We Wuz Robbed

hello!
Murph, I can sympathize from Portland, regarding the rain situation. Our sun is finally shining here…

I’ve been thinking lately…watching O, Brazille et al lie about their support of “peaceful protest” and “fair elections” ….. WTF!!! Did they walk that walk last year? I think not.

I wish there had been more opportunities for PUMAs to mobilize and hit the streets a year ago. I realize some people located near the heart of things did so, but it would have been great to do more synchronized protests across the US. If ever the chance comes again….let’s be ready!

UNITED WE SERVE

First Lady Michelle Obama and Cabinet secretaries fanned out across the country Monday to participate in community service projects as part of the launch of United We Serve, which runs through a new National Day of Service and Remembrance on Sept. 11.

President Obama is urging people to help in the nation’s economic recovery by volunteering at schools and hospitals and pitching in on community projects such as tutoring and trash pickup.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-youth-jobs23-2009jun23,0,4863487.story

This summer, President Obama is calling on all of us – young and old, from every background, all across this country – to participate in our nation’s recovery and renewal by serving in our communities. From June 22 to September 11, United We Serve will begin to engage Americans from coast to coast in addressing community needs in education, health, energy and the environment, and community renewal.

http://www.serve.gov/

Count me in – I’m happy to be a NWest point person. I have no idea how marches are organized but happy to learn. Blogging is great; crowds have impact. i was just over at Confluence and was reminded that the atmosphere in Denver last year was so oppressive. I wanted nothing more than a winning lottery ticket to be able to take off and travel to be where the protesting was.

Apparently it wouldn’t have mattered….

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/wednesday-dont-step-out-of-line/

and this was on CBS of all places, you will be robbed even more with obama’s health care plan, you should read the comments if you scroll down to the bright green icons

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/06/23/cbs-confirms-obamacare-would-oust-people-health-insurance-doctor

CRAIGSLIST FOR SERVICE

So how do you find volunteer opporunities in your area? Leave it the tech community and Craig Newmark (Craigslist)

From Craig’s Blog :
Hey, the deal with the United We Serve AllForGood.org thing is that we’re making it easy to find volunteer opportunities near you.
This is the “craigslist for service. ”
Check out the right hand side, top, of this page. You’ll see a “gadget”, just enter your zipcode or similar starting with the location link, and you’ll get it, no problem.
You can also click the search icon, the magnifying glass, to search more broadly.

AllforGood.org explains on their website that they are
made up of volunteering enthusiasts from places like Google, Craigslist Foundation, UCLA, YouTube, FanFeedr and Aha! Ink. As a contributor to the All for Good project, Google is hosting the All for Good website and products. Several Google engineers worked on All for Good as a 20-percent project (Google lets engineers spend a day a week on projects that interest them), collaborating with a broader team to build the product.
So now that you are inspired to go out and make a difference, you know where to start looking!

http://www.examiner.com/x-13527-SF-Social-Media-Examiner~y2009m6d22-The-Craigslist-of-Service

Obama SUCKS, Islam SUCKS and Bill Ayers SUCKS

CNN. Obama reconsidering hotdog diplomacy with Iran

Yet again, he makes it up as the wind blows…

WE ALL KNEW IT WAS A STUPID IDEA

WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Obama administration is seriously considering not extending invitations to Iranian diplomats for July 4 celebrations overseas, senior administration officials tell CNN.

The officials said intense discussions on the issue were taking place, but the final decision had not been made.

Late last month the State Department sent a cable to its embassies and consulates worldwide informing them they “may invite representatives from the government of Iran” to their July 4th celebrations.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/24/officials-president-obama-reconsidering-july-4th-invitations-to-iran/

What could have been…………….. now I am really depressed.

Absolutely sick of Obama propaganda. This is why I don’t watch much TV.

Pope to meet Obama July 10 during evening audience

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI will welcome U.S. President Barack Obama to the Vatican July 10 for an audience scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.

Obama will visit Italy July 8-10 to participate in the Group of Eight summit, a meeting of leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations. The meeting will be held in L’Aquila, site of a devastating earthquake in April.

After the G-8 summit, the president and his wife, Michelle, are scheduled to fly to Ghana, arriving late July 10.

Although Pope Benedict usually meets heads of state and government in the morning, the Vatican agreed to host Obama’s first visit to the papal palace the evening before he flies to Africa.

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0902866.htm

sistermoon 10

His logic is flawed in so many ways. First of all there is the dubious “strawman type” IF private insurers say (do they???) ….bla bla bla….then why are they scared of us driving them out of biz in the FREE MARKETPLACE? This is such screwy and confusing language. The government CANNOT compete on market terms with private insurers, and Obama knows this. But he doesn’t outline the downside I am sure we will face: With the government “competing” costs will certainly rise across the board for everyone. He’s found a way to stay in bed with the insurers while acting as if he’s offering a solution.

I still think single payer system makes the most sense. EVERYONE pays in and then it works.

Testing from blackberry
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10-4 good buddy.

