Jack & Jill Politics

Bev Smith did a great job covering the 100 Black Men Convention this week. I don't know if she has podcasts, but if she does, listen to this week's shows.

We even for pay to play in college admissions.
Welcome to Illinois.


\Clout goes to college
Rezko relative is among those admitted to U. of I. in shadow system influenced by trustees and other insiders
By Jodi S. Cohen, Stacy St. Clair and Tara Malone | Tribune reporters
May 29, 2009

At a time when it's more competitive than ever to get into the University of Illinois, some students with subpar academic records are being admitted after interference from state lawmakers and university trustees, a Tribune investigation has revealed.

Hundreds of applicants received special consideration in the last five years, according to documents obtained by the Tribune under the state's Freedom of Information Act. The records chronicle a shadow admissions system in which some students won spots at the state's most prestigious public university over the protests of admissions officers, while others had their rejections reversed during an unadvertised appeal process.

In one case, a relative of Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the now-convicted influence peddler for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, got admitted after U. of I. President B. Joseph White wrote an e-mail stating that the governor "has expressed his support, and would like to see admitted" Rezko's relative and another applicant.

White's message to the university chancellor was passed on to admissions officials on the same day they entered a rejection decision for the Rezko relative. "He's actually pretty low," replied an admissions officer, referring to the applicant's ACT score and other credentials. "Let me know when the denial letter can go out."

Instead, the relative was admitted.

Since 2005, about 800 undergraduate students have landed on the clout list for the Urbana-Champaign campus. It's unknown how many would qualify for entry on their own, but their acceptance rate is higher than average. For the 2008-09 school year, for example, about 77 percent were accepted, compared with 69 percent of all applicants.

That's in spite of the fact that patronage candidates, as a group, had lower average ACT scores and class ranks than all admitted students, records show.

In 2008, for example, freshmen on average ranked in the 88th percentile in their high school class, while clouted students ranked in the 76th percentile.

High school counselors and admissions experts said letting clout affect admissions compromises the integrity of the university.

"Whether it's [a Rezko relative] or any other kid who takes a spot, he typically takes a spot of someone who is more qualified. That's the part that gets my blood boiling," said Jim Conroy, a New Trier Township High School college counselor. "This is not a private institution. This is yours and mine. Our flagship state university should not be part of any political shenanigans."

President White said it's not unusual for selective universities to receive input on applicants from interested parties, and it's important to have a system to track the requests. The additional information can help the admissions office make a more informed decision, he said -- though the university discourages applicants from sending letters of recommendations, saying on its Web site that "sending unsolicited materials can be distracting."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-co...

Good ole Alma Mater. Nothing like Illinois politics.

I bleed Orange and Blue, but this embarassing. I moved to NY just time. Then again, there was a coup in Albany this week so....


Clout list really is nothing new though. Dubya in Yale anyone?






Side note: I was pretty involved while was on campus. Look up Nancy Cantor, they did that woman so wrong. When she left there was a line all around the Union for students to say goodbye. She was the first one to stand up to the pro-Chief people. And she didn't even say anything controversial, she was just not blindly following them.

Usher officially files for divorce.

shocker.

Bossip and Media Takeout were saying this was a bogus report...better get a link, chile.

no pre-nup...get ready to PAY.

And she risked her life going under the knife and almost died for him.

I never understood that one. you are right Miranda this was not a shocker at all.

Tucson (R) lawmaker's bill seeks to outlaw ethnic studies at TUSD (Updated)

A Tucson lawmaker and the state’s schools chief are moving to make ethnic studies in the Tucson Unified School District illegal.
If a bill set for a hearing in the state Legislature next week is approved, the city’s largest school district would have to get rid of the ethnic-based programs in four of its high schools or the schools would risk losing 10 percent of their state funding each month.

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/296788...

Racist SOB

rikyrah: GOTTA SIGN-OFF! :>)


+ JUNE 12: US President Barack Obama (R) meets with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe in the Oval Office at the White House June 12, 2009 in Washington, DC. Prime Minister Tsvangirai has been in Washington this week meeting with members of Congress and other officials seeking aide to rebuild Zimbabwe's economy. [3 BROTHAS. Love his "PLACEMENT" of the bust of the REV. DR. Martin Luther King, Jr.]

+ U.S. President Barack Obama (R) meets with Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, June 12, 2009.

+ United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, accompanied by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, speaks to reporters about North Korea, Friday, June 12, 2009, during Gibbs' daily press briefing in the White House Pressroom at the White House in Washington. Nice-- - -Ambassador Rice! :>)

+ Obama and Tsvangirai VIDEO

+ The Day in 100 Seconds: Conflicting Reports

ENJOY!! - - - FAST!! :>)

+ The Lord Bless You and Keep You


+ Now The Day Is Over

God Bless U'ALL with THANKS!! :>) :>)

THANK YOU, and you take it easy, GLH!

Blessings GreenLady.

Val: HEEEY! :>)

LUV YA!! THANK U!!>/a> :>)

Love You, GreenLady!

Take good care. Hope you can do it again soon. :)

rikyrah: UPDATE on Mr. Vick:

Falcons release suspended QB Michael Vick

The Michael Vick era in Atlanta is officially over.

Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff said the team relinquished its contractual rights to Vick on Friday.

“Michael remains suspended by the NFL,” Dimitroff said. “However, in the event NFL commissioner Roger Goodell decides to reinstate Michael, we feel his best opportunity to re-engage his football career would be at another club.”

The move was no surprise. Owner Arthur Blank has said Vick would not return to the Falcons.

Goodell has not committed to reinstating Vick after the quarterback completes his 23-month sentence on July 20 for running a dogfighting ring. Vick has been on home confinement in Virginia since leaving federal prison in Kansas on May 20.

Even while making it clear Vick had no football future with the Falcons, Blank has said he would be available to assist Vick.

“Our entire organization sincerely hopes that Michael will continue to focus his efforts on making positive changes in his life, and we wish him well in that regard,” Dimitroff said Friday.

Vick was the Falcons No. 1 draft pick in 2001. He played six seasons with the team, but the Falcons moved on by making quarterback Matt Ryan their No. 1 pick last year. Ryan started every game as a rookie and led the Falcons to the playoffs.

Vick was the figurehead for the Falcons and, as a dual-threat quarterback, was one of the NFL’s most dynamic stars from 2001-2006 before his sudden downfall.

Goodell said last month he would not make a decision on Vick before the end of his sentence.

“Once he’s concluded that, I will make a judgment based on what he tells me and what I can determine from speaking to others and a final background check on this and make a determination at the right time,” Goodell said.

Speculation about Vick’s NFL future started even before his release from the Falcons.

Jim Mora, whose Vick-led team advanced to the NFC championship game in 2003, said this week he doesn’t expect Vick to find a job with his Seattle team.

“I’ll just say this for the record: We are very happy with the quarterbacks we have on our roster,” Mora said. “We have no intentions of adding another player to our roster at this time. … Just cut out the ‘at this time,’ because then people will speculate for the next three months. We have no intentions of adding a quarterback to our roster.”

Even as he hopes for reinstatement from Goodell and begins his search for another NFL home, Vick faces other pressing priorities, including his crumbled finances.

On Tuesday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Frank Santoro set a July 2 deadline for Vick to submit a revised Chapter 11 plan. A hearing to confirm or reject the plan was set for Aug. 27.

