Dr. C: The Unpleasant Exclusivity in Our Educational System
Wolraich: The Grim Possibility Of War With Iran
Heat Win Game Six, Disappointing Nation of Heat-Haters
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Dr. C: The Unpleasant Exclusivity in Our Educational System Wolraich: The Grim Possibility Of War With Iran Heat Win Game Six, Disappointing Nation of Heat-Haters |
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Jollyroger admits that he did work his way through stripper school as a lawyer, but since graduating he has rehabilitated himself, and profits no longer from the misfortune of his brothers, but from the lust of his sisters instead. He is currently on the 60 day DL (too fat); Until he is called back up to the show, he is temping as an inventor.
* Favorite Quotes
REX VISIGOTHIS:"I believe in less than enough feed, just enough speed, more than enough weed, and way too much pussy"
BERNARD EIBER: "You write like a god"
KATHY SISSON: "You fuck like a god"
SUZANNE FARRELL: "Someone had to be eliminated, and poor Roger was the most expendable"
VANESSA FARRELL: "You have such a pretty dick"
MY SISTER: "He wasn't always like this...you should have seen him before all the acid. My God, he's a Woodrow Wilson Fellow!"
MY MOTHER: "So I told his father, 'Look Manny, let's don't kid ourselves. All he really wants to do is get high and get laid..."
As the few substantive pros and many cons have been hashed out here almost to death, can we step back and make a reasoned estimate of the impact of the current struggle upon the likelihood (Oh, please Jesus, you could have my pony back) of a Ron Paul third party run.
Aside from the entertainment value, I pretty much think it would lock in Obama, though he'd lose some votes (like me) to Paul.
I wonder about the down ballot races? Would the additional turnout to be expected be leavened with dem or pug leaners as to congress? I have no clue.
No, this is not a review of the execrable movie.
This is a pivot from the justifications elsewhere raised in connection with the assasination of Anwar Al-Alwaki (and, parenthetically, his minor son--too bad Al-A's father didn't include the kid in his original lawsuit, he mighta won on the standing issue if he sued for his grandkid, but who'da thunk we'd snuff the kid too...) [Read more]
Goddamit, this is worth something.
I have earlier flirted with the lure of the one-issue constituent, or more precisely in Paul's case, three issues...) and I have humbly swallowed the inevitable scorn that (deservedly) is heaped upon one who would ignore acres of batshit crazy evil, so blinded by the beacon glare of an end to oppressive adventure abroad and at home. [Read more]
I know that I am overworking the Thelma and Louise reference, but surely the astonishing, unprecedented, failure of a front running aspirant to get his name on an important ballot is a direct consequence of having lost his entire staff of professionals. [Read more]
I have been disappointed before by my extravagant fantasies about the way in which Prez could capitalize upon the face to face forum that is the State of the Union speech.
Jacked directly up by Sean Hannity after the most recent debates, Ron Paul flat out repudiates the disgusting racist crap published in his eponymous newsletter some time ago.
I'm inclined to take him at his word--He could, after all, only have two acceptable responses:
To repudiate, and deny authorship
To repudiate and confess authorship.
As long has he repudiates, why should I disqualify him from providing the incalculably valuable service that would be the juxtaposition in debate of his reasoned libertarianism against Obama's corporate statism? [Read more]
www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e02-die-hippie-die
Before Zucotti, there was South Park...
(Were you bitten?? Did you eat their brownies?? DID YOU EAT THEIR BROWNIES???!")
When we marvel at how the Reagan Revolution heralded the dramatic rise of the rentier class, David Koch deserves a lion-sized share of the blame..
In the 1980 election won by Reagan, David H. Koch ran for Vice President (Libertarian) Already hugely wealthy, he obviously saw himself as a player. [Read more]
Showing a nimblenss of adaptation that somehow eludes the more cumbersome apparatus of our multileveled governments OWS is putting up large cold weather tents that will empower the continued and ongoing anchoring of the uprising and also permit them appropriately to extend their hospitality to the otherwise unsheltered.
As a meta message, the new configuration enables the encampment to embrace (as they philosophically must) the participation of all (without barriers, like, e.g., do you other wise have a home...?).
So wrote the great Chief Justice John Marshall, in 1819.
He probably did not mean the phrase the way I do, but if we deconstruct it just a tiny bit, it can show us the way to a new world, free of the plutocrats, the kleptocrats, the malefactors of great wealth (h/t FDR) and the rest of the thieving, rapacious parasites that prey upon the life of the people (h/t Patty Hearst aka Tania)
Today Michael Moore rallied the Occupy Wall Streeters, and his cry included the demand that the rich be taxed.
How much? was the cry. Not enough, was the answer.
And so it goes. [Read more]
Reuters, June 19, 2013
CAIRO - Egypt's tourism minister tendered his resignation on Tuesday over President Mohamed Mursi's decision to appoint as governor of Luxor a member of a hardline Islamist group blamed for slaughtering 58 tourists there in 1997.
Prime Minister Hisham Kandil did not accept the resignation of Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou, who remains in the post for now. However, the move pointed to a split in government over an appointment that one critic called "the last nail in the coffin" of the tourism industry.
Mursi appointed Adel Mohamed al-Khayat, a member of al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, as Luxor governor this week, a move seen as a sign of a deepening political alliance between the once-armed group and the...
By Robert Mackey, The Lede @ nytimes.com, June 18, 2013
Includes lots of images and videos.
Last Updated, 6:57 p.m. As my colleague Simon Romero reports from São Paulo, more than 200,000 Brazilians filled the streets in cities across the country on Monday to protest the high cost of living and lavish spending on soccer stadiums ahead of next year’s World Cup, in demonstrations that have intensified as images of police brutality against peaceful protesters spread on...
How Obama's pick to lead the FBI tried to put the brakes on the NSA's surveillance dragnet.
By Marc Ambinder, Foreign Policy, June 18, 2013
[....] Comey, who is said to be President Obama's choice to be the next director of the FBI, has never publicly disclosed exactly what he refused to sanction when he was briefly acting attorney general during Ashcroft's hospital stay, but people briefed on the program who have spoken to Comey say it was the legal rationale giving the NSA quick access to un-sifted telecom and service provider-collected metadata that "drove him bonkers," not the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. There was just no way, Comey thought, to justify an effort that simply...
'Peace and reconciliation' milestone comes after US drops request for formal rejection of al-Qaida as precondition to talks
By Dan Roberts in Washington and Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul, guardian.co.uk, 18 June 2013
[....] White House officials say they believe the Taliban delegation at the talks represents the movement's leadership, and includes more radical groups such as the Haqqani network. Officials said the US would have a direct role in the talks starting starting this week in Doha, but the substantive negotiations over the future of Afghanistan would then be led by the Afghan government.
"The core of this process is not going to be US-Taliban talks – we can help the process – but the core is going...
According to some well-placed Israeli commentators, the best Israel can hope for is that Assad holds on but only just. That would keep the regime in place, or boxed into its heartland, but sapped of the energy to concern itself with anything other than immediate matters of survival.
In closed-door discussions, analyst Ben Caspit has noted, the Israeli army has put forward its “optimal scenario”: Syria breaking up into three separate states, with Assad confined to an Alawite canton in Damascus and along the coast.
A long war of attrition between Assad and the opposition has additional benefits for Israel following the decision by Hizbullah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, to draft thousands of fighters to assist the...