Hey Murphy!!!!

Thanks for that link to Violet Socks…I remember reading that feminist credo from Dr. Long at the time she wrote it. That was HILARIOUS that the flighty breathless young “feminists” got a hardcore picture of a lifelong feminist “interrupting” the NOW conference she was a delegate for! OoOoOoooOoOoo

As for your prowl, here’s a suggestion…it’s last minute but if anyone can help, it’s PUMAs!

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009
URGENT ACTION: EMAIL ABC-TV TO COVER SINGLE PAYER WITH PRESIDENT
OBAMA

JOIN AMERICA’S SINGLE PAYER ADVOCATES

TO TELL ABC-TV TO PUT SINGLE PAYER ON THE TABLE

IN PRESIDENT OBAMA’S APPEARANCE TODAY (WEDNESDAY)

Dear All,

ABC News is presenting a full day of in-depth of coverage on President Barack Obama’s healthcare proposal today, Wednesday, June 24. This includes an hour-long Primetime “town hall” discussion featuring Obama and questions from audience members. The ABC press release says that the town hall discussion will be moderated by Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and ABC medical editor Dr. Timothy Johnson. In the past, Johnson has provided insightful coverage of single-payer, debunking myths and explaining its broad support and benefits.

IMMEDIATE ACTION: Urge ABC and Dr. Tim Johnson to thoroughly discuss the issue of single-payer.

CONTACT: Please use this form from ABC News Primetime and Write Your Views:

http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=Primetime

Thank you for helping with the national effort on behalf of single payer reform. And thank you for your continued support of the OneCareNow Campaign for single payer SB 810 legislation in California.

WE WILL WIN!

Dan Hodges,

Chair, Board of Directors, Health Care for All–California

Gotta go. This is waayyy toooooo frustrating. BBL.

Oh, CJK! I wanted to reply to your post #7

Shoot…well, I have to go, too, but I wanted to tell CJK that I forced myself to watch the BO press conference because I like to catch how he handles the one or two questions that *aren’t* scripted. Then I forced myself to watch some of the news coverage that night….and altho I am not a regular viewer, I, too, was kind of impressed with Campbell Brown! Also, she really was starting to nail Axelrove and they cut immediately to a commercial break!!! It was so disgusting I turned off the tv, but since when do they cut to commerical in the middle of an interview? They always say, “we have to break now.” And then either thank the person for the interview or say “we’ll return after the break.”

here’s some great news i found out yesterday a day before im supposed to get my teacher retirement check for june 2009

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i got a card in the mail and it says my net benefit will be lower because thanks to the American Recovery Act of Investment Act 2009 the IRS issued new tables to incorparate the key tax provisions. This change increased many monthly benefit payments, by having less tax withheld.
The IRS has now reversed it’s February decision. This changes is intended to prevent retirees from receiving a smaller refund or even a balance at the end of the tax year.
Oh wow, hmmmmmmmm, they are looking after me by paying
35.00 bucks less a month or 420.00 less a year. Oh wow, im soooooooooooo glad the government is looking out for me!!!!!

That is what’s gonna happen with any health plan you have now, you will see more money taken and less help from your doctor, and even single payer aint gonna help, they will find a way to get you money, If you dont think this administration is out to get your money you are living in a fantacy world and all the Hillarys and Palins in the world wont help you.

Thanks, Zee. Maybe some among the media are waking up. Let’s keep hoping. BBL. Don’t forget the Walpin protest at the Action Center. We can’t let BO continue to hamstring and/or fire IGs. They are the independent watchdogs (there were 63 of them) who oversee the appropriate expenditure of taxpayer dollars in various agencies. Walpin was one of four IGs either fired or forced out in recent weeks by BO. These IGs work for all of us, and we must not allow them to be made the targets of BO’s retaliation for just doing their jobs on behalf of all of us beleaguered taxpayers. Thanks.

Apologies in advance, PUMAs

It should be a part of everyone’s life. From the moment someone can walk to the day they leave this planet, service should be a part of how we give back, how we say thank you, how we express our gratitude for the lives that we’ve been given.

So I’m deeply honored for this chance to support our United We Serve initiative and Organizing for America, and I hope you’ll be able to participate this weekend. Please sign up now to volunteer at a local event:

http://my.barackobama.com/hcserviceattend

Thank you,

First Lady Michelle Obama

____________________________________

Dear Michelle,

What do you know about gratitude?

How ’bout you go f**k yourself? You are totally full of shit.

PS Maybe you should sign up to volunteer here at my place-do some yard work or wash a few dishes. Maybe put out the trash..

After all, it was my tax dollars that paid for your “date night” in NYC a few weeks ago.
Now’s your chance to “give back”

(the rest has been deleted due to excessive foul language)

Boy howdy this can’t be good:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,528880,00.html

North Korea threatens to “wipe out” US.

Hello to alphabeach and others of the NW:

There are a number of things hatching here in pdx, to wit, 2012 suffrage celebration; opening of Walk of the Heroines. Let us water-soaked neighbors collect sometime and see what we can do to help the rest of the cause.