Santoro said that if the new plan fails to address the shortcomings that prompted him to reject the first one in April, he will appoint an independent trustee to take over management of Vick’s finances.

CHARLES ODUM, AP

I'm still believin' that he will B able 2 continue his CAREER.

Wow, this is interesting for you who drink those energy drinks. I don't, but guess there is a boycott on of Rockstar and the linkage to Michael Savage and son!!!

http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=117f4z

Wonderful! Hit these mofos where it hurts, in the wallet.

I posted several links of companies that sponsor Rush Limbaugh's show; a list from A-Z. Boycot the adverstiers and shut these numbnuts down.

rikyrah: UP & DOWN the "proverbial ROLLER COASTER!"

Statement from Rev. Jeremiah Wright regarding Daily Press article

“I am extremely disturbed and deeply saddened that once again my comments as reflected in the June 10, 2009 Daily Press article has resurfaced a divisive debate about my relationship with President Barack Obama. I love President Obama as my son, and support and honor him as the President of the United States America and leader of the free world.

I apologize to the Jewish community and all others who were offended by the way in which I framed my comments. I misspoke.

[NOTE: Ya think that he NEEDS a PREPARED SPEECH!? - - so that he won't go off-track!??] DANG!!

I meant no harm or ill-will to the American Jewish community or the Obama Administration. My great respect for the Jewish faith and the foundational (and central) part of my Judeo Christian tradition are unquestionable and I pray that all whom I have hurt accept my sincerest apology.”

***shakin' my head****

Where is the TA-RUTH???

I hope this is the truth. I just say a prayer for him.

TVGuide's Top 100 Episodes:

1. Seinfeld "The Contest"(11/18/1992)
2. The Sopranos "College"(2/7/1999)
3.The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Chuckles Bites The Dust"(10/25/1975)
4. I Love Lucy "Lucy Does A TV Commercial"(5/5/1952)
5. Lost "Pilot"(9/22/2004 & 9/29/2004)
6. ER "Loves Labor Lost"(3/9/1995)
7. The Honeymooners "Better Living Through TV"(11/12/1955)
8. Mad Men "Nixon vs. Kennedy"(10/11/2007)
9. All In The Family "Cousin Maude's Visit"(12/11/1971)
10. 24 "Season One: 11pm-12am" (5/21/2002)


11. The Twilight Zone "Time Enough For Last" (11/20/1959)
12. Saturday Night Live-Steve Martin Hosts (4/22/1978)
13. The Dick Van Dyke Show "It May Look Like A Walnut" (2/6/1963)
14, Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Once More With Feeling" (11/6/2001)
15. The Cosby Show "Goodbye Mr. Fish" (9/27/1984)
16. The Fugitive "The Judgement" (8/22/1967 & 8/29/1967)
17. South Park "Trapped In The Closet" (11/16/2005)
18. The Andy Griffith Show "Opie The Birdman" (9/30/1963)
19. The Office "Diversity Day" (3/29/05)
20. M*A*S*H "Abyssinia, Henry" (3/18/1975)


21. Friends "The One With The Embryos" (1/15/1998)
22. Six Feet Under "Everyone's Waiting" (8/21/2005)
23. St. Elsewhere "Time Heals" (2/19/1986 & 2/20/1986)
24. The Simpsons "Krusty Gets Kancelled" (5/13/1993)
25. Homocide: Life On The Street "Subway" (12/5/1997)
26. The Wire "Final Grades" (12/10/2006)
27. Curb Your Enthusiasm "The Special Section " (10/20/2002)
28. 30 Rock "Black Tie" (2/1/2007)
29. Cheers "Show Down" (3/31/1983)
30. NYPD Blue "Hearts and Souls" (11/24/1998)


31. Frasier "The Ski Lodge" (2/24/1998)
32. Arrested Development "Development Arrested" (2/10/2006)
33. Roseanne "A Stash From The Past" (10/5/1993)
34. Thirtysomething "A Second Look" (2/12/1991)
35. The X Files "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (10/13/1995)
36. Star Trek: The Next Generation "Best Of Both Worlds Pt. 1" (6/18/1990)
37. The Bob Newhart Show "Over The River and Through The Woods" (11/22/1975)
38. The Shield "Possible Kill Screen" (11/18/2008)
39. The Wonder Years "Pilot" (1/31/1988)
40. The West Wing "Two Cathedrals " (5/16/2001)


41. Freaks and Geeks "Carded and Discarded " (1/10/2000)
42. Everybody Loves Raymond "Marie's Sculpture" (10/22/2001)
43. Battlestar Galactica "Blood On The Scales" (2/6/2009)
44. My So-Called Life "Self-Esteem" (11/17/1994)
45. General Hospital "Luke & Laura's Wedding" (11/16/1981)
46. Ellen "The Puppy Episode" (4/30/1997)
47. CSI "Grave Danger" (5/19/2005)
48. Moonlighting"Atomic Shakespeare" (11/25/1986)
49. Dexter "The British Invasion" (12/16/2007)
50. The Larry Sanders Show "Flip" (5/31/1998)

51. Taxi "Reverend Jim:A Space Odyssey"(9/25/1979)
52. Damages "Because I Know Patty" (10/23/2007)
53. The Carol Burnett Show "Went With The Wind"(11/13/1976)
54. Twin Peaks "Pilot" (4/8/1990)
55. Desperate Housewives" (5/22/2005)
56. How I Met Your Mother "Slap Bet" (11/20/2006)
57. Hill St. Blues "Freedom's Last Stand" (1/28/1982)
58. The Odd Couple "Password" (12/1/1972)
59. Alfred Hitchcock Presents "Lamb To The Slaughter" (4/13/1958)
60. The Big Bang Theory "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" (12/15/2008)


61, LA Law "Good To The Last Drop" (3/21/1991)
62. Law & Order" Life Choice" (1/8/1991)
63. Grey's Anatomy "Losing My Religion" (5/12/2006)
64. Murphy Brown "You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato" (9/21/1992)
65. WKRP In Cincinnati "Turkeys Away" (10/30/1978)
66. House "Three Stories" (5/17/2005)
67. Dynasty "The Threat" (4/13/1983)
68. Heroes "Company Man" 2/26/2007
69. Dallas "A House Divided" (3/21/1980)
70. Sex In The City "Pick-A-Little-Talk-A-Little"(7/13/2003)


71. Little House On The Prairie "I'll Be Watching You Drive Away" (3/6/1978)
72. Batman "Better Luck Next Time" (3/17/1966)
73. The Outer Limits "Demon With A Glass Hand" (10/17/1964)
74. Will & Grace "Homo For The Holidays" (11/25/1999)
75. Gilmore Girls "Raincoats and Recipes" (5/18/2004)
76. Family Ties "The Real Thing Pt. 2" (10/3/1985)
77. The Waltons "The Easter Story" (4/19/1973)
78. Angel "I Will Remember You" (11/23/1999)
79. Charlie's Angels "Angels In Chains" (10/20/1976)
80. Star Trek "City On The Edge Of Forever" (4/6/1967)


81. Smallville "Rosetta" (2/25/2003)
82. Farscape "Revenging Angel "(8/10/2001)
83. Good Times "Black Jesus" (2/15/1974)
84. Alias "The Telling" (5/4/2003)
85. Melrose Place "The Bitch Is Back" (4/27/1994)
86. Scrubs "My Musical" (1/18/2007)
87. Happy Days "Fonzie Loves Pinky" (9/21/1976)
88. Magnum P.I. "Did You See The Sunrise?" (9/30/1982)
89. Beauty And The Beast "Orphans" (3/6/1989)
90. Malcolm In The Middle "Bowling" (4/1/2001)


91. Beverly Hills 90210 "Spring Dance" (5/2/1991)
92. Party Of Five "Intervention" (2/19/1997)
93. Big Love "Come,Ye Saints" (2/22/2009)
94. Ally McBeal "Cro-Magnon" (1/5/1998)
95. Supernatural "No Rest For The Wicked" (5/18/2008)
96. Rescue Me "Baptism" (4/7/2009)
97. Mary Hartman "Chicken Soup" (3/4/1976)
98. Breaking Bad "Peek A Boo" (4/12/2009)
99. Family Guy "Blue Harvest" (9/23/2007)
100. The Brady Bunch "The Subject Was Noses" (2/9/1973)

thanks...jeez I can still remember being scared to death by the Twilight Zone! Old memories...

