephone 06.15.09 at 5:12 pm
dances, yes meant Sisking DUH thanks!
I could have sworn I’ve clicked thru to DB from TNA articles
will try and resolve my confusion brb!
DancesWithPumas 06.15.09 at 5:18 pm
Sisssssskind
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