Idle question, Murphy, What is “third wave feminism”?

satin laces… bet she has to tie them in a double knot to keep them tied.

DWP
She has staff to do that for her.

PumaSF — I am so happy N.Korea is a headache for Obama — even though they scare the hell out of me. Hillary would do a much better job but his fucking ego is enormous.

simofish 06.24.09 at 2:09 pm

PumaSF — I am so happy N.Korea is a headache for Obama — even though they scare the hell out of me. Hillary would do a much better job but his fucking ego is enormous.
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Yuppers!
I keep wondering if behind all that ego if he ever says,

“Jeeze, I love the attention, title, ‘winning over Hillary’ and all the expensive perks of being the BelovedLeader, but crap, this job is a lot harder than community organizing was…I am lucky if I can sneak a smoke without the press crawling all over me. I long for those days when Larry and I could sneak off in the limo and have some real fun.”

Don’t you find it interesting that the North Korea threat to ‘wipe out’ the US todsay is receiving so little news coverage. Couldn’t find it on the BBC site. Google news did not list it with the search words ‘North Korea’. Seems only CBC.CA and Fox news have reported it so far unless as we speak…..? Not watching TV.

Hmmmmm no questions on North Korea at yesterday’s press conference?

Perhaps the WH does not want any distraction from the healthcare infomercial today

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/06/24/north-korea-nuclear-standoff062409.html

Fox news was posted above – thanks Puma-SF

Puma-SF #23

Thanks for the link. Interesting to note that IG Walpin was planning to take the story to the press.

Murph-

yup. that first first lady to be so unique was Hillary freaking Rodham Clinton. She was, in a sense, a FOUNDER of the 3rd wave of feminism (remember her “women’s rights ARE human rights” speech in Beijing in 1995?). Back before it morphed into some sort of weird “free to enjoy burgers like blowjobs” or some such baloney.

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Hillary was actually part of the ’second wave’, as I was during the peace and love generation…it took on new meaning as the years passed and women reached higher positions and almost cracked their heads on the lead ceiling.

As with the tides, waves are not isolated in themselves, but a progression caused by events (energy).

Each new generation sees the world from new eyes, they often do not experience the same repression as their mothers before them. Their mothers have swept the path to make things easier for their children. That is our job.
My mother never thought going to college was a good idea. She thought that being too smart would make it difficult for me to find a good man to love. Maybe she was right, they are hard to find.
During the peace and love days, the AAs were having most of the trouble and the Niet Nam war brought on more distractions. When Hillary was in the Whitehouse with Bill, many were pissed that Hillary had worked on Universal Health Care and Human Rights. Most of the public thought she should be happy to just redecorate the WH and be a fashion plate for the country like Jackie was.

Sound familiar…Michelle’s victory garden and her bare arms…

Niet Nam…….here the heck did that come from?

Viet Nam

Well now that Mark Sanford is done you can start stacking the dominoes as 2012 will officially be the race of Palin Vs Obama. I have followed politics all my life and this will be the ticket in 2012. The big spender versus the family budget. The world citizen versus the american patriot. It should be fun but i will tell you know i believe Palin can win this and yes you will have a female in the white house and maybe more down to earth common sense leading this country once and for all…….

yeah but airforcehusker – they say romney is smacking his lips or licking his chops or whatever the hell that is – he thinks this makes him the next ONE – screw him too – faker – Hillary won’t be running so I think women need to push for Sarah Palin and get a woman running that miserable beat up WH – she sure as hell can’t possibly be as bad as the asshole that’s there now – and besides – gettin’ tired of all these old men who just keep pushing for more men in power – piss on them – it’s way past our turn…………………………….

rhrpdx 06.24.09 at 1:53 pm

yea – I’m glad to know you’re here. if you’d like to email me: courielle_moi@hotmail.com. After the primaries most folks I knew just joined the O wagon, so it’s been fairly lonely.

Murph – I am originally from the northeast; grew up in nh and lived in boston 12 years. i consider it “home” so perhaps that comes thru in my posts. ; )

airforcehusker
That’s good to know. Thanks.

I notice that so many Pumas are in favor of a single payer system. Having come from the UK I have to say I am not certain that this is the way to go for the US. I have personally witnessed rationing of health care for elders (parents and friends) and read daily about other problems with the NHS in Britain (long wait times to see a specialist, people dying while they wait, withholding of drugs because of cost, etc..). I guess I sense a trend in this country towards discarding the older population in the policies coming out of the WH and that should make us all uncomfortable because we will all be old eventually. I do believe that we must have health care for everyone – I liked Hillary’s ideas.

Anyway, if you have not made up your mind about healthcare a good source of information and ideas can be found in:

Sick around the world (UK, Germany, Taiwan, Switzerland and Japan)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/countries/

Each of these countries has a health care system that delivers health care for everyone – there are remarkable differences among them. You can watch the program online or check out each country. If you still have not made up your mind – this might be a good source of information.