My very favorite sitcom was the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Sure I wasn't caucasion, but she did the show in such a way, that I actually thought I might live the dream. And guess what..I did. Not in MTM's way, just my way!!

Good Times' Black Jesus made it!

LOL

Dang, that list brings back a tons-o-memories!

Yeah Black Jesus, and Cosby Show's"Good bye Mr. Fish.'

Two Cathedrals- fmy avorite West Wing episode ever

rikyrah: I thought that I was finished with "HER" 4 2-day! HAH!

Here she is doin' her "INCOMPREHENSIBLE PALIN-SPEAK" to Wolfe "BLITZEN!!"

BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! 2 MUCH DEBT! BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! Needs 2 reign in spendin'!

***regurgitatin'*****

+ "REIGNING IN SPENDING (1:17)" JACK WAS M-A-A-A-D!! :>) :>)

+ Tina Fey was "ON IT!" But she didn't quite get to the "REIGNING IN SPENDING!" mantra! :>)

She's just a "BAG of- - - - - --- "CLICHES!!" :>) :>)

LAWD HA'MERCY!! :>)

"Here she is doin' her "INCOMPREHENSIBLE PALIN-SPEAK"

My favorite -- " In a Friday morning television interview on NBC's "Today" show, Gov. Palin said the late-night comedian's remarks are a "sad commentary on where we are as a culture, as a society, to chuckle and laugh through comments such as he had made the other night, I think is quite unfortunate."

lolol

Val: :>) :>) THANKS!! :>)

I feel sorry for the family of the deceased and for the family of that psychopath.

His son's statement - http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7826614&page=1
For the extremists who believe my father is a hero: it is imperative you understand what he did was an act of cowardice. To physically force your beliefs onto others with violence is not brave, but bullying. Doing so only serves to prove how weak those beliefs are. It is simply desperation, reminiscent of a temper tantrum when a child cannot get his way. Violence is a cop out; an easy answer for an ignorant problem.

His actions have undermined your "movement," and strengthened the resistance against your cause. He should not be remembered as a brave man or a hero, but a coward unable to come to grips with the fact he threw his and his families lives away for an ideology that fostered sadness and anguish.

I feel the same way, Val! The shooter's wife reported on the same day of the shooting that she left him because he was so abusive to them. He tore his marriage up behind hate. It is no telling what he did to that poor woman. I'll bet she can't count how many times he called her b____h & he probably hit her too. May he rot in hell for all he did!

Bound Men
Why we black conservatism has so much explaining to do and why it’s already lost.
By: Sherrilyn A. Ifill | Posted: June 12, 2009 at 3:31 PM

If you’re the author of a book called Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win, one would expect that you would be humbly engaged in the task of explaining why you got it all wrong and that you’d lay off the bold predictions for a while.

But maybe that’s too much to ask of black conservatives who never say “sorry.” Instead, if you’re Shelby Steele, author of A Bound Man: Why We are Excited about Obama and Why He Can’t Win,” you just go on to the next thing—in this case accusing Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor of “Hispanic chauvinism” on the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal—and predict that “identity politics” will “plague [Obama’s] presidency.” Oh, and for good measure, he calls Judge Sotomayor’s now oft-quoted Berkeley speech “racist and dim-witted.”

Why are black conservatives allowed to peddle their stale, tired and now proven-wrong theories about what they call “identity politics”? Typically, when scholars are proven wrong by events, we return to the armchair (or the ivory tower) and try to figure out how we got tripped up. We emerge two years later with a book that offers a revised version of our earlier theory, taking account of new developments and re-positioning ourselves as chastened super experts on the very subject that precipitated our fall. Black conservatives, largely because white conservatives love them so much, always get to bypass this route of contrition.

The election of Barack Obama proves, once and for all, how wrong black conservatives have been­—about voting rights, about affirmative action and about integration. Instead of recasting their arguments, they pretend that the very foundation of their intellectual offerings of the past 30 years have not just suffered a cataclysmic blow.

The reality is that Obama would never have been elected in 2008 without so many of the initiatives and programs that black conservatives have railed against for decades. The phenomenon of Barack and Michelle Obama would not be possible without affirmative action, which opened the doors of Princeton and Harvard and Yale to both students and professors of color, many of whom ended up in the Obamas’ inner circle, and that benefited so many of the mentors and power players who’ve advised them.

Those benefits inured to both whites and blacks at elite schools who made strong connections years ago, building bonds and trust that permitted them to work on a campaign to move with unified purpose, unmarred by the kind of racial warring that so often splits interracial work groups whose members come from deeply divergent backgrounds.

It was affirmative action and integration that enabled so many members of the team surrounding the Obamas to have had meaningful experiences across race. Justice Thomas may think his Yale Law degree is worth 15 cents. But the Obamas figured out how to put their Harvard Law education and contacts to pretty good use.

The Voting Rights Act—the crown jewel of the civil rights movement—transformed black electoral strength in the South and laid the groundwork for the rise of black elected officials. After several decades, the presence of those officials got white voters in places such as Virginia and Florida accustomed to black electoral leadership. And of course, the 1984 and 1988 presidential bids of Jesse Jackson—the all-purpose nemesis of black conservatives—registered millions of new voters and built a grassroots coalition of black, white and brown voters that set the stage for Obama’s successful candidacy.

Most of all, President Obama himself is an ongoing challenge to black conservatives. With his proud and beautiful black wife, his unashamed love and mastery of basketball, his dap and his appreciation of—at least some—hip-hop, Obama demonstrates that it’s not necessary to jettison your culture or your affinity for the black community to prove your intellectual heft or to convince whites of your bona fides. Even Michelle Obama, who many conservatives hoped would be an easier target, has charmed whites who’d been encouraged to be suspicious of her.

So why isn’t it time to call out black conservatives for getting it wrong? At the very least, shouldn’t they have to show us precisely what fruit their anti-civil rights ideology has yielded? Shouldn’t they at least be compelled to answer some of these questions before they take off on the same old rants—this time against the first Latina Supreme Court justice nominee? By continuing to give Shelby Steele a place of privilege in its pages without requiring that he revisit and rethink his earlier theses, outlets like the Wall Street Journal engage in “a crude form of racial patronage.”

Sherrilyn A. Ifill is a regular contributor to The Root.

http://www.theroot.com/views/bound-men

Here is my last comment on the heifer from AK and her faux outrage with Letterman.