Also see:

Health Care: An International Comparison

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/healthcare/healthcare_profiles.html

Nope, a Rep will not win the 2012 election, not with Palin nor Romney…
Neither are supported by the majority of Repubs. 20% of Repubs did not vote last time and were willing to stay home on election day.

Their best hope is to put someone more ‘mainstream’ Repub.

That’s my guess.

I just wished that Hillary would knock Brakaco out of the Whitehouse, but I don’t think she is ready to go though that nightmare again this soon.

Shadowfax

20% will not stay home this time around in fact i think 2012 will be a record turnout for the GOP. If they dont than they have no one to blame but theirselves and welcome to 8 years of barrack the magic dragon.

Shadowfax, Hi!

Interesting about your Mom’s attitude to college. My mother was the complete opposite, supported me all the way and when I graduated she whispered in my ear “now you will never need to depend on a man”. I was stunned that she harbored such strong feelings about independence – you never would have guessed. Sadly she is no longer here for me to ask all those questions I have.

With single payer the insurance companies would have been cut out instead
of holding Americans hostage.
The insurance companies ARE the reason so many Americans can’t afford healthcare.
We are all at their mercy and they OWN the politicians.

goddess help us
every major network is going to talk about mark sanford’s penis for the next 72 hours!
aarrggghhhhhh!

Hey (((Remember))), great to see you.
Yea, I wish my folks had been supportive of my going to college…but maybe they knew I would always buck authority and go anyway.
My mom was kind of a typical 40’s-50’s woman, except she did the housewife stuff and also worked full time. She burned her candles at both ends and died young. Love her anyways and saw the strength she never recognized.

persephone

CALL EVERYONE WHO DOESN”T SUPPORT PALIN A SEXIST

You are absolutely right about that statement. Obama used the race card to his advantage and this swayed alot of young not mind made up voters. Sarah can do the same.

As far as the CUltist thing is concern you are also right on that. I am a member of the TEAM Sarah board more to opine with other people about politics and she has a large group over there that are very rabid almost obomabot like which i think will help her in her get out the message basis.

Excuse typos!

persophone
Love it. I’m practicing playing the sexist card.

airforcehusker
i do and i tell you why,
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I agree that people, especially the Repubs will do everything they can to win, I just don’t think they will put Sarah on the top of the ticket at all. Possibly on the VP end, but they will pick a male for the top.

I bet ya a coke on this one.

I think Hollywood should allow people who cant afford to go
to see their movies, free tickets.

I think NBA should let all people who cant afford tickets get in for free.

I think all sports event should just give tickets to people who cant afford them.

I think everyone who doesnt have a cell phone or a computer whould have one.

Dont you?

RememberNovember 06.24.09 at 3:37 pm
That’s what I mean when I say single payor – everyone covered the same and the same coverage for all. But I don’t trust this administration to do this fairly unfortuately. Less complication and cost with single payor hopefully.

we have a president that basically claims his black side and that is representative of 13% of the population

a woman would represent 51% of the population

and yes, we need a woman to try this office because we missed
this one. I dont even know what Gov Palin is gonna do about running. All I know is, she’s not stupid and she will figure this out. Time is on her side. But, we are at the mercy of this
DICK TATOR til then.

RememberNovember

It was Hillary’s plan that would have given every American the same coverage as congress.

Spin alert:

White House Spokesperson/Bullshit artist Robert Gibbs, responding to questions about paying for Obamacare by taxing employer provided healthcare benefits, is saying what’s the big deal? We got the idea from John McCain and the Republicans!

Ahem. Bullshit.

John McCain’s plan would have given every American a $5,000.00
refundable tax credit.
Most people would have MADE money on that deal.
Even those taxpayers in the 50% bracket would have at least broken even.

Obamacare OFFERS NO SUCH OFFSETTING CREDIT.

So yes, Obama is planning to RAISE TAXES. (Liar)

Unless you’re a union member, then your insurance bennies WONT BE TAXED.
Those motherf*ckers.

I am tired of subsidizing unions with my tax dollars, tired of it.
The unions have turned into the mafia for chrissake.
We can’t afford them! (yeah, yeah- 5 day,40 hour workweek, blahblah-that was a long time ago-when do we stop paying them for that?)

Obamacare sucks and it will be a mess, just like all the other big emergency BULLSHIT he has shoved through..quick! big emergency, no time to read the fine print!

This is not the administration to take on an issue of this scope.
So far they have not solved anything.

Persephone
[This is not the administration to take on an issue of this scope.
So far they have not solved anything.]

You are so right about that. By the way I have not read Alinsky or the like but I wonder if the strategies for attaining total power include pushing so much, so quickly at those you wish to overcome that the victims of the power grab blow a fuse and roll over – certainly feels like that!

To quote Persephone again:
[Obamacare sucks and it will be a mess, just like all the other big emergency BULLSHIT he has shoved through..quick! big emergency, no time to read the fine print!]

Yep, if it was Hillarycare I would trust it.

RememberNovember 06.24.09 at 3:48 pm
I cried my eyes out the first time I saw that video. How exciting to have a wild lion remember you and hug you with such joy. Wow.

BigCatLover

We’re on the same page about that too!

airforcehusker and shadowfax-It is interesting reading your dialogue today because, for some reason, last night I started thinking about if the Gov. Palin would be the Republican’s pick in the next election and if the Democrats pick would be SOS Clinton. My thoughts on it are that the Democrats won’t pick Clinton because there are just too many people within the party who don’t like the Clintons. Lots of other reasons too; I’m just trying to be concise. I’m undecided about if the Republicans will pick Gov. Palin. I think there are a lot of men in the Republican party who are scared of Gov. Palin. In addition to being a strong woman, she doesn’t just follow the party line. Those two issues frighten the men. I don’t know that they can see that those two issues are what appeal to Independents and moderates in both parties. And that there are those in the media that saw her capabilities which is why they had to torpedo her to ensure BO’s selection.

Persephone,

persephone 06.24.09 at 3:28 pm

goddess help us
every major network is going to talk about mark sanford’s penis for the next 72 hours!
aarrggghhhhhh!

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Amen…. MSM would rather cover Sanford than talk about the scary issues of Iranian Protesters being shot and N. Korea threating to blow the US off the map… sheesh!

webfoot

I think there are a lot of men in the Republican party who are scared of Gov. Palin. In addition to being a strong woman, she doesn’t just follow the party line. Those two issues frighten the men

you are more right than you realize. Palin is a populist and she will not carry party line nor will she carry the water for the washington elite and that and that alone is what will sell here to you, me and the mom and pops across this country. Isnt it about time we get someone from outside of washington to do our bidding. It will happen and i believe we will see a national resurgence led by Sarah. You wont notice it until around 2010. She will be instrumental in the midterm elections not just for the Republicans but for you and me. She will be all about throwing out the trash in washington just like in alaska and it wont matter what party they are from. Should people be scared. Yes but that is the sign of a leader who stands for something.

RememberNovember 06.24.09 at 4:05 pm

Persephone
Don’t take this the wrong way, but take a deep breath, it’s bad for your health to get so excited! If you are that stage of frustration that you can’t laugh with me – I apologize

Rem Nov

I’m Italian-we have an extra *rant* gene. It’s bad for our health when we DON’T get excited..
(Forgive my typos, the hand gestures interfere with my accuracy
But I’ll take your advice and take a deep breath…

Seriously, I am just finding myself horrified today, Rem.

The propaganda being thrown around on Obamacare is bizarre.
The infomercial thing is freaking me out.

Watching the media takeover is particularly upsetting.
Do most people even know that they are getting limited information unless they really make an effort to go out and look beyond the MSM?

shadowfax-moving link to the audio from Iran. thank you.

hillstheone 06.24.09 at 4:08 pm PUMA-SF #44,
I’m thinking that may be what Biden was blabbering about (”he’ll be tested early on”) way back when…

Yeah, you may be right but they are both such baffoons and the blabbering never stops. Could they both please just go away?

persephone 06.24.09 at 4:18 pm
I’m Italian-we have an extra *rant* gene. It’s bad for our health when we DON’T get excited..
(Forgive my typos, the hand gestures interfere with my accuracy
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rofl. I’ve half Spanish so your comment hit home with me. One time, shortly after we were married, my husband was watching a number of my aunts and uncles and me sitting at a table playing Uno and talking. During a brief lull in the conversation he said, “How do you all keep from hitting each other?” We just looked and him and then I said something along the lines of, “Huh?” with a puzzled expression. He pointed out that in addition to laying down the cards for the game our hands were flying around the table as we talked. And we never once bumped into each other.

I’m Italian-we have an extra *rant* gene.
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‘rant’ gene on steroids here: Greek and Italian

Well DUH:

US rescinds July 4 invites for Iran diplomats
The Associated Press

Wed, Jun 24, 2009 (12:30 p.m.)

An offer for Iranian envoys to attend U.S. embassy Fourth of July parties has been rescinded as the violent crackdown in Tehran continues, the White House said Wednesday.

“Given the events of the past many days, those invitations will no longer be extended,” presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/24/us-rescinds-july-4-invites-for-iran-diplomats/

Dances! Persephone, Webfoot

“Rant gene on steroids” – you guys are too much. I have to leave and attend to business – toilet blocked – plunger did not work – bought a new one – did not work – bought a rotor rooter tool – well, now that’s stuck in the toilet – i laughed ’til I cried – have to go call a plumber – oh dera, i really need the laughing Smiley!

Rem Vem
colon lol colon no spaces

No more hotdogs for you!!!–lowbama. (Ala the seinfeld soup nazi)

pumasf-thanks for the link regarding North Korea.

RemNov-good luck with the plumber.

#141
excerpt:

Khamenei made an indirect reference to the letter in his sermon on Friday at Tehran University.