Dick Cavett sums up all this foolishness on Fox Business no less.

I have to apologize to White Working Class Men Today: I was racist!
Today, I ran several errands. I encountered many people of all walks of life. I was in predominately African American areas, mixed areas and predominantly white areas. But one encouter is going to give me a lot to think about tonight over my wine. It really is a continuation of fear I experience when I am in the suburbs by myself. However, today, my reaction was visceral. I was downright afraid.

What happenend? Well, I stopped into a local eatery in my predominantly black inner city neighborhood. As I was walking in, a young, white man and a young white woman walked into the eatery right in front of me. My neighborhood has largely been viewed as off-limits to whites due to high-crime and so I don't see many in this part of my neighborhood in local eateries. I was a little shocked and was doing all of the mental gymnastics.

Then I noticed that the young man had a lot of tattoos as I immediately walked in. I noticed first a spider-web behind his ear. Then I looked closer, looking for neo-Nazi tattoos. I noticed one near his elbow and kept looking to try and decipher what it was. All the time, I am looking around really getting my pressure up. I am thinking about how I will react if he pulls out a gun and starts shooting. Then I start thinking, maybe he is casing the place for another time.

I watched him closely. Then another white man entered the restaurant from an opposite door, in work clothes sporting tattoos as well. I think to myself, "Oh No!" These two are obviously colluding and have targeted a predominantly black area to carry out some racial war and I am stuck in the middle of it, so I think.

So I hesistantly place my order. I ordered a drank and obviously with everything on my mind, I forgot to to get my cup. The second white guy in line behind me, stops me and tells me I forgot my cup! He was so sincere and at that point, I moved away and went over to the soda machine and almost started crying. I realized that these two men were not neo-Nazis out to shoot-up the local eatery inhabited by blacks. I realized that I was wrong in the situation for pre-judging these two men. I was overcome with sadness as I realized that I have been viewed through a racist lens more times than I know, but yet, I committed the same offense to two of my fellow citizens, one willing to help me out!

It is sobering to realize that we all have our biases. White men with tattoos scare me even though I sport a few. I know my sensitivities are heightened due to the current climate but I feel horrible. I live in a diverse area. When I see the white Anarchists, I don't bat an eye. When I see the white middle-class folks in the area, I am not afraid. But a white person who "I think looks like a racist," sent me into near meltdown today.

All, I can say is - Young, Working Class White Men, I am sorry.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/12/741...

Lawd Have Mercy!

Larry Elder says there is NO healthcare crisis! WTF is wrong with this Kneegrow?

Saaaaaaa>lap

Elders is a Slave-Catching Coon.

Interesting Chris Matthews has two Black journalist on his panel talking about the politics of hate.

More info on one of those turncoat Democrats in New York:

Friday, June 12, 2009
Outraged Espada Protesters Join Together

There was a great turnout at today's anti-Espada protest outside of Pedro's nonexistent District Office at Fordham Place.

The protest was organized by Latinos for Affordable Rent Coalition, Northwest Bronx Community Clergy, CASA - New Settlement (Community Association for Safe Apartments), and the Mitchell-Lama PIE Campaign. Citywide media outlets, including WCBS-2, FOX 5, WNYC Radio, PIX-11, 1010 WINS, and Bronx and Westchester News 12, all covered the event.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Pedro Who? [UPDATE]

[UPDATE] Just received a flurry of forwarded emails from Espada's office that seem to indicate he was indeed in negotiations with someone at 400 E. Fordham Road.

BoogieDowner inquiry: how high up the food chain is this Todd McGaughey guy? Can we get a follow up clarification from him?

Our friends over at Bronx News Network just broke a pretty serious piece of Pedro Espada's utter deceit. We at BoogieDowner have been continually pointing out the travesty that Senator Espada does not have a district office open in the district he represents (after 5 months in office and 7 months of knowing he would be in office and need a district office).

Now BNN has uncovered that Mr. Espada has been lying this whole time in reference to his ongoing negotiations at 400 E. Fordham Road. According to Alex Kratz over at Bronx News Network the fact that Mr. Espada is close to opening a district office there is just untrue.

"But that simply is not true, said the building's manager, Todd McGaughey. In fact, McGaughey said he'd never spoken to the man or even heard of Espada until seeing his name and face plastered all over recent newspapers. This is all despite the fact that Espada has been claiming he's been in negotiations with the building's property managers for months now."

The only good that can come of Espada's power grab is that he shines a very bright light on himself and all those nasty skeletons and current lies will be exposed.

~ErLu

http://boogiedowner.blogspot.com/search?updated...

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Friday, June 12, 2009
Bronx News Roundup, June 12

Lots of stuff to get to today. Let's get into it.

Want to start out with the Albany standstill, otherwise known in the Bronx as Pedro Espada-gate.

The Republicans, along with Espada and fellow rogue Democrat Hiram Monserrate (Queens), managed to get into the Senate chamber yesterday, but couldn't conduct any business because Monserrate bailed from the chamber, saying he was working to bring more Democrats into the new "coalition" government. Espada stayed.

The Times reports that Espada, who has apparently risen to Senate President in the new leadership structure, would be acting governor if Governor Paterson were incapacitated or were to leave the state, which would have some interesting implications. The Times writes: "it appears the State Constitution gives Mr. Espada the authority to issue pardons -- potentially to himself -- thought there is some doubt about the legal fine points."

It's funny the Times would mention this, since Espada has yet to be convicted of anything, though there are legal investigations surrounding his South Bronx health care clinics and claims of residence in the Bronx.

Yesterday, speaking in the Senate chamber, Espada talked about how his "home" -- in Mamaroneck (Westchester County), not the Bronx -- had been burglarized and saying that it may have had something to do with his recent decision to support Senate Republicans. In the fall, a court ruled that his Bedford Park condo could legally be considered his primary residence, but residents of his building say they've rarely, if ever, seen him there. CBS news reported that Espada's Westchester neighbors say he lives there at least five nights a week.

The Daily News' Juan Gonzalez says Espada's claims of Latino empowerment "the most cynical part of this sordid affair." Gonzalez points out that a key piece of rent regulation legislation -- repealing rent decontrol, which would put 200,000 apartments back under rent stabilization rules and help thousands of Latino tenants -- was on the verge of becoming a reality. Now, it appears to be a long shot.

(This is interesting because on Tuesday, Josephe Starburg, head of the biggest landlord advocate/lobbying group, ironically called the Rent Stabilization Association, praised Espada's move, saying "the crazies" -- by which he means tenant advocates -- were beating him up.

http://www.bronxnewsnetwork.org/2009/06/bronx-n...

Donny Deutsch on The Ed Show said, in a way nicer way, what I said:

Palin pimps her child and grandchild faster than Tyrone does his best $10 HO.

Saw it. Palin needs to give it up already and go take a remedial English course.. or two!

I mean really, she has no shame. Everyone see right through her!

I heard him!

"George H.W. Bush Defends Sotomayor"
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/12...

"I don't know her that well but I think she's had a distinguished record on the bench and she should be entitled to fair hearings. Not – [it's] like the senator John Cornyn said it," he told CNN. "He may vote for it, he may not. But he's been backing away from these…backing off from those radical statements to describe her, to attribute things to her that may or may not be true.

"And she was called by somebody a racist once. That's not right. I mean that's not fair. It doesn't help the process. You're out there name-calling. So let them decide who they want to vote for and get on with it."