“The U.S. president said that we were waiting for a day like this to see people on the street,” the Iranian leader said. “Some people attributed these remarks to Obama, and then they write letters to say we’re ready to have ties, that we respect the Islamic Republic, and on the other hand, they make such comments. Which one should we believe?”
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Neither. obama speaks with a forked-tongue… out of both sides of his mouth. Flippery Floppery

Unfreakin believable, sent from Kat in your Hat on twitter:

Eating a Burger King ‘Super Seven Incher’ Is Just Like Giving a Blow Job -ad

http://gawker.com/5301856/burger-king-shuns-subtlety-in-ads-for-super-seven-incher-sandwich

Yesterday our Hamilton Nolan blamed BK’s financial woes on their “edgy” ad agency. Now tonight our pal Copyranter sent us their newest advertisement, a reeking of desperation creation he called the “most overtly blow-jobby ad I’ve ever seen.”

The ad agency behind this is Crispin Porter Bogusky and just look what the ad wizards over there have come up with now to stop BK’s bleeding! I mean, what better way to sell oblong meat sandwiches than by suggesting fellatio?!

#144
Boycott Burger King and make sure they know your reasons!

Shadow
Make it worth something… send them the ad argument as a reason.
Like anyone wants to eat a penis on a bun. Jackasses.

persephone
Apologies. I shoulda said:
Like most people would want to eat a penis on a sesame bun

okay. I’ll stop.

Hillary and her State Dept. had a busy day.
Interesting stuff about Iran if anyone is interested.
Press briefing with Ian Kelly:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2009/125382.htm

Shadow, Kelly said more in that briefing than the media has told us all week.
I had no idea that the State Dept.was working with world leaders re:Iran.

I read the briefings quite a bit and it almost seems the State Dept.
is functioning independently of the Obama pony show.

Although they can’t share everything with the public, they are probably the most transparent department in the O Administration..(thank you Hillary..)

we wuz robbed
and weez will not forget

webfoot that is cool!
i want one of those, seriously. for when the Obots come canvassing for Obamacare.
a vaginata!

Trish-yup. Stealing a bike versus injuring a woman. 3 years versus community service. Our court system is in the same shape as RemNov’s toilet.

trish-incoming email as soon as I figure out something.

airforcehusker
Those guys, too many grown men, are like 7th grade boys.
The level of immaturity is amazing, really.

I watched that MSNBO exchange this a.m. and have to admit, it went over my head, too. Who has time to keep up with the latest locker room slang?

“pearl necklace”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_necklace_(sexuality)

lol Dances

Oh dear lord. I prefer to keep my little naive idea of what a pearl necklace is…

OMG- Cinie I too googled it. I am continually amazed at the fact that men and women are from two different species!!! This said by a happily married (24 years and three kids) woman. What is wrong with our media. I do not want them to report anything, let alone important information that will shape the history of the world.

I really do think we need a prowl. The fact that this was on a “NBC News” lite show is incredible. These are the political reporters of NBC!!! WTF

Cinie #170… Dwp.. I agree with you.. There are just some things I should NEVER know….

I thought obloe was on this morning? He’s like one of those freaking annoying mini-series

I didn’t know what it was either, and kinda wondered why they were laughing, but just chalked it up as something I hadn’t quite heard and forgot about it. It wasn’t until Airforcehusker posted the “teabagging” connection that I decided to look it up. Had to post the definition, though, or we’d miss the reason for outrage.

foolishly, even

Today in our local Newspaper The Press Enterprise.. A very good and interesting read in Our View… Don’t know if the link will work letters@PE.com Here is just a part… “Candor on Iran”? “Obama should conduct his diplomacy with a clear-eyed realization of what Iran is, not what he wishes it would be. Iran’s rulers are enemies of the United States, and have been since the regime took power in 1979. Tehran abets terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and eleswhere. It backed the bombing of a U.S. Air Force barracks in 1996 in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen. It slays its own people. This is a ruthless and fanatical regime, not one that has proved itself open to reason”…. The article also addresses Neda Soltan and her death..

Hey, Murphy if you are still here… I hope to have some good new for you next week Re: Greta.. Also, will email YOU with a suggestion for maximum exposure… Costing Zero $$$ and would take about one hour and would have an impact exposure of 1 million plus readers/ viewers…. Sending email now… Please let me know… Thanks

DWP…. What would I do without YOU!!!!!!!! Thank YOU!!!!!! Hope you are catching up on your naps…. Oh, No Napping this weekend!!! Hope you are doing great!!! See you soon…. ((((DWP))))

CC
Sent you an email from work, listing sites, areas, etc. available in SD… and the email serve went down when I hit ’send’.

DWP… #191 I don’t think so… I did distribute alot of flyer here in Riverside County…

oops, I meant Cape Hatteras anyway lol

barrrf.

our local ABC affiliate, KATU, is “live broadcasting” the “town hall” event. Apparently, locals in the studio can ask questions to the resident. I know I’ll tune in, and hate myself in the morning.