These are Obama's wars now....even though he campaigned on an "I'll end htis war" platform. Despite the rhetoric from Obama and his apologists, this administration has no intention whatsoever to end the colonial occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Abuse Photos Part of Agreement on Military Spending

By CARL HULSE and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

Published: June 12, 2009
WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators reached tentative agreement on Thursday on a $105.9 billion spending measure that would provide money for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through September but would drop a ban on the release of photographs showing abuse of foreign prisoners held by United States forces.

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The deal was concluded after Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, went to the Capitol to assure Senate Democrats that President Obama would use all administrative and legal means to prevent the photos’ release. At the same time, a federal court issued a ruling effectively ensuring that the photos would not be released for months, if ever.

Mr. Obama followed up with a letter, promising to work with Congress if legislation was necessary to keep the photos from being publicized but urging lawmakers not to let the dispute interfere with freeing up the money for the armed forces.

“Given the singular importance of providing funding for our troops, it is essential that Congress pass the supplemental appropriations bill,” Mr. Obama wrote in the letter, which was read publicly at the negotiating session by Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Democrat of Hawaii and the Appropriations Committee chairman.

The photo restriction, approved by the Senate, was viewed by some Democratic House members as an end run around federal freedom of information laws. It was dropped to appease Democrats already uneasy about approving nearly $80 billion for combat and more money for aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Democrats said they could not secure enough votes to pass the bill if the photo ban were included. But Republicans threatened to try to block the measure if the ban were cut out, saying the photos could incite terrorists and endanger Americans overseas.

“What good are we to our soldiers if we can’t protect them in a time like this?” asked Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina. “Every photo is a bullet for our enemy.”

He and his allies, including Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said Mr. Obama should take executive action to block the release of the photos by ordering them classified.

The administration’s cause was bolstered when a federal appeals court in New York announced last Thursday that it had granted a request by the Obama administration and recalled its April 27 order to release the photographs, permitting the administration to take the case to the Supreme Court.

In effect, the decision by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit means it will be months before there is any chance that the Defense Department could be ordered to release the photographs.

Amrit Singh, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, which is seeking the release of the photographs as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, said she was disappointed by the court’s ruling. “It will only serve to delay further the release of these photographs, which are critical for informing the ongoing public debate about the treatment of prisoners,” she said.

Ms. Singh said the photos portrayed abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq in places other than Abu Ghraib prison, the Iraq jail made infamous in 2004 by photographs of abuse there, and would therefore show that abuse was “not aberrational but systemic.”

The photo issue is just one of several that are likely to generate opposition to the bill, which would also set aside $7.7 billion to prepare for a flu pandemic, provide $1 billion to encourage consumers to trade in older cars for more fuel-efficient models and allow detainees at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, center to be brought to the United States for trial.

The measure also clears the way for a $100 billion line of credit for the International Monetary Fund, which was the initial source of trouble for the spending bill. Republicans strongly supported the spending legislation when it was considered this year, but have threatened to withhold their support over the foreign aid, saying some of the money could go to unfriendly governments.

With Republicans abandoning the measure, Democrats need as many votes as they can win over and the ban on releasing the photos emerged as a major obstacle. In the meeting of House and Senate negotiators late Thursday afternoon, efforts to reinstate the ban were beaten back.

Some lawmakers also questioned including $1 billion to encourage owners of older cars to trade them in for more fuel-efficient models. That program, known as Cash for Clunkers, is nominally aimed at helping the environment and reducing carbon emissions, but many lawmakers who pushed for it were primarily interested in lifting vehicle sales to prop up the struggling auto industry.

The provision had not originally been included by either the House or Senate. And critics, mainly Republicans but also some Democrats, charged that it was a brazen giveaway of tax dollars to bankrupt auto companies that had already received billions in federal bailout assistance. But an effort to eliminate the money was defeated.

The bill also includes $8 million to pay for a new commission to examine the causes of the financial and economic crisis.

Scott Shane contributed reporting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/us/politics/1...

Obama never said he was getting out of Afghanistan, he campaigned on focusing the fight there. He laid out a timetable for leaving Iraq several months ago and that is still on schedule. He is the CIC and so regardless of who started them the ball is in his court and he has to make the tough decisions on what to do in each case.

Videos commemorating the anniversary of Tim Russert's death.

VP Joe Biden speaking at Wake Forrest University

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/3132598...

Today's Conversation: It's Loving Day!
http://tinyurl.com/lxvjpz

Let's not forget the unofficial day set aside to celebrate the courage of one Black woman in forging ahead with her life and having to take on the law.

When Arrogance Takes the Bench

TO hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you’d think the most successful Supreme Court justices had been warm, collegial consensus-builders. But history tells a different story. Measured by their lasting impact on Constitution and country, many of the greatest justices have been irascible, socially distant, personally isolated, arrogant or even downright mean.

Stephen J. Field, appointed by Lincoln, once insulted a woman’s romantic past so outrageously from the bench that her husband later attacked him on a train — and was shot dead by Field’s bodyguard. Louis D. Brandeis was famously distant: one of his law clerks recounted working until the small hours of the morning on a challenging opinion; as he slid his draft under the justice’s door, silent fingers pulled it through, with no human acknowledgment of the joint effort.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. could be charming when he wanted — he especially enjoyed conversation with beautiful, titled women — but he could be brutally dismissive as well. He notoriously approved of sterilizing a woman believed to have a low intelligence because, he said, “three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

Anyone’s list of today’s justices with a chance at greatness would include Antonin Scalia, yet this brilliant jurist once called Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s view in an important abortion case “irrational” and “not to be taken seriously” — and that was just what he put in writing.
But four justices in particular, all nominees of President Franklin D

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/opinion/11fel...

just keeping Healthcare in the forefront.

We need the public option at least but single payer would be the best. But the main thing is push congress and the president to not back down.

Send free faxes to congress and the white house to fight for single payer.

http://www.1payer.net/action-alerts/send-a-free...

Another site to contact congress and push for single payer.

http://ga1.org/campaign/singlepayer?rk=V1cEhAKq...

Contact members of congress who are not on board with the public option.

http://standwithdrdean.com/where_congress_stands

Contact the white house directly by email or phone.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/

If you can march on Washington June 25th.

http://www.1payer.net/action-alerts/washington-...

Pass all these links on to family and friends.

Good info, Val!

Thanks, Val. On it.

Shit, it's looking like Ahmadinejad has won the election in Iran.

Sometimes I read things that just come across as eerie. The lady was probably feeling so fortunate and then this.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/eur...
Philippe Naughton

An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident, it has been reported.

Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31.

All 228 people aboard lost their lives after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris.

The ANSA news agency reported that the couple had managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day.

It said that Ms Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured.

Oooh it's like Final Destination. Creepy!!!

Valerie Jarrett commenting on the president on Sasha's birthday....I love it!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070...

"“He broke up our economic meeting because he received an e-mail to say that Sasha was free for like a 20-minute period and could he call, because it’s her birthday,” Jarrett said. “The joy on his face, to be able to call his daughter and wish her a happy birthday, was far more important than anything else at that particular moment in time.”

Angelar: HOW SWEEEEEEEEET!! :>)

Thanks 4 "brangin' this!" :>)

THANK U 4 your comment/support! LUV YA!

Jim Carrey Almighty
by Kim Masters

Say your prayers, Scientology—Jim Carrey and bestselling author Eckhart Tolle held their first meeting of a spiritual movement called GATE last week. Kim Masters on Carrey’s sermon.
Future Shock author Alvin Toffler and his wife, Heidi, once told me about a meeting they’d had with late Sony founder Akio Morita. They said he’d told them that if the electronics-firm idea hadn’t worked out, he had an alternative plan: starting a religion.

I flashed back to that story when I heard about last week’s inaugural meeting of the newly formed Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, or GATE, which Hollywood Reporter blogger James Hibberd described as “a newly formed outfit of producers and artists with a shared enthusiasm for New Age uplift.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/...

Domestic Terrorism at the Holocaust Museum

By James Ridgeway | Wed June 10, 2009 12:52 PM PST

Information is still coming in on James von Brunn, the suspect in Wednesday's shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
James Ridgeway has the latest.
Officials at the Holocaust Museum have confirmed one of the guards involved in the shooting, whom the museum identified as Stephen Tyrone Johns, died at the hospital after sustaining a gunshot wound from the suspect, James von Brunn.
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Police have now confirmed that James von Brunn is the suspect in today's shooting at the Holocaust Museum. Von Brunn apparently lives in Easton, Maryland, which some years ago boasted a chapter of the Klu Klux Klan, according to Leonard Zeskind, whose book Blood Politics charts the history of the far right.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/06/domesti...

I'm surprised that the Jewish community hasn't demanded that this crime be called terrorism or domestic terrorism. Hmm...

Madonna
Court says she can adopt second Malawian child
By Donna Mcconnell and Richard Simpson

Malawi's highest court has overturned an earlier ruling and granted Madonna's adoption of Mercy James.

The Supreme Court of Appeal said that a lower court failed to take modern realities into account in initially rejecting Madonna's application to adopt 3-year-old Chifundo 'Mercy' James.
Previously, a judge and a lawyer told reporters that Madonna, 50, did not meet a requirement that prospective parents must be resident in the country for 18 to 24 months.

The residency rule was waived in 2006 when Madonna was allowed to take her adopted son, David, to London before his adoption was finalised in 2008.
But Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo said Madonna's commitment to the welfare of disadvantaged children should have been taken into account.
Madonna has founded a charity, Raising Malawi, which helps feed, educate and provide medical care for some of Malawi's more than one million orphans, many of whom have lost their parents to Aids.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11...

I told you, I'm for the adoption. I don't want David to be all alone in that house. So, let him have someone in the house that looks like him.

When I heard that Mercy was crying because she already grew an attachment to Madonna, I was for it.


She just needs to make sure to hire a Black nanny to do that baby's hair. I'm tired of seeing beautiful Black girls being adopted by the Angelina's and the Madonna's and having their hair looking any ole how. They need to respect that our hair requires a different kind of maintenance. Actually, I think I react so strongly to the hair especially because it is something that we as Black women share. It makes us different from everyone else.

I think Madonna is a celebrity with issues, but I think she's a good mother. I just didn't want David to be alone. And, I sort of like that she's adopting an older child.

I hear you.

President Obama just sold homosexuals down the drain. Court documents have been filed whereby the DOMA is to be upheld because it doesn't discriminate and protects against incest.
Why didn't he just go sign w/ Pat B
read the whole thing
http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/11427/the-obama...

He's just flat out wrong for this. He really is.

See, this was a 'gimme', and he ignores it too.

rikyrah: Mr. President is "monitorin' " the "international waters."

White House: US may confront ships near NKorea

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration said Friday that it is prepared to confront ships believed to be carrying contraband materials to North Korea but will not try to forcibly board them.

White House officials said they expect North Korea will act "irresponsibly" to newly imposed sanctions in response to the rogue nation's recent nuclear tests. The U.N. Security Council on Friday imposed sanctions that included expanding an arms embargo and authorizing ship searches on the high seas.

Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said U.S. officials would seek permission to board and inspect ships believed to be carrying contraband to North Korea. Such ships would be directed to a nearby port for inspection if they could not be boarded at sea, she told reporters at the White House.

Rice said the U.S. would not be surprised if North Korea reacted to the sanctions with "further provocation."

"There's reason to believe they may respond in an irresponsible fashion to this," she said. But she said she expects the sanctions to have significant impact on North Korea's financing of its weapons and missile systems.

Rice said the administration was "very pleased" with the sanctions. She called the new resolution, which was supported by China and Russia, an "unprecedented" position by the Security Council.

The United States and many other nations, including China and Russia, have condemned Pyongyang for its underground nuclear test on May 25 and a series of ground-to-air missile test firings.

Rice said that Iran—another nation at deep odds with the United States about a disputed nuclear program—should take a message from how the U.N. responded to North Korea's actions.

"I imagine that they have been following this closely," Rice said of Iran's leaders. She said Iran should see that "the response from the international community has been very clear, very firm and very meaningful."

LEADERSHIP!!

Nice to see you back GLH!

GreenLady! So glad to see a post from you. How have you been getting along? I have been thinking about you and I pray you are feeling well.

MoObama: HEEEEEY! :>)

THANK YOU 4 YOUR KIND SENTIMENTS!! Thank U 4 your prayers! Still NEEDED. LUV YA! :>) :>)

rikyrah:I know that this is "old." I just wanted 2 make a "comment" on the "HATAS" of their precious DATE NIGHT.

This attorney "speaks well!"

Date night and the first couple

E. Faye Williams, Esq.

- I think everybody who is judging what the Obamas do on their personal date night needs to get over it! The fact that they care enough about each other to carve out the personal time together is so cool. All of us need to try doing that from time to time; and when we do, I think we’ll understand what loving someone is all about! We’ll be far better off.

It just isn’t our business how they dress, how they get where they are going and what they do once they get there on their date night. We should be more concerned about how we can help them to succeed with health care reform, energy and environmental policies, a workable education system for all of our children, and total community renewal. The President has goals set for all of these things. Shouldn’t we spend much of our time discussing these goals?

Our great, beloved former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people”. If we truly want to help in resolving our nation’s massive challenges, shouldn’t more of us be discussing ideas?

In June, many of us will be concentrating on health care reform. Everybody can play a part by first planning to participate in the June 13th Health Care Reform Summit in some way that launches the President’s health care proposal.

On June 20th, many of us are participating in community meetings and home parties across the country to listen to the President’s message on health care reform, and to discuss the message with our neighbors and friends to create a greater awareness of how we can make a difference on this subject.

On June 24-25th we have an opportunity to make a joint effort to visit and/or call our Members of Congress to let them know that it’s critical to get good quality and affordable health care for all Americans this year.

On June 27th, we can participate in the National Day of Service right in our own communities. We can volunteer at a local hospital or other health facility. We can make somebody aware of how much small things matter to anyone who may be confined because of health challenges. We can assure them we are doing all we can to get true health care reform.

There is so much we can do to make a positive difference, and denying the President and First Lady an uninterrupted, uncommented upon date night is the least of them. You are the one you have been waiting for to bring about positive change. Just switch from discussing people to discussing ideas on how we can do this together! Then we can all have time, energy and resources to go on our own date before working on the next issue! Are you listening news media? Don’t be a Harry and Louise. Do the right thing and get the truth out to the people.

Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. is National Chair of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc. 202/678-6788. www.nationalcongressbw.org. info@nationalcongressbw.org.