I despise KATU anyway for their dogged persecution of Sam Adams, our openly gay mayor.

LOL! Casper
Did you notice teh ad for the Removable Stripper Pole???
Wouldn’t “Portable” have been more appropriate??

DWP.. I think you would know better than the rest of us… After-all, on your Birthday…. Your secret life was exposed!!! Remember, And, we thought you were at work! Oh, ya! working that pole dancing…. Just in case you forgot… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qg4IMR_y9o

Is O on tv tonight? NBC? When?

Casper…
yes! That’s me alright!
By the way, We’ll be spending a few hours this weekend with my portable pole. I know the So CA Pumas are dying for me to teach them that dance.

yuck Cinie!!! :0*****

poor Dances, I am sorry you had to see that…

:0***** was me losing my lunch.

oh, yuck even worse, I would rather google images of a h*t l%nch than look at that phony ass crack yammering his televangelist spew…

hot lunch?

oh god… am I gonna be sorry I asked?? ‡

DancesWithPumas 06.24.09 at 9:56 pm

oh god… am I gonna be sorry I asked?? ‡
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I bet Cinie is looking it up right now.

NO DANCES, you don’t want to go there!!! Trust, keep your cursor off the google field. Step away from the keyboard!!!

I would rather google images of a h*t l%nch

hat lunch?
hit lanch?
het lynch?
hut lench?

oh crap (no pun)… your warning arrived too late.
sheeeeeeeeeesh

Yeah, Shadowfax, I looked it up. But, you’re all on your own on this one.

Economist, journalist, Demos senior fellow and former investment banker Nomi Prins thinks that Obama’s new plan is not such a sweeping overhaul of the financial system, after all.

She is the author of the forthcoming book It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street. Her latest article is an assessment of Obama’s reform proposals. It’s called “Obama’s New Economic Plan: The Good, the Bad and the Weak.” It was just published in Mother Jones. She joins us here in our firehouse studio.

Report: Goldman Sachs on Pace to Pay Out Record Bonuses this Year
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/22/report_goldman_sachs_on_pace_to

Here’s an excerpt from Prins’ “Other People’s Money” -

“…particularly from the 1970’s on, regulatory bodies and the laws they are supposed to enforce have been systematically weakened if not actually nullified by corporations, financial institutions, and their collusive puppet legislators.

In early November 1999, Glass-Steagall was repealed by the US Senate in an almost unanimous biparisan vote. It ushered in a period of mergers between securites firms and commerical banks, further consolidating an already consolidated industry, and enabled the use of insured customer money as carrots in the form of cheap credit for big corporate business. The George W. Bush administration was not just ill-equipped, but also unlikely to regulate the conditions that led to the post-1990’s bust; it has too much to gain politically and financially by maintaining the status quo. Even in the aftermath of the dramatic downturn, and at the time of this writing, more deregulation is still under way on the Hill, rendering tough reform talk a joke.

Yet, this corrupt market upheavel touched more Americans from an investment and personal wealth standpoint than did the crashes of the 1920’s or late 1980s. The percentage of middle-class households with at least some investment in the stock market tripled from 15 percent in 1983 to 46 percent in 1998, mostly though new types of pension plans…”

~
She’s very readable – using phrases like: “The Wall Street, Corporate America, and Washington Triangle.”

I’m reading ‘Other People’s Money’ right now, & it is excellent…highly recommended reading. You may as well read it now, since likely many more will pick up her new book when it comes out.

Persephone Airforceshucker and webfoot

I think that I might just switch my party to republican to support Palin in the 2012 republican primary. I know some dems who did that to make sure a moderate like McCain was nominated.
I like Palin very much and I take every opportunity to let Obamabots know that she is a far better public servant and way more progressive than O’Bullshit could ever be.
My only problem is waiting until 2012. I am furious with so many democrats, and lets face it, Obama is the head if the democratic party, which more than makes me not want to be one.

I hope that N. Korea and Iran will wake people up to realize that America needs a leader that is for America, and not this spineless opportunist that calls himself our president.

Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah proposes that The United States Postal Worker conduct the April1 2010 Census, instead of ACORN.
He wants to present this plan to the president. The Postal Service would call a one day postal delivery holiday to conduct the survey.

I think this is a great idea and a much needed slap in the face of ACORN. I will write my Congresswoman to ask her to support Congressman Chaffetz’s excellant plan. No way is ACORN coming into my home to ask a bunch of questions that’s non of their business.

Hi Puma-SF.

Pumas

Please call your state reps. and ask then to vote against
The Employee “Free” Trade Act.
Even hard Core liberal George McGovern opposes this law, that will put an end to the secret ballot fro union orginization. In affect-more Brown Shirts for Obama. More trouble for small business owners.

How Celtic Diva treats Trig Palin….

Good God – where is this going to end? I’m with RemNov – I’m exhausted with all the fighting and I’m worried about the direction our country is headed.

http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/06/how-celtic-diva-treats-trig-palin.html

screw you, John Kerry:

Sen. Kerry jokes: ‘Too bad’ Gov. Sarah Palin didn’t go missing
Rachelle Cohen By Rachelle Cohen
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 – Updated 14h ago
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. John Kerry must have been channeling his inner Letterman yesterday.

The Bay State senator was telling a group of business and civic leaders in town at his invitation about the “bizarre’’ tale of how South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had “disappeared for four days’’ and claimed to be hiking along the Appalachian Trail, but no one was really certain of his whereabouts.

“Too bad,’’ Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.’’

The Democratic-centric crowd laughed.

more:

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20090624john_kerry_says_wrong_gov_missing_for_four_days/srvc=home&position=0

Obama sent letter to Iran leader before their election:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/24/iran.obama.letter/index.html

The letter requested dialogue and engagement between the two nations, the sources said.

The sources said that Khamenei has yet to reply to the letter but that nonetheless it “had set the negotiating table in order for both sides to sit around it after the election.”

“The U.S. president said that we were waiting for a day like this to see people on the street,” the Iranian leader said. “Some people attributed these remarks to Obama, and then they write letters to say we’re ready to have ties, that we respect the Islamic Republic, and on the other hand, they make such comments. Which one should we believe?”

One Iranian source said, “We thought President Obama would send congratulations to President Ahmadinejad,” and before the election, his senior advisers prepared a response to the anticipated note, which never came.

#242 + 244

so easy to abuse a woman

An interesting opinion piece:

June 25, 2009
Obama, the African Colonial
By L.E. Ikenga

Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama’s skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa.

Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism. I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign “isms”, instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.

The tropes of America’s racial history as a way of understanding all things black are useless in understanding the man who got his dreams from his father, a Kenyan exemplar of the African Colonial.

Before I continue, I need to say this: I am a first generation born West African-American woman whose parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970’s from the country now called Nigeria. I travel to Nigeria frequently. I see myself as both a proud American and as a proud Igbo (the tribe that we come from — also sometimes spelled Ibo). Politically, I have always been conservative (though it took this past election for me to commit to this once and for all!); my conservative values come from my Igbo heritage and my place of birth. Of course, none of this qualifies me to say what I am about to — but at the same time it does.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/obama_the_african_colonial.html

When did I miss this? This it is so funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhkF3dqXR0

“Too bad,’’ Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.’’
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If anyone had said that about their black presidunce, they would have been branded racist, interrogated for encouraging an abduction, or worse, and possibly arrested.

Too bad oblahblah and kerry, and several others “don’t go missing”.

BigCat

re: Sanford’s wife-her statement gushes on about how he has “earned a second chance” and goes on to quote extensively from the bible.
TMI!

now the media is releasing sanford’s horny emails to his GF in Argentina.
REALLY TMI!

I wish the media would just stop.
Let the National Enquirer handle it.

Well, the “Anchoress” gets it right on this one. Our short-attention-span media will be frothing at the mouth over the Sanford affair, and ignoring all the more important news. Ya know, like Iran, the economy in a shambles, Obamacare, etc., etc.

How pathetic:

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2009/06/24/mark-sanford-crying-in-argentina/

Justice dept reaching out to Islamic radicals?

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/why-is-the-justice-department-reaching-out-to-islamic-radicals/

YES HE CAN

http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/hes_barack_obama

hey murphy can we get some fresh coffee down here?

And yes the news is talking about little else this morning than the Sanford thing. I went to all the morning shows to see what they were saying about the ABC/Obama fest last night and I could not find one that discussed that subject.

North Korea is threatening to wipe out the US, Ahmadinejad is calling Obama out, and all the Obot media can talk about is Sanford’s penis.
One more vid of Sanford weeping and I will puke in my shoe.

Not that we were getting any real news anyway..

Ahmadinejad Assails Obama
By NAZILA FATHI and ALAN COWELL 10 minutes ago
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pictured at the opening of a petrochemical facility in Iran on Thursday, compared President Obama to George W. Bush.

nytimes.com

Dances: I’m in PS and will call you tomorrow.
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I may be free to see you this weekend afterall.

President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don’t stand to gain from the extra care. He added: ”Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.’
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oh, he’s a doctor now?
we’ve been lectured on parenting, having our A/C or heat too high..now he’s going to tell us to toughen up physically? and scold us for medical decisions?
this is NOT the administration we should allow to reform healthcare.

They’re reforming OUR healthcare-not their own!
Why should Americans accept this?

persephone #247
‘Why should Americans accept this?’

We shouldn’t!!

Please let us not allow this plan to be forced upon us, which it just might be.

He has the media on his side and it is hard to get the truth out.

Delle 06.25.09 at 10:34 am

L.A. Times:
President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don’t stand to gain from the extra care. He added: ”Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.’
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Sounds like more “ageism” to me – I’ve heard obamabots state, “old people should hurry up & die & get out of the way for the rest of us”.

Delle, do you have a link to this story? I would love to send it to some of my older friends.