S-P-E-A-K!!!! :>)

In The Name Of Guns The Council Of Conservative Americans Dresses Sotomayor In KKK Cap: In this instance they hide their bigotry behind the second amendment. Inexplicably defending gun ownership somehow allows them to engage in racism as though the two are somehow connected. As far as I know there have never been roving bands of Latino’s burning, raping and pillaging to maintain undeserved privilege.

Media alert: Valerie Jarrett to be interviewed this weekend by Judy Woodruff on Bloomsberg TV. Ms Woodruff's program is conversation w/ Judy Woodruff
This was announced on TV w/ no time slot or day

rikyrah: Another post from the MUDFLATS!! :>) :>)

Open Thread - Palin on Today Show

On the next stop in the “Look at Me!” tour, seems our governor will be making an appearance on the Today Show with Matt Lauer. Topics are reported to be the future of the GOP and the escalating family feud with David Letterman.

In case you missed it, the response from Med Stapleton to Letterman’s 8 minute explanation, and admission that the jokes were tasteless, and renouncing completely that he would ever endorse underage sex of any kind, was this little gem:

“The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show. Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”

Keep Willow away from David Letterman? So now we’ve got Meg Stapleton insinuating that David Letterman is a pedophile? The Palin’s actually had some public opinion on their side on this one. That is until the acid tongue of SarahPAC let loose with its usual over-the-top venom.

So what can we expect tomorrow? More mangled talking points? Exxon is our pal? Franco Sarto red high-heeled cork shoes (not to be used as a flotation device)? Quick, hide your daughters, it’s Late Night With David Letterman? Disinvitation from the GOP fundraising dinner?

Those on the east coast will have the first opportunity to share it here.

Me? I’m going to make sure I’ve had a nice black cup of coffee and splashed some cold water on my face before I catch it on YouTube.

S-P-E-A-K!!!! :>) :>)

SHOCKER: Buchanan Prefers "The Old Bigotry" To Affirmative Action
OK, we know it's not exactly breaking news that Pat Buchanan holds some views that are borderline racist, to put it mildly. But this one is just too blatant to pass up.

In his latest column for Human Events -- a forum he often uses to air opinions that wouldn't fly during his regular gigs as a commentator on MSNBC -- Buchanan writes that he "prefers the old bigotry" to the Ivy League affirmative action policies that may have benefited Sonia Sotomayor, because "at least it was honest."

Here's the full context:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/...

We WATCH Pat. We already know the FULL CONTEXT.

"Borderline" racist. How about 1000% 24/7 Opposed MLK on down OPEN RACIST!!!

Pat Bukkkklanan has been off camera most of this week, but he's still conjuring up ways to continue his bigoted exploits. Just pining away for the good ole days of Jim Crow & segregation.

"Given this background, Buchanan's preference for "the old bigotry" over affirmative action hardly comes as a shock. So we wouldn't make a big deal out of it were it not for the fact that MSNBC is still pretending to its viewers that he's a respectable voice of conservatism who deserves a place in the mainstream debate. A spokesman for the network didn't immediately respond to our request for comment."

Pat wrote that in his latest column, but hasn't come out on MSNBC and spewed this bullshit. What say you MSNBC????

"
"When Trent Lott appeared to express nostalgia for segregation, he rightly ended up losing his job. It's hard to see why the same shouldn't apply to Buchanan, whose track record with this stuff is far longer."

Again, what say you MSNBC? Keith O. Rachel M. Chris M. of course Joey Scar aint gonna say shit about it, because he agrees with this bigot.

"Honest bigotry." Is it honest becasue they can just say "no niggers no jews no dogs"? Bigotry isn't honest. Bigotry creates constructs that aren't true; Jews eat baby's, have horn's growing on their head; Niggers have no sexual control, their brains aren't large enough to fly airplanes. It isn't even ignorance bigots just make things up.
Pat is a bigot pure and simple.

rikyrah: OF COURSE I hadta take a "FIELD TRIP" to Alaska:

Palin Roundup - Make it Stop!

It’s hard to keep up with our traveling governor these days. Everywhere you turn, there she is. I’ve gotten more emails and links and stories than I know what to do with, and frankly the thought of writing up a whole post on each of these things gives me a precognitive headache just thinking about it. We’ve all got Sarah up to the eyeballs. But, for those of you who want to comment on any of the multitude of Sarah Palin stories out there, here’s the thread.

This is so “last week”

The Alaskan blog Mamadance has an excellent wrap-up of the Palin shenanigans last week here - Putting the P in WraP-uP just in case you missed anything.

Best Foot Forward?

Then, in the Big Apple, we had the mystery of the toenails. What the heck IS that on Sarah’s toes? You can vote HERE.

Number Crunchery

We’ve also found out that the “most popular governor in the country”….. isn’t. Nate Silver, numbers wizard from Five Thirty Eight reveals that Palin now ranks an ignominious 36 out of 50. Ruh roh… Who’s number one? Wyoming governor Dave Freudenthal. And he’s a Democrat! Go figure…

Now, children….

The Political Carnival asks, “Am I going to have to turn this blog around?” David Letterman zinged Sarah Palin with a “slutty flight attendant” reference, and she called him “pathetic.” Catch the whole story with videos HERE.

Begich Rising

Great article in Politico about the once semi-cozy, now chilly relationship between Governor Palin and Democratic Senator Mark Begich. Their approval ratings are in the same ballpark with Begich moving up and Palin…well…. Do you hear that whistling noise? That’s her approval rating plummeting from the cosmos and careening toward Earth.

And the former Anchorage mayor — perhaps emboldened by Palin’s nose dive in state opinion polls — has begun using the jet-setting governor as a political foil, contrasting his workmanlike, Alaska-obsessed approach with the glamorous governor’s appetite for Republican superstardom and the national stage. [snip]
Begich watchers say he’s trying to capitalize on the Palin paradox: The more she becomes the World’s Most Famous Alaskan, the more diluted her appeal to actual Alaskans, who expect their politicians to deliver federal funding — and not tabloid headlines.

And may we please never ever have the opportunity to vote in an online poll speculating about what is on Mark Begich’s toenails.
The entire article is definitely worth a read.
MORE MONEY!!!
Sarah Palin needs more money! That’s right. You’ve donated to SarahPAC, you’ve donated to the legal defense fund, but there’s still more. A fundraising letter went out from the Clare Booth Luce Institute. Hey, liberals! Do you want to know why you hate Sarah Palin? “Because she’s a powerful woman who’s also a conservative,” THAT’s why. Humph.
Apparently, that just drives us liberals “crazy!” There’s nothing we hate more. Here’s a copy of the whole thing, including the resurrection of the “lipstick on a pig” line from the campaign, which went from “you know the old saying” status, to personal porcine insult in the wink of an eye, because it was uttered by Barack Obama.
palin-cbl-policy-inst-fundraiser-letter
I noticed part way down where it said, “Sarah Palin is a proven reformer, and the most popular governor in America!” Oops! Guess they haven’t read Nate Silver’s latest. I wonder if they’ll change that line to read, “She’s the 36th most popular governor in America!” Probably not. But here’s a little envelope for your check. I expect by the time election season is in full swing, we’ll have them standing on street corners with “Poor Sarah” signs and little tin cups.
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That’s it for now. I’m on a Palin hiatus. Don’t forget that the public hearing for the Anchorage non-discrimination ordinance starts at 5pm Alaska time in the Assembly chambers of the Loussac Library. Every voice, and every person is needed. Speak, support, or bear witness…but please be there if you can.

LOL!!! :>) The MUDFLATS is ALL OVA "The Gov.!!" :>)

I'm sure that "SHE KNOWS!!" :>) :>)

mudflats is on her like white on rice.

straight up, no chaser!

rikyrah: TA-RUTH!! :>) :>)

Next time I'll bring posts from the "CLONE" BLOGS which "The MUDFLATS inspired!! :>) :>) They R GROWIN'! :>) :>)

G'night!! :>)

I know Craig is going to get in my shit for continuing to watch Morning Joke. But I watch it for the same reason I watched Don Imus everyday, know the enemy. It's truly how I discovered the frauds in the Democratic Party and journalism. If I didn't turn on Morning Joe this morning, I might not know that Rev Al was right to warn us not to trust that mofo. He was scheduled to be on to challenge Joe Scarborough on the "principles" of conservatism; instead, he spent the entire time gushing over Scarborough and his book. Wasn't it just a few months ago that white liberals and some Negros (even here at JJP) was criticizing the President for not putting Dean in his administration?

You mean this video?

Dean praises conservative approach

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/vp/31310004...

Oops! I see I left out the name of the mofo: Howard, I never hired any Black folks b/c none were in Vermont and I didn't know how to hire a professional recruiter, Dean.

Make sure ya check Mudflats, rikyrah - you know she's on IT.

I had to get a teeny-tiny fix. We are SWAMPED. Some poor soul we work with - her mother died Tuesday morning. Wasn't sick in any way, shape or form - just died in her sleep.

I'm glad to see GreenLadyHere is back even if it's only for a NY minute!!!! Later....

Dr. Boyce Watkins called out the SOBU sponsorship by Wells Fargo in his latest column.

LOL

Anyone heard from TRAVIS?

His 'official' statement?

Tavis is touring the country in this:

http://www.fclo.com/pictures/Wells%20Fargo%20Wa...

Don't you know "accountability" only applies to The President? Not Tavis an 'em. lol

SDG: "WHYCOME" U speak TA-RUTH!? :>)

Finally! Next up: McDonald's. You can't tell me shit about holding the President responsible for Black health care when you're pimpin' the number one killer of Black folks: fast food!

*dipping french fry in ketchup, stuffing in face, licking fingers, and smacking*

Co-sign.

Tavis: "Lemme tell you right quick....LICK!"

Today's Conversation: Will Chaz (formerly Chastity) Bono's High Profile Help Elevate Gender Identity Within the LGBT Community?

I think the public announcement has thrown a few people off. What say you?

http://twurl.nl/wf0pzm

Actually I don't think it will do a thing. On Tuesday the women of the view were discussing the birth of Thomas Beatties second child and were more than content to engage in cisgender privilege by referring to him as a her and a woman. I am not referring to the idiot Elisabeth but the so-called progressives like Whoopie Goldberg. I was astounded and disturbed.

Half-Baked Alaska
Sarah Palin's Dysfunctional Organization May Be Her Undoing
By Kathleen Parker
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP "It" girl, can warm up the Republican base like a hot toddy in a duck blind. But further inside the party organization, the air is a little nippy.

What happened? In a word, bungling.

Everyone seems to have a Sarah Palin story of ignored calls, mishandled invitations or unanswered e-mail. Disorganized is how one might charitably describe the Palin operation.

"Basically, it's just rude," says one political operative who is a Palin fan. "They've been running the great snub machine. That's the reason the boys in the Republican Party are unhappy with her."

That unhappiness has been building gradually in the past seven months, and it was on full display this week as the party faithful gathered for a fundraising dinner at which Palin originally was invited to speak. She was later uninvited, and Newt Gingrich took her place.

Watching the dinner-speaker spectacle develop, then unravel, then redevelop (Will she or won't she speak/attend?) felt like watching a middle-school romance in which a friend tells another friend that so-and-so has a crush on you-know-who, but don't tell anybody. A little silly, in other words. And embarrassing.

The "tick-tock" of what happened is a byzantine exercise in blame-shifting. Briefly, someone in Palin's "organization" accepted the original invitation in March, whereupon the dinner hosts issued a press release announcing that Palin would be the keynote speaker.

Yay!

But then, no, Palin had not accepted. In fact, the press release was the first she'd heard of it. The official story suddenly became that SarahPAC had jumped the gun and that Palin wasn't sure she could make the event. Enter Newt Gingrich. Then last week, so-and-so said she'd like to come, but you-know-who said, "We like someone else now."

There's more -- and stories vary -- but a common theme emerges: Seven months after the election, Palin still can't shoot straight. Unless something changes dramatically and soon, "Missed Opportunity" should be the title of her memoir.

By the time Palin returned to Alaska last fall, her popularity and fundraising ability were second only to Barack Obama's. Instantly, she was drowning in speaking requests. Boxes and boxes of invitations stacked up -- and went unprocessed.

Without any effort on her part, 75,000 to 80,000 fans around the country organized pro-Palin groups. Said a frustrated Palin promoter: "All she had to do for those 75,000 people was hold an electronic town hall, and she couldn't get around to it."

Of course, it's not that Palin has nothing else to do. But her problem is the same as it was a year ago. She isn't ready. For whatever reason -- skittishness, distrust or, quite possibly, executive weakness -- Palin has been unable to make the transition from Alaska politics to the Big Game Hunt of the national arena.

Plenty of experienced people have tried to help. Veteran operatives created SarahPAC to raise money for staff to at least open mail and return phone calls. It was a Kevin Costner field of dreams: Create the Web site, and they came, all right. The PAC raised $400,000 in its first month without so much as asking.

What happened next?

Nothing.

"We couldn't get them to decide on office space," says my source. "You couldn't get them to be professional."

Palin's fiercely independent streak is part of her charm but also may be her undoing. It's one thing to campaign on an anti-inside-the-Beltway platform. But to play in the big leagues, you need people who know what they're doing.

You don't flirt and say "yes," and then say "no," and then say "maybe," and then show up expecting a bouquet. The tease is a risky business. Palin did get to walk across the stage with Gingrich -- to appreciative applause and a few whistles -- but she wasn't allowed to talk. Something about upstaging Gingrich.

Palin also managed to get in a few words during an interview with Fox's Sean Hannity, which aired Monday night during the fundraising dinner. But anyone listening to both Gingrich and Palin would find preemption concerns ludicrous. Palin may be more fun to watch, but Gingrich dominates on the battlefield of ideas.

Whether Palin can rally her resources by 2012 remains in serious doubt, even among her fans. Said yet another Palin admirer: "The problem is, she has had months to get it together and they haven't. They could have had an excellent national team and state team working seamlessly."

But they didn't.






http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

rikyrah:

You don't flirt and say "yes," and then say "no," and then say "maybe," and then show up expecting a bouquet. The tease is a risky business. Palin did get to walk across the stage with Gingrich -- to appreciative applause and a few whistles -- but she wasn't allowed to talk. Something about upstaging Gingrich.

What can U expect from a "RUNNER-UP" - - -BEAUTY QUEEN!??

Just sayin'. . . . . :>)

Tee, hee, hee:

Palin's role: http://comps.fotosearch.com/comp/DGV/DGV045/bea...

"What can U expect from a "RUNNER-UP" - - -BEAUTY QUEEN!??"


*snicker*